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Super creative idea, loved the visuals. Plugging things in and dragging them around the node-graph type layout was really satisfying.  I just wish there was a way to make the transitions between switching inputs a little smoother, it was a real bummer to be in the groove and then have to cut to dead silence for second while I switched everything around.

Very fun and addictive core loop, the mechanics feel great and instantly understandable and I love the aesthetic and limited resolution. The rock break particles would feel a lot nicer if they were tied to the world space rather than the camera.  Also, some sort of confirmation with buying upgrades would be nice, it was a bummer when I accidentally walked over stuff and bought it without realizing.

To echo what Squishy Turtle said, my biggest issue was that the progression wasn't really tied to the end goal, apart from the portal chance upgrades. Getting better and faster at mining didn't necessarily equate to getting closer to finishing the game, it just kinda ends based on pure luck.  I think this loop would work a lot better if the portal was located in a fixed position, surrounded by really hard to mine rocks or some sort of obstacle - that way each run I have to make the decision of whether I'm gonna go for the portal or just try and build up my money a bit more. I also agree that the bombs became a bit useless as I got faster, because even with upgraded bombs I could usually mine through stuff a lot quicker than waiting for a bomb to go off.

But overall, this was very well executed, good job!

Very nice, reminds me of the board game "Fit to Print." I really liked the idea that which articles you print change the narrative. I only wish there was a bit more tension between picking positive vs negative articles, I found it easy enough to just pick the happy ones all the time, there wasn't really much incentive to do any different. Maybe framing the stories a bit more ambiguously, where rather than picking between good and bad the player is picking between two differently positive paradigms - like if I had to decide between pleasing the frogs or pleasing the mice I might think a bit harder about what stories I want to include, rather than just trying to always minimize negative stories. 

You guys really nailed the presentation, loved all the illustration and graphic design of the UI and different tiles, and really appreciate the polish put in to making the interactions satisfying. Great job!

Such a neat take on orbit slinging mechanics! I really liked the presentation, but it was a bit difficult to differentiate between level 1, 2 and 3 satellites. It also seemed like I could complete the level even if I hadn't put the correct planets in place? Very fun game though, I'll be coming back to it after the jam to try and beat it!

Really neat idea, I was a bit sad that the red markings didn't show up on my ship though :c

Text adventure vignettes stitched together by a fun lil lunar lander game is a great concept, and I hope you end up taking it further! I didn't mind the controls, but I'm not sure how well they pair with dodging the fast-moving moons - I feel like something a bit slower and more deliberate would fit the vibe more, really hone in on that classic reverse-burn mechanic and the tension that comes from trying to fight a planet's gravity to nail a gentle landing. The biggest absence I feel was the lack of feedback on collision - I didn't even notice I was taking damage until I spied the tiny hull meter at the top.

Really like the roulette mechanic, although it was a bit unclear exactly how it works with the coins. (Do I pay to insert a wheel segment, or only lose money if that segment gets selected? If the former, why doesn't the money counter go down when adding a segment?) Presentation and UI was really well done, but I would've liked some clearer feedback when damaging enemies. The ones that get converted in one hit are clear enough, but when I first started it wasn't super clear that I was 'damaging' the lil imps when I successfully completed a loop on them, so I wasn't sure I was doing the right thing.

Overall super satisfying to play though, well done!

Was that a Mr.Saxobeat reference? haha

Great work, a love a puzzle game disguised as an action game, it's very parsable and really encourages the player to mess around and get their head around the concepts without having to hold a lot of abstraction in their head. Really appreciate the undo function and quick restarts too! Presentation was also top notch, very well polished.

Great job, you really managed to get a lot of mileage out of such a simple concept. Controls felt really good. My favourite detail is how the lil guy opens his mouth in anticipation of the bugs!

This is what I come to game jams for.  Pure unfiltered style and originality, from head to tail. I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for what you guys come up with next!

