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Well, this is the jam's most artful entry for sure. For sure. 

Hey! The game can't be opened, I'll post the error message below. You are allowed to upload the fixed version if you want.

ERROR: Cannot open file 'res://Scenes/MainMenu.tscn'.

   at: (scene/resources/resource_format_text.cpp:1387)

ERROR: Failed loading resource: res://Scenes/MainMenu.tscn.

   at: (core/io/resource_loader.cpp:343)

ERROR: Failed loading scene: res://Scenes/MainMenu.tscn.

   at: (main/main.cpp:4560)

Hey! This is an interesting narrative/exploration game, I love the mechanic of flashlight and points of interest being clearly represented as diamon symbols. The mysterious anomalies of shifting hues really help. I couldn't resolved it however, I gave it a good 30+ minutes and couldn't figure out where to look for the remaining cards. It is also not clear what the z-mechanic is, I presume something to do with shifting between levels after pressing that button, but it seems more like a narrative thing than a mechanic, of course it's probably just me being too stupid to figure it all out.

Nice, I think this is a solid take on the theme. A bit sad that there is no sound, but you put some polish into a lot of other things. In 1v1 mode the bot is helpless but in arena mode my victory was always a close call, so that one was most fun. Good job!

Prettyyyy good. I love seeing how entries in this jam took the Z-mechanic theme seriously. And what you made here is actually addictive to play! It seems luck-based at start, but there is definitely a thread to catch because on the third replay I got very far in the game and took a screenshot of final score but now I see I failed to save it to disc :/

Also, awesome amount of polish with the sounds, anims and all.

I did not know about this until seeing this plugin https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/zfighter-296702

But there are other resources online https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-fighting

Hi, I noticed some are using the Itch's default way to rate a game, by using the Rate functionality on the game's page, and I just want to say that this is not a rating that will be used by the Jam. The actual Jam's rating will be enabled in about one hour after this post was posted (when the jam is over). 

I guess I am guilty for making this confusion by using the option that disables the jam ratings before the jam is complete.

So, please do drop by after the jam is over (any time during this week), and rate other games using the Jam's actual rating. The correct rating is on the game's *Jam* page and has *multiple categories* to rate.

Oh, hi there! To be honest, I thought your submission was clear spam, but when you put it like that I guess it has a bit to do with the theme, so I will not disqualify it. Unlike a couple of other games..

Glad you figured it out!

This is usually when it is a good idea to cut some features out. Or cut whatever it takes to get the most important features in. In any case, the scoring categories are shaped in a way that favors the "Z-fighting" implementation. You may get away with most other aspects being unpolished or simplistic.

In a few hours you will be able to submit your game, up until Monday. I am happy with how my game is turning out and will submit it during the weekend.

While the number of joiners is not amazing so far (it was an impulse jam, and Itch took many days to approve its appearance in timeline), I am determined to still give out the prize even if there is only one submission other than mine, so no worries about that. Looking forward to play your games!

Submitted games will not be visible during the weekend, but afterwards you will have one week to play and rate them, so please do!

Hey, all. After over a decade of jamming I had a random idea to host my own. And you may start working on the game right away, the jam's start and end date are just submission windows.

The jam is about z-fighting, and if you don't know what z-fighting is that's great because in this jam you are supposed to come up with your own answer.

Check it out << click here to see it or join

That would be great! I'll sleep on it (I'm in Europe) and will probably do something smart tomorrow.

Oh, that's cool of you, thanks! I'll update the prize info and try to advertise the jam better.

Was happy to spot a pinball game as I forgot all about those, and this is a fine one. But at its current state it is lacking in juice - sounds and particles. Don't get me wrong, the existing sounds and particles are top tier, but there really should be more, sounds in particular. I see special things happening without any fanfare, but the very spirit of pinball games should be in sensory overload. Also I'm not a fan of slowmo when saving the ball, it feels weird, as if I'm losing control, it was fine during tutorial but would rather not have it during normal gameplay. Other than that, pretty good job so far.

Hi, would probably help to leave link to the ldjam page.

Thanks, helped me survive through yet another infosec course with videos

Good start of an idea and charming, but I find it impossible to control the character in the way that is expected by the gameplay challenge. I did really try, out of about 25 retries I managed to bounce back anything at all like 5 times, out of which only once did I bounce 4 times and that was my highscore. I would find this very enjoyable if the challenge was reduced, for example if the movement was limited to one dimension only + you had more time to figure out that the projectile is about to fire, I could see myself getting hooked for a while.

Really a good idea to cover the theme this way, and also to litereally put the entire track into the inside of a looping shape, rather than do some 4D math to simulate the looping.

Really masterfully done, I was hooked for a while, great job

Past 120-ish victory this game has managed to reboot my computer, or at least found instability in this particular browser on this particular OS. But yea, highest marks for creativity and narrative, you wacko.

I do love the concept and the feel of it, you should score highly in creativity, narrative and artwork. I wasn't a fan of restarting from the beginning though, the throwing knives were too hard to bypass and when I finally did those rockets were even worse, so after dying to rockets twice I had to give up as it turned into a time sink. In essence, the only connection to the loop theme is really just the mechanics of restarting from the beginning after death, which is common in games and not very loved mechanics, but the rewind visual were nice. This is pretty good as a weird concept, with a mixture of spooky story and cute graphics creating unsettling experience.

