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Thank you for playing indeed!

Regarding the question raised during the stream: creature names are a 1:1 mapping from the body parts selected, so creating the same creature always yields the same name.

Oh boy, even after reading all of the hints, I could only solve it after downloading the patched version.

It is a pretty well conceived game, in any case!

I couldn’t get the DOS binary version to work well (it would complain about missing files and hang in the character menu), but I played it online, and ended up perhaps playing a bit more than I would admit! The rock grinding really takes you in. 😆

It’s an interesting game indeed. I probably followed the wrong strategy, but I couldn’t reach the victory condition on Easy after a half-hour session.

Well, the only problem with this is that it makes you wish there was more of it! I loved the overall atmosphere. :)

Thank you for the feedback.

• Admittedly, the collision detection ended up a bit finicky, and probably not the best algorithm was employed when there are multiple targets close together. There was not much time to polish the experience here.
• There is speed running because clearing the targets faster will reduce the time needed to progress.
• Having more kinds of mobs was part of the original vision, but unfortunately it had to be cut short.

The game rating (+18) was odd and I kept myself on my toes just in case it would throw a jumpscare or something NSFW at me. I ended up not seeing anything particularly egregious, but maybe there is some secret part which is more intense.

Nevertheless, this is a cool idea, and would have enjoyed seeing it expanded and fine-tuned further, eventually with configurable speeds and a way to start over.

Thank you for your comment. In a way, this game was also a means to strengthen my ever deteriorating skills in mental arithmetic.

Thank you for the kind feedback, glad to know you liked it. Having a simple looped soundtrack, even if just for the menu and interludes, was in my mind at the time, but unfortunately I ended up having little time to polish the game before the deadline.

Thank you for the kind reply. It is true that a bit more imagery and eye candy would have favoured the submission. The idea of adding more forms of dialogue is also good. This was what I could achieve within the time limit, unfortunately a bit less polished than what I was aiming for.

Sorry to hear it wasn't quite what you were expecting. The gameplay principles were simple enough that I felt needed no explanation. An Op is just an operation performed in the cloud service. You may think of the total at the top as a score. Clients requesting Ops (and your machines fulfilling them) creates revenue depending on how much each Op costs. Changing the price affects demand, and so does the services' visibility (an estimate of which is unlocked by a project card).

In the end, it's just another clicker built in a restricted time span. Usually when I participate in this jam,  I only get so much time to fine-tune and tweak the game's mechanics after having done the essentials.

I played this 1v1 with my wife, great implementation of the card game, with nice aesthetics and great mobile support!

One thing that surprised us was the length of a game session. We got both to 25 points and it was still going, so it might be the case that it's using an unlimited number of decks?

Thank you for playing! Background music was in my plans, but I could not make it on time. I also notice the "spinning around" phenomenon, I ought to at least keep the issue recorded.

You are right, that would have helped a lot! Thank you for playing!

Cute Lemmings clone. :)

It looks adorable and the concept is great! Maybe with additional time you could have included an interactive tutorial and tuned the gameplay mechanics to be more forgiving. This would have made it excellent.

Perhaps I enjoy these clickers.

And perhaps I enjoy Win95/98 aesthetics too much.

One or the other, all I can say is that this might well be one of the most memorable games of this year's GitHub GameOff.

It is an adorable concept with lots of potential, but the array of nasty bugs in the game makes it close to unplayable in the long run. A few problems which I detected:

• In the tutorial section, as Pixie tells us to go to the computer, I always ended up being faster than Pixie and opening the computer screen before there was a cat guest request.
• Sometimes I could not move existing objects to new places at all. I was able select the object and position it on the new spot, but pressing the X key (as described by the game itself) would do nothing. I would end up cancelling it with Z instead.
• More than once I got stuck with the transport cage in the protagonist's hands while at the same time the game thinking the cage was not picked up (a "C pick up" pop-up would stay on it despite it already being picked up), and that made it close to impossible to release it.
• Then at some point, when one of the cats was ready to leave, I dropped the cage but the cat wouldn't get in it. Trying to move things around would either not work or hang the game.

Combined with the lack of game saves, losing all progress because of them is frustrating.

Still, all of this can be fixed if you do go through with the idea of making it into a full game! Do consider it!

Certainly very original and creative! Great work!

You were clearly up to something with these horrible controls! xD

Peculiar mood and graphical design. Gameplay reminds me a lot of Ghouls 'n' Ghosts (featuring nearly unavoidable projectiles xD). It was sufficiently enjoyable, although picking more convenient key mappings would have gone a long way (I'd constantly mess up W/E/R/T).

