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alright soo
i couldn't jump over any of the gaps in the web version 
the widest jump was shorter than the first gap at the beginning
so then i tried out the downloaded version and it worked flawlessly!
i ended up finishing the game, it was really nice.
although the level was a bit short!
the shader effect  when you get hurt looked really cool, but it seems like something that wouldn't be that easy to get working. so maybe it was misallocated effort?
i feel like you could've polished the response to getting hurt, by placing the player in some spot that is definitely safe. when i touched a spike i'd get flung upward and land on the spike again lol.
i like the atmosphere that you created with the sound, however i think it would've been nice to hear some music too. 
and lastly the art is ok, i really wish there were some cool tiles for the ground, but the important part is that the game is working, and your totally is
not only that, it was even fun!
the different effects were really interesting, especially the flashlight mode, or whatever you might call it.
good job!

we had to design the character movement without the use of kinematicbody2D because it wouldn't interact with the die properly (infinite inertia). so we somehow made a character controller with the rigidbody2d node in character mode, which i don't recommend at all using in case you're considering it. move_and_slide() wasn't available 

also in your code i recommend storing the player's velocity
and then doing 
velocity = move_and_slide(velocity, Vector2.UP)
otherwise the player will continue moving in a certain direction even though there's an obstacle in the way
(like continuing to move upward after hitting the ceiling)

really enjoyable game
the graphics are not my style tbh, and the music was annoying because i must've heard it hundreds of times throughout my life by now, but other than that great job, certainly a fun game and very creative game mechanic!

easily 5 star presentation
the art is amazing, and the sound effects are too
a different music could've been chosen, but it's not a big deal
as for the gameplay, i think the enemies are too hard by default.
it feels quite tedious to chase after them and get punished for doing so, especially with how slow the attack is.
other than that,
amazing work!

i love the use of sound effects. 
the art is great
the gameplay was nice
some issues i had were an enemy being right in the entrance of a room and instantly killing you as you
enter. also pls add potions lol this game is hard.
one time i believe the enemy just didn't want to move?
my game might have been unselected, but i thought i clicked on it a couple times, yet the enemy's moves never decreased.
anyway, very cool concept. 
nicely executed
good job!

quite nice game!
i have to say the tutorial was really good at the beginning.
i think later on a bit of a more gradual introduction to the game's complexity could've been good, but i did end up playing all of the levels!
i really like the design decisions you made with animating the tiles that match the pips on top of the die. and that they represent well what they do once you're on them. 
adding the map of the cube was a great idea, some games overlapped it onto the tiles, which might not have worked greatly here, but is preferrable if you want the player to know where they can move.
i think adding some music, any music really, would've been a good idea. 
it feels a bit empty without music.
the sound effects are nice, though they don't seem to always play, and the visual design is quite nice.
great job!

great game!
great art!
very enjoyable, it was nice to see another story based game.
as another commenter already mentioned, there's a lot right with this game, so i'll focus on things you might wanna improve imo.
i think adding more music depending on the scenario might've been a nice idea. 
i think the map could be displayed as a minimap in the corner instead of having to press on the map button, i didn't actually notice the button for the majority of the game.
the game was quite fun, i just wish restarting and the transitions would've happened faster, it would've kept the action going, was a bit frustrating to wait for the screen to do its thing.
i would've liked to see the buttons for movement be in a consistent place on the screen.
the watch and time running out is a nice idea, maybe making it a bit bigger would've been a good decision for the sake of readability though.
other than that, great work
especially for a jam game! 
certainly enjoyed playing it!

