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I don’t know much about writing jams, but music jams are definitely a thing! You might have already seen them, but on the jam page right now, I saw the friendly music jam getting ready to start up and the music composer jam! I’m pretty sure the OST Composing Jam is another recurring one, but I couldn’t immediately find the link.

I’m definitely forgetting others, and I wish I knew of writing jams…I’m sure they happen, but definitely would be cool to see someone start one if they don’t! Would it be like a jam where everyone makes a short story or a poem in a weekend based on a theme, and then maybe you could compile them up in an anthology at the end or something? Honestly, that would be so sick

Another design thing I liked on a page - really like the way this banner on CorgiSpace’s page fades into the main content’s background color! Looks really clean

Simple works! I like this page too actually, feels very nice and readable (and also a bit more achievable for like solo devs to make haha)

I know this is very late response, but THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS HERE! I had seen it before, but I’d forgotten what its name was, and now I can easily find it again ;-;

It is absolutely gorgeous!

Briefly chiming just because this is something I’ve also dealt with to a degree - I can’t help with all different sources of anxiety, but one particular anxiety I have with publishing things is like the fear of a project not being good enough. Like if I feel like I should be embarrassed by it or something?

So recently, I’ve tried to frame my creative pursuits as being snapshots of my current abilities, as opposed to perfect projects. Like I’m leaving a trail behind of my progress. For me at least, this has helped take off the pressure of things needing to be perfect :P

Designing game pages can be kinda hard haha, and I’ve been trying to improve and find inspiration. I thought it might be interesting if people share their favorite game pages that they’ve seen! I saw one collection of very cool game pages here, but they don’t necessarily have to be really inventive and unique - just ones you felt like did a really good job selling you on the game or communicating the game’s aesthetic to you!

Some of my personal favorite pages and page design trends (as someone who is not a very savvy itch.io user lol, so take with a grain of salt) are blurry washes of color over a more minimal page (like frogsong and downwards) or pages that match the color scheme/style for games with restricted a palette or aesthetic (like the swamp, this asset pack white scape, and i’m particularly fond of the clean pixel art border on apollo).

As for one REALLY out there page as a bonus (that’s not already in the cool game pages collection I linked earlier, I don’t think), I like pipe a lot with the scrolling indecipherable sidebar and almost completely wordless page.

Also…this is my first time posting a topic in the community, so please let me know if I’m doing something wrong or if this is the wrong place! I didn’t see a thread like this when I searched around, so I figured I was safe to start one, but I could’ve missed something

Malfais!!! You’re on itch??? Good to see you, and thanks for playing <3 <3

Okay so fun story about the controls - I actually had them exactly like you described at first, and someone I knew had the opposite reaction, so I switched it! I’ve left it since I think it’s like closer to how it would actually work, but uhhh you’re definitely not alone lol

It’s definitely tricky to get the hang of! I kinda like using the touch controls on my phone, it’s very addicting hehe

Thanks for playing! <3 <3

Thanks! I have wasted a lot of time making the bird flap, it’s very fun :>

The tree animation is very ridiculous lol, I’m glad you appreciated the comically powerful owl xP

Thanks for playing!

thank you!!

Yeah I made the game pretty quickly and didn’t put in any dynamic difficulty…but surprisingly, after messing around with increasing tree speed or forest density as time goes on, i actually kinda prefer it as an endless flight simulator than with any dynamic difficulty?

if i make a version 2, i think there should definitely be a raising difficulty version, though, and the endless flight version could be a separate mode just for me haha (maybe with collectibles and things to find)

Thanks so much! Means a lot that you played :]

basically! the wing animation was my favorite part haha, thanks :]

I LOVE THIS ONE!!! Crazy large in scope given the time frame, yet the art, sound design/music, and mechanics are somehow still super polished all around

Super super cool entry!

i will continue the trend and also say cute game mehehe, very fun :]

i found that i could get pretty far with just upgrading the croissants! might be interesting to make the donuts or cakes more influential? like larger, slower clumps of rats that would be more susceptible to the cake’s piercing, or make the donut’s splat larger and linger for more time to be even better at slowing down waves? just random ideas haha

the graphics and the theming are so lovely though…

Nice game! I like that I can loop around the sides - would love a version that gets harder quicker, but that’s totally just my personal preference haha

I also hope you enjoyed your couple cookies mehehe

art is very pretty, i like it! very satisfying to hit all the boxes like a road gremlin mwahaha

this is so so sick, one of my favorite entries i’ve played so far

SO FUN!!!

this game is gorgeous and mesmerizing, took me a second to figure out what you meant about using the orb for the speed boost, but it just seems to mean shooting whenever an asteroid is across from you so your projectile goes through it! kind of a fun twist hehe

also i hope you enjoyed your gummy skittles

oohhh i hope some people who are much better at first person games than i play this! i mostly play 2d stuff, and i’m kinda terrible at first person things - the movement seems super fun from what i was able to do and i really like the visuals, but i was also struggling just to climb the stairs in the first room when i fell ;-;

again, this is probably just because i’m terrible at 3d first person games lol

okay the animation work here is so so cool, looks so awesome! i’d love some way to play around with modules freely outside of the pressure of dying in the actual game so it would be a little easier to figure out what all the upgrades do, it’s a little unintuitive to me as a new player haha - i just say this just because it seems like there’s some really cool systems in place here that i’m struggling to make full use of!

Current high score is 14:00! So stressful in such a thematically appropriate way LOL, and definitely a funny and solid idea - enjoyed quite a good bit! :]

THANK YOU!!! I felt like it was super uncreative personally, but the idea was very fun to me regardless mehehe, so I’m glad you felt it was still unique in some way :>

nice! (also your pfp and username are very thematically appropriate for the game hehe)

ahhhhh thanks for playing!! and yeah haha, increasing speed is definitely on my list of little adjustments to make it more interesting ;]

I got 11

Thanks for playing! ;]

Ahhh thanks for the compliment, I appreciate you playing!! I’m impressed you figured out the ending haha. This was my first time making a horror game, so a lot of things felt unclear to me - I’m really glad you got to the ending, and it came across!

Also you’re totally right about the box looking like cake lol, but the cake is a lie ;]

Thanks! Loved your game’s art style too :)

All of the mechanics based around the shield are super cool, and the pixel art + cutscenes are awesome! A nice-but-not-crazy-difficulty too :)

Very funny game, made me chuckle hehe. Also the flying mechanics are actually really fun once you get the hang of them!

(birdlug - the volcano soother, rhymes with grug)

Thanks so much <3 <3

Lol, I’d love to hear it! If I have any extra motivation, I might make a post jam version that allows you to export the final audio loop :P

Ahh thank you back <3 <3

Thanks so much! :>

I am such an abominable mess connoisseur 👌

Fun game, with a very nice music loop hehe. I feel like it might be interesting to hide the cookbook until the player is running out of time so that the player has to guess at first - I often didn’t look at the recipes, and it was pretty fun trying to guess!

1. On your game’s itch page, go to Edit Game, then scroll down to “Custom Noun.” Change it to your heart’s content <3

2. Everyone that’s played must be secretly birds and masters of birdsong (but pentatonic scales don’t hurt either mehehe)

Glad it met expectations <3 <3 (and you should make a similar game, as the world always needs more birb music mwahaha)

Ahhh thanks!! I could say the same about your game, dang it was so polished :0