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As someone who's done enough nonograms and played enough picross that I can do 15x15 on instinct, 12x12 is uniquely challenging in a way I didn't expect. Especially since this game doesn't have a lot of the QoL features that a lot of mobile games do. 

But the game seems aware of that.

Not only in that exit points are extremely common, due to how easy it is to run (or warp) back to the save point whenever. But also because the puzzels appear to cap out at 12x12 (I haven't beaten the game yet, so maybe there's some 20x20 behemoth final boss waiting to kill me). Plus being able to check incomplete rows whenever, a screen clear, and the ability to just do the puzzle later. I would prefer "Give up" to be reflavored to "Exit puzzle", since that feels a bit more accurate to the tone of the game, but "Give up" is how it would be phrased on a real GB game so I'll give you that.

The game does have a lot of charm though! It feels very of the era, and I've been saying for years that an adventure nonogram game would be amazing. This is ample evidence that I was right.

Will properly rate and review once I beat it. For now though, head hurt, gonna take a break.

I do own RPG Maker MV, so I'll go ahead and give that a try next time I have some spare time and see how it goes. For what it's worth though other things that used to work are breaking in a similar fashion right now, so I think the most recent SteamOS update just broke some compatibility thing, which wouldn't make it a problem with the Demake project.

Tried playing on steam deck. Loading through  game.exe will either cause an infinite loading screen or have it crash on start up. The data log mentions failing to create a driver. Meanwhile opening through the index.html loads up the game, but when hitting new game it fails to load up a banner.

As someone who thought they were a big UFO50 head, the fact that I didn't know about the bonus game until I played this is very funny to me. That tricky restoration team always hiding something. The presentation is really cool. I like how this acts as something of a continuation or side story to Pilot's ongoing plotline within UFOSoft's works. The photographer being just kinda aware of everything makes sense with how the games tend to tie together, and everyone just kinda knowing each other helps sell that. 

I appreciate how some puzzles here are representative of things from the games rather than being straight recreations of different sprites (such as Barbuta's Purple Moon or Attactics' Overwhelm puzzles). Also, I legit didn't realize the OST was fully original! One of the songs I heard sounded like one of the Warptank tracks so I just thought UFO50's OST was used here. Shows how well the tsk did with the soundtrack. 

That said, something wird happened. I had purchased everything from both shops, started doing the final set of bonus puzzles, went back to finish the regular puzzles, and when I was at 243/250 the crystal just... stopped responding. Like, it'd still have the energy circles, but it wouldn't spawn any particle effects. I thought maybe having it set to do the same game three times in a row via my targetitng messed it up, so I switched the targetting, but nothing changed. Removed it, nothing changed. Did a few bonus puzzles, still nothing. Saved, went to the title screen, reloaded the game, still nothing. Took fully closing the game and reopening it to fix the issue. Weird, that.

This is cute as a first game project. A few typos here and there, and a notable point where it can easily loop in around itself, but the sheer number of endings does a nice job showing that there are a lot of different ways the adventure can go. Even if a bunch of them are just "Be an asshole, get a bad ending." Poor Emilia. :<

Very cute imagining of Alice in Wonderland. I enjoy how the way it plays with family dynamics for each character gives the devs more room to play with their inspirations, since they have a clean explaination for why some characters from the source material don't show up but still have a firm presence via their kid.

This feels more like what a mobile game should be than anything I see on the play store these days. Just a fun pocket sized arcade experience that scales the way that I'd expect an arcade game to.

A small exploration game with an adorable clay aesthetic and a message on the creative process itself

The fact that the wizard has a fully viable strat without casting any magic thanks to Void Blade is hilarious. Shows how much creativiry went into each class's deck.

Android version loads to an infinite blue screen on Samsung A23

Crashes when trying to load a match on Galaxy A32

Fun arcade style Minesweeper like where skill is rewarded with more leniency with mistakes.

Honestly I'd love to see how much I can fenangle custom system end stuff in a post-jam version for that extra immersion. I'm glad you enjoyed the game!

Thank you for your detailed feedback! I was a worried the analysis function wouldn't do it's job to allieviate the trial and error aspects of the battle system, so it's good to know my instincts were right about that. I'll definitely be addressing that, and some of your other critiques, in a post-jam update and study the VOD while I make my notes on what else to improve.

It was useful, yes. Some of the things you pointed out are things that I 100% want to fix in a post-jam edition (such as identical overworld characters showing up), and admittedly the characters repositioning and popping into scene was something I couldn't figure out how to solve so I'll definitely tinker with your suggestion. 

Cute little game. Has some nice voice acting and art. The timer gives a sense of urgency the original version didn't have, which helps make the game feel like the purgatory it's stated to be. Doesn't pretend to be more than the little puzzle game it is, which is nice. Though there's a couple levels where the NPCs randomly moving about can congest the thin hallways, which can lead to situations where the player might lose just because the customers were unruly.

Cute graphics, relaxing music, knows what it is and doesn't try to be something it's not. The catryoshka doll was a bit tricky since I didn't open everything up first, so I had to take it all apart after putting it together, but otherwise it's just a chill vibe.

making an entire new combat system is certainly a way to achieve "beyond expectations." It was fun to mess around with once I fully understood how it worked. There were a few menu glitches I noticed, like Heal reading Potion when used, but otherwise I would be interested to see how this game evolves mechanically going forward. Though on the story front it feels like an excuse plot for exploring this battle system more than anything else. The two other kids in the orphanage seem decently written with the little bit of it I'm given access to. But the rest of the story is pretty generic so far.

I'm very happy the game resonated with someone who's worked retail (you have my condolences)

Cute little time waster. The gameplay is fairly simplistic, but the artwork is good. A nice way to just relax and watch the tapestries more than anything else.

