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Thank you so much for such the detailed feedback and for taking time to understand how systems work 🙏

very cute arts :) I loved the mini games :) One of my favourite game loops especially mini games 🤌🤌🤌

awesome game, good luck in finals ;)

Just god moon from the first run lol :D 

I have created life, then got it extinct then got it back to 99% :D

fun concept! instantly clear what to do :) 

I really liked how volcano appeared in the beginning 🤌

Second run also got me a moon :D but I managed to create life with 99% temperature at volcano stage :D :D :D poor fellas 😅

Gorgeous UI!

lol ye, I thought 60x might be an overkill 😅

Thanks for giving it a go

Maybe I got bad performance in mini games 😅 I'll try again 🙂

Cool mechanics! A lot of fun 😀 loved the soundtrack 👌

The little guy is so cute

I like that you stayed true to the original! SFX are supreme and contribute to the fun aspect a lot. Same for minigames - if I had those minigames on any of my nokias back in 00s I would be very happy.

I also liked how the creature evolves. Like you play the game protect the egg, it eventually hatches and the next evolution stage appears, you feed the lamb - next. I also liked that when you jump over the obstacles eventually you fail and the evolution will have these spinning eyes. (not sure if that is on purpose or I missed something, but if it is - that was a great touch!)

My only complaint is that when you don't feed the lamb the animation for bottle continues as if you would. I wish there was a handler for this edge case like the lamb turns towards the player, the game inverts colours and the lamb looks very angry or something like that, would be a good opportunity for a jump scare :D

Great work! 🤘

Awesome take on the theme, the game loop is very satisfying :)  

It was definitely not easy😅 and I still didn't get to the top 10, so will have to go back to this one :)

But I had a lot of fun playing it. I think the upcoming enemies might take away attention from the caring part a little bit. And it might be a bit hard to manage both loops. Anyways, its a great quality game, very cute pet forms, clear progression, as usual - awesome UI and SFX!

Great entry! and good luck in finals ;)

Oh ye 🙂I actually took a page from Joszs's book when he was doing "track of the rings" a couple of years back for dev vs dev. And he implemented all the systems first.

Thank you so much for playing ☺️

Thank you so much for playing and for kind words ☺️ 

I really like the idea of unlockable mini games 🙂

😂 that would be easier, right? 😅

Haha thanks for playing ☺️

The stability is a discipline from the original, and rebooting is supposed to increase if triggered during the call. If there's no call and reboot is triggered the stability is supposed to be deducted -10. And if missed call -1. I didn't test all the scenarios with different modes and paces, might be still some bugs 😬

I am happy to know that you figured everything else though 😅 

The music is this track (used it in deployed game as well):

https://freesound.org/people/Bertsz/sounds/545457/

This guy makes some awesome tracks and most of it cc0

Thanks for a good game 😉

Beautiful game! Awesome atmosphere 👌

One of the most satisfying mechanics! Really cool concept, I liked the ritual vibes 👌

Also, I agree with thecrudeforge, the endless mode would add a lot of replayability to the game 👍

Great work, and good luck in finals 😉

Great concept! Great implementation! Cute arts! Fun and engaging game 👌👍 That was an amazing take on a theme and I enjoyed playing it ☺️ 

I hope you will get through the round and will become a top seed! Well deserved!

Thank you for making a good game! When you have fun you have fun, that all that matters and your game feels more like a game rather than  just a round assignment 💪

I am gonna be fair here, even knowing that this is a sacrifice game there are other sacrificed games out there, and I know your real skill and you deserve the final round! 

I know there's not much to rate, but at least there are some elements from the original - 3 buttons and recognizable artstyle. I still hope you will make it through even if it is 21 vs 22 pairing 🙏

Apart from that, as mentioned by others thank you for submitting your sacrifice, the ritual may begin 🫡

First things first ☺️ I really wish I was attending more of your streams this round, your feedback helped me in round 1 and 2 a lot during the dev stage. And I really appreciate the feedback you gave me on your latest stream as well 🙏

About the game - I think you nailed it! I love the concept of spamming emojis a lot and I think it's a win concept for the round! This reminds me one of my favorite episodes of black mirror with Peter Capaldi and Will Poulter - plaything. Love the windows 95/98 artstyle as well. I don't see any misses on the criterias tbh, great game!!!

Good luck in the finals 🫡

This is definitely one of my top picks.

Also, one of the games where the fun aspect executed really well 👌I am sure you will get to compete with dev pirates in finals 🫡

Great job 👍 

It's cool and cozy ❄️☺️

I loved the artstyle. The progression loop is well made.

Appreciate that you made it mobile friendly 🙏

Nothing to add really you checked all the boxes perfectly! Smooth and enjoyable 👍 well done!

