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The juice, sound design and art all work together to create a satisfying experience right from the start, to the point that I couldn't put it down until I climbed the tower and unlocked all the upgrades!

The gameplay is deceptively simple but let me come up with tricks to progress faster. Really liked the fact that you can click close to the character to attack faster but at closer range, it's a great balance of risk and reward!

One thing I would try and improve is the death potion, it's a bit overpowered since it kills everything instantly, so it trivializes the last stages of the game. Maybe a different upgrade like stunning enemies could work instead.

Overall, incredible work! Best jam game I've played so far :D

Fun and addictive, nice work!

Thanks for the feedback! I will definitely add that next update!

Oh I understand now, it's a judge's choice, silly me for not reading the instructions :).

Anyway I joined your discord under the name LaggyFox (or account name laggy_fox)

Hello,
I have joined the discord server just now. I am a bit confused however, as the results show that I am actually 4th place.

Regardless, thank you for hosting this jam :)

I just checked again as it happened with a different game too. Yup, it's my browser, I zoomed out a bit and it worked :)

I liked the atmosphere and the minecraft-like art.

Tutorial was a bit overwhelming and I get why, it's not easy to make a gradual tutorial in 48 hours. I think it would be better in this case to design a game with a bit less features, that way they could truly shine with a short tutorial.

I liked it! The different hazards provide some pretty interesting and challenging platforming.

I think an easy way to improve this game is to add some sound effects to the transformations, jumping, flying up because of the wind, etc.

Cool animations and music.

I think the game would be more fun if the animations played out a bit faster.

I like the art and the idea of using blood vials to get stronger (good use of the prerequisite).

I think the interaction with the enemies could be improved by making your sword attack instantaneous (instead of terraria-like), and giving the enemies stronger knockback so they won't be able to easily hit you after you hit them.

Love the art style and the music. I think the game would be more engaging if the player could attack the npcs directly instead of it being automatic.

Anyway, good job :)

The move and jump mechanic is fun and juicy, the sounds are great!

edit: forgot to praise you for the art as well, game looks great :)

I think there's a bit too much waiting in this game (for cycles to end, for job time to run out). I believe having the player actually do some task (even a small one, like watering a garden), would be more engaging.

Interesting game, I liked the background and the bat animation!

There's an issue where I can only view part of the screen. It's the second game on this jam where this happens, so it might not be an issue that's specific to you.

Maybe it's because I can only view the left side of the screen, but the gameplay is a bit too fast for me. The bat falls down really fast too, so it is hard to react to obstacles.

Thank you so much! :)

Thank you for the compliments, and the feedback!
And sure, I could review your game :). Could you upload a web build though? I am wary of exes.

I like the art, the clouds are lovely!

There seems to be a problem with the way the game displays. I can only view a part of the screen and it makes me miss gems and lose quickly.

Interesting game.
I think an easy way to improve it and make it feel more satisfying would be to add sounds and music.

Interesting concept. The music and sounds are lovely, and transforming feels juicy.

Design-wise, there's not much reason to spend a lot of time in "bat mode". You could spend most of your time as a vampire, transform into a bat for a split second to eat a zombie, then transform back. Maybe you could give the bat more abilities, like dashing, and make the bat transform time more limited.

Since it's a pixel art game, I'd recommend setting the texture filter options to "nearest", this would get rid of the blur and would make both the fonts and your characters look better.

Good job overall :)

Thank you so much for these kind words, glad you liked my idea :)

Thank you!

Interesting idea.
I think that showing the next moves of the boss would make the game more interesting, as you'd have to strategize where to move next. Some ideas on how to do this:

1. you could use something similar to "onion skin" in animation programs, where the boss is shown as transparent and in a different color in his next position.

2. You could have a little board on the side of the screen that shows the next few positions of the boss.

Anyway, good job, keep developing and practicing :)

Hahahaha ok, I'll try, thank you ;D

Thank you! :)

Thank you so much!

Thank you for the compliments and the feedback :)

I liked the amount of buffs that you could get, and dashing is always fun, cool game!

You appear to have some visual jitter, if you're using godot 4.3, try going to project settings-> general-> physics-> common and enabling physics interpolation while setting physics jitter fix to 0.

I think the game could also benefit from some juice: some sound when you shoot and hit enemies, enemies shaking, flashing and getting knocked back on hit.

The introduction is top notch! Kudos!

The events happened too quickly in my opinion, it didn't give me time to think and strategize about my next move.

Interesting idea. I think a quick and easy way to make it more fun and impactful is to add sounds and music.

Also, as it is right now, the time dilation is not really required as there's only 1 object that moves slowly towards you. You can try making it so there are more intense moments where the player would either have to skillfully dodge objects or opt for using the time dilation.

The sound choice really really (really!) sells this game. It makes it very immersive, seriously, good job on that part! The concept is pretty cool too, implementing the time travel mechanic was probably not trivial as well.

Unfortunately I couldn't finish the game, I had to replay some level and the game got very glitchy. Maybe you have a memory leak somewhere?

Regardless, it's a very cool game.

Very cool (pun not intended) and thought provoking concept. Made my brain woozy at the final level, haha. The presentation and music were fun as well.

The ice melting provides an interesting idea for the limitation (a cost per move), but I don't think there are many instances where you'd fail to solve a level because the ice completely melted. Some levels that require you to skate on the ice to save moves could provide a very interesting use of the limitation.

Nice game! The gameplay is fun and the main character is pretty funny. Good use of the limitation too.

I think the mechanic can be made more satisfying using some juice. You could, for example, make the enemies that are hit shake and flash some color. Could also reduce the shooting rate and use a "pop" sound when a bullet hits an enemy.

Anyway, good job!

Great use of the limitation, very creative!

One way to improve it would be adding sounds for jumping, hitting enemies, and death. The hitboxes can also be a bit unfair at times (you can jump on a mushroom head and still die).

Great job overall :)

Thank you! Glad you liked it :)

Looks clean, professional, and has some very clever and fun level designs.

Can see why this won :)

Thank you! Glad you liked it :)

A neat puzzle game. Liked the art and the overall vibes.
The sounds were a bit much for me, especially the elevators.

Thank you so much!

Nice game, liked the theming :)
I think it could be more engaging if the movement wasn't automatic, which means the player will have to dodge enemies while waiting for the cooldown to run out. As it is now, there is a lot of wait time between actions where the player can't do much and be engaged.

Huh, yeah I didn't even notice any issues about the contrast, and I can be pretty picky about it (even though my current entry is NOT a good example for good contrast, but I was being lazy this time :p).

Making a lot of enemies is tough if they behave differently. Personally, since I'm solo, I'm currently focused on making 1 enemy max in a way that would compliment the mechanics of my game.

Thank you for the feedback and the suggestions. Yeah there's definitely a lot of room for improvement when it comes to indicators in this game, going to keep it in mind for the next entry :)