Oh absolutelly your feedback is very useful, it echoes a lot of what I heard from people that I watched play this prototype and from my personal experience playing it. As mush as I think it's good to praise the games for what they do well, for something like this project that is so early in dev and is barely finished I feel like comments on what doesn't work help a lot more. The level was literally first pass because I was running out of time, I barely had time to playtest it, so most of the things in the level are just placed where I had first put them and then only after uploading it and playing it I was like "Yeah I am not sure why first area has enemies guarding the door, but the second one doesn't, that should be otherway around :D
As I mentioned I really appreciate your feedback, I haven't had a chance to try your game yet, but I will be sure to do so before the end of the jam :D
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(Just woke up and took my breakfast (it 3:57 am in France), stroke of luck that I see your answer. XD My little rest of yesterday became a full(?) night’s sleep, but I am trying to test as much as I can, I may have to start rushing it just like for designing levels!)
Your experience with having had to design the world in a rush reminds me of how I designed my latter levels… XD Which may be even more of a problem, as level design is critical in puzzle/reflection games. I even realized at least one of my earlier levels has an unintended shorter solution which could be solved by merely shifting a ‘stamp’ one tile away (which is not gamebreaking nor that serious, but still, I felt remorseful).
I haven't had a chance to try your game yet, but I will be sure to do so before the end of the jam :D
Well, thank you very much, but don’t feel forced to; there are still many entries that are in dire need of votes (and you can stumble upon little gems that deserve them; I know I had a very positive impression of Turn Based Destiny). Still only 5 votes as the minimum for all on my list as I write, and knowing roughly how the (ill-conceived median-based) scoring system works, this is not right; I have mainly tested games from this list, with only few exceptions. I wish I could test all games; I had even made the calculation of how much time each game could take at the beginning of the voting phase, and it was super tight. As it turns out, I am so slow out of perfectionism and lengthy reviews that I only currently reach 75 counting invalid/broken entries on which I did not vote, technically 58 really counted. XD So, I will try today entering ultra rush mode.
I have not even been back to see my own game vote count and comments for a while, being so busy testing! But I had a reasonable share of votes (at least 20 the last time I checked). Not saying that I am obsessed with votes and that this makes a game worth seeing or not, but I just want every game to get its chance, and I feel some still do not, while mine apparently did. Did you know: I found your game through said list of entries needing votes. ;)
(On the other hand, I had a glimpse of the thumbnails for most voted-on entries, and there are at list two clickbaity ones in it… ._. People are irresponsible.)
Anyway, use your best judgement. In case you test my game, don’t let my own admission assessment of it bias your view. ;) Have a nice testing day!
(… I will never manage to test those games if I keep on being so wordy. XD My God.)
Oh, I thought the list was conspicuous! :o For the record and the future: although I can’t find an official link for it now, during the voting phase (and this is true of all ranked game jams apparently), there was a sentence at the top of the entry page calling to help those entries with few votes.
Maybe the site should make this page even more visible, perhaps the default display for everyone. The fact that you did not notice hints at many people missing it! ._.
Did you know: although there may not be a visible link anymore (but if there is, please tell me!), you can still access the page directly through its URL, and it does still show entries!
https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-jam-2022/unrated
Also, weirdly, there are differences between this list and the ‘Least rated’ ranking for the entry page — I noticed this in several game jams, not just the current one. (Just in case you did not know either, but I hope you did as it is useful: you can order the entries according to several criteria using the left panel; in particular, I feel ‘Least rated’ and ‘Most Karma’ are the two really interesting ones — and possibly ‘Random’.)