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Agree with the other comment. The bar game's hitbox seems to be inaccurate or there's an input delay. And on the arrow game you can just press the arrows whilst they are being displayed, a bit cheesy ^^ And when you do it too fast the game will overlay another set of arrows on top. 

I'm a bit confused how the controls work. "Move by bounce", idk what that's supposed to mean. I tried my whole keyboard and mouse, sometimes something happened, but I couldn't find a pattern. 

Can someone help? 😅

Fun mechanics and concept! I'm missing a bit of progression, but that's okay :)

Also the fullscreen experience on a 4k monitor reaches beyond the ingame camera, so there's an area without the post processing shader visible ^^

Thank you so much for playing and commenting :)

We did actually plan to implement something like this, but had to scrap it in order to do some polishing and balancing. The lanterns are sorta what we had imagined for that.

I really have to wonder how I found this game in "Unrated Entries". What a gem!

Super polished, very satisfying and so simple. I love the skill tree and tbh the game doesn't even need the skill tree to be fun. 

Soundscape is pleasant, didn't have to change a thing about the settings. Controls are intuitive, gameplay is direct and well telegraphed, didn't need a tutorial at all.

And the art style obviously looks great as well.

One small thing that could be improved on is navigating the skill tree. The sensitivity feels very low when moving around :)

• Lovely ideas there! The music speeding up is a nice detail. And picking up that final diamond at really high speed then turns out to be rather difficult.
  

Only things I'd adjust:

• Slow down the movement in the show a bit
• Shop menu isn't closed again when interacting, had me a bit confused at first

Glad you liked it!

I imagined the menu spotlight to be from the side (as it is in game), but we ended up implementing it like this. Good to hear it's cool either way!

The boss is fairly difficult! The sniper really is the unbalanced and unreliable tower (most damage by a lot). You'll need a couple of those to beat the boss. Typical winning strategy for TD basically. Either cover the end with lots of AoE towers or a point where everything comes together. I believe it's the center of the map on level 3. About 3-4 cannons should suffice. A cpl standard towers and then just spam snipers haha

You are welcome :) Feel free to check out ours as well!

Thanks a lot :) 

Ahh I see. Didn't catch that. Then it needs some better telegraphing I think. 

What a refreshing concept! I love it! 

Honestly I was a tad confused with the tutorial and some of the interaction. Since the other crayons are outlined white I thought I could pick them up as well somehow and thought that was relevant to paint in a specific color (colors used in the preview of each level) and I was stumped that I couldn't click on the play and restart buttons until I understood the essence of the game. Could use a bit of polishing here and there with the tutorial, but other than that absolutely lovely.

Simple and fun, I like!

The concept is kinda nice. I could see it being fleshed out as like a Roguelike where you get the option to steal one trait from an enemy.

Slight issue I ran into with the boss is that if you don't jump on the platforms on the left and right side you are basically instantly dead, because you are cornered.

hahaha okay that makes sense now. Had a fun time streaming it to the crew and we were making millions ripping off those poor vendors and after 2 days the fun was gone. We were wondering if the gameplay part just went missing along the development.

Will have to try again then :)

Fun idea. The staying awake part and cigarette are also nice implementations of a ticking clock. I like!

One thing that was rather annoying to me was making out the precise area of the hand that makes up the pointer. I had to click multiple times on targets. If the cursor was the whole index finger tip, that would help a lot! I wonder how no one else had this issue :o 

I absolutely adore the idea! And it looks great, too. 

Being locked in when eating is super confusing to me though. How do I stop? Do I eat for a set amount of time? Why can't I hide whilst eating? Press & Hold would definitely upgrade the experience by a ton :)

We were just an inch away from calling our game the exact same haha, good thing we didn't :)

You seem to have the same problem some people have run into... Depending on screen res you see more or less of the intended play area. On my 4k monitor I can see beyond the play area.

Besides what others have mentioned, one thing that stood out to me was that there's no indication whatsoever my character is reloading. On the first encounter I was suddenly standing in the enemy and was confused why they wouldn't die. Little UI or sound effect would really help.

Would certainly play again with those (and sound and self damage) fixed :)

Very well done! One of the more polished experiences from what I played. I'd have preferred a less repetitive gameplay over that massive skill tree though.

Few things that bothered me :)

• Coin and Mana UI is covered by the skill tree window, so I can't see what I'm working with
• The cursor feels irregularly positioned on the individual pieces. Always at the very bottom or so would be grand.

Graphics are awesome, itch page looks great, sound is nice. You have a settings menu (huge +). 

One thing that bothers me to a great extent is the heavy input delay :/ Got me to stop playing.

Would play again :)

Certainly interesting combination of mechanics here. Obviously in need of a lot of polishing to really feel good. It took until after the tutorial that I really understood what the game loop is and that I have a health bar. The letters on the enemies are barely visible (low contrast and too thick). With the tutorial I was wondering "Well why don't I just steal all of them?".

Overall reminds me heavily of Glyphica, but in 3D. I like :)

I see, I see :) You should definitely tune down that effect. With some phrases I really have to make an effort to read anything at all as they phase into each other. Especially with the background wobble effect layering on top of the UI.

For some reason can't attach an image, but I'm playing on a 4k monitor in fullscreen. When I make the window smaller it works out fine. So definitely screen res dependendant. Make it relative maybe?

Ah I see. Didn't bother looking for the game page as it's a download. Thanks :) Didn't get the drinking part in game. I was standing in the pots and nothing happened haha.

Ah I see. As a gamer I obviously try to test limits haha. Didn't find any so it felt pointless, because I can just max out every time and don't have to think / apply any skill. That's what I mean by pointless. There's no challenge, skill or things I have to watch out for.

Edit: Reading the other comments I might have actually broken the game smh. I successfully took more than 300000 each time and they were always "Great, here you go, have a nice day" and on the end day screen there was no problem either.

I see, unfortunate for the game jam. Do you plan on adding that later?

Lovely idea :)

Something I'd like to point out is that it wasn't immediately clear to me there was a challenge and I was losing health when running into the enemies as they just run away when they see me. 

Really great entry! Graphics are really solid and in line with each other, and don't even get me started on the theme idea. It's so far from most of the other entries! 

A couple things worth noting: 

• The button press sound is a tad high pitched
• Typically qwertz keyboard confusion with the tutorial saying z (no issue, it's on y for me)
• Took me a while to understand I can skip the loading screen text being written. Maybe add a little space bar hovering up and down.
  

Thank YOU for playing and commenting ;)

Really great to hear! Thanks for the comment :)

I see. Shift may be a more intuitive option for both choices :) 

still have overlapping buttons :/

Only one thing to say. Definitely the game I spent the most time in from all the submissions I've played :)

Uhhm... So the help command lists "instruction", which doesn't work. The correct command seems to be "instructions". 

Game certainly looks nice and plays rather well. The sound is a bit disturbing to the ears (had to mute the browser tab, as there's no settings menu). And the Chromatic Aberration effect is a bit too heavy (text is hardly readable). Might be due to screen resolution.

I like the challenge, but the audio is way too annoying and the controls are... interesting. Dash on Q with areas where you have to dash towards the left is not optimal. Also the ability to jump on W as well would add a bit more intuitivity :)

Definitely a unique take, love the idea! Very stressful. I think adding a timer or so would really be the icing on the cake!

Tutorial would be fire!

+1 on the other comment. The 2nd playmenu is really wonky on the web version.

I feel like the game mechanic is awesome, but I don't quite grasp the gameplay loop. A tutorial would really help!

Very nice graphics and sounds. Unfortunately a bit pointless as you can't fail.

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