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Thank you for playing, and for the kind words 🙇🏻‍♂️

This is my third year, and at the end of the jam it hit me like a ton of bricks that I just didn’t have the time to reach the point of “completion”.

My intent is to continue work on the game, and I believe it has great potential, but as far as the jam goes, it’s not worth comparing to other “complete” projects 😢

Thank you again 🙇🏻‍♂️

Lol - I’ve been there! Well Fritz, keep doing you I guess 👻

Great work! I love Pokemon snap so this was fun and reminiscent of that :)

Beautifully eerie ambience - I loved the music!

I for real lol’d when I saw that the giant mouse was actually an elephant 😆

All I wanna know is, why the heck is Fritz the nicest lookin’ guy, and yet he owns a ghost safari?! Like why the heck did you take me out here, Fritz?!

Super fun game!

The vis versa effects don’t seem to work, also, the game froze at the “uncollector” my captain never returns to the ship 😢

Totally agree! Keybindings would help a lot 😅

It’s on my list - thank you for playing! ❤️

Totally agree!

I feel like with these jams I often sketch a bunch of stuff in, but don’t have the time to refine/polish whatever is there.

Something to work on/return to post jam.

Thanks for playing and for your feedback!

Loved the random objectives mechanic - really neat!

Music, visuals, sound, all really well created and put together.

Well done, and great jamming with you! 🥳

Beautiful art, music, and design!

The random objectives are a really neat innovation!

Great job!

Great job finishing a game!

Love the boss intros specifically!

Personally, I felt that the dice theme is a really cool one, and I was hoping for the dice to be integrated into the mechanics. I’m betting that was on the roadmap, but the 7 days wasn’t enough to get it in.

All in all, great job, and great jamming with you 🥳

Great job!

As far as I could tell there wasn’t any mechanical depth to the dice, but instead it was just a theme. Maybe something to build on later 🤔

That being said I loved the polish around the boss intros, and just the overall completeness of the game (music, sounds, bosses, intros).

Great work!

The visuals, sounds, and parallax made a really fun atmosphere to explore!

I enjoy top down shooters in general - I feel like the power ups were nice, however I would have loved some decisions to be made during the game.

Something as simple as if all the pickups were a currency you’d spend on whatever powerups you wanted in the level interstitial.

All in all great work, and a pleasure jamming with you 🥳

Whoa! Great job, lots of great visuals, fun enemies, and the music is BANGIN’! 🎧

I encountered a bug where the mouse position was offset by some amount which made it more difficult to play, but as you can see below I didn’t let it stop me from VICTORY 😤

This was a wonderful review to read!

Lots to consider here about the overall pacing and purpose of the game, but all in all I agree.

From my perspective, the game just barely got finished, and so many of its ideas are nascent/underdeveloped.

My intent is to return to this game after the voting period, and to refine the UX and fill out the types of weapons/abilities for the player and enemies alike.

Thank you greatly for your time and detailed review 🙇🏻‍♂️

What a wonderful gift that you record your first encounter with our games - I greatly appreciate the over the shoulder experience of watching you figure everything out in real time, so thank you for this 🙇

I’d love to respond to some of the things that you experienced during your playthrough:

1. I believe Fatigue Points are the cause of most confusion for people, and I’ll try and clarify below.
2. Green bar is health for the player, Red is health for the enemies, yellow is action points, and blue is fatigue.
3. You did find a bug, for some reason the enemies and character can sometimes just move a ton 😅
4. Enemy AI is garbage, and should be improved.
5. Line of Sight does not exist, but should 😅
6. It was delightful watching you learn that you can ‘juggle’ weapons to eek out as much damage as possible. This is something I like about the game, and if swapping weapons was more fluid, I think it would be a fun and engaging mechanic.
7. The game is grindy. However I think a lot can be improved by adding more variety in every sense, variety of enemies, of behavior, of weapons, of environments, of abilities, etc..
8. QoL - so much clicking to do basic things. Keyboard shortcuts would do a lot here, but also I think more information readily available, maybe a hot bar.

I think you actually figured out FP completely, especially at the end of the video. However for the sake of anyone struggling: Fatigue Points (FP) are added every time you use a weapon. FP is added to your Action Point cost of most player actions. Moving is 1 + FP per space moved, attacking is whatever the weapons attack is + FP.

So imagine this scenario: A weapon has AP of 1, and FP of 1. The first attack will cost 1 AP (1 AP + 0 FP) and add 1 FP to the player, the second attack will cost 2 AP (1 AP + 1 FP) and add another FP to the player, and the 3rd attack will cost 3 AP (1 AP + 2FP) and add another FP to the player. Finally if the player would like to move at this point, it will cost them 4 AP per space (1 AP + 3FP).

This mechanic has a high cognitive cost because you are often trying to pre-calculate your potential damage output with a weapon, or a combination of weapons. My hope is that some extra attention of information design, along with lots of telegraphing/previewing of costs will allow the player to do less of these calculations on their own, and better intuit what they will be able to do with any given weapon.

Thank you again for this video - if I do end up making a comprehensive update, I’d love to get your take 🙇

I really enjoyed this.

