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Wow- thanks! Assuming you're the same GammaSqueeze that makes GammaOS- you do great work! My RG505 battery seems to last forever once I started using it. I'd be honored if you included Plain Launcher in a build- there are still some kinks I need to work out around certain Android builds not playing nice with certain launch intents- I'm going to have a new build up on Github and itch soon once I'm able to do more testing.

I really liked the different weapons and bosses! Cool game! 

I really liked the core dash mechanic here. The sound effects made dashing feel very good!

I really love the vibe you created with the different path choices at the start. It's definitely a fun gameplay loop and has a lot of potential for a full game.

We’ll take a look at the hitboxes; it’s supposed to just be the butt but maybe it’s not as tight as it needs to be. Thanks for the feedback!

thank you for the feedback! It’s not a bug! and perhaps it was too subtle but at half health there’s an audio “nuh uh” cue that plays instead of the possum dropping (so the last phase can’t be skipped) but maybe this is confusing and it would be better if it could be skipped… anyways thanks for the great feedback!

Yeah we are definitely pushing things to the limit on browser! I think the frog boss probably has the most stuttering  on the first play through. Thanks for sticking with it!  

I absolutely adore the vibe and personality of this game. I really enjoyed all of the bosses, and the payoff with Tony at the end was great.  The art style is fantastic. 

Just mirroring what some other folks have said; a lot of the bosses could just be beaten by tanking the damage and slashing repeatedly without much need to dodge/move around a lot. 

I also think I accidentally missed out on any new limbs? I thought they were boss rewards but never quite figured out where to equip them from (either before or after a fight)

Even with that being said, this game is one of my favorites so far.

I really enjoyed the way the art style and gameplay complemented each other. The dash for ammo/health mechanic was fun!

this is so so juicy; the animations are gorgeous

I really appreciate the amount of polish in this game. All the menu interactions are super juicy and the controls feel solid!

I really liked this gameplay loop!!So much so,  I wish it were a tad longer! I think this idea has legs and could definitely be fleshed out into a fully fledged mobile game or something 

I really liked the varied move sets you incorporated for the bosses. I also liked the boss heart/upgrade system

Amazing presentation and amazing boss design, it was a real joy to play!

I really really enjoy the art style and atmosphere. It's a really nice story and world you created here

I really loved the amount of juice and polish you put into the core mechanics. It *feels* good to play. Nice Job!

You are an artist, and your medium is bullet hell patterns! Really cool attacks!

I really liked the premise of the game and the boss designs were pretty neat. I think it would be nice if you didn't have to quite hover over the pad you wanted to throw at/jump to, but if you're mouse position almost acted as the second point in a line (e.g. you were always aiming at *something*, almost as if it were a joystick)

Regardless, great entry, I really enjoyed it.

I really dig the visual design of the bosses. great use of pallet! 

Thanks for catching this! The perils of uploading at 3 AM... It should be all set now

Lol, I'm seeing that a lot about level 5. I will definitely try to streamline that one, lots of red herrings in it currently.

Thanks for playing! Designing levels was tricky, I had to do it incrementally by first doing a simple solution with few obstacles, placing more obstacles in to see where they could fit, tweaking the maze itself etc to make it all work together. I wish I had time to design more levels than I ended up making!

Absolutely terrifying cover image on this one. I had a lot of struggles with the controls- I wasn't able to reach any of the humans on the ice before they shot me. But the concept and the art are really solid- just needs a bit more polish in my opinion. Nice work getting something submitted!

Excellent presentation! I made it to the last level but was bested by that darn swinging weapon. This one is really cool. I had a bug where the hero kept prancing around on the Game Over screen- other than that, seems like a really polished experience. Great job!

The art is really cute in this! Seems like a fun idea. Eventually the boulder and adventurer both wound up trapped in the same area and I was unable to do anything. But the look of the game is really nice. Keep at it!

(Currently seeking out other "control the maze" games to see what people did with that idea)

This one looks really polished! Moving the maze feels good, if a little floaty. I will say though, the click-to-rotate-segments mechanic makes this feel a little too easy. It feels less like solving a maze and more like clicking along a path. You could maybe have some slots in the maze that don't have empty space in them? Or limit the movement of the maze so you can't float outside the area. There should be some limitation that prevents players from just click-navigating through the maze. But overall, nice job!

Looks like we both had similar ideas- nice! I searched for "maze" to see who else made a "control a maze" game. In your game- the camera being cropped close to the red dot makes this a bit confusing- it feels like I'm moving the dot, not the maze. I was a little confused about how the doors works as well and what the rhombus shapes are. You could probably add some more tutorialization. But keep at it- put some music in there! Congrats on submitting a game!

Definitely fits the theme! The spritework is really good, but you have inconsistent scaling going on (see Cluckle's sprite vs the cat's sprite, the pixels are different sizes). I think you could make the whole thing pop more if you had a more consistent aesthetic. Gameplay wise, the game is solid- since moving the character with the mouse directly makes it easy to dodge, maybe you could consider something more like flappy-bird style movement for Cluckles to make dodging more difficult. Nice job!

