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It was soooooo hard, but fun! ¦3

I had a lot of fun playing it, but here are some thoughts that could make this experience more enjoyable:

• make health management... manageable (right now it is impossible to tell how much HP left, and very hard to notice getting damage)
• introduce new enemies gradually, not giving them a 100% chance to kill you the first time (or even a dozen times) you see them
• have colliders placed in more obvious ways (hitboxes were always surprising, and the character was colliding with wall corners all the time)

The final turret felt absolutely unfair, with a huge blast radius, very little room to evade, and no way to destroy it.

Visually, the game looks amazing, with so many little details! Good job!

Great take on the theme, I love that idea! ¦3

As others mentioned, it would be cool for the trader to do accounting for how much he spent on goods.

The art is great, with only some UI elements appearing too small (like the price tags that are barely larger than a couple of pixels of the item image).

Well done!

Cool concept! ¦3

I like clean visuals, bouncy effects, and outlines. You can experiment with making all the textures high-resolution, but rendering the game in low resolution (e.g. rendering to a small texture, and then putting it on the screen).

Maybe having them dance to the music beats would make it more immersive, as currently it is a bit painful to press the button at completely random time intervals. But I am biased here, as a long-time rhythm games player ¦3

Nice visual effects, especially the glowing!

The game loop took some time to understand. The hardest part to learn was that cards that scroll at the bottom apply their effects automatically by some cooldown, and the cards you pick are not applied immediately ("hey, I picked multishot multiple times, why nothing changed? ... oh, that's why....")

It would be cool to have some hint of the applied card effect, as it is challenging to keep track of them in the middle of the fight.

I also thought that "restart" starts the game over from zero state, but apparently it only resets the card effects, and the deck stays with you forever.

Once I got used to these rules, it was very fun to hunt for calamari ¦3

Cool art and visual effects! I like how the main character's facial expression changes as the gun shoots, nice little detail ¦3

The game only begins after defeating ~15 enemies, though. Before that everything is way too slow. I was hoping the hardest difficulty would increase the enemy spawn rate. And it was such a bummer when I got a choice between "Reduce amount of enemies", "Reduce amount of enemies", and "Reduce amount of enemies". Please, add "Increase amount of enemies" for me!

Amazing arsenal of weapons. Some of them could be tweaked (more damage for the rocket launcher, less distance for the shotgun), but you have a solid base with a lot of potential.

Getting upgrades on timer rather than based on my action felt weird, as if I could walk around without fighting and still get all the upgrades.

And thank you so much for having the dash to WASD direction instead of following the cursor! Such a great decision! ¦3

Yeah, that really depends on your implementation then ¦3

Usually, the update loop is based on requestAnimationFrame, which can return inconsistent durations. If you apply a force for 0.00161 seconds, it will be different from applying the same force for 0.00159 seconds. This delta time can be used for animations and visual stuff, but for consistent simulation, it's better to use a hardcoded step (usually referred to as a "fixed update" in different engines and articles), for example, exactly 0.0015, and sometimes you may have more or less than 1 physical step per rendered frame.

But I checked your code, and it seems that you already use the fixed update, so all of that explanation does not make much sense ¦3

Thanks, good luck to you too!

As some runs I tried very hard to keep all the walls intact in hope that a perfectly recorded replay will help me killing some of the enemies (unfortunately, it didn't work, though).

My tech is not very straightforward to explain, but in a nutshell it's just WebGL on Kotlin/JS without any engine, using a port of Box2D for physics ¦3

But I am pretty sure the general approach is engine-agnostic.

Yeah, I do the same recording and replicating of player inputs ¦3

What I discovered was that to make it consistently reproducible, I had to somehow tie each input to a specific step of the physics simulation. And then having physics calculation at a fixed rate allowed me to use the count of such physical steps as a pretty solid measure of time for inputs (e.g. if I repeat the "jump" action exactly at step 119 every time, the end result will be exactly the same, if the surrounding world hasn't changed).

However, in your case, with all the moving platforms that would not work, as in the next run you can change the configuration of walls, making previous enemies hit them as they move, changing the result of their movement.

So that's a pretty hard task ¦3

Cool puzzle!

I know how hard it is to make a perfectly reproducible replay, especially with physics simulation, when every tiniest difference entirely changes the outcome ¦3

I like the scattering transition when you return to the menu.

And the eurodance is my weakness, great track by Cecilia! (I hope you have the permission to use it, though ¦3)

Interesting turn-based water polo simulator ¦3

It felt unfair that my opponents could change their tactics many times during the turn, while I was restricted in switching my strategy just one step at a time. Extra unfair that "replay" keeps the scores as if the game continues ¦3

The art is great, though! I love that water effect.

And sound design is cool too, with the crowd cheering at the right moment. Well done!

What a strange game!

Monster builder reminded me of Impossible Creatures. That's a great idea to represent a set of skills visually.

The game is quite hard, and the fact that you lose monsters forever without having any control over them is punishing. And a full game reset on death does not feel to fully fit into the "build - fight" loop.

Nevertheless, well done finishing it! ¦3

Thanks! ¦3

Thank you!

Thank you! Yes, P3RC! made a great font for us (which I messed up a bit in an attempt to align it with internal game resolution ¦3)

Sorry for the SFX, fair point ¦3

Thank you for checking out!

Thank you for playing!

It was very fun building it, and it is very fun now to play similar games, seeing how that idea can be explored ¦3

Had a good laugh when saw Jamtendo ¦3

Nice arcade scrolling shooter, with surprisingly enjoyable controls.

After getting the hang of these loops, it's getting so much better.

