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I love the concept art portraits and while I think the in-game assets are obviously placeholders for them, I think these characters are cool enough to iterate on! I love the casino theme and I love lOVE LOVE that "shove" is a pun on how "shoving" in poker works. I am  not -entirely- sold on the system (it didn't seem like defend actually worked against attacks at all? I never got the parry to happen while I was testing stuff) but I get how it relates to the "all-in" theme and wouldn't mind seeing this pushed further!

First and foremost, your art and animation style is KILLER. Like, genuinely, I don't think there's anyone in the indie fighting game space that has the hyper detailed "cool" factor that your work does, and all your attacks are so weighty and well animated. I was so wildly and instantly impressed by what you're doing that I went and tried your other work just so that my eyeballs would be happy. Which is why I'm a little torn on this! I don't like how the shield-parry mechanic doesn't actually give you any sort of reward for timing it correctly, it feels like the entire point of correctly baiting someone to attack should be to get your own reward. As is, because jab is + on hit and there's no real way to defend yourself, it really is just "get in and jab to win" with the current mechanics (which is also a shame because I think the other mechanics, like the fast dash, feel really good, and your other attacks are animated beautifully but kind of don't have a function.) I'm nobody but I hope you consider that I, a stranger, am immediately on my knees in awe at your visual art and I think that if your mechanics meet that same level of nuance you will become undefeatable in the game-making space.

I had a lot of fun with this and I ADORE the music in it and how well everything syncs up. It's a great time but I have trouble envisioning how it scales up to a full Vs. game (but I'd play the shit out of a single player campaign of it, something about this tells me you have the sense of humor and art to make something really engaging)

This main character is incredible and just oozes with personality. Your art and animation style (and the suggestion that this will be a Eldritch-horror-world) instantly has me. I don't know if the weapon-pickup stuff is going to be a theme for every character in the game but I -adore- how it feels to do axe-oki and then use the weapon-pickup to extend links off the chain. It's a really great idea you can expand on and you clearly have the vision to make it work. I hope to see more!!

Extremely polished, crisp, funny and fun. You really feel exactly what you like about fighting games right out of the gate, it's pretty easy to pick up and play for anyone that's spent even a little bit of time with ABC fighters, and I can really tell your team has experience in the genre and knows what matters.  It maybe isn't the single most original fighter ever, but that's a really small complaint when everything else already feels so ready to go. Extremely great job, I think it would be great to see this further developed. :)

Love the genesis mode and what it does for the characters! This might be a really low level observation but this game--mechanically and aesthetically--feels very UNI coded. Doing the special cancel stuff with Felix felt fantastic, though I didn't quite understand what the star system did for him. Paw-Paw felt far worse to me, mostly because whiffed detonation seemed to allow pretty easy infinites (Which, fine! It's an alpha for a game jam, haha, it's fine) and without it I kind of didn't feel like she had as much going on.  Still, absolutely living for the art, environment, and ideas. Great job!! I hope you keep up with this!

I genuinely love this and it is my favorite game in the jam. I think the way you've organized frame data is really thoughtful (Fast UB stuff like Alex's low kick being minus on hit, single jabs being plus OB but committal strings being minus, etc), you have great 8WR here, a nice variety in characters, and an instantly satisfying system. I almost think the stamina system gets in the way, but I can't deny that I laughed out loud a few times that I died with a near-full HP bar because I ran out of stamina and got knocked down once lol
I really, really hope you continue this. Real indie 3D fighters almost never get made and you have an wonderfully nuanced understanding of how they work, clearly.

Quite fun, easy to get into. I am tempted to suggest -something- that adds variety to the characters beyond the aesthetic, but that's obviously something better served for beyond a game jam. I think you have something really great here that can easily, easily be expanded into a full game. I'd buy it.

I gave you a 5 in aesthetics and i hate horses. that's how serious I am that you've nailed this concept. I honestly don't think you need much more polish than this to slap a price tag on it, honestly.  This is instantly engaging, hilarious, and addicting.

This is looking great thus far. Do you mind if I ask what you're using to make this/programming in?

