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Hello! I found the NYU Game Design Jams for this semester and decided to try your game because it looked neat.

This game is very cool for a minimalist one button game. I like the difficulty settings. Its very intuitive. The color scheme and sound matches the tone you're going for.

Good work :)

Hello! I found the NYU Game Design Jams for this semester and decided to try your game off of a recommendation. This is game is really really cool.

I can't really say much for balance because I only played one game but my friend and I had a lot of fun. My only criticism is that some mechanics should be explained or foreshadowed better. Being able to destroy the enemy's walls is really cool, but it kind of came out of nowhere and lost me the game because I didn't know you could do that. I think you should be able to destroy your own walls for consistency, more strategic depth and to show much earlier that walls are destructible. The discovery phase of finding new mechanics cool and fun, but comes at the detriment of the strategic element of the competitive board game, which I think is ultimately a negative.

Anyway, here is a youtube video of me and my friend playing your game over discord vc. We only started recording in the middle of a game and he forgot to unmute himself on OBS for half of it, but hey. Its gameplay. And its a cool video game.

Hello! I found the NYU Game Design Jams for this semester and decided to try your game because stonks. This game is awesome.

Its surprisingly frantic and very high energy for a game about stocks. The music is a fantastic contrast and the 5 minute timer is perfect.

Its just enough time to get a bunch out of the game without feeling bored. The leaderboard is also a very cool addition that makes replaying the game actually matter and makes me want to play more.

This is an arcade game and is actually very very cool. My main criticism is that theres a bunch of empty space on the UI that I'm sure you can get rid of by just making the game window smaller and rearranging some stuff. Its also slightly confusing but once you understand it the UX is pretty good. I would recommend having some explanation of how to actually buy and sell stocks on the tutorial section.

Overall, great effort and I am excited to see what else is in the NYU game jam games. :)

Hello! I found the NYU Game Design Jams for this semester and decided to try your game because I like Kirby and the thumbnail was cute. This is a good attempt but I think there are some problems with the game that make it difficult to play.

Starting with the more minor issues, the sprite is pretty blurry. I know its a DS sprite from the Rainbow Curse, but if you used nearest neighbor scaling it would have looked better. The transparent part of the key sprite messed with your background as well. The music is also very loud.

Jump height also changed between levels and there wasn't any indication as to why.

The more major problems are with the tiling system. Sometimes I can't move on flat ground because (I assume) the tile right next to it is being detected as a wall, which is a problem. This also happens on moving platforms, especially when they are moving up, like they are in the first screen of level 1. I also ran into a moving platform where one tile loaded in before the other one, making the tiles desynced. Also when you are on a moving platform it doesn't carry you. I had to move right manually when the platform was moving right, which is not really conventional in the genre.

To fix this, I would either make moving platforms one object and not part of the tileset, or just not use them at all because they're pretty annoying and tend to introduce bugs.

Secondly, there is a very easy softlock in the first screen of the first level. If you go on the moving platform and then walk left, you fall into a corner where the tile that is supposed to be on top of platforms/ground should be, but is missing. This makes it so I can't jump, and then the platform moves to block me from moving left. I think your ground detection system should work on all tiles and not just "top of ground" tiles.

Finally, I was unable to clear the first screen of level 2 because the timing for stopping the platform in a spot you can jump to, and make the next jump, is really really tight. Please make the platform lower because I spent literally 5 minutes trying and couldn't get it. I'm not really sure what the red switch there was supposed to be, other than introducing the concept of switches, but you already did that in level 1.

Overall, valiant effort and I am excited to see what else is in the NYU game jam games. :)

Yeah I think this is the good ending. Congrats and thanks for playing!

Yes the repeating is the neutral ending.

You can get the good end by finding every piece of equipment in the theater (by selecting the correct options for each puzzle), and then answering each question correctly in the final room.

You can get the bad end by answering at least one question wrong at the end and choosing to fight and win.

Thanks for playing!

If you end up not having time but still want to see the good ending, Janken played it on stream and got it around the 3 hour mark. (or if you just need to figure out where all the items are to get the full set for the boss battle). Have fun rating the rest of the entries though!

Thanks! The boss is intended to be really difficult (but beatable) for thematic reasons, but there's always the other 2 endings as well. Thanks for playing and I'm glad you liked the art!

> I managed to get the true ending by using my inner chuuni and choosing the longest options.

LMAOOO. Exactly as intended. Thanks for playing!

Thanks for playing! The title song is actually just the instrumental for Bae's song DROWN if you want to vibe to it without booting up the game.

To get the good ending you need to get all the items (essentially a "full armor set") and then answer all questions correctly. In general, you should pick the ones that feel more "hopeful" if that makes sense, and there should be 5 questions you can answer. Missing any item, or doing the puzzle incorrectly, makes it so that for the corresponding question you don't get a choice and she just goes "..."