As for many infinite games, I'd only wish to see more progression along the way. Adding a second bullet didn't seem to improve my effectiveness (as the fire rate remained the same).

(Pro-hint to others: you can press Ctrl once to always shoot ¦3)

Nice puzzle with a race against time!

Thank you for adding a way to work around the problems. It turned a very stressful situation into a less stressful game of dandori.

Art, music, sound, VO, and game design all work together, amazing work! ¦3

Awesome experience that starts resembling someone's life and ends up doing it more and more, with very nice use of theme!

Everything is incredibly coherent throughout the game. Extra kudos to the cool postprocessing guy, I like these grains.

Well done getting Chopin into your team! ¦3

Curious programming-based auto-battler.

That's insane that you've made a graph editor in just 4 days! Although I am not completely sure why this game needs it, as the only actions are "attack" and "defend", and none of them seem to affect the virus (whatever I attach to it, it will only attack everyone within the yellow radius).

Having 100000 at the beginning was nice, yet it also breaks the progression, as you can just buy everything with nothing else left in the game to explore.

But overall I appreciate how complex all the UI is, you've done amazing job there! ¦3

The art is really awesome! ¦3

Puzzle part is not very consistent, as the same sequence of actions does not always lead to the same result. The bridge was not surviving the loop sometimes, you can't "loop" that gangster, and the key breaks the loop just fine.

Would love to see what is going to happen, but can't keep the bridge between loops anymore, I seem to break it somehow :<

Funny puzzle platformer!

That's a great idea to allow changing the timing of moving platforms by freezing and unfreezing them, it helps a lot when planning the route.

It was a bit annoying to have health, mana, and timer all in one, especially with just a single checkpoint for the whole game. But I understand that without it the game will feel very small.

Well done! ¦3

Very cool abstract puzzle experience!

I like how you made so many riddles using only that little assets and mechanics.

Only couldn't find a second coordinate tablet to map lat/lon onto the map grid, but accidentally missed the bridge and slipped into the river ¦3

Oh well, all my papers are wet now, I'd better go home.

It would be very nice to have a way to add marks on the map (it is quite useless by itself).

Interesting arcade. My best is 01270 / 01:29 ¦3

Sometimes it was hard to tell what exactly killed me. I would appreciate having some hit-stops and visual feedback to hint at that.

And it would be so cool to be able to control the game without a mouse! I have a proper numpad to enter numbers, why would I click on screen instead?

The title screen and UI looks amazing!

The "Play" button hanging around may be a hint on youtube video ID (the one that goes into "youtube.com/watch?v=<HERE>")

Thank you! ¦3

Yeah, money is just your score

At first I assumed the Rusted Shell by default, and was very surprised that I could just hit all the walls back then ¦3

But turning it into Flappy Bird was the point of no return. Such a clever level to combine all these challenges in one place.

Great job designing this game!

We all got used to setting up or activating an action by button press, and now you tell me that was all wrong!

The hardest part of this game are controls (requiring to release of the pogo counterintuitively just after the jump), rubbery collision physics of the ceilings, and cancellation of the movement on getting damage.

The visuals and sounds are great, though! I'd love to play a more accessible version of that game.

Cool visual effects, everything provides a responsive feedback for every event.

I was able to fix the fridge only once; all other times it flashed and was happy by itself immediately after starting to break.

Oh, that was tricky to re-wire my brain to a different button mapping ¦3

I'd love to see more levels with different challenges (and different button mappings)!

How to release the piece after I picked it up? I can only swap it for another one :<

I managed to make it till day 11 by feeding everyone with 1% vanilla ice cream ¦3

This place should be closed for not having a fire extinguisher...

Cute game, well done!

Nice little game ¦3

It seems to have some patterns that I should learn to play efficiently. But I am terrible at such games :P

I'd appreciate having a key on the keyboard to shoot (using LMB while not using a mouse always feels strange).

Good job finishing this game! ¦3

I like the puzzle element of how you need to toggle certain things remotely.

The secret ending was a bit disappointing, though, but it was nice to have an extra puzzle on this level.

Lovely and addictive ¦3

Awesome use of multi-layered music that turns on and off when you burn these zombies feed those kids.

Although it turns repetitive by level 10, and by level 100 the laser gets upgraded to something that evaporates everyone at the slightest touch. I tried to break the game by collecting enough +1 seconds to not feed them anymore, but that would require swinging around for another 50 levels or so.

I had lots of fun, thank you for that experience!

Another tiny, cute experience ¦3

As with other Bitsy games, it is always challenging to highlight where players can go and where they can't.

And you probably have some misconfiguration on the Itch page, as the bottom 35% of the screen is trimmed out. Opening it fullscreen helps (although it does not open it fullscreen ¦3).

Pretty smart to add tractor movement into a top-down shooter.

Vehicle controls feel very good, and the variety of ammo charges is nice to have.

The soundtrack is amazing, one of my favorites! ¦3

Something I'd wish to have in addition to all the cool features: minimap (as the city feels like a maze until you remember the layout, but even after that, it was hard navigating to distant targets), variation of enemies and how they interact with you.

But overall, it's a solid submission, well done, Team ICE CREAM GUN!

Great style and music, and the cutscene is awesome! ¦3

I would love to see more of this game, with more different level segments and obstacles. As it is right now, it's quite easy to get used to the route and just slide for hours (and that get that image drifting effect on eyes when you stop ¦3)

How did you make these trails? It was really cool to see them!

What a strange game, so many questions ¦3

I like that you can control the catapult, but is there any reason not to throw at max power every time?