!!!! many people commented that thought they found a bug when they couldn't play any levels past level 2.
the harsh reality is that we sadly only have two levels...
i'm sorry to all people who wanted to keep playing, i wish i had had time for more.
that being said, there is a post jam update coming. 
so if you're interested enough to give this game another try, next time we'll have at least 3 levels!
and the previous ones will be polished and perhaps even extended.

i had fun playing this game!
i hope you don't mind an honest review btw
the art is ok
the music was also ok
i'm very glad you added sound effects and music, that gets left out a lot
when i say ok i mean that it wasn't bad, nor was it great
but it definitely added to the experience, this game would've been way more boring were it not for them.
so i'm glad you put in the effort
that being said, i think all three of those could've been better, but that's nothing impossible to improve upon.


if either of the team members want to make music, that's great!
make a lot, improve, get inspired. 
however, if you don't plan on putting a lot of effort into learning that skill.
that's ok too.
i just recommend getting your music from some creative commons website in that case.
i want you to know that there's no shame in that.
your goal should be to deliver an experience, and if some other music fits better, that's ok!
other games that i've played that used creative commons music actually had some of my favourite music in the jam!
while i do make music myself, unfortunately i can only give you very few good tips on it, because it's something that i haven't learned based on rules, i learned it by developing an intuition, and that intuition took me many years to develop. if there's any rule in music i would say that it's a combination of creating patterns and breaking them. also, one thing i tend to do a lot myself is have a melody with a unique rhythm, and repeat that rhythm with different notes. that kind of thing usually sounds pretty good. i believe it's called a "sequence" in music theory.


as for the art, the rocks in particular looked very cool
i recommend significantly reducing your colour palette, and working with that
once you do that  i think you'll realise that no matter how amazing the shape of something is, it's the colours that make it truly pretty. simply using the same colour palette throughout a whole game or level can make it seem very polished. 
one art tip i recommend in particular is to stay away from the corner.
by the corner i mean the corner of the colour picker that has the most saturation. 
and the last art tip is that strong realistic lighting looks pretty.
when a red, diffuse object is strongly illuminated by the sun, it will not be light red, it will be closer to milky orange. that's also the reason why in art tutorials people will recommend you to do a "hue shift". this is a simplified version of mixing the colour of the light with the colour of the object.

this is of course highly stylised, but i hope you get the point with mixing the colour of the object with the colour of the light that is illuminating it

now
there is one thing i noticed in your game that might've been a lucky accident, or might've been a deliberate decision. but i just love that that actually worked.
as i was playing the game, i threw a grenade quite hard against another player, and the grenade did damage to the character! i did not expect it to because i thought only bullets would work that way, but the grenade damaged the character without exploding.

anyway, that was my review. 
the game was very fun to play, and i think that's really something to be proud of. 
great job!

very fun game!
the art is amazing
the music is amazing
this turned out to be one of the games i actually played til the end
i wish you would've given more visual and auditory feedback as to what's going on
for example when the player is shielding you'd display a shield, and play an according sound effect.
that kinda stuff
also, this game deserves WAY more ratings but it's so sad that getting it to run is so difficult.
this could've definitely been up there.
other than that very, very impressive for a gamejam
great job!

very cool game!
i really liked that backspace was used for undo
it seems like such a natural key to be used for that.
the art was nice
music was great!
sound design was great, i doubt you could've added many more sfx
you communicated well how the game works
as many people have probably mentioned already, it would've been cool to see a preview of the other sides of the die, or maybe just change the view angle?
it didn't make a big difference when i could move around, but when there was nowhere to move i couldn't rotate the die to figure out what its other sides are
i really liked the last level with the credits rolling, i don't believe i've seen that in other games.
enjoyable puzzles that didn't have me stuck for too long at any point
great job for a jam game!
there are many competitors, but maybe this game could be continued?

very cool
i really didn't expect to find a story based game with this theme
the mechanic is so unique
the art is great too
and most improtantly the game is very interesting and enjoyable
i think the only thing you should maybe add is a small in-game tutorial
other than that
you should totally make this a full release, spend a month on it maybe and get it out there
this was definitely one special submission for a 50 hour game jam
and i believe you're the first person i will give 5 stars on creativity

great work!

i'm sorry, after trying for a good 15 minutes i still didn't know how to play your game.
I took a look at the comments, and at the screenshot, but still had no idea how to actually record anything.
a tutorial would've been greatly appreciated
other than that, 
the art looks really great
the sound design is great too
the game has such a nice atmosphere and honestly looks like a final release
it's a real shame because it looked interesting
nevertheless very impressive as a jam game
great job!