There's some nice art here- the fisherman sprite looks great. Using the oil barrel felt like a good discovery and swimming ~through~ the tire felt great. Sadly, my fish got stuck in the guy's boat in level 4 (I knocked the cooler out) and I was unable to proceed. But nice work!

Love the presentation of this. The bounciness, the 1-bit color scheme, and the fonts are all really cohesive. It feels really polished. The gameplay is really solid- I'm playing on a trackpad which severely limits my shooting ability- but I love switching from enemy to player and back. Overall this is an excellent entry. Nice job!

Thanks for playing and the detailed feedback.

• Yeah, I had hubris about the performance of the web version. There's a windows download now. I was hoping that by having a web build people would be more likely to play it.
• It definitely needs a lot of tweaking, the collisions are wonky as you said. I'm not sure about getting rid of it completely- but I will play around with it and see what feels better.
• That's really good advice- I opted for "the whole world pauses" approach to dialogue but it doesn't need to be that way.
• I've (hopefully) fixed this bug, thanks for reporting.
• Hm- I could try tweaking air control a bit. I think locking you into momentum while in air should probably work. You're right that it is odd you can move around like that in mid air, I didn't even notice while testing these last few weeks since I started.
• I want to find a balance between "hit a button to mount a ladder and slide up and down" and freeform BotW style climbing. The reason I'm not just locking the player to a ladder rail is because I want climbing to be somewhat difficult and skill-based- but maybe only for climbing something you're not supposed to climb. Ideally, people would be a little stressed about falling off a sideways ladder. That's a tough balance to strike so I'll keep tweaking.
• I think there could be more context sensitive actions- like how an adventure game will sometimes allow right clicks to be the most likely/common action. But I don't want to scrap the intent system entirely, as I plan on adding a lot more complex systems where it will come in handy.
• I was hoping people would try this in lieu of any other way of crossing that gap.
• Totally fair- thanks for playing.

Appreciate your notes, I will play through your game shortly and provide feedback.

Thanks for playing. Good find on that bug- stupidly I had NPCs still able to create new goals after they die. I've fixed that and reuploaded.

The bug you encountered with the camera being tilted I think can happen when you get brigged twice in a row. I need to dig into it further. There's a lot of wonkiness around the security stunning and dragging the player.

And I'm really glad to hear you reached the rat! With limited playtesting going into this weekend I was a bit worried the jankiness would prevent anyone from getting that far. I appreciate you putting in the time.

Thanks for the tip- the current camera definitely needs a lot of work. I'll look into changing the rotation hierarchy- right now top level node of the player is actually not rotating at all and it is all camera. Making the player yaw rotate would actually help with a few things.

As for the game performance- I've unfortunately been limited to only testing on my machine which performed OK-ish in the browser. I've removed all directional lights but one to hopefully help with performance, and uploaded a Windows build as well.

Yep- I just changed it to toggle crouch on c. A good teaching moment.

You've got the bones of something really cool here- I love the UI and textures, really captures a specific era of games. The little inventory icons for items are excellent. Also, I was shocked when I tried out the debug jetpack and you appear to have modeled an entire planet, hah. Seems like you're off to a good start, I'm excited to see what comes next.

Thanks for playing!

• Right now the compliment "system" is as bare bones as possible- definitely looking forward to fleshing that out. Not using stats means I have to come up with a compelling way to pass/fail these kinds of checks- should be a fun problem to solve. Right now the plan is to not have any numerical stats / skill checks, and only have equipment available to make things easier, i.e. some kind of lockpicking tool to lower the lockpick difficulty, but no lockpicking "stat".
• Definitely not going to be browser only- I was glad to see it ran in the browser since I figured that would mean more people would be likely to play it. But the size of the game I ultimately want to make (something like a space station the size of a larger Deus Ex level) won't be browser friendly.
• That's a great idea- I will add that.
• Yeah, it is super clunky right now. I will play around with different control options for mounting and climbing ladders- I wanted it to be more freeform than on-rails since you can climb boxes, light fixtures, sideways ladders etc. But I agree right now it does not feel good.
• I'm an idiot. crtl+w is a common hotkey for "close tab" in most browsers. aka "crouching and walking forward". The perils of testing way more on windows than html5, I guess. I will fix.

Again, thanks for playing, I really appreciate it. I'm planning on continuing to update the game and participate in more Demo Days to come

Wow. This feels great to play. The assets are phenomenal and the bubble gun is a really cool mechanic. I had a ton of fun just playing around on the farm after the tutorial level kicking and bouncing around- I think you're really onto something here. I don't have too much to criticize since it is already such a polished experience- just wanted to say great job and I'll be on the lookout for more.

Pretty nice music, I had the title screen up in another tab and was grooving to it.

I love FTL, this seems like a good interpretation of it. The spritework is awesome. Agree with what everyone is saying about the screen size though- I had to switch monitors to play it.