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Eyy the big RKI! Thanks for the feedback and kind words dude, always a good day when you comment.

Thanks so much :) 

If you'd like to review now that it's available, you're more than welcome to.

Hey, thanks so much for playing! Ratings are open now if you'd like to review.

Thanks for the feedback! I'm surprised you feel the movement is slow, based upon the size of the playing area I thought the only thing they may feel like is a little slippery. Could you elaborate a bit? 

For the attack audio, there is some pitch shifting, but I'm guessing you're talking about the fact that there is only on sound effect for the slash and one for both the jump and land?

Again, I really appreciate the review. Thanks!

Thanks! I'll have to play your game soon :)

THE HEALTHBAR
dodge and weave through complex bullet patterns,
traverse 5 mini bullet hell stages, 
and watch your health.

{ play the game here! }

Hey! Finally finished my entry for the jam, and would be honored if you wanted to give it a play, and if you remember, maybe even rate it once it opens up. If you leave some feedback, I'd be more than happy to try your game as well. Link: https://kingmidis.itch.io/the-healthbar

In the video, Jonny was very adamant about needing to be able to play it in itch.io , and the jam page states that the game needs "the ability to be launched from a separated application". Which file types are allowed? I'm already planning on using an HTML or .zip file to allow playing in browser, but what file types can, as stated, be "launched from a separated application"?

Hey NASa! I believe there's no more work to do on the game once it's released and submitted to the jam. It's unclear whether you can choose to join the collection only after knowing if you're eligible or not unfortunately, but if you already put in the work to be able to be in the collection , and get top 50, there's no need to work with Bad Ideas for anything, they'll just download the file from Github.

Thanks so much for playing, and glad you had fun once you got it!

BUZZ-BALL
Avoid bullets while flailing a heavy ball around!
Find items, create combos, and defeat bosses.

[play it here]

Scratch is completely viable! It's not the tool, it's the developer. I'd reccomend you use Turbowarp instead of Scratch if you want to have more proffesional features and an easier time to make the game. It's still Scratch, but with a lot of upgrades and quality of life. Then use Turbowarp packager to make an HTML file so that the game can be played in browser on itch.

Hey all! Been hard at work for about two weeks making this game, and I really liked how it turned out. If I could get your honest reviews/ratings, it would be so much help! 

Meantime is a free, and playable in browser, puzzle-ish (that is, you have to think ahead) boss rush inspired by the combat of Hollow Knight and Silksong. There are three bosses, each with 3 phases, a hard mode, and difficult patterns to learn! I really hope you enjoy it over here: https://kingmidis.itch.io/meantime.

Meantime is also an entry for round one of the Pixel Game Maker Awards, you can check them out on their website from the link in the description of the game, and please do consider voting for your favorite entry after you play them. Who knows, maybe it's Meantime? I'm not complaining.

Enjoy :)

-  KingMidis

Patched to make it easier. Enjoy!

Hey, just added an easy mode (the easy mode is the default now)

Hmm... I can melt him in like 20 seconds. Maybe try finding an opening (the boss idles for a while after each attack) and rushing then. Either that or use the invincibilty more lol.

I'd recommend trying to find openings instead of rushing in, if that's what you're doing.

Maybe a bit... But it states in the rules that it's okay to not submit a horror game, and I have a note in the description about it.

Thanks so much! I'll check out yours when I have time, thanks for playing :)

Hey, I'll take this up :) 
I'd love bug reports and general feedback on my entry - https://itch.io/jam/scream-jam-2025/rate/3954504

Great concept! I would love to see something like this expanded into a full game sometime, and the polish that's already here is great! Pretty short, but super fun, even though I'm bad at it lol. 

I'd really appreciate it if you checked out and rated my entry as well!

Sick game! I love the art, and it's super fun to rush in orders! I would love to see more depth, as right now it's quite simple, like multiple orders at a time and more thought into the "patience," as the combinations had the same time limit as the regular orders it seems, so you just lose points if you need to brew. 

