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Nice gameplay and well executed. My only gripe is that changing selections in the main menu is wayyyy too slow. There is no good reason for this after making such an awesome game. </3 But also still <3

Good mechanic concept. I can "cheat" the game by jsut spamming space bar. So from a game desing perspective it may be nice to punish the player for spamming the swing button. Otherwise, wonderful.

The graphics and music and sound effect are incredible. However, I have no idea what the game is doing and how to be better or worse at it. 100% jesus.

Goot solid concept. However, I couldn't really tell what the "juicy ripe fruits" were because everything seems too small on my screen.

Very cool game concept! It felt too easy to wind up in a stalemate situation where nobody could win :O

Beautiful graphics and super fun concept. The world narrative you(and cute title) really work. I understood the mechanics very intuitively and later appreciated the instructions on the home screen. great work! Would be nice to have some different cohorts of bugs with different opinions about what they like :D

Nice reskin of the classic flappy bird genre. My girlfriend approves.

Beautiful game design and graphics. Simple and elegant controls. I do wish that the hook of the game would show up a bit faster (more elements / challenge sooner) since repeating the same basic tasks was getting a bit repetitive for my taste. Overall a banger though!

hilarious game! Simple and effective. The randomness of the motion when you press has a strange appeal to it... When I first played, my character was so far off the screen, I didn't even know I HAD a character haha. Once I refreshed the page I got a hang of it though. I think some obstacles might be a nice addition, but the game is solid even as is. Nice work.

The graphics and style are excellent! There seem to be a few small bugs with UI (like my button press from the end of a battle registers as my selection in the spell book screen). But the ui issues weren't a big deal. What I struggled with is understanding how to showcase greatness -- like how can I be better or worse at the game? Also the enemies never seemed to attack me so I just sat there and sloooowly killed them haha. I like the core of what you have here but I want the game to provoke a strategic spirit within me :)

Nicely made runner. Nice and soothing graphics and music. I wish that the long flat surfaces could be landed on without ending the game (since they don't look like hazards). Also, sometime it feels like the gravity on the player is soooo gentle that im watching myself about to lose for the next one second and there's no action I can take to remedy it! Not sure what to recommend there aside making the gravity a bit more intense OR giving the player an additional action to try and save themselves.

Nice work with your submission! It accomplishes what it has set out to well. I do wish that the difficulty would ramp up over time to keep things interesting though. The spam spacebar mechanic was a nice addition though -- i wish you leveraged that for some more gameplay mechanics.  Cool graphics too.

Absolutely stellar execution. Clear, concise, and complete. Love that you made a metroidvania with a single button. It sometimes started to feel a bit like a rage game (e.g. jump king) as a side effect of the minimal controls lol. Great work!

This is acceptable and encouraged behavior.

Love that it's a boss battle! The controls felt a bit clunky and some of the attack animations were graphically inconsistent with the characters. BUT, I really like the idea of this and good game design overall. Nice work!

I'm having a difficult time understanding how to avoid the enemy. I see nothing and then suddenly there's a jump scare and game over :O

Brilliantly made. Tight gameplay, good puzzles, excellent audio, and great experience overall. Great job!

Love the customization screen up front -- though I wish I could see the mech during that time before starting. My main critique is that the combat feels flat. I want my bullets to feel like they're dealing damage (and preferably moving faster too). Thanks for sharing your game!

Very cute and pure game. The art was kinda simple, but I actually loved it for that.

Some feedback on mechanics

• Controls worked as expected and were responsive -- well done!
• The guns showing when they'll shoot is A+ game design.
• I want to know when I'm dealing damage! The enemies and building should show that they're being impacted somehow by my attacks. When I first started playing I couldn't tell if I was doing damage.
• To make the game more challenging, give me a reason to not hold spacebar the whole time... a compromise of some sort. For example, while use the flame attack, you move 50% as fast. This would be a tradeoff between attacking and dodging bullets. Curious how that'd feel if you try it out.

Some feedback on theme:

• I wish that it was leaning more into the Mech nature of the dragon creature. A mechanical dragon wouldn't just shoot flames, it'd have rockets, or machine guns, or something beyond just fire. Make me believe it's a mech :D

Thanks for sharing this project!

Really enjoyed the visual style (though sometimes I wish static dangers were more obviously going to hurt me such as the red lasers against the red/orange background). Overall things felt good, but in a platformer the controls have to be very responsive to feel like you're not getting cheated. The main issue I had was the lack of a coyote jump. I kept jumping a split second too late (or early before landing) and would simply fall :( Very nice project overall!

Visuals were truly impressive for a jam. Sometimes the AI was a bit goofy and the enemies would cluster in locations or not really attack anything :O I was having a hard time understanding how the towers were benefiting me. There was no clear visual indications (to me at least) that they were somehow powering me up. Very nice work!

I've tried entering the mech a few times, but it keeps throwing me way high up into the sky and i slowly fall down from there. I really like the mood and want to try it out -- Am i missing something for getting in to the mech?

