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I was able to extract it but wouldn't trust it. Got an extraction error for the entire .rar
The binary is called "wabalabadubdub.exe" while the game is called mahdi...
No bueno

With this game, I discovered that "mechanics that are based on how a specific piece of hardware/peripheral is configured" to be a NIGHTMARE to work with 😅

Yup, the spin is measured as the cursor's angle around the center of the screen, so the radius of your circle quietly matters. If you spiral inward without realizing it, the cursor drifts toward the middle, the angle stops changing much, and there's a small dead-zone right at the center, so the spin can die on you with no obvious feedback. That center-dependence is exactly the bias you're feeling.

Thank you for the feedback and for playing!

Good luck with your voting :)

Glad you liked it ahaha

Thank you for playing and leaving a comment, good luck with your submission!

The game was definitely interesting but... how does this apply the theme exactly?

This was a very positive surprise!

There are many things that could be better but there's also a lot being done here well that made me stick to the game for almost 30min to try get all endings, specially the ending 4/4

Game loop is extremely simple and there's sufficient juice to make you keep going.

The game could use some clarity in terms of info, how much money I've got, at which spin am I at from the 5 spins, etc. Those two are the ones I noticed the most, as at some point it was just "click the button until it shows 'You can shop now' text"

Good job on your first game and good luck with the rest of the voting!

Thank you for giving it a shot :)

Yup, spinning around with the mouse is not something we do everyday and will hurt after a while.

Besides mobile, what one playtester commented was that it would be an amazing game to play in a Nintendo DS to which made me nostalgic of games like Pokemon Ranger

Thank you for the feedback and good luck with your voting!

Glad you liked it ahaha, thank you for playing and leaving a comment!

Hey thank you for playing!

I'm no artist at all, so the concept that I tried to do was "grab all characters I can find asset packs for" and ended up calling it the "interdimensional" as a worldbuilding excuse for I have characters with no artistic cohesion.

I did think that the player character could have different characteristics, as I had the possibility to set individual resources to each character, but then to make it feel polished I would also have to expand onto "character unlocking mechanics". This would be a great addition to drive player engagement, as I think the game is worth about the 2-5minutes it gets someone to reach the final, but alas time! This whole idea surged around 16h until submission and I felt the priority had to be in playtesting, bugfixing and ensuring that mouse sensitivity would dictate if the game was playable only for some.

Again, thank you for playing and good luck with your own voting!

Steam worthy, great job!

Maybe one thing that you could explore is items that help manage the speed of the circling or grant easier hits late-game

Tried to beat the boss twice and it felt like a meaningful leap in difficulty, going from the previous mobs the boss.

Good luck with the rest of voting!

I'll skip piling onto the art and audio praise, you've clearly earned a hundred of those already, and leave something hopefully more useful.

The thing I kept circling back to is the wheel. I expected it to be this unpredictable, do-or-die thing, but it always runs you through the same three challenges in the same order, so it ends up feeling more like a menu than a gamble. The premise is a deal with the devil, yet a predictable wheel makes him feel oddly fair and safe, when he should feel rigged and capricious...

Two smaller notes. The first maze is so large that I braced for every challenge being a long navigation slog, so I went into the second one anxious rather than curious. And in the boss finale, the boss looked so much like my own character that I genuinely couldn't tell if I was damaging it or myself for the first few rounds. A clearer visual contrast, or a hit indicator on the boss, would erase that doubt instantly.

Genuinely impressive that 80+ people shipped something this cohesive. The individual craft is peak, it's the connective design between the pieces that I'd most love to see tightened in a post-jam cut.

Good luck with the rest of voting!

the only thing I can point out is that it was a bit unclear if I was being successful on taking photos of the bird. I snapped it, received a photo but for some reason I was unsure if I "was done" with that doohickey.

Amazing work everyone!

Cheers

cow gang 🐄 

cow gang 🐄

ahahah that's definitely a feature!

Hey there, thank you for playing!

The "error" sound is an indication that you've entered the redline and you will start getting dizzy. One thing I've experienced during playtesting was that in some conditions it would trigger too often and became confusing as to what was actually indicating.

I think I would need to improve the UX and add some visual juice, as the sound by itself can be tricky.

You can try adjusting the sensitivity setting in case you run with a lower sens mouse. You should be able to get by the first one with that. Unless you're playing in a trackpad then... yea 😅

Thank you for the feedback and good luck with your own votes!

Thanks! It's actually simpler than it looks. Instead of thinking about tracking the mouse's movement direction, track the angle of the cursor around the center of the screen.

Every frame I do three things:

1. Find the cursor's position relative to screen center;  that gives me a little arrow pointing from the middle of the screen out to the cursor.
2. Measure that arrow's angle (one atan2; in Godot it's just offset.angle()).
3. Compare it to last frame's angle. The difference is how far you swept around the center this frame; the sign of that difference tells me clockwise vs. counter-clockwise.

I tried to understand how Osu did it and apply it as best I could for my use case.

No gesture recognition, no recording the path, just "what angle is the cursor at, and how fast is that angle changing."

Thank you for playing and good luck with the voting!

heck yea.

Well polished game, very fun and enjoyable.

The networking characters kinda feel like they are scanning me and I need to avoid them at first.

I also enjoyed the tiny worldbuilding you did that sets the rules of "why I must keep spinning"

crazy to think that +50 people worked on this and were able to coordinate over 1 week.

Amazing work.

This must've been one of the hardest game for me, my pea brain wasn't clicking on how to build proper sentences lol.

What I felt is that it can get chaotic very quickly with all the pieces.

Excellent concept, had fun

Good point! I can see how that can become confusing.

