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was looking back at this jam because i was feeling nostalgic and HOLY SHIT THIS GAME IS SO GOOD HOW DID I MISS THIS ONE!??!?!

oof yeah my pokemon region design is a bit off

ya its a resolution thing i think

it only gives me the top left 2/3rds of the screen :(
sad bcuz i was excited to play this one

nice! very jank but beautiful!!!

ok actual review now: 
not very odd tbh, ive been in the world before, im actually in the world right now, oddness is like relatively different from what ive experienced and even though the game itself takes place in a place that is inheritly odd the game keeps on talking about the world itself which is quite possibly the least odd place i can physically imagine

also i have a hard time trying to figure out what decisions lead to what, and sometimes it felt a little jank with like the endings and stuff (instead of fading to white or red sometimes it would just stay on justicia) but thats not really a huge deal tbh.

other than that, this game is great! sam's gettin a pretty authory presentationy diet with a lot of beautiful artsy games!

moment i got the red ending i was like... thats bonejacq, thats just bone, like, bonejacqaline incarnate. that specific ending was inspired by bone and bone alone.

i hate math.
that being said, i think the art is really cool, and the math isnt too bad compared to the stuff i see in school.
the audio hurts my ears but your really commited to the nes style here to the point where you would rather make my ears bleed than stray from the nes style and for that i have to give you extra points in audio

also the cursor got a good laugh out of me
also "i just LOVE odd numbers" :sob: :sob: :sob: :wilted_rose: :wilted_rose: :wilted_rose: thats so funny

really fun puzzle game! sam's gettin a pretty puzzley presentationy diet here, all these games are so cool and like atmospheric and make you think pretty hard

actually the fucking game saving even when i close the window is such a nice detail i put an extra star in theme because i was like "holy shit thats really odd and cool and i like that and nomrally i would have put an extra star in presentation but i ran out of stars to put there so ill put that in theme"

one time in vc i was playing the game and said "i think i want 5" and my friend started quoting the fucking zen bhuddism thing of like "to wand something is to be ruled by it, all of your actions lead to having 5, 5 dominates you, 5 controls you, you are ruled by 5" and that was really funny.
and so when i got 5 i just said "i like 5" and they were like "but it appears 5 doesnt like you back"
fun memories

these puzzles were actually REALLY well designed, and i can tell this was a labour of love right here. you guys did an amazing job, i had so much fun, and i would have given 5 stars in gameplay/fun if that was an option

that being said i still havn't finished it because theres a LOT more content here than most jam games (not a bad thing!) so im posting my review a little early and moving on to the other games, but i had a lot of fun and i will definitely come back to this when im done with the other stuff

yea i dont really know what i was thinking submitting a game that required parsec and 3 people that both have free time at the same time or a fancy keyboard with 3 extra people in person that live near each other and have free time at the same time 💀

bro i tried to start a new paragraph and im soflocked into italic it litterally wont let me NOT type in italics no matter how many times i press the button

ok its fixed now but i was gonna say that it was a really bad idea to make a 4 player puzzle game when getting 4 people together is hard because then people play it alone and then they get spoiled on all the puzzles so then its like the bread is half spoiled and the other half is still there because you havnt like put it out in the sun yet ([played it) and so its like i designed the bread expecting the whole thing to be put out in the sun at once (played) bit everybodys spoiling the half they can play alone and then they half the other half
IM NOT MAKING ANY SENSE THIS ANALOGY IS HORRIBLE I HOPE YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN

anyway im gonna play ur game next when i can!

oh ok
still, thanks for playing and enjoying :)))

WAIT I SAW THAT YOU HAD FOUR PEOPLE ON YOUR GAMES CREDITS
AND YOU SAID "we"

DID YOU ACTUALLY PLAY THE GAME WITH FOUR PEOPLE?!??!?!?!?!??!?
if so yippee

yea wait this is really cool???
like, unfathomably cool??????
i would talk more about the story but i dont really wanna spoil it, if you want more of my thoughts you can dm me on discord! (my name on the server is sequel boy)

at first i hated this theme but im realising its generating some AESTHETIC games like this one

this thing is oozing with style, from the menu alone the simple replacement of "Start" to "Create", and "Quit" to "Refuse" instantly beams you with the kinda vibes this game is hittin u with

the music really makes you FEEL like your watching the world get made by the gods themselves, and i love the detail that the music just shifts ever so slightly from the main menu to the actual game, and im not sure but i think extra instruments get added in when you start summoning guys? which is an AMAZING detail if it is true, and theres just SOOOO much care put into the audio visual.