This game is pure vibes.

While very clearly this is a first project outside of a visual editor, I think it has charming visuals. The jump being very small at first seemed useless to me, but it can save the player every so often due to the way it can hop over cheese and broc. I'm curious what the background ambience is too. Is it a royalty free track, or just some soundscape thrown together?

A good example of how an educational game can be fun with the way it handles its light deck building elements for an arcade like experience.

After playing this with a friend I can tell it took seven years to make. A lot of love and passion went into it. She was gushing over all the characters while I sat there analysing the lore and figuring out all the little implications. 

While for some characters their inspiration is initially unclear (Vee and Skylar), otherwise I think they do a good job playing with who they're inspired by (especially Cathrine). I do wish more characters were a bit weird with their fashion like Morrigan, but I don't think anyone is at all badly designed. 

I mean, Alice is a bit plain, but its Alice. She should be. Holy shit does Alice have rocks in her head though. The "useless lesbian" comment in the artbook was very satisfying to read after how much I've yelled at her for being really dumb lmao. 

Thank you for sharing your interpretation of Wonderland. I look forward to what you two make in the future once you're off haitus!

This was a pretty cute game. Nice way to spend the afternoon just looking over to check on my plants and customers. The Undeath virus is handled very tastefully here, with how it affects both the people suffering from it, and the people around them. Periwinkle's side plot also made for a nice breather between the heavier conversations, and I look forward to playing Starry Flowers later to see what comes of Astra and her apothocary.

I got the event where Kate is stalking outside the enhancement shop, and then afterwards I saw I could talk to her in the library. But when I did she talked about being under my control and me being a villain. Is it cause I walked into the Enhancement shop after she told me something was up there? I haven't cast any magic on her, so I'm not sure what else it could be.

I'm glad to hear that every major issue I saw is already in the process of being worked on or has some design intentionality the game is being built around. I do enjoy the game, so the closed beta sounds very attractive to me. I'm looking forward to further development and plan to give additional feedback  as I see things I feel are worth mentioning.

This is a good start to the game's development. Having cards and equipment interact with each other is fun, and the limited item slots leaving a stage makes it so every run into a dungeon offers a choice between grinding for exp or just grabbing what you need and getting outta there. I also appreciate how the crafting system is superior to buying items in the shop, but not an outright replacement to it.

That said, it is a bit rough around the edges. The game's difficulty curve is a bit odd. Normal enemies become farmable far before the boss of the same stage is, which makes thay choice of "exp vs items" I mentioned early became a choice of "Do I farm the one I can't complete, or the one I can?" But that means gold is hard to come by, since you do need to clear the level to get coin. Which makes improving your deck a bit awkward, as CP is only used to buy packs, despite that you can get CP really fast by just selling cards you don't need.

Also, when I opened the game today my save was gone, and I don't know why. I don't mind restarting, nature of playing a game still in development, but I'm just confused if it was a side effect of updating (as I don't remember the Login button being there), or if my phone did a funny.

The game doesn't want to load on my laptop or my phone, with me sitting on both for ~30min with only the splashscreen showing. Side effect of the migration?

This was a cute game. I like how it included a handful of bonus puzzles outside of the main story. Making Cassia an airhead like this really enabled Senna's character in a way that I found fun. Also, interesting to know that you did all the music yourself. Since it was noted that you don't really listen to Lo-Fi casually, that explains how it came out a bit closer to what I'd expect to hear in some chill lounge rather than an anime girl studying for a test. 

I will say that the story 15x15 is equal parts easier than it was made out to be and really fun to draw, since it has an outline that can be drawn without lifting the "pen", so to speak. This means that once it clicks what the numbers are hinting at, then the player can glide through most of the puzzle. For a final boss, that's pretty clever, and since it's the only 15x15 in the story that doesn't diminish what I view as a low difficulty 15x15. Plus the final post-game puzzle was in line with my personal skill level, so I got to have my cake and eat it without getting a player less used to picross than me stuck on the final level. 

As a final note, I didn't know you could make picross in RenPy. I'm super curious what it was like making a puzzle game in what most people view as a VN engine.

This was adorable. I also identify with Sewaddle.

Finished my first run, and I'm shocked to find something this fluffy and wholesome from 4chan of all places. While I never watched the Sinnoh anime, Dawn's particular form of infectious confidence and the choice between focusing on the contest (which I did, because I grinded the shit out of contests in Ruby) or the date sim was a smart move, given the grievance about unrealistic love. 

Though I am a bit sad that the epilogue doesn't show anything of Cynthia after all the build up for her, especially given how funny Hilda and Rosa were (both with each other and with Dawn), I understand wanting to make it feel condensed. The time skips do feel a little jarring, but not distractingly so. Just kinda comes off as a "proof of concept" for what might come next. Though with them palling around in Unova, it does make me wonder if there's gonna be an Easter egg for this in the Roxie VN. Though maybe that's me just having a poisoned brain and thinking back to the secret epilogues in Kingdom Hearts, lol.

MC does come off as a creepy weirdo to me, but in a "oh Arceus someone is talking to me what do I do" sense. It makes the juxtaposition with Scyther funny. I can see why someone as extroverted as Dawn would end up "adopting" him, so to speak. Not sure how to feel about his inner thoughts basically just being a tame version of /dg/, but I appreciate wanting the affection levels to be mutual.

My only major problem with the VN, aside from some gripes with the art that I feel like fixes are already in the works, is just a reoccurring thought I had while playing. If Dawn ranked second in a contest so prestigious that even our dopey MC was aware of, why does nobody recognize her? 

Maybe this is brought up in another route. I've only done one route, and I will come back and add on to this after I've taken time to explore the game more.