Holy cow this is great. I played it for a good 10 minutes (right after jam submission too, so extra hard to keep me around haha). Good visuals, good mechanics, really well composed. My two bits of constructive feedback: 

1.  Coming to a complete stop when landing from a jump is unpleasant. Would be nice to keep some forward momentum.
2. I feel like I have to run a lot and there's not much to do while running across town. I would jump to entertain myself, but jumping slows me down (see 1).

Final note: The jetpack felt amazing. Having the player use the jetpack to grab "stuff" on the path to the next wave of enemies could help fill the gap of action.

Super impressive piece of work for the time frame. Great art, audio, and good sense of humor :)

could try tab to rotate selected unit + only allow dragging the currently selected unit.

Great concept but controls should be tuned up!

1. Player should come to a near-full-stop much faster. The game requires precision in space and time, some being so slippery is counterproductive.
2. The animation for popping in-then-out of time should be WAY WAY WAY shorter. When I say "Please pause me for 0.5 seconds", the animation adds another 1 seconds of phasing out and phasing back in. This means that my understanding of time is always way off AND that the core mechanic is slow to interact with. Consider making the phasing animation 0.1-0.2 seconds instead.
3. May be nice to see the timer at the location of the player instead of the right corner (which I have no interest in looking at)

Great job on this innovative mechanic.

simple and pure. Love the visuals and audio. Interesting little teaser at the end of the game... not sure what it means :D

looooove this idea but struggled to produce any combinations aside freezing the enemy (water+wind). As others suggested, a cookbook OR visual indication that things will be interesting when combined would go a long way. The biggest feature missing from this prototype was to drag-n-drop placed abilities instead of having to reset them all. I assume that was left out due to time constraints :p

While playing I had some other mechanics ideas I thought would be nice:

• Each wizard has a specialization, so using them with certain card types could grant casting bonuses.
• Each wizard's timeline could have certain "shapes" instead of "can always cast".
• Each wizard's timeline should have "obstacles" or "events" within each tick per round. For example, I could cast fire when the "double damage" event lives in the timeline BUT it comes at the cost of not getting something else (since I had to place the cast at a certain time).
• Make the ability "shapes" more interesting could be fun (imagine tetris through time instead of space). The shape of all abilities so far was CCAEE (charge, ability, effect). If there were abilities in the form CC___AE, you could start to case other abilities in between :O

Lots of potential here, great game idea!

Reminds me of the Antichamber game in genre -- very nice. Was hoping for more puzzling activities to keep things engaging, but tough during a short jam.

Simple and straightforward gameplay. Once I got cozy with the controls the game felt like it was a matter of endurance. I could simply put the next number in place right as it was needed, so the "challenge" of the game sort of dissolves once you overcome the controls. One tactile change I'd appreciate is the "grab" animation -- it felt slow and would only pick things up on the way back which I found awkward. Love the game for what it is though :)

If you were looking for ideas on how to expand the base mechanics, here's some ideas:

• Don't always shoot the numbers out of the clock near where they're needed. It makes it too "easy" to just keep going in order and filling the clock "just in time".
• Make the fallen numbers be moving targets / roaming on their own. Different numbers could have different motion patterns. "Oh man not a 7, I hate trying to catch 7s".
• Powerups to: rewind clock, skip a number, move faster, convert current grabbed numbers to different value.

Hey thanks for checking it out! I use the client-server as a cheapo project starter. Essentially a dev server that serves the assets the same way they'll be consumed by itch.io in the end. It's sort of quick and dirty but I use it for small projects like this :)

As for the your feedback:

1. TOTALLY agree that the physics/hitboxes are a bit iffy. I'm only using point-in-circle and circle-circle collision detections. If I approximate the size of the ships incorrectly, then the collision hitboxes will seem off (and they probably are off...) Good eyes haha.

2. I originally had the timer UI in the top left and found it hard to look at while tracking the player. It probably would work just fine, but I the time-on-player felt easier to "follow" since my eyes were on the player in general. Maybe a solve for this would be to put the clock icon ON the player??? Some experimentation to be had here for sure.

this explanation of the filter was critical haha. I thought that was just a decoration! Works great. Thank you!

Great concept! Only some minor feedback:

1. The jump button responsiveness needs to be tuned. I wasn't able to jump until a few frames after landing and that was frustrating.

2. The game was beeegggging for another mechanic to play with.

Great foundation for a fun game!

Interesting bonsai growing simulation game! Love the visual style but would love more UX feedback when interacting :O

Would love to have an AI to play against! Also, a small but nice touch here would be some animation when hitting targets (a white flash maybe). It's difficult to know if you're dealing damage to a target without some sort of visual or audio effect.

Incredibly innovative game. I definitely struggled with meaningfully collecting new red or blue sands once I understood how to do so. The concept here is super cool and I'd love to see some mechanics that allow sorting out red/blue/brown sand (unless the point is that you're always doomed which is beautiful in its own way).

Love it! Played quite a few times messing around with builds. Some critique:

1. The drag and drop / visibility for repositioning units was a bit tough. But worked well enough.
2. I had a rough time gaining intuition for what the units were actually good at... But still had fun!

Well done :D

The music is a straight banger.