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Thank you for giving the game a go and the kind words!

Apologies for not explaining the controls! Tutorial bugged out and wasn't able to cover everything in the help menu. You move pieces using mouse controls - click to select your piece and then click one of the icons to do whatever action is associated with it. I've not heard of any of any troubles in which the controls entirely do not work, so I'm left to assume it was a miscommunication on our part as developers. Thank you for giving the game a go anyways!

Tutorial bugged out pretty hard too close to the deadline unfortunately, the help menu was a reluctant backup plan. The intro *can* be skipped, but only after an initial viewing. Though I suppose yeah, it's maybe a little too long to justify this and would benefit from some brevity. Either way, thank you for playing our game!

Very interesting and atmospheric game. Unfortunately, the performance issues were significant enough for me that I couldn't finish it. Something off in the distance is causes a lot of frame rate drop when I look towards the glowing tower.

A very fun little game! I'd recommend not giving file names spaces, they can be a hassle to deal with on the user's end.

Very interesting game! Its complexity is what makes it challenging, yet at the same time it suffers from it. More specifically, it just fails at a proper introduction to all the mechanics for the player. In addition, drip-feeding new mechanics, like as done in Papers Please (which I believe was heavy inspiration for this!) would help.

Either way, it was very fun, and honestly original. I enjoyed this a lot! I would very much love to see this become a much more refined game!

Glad you liked it! That's definitely a fair complaint though, I've had some notes on that. Thank you for playing!

Thanks for giving the game a go! Glad you enjoyed!

Definitely intentional, it's how you avoid the eel.

Thanks for playing, glad you enjoyed!

You're welcome, and thank you!

Very thematic I'd like to think.

Thank you for playing!

Duct tape!

Glad you found it cool

I noticed people often find it pretty unexpecting, definitely should've made it more clear.

If it says you died from asphyxiation, then that means you have to remove the lint from the vent.

If you died from hull damage, that means that the tentacles broke your vessel. Basically, your glass  will only crack so many times, but the tentacles will still do damage. Definitely should have made a sound effect or visual cue or something for that.

Thanks for playing my game, glad you enjoyed it!

Couldn't necessarily tell you why, but exceptions are often made for some of the popular game jams that sometimes run in parallel with GWJ. Stuff like Ludum Dare, or GMTK.

I'm not sure. I'm personally running Windows 10 myself, so I can't say it is OS dependent. I have an Intel i5-9300h with 16GB installed ram, 64-bit operating system. There doesn't appear to be any consistency on whether it works or not unfortunately. I'll release the source soon and hopefully if anyone at all is interested and fluent with Godot, and they end up caring enough, they can take a look for themselves. Otherwise for now, unfortunately, there just isn't much I can do.

Thanks for the help though, I appreciate it.

thank you for playing!

i was terribly scared we wouldn't be able to get all the levels done in time, so they were a bit rushed design-wise. originally, they were supposed to be designed with a lot of verticality, hence the movement.

as for the damage, there is no state or condition in which the player can't take damage, so I'm not sure why they don't. as well, the explosion works very similarly to the bullets, so i couldn't figure that out. one idea I've considered, but not looked into, is the physics engine being buggy. although the explosion and the bullet deliver damage in the same way, they do have different systems of detecting collision. explosion checks using an area, whereas the bullet is obviously a ray-cast, though I'm not entirely sure if that is the reason why.

what would be useful is to know your computer specs, so I could tell if this is a common problem based on that. if you could, could you tell me your OS, CPU, and any other information you may think is important or relevant? just OS and CPU should be helpful enough, but yeah anything else would be nice.

anyways, sorry you were unfortunately one of those with the damage bug, super glad you enjoyed the game nonetheless though!
and also, thank you for the lead on the bug! I'm looking into the explosion code.

so happy you liked it!

in retrospect, i definitely should've added an invert gun controls option, i had plenty of time. i believe the controls do make a little more sense with a controller, and honestly, i think the game feels better overall with a controller, but yeah you're right, definitely should've accounted for that.

super glad you enjoyed the story, and especially the ending. i did consider a boss fight, but was worried i wouldn't have had enough time. i made sure that the ending was still at least good, even in the lack of the boss fight.

thank you for playing!

So glad you enjoyed it!

Yeah, I'm not sure. It felt like a 50/50 whether or not people could take/give damage. For some people, it works. For others, it doesn't. Unfortunately, since it does work for me, there isn't much I can do about it, but I'll look into the issue. Thanks for playing anyways, and I'm glad you enjoyed it.

thanks for playing, glad you enjoyed it!

thats definitely strange, ive heard this complaint before. i cant do much about it though, it seems to work for me. sorry about the inconvenience.

i liked its charm

amazing

this made me angry

Time zones unfortunately can be a pain. Though, it may be unlikely since I'd assume you wake up far after 02:00, you could always ask the mods to allow you a late entry if you end up sleeping through the deadline. Otherwise, you will just to either A) submit before you sleep, or B) stay up to the deadline.

Well, I can't say that for sure, but I don't really know of people snitching out someone who broke just one, not-so-drastic rule. I'd reckon you're pretty much fine, there have been people that do this all the time. Though, you definitely won't get as much plays, as Mac players do make up a significant demographic it turns out

So, thought it is against the rules, it's not that big of a deal, and it effects you more than everyone else, so I think it'll be fine.

You can submit your game however you want I believe, though, do be warned, differing, unusual methods tends to scare people away, and you may not get as many plays. 

But pretty much if you can export or share your game in someway that can 1) be put on itch, and 2) all platforms, or the 3 main ones, Windows, Mac, and Linux, can play, then you're following the rules.

They're voted on the discord server, but the highest voted ones don't mean they for sure get to be a wildcard. Rather, it just means that they'll catch the attention of the administrators first.

To answer your question, at the end of the day, they are humanly picked with consideration given into the choices.