Yeah the boss is fight is pretty hard, but that's on purpose. She's beatable, but it does require a strategy and a bit of luck lol.

The neutral ending, which I assume is the one you got, is if instead of attacking Bae, you do nothing.

Anyway I'm glad you enjoyed it!

I'm sorry that you weren't able to get one of the endings, but if you still want to see it, Janken got it on stream here. (skip to 3:13:56 since that's where he first starts talking to Bae)

Glad it was compelling though lol

Thanks for playing! Hope you enjoyed it!

Its a very short game but it was cute and simple. It was pretty fun! I feel like the trident should spawn where Gura is and not to her top left, but thats a minor nitpick.  It was fun to see how far I could get, although I did wish there was a timer or something on the game over screen.

This is a pretty enjoyable shmup. I couldn't finish it but I had fun grinding through it. I liked the references you put in the backgrounds as well. I think the main thing I would add is trails for enemy bullets to make them more clear, especially since the dark purple one blends into the background a lot. 

Lmao we were actually very inspired by fear and hunger. Thanks for playing!

Guys. You must have gone insane for the 2 week jam because holy shit. There is so much good content in here. The puzzles, for the most part, are all very well crafted. The only one I found myself disliking was the one to unlock the gravity swap since the boxes I was jumping on were off screen, but that might have been because I was doing an unintended strategy and it still felt really good to finally get it. On that note though, the way that the abilities work really encourage you to experiment and I love them, especially Kronii and Sana's.  I definitely feel like I did some rooms the unintended way since I'd end up with multiple uses left of some abilities in rooms lol.

I only have a few criticisms. Sometimes when I got a new ability it would forcibly kick me out of the memory when I feel like there was supposed to be dialogue. This also happens if you die while reading a memory and are in the dialogue box (this happened to me in one of the prison rooms). This made it so Bae's ability wasn't really explained to me, but I got it in the end. Fauna's bird movements are also a bit slippery and imprecise, which is fine, but some of the segments where you need to be a bird require precise movement and I found that a bit frustrating, particularly controlling ascent or descent.

Shiori also blends in sometimes with the dark backgrounds. I feel like a white outline and/or making the sprite a bit brighter overall would really help contrast her against the background, particularly in the memories.

I also ran into a glitch in the final puzzle room where the dialogue wouldn't play (see below screenshot). I got this by clearing the room while Kronii's time stop was active. Deactivating it caused it to move forward one line of dialogue. But I also triggered it while it was off so idk.

You don't need to do this but I think the cheat codes should be a bit more hidden and harder to accidentally input because once I accidentally disabled gravity swap and I had no idea how to turn it back on lol. And since the cursor was already on it I couldn't move it back and select time stop so I had to reset. Kind of unfortunate but I was mashing buttons a bit lmao.

A couple of small bugs I found were:

• if you stand next to an object you can pick up but it moves away from you, the pick up icon will still remain on Shiori.
• Attacking an enemy while its dying makes it restart the dying animation
• If you are in stopped time and stand on top of a box, you can pick it up and hold jump. This makes Shiori go into the pick up animation and then jump in mid air after the animation is done. This is honestly really cool and imo you shouldn't remove this. Its also how I solved the room where you get Sana's ability.

At the end of the day though, these are all kind of small compared to what you managed to achieve. Seriously great work here. I loved playing through this game. Amazing work.

Just seeing a game called Gun Fauna is really funny. Fauna Gun is very satisfying to use, although I think the sound effect plays a bit too much during rapidfire. Levels were short and sweet and the art style was pretty cute. The contrast of the corrupted vs uncorrupted models were cool and seeing it suddenly transform was fun, even if a bit jarring. My one criticism with those is the second(?) one where the enemy kept jumping around on these three platforms and it was really hard to hit them until they jumped over, since if I jumped towards them they'd hit me into the void.

Very cute game though. I had a lot of fun!

Short and sweet! Very charming. Loved the sprites you used and how many mascots you included. Being able to play as gawr after is also a great bonus. I wish the gameplay was a bit more varied but you did say you ran out of time to implement more skills, and I assume enemy behaviors as well. I had a lot of fun. Good stuff!

Thank you so much for the graphics settings lol. This is a really cool game but I have nitpicks with it. Healing from melee attacks is really cool but it is so hard to use them effectively when getting hit takes away 500 points and killing an enemy only gives 100. I don't think you needed to have getting hit also remove points since that made it incredibly difficult for me to get to 500 points, let alone 5k, but thats probably a skill issue. I also think holding down left click should continuously fire for blue Gura. But this is really cool stuff. Good job!

