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I'm sorry to have missed this jam the past few years (after winning one for '1926'). I've been largely offline grinding on one HUGE project for ~5 years, but I'm back into regular jamming now and looking forward to next year. 

I'll have to catch up on what I've missed, too :)

Thanks for playing

Hmmmm, I can't get this to work. It says to press Y, but i've tried every key and it won't get past that starting screen. 

Thanks, it was a fun way to kill a few hours :)  Thanks for hosting!

The page is password protected so we can't play.

I'm sure there isn't, guys. If a jam has a prize (which is rare), they'd usually advertise it. This is the host's first jam, and it's pretty small :)

Good job for an hour! The controls work very well, there's very little to no drift with the mouse.  I kept playing for a while to see if anything happened, but it looks like for now it's just clearing the fire. Keep it up! :)

I like the idea! I appreciate the thoroughness of the 'how to play' screen, and the music is really nice. The gameplay seems a bit.... broken, though. After I collect a gem, it seems to change my position on the map (or changes the layout of the hazards) and often I get an immediate game over. 

I found it very hard to know what to do/where to go, due to the platforms and background looking so similar. If they had been more distinct, I think your mechanics would have been easier to understand. Add on top of that the color changes and rotation, and I honestly have no idea what's what. 

That being said, I can tell there's a good clever experience to be had here, I just couldn't find it. Maybe I'm dumb though :)

I really want to try, and I see that it's worked for others... but the game won't load for me. It just sits at a black screen with the empty loading rectangle :(

Very interesting graphics! Cute game.

I got stuck on a doorway and had to restart (a little room with a star in it and painting on the wall)

Haha, nice to hear it's not just me and my wife and daughter who can't quite stop xD 

Ending is not finished yet (when you reach the big green planet it just freezes), I hope to get it fixed by the deadline!

I bought this years ago, I'm finally using it for a little project. I'll let you know (you're already credited :) )

I enjoyed watching this go. :)

Thanks so much! I hope to find time to add a few more messages before the jam deadline :) 

Done! Sorry about that, forgot to do the mop-up

Here it is, starring all 3 of you and your comments in this thread. HINT: beat all the minigames to see the 'real game', it's literally a battle between the 3 of you hahaha 

dirtbug.itch.io/no-theme-game-for-no-theme-jam

My game is based on this thread- it made me laugh LOL

Simple but fun and a good start :D

Sometimes (mostly with the 'fence'/gate item) I think the hitboxes collide and kind of drag your jump back down so you collide.

I'll be using one of these in a project, crediting you of course. If it goes retail eventually, I'll definitely come back and pay you for them. Beautiful stuff! 

I plan to use this for SOMETHING. I really like it.

Thanks a bunch! ^_^

Truly a joy, though I might suggest slowing both the fall speed and the frequency of packages at first! 

Brilliant work, truly. It's a joy every time I see PICO-8 pop up.  You did SO much with SO little here- the graphics and sound are LOVELY. Near PERFECT rating on everything but I look at that 9 hour dev time and must deduct rating. 
If it were any other jam, I'd be pulling for you to win.

This is honest: I see a LOT of potential here. I don't mind the graphics being how they are, so no offense, they look exactly like a 3-hour prototype SHOULD look- but if it you got some beautiful scenery in there with interesting/pretty things to look at? You have a great idea. Sometimes I really like a game where you can totally space out for 15-30  seconds sometimes. 

Like others said, it was a tragedy on the first run, but the 2nd run I understood what was going on. 

Great start. Perfect rating for THEME

Thanks Fraser! Appreciate it. Like I said on your entry, we basically had the same idea so it's hard to criticize :D

Very nice work! The only criticism I would have knowing the 3-hour limit would be the repeated "hard crash" into the planets hehe. The background scrolling works nicely without making me dizzy (which is often a concern for me).

You have a great basic loop to build on, we basically had the same idea :) 

Wow, these are PRETTY. Nice work

My goal is usually causing feelings, so at least in that regard it was a success!

Thanks for over 4000 plays over on idev.games Galactrix: Upgrade Blast! - Free Online Browser Based HTML5 Game

Thank you! The water system is from another project I am working on, so most of the work here was just making the couple of event types and then repeating them with some flavor text variety, really it's just the same 2-3 tasks over and over 

Sorry about the arrow being ass-backwards, I have no idea how I didn't notice that. Tunnel vision :)

Thank you! The water system is from another project I am working on, so most of the work here was just making the couple of event types and then repeating them with some flavor text variety, really it's just the same 2-3 tasks over and over :) 

I appreciate that very much. I am glad it was at least a partially positive experience for you. 

I hope it was not insulting, the other feedback is skewing that direction pretty harshly. What is most important is how it made people feel though, and it seems that "highlight the ways sighted people can be dumb" was the wrong approach, probably.

Sorry about the TTS issues, I am largely ignorant about how they work.

Thanks. To clarify, I didn't mean crushed as in 'disappointed by the reaction', I meant crushed as in "I should not have done this, it is apparently insulting and misguided". 

I don't want to hurt anyone. You're right that I should seek to improve it rather than run away, I just have a very fragile mental health and was saddened and feel guilty over this.

I meant it I actually do like the cover art, it wasn't sarcasm :) Sometimes sleepy and rushed = soul

This is neat! 

Thank you! If I continue after the jam, I definitely will. thanks for playing & for the suggestion

Wow. I'm sorry. I'm absolutely crushed. And, no, I absolutely won't try such a thing again after such a scathing response.