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Interesting... On my end, using arrows, I can perform those inputs together just fine! I wonder if it could be a hardware issue on your end? Regardless, it's good to know that the issue exists.

Well I apologize for the controls! If you own a controller/gamepad, you might find it easier to use a joystick to move around! That's one of the reasons why I added multiple control methods.

Sorry to hear you're having issues! How are you controlling the game: controller, WASD, arrow-keys?

Oh interesting!! I don't think I realized you could get back there without the push ability! Good to know...

Oh weird! I’ll look into it…

iirc the hands puzzle is about the order you give the flowers, not the amounts, though in hindsight I can see where the confusion came from! Might have to tweak the hints for that... Also, I think there's enough to go on with the stones re: Sphinx's name hints, but I might also be misremembering. 

I'm glad you enjoyed it, and I'm sorry you got stuck! 🙇‍♂️🙇‍♀️

There's certainly a chance! I don't know how much interest there is for it, but I could probably throw something together!

Well, each body part has its own music layer, so different combinations will play different music! I assume that's what you mean; Sara our composer did a lot of work on it!

Huh! Thought I’d fixed that… that’s annoying! Sorry you got softlocked!

Love love love this!!! Love hacking at a group of guys and then lunging blindly in and eating half of them. My highest score so far is 2226, but I think I can probably get higher if I really put my mind to it...

Boomerang is NOT possible; I included it mostly to see if anyone would find a way thru it that I hadn't foreseen, but it's certainly not intended to be possible in the demo. That said, it's also not the final hope, so you may have to keep looking!

I don’t have plans for one currently, though one player managed to get it running with Wine on an Apple machine, so if you want to try that it could work!

I managed to become apple universe kitten, but the game became so slow that I could only look at the ground... Very enjoyable!!

Between a Rock and a Hard Place!

The little dude walking down there eventually hits a switch that lets you grab the ore in the room! Basically a timed challenge. Unfortunately, that doesn't get you out of the room, and the guy is sometimes prone to getting stuck!

Apologies for getting to this late!! You could always save & quit, though I realize that’s not an ideal solution. Normally you’d either be able to warp out with your bird or get knocked out by the (missing) bandits! 

So, two things:

1. This game is 8 years old, give or take. It's one of my oldest games, and the first one I ever released. I don't even link to it on my profile anymore; the fact that you found it at all is a miracle. If you want better controls, you can play any of my games released after this one, all of which are better to play (though most of them also aren't free). 

2. Being a jerk in a game's comment section isn't a great look! If you have complaints, that's fine, but looking at your other comments, you seem to exclusively post when you have issues with games. You're acting like poor controls in a freeware game from 2017 that maybe 3 people have ever played is a personal slight against you. If you don't like this game, you can chip out a few bucks and get one of my newer ones (with rebindable controls), or go play something else entirely!

The game also takes xbox controller input if you have one! Or if you get the full version, you can rebind the controls directly!

This is great!! Wonderful job! There are a few things I'd add though (spoilers!):

• Upgrading the whistle actually increases the speed of the warping cutscene, particularly when holding the jump button down to cycle through locations. Your mileage may vary in terms of usefulness, but that's what it does!
• You can access the warp to HIDDEN VILLAGE early (even before going to meet Death for the first time/using the LIGHTHOUSE warp) by falling down from CRAGGY NOOK on the mountain onto the trees below. Platforming across them will get you to PRECARIOUS without blue herbs, or any additional items at all, for that matter!
• The ice wall in GREAT ICEBERG can be melted with a lava golem from Hymnir Volcano as well as with bombs! It's harder, and probably not something anyone would willingly try, but it works!
• Speaking of Hymnir, the fast-travel point in Hymnir can be reached early (without doing the loop around) if you can jump up to the ledge. See your tips and tricks for some ideas about how to do that...
• In The Creature, on the north (wand-centric) path to GAOL, you write, "In this room, shrink down using the lens
  for a floatier jump and make a tricky jump around the corner using the boots to lend on the cloud." There's actually a slightly easier way through this room; if you return to the previous room, do the trick with the falling pot/respawning again to return to the doorway, and go back to the room with the cloud/pit, you can levitate the pot, throw it over the pit, and use it as a platform to reach the cloud. It's finicky, but doable, and perhaps easier than going around the corner with the lens/boots.

Also, I'm sorry about the 51 gems thing! No clue why that happened... I will investigate if/when I have time.

I'm sorry to hear about your save, but I'm glad you enjoyed yourself regardless!

The one past the fire requires a specific form to access! Luckily, it's something that's very close by!

The other one may be a bit tricky, but think of how you've gotten through walls in the past (specifically the recent past, as of getting to this point in the cave), and see if you can figure out a way past this one!

Not actually a Pico-8 game, though I did use the colour palette! Apologies!

No, not really; the only issues are because Yoyo Games doesn't officially support Studio 1 anymore (despite having sold permanent licenses to the software), and tries to sell you Studio 2/newer versions of their IDE whenever possible. When I switched to a new laptop earlier this year, that made getting the software on my new computer/getting it to recognize my license more difficult. The program itself worked fine though! That said, I recently switched to Godot for any future projects, more out of a desire to avoid using Yoyo's dev tools in the future than anything else.

Gamemaker Studio, v1.4.9!

Hey! Just fyi, someone has made a copy of your game page and is distributing some kind of software (potentially malware) through it! They've been doing similar things with a few other folks' games (including one of mine) so I figured I'd reach out and let you know! Here's their fake page, in case you'd like to contact itch about it/report it! https://tanzago.itch.io/summer-of-58

Duly noted! Thank you for letting me know!

Hey all!

 I was wondering if anyone had a comprehensive description of what ratings on a game do? Like, I know that reviews are currently developer/follower only, afaik, but do ratings do anything in particular beyond affecting placement in the Top Rated category on the storefront? Like, will games that are rated more highly appear first when searching for games in other ways, and is this something that we as developers should be trying to prioritize post-release? 

I know that Steam puts a lot of emphasis on positive ratings when deciding which games are more/less visible to consumers, so I guess I'm wondering if there's something similar here. I'm also curious whether "review-bombing" a game here would affect visibility in the same way that it can on Steam; anyone have any insight?

Glad you enjoyed it!!!

Interesting... I'll check to see if it's working properly with the demo build! Thank you for letting me know!

There should be key rebinding in the options menu! Though, I’ll have to make sure it works right in the demo build. There’s also controller support, so you can use an xbox controller of you’d prefer.

I'm sorry it doesn't! In my defense though, Polymute was released two years before the Steam Deck, isn't a Steam game, and doesn't even have controller support. 

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I'd love to be considered, if possible!

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I think never say never, but at this point I'm fairly happy with leaving Polymute be. I may go back to it sometime though!

...And now, after a pep talk and small hotfix update, they should be fixed and back to jumping properly.

The way I'd say to do it is to jump, then dash, then mash the jump button. I will say, the timing is pretty lenient after the initial jump; you just have to mash the jump button, not necessarily time it perfectly. The one NPC in particular who tells you how to do it is in the Wall Jump room. It shouldn't be any harder now than it was in previous updates, you just can't do it in 1x1 gaps anymore. I'll check the tutorial room though; I think I have an idea of what's causing that.

...And now the crash should be sorted out! This comment actually helped me figure out exactly what was going on, so thank you for that!

Iiiiinteresting. I’ll see what I can do!

I happened to be working on other fixes when I saw your comment, so it worked out nicely!