What can we do to better promote this game jam? I posted on twitter, bluesky, and reddit.
Also, we are looking for an AI or tech company to sponsor the next jam. The funds will go towards prize money and advertising for the 3rd browser jam. Anyone have any connections that might be interested?
This time I am switching from copilot to claude code, still using Claude Opus 4.6 for code. I will share my results and which I prefer after the jam. I am moving away from moving openAI tools and will try using nano banana for images.
You should replace the music, use an AI music generator like Suno to make tracks for you. Here's a prompt you can use for undertale type music...
"Create a whimsical yet emotional 8-bit style track, with simple chiptune melodies, playful rhythms, and moments of melancholy, inspired by the soundtrack of Undertale. Include a mix of quirky percussion, nostalgic synth tones, and catchy leitmotifs that evoke both adventure and heartfelt character interactions."
thanks! my goal was to focus on short story and ran through many iterative passes with AI and human rewrites. I also experimented a lot with music and this track really seemed to work for me, setting the old school edutainment vibe. in future games i want to experiment with switching to more dramatic music at key points, just keeping things focused for now.
nice start screen, i like the scan line and glow effect, good vibes,
cool art style, i like the old school vibe here
the display could be brighter for the walls and
you should hide stuff that is blocked by walls
the map is confusing, because it looks like there are walls, it should either reveal line of sight or show in a different color parts of the map that have not been explored
it would be good if combat was more integrated rather then being a separate screen
i like discovering the fragments and getting a piece of lore
i much preferred using WASD to move once i learned that was an option
hey, i am unable to play your game in browser which is the main requirement for the ai browser game jam. so i will need to disqualify it for now to be fair to other participants. please let me know if you are able to fix this and i can un-disqualify it.
art can be static but needs some movement: the player could tilt, coins could spin, clouds could hover, etc
good initial difficulty but needs to introduce more variety and difficulty
it would be fun if you sped up as you fall and the camera zoomed out a bit farther
would be nice to be be able to use the mouse or touch controls to move
needs more stuff to help sell downward movement, like particles of wind, or smaller fainter clouds in background
it would be fun if you could reach the ground, like maybe it shows distance to the ground and you are trying to reach the ground as an objective, then it feels rewarding to player when they land, and can try harder levels where you start from higher up with more obstacles, maybe birds or planes
needs music and sound. you can add sound easy with zzfx. maybe generate some music with ai.
hey, i tried your game but it is having some problems. i see the menu and click start game. it does run but there is nothing to do. it says "press R to restart" but pressing r doesn't do anything. i can move around and control my character but there is not much to see. maybe there is some kind of bug in your build?
in the console i see a potential bug "index.js:474 USER SCRIPT ERROR: Parse Error: Cannot infer the type of "half_hp" variable because the value doesn't have a set type." there are some other errors after that.
really good music, i like the variety of music for different size levels
good sound effects
gameplays is interesting and pretty fun
camera is centered way below the current node, i think if it was centered the control would be easier
the camera rotating around is distracting, id like the camera to just stay in the orientation it is.
turning off camera zoom on move helped a little but i dont want it to rotate at all
after beating a level, the default button should be "next level", i accidentally played the same level again a few times and was confused. even after i did it the first time it happened again before i realized i needed to go back to the level select.
this would be a cool hacking mini game for a larger game
maybe add some progression so instead of everything available from the start you need to beat a few levels of each size to unlock the next size group
the first level should not have an enemy, let the player learn controls
if you make the coins spinning it will look better and they will read better as coins
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this would also create level progression, dont throw too many things at hte player at once
level 1, no enemies or holes, just coins (practice moving)
level 2, coins and holes, no enemies
level 3, coins, holes and enemies.
move variety would help to keep the levels interesting
add more types of objects and mechanics
create more interesting paths and mazes
swap in different colors and patterns
i see in the screenshots there are several other level types but i didnt get that far, maybe introdce more new stuff earlier to keep players interested
there are some overlapping ui issues like the toast popups block being able to click on stuff
would be really nice to see visual changes to the character, i thought that was going to happen because it would be easy to generate with ai
balance is really off, and accelerates rapidly
after i got to 1M ideas it was only seconds before I got to 100M, a few seconds later now i am at infinity. and it would have been nice to at least receive some kind of acknowledgement for reaching infinity because that is the end of game.
good graphics, easy to read but would help to have some more detail.
the gameplay is a bit repatitive
would help to introduce a store/upgrades early on, maybe after every level
i wanted to swing my sword faster, and do combos
the enemies not smart and it became mostly about abusing their ai.
great death effect!
i wish i could continue where i left off after i died, just to see everything. then after the player wins, maybe you could have another harder mode where you can't continue.
it is cool that you made your own suits but they look too similar. maybe standard card suits would be best
the art styles is good but not consistent with pixel art in some places and clean art in others.
i did not understand how to make best use of strategy other then always picking a face card or ace.
maybe keep your hand and only draw 1 new card. also show all the cards the opponent has available. then you can be more strategic about card choice. it becomes a strategy deciding which card to play now vs save for later vs what the other player may use.
the way scoring happens seems very complex and i was not able to follow it. it can be tempting to have complex scoring mechanics but often it a simple method is better. it also slows down progression of the game waiting for scoring to happen.
