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Thank you for rating our game! :) By the way, if you would like to continue developping your game I'd like to help you out! If you think that's a good idea or if you just wanna reach out feel free to add me on Discord! My username is the same :) 

as the game designer, this is really hard to swallow ahah 😅 we wanted to come up with something unique and just saying yes or no was not going to cut it, we thought about making a card battler but didn't want anything too pushed or anything too simple and that's what we ended up with, it lacks polish i'll admit that! We had to do a lot of bugfixing and decided to focus on submitting a playable game rather than a perfected broken mess xD

The game does feel a bit overwhelming, but you get full points for innovation, this game certainly has an appeal I haven't seen in other submissions yet, it's very creative and I think if this idea is polished it could be an excellent title to sell as a standalone!

Great job!

I'd love for you to try ours: https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-13/rate/3328267

We only have a few ratings so far compared to all the big games out there, but the game is pretty good! I rate and comment every game I come across! :)

I'd love for you to try this one: https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-13/rate/3328267

We had to bugfix a few things because the card system wasn't too stable, but now it should be good. We only got 9 ratings so far though because nobody really promotes it all too much, maybe you can help us out? :)

This game was a lot more fun to play than most games that just copied a famous game and tried making it their own.
Especially for a first game, it delivered. I had a lot of fun with it!

I'd look into going for a different approach with the physics, maybe drag&drop instead of click (that's what confused me at first because i kept dropping things or not picking them up properly).

Also, the fridges are hella OP xD

Thank you for the fun!

And that's absolutely fine! What counts is that you learn from the jam, time management plays the biggest part in jams but it's also about knowing what could've been.

Feel free to reach out if you need any help :)

An interesting approach on the "Reigns" genre!

Love the artstyle of the game, unfortunately game balancing is super important in games like these, the choices barely impact the game which makes it seem like it's impossible to get to an ending unless you make dozens of correct choices.
There's also no numerical display of the different values / stats, which makes it hard to say how much impact our choices have.

Still, love games like Reigns, with a little bit of tweaking this game could be very fun, I hope you do end up balancing it out! DM me on Discord if you need help with it i'd be happy to contribute :)

I am really shocked at how nobody in the comments has the courage to tell you how awful this game feels.
I think it's because nobody wants to have their game hate-rated in return, however I'd rather have my game hate-rated but give you some actual useful feedback than gaslight you into thinking your game was great when (in my opinion) it has a lot of issues...

The game design feels very flawed, I think having friendly fire on the king would have added some much needed creativity, but as it stands this is just a wave-based shooter game and that's about it. The choice of weapons (manual / auto) gives you the choice between 2 weapons that do the exact same amount of damage, except that one gives you the comfort of not having to click every time with the drawback of hurting your ears while you use it...

The purple slime being exactly the same as the green one with just more health feels like a wasted opportunity to make the game more interesting! I could've totally seen some enemies with different moving patterns or maybe the ability to shoot you!

There's no bonuses or perks that make the game more interesting, every wave just feels like it's the same loop over and over again where you move around the king and shoot the enemies.

 As for the sound design, the music is fitting enough but the gunshots really hurt to listen to, especially the automatic one. It's also lacking a lot more sounds that would've added some depth to the game (new wave sound, monster sound, etc).

The screenshake is something people often turn off in games, I think this should've been considered during production if you really wanted to add it in.

Every designer might have a different opinion on this, for me the friendly fire on the king would've made this game a lot more interesting, that aside you should consider adding some variety to the game (perks, bonuses, new weapons) and most importantly look into having the gun shots be more satisfying than just using the same overlapping sound over and over again (using a random pitch already works, maybe using an uzi sound and making it a bit less raw would make it sound nice too!).

I appreciate jams because people get to watch what you made and comment on how they felt about it but I think for this game particularly, people don't go out of their way and just say the game feels nice or fun when I can already see them rating your game a 2 or 3 out of five at best...

I hope that moving forward people will be a bit more honest, because we're here to learn, not to pretend we like something to get more points!

In my opinion the character should be replaced by something that fits the AD a bit more, if you do that i'd probably buy the game on steam right away!