Thank you for giving it a go 🙂

Ye, I should have spent some extra time on tutorial it seems 😅

Not 100% sure but I will guess - it might be a tamagotchi 😬😬😬

I would recommend to add some more visual feedback for the player to have a better understanding on what is going on :) 

Like some small animation for the fishing rod when it is being used, the water splash when the fish is hooked, the character is pulling the rod while the challenge UI is active... Something like that :)

I would recommend to increase the collider range at which you can click :)

Also, I don't think its necessary to keep upgrades hidden - you can let them be visible all the time :)

Looks unique and satisfying as a first impression ☺️

As for your question - ye, its very clear what to do :)  And I like how you have some practicing terminals before you can deploy the mission to the planet.

A couple of thoughts on the game loop (sorry if I missed something from the game description, I am new to this game 😅):

1. I noticed that the wall unit doesn't really bring much to the gameplay (probably I am missing something)
I was spamming towers to expand the area that I can move around 😅.

2. It's hard to know where the minerals are, if there was say a "radar unit" that would point the direction that would be verry valuable

3. When you defeat the enemy not much happens. Would be really cool to have some collector mobile unit which could gather the resources from defeated enemies and the refinery stationery unit that could produce minerals from those resources. That would add some variety to the game loop. 

4. I found a bit challenging to move around due to colliders that didn't let me walk comfortably around the buildings.

5. I didn't use the builds (probably should've 😅)

P.S. very satisfying mechanics :)

The most satisfying and sense making game loop I've seen by far.

The atmosphere... 🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌

Thank you so much for the feedback 🙏 

And very welcome to sprint jam btw 😉

Thank you so much for playing and for the feedback 🙏 

I will try to improve the kicking mechanics, I got a lot of feedback on that specifically 🦶📦

Hey thanks for giving it a go, and thank you so much for an awesome feedback 🙏 so many great points! I must make the package kicking mechanics right... It's such an essential part of the game! I think I might need to focus only on it for some time.

Also, happy to know that someone had similar idea as well ☺️ I would be curious to see that violent delivery 🙂

Thank you for the feedback 🙏 I'll try to improve on level clarity next time 🙂

Thank you so much for a feedback 🙏 great points!

I really appreciate the playthrough ☺️

I'll try to focus on the physics and level design for the next sprint 🙃

Np ofc ☺️ thank you for making an awesome game 😉

I think the wrench might have came from another level I selected before starting playthrough for the video 🙂 on the first run I didn't have it (though I liked to have it rather not 😅 as I understood it can switch the gravity area and it was very handy)

Just an update on a playthrough :)

I think there was a moment when I was teleported to a level ahead close to the end of playthrough (14:17). I am not sure how it happened.

Also a bit before (13:39) I was very confused :D

I hope this helps :)

I really dig the vibes of this game! right away :)

I will be writing the feedback as I go through the game :)

1. First thing I noticed and was really cool at first is floating UI. But when It started to overlap with other in-world UI I felt like I want to close it or move somewhere more compact. Also when you turn around this floating UI feels more distracting than helpful. I would like to have an option to keep it minimized somehow. 

2. The level design is clear. I liked how I thought of soda before you mentioning it in tutorial and I wanted to try it. Then I am learning E for interaction and later on I can see the switch and I know what to do.

3. The gravity mechanics is ultra-cool, messes with my brain :D but not straight away clear how it works. I figured that the light green I can jump on, and it works as an area. For the rest the gravity works as the arrow shows in the sphere. But that was confusing at first. I think what confused me is the purple line because I was trying to get to walk on it. I am not sure if I missed this in the tutorial but maybe you can navigate player with the use of that purple line in this case so the player will get into that area and get the first experience of overridden gravity (I have to be missing it though).

4 I managed to get easily after that through a couple of puzzles and everything seems to be fair and clear tbh. Sometimes it feels like I am in a free fall and I am trying to understand where do I fall towards. I will try to make a playthrough video tomorrow, my laptop charge is fully drained now but I really want to get back to this game. 

P.S. answering the feedback questions:

- did I get stuck? not yet

- are the mechanics clear? yes

- no frustrations or junkiness so far, maybe regarding the UI I would prefer to have an option to minimize the world UI that is with the text tutorial.

I agree with Non_Newtonian_Games, controls are very good and feels very natural.

And ye, if you would add power ups would be great idea. Because in current implementation the speed of cars is the same and the only thing that helps to win is navigation on the track. But if you expand on this game and will improve enemy AI they probably won't stay in the middle of the track near the turns. Then power ups can bring some strategy - should I get speed or cut the corner...

Same goes to the surface vs stay on track as Non_Newtonian_Games mentioned as well.

Maybe add some win/lose condition.

Also the collisions feel a bit off - I tried to collide from the side and front, they both stop the car and it jitters near the wall. What I would recommend is to give some recoil and reduce the speed, but when bumping from the side you should be able to save more speed.

Good game :)

Thank you for playing 😎