I couldn't really find the ideal design to convey to the players that "you spin around the center" and ended up going late stage with the game without shifting to the "spin around the character".

The main visual point is that the character should be the axis, but never went back and programmed the re-centering when competing :P

Really appreciate you taking the time to play and comment. Wishing you lots of ratings on yours!

I don't have epilepsy but I'm leaving here a warning as I guess this could trigger some folk

It was... that image in the How To Play is essentially the output of ChatGPT when people started asking it to make anime pictures

AI Generated art and sound are forbidden from the jam

aaah I see! I gotta give it another go then to see if I can go even higher :D

Now you're the one that gave me some wrist pain! ahahah

Damn, you got a whole enemy set with different settings and abilities, along with the player character abilities. Awesome stuff.

Maybe one thing you can expand on is increasing mobility through power ups or unlockables?

Very solid jam entry, GG

I've been seeing you on my twitter feed for 2 or 3 months now and you made an excellent pivot with what you were experimenting before ahaha

Excellent game feel, lot's of juice on your incremental.

Sometimes, the text in the HUD would become all cramped up.

I guess you could also try explore some sort of story, do some worldbuilding and put a thought on why is the character breaking blocks or something?

Cheers, and good luck with the rest of the jam!

(got ear-raped tho, that could be improved LOL)

GG

This is by far the most complete game I've played this jam, but I've only played 1.68% of all entries LOL

A well put together experience and awesome level design.

GG on shipping this one, happy jamming!

First level

Thank you so much! Really glad the visuals and music landed for you, and haha, the wrist casualty is real, mine didn't survive playtesting either.

The spin area being too small or hard to stay inside is fair, and it might actually be something you can ease on your end. There's a setting to increase gameplay sensitivity, which means less movement to keep the spin going, so it helps a lot on lower-sens setups (and it's gentler on the wrist too). Did you happen to find it? This concept has been really hard to balance as one experience for everyone, since it's so tied to each person's mouse and hardware config. I did add some dead zones to take the edge off, but there's still room to make the zone more forgiving in a post-jam build.

Really appreciate you taking the time to play and comment. Good luck with your own submission!

There is a setting to increase the sensitivity of your gameplay, it might help you if you have a lower sens configuration. Did you happen to find it?

I've found that this concept is very hard to balance as an experience for everyone as it is very tied to each individual hardware configuration :P

Really appreciate you taking the time to play and comment. Wishing you lots of ratings on yours! 

Yea my wrist took a hit during all this playtesting ahahaha.

The first build I was using angular momentum to understand how much spinning was going on but I ended up having a well designed experience for my mouse sensitivity and low sensitivity people just could play the game. As for high sens people, it would be too easy.

Eventually researched and tried to implement the same logic as Osu! for the spinner and introduced dead zones to ease on the pain. Low sens is still challenging but more manageable.

As for the dizziness, there was a setting to minimize the shader vfx, did you happen to find it?

Thank you a lot for the feedback and for playing! Good luck with your own submission

Thank you for playing and for the feedback :)

I wasn't able to play this, but I guess you've figured that out already as per your comment on the page.

You mention a downloadable option, but there is none in the page. Could I be missing something?

Cheers, and good luck with the rest of the jam

I understand the premise but I wasn't fully able to progress onto the next level. I'm not sure exactly that I've missed during my run.

Cheers, and good luck with the rest of the jam

I wasn't able to understand how we would go from putting the move commands on the wheel to the actual moving. The character stayed in the same spot, even when I've had selected "right" and "left" as commands

I was not sure of what to do with this game :/

I understood that it involved particles and physics but I simply do not understand how quarks behave, I just know they exist, there's colors of them (chroma-something) and that there should be a pair of the same color then 1 odd.

I was able to combine a pair of quarks with some effort. I don't really understand the mechanics of the dragging/spinning, as in, I click then drag/stretch it, on release sometimes they bang around like crazy (mainly red ones) sometimes they rotate and change color (or not) and sometimes they even get flung outside of the screen (too fast and when out of bounds)

For what it's worth, these are just first-impression notes from one run. Good luck with the rest!

I didn't discover I could dash until I've read the comments here. I guess I could've also found that there was a dash if I had read the instructions, so my bad on that :P

First attempt without the dash I just died without really understanding why. Second attempt with knowledge about SP and the dash I got through.

What I've got to say is that it's hard to control the beyblade, as it slides too fast.

Additionally, I didn't really understand that I was dashing when pressing RMB. From what I've understood, it kinda feels like dashing is also tied to being on the move (pressing WASD). I tried dashing while not pressing WASD but still on movement and I got an immediate stop.

I somewhat understand when I hit an enemy as it is a direct body hit and I get knocked as an effect, but apart from that there's no feel of contact (sound, vfx). Same goes for the walls. I assume the walls make me lose SP (?)

Another potential design improvement would be the overall map. It's a big map for such a tiny fight between these two beyblades. Without the pointing arrow that another reviewer suggested, it would've been even more taxing such a big map.

I appreciated your work on the visuals.

Either way, solid effort for a jam build. Good luck out there! Cheers,

Tried really hard to reach 1 xmas per sec but wasn't easy

The theme is extremely creative imo.

In terms of the design of the incremental options, I became confused with the tornados as I kept buying them and revs did not raise. I understood that fireworks were a "one time thing" but then tornados only clicked that "for once" also meant one time thing after experimenting.

For the rockets, I didn't feel like they had a cue for "one time thing" but through experimenting I found out they were too.

Not sure if it was the best design to have the last upgrades to be both "one time things", at least I felt like progression would come painfully slow.

As I've left this on idle for a while I noticed that the music loop was on point and it kinda became my "lofi radio" for a solid 15min lol

Cheers,