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Hey, I didn't have a controller at hand so I probably didn't get the whole experience. It's a fun premise, a cat with a jetpack shooting bees and collecting cans of tuna. What's the lore? ;-)

I was able to mostly stay on the ground (so, not using any jet fuel) and quickly shoot the occasional bee. Until I was betrayed by the cat's collider, which seems to not adjust to the sprite's smaller height when on the ground. 

Adding a "quit game" functionality to hitting Esc is a very low effort thing to add in order to make the whole experience a bit more polished ;-)

I like the idea (skateboarding games are always fun), creative level design and the overall mood. I can see how a bit more time for playtesting the level, refining obstacles and adding more things to do (like tricks as Tanuki suggested) would have made the game more challenging and engaging. Would love to see a more complete version of your vision :)

What a lovely variant on blackjack, I played it for longer than I'd like to admit :) Took me a while to win a match. I really liked the Magic mode, too. Card games are a different kind of hard to make, and this one feels really great, so good job!

Thank you! I feel like we should put up a community match some time :) Which staff was your favorite?

This is so well done! I really enjoyed the tactile feel and sounds of the controls. Brilliant idea for visualizing money, too!

You guys really nailed the jam's theme, amazing work!

Man, that was such a cool mechanic. Brilliantly simple idea, well executed. It took me a while to figure out how to manipulate the compass (anyone else wondering, you need to click the triangles around the compass), and how to let people actually END on their wished tile. But then it was really fun. 

I did however send 0 sailors to their deaths, and 0 were saved. Is that a bug?

Anyway, really well done guys!

Beautiful!

A 3D first person physics-based woodcutting sim where you get to chop wood, drink beer, and hack yourself in the kneecaps. Sell firewood to unlock harder (and more valuable) wood types, and ever more ridiculous axes.

Or, as a playtester put it: "A cozy 3D clicker game with a drinking problem"

Link: https://elschorscho.itch.io/drunk-woodcutter

Currently there isn't. Do you have a suggestion?

Thank you! I'm so glad you chose to say "satisfying and simplistic", as that was the hardest part!

Thanks! That's exactly the vibe I'm going for :)

Wow, thank you for your kind words! 

Thank you for your kind words! Some testing would've done the game good, I suppose :)

It was the changing colors,that was just too fast for me :)

Nice! I would have liked seeing my score go up on collecting coins/bread, and losing some when getting hit. I'm the type of player who skims the instructions, then completely forgets about them once the game has started. So I had to go back to the instructions to see what the enemies do to me when they hit. It wasnt clear to me from the ingame feedback alone.

The music slaps. I had fun! Well done!

I'll be honest, it was too hard for me, and I didn't make it far because I'm just so slow. But I really like the idea - how on earth did you come up with a mouse climbing bouldering holds?! It's so absurd, I love it! 

Really, really fun. The controls and physics feel perfect. I really like the fact that this is 3D and the sleigh is, in fact, leaning in the curves. Would have loved to have seen this game being played on stream. Perfect scope for a minigame, as mobius pointed out.

I love this game! Easy to understand, hard to master. The ship's heading was not unclear to me. Very well scoped for the minigame jam, easily one of my favorites.

Really fun. I like the spinning starfish :D Also took me a while to understand that the balls don't hurt you - once you've figured that out, it becomes a lot easier. I agree that a platform in the center would have been interesting. Did you try a more bouncy starfish bubble? 

I, too, fell for the thinking trap, and only very late discovered the button mashing technique. I never needed the reset button.

Really fun little game. I also like the visuals a lot. It looks so simple, yet I bet there was considerable work involved. Really cool!

Wow, thank you so much! It's technically possible to reach 5 digits ;-) 

I really liked the art, well done! I think a bit of feedback on using an item would have been good - I didnt notice I had used one item until clickspamming revealed I could now just take the item I wanted from the crow.

Also, kudos for adding a savegame :) I wouldn't have expected it on a gamejam game, but I was glad to be able to use it when coming back from a break.

Overall, great work! I did miss MJ's "eeeeh eeeeeh" :D

Thanks! There is a change after the 4th loop, but I suppose that was too late for most folks :) 

I deliberately did notwant to change anything in the room or well while you're still in the loop, because that would have felt like progress. I intentionally wanted to avoida feeling of progress, and emphasize being stuck in a nonsensical task with inadequate tools. That was more important to me than fun (which felt a weird decision to make to be sure).