This game is beautiful, but unfortunately I can't really play it because my laptop is too weak (can barely get like 5fps). I won't rate it since I don't think I was able to experience enough to give it a proper score, but I will say that you really hit the nail on the head for ambience. I love how it all looks. Great job!

I really liked this. It was very fun and I enjoyed solving the puzzles on each stage. Diagonal movement felt a bit weird because it looked like Ina was phasing through walls but that's more of a visual thing than anything else. Really cool though. Would love to play more levels of this, maybe with more gimmicks and board elements.

This is a fun little game. I liked it. Sometimes I died when I tried to eat a smaller fish which I don't think was supposed to happen but the stages are short enough where that's fine. Big fan of red mode though. Might be fun if red mode also made it so you couldn't eat the small fish anymore, but that might make it too weak. Cool stuff!

This is a very charming game. The sprite work is very well done! The use of sukonbu giving you buffs is also a very good idea and encourages exploration which is very nice. A lot of people have brought up the blind jumps and I have to agree. There were a lot of instances where because of the camera I couldn't see where I was going and got hit by enemy I couldn't see. The lack of iframes also got me a couple of times since I would think I would be invincible and not move after getting hit, only to lose like half my health.

Very small detail but Fubuki's sprite is slightly floating off the ground (likely because her collision box is bigger than the sprite lol.

Also, I feel like Kurokami's attacks were not telegraphed at all. Like she would always be in her idle pose, except for that big triple projectile attack which would play the animation of her hitting the ground after all the projectiles were already out. This was especially a problem with the dash attack, since it made it so I would basically only be able to use the gun since I'd have no idea when she would use the dash or when she would just teleport to the red sparkles. 

At the end it said I had no buffs from sukonbu after I beat her, even though I got a bunch from the earlier levels. It also gave me a clear time of 0 for stage 2 and the boss, so idk maybe its a visual bug. Or maybe I beat Kurokami with no buffs at all. idk what its supposed to say but it would be nice if it displayed what buffs you had from sukonbu when you beat Kurokami

Final thing might just be my laptop being a potato but I'd randomly get lag spikes sometimes and if knockback was applied to either me or the enemy they'd just go flying. I even clipped into the walls of the castle stage once.

But yeah this was a fun game to play through and I'd really enjoy seeing more stages with this kind of movement and combat. Cool stuff!

I really enjoyed this little roguelike. The sound effects were really funny and it kept me hooked. A little more hololive flavor would've been nice (maybe renaming the weapons, armor and spells while keeping everything else the same). Its kind of a bad thing in terms of game design that I was able to max out every stat after my second run imo since you want to ramp up the power slowly, but maybe that was intentional? Cool game.

Thanks so much! The jumpscare with the first enemy was actually completely unintentional but we decided to leave it in and I'm glad it worked out lmao

Thanks for playing!  The boss theme is actually just the instrumental and vocal versions of PSYCHO, one of Bae's songs. Here's how you get the 3 endings:

• Complete all quests correctly (should give you a full set of equipment) and answer all questions correctly at the end
• Fail to answer at least one question and do nothing
• Fail to answer at least one question, attack, and win

That first bug seems very weird. I got some weirdly long load times occasionally but never 5 minutes. The second thing is intentional if you have equipment, but at the beginning when you don't they should be doing damage. The third is also very weird. No idea what causes that. The fourth one is just because I forgot to make the mannequins rotate to look around so they only look down lol.

But thanks for playing! I hope you at least also get to experience the good ending, but if not, that's ok too!

This is a really fun puzzle game! The big thing would be to work on the visuals a bit to create more of an atmosphere, as well as some sound effects, but otherwise very solid.

This is pretty addicting, and I can see and feel the doodle jump inspiration. Not sure if this was because I beat Ina first and then died, but imo dying in the boss fight shouldn't take you all the way back to the beginning. Pretty cool though. Took me a little bit to clear that first stage. Good job!

I really really like this game. The non-linear structure gives it so much replay value, especially trying to get my score as high as I could. The core is incredibly solid. I wish there was a quick restart button in the pause menu and after getting a game over, but otherwise I've got not complaints. Great work!

The art in this game is really nice. Great work nailing the atmosphere. I think you accidentally forgot to include shiori's sprite in the boss battle (she appears as a big black square to me), but otherwise it was really amazing. Like someone else said, the collision gets in the way a little but. I found it unclear what walls and ceilings had collision a lot of the time, which would make it so I ended up bonking my head into some ceilings. The black sparkles for floors are a great idea, but I feel like they blend in a bit too much to the dark backgrounds you have. I'd probably change the color to white, red, or blue to match ERB's color scheme, and then for both the platform markers and hidden treasure markers, increase the number of sparkles so they stand out.

