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Fun game! Lots of weapon/enemy variety and the fact that I never had to stop and take a look at the map to figure out where to go reflects well on the level design. Liked the music to.  I do think a sound effect for the weapons would make hitting enemies feel more impactful.  The controls also feel a bit too stiff for some of the obsticles like when weaving between projects (during the gnome boss fight for example). Wouldve liked the stamina bar above the player to see it more easily during combat.

Couldnt get up a latter because of an enemy blocking it:

Thanks for playing! there s 7 slides of instructions, you only saw slide 1/7 and theres arrows on the sides which you can click (i think you didnt see them) but despite that you did a lot better intuiting the mechanics than i imagined anyone would with such limited information which was still quite insightful

The lasers definately add quite a bit of excitement to the snake formula.  This game also looks and sounds great.  Its quite fun. I think the laser and other hazards could use a much longer telegraph though.  I wasn't sure what took me out the first two time I got hit by the spikes and lasers are often unavoidable.  i had this strategy id try sometimes where id use the laser to cut tail shorter.  Pretty sure this doesnt help cause it ends up taking more health but went for it anyway since it was kinda fun to try.

Wow thanks for the feedback! Love the riddle

There's definitely a learning curve, as with most card games. I can imagine some players might stop early because of that.

I have given thought to ways of streamlining it (I intend for more mechanics to be introduced later anyway) so people dont bounce off it.  There might be limits to how approachable it can get but i wanna see whats possible first

Sometimes I play a card that has both blue and red damage on it, and with the left and right cards it should be enough to defeat the first enemy, but nothing happens.

Totally possible thats a bug, ill look into that!

maybe consider adding a card discard mechanic. Sometimes I just end up with too many cards in hand. 

i kinda think of it as a  gameover state for abusing horn too much but yes I see the need for that.  I'll see if i can skirt around it through balancing the cards. (I'd likely adjust how horn works- When finished attacking: if this is the selected card, then copy card on right twice-removes using them as a shield but probably adds more depth in needing to choose which cards to copy). 

Also, increasing the diamond cap could be interesting. 

I actually have that in my notes, i think i forgot to do that because i was scrabbling to get the game done in the last few days

Thanks for checking it out! 

funny you bring up the card moving sound effect...after submtting it at 4 in morning i was desperate for sleep and then did a quick test of the web build and thought "wait why is that sound playing"

... that was a mistake but i was too out of it at that point

Thanks for trying it out!  Theres a lot of paths to victory but idk if i made it too impenetrible 

This is really fun! love the atmosphere this game has. The animations and sounds when things appear are pretty cool. Its a simple concept done really well

Fun game! like the creative upgrades you get, they can really change things up though im not sure id be able to take advantage of the dinosaur names one.

Had to refresh a couple of times cause of a bug where i clicked off the window then back on and couldnt type anymore (was using chrome)

Fun little game, was satisfying to take out groups of astroids together

thought it was weird that i couldnt die but then i tried doing a run where i intentionally ran into astroids to freeze them together, didnt get a good score but its cool that i can do that

Really cool idea!  Liked having to juggle saving myself and taking out the pipes.  Good audio/visuals to.  Feels satisfying to get the mines to explode where you want them.  Think it would be nice to have some way to plan for when the next mine will spawn

Neet little game

i did find that you cant lose if you just kept going for the clocks

Thanks! glad you liked it

thanks for playing!

This has a lot of enemy variety for game jam game, as well as music i enjoyed playing through it

Would suggest when you get the ability from the boss that youre forced to use it right afterwards to get out of where you are in order to teach the ability

Nice game, i liked investing  into the different spells and seeing how that went

I'd just suggest maybe having a button to click instead of pressing enter since i keep having to take my hand off the mouse to press it

Thanks for checking it out!

yeah so graphics/audio as well

i'd probably be down

discord: lergbwo

I made everything solo

This was made during a 1 month period for a game jam :)

Thanks for the feedback!  There will be some resolution settings for sure, options for making the game more approachable are also being thought about

Thanks for checking it out!

