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Played the game because saw it on vlad's channel. Previously I liked the preview, but constantly delayed checking the game for later (until completely forgot about it) since it doesn't have a web version (and probably originally it required setup ? I'm not sure).

The story itself is good. The quests are ok (probably I'd prefer something more puzzling, but I guess for a jam their difficulty is reasonable, especially if you want to get playthroughs instead of 'nah, too complicated, probably a bug, goodbuy' )

I like how you have put a pun on most attempts to talk to items.

Things to improve:

1. Greater default speed. I know that there's a setting for the speed, but unfortunately I had discovered it only after completing the game.

2. More readable font. Now the contrast is low and the font itself is very pixelated, even going for retro style doesn't mean that you have to punish player's eyes so hard. I'm not really sure if black outline really helps: on the one hand, it separates the text from the background, on the other hand it makes the characters look even more pixelated. These issues don't work good with auto-hiding text on timeout since it just disappears before you end reading the pixels.

3. Not sure if it can be helped with the game engine you use, but now alt-tab is a disaster, at least on my win7 pc. It doesn't send the game window to background or minimize it, it just leaves the dark gray  overlay over your desktop, essentially preventing you from accessing anything else while the game is still opened.

Hi! Thanks for the feedback, you make a lot of good points. I'm going to add the speed change feature to the instructions on the store page so others don't end up missing it like you did.

The font was actually one of the things I really wanted to change, but I ran out of time. It was a preset that came with the UI, and instead of uploading a different font I would have had to manually go in and change all the individual sprites for every letter/punctuation mark, which wasn't feasible for me. After the jam I may go in and adjust it, but it's less of a priority.

After some research, it looks like the Alt-Tab thing is a known issue with the engine. I'll have to keep that in mind if I use this software again, thanks for bringing it up. I don't seem to be having problems on Windows 10, but that's something I definitely want to find a solution for in the future.