your game has a unique concept that i haven't seen in the other submissions yet

i think i would've really enjoyed the gameplay had it not been for the framerate which dropped every time the next plate was above the die. 
this reduced framerate, and the way unity progresses time irrespectively of the framerate meant that the plate was teleporting by pseudorandom offsets every frame which were very unpredicatble. 
i would like to mention that this might've been because i played the game without having my laptop plugged in.

besides that, the game was enjoyable. 

the presentation was a bit lacking with the default unity background. 
you could've put the die on a textured plane or something like that
i wish there had been music and sound effects. 
the menu didn't look breathtaking but i think that's really not a big issue for a jam game. 
but the important part which was to get something working is definitely there, and if it wasn't for the performance issues i think i would've actually had a nice time.
overall nice enjoyable little game.
good job!

although i've already played this game, i felt like leaving a bit of a longer review
sadly i didn't get past level 4
the art was ok, it could've been better. 
i really liked the visual cue for when the die has reached the goal



some art tips if you're interested:
for game art and especially pixelart it helps to have a very reduced colour palette that you use for the entirety of a game or level.
this, for example, is an early version of the colour palette i used for my game

other than that, i recommend looking at colour theory, and trying to see colours for what they are instead of your idea of what they should be.
for example, a white chair could be pink, it could be green, it could be black, it could be brown, it could be all kinds of colours, all that depends on what light is actually illuminating the chair. 
you can exercise seeing colours for what they are by looking at images, picking some random part of an object, opening a colour picker and trying to replicate its colour, and then seeing how far off you were.
very important thing if you want pretty art: strong, realistic, lighting makes images look pretty. 

seeing some animations would've been nice, when it comes to running animations there's an image that i used to make my character's running animation. you might find it useful.

i would've enjoyed more sound effects in your game, i think that would've given it a way more polished feel. i'm glad that it's something you're already planning to add in the updated version. 
the level design was a bit problematic imo. the way the level works has too many variables and as such is quite unpredictable.

i like that you had many movement mechanics in the game and instructions on how to use them, the font could've looked nicer though. it's a font i'd expect to see in a word document, and not a game.
what might've been even better would be explaining them with symbols instead of text.

it was a good decision to not mount the camera on the player but have it be static instead. for puzzle games seeing the entire level is probably a good idea!

more levels could've been added, but this is a gamejam game. it was not meant to be a final product.
as such i personally would've first cleaned up the existing levels before adding new ones.
it's the experience that matters, even if it's short

very adorable penguin character. 
if you're planning to make games in the future it would be cool to reference him in those.
overall this game was actually quite enjoyable. 
i just want you to know that for your first gamejam game, you did significantly better than me. 
last year i did not end up uploading anything.

good job!

alright
i think it is in your best interest for me to be honest about this review
i did not find the game that enjoyable
as to give you an idea of how it went: i needed 6 whole minutes just to get through the second level lmao.
that being said, the idea for what you wanted to do is quite creative

your game has a very similar issue to mine, the randomness of the die makes the game more frustrating because you rely on the die to give you a specific value (or in your case position) in order to be able to progress. this leads to a lot of time spent bruteforcing the value you want. meanwhile i have a solution for that for my game waiting to be implemented, but i don't quite know how i would fix yours (or maybe i do? keep reading to find out). the huge problem is that it's not only one die that your game relies on, it's multiple. so if there's a probability of one die landing in the correct place (= p), the probability for all the dice to do so is more or less p to the power of the amount of dice (p^dicecount).

now to the other stuff
the art is nice, not great, not terrible
sound effects are there, though the bell sound effect was a bit weird
your level design is definitely a lot better than mine, mostly because you actually have some levels lmao.
where did you find that music tho cos it sounds pretty good?
i played this game with headphones on, so i noticed something peculiar
the music only plays on the left ear, and the sound effects on the right? 
my right ear felt quite lonely
i recommend having the music keep playing independently of the level you're in, or just making the levels longer so that the music is not constantly restarted. 
i also noticed a weird bug: i think when you jump and then collect a key the music just stops playing.
also in the first level once you pick the key up the music becomes significantly quieter.