The visuals and sound are so good! I also like the idea of upgrading the cart, characters, your gun, etc. 

I found it a little too slowly paced, but that's different for everyone so I'm not sure it's even a valid criticism. Overall, extremely well executed on what seems to be a perfectly scoped idea!

aww, thank you!

Thanks! Did you reach the ending?

I actually enjoyed the music during gameplay. It creates a feeling of chaos and frenzy instead of spookyness, which I found totally appropriate.

My main criticism would be balancing. You'repacing player actions by both cooldown AND resources. But I was almost always waiting for the cooldown, which felt frustrating. I'd much rather be blocked by a lack of resources (blaming myself) than by an artificial, forced mechanic (blaming the dev).

I'll also chime in saying that there was too much to read in the beginning. Especially with simple jam games (but also more generally I guess), people want to jump right in and not read lots of text before getting to play. What a lengthy tutorial leads to is that a player needs to invest more (time) before he gets a first return (fun). For casual games, you want to keep the player's investment outlay as small and short as possible.

What a refreshing idea for a control scheme! I had a hard time learning it at first, and I was constantly thinking about the way a rudder would work as opposed to an oar. Might have to try it out in real life some time to completely understand it. Anyway, in the game I felt it counterintuitive (however real-life correct it might be). Is there a way to back up? 

I was extremely impressed by the way you implemented the tutorial as part of the level. So much better than a dismissable UI window.

I also really liked the whole atmosphere, the monochrome world, the sound - it all blended really well together. Well done!

I agree with Zackavelli that the level design would benefit from more things to do, and less open space. Also, the reload mechanic felt more like a chore than an interesting choice or action, it felt like it was getting in the way without being fun itself. Maybe replace it with a simpler mechanic?

Otherwise, 10/10 would paddle in circles again.

Very tense atmosphere, well done!

It took me a while to figure out that what I was doing (polishing, fueling) had any effect. Adding some visual in-world feedback to player action would improve this a lot. I also found some font hard to read.

I didnt quite understand why some ships still crashed even though my light was on. It seemed a little inconsistent, and a bit like my actions didn't matter the way I expected them to.

Anyway, overall very well done. I also really liked the theme/setting of being a lonely lighthouse keeper.

Yeah, it's a Unity project. Marev did the mesh cutting and tried several approaches. Glad he could find a working one in the end, that "made the cut" :)

Thanks for your comment! The onion thing happened to me one day while I was cooking irl, and I thought, this HAD to make it - screw priorities :)

Well you've got yourselves a hardcore fan over here. My 6yo keeps asking to play :) she made it to level 16 all by herself already.

Well done! My 6yo daugther and I had a lot of fun. She liked the jumping most :) 

The look & feel is cute, fitting, and overall pretty consistent considering you used some third party assets (hope that doesnt come across the wrong way - using different sources for assets sometimes results in things looking stitched together, that's not the case here, so well done!). The music fits the atmosphere so well, too! Although it does get a bit repetitive towards the end.

I didnt quite get what the cat is doing inside the cat tree(?), cardboard box and toilet - is it taking a dump? If so, the signalling wasnt entirely clear to me, but I get that it's hard to communicate without being too explicit :)

Overall, really well done!

Thanks! I wanted to use FMOD for this game, turns out it doesn't play too well with WebGL if you don't know what to optimize for. So I guess that's what caused the audio glitches.

Thanks for your kind words! Did you beat it?

I just love the ridiculousness of this idea. A duck with a hat and a gun fights mushroom guys in a dungeon?! Like, what's the lore? :D

This game is so full of silly ideas, well done guys! The art style and CRT shader(?) is also really good, as is the music. Overall, very enjoyable, congrats!

Well that was something! Every single object, UI element, etc. is just so much in your face I can only guess your goal was to intentionally dial the screech to 110% :D 

I agree with tagr that it isn't very transparent what is going on gameplay-wise. It would help to make important stuff stand out and everything else be less obtrusive colorwise. But I suppose that would stand in the way of going all in with your art style.

I too had the feeling I couldnt do any damage to enemies in the second level, so I did and had to kill the game in order to restart it.

That aside, a nice idea - in addition to killing enemies, you have to remember where you went so you won't miss anything when playing as Marty. I liked the art, too. Well done!

Well done! The art style really makes it stand out, a bold decision I can imagine, but it paid off :)

Very nice! It took me a while to understand the "compulsive" mode, but what a great idea. Also I was delighted to see the main menu, intro, and level all be part of the same scene. Very clever!