The underground stage also has some segments where you can fall into ink, but the camera doesn't show it, and since you end up going down a lot in that stage, I ended up dying a few times because I missed platforms that I couldn't see.

For combat, I think maybe something simple like having enemies flash red or white when they get hit would be huge. Some knockback on the big enemies that take 2 swings would also be nice, but that's not super necessary.

Again, this game was very good and I was really impressed with the level of art you have here and the atmosphere you guys created. Great job!

This game is awesome. I just have a few nitpicks but its fine. Making it so you can toggle colors with 1,2,3 or something would be great, and I'd love if Ceci had some inertia when flying. Imagine pressing space and getting to launch yourself. But, this is still very fun. Love the sound in this game. It makes it super calming and satisfying to play. Great stuff!

I beat the game! This is a good video game. The only thing I'd change is making it so the attack sends you tot he center of the shrimp, and maybe have the carrot(? the big shrimp that gives you your jump back) not stop your upwards momentum. Maybe also a tutorial but this game is very fun. Solid level design as well. Good stuff!

I'm gonna be honest though I ended up muting the game because I needed to lock in and the Gura death quotes were distracting me lmao

I didn't think the UI was a problem for this game, although I did come into it knowing it was based on Tamagotchis, so that might have been why. I'm not a huge fan of spam clicking, but the other minigames you had for the activities were really nice. It was very fun! Although I ended up not doing any online activity things to focus on stamina and stress and workload lol.

This is a cool idea. Spawning more smol ames that eventually corrupt and chase after you is a great way to do the theme. I just think that the hitbox for the ame platforms are too small, since I kept having a bunch of momentum, trying to spawn a smol ame under me and then just missing the ame.

The art in this one is really nice and using the different mascots for different obstacles and stage elements is very creative. The sunglasses for miko when you get to take an extra hit is also really good. This game is really hard, and that's fine, but I think some of the difficulty spots were unfair if that makes sense. Like there's quite a few places where you just have to take a leap of faith where you have to trust that there is ground underneath you even though you can't see it. This is especially annoying when the drop makes you get hit by an enemy you can't see. It also makes it so sometimes if there was a moving platform that was off screen but coming towards me, I would just jump because I thought there was ground there and die. But I think all you need to do to fix that is zoom the camera out a bit (and maybe make Miko a bit faster but that's personal preference lol).

I did really like how stage 2 has two different versions based on how well you did on stage 1. That was really neat. I just didn't like how the controls inverted but the idea of messing with the player's controls to show corruption is neat. Its a very challenging platformer with cute sprites. Good job!

I'm gonna put both of my replies into one so I don't have to write 2 comments lol

Yeah the water effect still didn't appear so I didn't know when I was actually powered up. I ended up just speedrunning towards doors and guessing. 

I get that dashing through doors and corruption being cleaned is supposed to clue you in, but it didn't really click for me. Cleaning the corruption on the stage didn't make me think about the slide as an attack really. The door was closer I guess but I just saw it more as "cleaning up" than attacking. I think maybe something else that might help is if the corruption in the game was also red to match red gura?

Thanks for playing and I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks for playing! There are 3 different endings if you want to get them all! 

Also the game with edgy Biboo is Angels may Sigh, and that one also has 3 endings (I think).

This is a good attempt at a rhythm game. The rearrangements are all very good, and the charting is generally very solid. A very unfortunate thing is that the options menu seems to not be openable. That's a huge problem because volume settings are very important, as well as scroll speed. Personally, I found the speed to be too slow, which made some parts of the charts unreadable for me. 

In particular, the end of the chorus for ChikuTaku when Ame sings "chiku no yugami", the outro of meconopsis, the intro/outro of reflect and "return to the sea a shark is all you'll ever be," and a lot of Non-Fiction where I had to hit notes on multiple directions right after one another. That last thing, however, would not be fixed if the scroll speed was faster. I know this probably would not have been doable in the time you had, but doing something like DDR or StepMania where the notes are color-coded based on when in the song they happen (quarter note, eighth note, etc.) would've been huge. I just didn't know how the notes were linked in the moment just by looking at them. Also when there's a lot of bloops on screen sometimes they hide each other which makes it a little harder to sight read. I personally would have also liked the road to be longer so there's more time to react to notes, but its fine as is.

The biggest thing about the game though is that there is not a combo counter and the judgement text is all the way in the top left corner. Having it be in the center below score, as well as maybe an indicator for if I was early or late would've been great. The score also doesn't reset between stages but tbh I'm not really playing rhythm games for score unless I'm tiering in an event lol.

Cool little rhythm game. Would love to see the rearrangements on YouTube, and if you get a combo counter in I might try to FC some of these charts.