speaking of the audio visual, HOLY SHIT THE VISUAL PRESENTATION, DAMN THIS GAME IS BEAUTIFUL
a good measure of a games worth is how much attention to detail is in the water (joke i dont actually believe that water is all that matters) and by god you made each tile shift up and down on random intervals from each other and shoot little particles beneath them in a weird isometric view without any like obvious screw ups THIS IS SO PRETTY AND COOL AND EFFORT FILLED AHHH I LOVE IT
there is a similair level of effort put into the other graphical elements of the thing its just so STYLISH it's just OOZING with STYLE and VIBES and AHGHHAGHEHGHRHGRHHRGHHGHH

i love the way you like made the pixels crunch up when zooming out i love the way the different types of tiles mesh with eachother on the screen i love the paralax background THIS IS COOOLL

very unique concept, i would say that the beggining of the universe being formed by the gods themselves is pretty odd, and its dope too

i would say the only thing this game is weak in is gameplay but that DOESNT MATTER because theres NOT A RATING FOR IT which means according to the sam jam rating system this game is PERFECT

me when i make a 4 player video game and four seperate people play it alone (they could have just said "who wants to play with parsec" in the comments section and found eachother) /j ofc

glad you all enjoyed it! :) i make my games for everyone who wants them, even hermits

yeah this is cool!
it had its bullshit but overall it had a really snappy crisp feeling and the visuals really shined

cool puzzles too

lmao 2 ppl saying my game is [insert game] but better

you love to see it

lmao 2 ppl saying my game is [insert game] but better

you love to see it

i mean it was directly inspired by fire boy and water girl so like hell yea

ppl have described my style as very flash gamey so that definitely contributed

btw if u dont have ppl to play this with you should like ask in the comment section to find ppl who are willing to play with parsec with you because even though the game *can* technically be played alone thats not the intended way to consume it and i want you guys to experience the vision i had in mind :)

this is so PEAKKKK

hello. i am NOT interested, please consider me NOT joining your team because i do NOT want do join.

vro... (/positive)

actually fucking goated, i hope this wins
i already told u some of this in disc but this game genuinly understands "slick" on a fundamental level, instead of uniquely interpreting the theme you go for the brute force approach of directly applying it in the most unapolagetic way. you have baked it down to a science the concept of slickness. this game is filled with those punchy "WHOA NEW MECHANIC" moments that make you the developer look COOL AS FUCK. every time im introduced to a new thing in this game it feels like im 3 and watching jingling keys. also the SCHMOOOVEEMENT is so goooooooddddd yummmmmmmmmmm.

the visual design is so *crisp* and tony is i think the most swag individual known *to man*, and i just fucking love funky jet set radio songs so like this game was visually and auditorily a treat.

i love shit like this, i love me some SA2, i love me some speedrun games, i love me a score and a ranking system, i love me a little arcade skill based "single player competetive", this is litterally made for me specifically.

if i had to opportunity to submit to this jam, i would have given this game 5 stars in every catagory, because its just unironically the best game. you have consistently made the best game (imo) 2 years in a row holy shit

idk how to put gifs in itch.io but imagine like the jesse pinkman "HE CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THISSSSS"

im overstimulated i cant read anything

yo i searched "skate" and found this, cool as hell btw

this game is awesome man...
its like if sonic adventure 2 was a warm blanket with some hot cocoa

your physics engine understands the innate feeling of being 7 years old so well that i genuinly feel nostalgia (running around in grassy fields and hitting things on accident type beat). nostalgia from a PHYSICS ENGINE

v excited for paper sky and hope your game development journey goes long and far (unless you decide that you dont like gamedev or something (which is fine then i just hope your creative journey in general goes far (unless you decide to do something not creative idk i hope you enjoy where you end up (i kinda hope that of everyone actually but you get the point right?))))

tysm mannnnn (oh and is the music available anywhere?)

YEA THATS WHAT IM SAYIN

the horses werent a fundamental part of the human condition, or the way we express ourselves and our experiences. Cars didnt do litteral theft of horse innards without the tamer permission. u dont gotta play the luddite card against HUMAN SELF EXPRESSION. you suck

if ai is "inevitable" then we will do our best postpone that shit until the universe ends and then some

learning new skills aint that hard tbh...

is he roller blading or just running real fast???????????????????????

litterally anything to avoid grappling hook
not even the spider gives you grappling hook
jk this is sick and the levels so far feel way more consise than the jam ver!

lowkey really good lmao

this game unapolagetically knows and understands how comfusing it is and weaponizes it against you. its so cringe it wrapped back around to being unfathomably based

i genuinly cannot fathom that this exists lmao. litterally how would you emulate an lcd game? how does that even work? do you just manually code it yourself? how does this exist?

everyone playing this, if you dont like the voice acting thats my fault, just so you know

when are we gonna have METHAM[ph]ETAMINE? (i didnt play it yet)

i really like this bcuz im trying out a bunch of different *hitbox based horses* and i couldnt test any of them untill now! (the other engines didnt have accurate hitboxes) tysm for making this!

could you add spritesheet support so i only have to upload 1 png? (its kinda annoying to split my spritesheets into 8 diff pngs) cool stuff btw!