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Thank you for the kind feedback! I'm a big fan of merge games myself but got sick of the microtransactions and waiting, so I just decided to make my own. Now it's one of those projects that are always on the back of my mind, but it requires a lot of work to wrap up.

I think wait times play an important role in merge games, making generator upgrades feel powerful, making boosters fun to use, and giving you natural break points. Hopefully I could replace the instant-recharge button with generous amounts of time boosters instead.

I'm still mostly stuck on is how to integrate Pokemon. Most Pokemon have an evolution chain of 2-3 stages, so you only ever need 4 Caterpies to complete its chain. Add too many Pokemon at the same time and it will flood the board. Doing same-type-pokemon-chains could work but requires a lot of generators and limits me to ~15 Pokemons per type. Maybe Pokemon are awarded from tasks and require items to evolve, like a mini-task. Maybe I need a separate PC board for Pokemon only. Maybe Pokemon should be used in completing battle tasks, or used as boosters on the board, but then would they be consumed?

Just thinking out loud, in case anyone has any thoughts.

There are 5 types of shots:
- Perfect (dead center)
- Good (target wobbles)
- Ok (target spins, dog looks distressed)
- Bad (target spins faster, boing sound)
- Miss (forgot to shoot target)

There are 4 final ratings:
- Perfect (only Perfect/Good shots)
- Superb (0-5 Ok, 02 Bad/Miss)
- Ok (0-5 Bad, 0-2 Miss)
- Try again

You're meant to game over the first time, but you can defuse it after the cutscene. You have to spell out the one of the 3 words, wait until it becomes green and then press "enter".

Thanks for playing! I'll definitely try to add a save feature in the next version. I just kept changing things so often that saves would quickly get corrupted, haha.

You got it! In the code they're called Peasants, Squires, Tanks and Trojans (worth 15). A perfect clear rewards 100.

Perfect clears happen when you defeat all enemies during round 8 ("Endless food"), ie when the enemies are randomized.

Thank you for including it! I'm glad you got enough depth out of the simple mechanics. The title is a Game of Thrones pun.

Thank you for the suggestions! I've definitely thought of (1) myself and that you should be asked to swap and be given some space to test out your new ability. It really was a last minute addition, hence why only a few of the pearls were implemented. As for (2) it's caused by the fact that Snail and Noctua have a "null" pearl because I didn't have time to add two more pearls, thus failing the completion check. I hope to patch these things as soon as the voting period is over! Let me know if you have any suggestions for pearl abilities you think could work.

Sorry to hear that! The loop mechanic in this version is a bit strict so you have to draw a tight circle around the enemy and collide with a previous part of your own line. If you experience low framerate you might need to draw slower to avoid clipping into the enemy. I hope to improve the loop system and make it feel more lenient in the future!

Great work! Feels really smooth to play, and there's plenty of attention to detail like the directional lighting and your lives following you. Nice!

Very cute! I like the monster designs a lot and their varied attacks that linger for a while. Enemy 2's tail attack reminds me of "pokemon slaps", haha.

After a while I found it fun to try to figure out how you detect loops and break the system a bit. I found that the line persists indefinitely and you can take damage even long after the white part of the rope has disappeared. I assume that you check when the angle to the monster has reached nearly 180°, at which point the 90° cone opposite of the monster becomes the damage zone. This means that you can draw a big L shape, go back and spin in the first corner to deal infinite damage from afar. I ended up playing the game a lot!

Thank you for your lovely comment! We will definitely be adding some more content and finish up all the pearl abilities.

10/10 will turn you into a boss in my next game too.

I love it! I think the strength of this style of game are the levels where it seems easy to capture the flies but where you have to do it in a very specific order or risk losing. Good choice in music too!

Sorry about that! I fully agree about the lack of feedback and that the rope is just a tad too short to feel comfortable. I got really stuck on the linear algebra behind line segment proximity with line thickness, but hopefully I'll be able to patch it up and make the looping feel more forgiving! Thanks for the great feedback.

AWESOME, hahaha!

Really fun take on the theme, and the art looks amazing! Took me a while to beat.

Sorry about that! The goal is to draw a rope and loop around the enemies. Your rope is of limited length so you have to stay close to them. The Snail boss is a bit of a tutorial.

Very cute bird designs! I got to learn some portuguese too.. after a lot of failed orders, haha.

Really cool idea! An online high score list would be really epic.

Great work! Short and sweet, but there's definitely potential.

AWESOME WORK!!!

Thank you for playing, and thanks for your ideas! We've had some ideas about Mario Party-like dice, enemies with more complex movement or protecting each other, and such. The abilities would be a great addition and could help you in a pinch, especially since you can easily die from bad luck.

We discovered that the right-click actually affects all of our games where context menu is enabled so that's a really nice catch! Hopefully we'll be able to update most games with this in mind. Thanks!

It's a Trojan Horse, a peace offering with soldiers inside it.

Go for it!

Check out RoboRally and Quirky Circuits!

Really clean and elegant! It's really satisfying being able to play really quickly as well and not have to wait for those classic animations.

Clean and lovely aesthetic! Getting some slight Carcassonne vibes, making sure tiles have matching edges.

Thanks for the report! I sent a response and have possibly found a fix that works with your Firefox settings. I'll look into some details and see if I can patch it.

This was made using Phaser, a web based game framework. They got plenty of examples that you could check out and play around with.

If you want to try it out locally, you could give our template a try: https://github.com/Chocobois/choco-jam-template

Wow! Short and sweet but a perfect challenge that really uses every detail in the scene. Great work!

Sorry, it's not really meant to be playable. I was just testing out various items such as the berry trees that have automatic drops.

Hmm, it could be due to how the missions are currently set up. There are 5 chapters that start new chapters upon completion. The two bonus chapters at the bottom could probably reset if you were to complete the main line of missions more than once. My fault for adding a cheeky loop.

Thanks! No itch update just yet, but you shouldn't be able to get stuck in it. The experiment build however has incomplete missions for now.

Elegant storytelling in showing the human impact. I wasn't aware of just how big the monarch migration used to be. Wish I could've seen it.

Thanks for the feedback, and sorry about the ending. I'll try to give it some thought this weekend. The ability to clear the board would probably satisfy for now.

My main artist block is figuring out how to integrate pokemon into the current design. My original concept (in the screenshots) had random chains of pokemon of the same type, but it felt messy. Pokemon evo-lines are short so you'd only ever need like 4 of each base pokemon, yet it'd be fun to complete a pokedex while avoiding clutter. Maybe they could be rewards for quests or be kept in separate boards for specific regions. So goes my thoughts.

Really beautiful work. I keep coming back to play this and the mountain every so often.

Thank you for playing! I really want to find the time to wrap up this game and deliver something complete. If you have any other suggestions, let me know!

Thank you so much for your comment! Really glad you liked it! Comments like this really make to want to keep working on the game and further improve it.

Glad to hear you enjoyed the challenge. The salon is only open for 1 minute each day, yet it can feel surprisingly long when you're super focused.

I keep coming back to play this game every so often. Such a clever idea!