I really like the premise of re-using the structure of games like 60 seconds but putting it into a fantasy setting. Sadly, I never made it to the end and after trying 3 times, I had to give up. The game balancing feels off, exploring was almost always a waste of time for me and even trying to skip nights by not using fire and then resting to get both sanity and energy back wasn't a good strat for me. I also somehow feel like a good strat is to come out of a night with 0 hunger and 0 water thirst, that way you can do actions for free since you can't die from hunger / thirst during the day, but maybe that's just me?

I love the flashlight mechanic and I think it adds depth to the game.

I would've wished for some music.

One of my fav games still, I hope u can tweak it here and there :)

I'm a jazz / blues pianist and I'm really good at music games so this comment will be 100% biased xD

Loved the game, it felt pretty polished and the theme was well put into it. I liked the last song the most, it felt great to listen to.
The only thing I'd critique is that the audio feedback from the note you play comes a bit before it reaches the bar, I understand that u're supposed to have some kind of audio prediction, my feedback is merely that the prediction is off (should be heard a bit later than it is rn).

Great game!

I love roguelikes, the map really reminded me of Slay the Spire which is my favorite game :)

Cute little game! I could definitely see this working out as a mobile game, hope you keep working on it!

I had to read the comments to find out what this game is actually about.

I picked mage, hit the tree and then the bees came so I just carbonized them by fire.
Then I started instinctively hitting everything with my stick (so I dodged the weird spike after the slime that I killed).

I hit the inn and the game told me you didn't have more time. I was shocked thinking it's just a walking simulator with nothing to it but apparently it's about not dying haha.

It's a good game but I would've maybe made it shorter but a bit more packed in content! Definitely like the vibe to it though.

I like the idea of the game a lot. I think what was missing for me was something additional to make up for the loss of my vision of the character. Maybe making it only 2 maps but slightly bigger with checkpoints (where u are visible) would've made it a bit more appealing but then again it doesn't play into the story... you surely came up with something that's hard to work with but you made something out of it regardless!

I like that you did your own voice-acting, I'm fangirling over the voice of X I think haha

🐷 💀

i appreciate you, thanks <3

Interesting. The movement feels a bit clunky which is regrettable with how important it is for platformers. The mechanics are kept simple, yet none of these points hinder the enjoyment of it! I was actually pretty engaged and had fun, the music kinda reminded me of the Terraria ice biome.

I was shocked to finish the first and suddenly see myself in the credits menu, I was expecting double the playtime I had, especially given that you were 2 programmers, did something go wrong during production?

Cool little game regardless, läuft bei Euch :D

I saw you commenting everywhere which really caught my attention so I checked your game out and wow, I'm so glad I did. You know how some people comment "for some reason your art really speaks to me"? This is it for me, I'm blown away by how cute the art is. The game is really fun and super complete, I'm surprised you did this in a week??

Well done!

Game looks pretty fun, unfortunately I was not really sure what to do at the start so I ran around mindlessly for way too long (I guess you didn't anticipate that people would be as stupid as me haha), after I restarted and finally got it I followed the trail for a while but it felt a bit too repetitive for me, the art is great but my favorite part was still when the snowstorm calmed down :D

here's mine: https://nbeeler.itch.io/hollow-pines

i'll be dropping a comment on yours shortly, ty for doing this i appreciate the hustle :)

I managed to get the shop in for my game if you want to check it out! I have to admit it took almost 3 days to get it to work properly though so I was happy I cut back other stuff early, it really is a lot of work especially since it was my first roguelike haha

You really prioritized polishing the game and it shows, the game is very clean and optimized. 

I'm not sure how I feel about the gameplay, on one hand it's random perks / upgrades on the hats so it seems to give off that roguelike feel but then again you can't really gain anything for subsequent levels so it's more of an RNG aspect than a roguelike one, on the other hand every level (imo) is some kind of puzzle you solve by shooting snowballs in a specific order and direction, which makes me wonder if the RNG aspect really makes sense here, it definitely is a nice touch but I feel like it's missing something to really justify the game loop on a longer run, don't get me wrong you'll probably win this jam given how short it is but if you want to make this into an actual game it's food for thought for sure :)

One question that I do have: Is this inspired by Peglin or is it just coincidence?

