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I did a little bit of endless too. Not sure what the highscore is, but I until I see a higher one I shall claim it as my own :)

This is a cracker of a game. Really enjoyed it.

Great job!

This is very well put together. I beat the whole thing. I'd say the turtle was my favorite, it definitely took me the longest.

As other folks said there's some conveyance and polish that I'm sure you're already itching to change so I won't re tread that ground. Instead I thought I'd highlight what stood out the most to me.

The Animated title page is probably the best I've seen in the whole jam. Great logo, and great character design, 3d world behind it. Not sure if you've seen the GDC talk on Living breathing Key art, but it goes into how hard a task making good animated key art is. I'd recommend making sure a GIF of this title ends up in the team's portfolio after the Jam.

Also the little hat bob the character has when they move is fantastic.

Extremely stylish and visually polished. The win screen animations were especially lovely.

Fantastic work on this one.

I'm glad you liked the secret acid special attack! Thanks for playing

Thanks for playing! Glad you liked the secret 5th ability.

Glad to hear it. Thanks for playing!

I'm glad you liked them!

Yep, the final export image was 4mb, so I had to resize it to share my pic. Not a huge issue but if you're making post jam changes, making it under 3 might help folks to share it easier.

Quite a charming little incremental. The mayor character art is great!

Very stylish game. Great job!

Very fun! I really liked the squishy-grossness of the meat. Also it was a really good idea to put in the reset button. I got softlocked at one point and was concerned Id have to redo all the levels, so that one liner in the itch page saved me.

Nice work

Thanks for playing, and for the feedback!

You really cooked with the hammer mechanic. This could definitely be expanded into a full release.

If you do expand it post jam, I'd recommend reshaping some of the jumps so that they seem harder than they are. I think this game would really thrive if the player can just feel out each jump without having to stop and practice each jump. But I might just be bad at platformers haha.

Great Job!

Used some free assets, but did all the voice acting myself :)

https://itch.io/jam/theveryseriousjuniperdevgamejam/rate/4711600

The fix looks good. Played for a bit more, its delightful! I'd really consider expanding this game post jam.

If you do a post jam version, adding a little copy of the flip-side number somewhere on the top half of each card would be helpful for scanning through your hand a bit faster.

Great point, thanks for you feedback :)

Glad to hear it got a laugh! Thanks for playing

Thanks for playing!

This has a lot of charm. I think unique movement systems like this have a lot of merit for making short Foddian style games. If you're looking at post-jam improvements, a way to slow down or maybe even freeze gravity for a moment so its easier to click the character in mid air would help a lot.

Nice work!

A noble cause. Thanks for playing!

Really nice work on this one, played through the whole thing, got every upgrade, number went up.

If you're doing quality of life upgrades post jam, the ability to sort upgrades in order of price or putting bought out upgrades at the bottom would be handy. Also potentially some form on win screen once you've done everything to put a nice bow on the experience (Maybe just showing the full list of workers you knocked out, over how many days?).

Great Stuff!  

This is really well put together. Fantastic work!

If you're looking for quality of life suggestions for a post jam build. I'd consider letting the player hold down left click, and potentially having a pretty generous auto-aim if you're aiming near the boss.

Really good visual style and vibes. 

I would recommend adding a summary of how the mouse is used to your list of controls to be a bit more explicit.

Some delightful mushroom character art. Showing the full path to the boss from the first fight gave a really good idea of the progression.

Overall, really well done.

What a delightful little experience. I have made a little guy.

PS the default image size is a little too big for Itch.

Great game, some well thought out upgrades. Could definitely see it growing into a full release.

Nice work on this, especially the boss fight. The dynamic audio and the various boss phases were delightful. That final fight is tough.

If you're making changes post jam, having double tapping space queue a second spin would have been really handy for that final fight.

Absolutely fire game. Both in style and game play. The roulette part is such a funny idea, and the way it balances out your build is so clever.

Top notch work.

Really good stuff! Especially the strong visual style.

I often felt like I had tricky decisions to make, which is exactly what I'm striving for in this genre. Also giving each opponent a specialty was a really good way to give the game a sense of inertia as you go.