There is hardly anything more cliché than a platformer with double jumping and dashing. :))) Although I could not identify how to beat the back&forth level, the rest was sufficiently challenging. Assets fit the theme well too. Great work!

This was a peculiar experience, albeit quite repetitive. Some procedure generated fighting and gathering levels would have gone a long way, plus making them longer and larger.

I also could not trigger the end game condition even after obtaining 25 of all resources, could be a bug. :(

Thank you for the feedback! Admittedly, with a bit more time invested, the scenery could have been more diverse.

I almost always enjoy a nice wave-based hack 'n' slash game, and this was no exception. After I got the controls right (I figured out that I had to use the T key rather than G to select the second item), gameplay was smooth and sufficiently challenging.

It's a bit unfortunate that most of my play sessions led to a crash with a segmentation fault on my Linux machine. This is probably a bug in the Godot engine, but with all the crashes I could not get to the ending, if there is one. Can't look further into this without the source code either. (Note that participation on GitHub Game Off requires you to upload the code to the repository as well!)

The concept is awesome, and the graphics and audio assets are well made and suitable. The execution and learning curve was upsetting though. It could be something about how commands were placed, but when a dwarf felt unable to proceed for some reason, he'd get stuck forever without even trying to do anything else, there forcing us to restart. Either dwarfs were not prepared to cross the tunnel to grab resources and back, or they  just felt like not doing it for a reason not presented. Once a construction request was placed, it could not be reverted to work on something else.

This is a pity, because one can see that there is immense depth and possibly many opportunities to master the game, making it interesting for long sessions if it weren't for these minor gameplay issues.

I really appreciated the direction of this game, and would be looking forward for more!

A minor caveat: I was originally trying to run this on my mobile phone (the game allegedly supports this), but one cannot right-click on a mobile device, so eventually I just got stuck! Maybe some temporary buttons to pick the intended action would have worked here.

Thank you for playing! Truth be told, it is still a good strategy not getting hit by explosions, since that makes you lose points. :)

Thank you for playing! To clarify a few things: 1) the hero is invulnerable! But taking explosion damage stuns him temporarily (more time for bombs, less time for dynamites). If the hero disappeared entirely at some point, that might be a bug. 😶

And yeah, making the game Web first and mobile first was part of my aim for this year. :)

Thank you for playing! Plans for adding more entities are a bit out of reach now, but I may keep this in mind in future gamedev endeavours.

This was nice to play for a few minutes, works well on mobile too. Perhaps making it have increasingly more difficult rounds would have made game sessions more enjoyable. It was also not very clear what my final score was when the time was up.

This is a curious one, with a nice atmosphere. Act 3 gets overwhelming rather quickly!

A  nice idea, very fitting to the theme, and rather well executed! And the assortment of levels was just right! Simply great!

There is an ending, but it might be unreachable, so yeah.

Well, although both of those issues were reported, I could not reproduce them while I was working on the game. It does not happen on every Firefox and Chrome environment.

The project is open for pull requests fixing those bugs, if it bothers someone that much.

Perhaps reading the blog post on the subject will help clarify what I was going for. https://dev.to/e_net4/10x-sprint-master-a-technical-and-social-experiment-ahp Not because I disagree with what you said, but while I had intended the game to be fully payable, some design decisions were strongly driven by the concepts I wished to portray in it.

Thank you for the bug report! Alas, I could never reproduce this one to this day. 🤷‍♂️

Thank you for the thorough feedback. :)

The score lingering was indeed designed to be unintuitive to the player, since it was meant to be a rough approximation of the clients' receptivity to the product. It slowly takes hits depending on the quality of the software. While you never know how many bugs there are, the end of each month gives you a qualitative measure of technical debt.

The developers popping up was just a simple mechanism to facilitate dragging a task onto them. Making it more sofisticated would require a lot more effort than it was worth for the jam.

As for reviewing, I agree that it is a bit frustrating. The task under review by a particular developer is always the topmost one assigned, although it might not always be clear which tasks are under review at a particular time and how much time have they been under review. One idea that I originally had was developer profiles, which would give team members some personality and freedom to decide what to work on.

And ultimately, the game would need some more polishing to have a fair difficulty. I suspect that reaching the winning condition is next to impossible. 😅

Thank you for playing. I agree with the tasks feeling a little bland, there were plans to give each of them a generated description, but that had to be dropped for the jam submission. And yes, that last thing is by design: once merged, it's merged, with or without bugs. :)))

This was an impressively atmospheric experience with a well designed theme and a thrilling story! Great work!