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I just released the beta of Fallosophy on Itch.io!

This beta contains the opening chapter a complete vertical climb inspired by classical philosophy. Think ancient Greece and Rome. This is a difficult, precision based pinball platformer that takes place in a a towering vertical world shaped by the history of ideas.

You can play the game here:

https://reliable-plumbing-service.itch.io/fallosophy

Absolutely stunning work. The narrative loop is compelling, and the atmosphere is incredibly well executed, especially with the subtle audio shifts and stark visual style. I agree with others that the intro pacing could be tightened, and some in-game prompts would improve onboarding. The respawn orientation bug did catch me off guard, but it didn’t break the immersion. I really appreciated the thematic use of color and the eerie reveals. Overall, this feels like a polished slice of a larger story

Not only did he catch his tail, he also caught my heart <3

I really liked the clean simplicity of the presentation on this one. It was very very satisfying to hear the correct pattern appear on loop after solving. Nicely tutorialised. Would be nice to be able to pick up placed pieces and move them instead of just having the option to reset the entire board. Great stuff!

Some say its a butt, some say it's cleavage - as in any high quality media entertainment, it's ultimately left up to the beholder's interpretation, a puzzle they will truly never solve.

I love the character art for this one, it felt very fluid! The drawing mechanic reminded me of Okami (in a good way). Would be really cool to expand this with more shapes and abilities in the future, there would be a lot of potential! My main piece of feedback is that I would probably take a second look at the jumping. From the character design it looks like it's built with floaty physics in mind but it could probably be fine tuned to give the player a little more control. Great work :)

The funny thing about this game was that I stupidly didn't play the tutorial the first time and I was wondering why the chef was never replenishing my sushi. And then I went into the tutorial and boy did I find out.

I had fun. I wonder what ways the gameplay loop could be expanded further?

Me after implementing rope into Unity's cursed physics system for two days straight

I saved the camel :) Love the aesthetic, music and sound design. The idea is good and the interpretation of the theme is neat. I think it's been said already that not being able to move around the stuff in your bag can feel like it's imposing some artificial difficulty but I get why it's there as a constraint for the game. I had enough for the flower on first loop but lacking one space. I played it again after beat it in 3 loops. I was enjoying it and wished it could go on for more! Great work.

This game has a really nice art style. The "game over" text at the end was really well written and moving - did not expect it (unexpected 5 stars for narrative). It took me a couple of rounds of playing to fully understand the gameplay but once I did I got the hang of it. It is a very good and original interpretation of the theme. I know there's some pretty good tutorial text at the beginning but I think something I would recommend for these type  of games is a guided "practice" round at the start to ensure the player understands the mechanics before letting them off. But also understand that it's really hard to do that within a short game jam.
Stellar work overall :)

There's a lot of time loop implementations in this jam but this is definitely one of the better executed ones. I really liked being able to use the ghost as a jump and not just for switches etc like most - felt more active. The door bug is there but didn't detract from the experience.

Hey this is a great first jam game! My one recommendation is that you should lead your first level with something that shows off your main mechanic - for me I didn't get it until I got to the level with the timed platforms, and then I was like oh - I need to plan out how each loop is going to leave me with platforms and level elements in order to proceed. And that's a cool idea!
My other recommendation is to use a non-dynamic physics based collision/rigidbody for the boxes. With realistic physics and full rotation on the z-axis they can be a little difficult to precisely move in a 2D platformer setting.

Keep up the good work! 

Never again will I get out on the left side of the bed. Absurd, funny but slightly unsettling at the same time (but in a good way). Would love to see more exploration of the theme of monotony, repetitiveness and meaninglessness of modern work.
 

I enjoyed this! Always love a ricochet based game and it's helped by some very charming 3D toyish graphics. Some of the levels really had me forward thinking in order to complete the loop. My only tiny criticism would be to move the continue button further from the reset button - I accidentally pressed R instead of E a few times at the start. But that doesn't detract from a super polished and charming jam game :)

Great game, shooting left/right is a nice change from a shmup and upgrading is fun. The music is great too and it's nice to see a game tackle the GBC side of the GBJam well.

Really enjoyed this - super simple to play but fun. The inclusion of a "relaxed" mode is inspired and I wish more jam games offered something like this as an alternative to a tutorial.

