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Fun game! The art and sound are perfect! I like that you having to figure out how it works is part of the game! But when I started, this was not immediately obvious to me. A little comment in the page description that figuring out what you need to do is part of the game would have helped me a lot. 
Great game!

Glad you noticed that the levels are (supposed to be) increasingly difficult.
145 is actually a really good time! Thanks for sharing. I really want to make  a high-score system next.

Nice puzzle platformer. Looking really good. Very cute robot. Also like the sound design. 

I had some difficulties with the camera control. Especially in the first level, where the bot needs to go in the corner and the camera automatically zooms out and mover to the right. This forces the player to have to change their direction control based on a camera angel that you do not control at that moment. I found this very tricky. It got a bit better in subsequent levels. 

Anyway, very impressive and fun game! 

Thanks for playing my game. And thanks for the feedback, that's really helpful! I love the idea of the letters changing color or transparancy upon a bounce. I will look into how I can make that happen. Thanks!

So, I did not know there already was a game like this called ATOMAS. And I don't know if that game has the added mechanics that you mentioned in the comment below (Which sound great). 

Regardless...
The look and feel and music of this game you made are really good quality. (From the atomas screenshots I have seen, I like yours much more!

Glad to hear that you are working on an expanded version. I will save this game for when you have made the expansion. 

Great job!

OMG. This looks soo nice! The art is amazing. The levels look really good. The music was perfect. Too bad it did not loop during the gameplay. 
I also like the combination of a platformer with the collecting and crafting and the puzzling which item to use where etc. 

I think you could easily make this into a full game with more crafting recipes and more levels. Great job!

one note: I was able to place the catapult inside the roof structure where I was not able to use it anymore. I think this is probably not intended. 

Thank you for playing my game!

Thanks. Glad you liked it. 
Yeah, I only started with the game-making a few weeks ago really. And I am so glad I joined this jam. It has been such a great experience! very fulfilling indeed! I hope to continue this journey too.

Haha :D. 
Thanks for the nice words! It was 99% the theme and the way Shovel said it that made me join the jam. So I am glad my story's message comes across. :)

I like your idea about racing up. could make a maze puzzle game with this mechanic. or even a sort of platformer.

Were you soft-locked on the S? I was afraid that there would be many possibilities for soft-locking, but I never managed to get stuck during play-testing.

Thank you! I am also glad I made that decision. I think the music really sells the " zen-nes"  of the game. This was not intended initially, but I am happy with the way it turned out.

Thanksfor your feedback!

Good idea about the difficulty setting if you can make that work. (I always play on easy mode haha :P)
For me the camera movement was the thing that made it so difficult I think, so changing just that would have made all the difference for me.
Anyway, great game!

Nice looking, complete, polished game. platforming feels good. I like the combination of platforming and a little flying. Tutorial was good too! Good job!

Fun interpretation of the theme. The blue screen of death made me laugh! great job!

FYI, I just played in firefox on linux mint. All was fine. 

Thanks for playing my game!
You indeed need to spam it. Each press is one little puff of air. So you need to continually let puffs of air out to keep afloat so to speak.
Thanks for the feedback! I will add some instructions to the game description.

Haha, I always drew doodles in my school books :)
Thank you for the kind words!

You may be right on that LOL.

Very nice and polished and complete game.  Even an almost completely working settings menu. Very impressed! 

Thank you! 

Yeah, I really wanted to add a high score. I think that would add a lot. But I could not figure out how to achieve this on web-game on itch in time. It is definitely something I want to add in the future.

Cool concept to make the game of life into a rogue like! It is just really hard to predict what will happen. And that is why the sandbox feature is so amazing! I loved it! 

The UI could use some polishing to make it more intuitive and clear.  

Great job!

Thanks for the feedback and for playing my game! 

Impressive for 4 days of work for sure! Nice that you managed to make a complete game for the jam in the end. Good job!

Really cool and creative game mechanic. And fun implementation of the jam-theme. All in all very well executed. Well done!

Wow. Very impressive for a first game ever. I really like how you implemented the theme of the jam. The whole game worked well. The in-game instructions were good and the game was intuitive to play. Well done!

fun little game with a lot of humor. Nice pixel art!

fun little game with a lot of humor. Nice pixel art!

Really fun mechanic. Nice art and music and sound effect. 

I found it very difficult. Especially because the camera moves instantly with the player which makes it super hard to aim because you have to move your mouse in tune with the camera. This may be intentional, which is fine of-course but I found it too hard tbh. 

Other than that everything worked really well and intuitive. Great job!

Cool game. I like the safe zone and that you just need to get started from there. picking the right moment to start was a fun challenge.

Some music and sound effects would do a lot to make the game feel more finished. Plus a visual or audible indicator of the shield timer. 

I was not able to test the multi-player function, but the idea of a race against an opponent is really cool and ads a lot to the fun of the game. 

This game gas a lot of potential. Good job!

Yeah, I did really try to figure out scoring. That was actually part of the fun for me. 

These are tough problems to solve though. making the scores pop out more would definitely help. And a little more time between the challenges maybe. 

Being more " transparent"  or clear about the points system would make the player be better and scoring higher, but it would remove the fun of trying to figure out how it works...

Thank you for playing my game!

Thanks. That's a pretty good time! :)

I would appreciate it if you could try my game. edit: And thank you for taking the time to try so many games!

https://itch.io/jam/shovel-jam-2025/rate/3728162

Something else... I enjoyed the drawing challenges. And the game progression and different challenges were fun. I do not understand the scoring though. But maybe that's the whole point?

edit: Amyway, I really enjoyed the novelty of this game. It is something totally different from all the games in this Jam I have played so far. (40+ so far)

I would love some more feedback!

https://itch.io/jam/shovel-jam-2025/rate/3728162

Really cool game mechanic! Personally I liked the easier levels a bit more. I was just enjoying the catapulting so much. As soon as the red squares came in, I had to focus and try to survive. Too bad you did not manage to get the aiming to be perfect, that would have helped a lot I think.
Anyway, Very fun game and well done! 

Looks really nice. good music too. The sense of speed is really good! Also makes the game quite hard, but I guess that is intentional. Well done!

Looks really nice. good music too. The sense of speed is really good! Also makes the game quite hard, but I guess that is intentional. Well done!

I fell into the soft lock you warned about :( But I like the game. A lot of fun! I thought the canons were a fun game mechanic!

So cool. This game made me laugh so hard! So much recognition :) And the gameplay is a lot of fun too. To me, this is a perfect implementation of the jam-theme. Well done! The game works well. Nice graphics. nice sound and music.  And a very suitable message too!

Thank you! I did initially want to add so much more...  like all sorts of power-ups and more levels etc. But I am glad I realized that was not feasible for this jam. I may add some more stuff after the jam.