Don't be sorry! With the simple mechanics and unforgiving gameplay if it doesn't click for you there isn't much room left for it to be fun! The SAM voice is ironic - many of my other games have gimmicky voice overs and with my self-imposed extra challenge of only having procedurally generated assets some cheesy TTS seemed like the best fit. Though in hindsight if I had given myself more time or more filesize budget I would've polished that part more.
Yeah - I guess the hard part of puzzle type games is need some good playtesting which I didn't do. The answers were obvious to me but not to anyone else!
Enjoyed this. Though I worry playing it too long would give me a real life fear of spiders (and butterflies!!). Great work on the destructible walls and cool way to unlock new areas and the panic audio got my heart rate up!
I wanted spiders on walls in my game too but couldn't get it working well enough in time. So pleased to see it working in the first game I played in this jam.
I should have done some play testing before the submission instead of after! Arrow keys to switch between rooms and while the spiders do stop coming I can't remember why I decided to do that...
I look forward to trying out your game (after work).
I really enjoyed this, played it solo. Had to eventually play it with an additional rule of keeping my equipment between runs because I kept dying a few rooms short of the end. But nicely put together. I'll play it with my son next time for a bit more role playing and less just dice rolling.
Definitely a more superior take than mine on the 'protect the pixel art Earth from flying space rocks' genre! Nice work, fun to plan and nice polished graphics.
Nice game mechanic and fun to play. I like the personality of the antagonist and the way the game builds in difficulty. The losing is good is perhaps a stretch but so was mine!
Nice game with a simple but interesting mechanic. I think I was struggling with collisions but otherwise it was fun to play, had a bit of strategy and great aesthetic and tunes
Nice game, well presented and plenty of 'juice'! Fun to play as well. Tricky to get a good score, sorry to all the little scorpions I accidentally killed along the way!
We did consider showing what is coming and having a balance of wasted food $ and bills paid just ran out of time and stopped as soon as it was kind of fun. Maybe in a future update! Thanks for the feedback :)
Nice work making a single game for three jams at once. I think the rotation is a bit of a stretch but I guess its there! The game went from slow to too hard pretty quickly but was fun while it lasted!
I was hoping that the spatula returns home eventually but I really should have constrained it a little to stop it getting too far away or locked behind things.
Thanks for the feedback, I'll try your game out after work!
Complicated game! I made a menu and ate some cookies. I guess I could have earned more money if I set things right, but my dessert burger and healthy pizza still brought me in some income.
I got a bit confused with the commands and needed to use the help system after every command! Also some commands need to use the name and some work with the index so I got in a tangle, your gameplay video helped.