The use of the limited blue colour palette is a nice alternative to the usual monochrome green in this jam and suits the game.

Question - are the notes played when you move your cursor in the same key as the music?

Ah how unfurtunately relatable. Of course, if you were really trying to make an accurate Unity game you would change the rules halfway through without telling the player xD.

Great stuff and looks fantastic, had a lot of fun.

The sprite stacking you've got going on with the car is really cool, even if it doesn't feel very "gameboy". There's a strange satisfaction in seeing the splat. Addictive.

Congrats on your first jam entry! Hope that you learned a lot. I don't have much to add from what has been said already. but I'd recommend scaling up the resolution twice as much as you have here. It's an easy way to make the game easier to play and look better.

Ah that makes sense! I can see the vampire survivors DNA for sure.

This has really nice art! Nails the classic JRPG feel too

This was really good! Took me a minute to figure out how it worked but once I did I was hooked. I'm sure there's possible gameplay reasons for it but a corner pipe and some places you couldn't build on might add a bit further depth.

This is fun overall. It fits the theme well and the upgrades are neat. My only issue is that the autofire feels like it takes a way a degree of player agency -  I miss being able to use weapons strategically and timely. But maybe that's just personal preference!

Amazing game, the music is perfect

This is a really neat concept for a game and felt incredibly frantic (in a good way). The main issue I had was that it could be a tad unforgiving - I'd recommend maybe giving the player a health bar and allowing them to take a few hits before dying. It's always a good rule of thumb to be generous in a jam game, especially at the beginning of it.

Hey thanks so much for taking the time and writing so much and such detailed feedback! This is exactly the kind of stuff we do these jams for. I'm the level designer + systems programmer for this.

I have played braid but I didn't get as far in it as the world you referenced - I'm going to have to pick it up again. I'm glad that you spotted our twist of resetting the entire level but staying in the present - it's not something I've seen before and I actually got the idea while watching Christopher Nolan's Tenet (an okay film with an interesting concept). We were very down to the wire here because we all had committments to get to 6 hours before the jam ended so we had to finish up early - I had so many more ideas I wanted to implement, as well as a few additional mechanics. Hopefully will get to an extended edition after the jam!

On the timer - it's a lazy way of ensuring the player doesn't just stand in a corner for ages and then solve puzzles solo, ensuring that the past-self is always a threat. But the more I play it, the more I realise that you can bake this into the designs of the puzzles to ensure this happens anyway. So yeah I think I'm with you on that, it belongs on the cutting room floor.

Thanks again for playing and leaving such great feedback, stay in touch!

Hey thanks for lettin us know. Yeah unfortunately this is a WebGL issue in some browsers. We've put red text in above to warn people about it! Thankfully it doesn't stop you from playing throught the game as intended :)

Post jam we'll definitely look into trying to get WebGL to behave a bit better on this, will probably require some refactoring.

I just popped out of the stream to play it and it's as fun as it looks! clean graphics, simple mechanic and fun puzzles, great stuff.

This was really fun and very accessible. I love the gameboy inspired chiptunes. Everything was very polished and the core balancing mechanic was very interesting, lots of ways it could be expanded.

Haha, hope you had a fun tour around the level floating in air! Thanks for letting us know about the bug, we'll look into it.

In the meantime, if you come across something like that that prevents your progress you can press enter to pause and then quit to the world map.

This is such a well designed game, and the aesthetics and controls are really tight and polished. Well done!

Ah apologies - thanks for letting me know!

Hey thanks for your reply! The main issue with the sword attack is actually the way the WebGL player calculates time - it's a bit slower than the editor and OS builds. Getting this right in jam time would have meant repeatedly building the WebGL version of the game (which in itself is slow) while tweaking values until it felt "right". Definitely something we'll look into in the final version though once we've got the time to do this. Until then, I'd recommend taking the cartridge out, blowing away any dust and then reinserting it into the gameboy before trying again.

This was fun! Reminded me of the puzzles in old school adventure games like Myst. Very satisfying when a light comes on.

This was fun, charming and quite different from other games in the jam. 

This game resembles the back of my television. 5/5.

I feel like my drawing has just been put on the refrigerator :O

After going through all of these games it was actually so nice to relax and play something a little slower. Very calming.