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The title screen goes HARD. I think a slow fadeout with zooming towards the head would be great to further visualise that you are in a “coma” right now. The controls could be snappier but it also adds a challenge!

The world building is very nice and I do not mind there not being a “goal”. Perhaps a “screenshot” mechanism would be cool, where it takes a screenshot with a polaroid camera that you can share on social media. It would further amplify the concept of “memories”

Cute little game. Once the objective is clear (go to the door, NOT to the leaf) it is actually quite cool!

The music slaps! MIND THE GAP

I like the world building and pixelart.

My thinking was that body = needs to go to the gym and mind = demotivation. Personally, I think the theme is spot on but perhaps it is not clear due to lacking functionality/missing features. Argh, I wanted to add so much more but ran out of time unfortunately. I wish I could have cloned myself, haha! Thanks for the feedback.

I really liked the simplicity of this! Unfortunately the game was a bit small on my 4K monitor… zooming in did not work. In future, I recommend enabling the fullscreen button in the itch.io project settings.

Very funny and creative idea. It is amazing how so much can be achieved with so little. Perhaps having more sound effects or some music would help further selling the experience but overall it was already quite nice!

The pixelart is great! So many muscles. It was a bit difficult to control personally.

This happens because the text burns your motivation. I guess the problem here is feedback because it is not very clear that this is happening.

Great feedback which I will certainly incorporate. Let enemies move out of the “lane” that the text is travelling. Music is something I unfortunately ran out of time. I definitely want to still add music after the jam voting is over!

My favourite game of ARD Game Jam 2026. While towards the end of the game it can get quite hectic and the opposite of meditative, the mechanics, visuals and sound design is superb.

Thank you! Yeah, I ran out of time unfortunately. My plan was originally that when you first get hit by such a text that there is some better effect (also animation on the motivation bar) as well as a dialogue where the player says something along the lines of “A few more of these and I might just go home again…”

My favourite ARD Jam game so far. You should seriously consider turning this into an actual mobile game.

Phenomenal pixelart. Great job!

Hilarious game with very satisfying controls. I really enjoyed this little experience.

This is really cool!

Love the pixelart of this! Well done.

Thank you, this means a lot.

Thanks! The character you play (Marvin) was experimented on and when you walk through a colour blob, it mutates Marvin into a different version by changing his DNA structure. The pixelart look might not show it properly but the story behind this game features mutations.

Thanks for the feedback. I suppose I should add a portal back to the beginning again from somewhere so people can run a loop in case they missed it. For the second screenshot, there is actually a way out but it requires toggling yourself neutral and going back and forth between blue and red. This was a quick fix to at least have some option to escape but I see this is too confusing so I will rework the solution.

Thanks again!

Thank you! This is on my list of fixes I’ll apply after the voting is done.

Thank you <3

I was thinking about implementing exactly this but ran out of time unfortunately.

Thank you! Do you happen to know where you got trapped? This is not intentional and is a bug.

Thanks for your feedback, very valuable and I agree on some of those points. Game feel can be so tricky.

Regarding the “lock out” issue: it is not intentional and every puzzle should be repeatable without being locked out. Do you happen to know which section this happened exactly?

Sorry for this! Originally, this is actually how it worked. However, when speedrunning and doing mistakes, I thought it’s better to start from the start again so I changed this last minute. To solve for this, I will add a setting where by default, it only resets current stage but when toggled it resets to the beginning.

Avoid Google in this case. I understand it can be frustrating to look for specific code snippets but it is part of the experience to have to browse through documentation and old forum posts. Of course, you cannot 100% know if code shared in a forum or even documentation was not AI generated but it’s a best effort approach I guess.

I truly enjoyed this weekend. We have not implemented everything we wanted to but we had an amazing experience. We made sure to get enough sleep and eat well.

How did you all find it?

<3

Humble beginnings.

Feel free to share any screenshots or videos of your progress here! Alternatively, use hashtag #leafyjam for people to discover.

LOL

This gamejam is unranked and the start/end time is a mere suggestion. If you feel like it you can start earlier but of course that goes against the general idea of gamejams. The only games that would be "disqualified" are the ones that do not really fit into the guidelines, NSFW etc.

This is a fun gamejam. No problem.

You could but there won't be a rating for this gamejam. It's just for fun!

I'll play the submissions myself but again, the primary goal is to have a cozy experience. 🍁

It is a 48 hour gamejam. So you can also do something smaller. No rush!