i think you should make the bell more interactive, and allow the player to look into the future before they make a decision to ring the bell in the way they're about to. making it entirely skill based instead of random. perhaps you could have the dice roll for a length of time the player decides? and the player can scroll through the future positions the dice will be in and then pick at what time they want them to stop.

anyway, nice concept, a bit frustrating to play. 
nonetheless, it's a gamejam so
good job!

very cool concept!
i really like how the mechanic is introduced to you by requiring the enemy next to you to open your door
speaking of that, it's very cool that enemies are even able to do that
good idea with introducing more enemies in further levels btw
seeing all of them at once could've caused a massive headache.
it's sad that there was music in the menu but not during the gameplay, would've made it more enjoyable
the art imo was nice, not breathtaking, not horrible
i feel like you could've improved your art by downloading a small colour palette and using it for your sprites.
definitely good choice to make the floor a checkerboard though
it really made it apparent whether the snake/shrimp was able to get me or not.
good job!

great art
i really liked the presence of sound effects in your game
and the music wasn't missing either, though it wasn't that great.
not something i'd listen to in my free time
very cool movement mechanics and creative game concept
it took me quite a bit of time to understand it though,  a tutorial would've been nice
good job!

lmao fun little game. 
good job!

i just played this game, and i can totally see why it's at the top of the popularity page.
the art could've looked prettier, there could've been music
but this game was incredibly fun to play
rated 5 for enjoyment
amazing job!

i would like to thank you a lot for this review. 
that's a great idea for the rolling mechanic
i think i will make it so that you can see a prieview of the trajectory + what value will be rolled at each point in the trajectory. 
this will allow to make the rolling more skill based without getting rid of its 'randomness'
i think i will actually try implementing this for the post jam version

i think i didn't express myself well enough tbh
the presentation of this game is incredible, and it's also incredible how fun it is
i found it frustrating to keep dying very quickly, but that didn't stop me from playing because it's was a genuine blast to play your game
great job! 

i have good news because that already works in the updated version!

very fun game and visually obvious mechanics!
i really like the concept of your game, i haven't come across it yet, though admittedly i don't play many such games

unfortunately while playing, the game froze in this state

at least that's what i thought happened, after some further playing i realised that it didn't actually freeze, but the die for some reason didn't want to jump whenever it encountered a platform at that angle, it just stayed there.
this happened multiple times, but moving it made it jump up from the block again.
i like how your game doesn't lack anything you could put on a checklist.
the visuals are there, the sound effects are there, the music is there, the gameplay is there. 
your game could use some background art (thought it may or may not be a bit distracting from the level), and i'd rate the music an ok
but other than that
great job!

quite the unique review tbh
i was actually worried about what the point is in making the die roll random densities if you can just bruteforce whichever of those you want, but once i made the game and added the soundeffects i found rolling the die actually quite satisfying to the point where doing that on its own was fun to me. 
you're the only person so far that pointed out my doubts about that exact thing!
i am planning to make a post jam version, and already working on it. 
what do you think of having a non-roll throw option (right click) and the preexisting roll throw(left click)?
i don't think i could've designed the concept of this game in any other way, because dice inherently don't always give you the result you want, but i think giving the player the choice to throw the die without rolling it would make bruteforcing the correct density its own, deliberate part of the game. perhaps i could use that somehow for branching paths, where the random value of the die decides where you can go? 
i feel like the only part truly ruined by this were the last two rooms in level 2. 
because:
* for the 2nd room it was just designed really poorly. 
* for the 3rd room the throw without roll mechanic would've probably made things less unnecessarily cumbersome 
please tell me what you think

i was hesitant to give this game a proper try because i don't like figuring out game mechanics without a tutorial, but i'm so glad i did
i played this game quite a bit longer than expected, it was really fun
the art is nice, but there is a problem, your sprites don't have consistent pixel size. 
this is negligible in high res games, but in pixelart it's a problem
the music was quite lacking but for me it's better than nothing, i can't stand silent media lol
same thing goes for the sound effects, they were not amazing, but i'm so glad they're there
very cool game mechanic, interesting spin on the whole "the die decides your damage" idea
definitely a submission to be proud of
great work!

