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Neat interface :) Unfortunately I suck at word puzzles so got hard stuck for 15+ minutes on the first challenge 😅 Here is a list of words I made instead: Verbage, beer, vege, bag, rage, beaver, verge, averege(sp)...

WAIT. I GOT IT 💪💪🥳

Some kind of clue mechanic like Wordle might have helped those with less hard-stuck resilience, I probably would have given up if I hadn't given myself an extra challenge for this comment lol.

And then I breezed through the next 2, huh. Don't know what was tripping me up on the first there then. The number of vowels? The length of the word?

Payoff achieved, nice little peek into a narrative and I enjoyed how it tied the answers into it. Enjoyed the slick simple interface with enough animation to keep it interesting. Left me wanting more, which is probably what you want from a jam game like this. Though I could see people bouncing off from too long without progress, that's just the nature of puzzles I think. Glad I managed to surpass it in the end!

Neat lil one button racing game, haven't encountered any of those before. I'm not the best at it, and the controls were a bit unresponsive - it takes you a long time to start turning decently - which did impact my enjoyment, but the visuals are very charming. I liked the bouncy car and the full screen effects. Very whimsical and effective :)

Hi Arctic, I'm glad your players had fun for the most part. Thanks for the feedback! The intent was to make it challenging and have the rabbit be scary, but on reflection doing it like that doesn't match the lighthearted tone of the rest of the module. I'd probably reduce Tier to 1, and maybe make Supreme Melee only able to do free Grapples or Rams or switch it for another trait, like Lead the Charge to play into the mobility.

Just wondering though, where is the 3rd attack coming from? Supreme Melee gives 2, then Avalanche Charge is one but on a 5+ recharge, and Aggression is always available but has to be triggered. I guess you did say potentially though, and that's potentially 4, which is even worse! 

Thanks so much, glad you liked it! It was a lot of fun to make 😄

If you run the combat and have thoughts, I'd love to hear them! 

Stunning art and design, amazing work Kara /Li!

Holy art batman 😮

All good if I add things in here as I come across them rather than making a whole new thread?

Layout: Another recent on typography from Explorers Design https://www.explorersdesign.com/typography-101/

Discord username - karidyas

Skills - 

• Graphic design and print layout. Portfolio:  jonathancaridia.com/#design though a lot of that is quite old 😅 since I switched to UI a few years ago.
• Secondary skills where I can act as sounding board or support/gap-filler but would prefer to not be the focus of my time: 
  • Narrative design
  • Copy writing/editing
  • Game design - have been GMing Lancer for 3+ years so have a decent hold on the mechanics (though not so much encounter design since a lot of that was Wallflower) and have brewed a frame or 3.
  • Mech, character or prop/gear art

Goals -

• Creative expression in a medium I like. Been inspired by recent TTRPGs that go hard on design and layout, like Cy_borg, Mothership and Cain, so it would be cool to try my hand at something like that.
• Meeting and working with other cool creatives in the Lancer community :)
• Little bit of cash never goes amiss if things go commercial, though a distant runner up to the first 2.

Availability/Time Zone - NZST. Decent overlap with PST, less so with American East coast, ~12h diff with Europe (which has worked fine in previous jams with clear roles and expectations). Don't know what our plans for Christmas/NY are yet but will closer to the time. I imagine I'll be unavailable for at least a couple of days, but so will many.

May be able to help out on multiple projects, but don't want to overburden myself during holiday period, so will be careful about my commitment at the time. 

Keen to meet you and see what we all come up with :)

Made an icon identification sheet to help. A level-specific version of this would have been in each puzzle, so here it is to help after the fact. With this and writing down the instructions, you should have no trouble! ...Besides the trouble the pesky Dark Mode gives you ^^

Not specifically, even worse managed than that if you can believe it, the plant's still standing so far though 😬

Jonathan the artist and puzzle designer here, if you're having trouble remembering the instructions I recommend writing them down or taking a screenshot. There were supposed to be reminder images under a Help button but we didn't get around to implementing them 😅

Oh yeah chimes could be fun. I agree that regular gun noises are pretty grating, especially free ones, so that might be a good alternative. 

You don't need to add an option to take away the menus, just make it so that key presses place the turrets without having the menu open. It's better to have the player discover the faster way of operation rather than have to load the game with a setting enabled to see if they like it. It's like Photoshop, at first you use the GUI  for everything, but then over time you start to take notice of the shortcuts written next to the things you do a lot and start to use those instead.