A few thoughts & pieces of feedback, since you mentioned you're looking at expanding it after the jam:

• Opponents overly healing can have negative game feel. It might be worth exploring if there's a way to temper that, but its a very hard problem to solve.
• The wheel being forced on the player every X turns brought some depth, but also restricted strategy on the turn you're forced to spin it. Adding player choice on those turns could help with player agency. As an easy example, if spinning the wheel also discarded a card of your choice, then your 'random' action would still be beneficial to your overall strategy, although harder to convey.
• A scripted initial fight would be a really good way to communicate the foundational game play, as players often skim/skip tutorial text.

Looking forward to seeing where you go with it.

This game has a really strong visual style, both the geometric walls and the color palette are really strong. Similarly the parallax background is great. 

Also I really like the use of both left-right movement and rotation, as it gives a lot of opportunities for more efficient path traversal. This could definitely be a strong time-trial style racer.

A few pieces of feedback that could be helpful:

• I didn't realise the title was also the button to start the game, it might be worth making that more explicit on the Itch page.
• Similarly, I didn't realise the green shape was the goal, so I veered away from it and crashed on my first run. I think I didn't trust the blue path line leading me to it because it had previously gone through a yellow wall, so it wasn't as clearly communicated as the goal.

This has a great visual style to it, and I really enjoyed trying to find the optimal hand to score both sides. Quite a tricky puzzle.

I think there's currently a bug, all the upgrades were returning this instead of the upgrades shown in the screenshots. If you end up fixing the bug let me know. I'd be very keen to try the version with upgrades.

Nice work on this! Some nice little puzzles and good atmosphere.

If you plan to extend this game further, or do more games in this artstyle, I'd recommend making a button to disable the chromatic aberration for accessibility.

Really nice puzzles and atmosphere.

I did get soft-locked under a lever. Luckily, its a pretty easy game to get back to where it soft locked me.

Not sure if its an easy fix on your end, but may be worth considering seeing if you can disable that collider.

PICO 8 has such a specific charm, and both your art and audio is really aligned with that aesthetic, this is really pleasant. Great work.

This game absolutely oozes with style. Everything is really cohesive, the sound effects are especially pleasant.

If you are looking for a few minor improvements that could really take this game to a 10, I'd consider the following:

• Longer invulnerability frames on everything.
• A way to ensure you're safe after you re spawn after falling down a cliff. E.g. slowing down mobs, or a little invulnerability window.
• A few sprites looked like may not be Y-Sorted, but they all happened fast enough I couldn't say for sure.

Awesome work!

Nice work on this.

The skull gets some pretty good inertia, you could really lean into that and make beating the level fast a focus.

I struggled to find the fourth bone, it may be worth using the level layouts or maybe some color to guide the player to a simple path that will find all four bones.

Great sound and visuals. And some good vignettes. In my opinion the single best element is the "events discovered" label. That was a really good way to communicate how many moments there was left to see during the game.

Lots of little bits of juice and polish that really improved the overall experience. Great work!

Really good sound/design and UX, it has good bones, that could definitely turn into a something with a bit more thinking, if it included some more meaningful decisions.

The randomness of a wheel does make it tricky to balance, I think a greater focus on the ability to modify the elements on the wheels may help the player feel less of a sting when the randomness doesn't go their way. Even if its a simple as the player choosing where the negative spots are placed on the wheels, they might feel more in control when it lands on it.

Great work!

Nice work on this. 

Since you mentioned your goals were to work on your art and UI, I thought I'd send through some feedback relating to that:

• Firstly, the cats are great, and I think the mixed media of fully digital and real images is a great way to accentuate the cats.
• The way the spinners grow when they finish really draws your eyes to them, this is really well done. Its a little tricky with 3 spinners at once, but having a way to prioritize whatever animations are playing such that the player can focus on one element at a time can really help the player to appreciate your nice animations, and really sell the impact of one action into another. A good example of this would be a game like Balatro, where the animations go left to right one after another.
• Little ambient animations like the way the cat names wobble also goes a long way.
• Whilst not specifically UI, some feedback (maybe cat noises?) upon purchasing upgrades would help the game feel more responsive.

Good luck with the rest of the Jam!