i wish it had been more interactive, but it kept me engaged until i couldn't roll the dice once i came back from the phone call.
as many people pointed out printing the text faster would've been nice
also the font doesn't look nearly as nice as the art
nevertheless pretty fun, interesting, and for sure unique
good job!

heya
i thought i left a comment but can't find it
i hope you're not disappointed that you didn't get a new rating, i had already rated this before!
anyway my review of the game
art is quite nice!
the music is ok, not horrible though
it's nice that you added hints, the game does need it lol (i got stuck)
imo one thing that you should've done differently is the movement
that's just my personal view though, idk if it bothers other people too, but the movement happens instantly, there's nothing wrong with that per se, but the way it's portrayed is that when you move left, everything is instantly teleported to the right, and that caused for a jarring effect when i moved fast. kinda like playing a game at 7 fps, but more disorienting.
the difficulty is obviously not easy to get right when you're making the whole game within two days, but yea i wish there was a more gradual introduction to the mechanics (with difficult levels only being introduced later). 
as for the theme, this game had a similar concept to other submission regarding moving dice around to be in some specific orientation&location, but i found your take on it quite unique. other games mostly had a goal that the die was supposed to end up at with the right number facing upward. in this game the dice are eachother's goals
great job!

amazing art!
nice music, maybe would've been nice with some percussion?
sadly no item pickup sound effects
fun little game, and quite the unique submission
good job!

omg i'm so sorry lol. 
i didn't think the text would matter other than for controls so i played the chinese version of the game and didn't read the description.
now to my review
it's really fun!
the art is really cool too, it has its own unique style
i really liked the reloading sound effect, i know it's a small detail but it was honestly one of my favourite things about the game
now that i've played through the game, obviously the adherence to the theme makes sense now. 
i liked the sense of humour of the narrator(is that what i should call it?), including the ending of course,

spoilers

though the recoil of the nonexistent gun could've been used for movement! (would be another shoot to move, which has been really overdone in these gamejams and would've been a really funny joke tbh! )
the controls while challenging actually striked a nice balance, i was not stuck for a long time on any of the levels, but did have to repeat them a couple times
overall great work at making a funny game that doesn't rely on the joke being its poor quality!

very cool game, i had fun playing it
my only concern is that i don't see how it fits the theme
good job!

amazing visuals, well picked sound effects
fun game to play, though i got stuck at round 3

would've loved to hear some sound effects and music
and it took me some time to find out that you could walk on tiles that don't have dark squares on them
otherwise amazing game, especially the visuals

great game
amazing art
very fun to play
would've enjoyed some music,
but otherwise
great job!

captivating gameplay
incredible.

very cool concept!
game is quite fun to play and the idea really was creative!
i think the game would be even more fun to play if there was 1 more additional thing going on independently of your movement
good job!

the art for this submission is actually amazing
movement is a bit buggy, i often got stuck
the mechanic, while it was hard to control, is a nice concept and i think you could make something great if you paused every time the die rolls to let the player read what their results are and prepare for their next move
good job!

i just want you to know that this ended up being one of my favourite submissions. 
it's not because it's somehow ridiculously creative or because the presentation has outstanding 4k raytraced graphics. 
it's because this game is just so fun to play. 
i think you have made something special.
great job!

great art!
fun gameplay
maybe a bit more sound effects would've been nice
i found the music ok, nothing amazing, nothing horrible
overall really enjoyable, i like the concept a lot
great job!

fun little submission!
didn't expect actual cutscenes, that was impressive