This is by far the best of the mini games you've posted. I really love your characters  and visual style, butI think there's an issue (across all of the posted mini games) of clarity between hitbox and damage, and the reason why this one works so much better than the others is how easy it is to pick  up and go. I think you're a bit of polish away from something very nice here. Love the music, too.

While the mechanical part of the game is still very early days, I think your aesthetic and ideas are great. A big gay sexy Moebius. With polish, this can be very special. Absolutely keeping my eyes out on this.

Incredible how much energy and chaos you wrung out of such a small screen space. This manages to feel really fresh in a well-covered genre. Great job.

I love this and want it to be more

I started playing this today and really enjoyed it. You should mark this game as "released" on here! (currently it says "in development")

Introspective and precious. I need to fix a zipper.

Well, this is just stinkin' cute, and made me feel like I have a zipper or two I need to fix.

I think this looks really cool! I hope a demo finds it's way out sometime, I like the idea + animations.

This was incredible. Thank you so much for this.

I'm kind of curious if there's an alternate ending, but I'm not sure how to spoiler text comments on here. I have an idea of "how" to get it during the next-to-last fight, I just don't know if I'm good enough yet to make it work, heh.

The menu is truly awful.

However, I didn't know you could do 3D stuff in UFE? I think the 3D experimentation here is great—3D indie fighting games are extremely rare and your sidestepping implementation here is actually quite impressive. It felt very smooth and, for that along, I think there's something cool to take away from this here.

I think this is the only game in this jam with jump cancel combos. :,)

I think there's something really special here—it's funny, it's cute, it's pretty easy to pick up and play and it moves great. I am really shocked it was made with GameMaker. With polish, time, and character diversity (and some rollback) I think this is a winner you should keep working on. Love that the furniture all had different properties in how they interacted with attacks, etc.

I don't know how the very-aggressive DI and ability to hit yourself mid-combo with furniture might shake out long term, but my first brush with the idea is probably the most positive of all the games here.

This ran at a really awful frame rate—and now that I've read the how-to-play doc, I see that's because I used a stick. That's a bit of a bummer, as it is how I have always played FGs. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But I think there's the germ of good ideas here! The idea that scissors moves forward, for example, but can just run into a rock and die. Little things like that are cute and I think can be built upon. With the sprites being as simple and clean as they are, it might help to make them a bit bigger, too? There's a -lot- of empty space in the battle area that isn't really utilized by the mechanics.

I am not sure if I've ever seen a fighting game with this mechanic before, and the aesthetic that you've chosen, while I realize was probably more for time than anything else, works -really really- well with the game. I think you can easily build on this to be something to sell: this is one of the nicest surprises a game jam game has given me in a while.

I wonder how easy it is to snowball people with how fast you can place traps right now? Is that good or bad? I don't know but I love the core idea as it is right now.

I'm really impressed with how much versatility you squeezed out of such a simple idea. With some exploration I think this is the making of something very cool and different—it almost plays more like a vs. Shmup than anything. 

Giving Not-Wario a dead-zone for his left/right slash is -very- funny. I'm very impressed.

An intense experience where you, a confused mess of meat and machine, have to shed your past in order to survive.

I am wildly in love with this game, it has a really particular way of disorienting you and reducing you. It's a deeply personal and unnerving horror and I kind of want to shout at the world about it. Thank you for making this.

Simple and super fun. This is something I think you can build off of fairly easily, great job.

I don't know how you wrung such incredible intensity out of so very little presentation, but my breath was sure shallow near the end, there. Fantastic work.

Very cute, and honestly, could easily be expanded into something larger.

Thank you for both the smile-inducing review and a eloquent distillation of the sort of work I try to make. Big <3's

Thanks, man! :)

Really glad you enjoyed it, thank you! :)

As a new game dev, this is an insanely positive shot in the arm. Thank you so much for the kind words—and I hope you enjoy your hardcopy, too. :D

Really excited! Lookouts is great, and I can only imagine that the full project will smash it. Can't wait. :)

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Hey, the sense of dread in this was great! For a first outing I think you really nailed the sense of dread and, without spoiling anything, I like the idea of the reveal in the end.

Will be keeping my eyes on all involved for future projects :)

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