High points:

• maps were interesting and plentiful
• crafting was fulfilling
• all systems I encountered were engaging to learn (snow, elevation, crafting, combat, warmth, hunger)
• the day/night cycle, when the morning breaks, it’s just an incredible feeling, really sold by the transition of color saturation

I did miss music/sfx. I know they are often not important, but man especially a game like this with such atmosphere, I would have loved some sounds to reinforce that feeling of being on a snow covered mountain.

This is probably blasphemy, however I don’t typically enjoy traditional roguelikes, or rather I want to enjoy them, but they tend to not grab me for whatever reason. I played this game for over 4 hours, and loved every moment.

A phenomenal entry, bravo 👏

A great pleasure jamming with you 🙇

Man did I enjoy this game!

Ironically even though I did die many MANY times and was unable to complete the game, it felt anything but pointless 😅

I technically made it to dungeon level 3 in the mountains - not super impressive I’m sure, but I died about 20 times in the wilderness before I figured out how to make rocks (I would stand over a fire taking damage, drop my clay, and bake the rocks).

I never quite figured out how to use a kiln, but I made one! Which was very exciting 😁

Anyway, excellent work - I greatly enjoyed this game 🙇

Just FYI I went back and beat the game, great job 😤

Ah okay I should return to it!

When streaming I don’t spend enough time to really sort through things. I’ll try and revisit this off stream to get a really good sense of what’s there 🙇🏻‍♂️

Whoa! Thank you for this incredibly detailed review 🙇🏻‍♂️❤️

I completely agree about how many clicks it takes to equip and attack, unfortunately that is simply a result of the lack of time for refinement.

My hope is to return to this post judging period. I’ve had similar hopes for past projects to no avail. However this one feels different.

In any case thank you again for your kind and thorough thoughts, and if I do make an update, and you so happen to play it, I’d love to hear more of your thoughts.

Till then 🙇🏻‍♂️

Absolutely, and I think you executed smashingly.

All the info was there, and all your little touches payed off and really helped teach the game through playing it, which I believe is the ultimate ideal.

Thank you for playing ❤️🙇🏻‍♂️

Narrative was super cool.

Love the visuals, little white noise and such.

The game felt alive and interesting at every turn.

I really enjoyed finding items, my only wish is that I could compare them before trashing whatever I had equipped.

Excellent work, and great jamming with you 🥳

What a blast!

I love the narrative, I never thought I could care so much about a virus 💔

Items are fun, especially ones that change something as drastic as seeing through walls 👓

Great game, and great job!

Gorgeous game, and alluring mechanics!

Really beautifully executed.

Great job and great jamming with you 🥳

Incredibly beautiful, love the music and sounds!

Mechanically inspiring, I feel like there’s so much there at play already and I’ve barely traversed the dungeon!

🐁

Really loved the atmosphere of it all.

Nice focus on the music and sound effects, I haven’t experienced a game with such a contrast in visuals and high fidelity sounds. It actually works quite well!

Great job, and great jamming with you!

Neat!

Love the polish and focus on the vibes!

I loved this. Super well executed.

Love the polish and attention to detail. Excellent tutorial and icons around if you are going to win or take damage.

My favorite polish is the scanlines and the fact that the music fades out when menus open.

Incredible job, great jamming with you 🥳

Incredible execution here - what a great idea making each encounter a trick!

Bravo ♠️♥️♦️♣️

This was such a delightfully unexpected game!

I really appreciate how complete it was, from an intro cinematic, to the wolf howling when his ally joins the match - really cool!

Great job, and great jamming with you 🥳

Whoa! I love the little intro cinematic - what a fun refreshing twist!

I like the multilayered dungeons where I can popup on the surface at a different place from down below!

Getting swords, los, and max hp increases is a fun progression mechanic!

Cool idea to have the townspeople pickup the swords and stuff as well!

Great job and great jamming with you 🥳

I am the minotaur, RAOR!

Fun game!!

Uhhh I cannot believe how beautiful this game is. Ridiculous visuals, and just such a complete experience through and through.

Thank you for making this 🙇

Incredibly polished - I’m totally humbled by the beauty of this creation.

I love the HUD, I love how everything fits so seamlessly together, I love the music/ambiance, sounds, the little ping you get when you spot an enemy, so much beauty and atmosphere here.

The game itself is intriguing, and works beautifully.

Really incredible work, it was an honor jamming with you 🙇

Fascinating game - I’ve never played anything quite like it!

I loved the programing book concept, and this was super well executed especially for the time we had ⚔️

Great job, and great jamming with you! 🥳

Whoa! I had no idea what I was getting into - the “programable” book that writes a prophecy on how your hero acts is so cool!

Great job!

Absolutely astonishing how full this game is!

Love the UI and 2 frame animations, everything looked and felt great!

Excellent work, and great jamming with you 🥳

Beautiful game - I’m blown away you made this in 7 days 🤩

This seems wrought with potential!

However, I got wrecked very quickly each run 😅

I feel like either I’m missing something maybe 🤔

Either way, I did have fun!

I really liked the UI and was excited to craft things even though I never got things that were combinable 😅

Anyway great job and great jamming with you 🥳