Great job with the car movement, was really fun to weave between the horde.  I felt like the gun was pretty useless though, as the amount of damage mitigated by shooting a zombie that you were going to collide with didn't seem worth the power cost of shooting, even with a few efficiency upgrades. Not to mention the zombies were so hard to hit consistently enough to get rid of them before you just zoomed past/through them anyway.  I think having the gun be a bit more powerful from the start, as well as separating damage into it's own resource track would help incentivize using it to pick off zeds that are in your path and create little gaps to dry and squeeze through. I had a fun time just driving around though, good job!

I wanna echo this feedback, you guys really nailed a satisfying gameplay loop here. For such a simple game there are so many decision points for the player and I feel like the control scheme was just the right blend of chaotically fast while still being entirely predictable. Good job on the art too, although the UI didn't seem to scale correctly for me when I was in windowed mode. The music was a nice and simple little beat that was thematic and not too distracting and I love what you did with the little buzz at the end when you get squashed. 

It's actually a massive pain in the but and took me a while to figure out haha. You gotta enable markdown inputs in your itch settings, then use the details tag like so:

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I will definitely come back and give it another shot later, but there was already so many weird things and sounds happening in the office that were hints for the puzzles I'd already solved so it was hard to tell what was pertinent information.

The person peering through the window was especially creepy haha

Now that you mention it, yeah I think having it be a UI game would work seeing as I didn’t have an issue switching to mouse for the other mini games. Alternatively, being able to rotate the aiming cursor with WASD would’ve worked fine too I think.

Great character design and animations! I really appreciate the implementation of the timeline, it really ties the game together.

Looks and sounds great. I ended up just playing with the sequencer the whole time and wasn’t really paying much attention to the rest of the game haha. Maybe some sort of phase mechanic where the you only get one instrument track at a time and slowly build up the song would give the player more of a chance to interact with everything else going on and help the pacing a bit. Also, really good work on the characters and dialogue, very charming!

Super creative take, I feel like our games are cousins 😋. The whole system of trying to come up with a dance that hits the circles and dodges the dancers was a genius move, though I wish it was a bit easier to adjust the dance while it was in progress, rather than just having to hit chill and try from the top. Loved the art style too, really unique and a great fit for this style of cutout animation. Nice work!

Really interesting take on an incremental style game loop. Super clever to have both an upgrade track based around survival time and one based around damaging the enemy. It also took me a while to realize I could move up - something about the layout and certain art assets seem to suggest a sideview perspective. Maybe a couple of 3/4 view pillars or something would help to sell the effect. Either way, great job!

The tutorial had me thinking this was going in a more puzzle-y direction, but I was pleasantly surprised when the game dropped into a more arcade-y action-puzzle situation. The loop mechanic was really clever and you really nailed the polish. I had a really hard time wrapping my head around the grid system though, since some of the ores are offset. Great work, I could spend a long time grinding the mines in this one.

Really creative concept, having to micro-manage the servers to optimize my cashflow was a neat touch. I think like there’s a lot of potential in this idea of setting up your restaurant and then micro-managing your servers and I feel like having the game split in to two distinct phases would help the pacing a lot.

Yeah, I figured as much but could not work out what the puzzle actually was that I was meant to be solving. You guys did a great job of evoking the escape room style, and I like being stumped on a puzzle but it’s never quite as satisfying when I’m stumped on whether or not there’s a puzzle to solve haha. If I had to guess,

But don’t let that detract from the fact that I really liked this game overall.

Great work, loved the aesthetic and the UI - the timeline in particular was a really neat addition and I loved building the little command que. I feel like having some more information about the leaks before the loop starts would fit the strategic puzzley vibe a bit more , having to do a few death loops to figure out what's going on in each level before I could start solving it was a little jarring to me. But overall, I really like this one - super well polished. 