Managed to pass both the second and third levels, putting towers in their way is the way to go haha.

That's excellent to hear, because the concept is all we have close to finished 😅. Still aside from some timing stuff it's all just adding More Content. Well, unless we end up moving to Unity which looks likely. Still, the art and music are all transferrable so no effort wasted on that front :)

Great little tower defence. Nice style, very clean.

I'm terrible at tower defence games so I'm a little lost as to the strategy on the 2nd level, but that gives me something to work towards (I assume it's possible ;^^)

Couple of little things:

• The bullet sounds are a little muffled, I had headphones on and I thought someone was hammering something a few rooms away. I realised what it was when the "hammering" got a bit too vigorous. 
• Placing towers is a little clunky in the beginning. There's only one option so it feels like there's more steps than necessary. Makes sense when there's more options later. Suggestion: make the keyboard shortcuts place turrets without having the menu open.
• Needs feedback for when you try and place a tower with not enough resources. It just disappeared without doing anything and I was a little confused.

"However I dont want to give away every bit of my game even here!"

I think that's kind of the point since this is a dev log? it's meant to document your process so other people can learn from it. At least that's when i think it has the most value. I guess you can use it as just a diary but holding things back for the sake of enjoying the  game is a bit misguided I think. There will be plenty of people who play it that don't read the devlog, so you won't be depriving anyone of anything, while simultaneously providing a lot of value to the people who do want to know.

Awesome work so far and I'm interested to see where this goes. Wormhole enemies, what next :o

Thanks J, appreciate it :) Don't want to put too much strain on our production artist fluffybunny though, I feel like they have the most work on top of trying to make their own game, poor guy

Dang every single one of those hoodie colours are great :o and the overall aesthetic too. Excited to see where this goes!

Lorem Ipsum texture skirt? Nice haha. Very cute art and expressive too!

More concept art :0 That makes all enemy concepts done. Was a lot more fun than I expected working on a zany concept like this.

Well you can use dithering to give the illusion of a larger range, not sure if whatever you used to capture it would have the option to do so, or how good it would look if you do. Unknowns! Best of luck trying to fix it but don't spend too long, they're fine as-is for showing development :)

Dood your fairies are so cute! And the character walking around also very good. Agree with you on removing white lines. Also cool how keeping a set colour palette for your backgrounds means when you break it with your characters they really stand out, while still being pastelly. Nice Technique!

Your gifs have that banding because they can only display 256 colours. Limitation of the format unfortunately. Don't worry, it doesn't affect the experience of the gif much :)

Same, this sounds like something I would like to experience. Good luck!

Hi I'm doing the concept art. Here is some Stuff that I did

Main character concepts and pose warmup/feeling board. Shades of Conan and Gladiator.

Character turnaround and colour concepts for conversion to sprites.

Enemy concepts. Evil food. Tried to make them a bit gritty or off to sort of fit with the non-cartoony world tileset and character we're using.

I am a graphic designer/illustrator looking for a team to join!

1. Introduction: Hi, I'm Jonathan. Timezone NZST (GMT+12). I don't really have any game ideas myself, but I would love to participate and collaborate with someone who needs an artist and someone to talk to. Probably best suited to visual novel style games due to focus on static-ish visuals, but am willing to try other sorts as well! Probably more for me to learn in those too (a good thing) so whatever you've got, I'm down. Just checked out some Ren'py tutorials and that seems like something I could do too.

2. Skills:
Stuff I know how to do:

• graphic design
• user interface design
• characters
• props/objects/vehicles(?) etc.
• listen and give constructive feedback. Whatever you need to work out I'm here for you buddy

Stuff I kind of know how to do:

• playtesting
• environments
• basic programming (if you need some help with busywork)

Things I'm willing to try:

• Ren'py coding
• 3D modelling
• level building
• 2D animation

3. Programs/Languages:

Know well:

• Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator/After Effects
• Paint Tool Sai
• HTML/CSS

Know a little:

• Javascript
• Maya

Willing to try: Anything else required!

4. Portfolio: www.jonathancaridia.com/illustration/ and other categories are there, less relevant but maybe interesting.

5. Contact: I have email (jonathancaridia/ /at/ /gmail/ /com) and skype, and I'm on the Discord server under the same username.