Thank you so much! Shout out to wobdor on lospec for the beach day palette. Fun to use and it was my first ever palette used for a game and now I see the benefits :)
Thank you very much that's so encouraging! I'll definitely be adding a "remove plant" simple feature in a quick post jam update for that exact scenario. I've seen it play out a few times so you're not alone! I like preserving that moment of realization but then it's too late haha.
I like your idea for more planet rings! I have had so many ideas during and after this jam. New seed types, more control over each plant and note, and I've even considered new planets nearby that you could hop over to and maybe that one is a drum planet or some such. Thanks for playing and for sharing your ideas! Love to hear them!
I was so happy when I was able to put the party hat on the dog haha I love things like that when they're not spelled out for you but you just try it and it works. Amazing. I really like the art. its cozy and funny at the same time. I enjoyed mixing items together. a bit slow at the start but it picked up once I noticed the "exotic" plants shall we call them were selling for more money. Felt very polished for a jam game. Well done!
This is so cute and the characters have so much personality :) I liked the art especially in the cut scenes.
When I played I thought the rice wasn't brown enough yet so I kept it in the pan and it burned. maybe changing the star from gold to red or have it pulse or sweat or something on the second timer countdown as a warning. No big deal I just made some more. Awesome work team!!
Thank you so much for the kind words!! I was excited about the camera going back idea I'm glad that paid off. The voice from the void was among the first things I thought of when I read the limitation "the instructions are a lie". Thanks again for playing and leaving feedback!!
Theme is on point very cozy and summery on the island! Very enjoyable to cruise around and solve the puzzles. Feels polished and the art is awesome. Well done!
Great job it felt polished and I really like what you did with the theme and limitation!! I totally fell for it at first and got the bad ending haha then I realized what had happened and had to play again :) Well done!
This was so much fun and wow the art is amazing!! Swooshing with the fish was astounding when I made my first input I felt the quality. Super well done
I love that you can do nothing and get a sandwich for your troubles XD I got a regular ending and then tried again and figured out how to progress and was delighted by the red ending. the angry face is so funny. probably the best implementation of the instructions being a lie that I've seen well done!!
Great Catch! I enjoyed the fishing and it was intuitive enough to figure out. I wasn't totally sure what was triggering the legendary fish but I think it was fishing level? Loved the mysterious cat and the use of the limitation. Great art as well nice use of the palette and the music is a bop :) Well done!
Excellent 2.5 environment! I'm so curious how you did so much of this since I've really wanted to try a tilt shifted camera with 2d characters in the 3d environment like you've got here :) Really fun and plays like an interactive story. Fantastic work :)
Super cool art direction brings me right back to Mario 64 and DDD. Love it. Fittingly the instructions were a bit unclear but playing with my surroundings was enough to get going. Very cool thanks for making this good game :)
Was the use of limitation (instructions are a lie) the good ending / bad ending because what we really wanted was the friends we made along the way? Or am I looking into it too much XD Great game either way I like the digging mini game, the power ups were useful, I liked that you could toggle your detector to run at the expense of your detection capability and that it has color as well as beeping for finding.
I got the GOOD ENDING :) and was delighted when I found that people on the beach were not only interactable but had quests. Good game well done :D
Thanks so much I really appreciate that! Grateful for you playing and leaving feedback!
That's funny about the audio; perhaps adding a little hint to turn up audio in my description is in order :) Thank you for the kind words it's great motivation to keep at it! Cheers!
really fun gameplay. Audio added a lot to the experience and the polish shined in so many places like the pencil. Art is so awesome and the sound when the teacher looks is awesome. Well done!
Nice work I especially like the artwork it feels cohesive and adds to the experience. Slow mo was cool I got caught in it for a while and was confused but it felt polished! I didn't see a connection to the theme or limitation but still I enjoyed it thanks for sharing!
Thank you and thanks for playing! I was worried it would be out of scope to do the piano at the end but I really wanted to reward the player with that whole ending dealio so I'm glad it made it :D Cheers!
I really enjoyed the gliding moment. I could see I was supposed to do something and the person right there was the perfect thing to clue me in. I really like the art direction and nice solution for seeing the player through the walls of the buildings. cool effect and it works well.
Nice swimming animations and good feel on the animations in general as well as the player character movement! This was my very first time doing 3D character modeling, rigging, and animating for my game this jam so I have renewed respect for the work it takes!
Thank you so much! This was my first time trying out the toon shaders as I wanted to stick to the beach day palette. First 3D human and animations as well so I'm glad to hear some positive feedback on the art style. Thank you for the kind words!
I also like to spend time at the end there haha :D
Thank you for playing!! And for sharing your experience while playing it that's super helpful to me! That realization moment is important and I'm looking for ways to hint asap that music is central to this planet. Perhaps music notes in the logo, image, or some such. I'm also all about music and my first couple game jams did not incorporate audio very centrally so that was a goal of mine for this one. Cheers and thanks!!
Thank you so much for playing and sharing! I love the idea of multiple plants for each region to represent different instruments!! Perhaps could have 3 kinds of seeds? Really really glad it resonated with you thank you again for playing and leaving such valuable insights <3
I like the instructions being a lie XD once I read in the description that x was run I had a bit more luck with that slope jump! And also with jumping crabs haha. As Venture already mentioned the text boxes are a bit tight so bumping those in size might be a nice quick update.