Super creative idea, felt really satisfying to play although the early game is brutal! Being able to jump over the enemies was a nice touch that made it feel like I wasn't completely boned if I didn't manage to get a windmill on time and in the right spot, but it still seems a little punishing since even if I pull off a dodge I can get caught by a stray enemy that I'd already dodged in the last loop. Still, super impressive how much mileage you got out of such minimal elements, really great work.

I was just about to type up my comment, but Signol_Games really nailed my exact thoughts here. Great job!

Great work on the theming, art and audio, really well polished. I really liked the mechanics, but I felt like the enemies were bunching too much and weren't providing enough gaps to sneak through to pull off satisfying loops.  It was tricky trying to work with the limited distance of the orbs, and sometimes they would connect when I didn't want them to, but it definitely felt great whenever I managed to snag a big combo. 

This was really sweet, great job on the narrative. UI looks really nice too, good work!

I've seen a few loop-the-enemies game so far in the jam, but the execution on this one definitely makes it a standout. Great cohesion with the theming too, the presentation is really great.

Just as I thought I was boned you pulled out the slide jump! Love the movement in this, and how it works together with the cloud mechanic to make you plan out interesting new routes through the same space. Really well done!

Great execution on the concept, loved the UI and was really nice to control. I wonder how well it would work having more control over the rewind instead of resetting to the start of the lap? As I was racing with my ghosts on the final lap, I thought it might be interesting to have 1 lap where you have more control over the rewind so that you can sort of "set up" your perfect run, and then in the next lap have to try and execute that run without the rewind, using your ghost as a guide. 

In any case, great job, this was a lotta fun.

Killer vibes, loved the aesthetic and the music was such a jam - it would've been easy to spin this a more horror direction but I'm glad you went with the frantic funky beat instead. I solved all the puzzles and got all the symbols lit up but couldn't figure out how to end it. Great job!

Super satisfying to pull off those last minute switches and line up big combos. Loved all the animations too, great work!

Very nice, it's like a peaceful rail shooter : p
I feel like there could be more ways to encourage strategic seed planting in the early game, it feels like there's a lot of potential in the idea of planning out your looping layout but at the start you can't even complete a full loop so it feels like I didn't have a lot of meaningful choices to make in terms of planting the seeds.

But great job overall, presentation is great and I had fun playing, the concept is definitely intriguing! 

Stunning visuals, I really liked the zoom effect and appreciated the enemy indicators on the planets. Nice work!

Great work, I've play a few orbit slinging games in the game so far and this one was definitely the most approachable and forgiving while still being challenging. 

Congrats on managing to fit in a unique and interesting mechanic AND so much dialogue and narrative - AND have the story be thematically relevant to the gameplay.  The visuals are super well done too, nice work!

Excellent work as always! Easy to understand and really satisfying to play, looks and sounds great.

Just when I thought I figured out how it works, the second level really threw me for a... loop 😎

I can tell there's a great puzzle game in here,  it just needs a little more work communicating to the player. Excellent job on the presentation though, the visuals were really hypnotic and you did a great job making the sequencer spit out some fantastic lil grooves, even when I was failing spectacularly. 

This is a super fun mechanic, I really liked seeing all the different attack patterns and coming up with strategies for defeating them. There's a really nice ebb and flow to the battles, taking your time to line up for a crazy looping spree, then the escalating risk-reward of trying to sneak in just one more loop! The grass guy kept hiding at the screen edges though, which was frustrating.

Woops, definitely a bug I thought I'd squashed x_x
Thanks for playing! You score high loopability by closely matching your last pose to your first - the original concept revolved around this idea a bit more but we ended up focusing more on getting the poses and photo prints polished and left the scoring ambiguous since it seemed to fit the vibe of purikura that way.

Great mechanic, I loved setting up my little looping defences then trying to dodge my own blaster fire to get back to safety. I feel like having enemies with directional weaknesses might be a neat touch, to encourage the player to be a bit strategic about how they place their loops. Great job!

Great presentation and super satisfying to interact with