Thanks for playing! I would've liked a better UI, I do plan on making things more intuitive by making relevant information more visible as well as other small inclusions.  Still i think it would be a bit confusing because of how the tutorial is currently.  I was short on time and just had to make sure it could teach the games mechanics but all the mechanics are introduced in way that's really different from the context that you ultimately use them in so i think that makes the UI more unintuitive and harder to grasp. At present I don't see a way to significantly reduce button presses but if the UI is more intuitive then you would navigate the menu much faster regardless.

I wished the light/dark mechanic worked its a good idea.  Still knocking over guards by rolling or throwing bananas felt quite satisfying.

This was quite a fun little game.  I like how the meteors give you something to do while the factories do their thing.  The hitboxes on the meteors also felt nice and generous.  Probably would just like there to be more to do.  My strategy was pretty simple: get one speed upgrade as quickly as possible and then just have nothing but factories/gas refineries/whatever i need till the end.

The audio sells the setting, I think having consistent the pixel sizes for the sprites would unify the art style a bit more.  I beat the whole thing using ranged mode, I couldn't get hits in with melee since the cooldown was so long so it seemed inconvenient to hit anything near by-still its a nice idea, I can see how the enemy variety would encourage using it. I wish there was even a little bit of visual feedback when hitting enemies since that would probably improve the game feel a lot.

This game has got really nice music and art but there are some issues telling the foreground and background apart.

I do feel it could control better still the charge up animation for the cats jump was nice.  The level design has some blind jumps, there are scenarios where the platform I should be aiming for isn't on screen or a jump launches me into an enemy just out of view.  The game can be quite punishing as well, I thought it would be nine lives per level and having to reopen the game and go through the dialogue again can be a bit frustrating.  

This project is really impressive if you leant a new game engine during the jams time period as well but there are technical problems present like I got stuck in the floor once and had to restart the game and wall jumping feels really unreliable (doesn't always work, just sort of glitches in and out of the wall sometimes).

Don't think I've encountered an egg flipping game before, it was definitely satisfying to get those flips but also sometimes a bit wonky like the eggs getting stuck upright.  I really like how the characters complement you afterwards (hopefully my eggs irl could inspire such words one day).  Also the music is real good and the setting was cool.

The presentation is great.  I thought the concept for big mode is really creative, it feels very chaotic in a good way. The hitboxes felt a little off fo small mode though, was sure I was out of way of the cat.  I also felt the camera made it difficult to keep track of the cat even with the sensitivity adjusted.  Still great job overall! 

I think there's a lot of potential in a concept like this.  It reminds me of Magicka wizard wars but uses simpler controls  which I think helps make it easy to pick up.

I won by using fire over and over and didn't see the need to use the other spells.  I think there was a bug with the AI since it basically just kept walking in to the wall above us over and over doing nothing. Still it was fun when AI was working. 

Thanks for checking it out!

the tool tips for enemies will tell you that they'll spawn spiky balls on their turn, there isn't much variety in enemy behaviour for the time being.

I’m not sure how I feel about RNG in turn-based tile puzzle games, but maybe that’s just me being burnt out from games like Into the Breach lol.

I was actually hoping it will feel similar to into the breach lol.  Thing is, this game probably isn't the best use case for procedural/RNG puzzles (at least with the current, less feature-complete, jam version).  Of course handcrafted puzzles will be better then RNG in isolation.  With handcrafted puzzles you're just after the a-ha moment where with something like  into the breach you're motivated to find a more optimal solution because you don't want to lose the run.  Its more high stakes so there's tension from turn to turn -which is the important thing.  That's the thought process as to why there are more portals when you are close to winning.  