Really amazing job on everything except some aspects of gameplay, as a player I wished you let me enjoy this world you put so much effort into rather than having to restart every minute due to not being able to drive this clunky 8-angles car perfectly well. The pedestrian hit penalty is too punishing, considering it is almost impossible to avoid them if you go with the car's acceleration. One might think that the solution is to drive more careful.. However, the acceleration rate is too high and definitely does not go well with any sort of careful driving, I'd have to move in series of nudges to drive with any care. Maybe someone else is better at this, my feel is a lot of amazing talent and effort was put in but it was a few tweaks away from achieving fullest potential.

Impressive feat of teamwork. I couldn't figure out how to hold 6 runes and had to stop there, but it was quite enjoyable and pretty game.

Sorry, couldn't figure out how to play it and the instructions on the page didn't help. I will not rate as it wouldn't be fair. I guess some pre-knowledge of something is needed, whatever it is I don't have it. But it looks interesting.

Got to wave 24. Such an addictive game that does many things right, I wasn't impressed at start but then ended up very much hooked. The variety of upgrades is amazing. If looking hard for things to complain about, I wish there were more ways to help the Earth recover, in later waves if randomly I don't get Earth recovery award for few waves in a row it is pretty much a lost game. Great work, you should be really happy with what you made here!

60 is the best I can do. Good job, it is actually an addictive game.

Such a nice stoic experience. While there is not much going on gameplay wise, you maange to keep the player's attention through charm alone.

I do love the idea, and the graphics and the whole effort. It's impressive that you went for completely narrative game while staying with general purpose engine. I couldn't crack the game though, keep failing to figure out how to do both the poppy poisoning and fetching of wine in the same day. It was enjoyable to play it in any case, great job!

This is a very interesting idea and bonus points for giving us a testing area. However, it is implemented in a way that is unplayable, or at least one would have to spend a lot of time to get good. The issue is that after you manage to get the first bounce, the second one will probably be hell (if the ball's direction points at anywhere near any corner), because you spent time moving the first pad into position but then the next one needs to be in the place almost immediately. Or maybe it's just me. But I think you could have spent a bit more time tweaking or trying out alternative controls entirely. For example I would find it enjoyable if the pads were moved into place by mouse click. Or something, I don't know, but this is too hard.

But, very nice graphics, sound, and the basic idea.

Great work, track two was wild in particular. What I like the most is it's 100% arcade, I didn't had to worry about any of that car physics crap.

When the company wants their personnel evacuated quickly and professionally, they call someone else. I'm happy to just wobble myself towards the job's end somehow. With that said, I'm happy that the game doesn't force you to be efficient, you can always recharge the engine and carry on.

I had to give up on 11th level, for whatever reason it was too hard for me, but really good job on gameplay and general atmosphere with graphics, sound, and writing.

I don't think his beef was with the limit on the number of words that must rhyme lol.

But anyway, this jam is about constraints that force you to be creative, so I'd propose to try and stick with the rule for fun and see what happens. I guess you can also ignore it, as there is a "constraint" category where you will then probably score less.

As the alternative ending correctly guessed, I was not happy about shooting the poor rabbits, monsters or not, and shooting a wrong one was the worst in particular. But I could see the humor of it as well. The controls and graphics & general feel of the game was perfect, playing to the end was not a chore, well done.

Superb, one of the entries that humble me when I see how well some people can fulfill the round's criteria. I can't see level's number but I'm probably near the end and it is quite enjoyable experience.

"Memory systems: offline, weapon systems: online" is a very meaningful start. This game features the best twist I have seen yet, though I had doubts after slaughtering the first couple of sheep.

I think this was the first game I played before the voting period started and so it got burried in the back of my mind but here we are. It is cute and enjoyable, loved the fetching spider, and looking at rating criteria you got it all amazingly well covered, for indeed the animal is crucial to  gameplay and even has to do with projectile, great job.

Sorry, I already suffered through one other entry that was a tragic dog story, I find such topic to be in bad taste for a jam game and with currently having a dog I don't want to think about such things. I cannot play this, though looking at screenshots I'm sure you did fine work. Same like with the other game, I will not rate, which is only fair as I did not play it, but thank you for playing and rating mine.

I'd call this game a success, it has original mechanics born out of round 2 limitations, many levels, cute graphics. It got more fun once I loosened up and discovered that I could walk anywhere on the map not just along the path. Well done.

A cool synthwave-supported intro leads us into a game that might have been a doomed side experiment of some legendary director such as Paul Verhoeven that got canned early in development and so it feels like a leaked relic for collector's delight. The shooting is actually fun, and I wouldn't mind if you artificially prolonged it, though giving the ability to replay is nice as well. I get this project was more ambitious than what it might seem so you were pressed for time, still an impressive amount is achieved. While the narrative is presented only in intro, the game has enough traces of it contained within itself (the voiceover and the setting with rats) that it shouldn't be much of a problem.