Congratz on the game, it's dope! (please check out mine too :D)

Title, we're 1 programmer / game designer (me) and one other programmer. Using Unity, GMT+1, come dm me on Discord: DarkMoves

I'm sure it could be a nice project to pursue, I was considering it since it's my favorite genre but now that you mentioned it I might really have to give it some thought! glad you enjoyed it though :)

i just wanna say, I haven't even entered your jam i come from a completely random jam (1 bit jam) and saw this game on the homepage and even i want to say: make it a real game it's insanely good

Love the game by the way haha. VS-likes never fail to be fun, unless the game design is done badly, and you have nailed it. I can't help but think to myself that this is just a reskin of the original game, but it works out, fits every criteria and it's honestly fun so what can I say?

I'm also impressed by how many people went for games with perks and upgrades, it is the first time I have dev'ed one and I have never seen any others before, yet in this jam every 5th game is perk-based. Maybe a lot of them just had a thought-process of winter -> survival -> upgrades -> perks

Day 4. I've been sitting in the cold for 14 hours (minutes) now. In the distance, a pack of ferocious dogs, chasing innocent creatures and tearing through their flesh as I watch. Am I scared? No. Is it because I shoot exploding gifts at bystanders? Because I materialize razor-sharp snowflakes out of my butt? Because I shoot snowballs the size of of a wrecking ball? No.

These are my dogs.

oh wow, that's insane

Art would get a 10/5 if I could.

I'm a bit sad because although the game looked like a very polished winner, after playing it for a while it feels a bit lackluster. [SPOILER] I won both the chest and the bunny test and was surprised to see that it rewarded me with nothing more than lore... 

As for the gameplay, there's been a lot of walking simulator submissions for this jam and this game really gives me a similar vibe with how long you have to walk to get from one position to the next.

For the artists of your team: You guys should be hired somewhere, that's insane quality for a jam.

the jam was a week?

The music started out nice but felt a bit too enthusiastic and lively for a game where u compare 2 words or numbers.

But ofc, such a cool twist on the iconic papers please game! My favorite part is definitely using the horn / megaphone before they reach the line and seeing the guy frantically cut it XD

I really wish I could share the opinions of the lads in the comments... But for me, there never was a monster anywhere, no sign of it coming and no interaction with it, I just walked for a couple minutes and then it said "thanks for playing" :c

I hate math lmao (dw i won't hate-rate the game because of it)

I must say, using a yellowish white instead of a clear white really did it for me, good choice.

"Now go all the way back"
Developer Life Hack unlocked: Game Lifespan doubled

xD

That aside, the jump is nice, from what I understand you can only jump if you are against a wall and not moving, I think it's more usual to stick to a wall when you actually move into it (by holding A or D) and then jumping again, but I would not call this clunky but rather personal preference.

Fun game, love platformers, good job!

Another perk game! I'm glad I like those haha

The game is fun, I'm certainly biased about games like these but if we all are you might have some good points!

It seems like you got a bit lost while displaying the perks, as sometimes there are duplicates in the shop.
Something that helps is, instead of using whatever function you have that picks one randomly from your list of perks 3 times, you can create a "temporary list" of perks with all the perks you have in your game, and then remove 3 from that list (instead of just copying / selecting them) and put them into the selection, removing it from the list then avoids picking the same one twice.

Make sure you reset that temporary list before using it again though!

(there are tons of other ways to do it but that's an easy approach, I did mine by having the shop script check which perks i already have and ruled those out when spawning the perks)

Really fun game, looks like we both went for games with perks!

One thing nobody adressed in here though... The game is super fun, I'll give you that, but..

What about the restrictions of the jam? I can't really give you points for theme just because you put a snow effect in your game when it's the only winter thing... And it's not really 2 bit either, there are so many different skins and colors in the game, you could say that there's only 2 used with each skin but that's also incorrect as the skin isn't applied on the tooltip when hovering over items (it's still black and white).

Very fun concept though! Seems quite similar to mine :)

I endured!
The game is super fun, I appreciate some good character / story development and the art is pretty cool. Theme is perfectly conveyed too. 
I must confess, after one try I just had to download the game and run a little x3 speed boost on it, the days feel very slow to count and the dialogue feels equally slow after seeing it again.

Not to sound too negative though, really cool game!

The game certainly has charm! I like how picking up the keys would cause him to wake up but walking around the room with my 50kg, echo-inducing boots does not haha
Given that a big part of the game is walking around and it takes quite some time to explore, being able to sprint at all times would've been a nice addition imo.
Good job!