Ideally you'll feel a tension that motivates you to optimise your turn but this game is too low stakes for that (I just leaned into the core gameplay loop being fun for now).  Maybe it wouldn't have felt frustrating if it was somehow communicated that the difficulty is increasing from turn to turn (kind of ran out of time to implement something for that though i also didn't want to steepen the learning curve or add to the UI).  Its done so the player will have a reason to try and optimise their turns (you'll get the win by either playing aggressively and finishing early or gathering loads of actions to win later).    Also if you feel like the final turn was easy then there wouldn't be any tension which was the goal (it would be a boring turn otherwise, maybe tedious that you have to go through it like the level should've ended last turn).  I also found it lends to the feeling of getting a checkmate against the game on the last turn which i found sort of interesting.  

I'm not 100% sure how this'll change since the only other opinion I got on the matter was along the lines of "I love how you get really close to winning, makes me wanna try it again" which wasn't the intension but cool for him at least.  It is flawed in that losing can be a slow process so you're probably better off restarting if things are looking bad (I'm gonna change the hp system so this'll go away).  I was so focused on making sure every turn was interesting (when winning) that I forgot to check what it was like when losing.

I might have the character animation show acceleration and deceleration when starting and stopping to improve game feel (like hollow knight or with shmups) but at current i think tight controls suit the mechanics better.  Maybe ill execute this concept differently in the future with momentum based platforming as a sequel or something.

This was quite fun, I really like the music

A couple nit-picks:

The primary attack obscures the player hitbox a bit

Enemies instantly spawning on top of me in alterego mode can be annoying 

This is really fun, I liked going for all the collectables

The pause screen was also great

Just a couple nit-picks:

jump height gets reduced when on downwards moving platforms which doesn't feel good

the staff recalls automatically when flying off screen so I sometimes accidently throw it right as it came back

I like the concept its quite fun

The presentation is great but I think 3d mode could use shadows or something to help understand the perspective

With the first ball puzzle i actually tried rolling it at first and eventually assumed that might be used for a later puzzle so I did get the logic for the final puzzle but dismissed the solution because it seemed too tedious to execute

Its also easy to get crushed in 2d because it lets you walk under moving platforms that you shouldn't be able to fit under

Still I would like to play more puzzles, good work!

This was short but really cool

The presentation and everything was great

I do have a nit-pick which is that walking on the volume sliders seemed to feel a little off (probably would've liked to see more done with that mechanic to)

Maybe the dialogue could wait for input since the text can appear anywhere and is quite fast

Great work though!

This is a fun game, shooting feels great and the blue>red>green mechanic works really well

I do feel like there's too much talking between waves-it can be a lot of down time when replaying levels

also its hard to see what's happening when bumping into enemies because of screen shake

still its fast simple fun, good work!

thanks for the feedback!

The UI/UX will definitely be improved. There will be hotkeys for different modes and end turn at least.  I'm thinking of a couple alternate control schemes like just having the menu constantly open (and more out of the way visually) so all you do is cycle through the modes with two buttons and confirm a new one when you're ready.  Either that or holding shift to keep the menu open and just select with the arrow keys (though this will likely lead to mistakes).  

Options menu and level select would've been nice for the jam but ran short on time

a maze is just about finding the correct path to the exit, so like where to turn or in this case which modes to use to progress the path.

a puzzle usually has a moment of insight for the player to uncover.  For this to happen it usually feels like the puzzle is impossible (even for split second) or you're completely out of options at some point (not just about turning different corner) then you realise you could do something that you haven't done before (the a-ha moment)

when watching people play the best puzzle games you'll see them get stuck for a little bit before it finally  hits them (they'll start with trial and error but hopefully find the actual solution through creativity)

its also a lot of fun designing levels that try to inspire such a specific feeling in the player

That was pretty great,I would've just liked a bit more of threat towards the end

I like the art and the music+sounds fit really well

Didn't think upgrading dice was nearly as good as getting another 3 for the same price, but rolling feels so satisfying 

also it can be a bit hard to tell if you missed a tile while exploring

Wow thanks - I was kinda hoping for jumper mode to have that effect, like a sort of 'roll the dice to succeed/fail' but you don't get frustrated when failing because you were in control of the character

Thanks for the feedback! I'm still trying to think of what to do with the control scheme, i would at least like to prevent people from panic pressing shift when jumping as well as hotkeys for different modes