Would love to have your feedback on my entry as well!

It loads almost instantly for me. The loading bar is set to not show up, that's intended. All you can really do is wait in this case :(

Man this looks so sick... I wish there was a web build so I could play it and it could reach a wider audience. If I'm not mistaken can't zip and html files be built into the game page without needing a download?

On the project page, invite your friend to be a contributor, at the top of the "edit game" page, select more and then admins. They'll be able to submit the project, edit the page, put the game on their profile, and will be credited under the game.

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Aren't web builds required?

Yooo I had a feeling! That's crazy!! I primarily use Scratch and Turbowarp, and am moving to Godot. So sick that you were able to make this kind of thing with the same tool as I have... I gotta up my game lol.

Dang, great game. What engine was used?

Thanks for the feedback! Glad you enjoyed the presentation of the game. Some of your issues can be answered; the game is built to be repetitive (that's just the nature of it), your controls got stuck because you clicked outside of the game window (this un-"focus"es the game on your computer, repeating any input you had pressed until you click back in), we aren't really fans of showing important game hitboxes or dev tools such as showing the hitbox (but thanks for the suggestion!), there is a dash move that is invincible if you press space (this will easily help avoiding the tightly packed attacks (in fact it's the intention)), the difficulty resetting when you die is intentional (it helps make sure you didn't pick such unfathomably difficult upgrades that respawning the boss with them would be annoying and way too hard), the difficulty resetting after beating the genie is a bug (read the description for more information) however the gist is that you didn't miss any gameplay.

The bug has been resolved and will be removed once voting ends. Thanks for playing and writing us a comment. The glitch only happens at the point in the game where the win screen was supposed to show up instead, so you didn't miss out on any gameplay. Hope you can vote on the game up to the point where it was meant to end!

The problem has been found, and a patch will be uploaded shortly after voting is over! Thanks for playing our game, and you really missed nothing. You are correct that the bug was caused by the genie's difficulty resetting, however the bug only occurs once you had already beaten the genie, and after that there was supposed to be a win screen, but the glitch happened instead. You didn't miss any gameplay, so I hope you can judge the game based on what you experienced up to that point. Hope you enjoyed!

Alright, we've identified the issue. You've basically already beaten the game. The bug only happens once your max the genie difficulty, and he's the last boss. All you missed out on was the win screen saying "thanks for playing," so I hope you can judge the game based on your experience up to that point! Thanks for taking the time to play our game and write a comment.

Glad you were able to have some fun and it's up there in your favorites list! The slowdown bug seems to be common, but it doesn't happen to everyone, might be hardware or browser, if you could tell me your search engine/browser (Chrome, Yahoo, Firefox etc.) that might make it easier to pinpoint when it happens. Not the programmer for the game, so no clue why your genie would have reset unless you died (that resets the boss upgrades and difficulty), but as the artist, I'm glad you liked the aesthetic, I tried something new out with the double outlines, so I'm glad people think it worked well :)

Thanks, I'm behind the art and idea for the game so that makes me happy :D you don't seem to be the only one who's has that bug, but it may be a hardware issue, not sure, but I have people who've played through to the end of the game with no problems, so might be... Sorry that it happened to you, but you didn't miss much! The upgrades are the same options for both bosses so I think you can imagine how it would play out. Hope you had a good enough experience :)

Yep, that's the idea! Hope you enjoyed :)

Click into the game window

Yeah there's only two bosses, we'd planned for 4 but over scoping is a beast. Not sure why your game got slower after beating the second boss though, what device are you playing on? That's the only reason I'd be able to see, although I haven't actually been able to play the final uploaded game yet, once I can I'll take a look at any issues commenters had, so thanks for reporting!

Dang, the view seems to be the perfect size to me, but I guess everyone has their own preferences. Glad you liked the art, courtesy of myself ;)

Strange. My teammate has changed it, now when you die all the upgrades are reset I believe. You can take a re-play through and rate the game now too! Thanks for bringing this to our attention, super helpful :)