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More than a few times the battery would rub against something and send me flying hundreds of feet up into the air. When this happened on the first catwalk, I’d “wrap around” the bottom to appear above the catwalk again so I could slowly move to land on it and resume, but in the second part of the catwalk after the music changes the abyss didn’t wrap around and I had to Alt-F4 out.

Never thought I’d see an idler/clicker in Pico-8. This is dumb as hell; good job, you understood the assignment, five stars.

Your quicktime-events idea is a really good idea for design. The pacing is weird though: by the time I reached “Continental,” my auto growing was faster than my clicking, fast enough that I didn’t click at all in any of the following phases. I spent a handful of seconds on each phase before I was offered to go to the next one. By the time I scrolled upgrades to see if anything new appeared I was already ready for the next phase. I reached the end of the game (100% of phase 22) without seeing the prestige menu.

How to improve framerate? It’s so slow the audio is stuttering. EDIT: it was some video rendering in another tab. The game still freaks out when I have all the power-ups but one, but I’d count that as appropriate.

Wonderful as usual. May I ask for an improvement? Please stop the ‘sparkle’ hint animation before changing scenes, as I was often confused to enter a new scene, see a sparkle, but there was nothing there to interact with.

Game doesn’t go past the name-entry part. “Godot couldn’t connect to the SilentWolf backend.”

I really dig the alternative victory condition: nobody has to lose for you to win.

To start the game I must hold both left+right, but that keypress is carried into the start of the game, giving me “WARN: 1” before I can lift my fingers.

short, clever, to the point. Nice.

Excellent prestige mechanic.

Don’t forget to tell us how to play – which keys to press, whether we need to click inside the window to start the game, &c.

framerate during the ‘constellation’ gets slower after every run. After about ten runs, it’s less than 1fps for what’s supposed to be a mere upgrade menu.

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I’m impressed!

I dug out the entire map and only found 2 of the nineteen items. Do I have to clear the map and ‘prestige’ to start over with a fresh map to find more items? only two per map?

The room transition in “the Heart” works, but as the sage Britney Spears once said “oops I did it again.”

Confirmed. Will use Linux build to test the other thing.

EDIT: completed the game with the Linux build. The endscreen apologizes for a rushed job, but you did a fine job. You could’ve done a copy-paste of other exploring-platformers, but you showed some ambition even with these simple tools. Seek out Nifflas’s “Within A Deep Forest” and “Knytt Stories” if you need more inspiration.

Downloaded the windows version. Found a room called ‘The Heart” and I think you forgot to put a wall on the right-hand side because I’ve been walking without a room transition for 30 seconds and automap says I’m many rooms distant.

Linux version: despite being an AppImage, it does not include all the needed libraries: “error while loading shared libraries: liblove-11.5.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory”

I like the idea. Having trouble with knot 8, as it gives me the red error ‘X’ if I pass over and if I pass under, as if there was some third choice.

the “Project: Genesis” text writes outside the visible area, half-words on the bottom edge and a delay before showing the button that tells me more text was “typed” out-of-sight below the viewable area. :(

I’m repeatedly impressed with what people can do with PICO-8

very long load time (134 megabytes?) and many errors about “Prevented call into an uninitialised yyal from Audio_EngineInvokeCallback” during the load.

it gets very weird when the shop prices are so wide it pushes other buttons off-screen so you can’t buy anything else.

Clicking on the Lumon logo in the upper-right takes me to “Quarterly Results,” with three blank spaces. I can click to make sounds, but the game doesn’t otherwise respond. Because this is supposed to simulate an engimatic experience I don’t know if this is intentional or a sign something is broken.

“Our system has flagged this page for additional review due to potential suspicious behavior from the page owner.”

Bought the “?” upgrade, now I see a blue screen with the text “1 point” and the music changed. Does not respond to input; feels like a bug.

bug report: sometimes enemies that “break” or spawn more enemies when shot, they spawn the enemies in the walls/ouside the arena, and those new enemies cannot be shot, which means the level can’t be completed. EDIT: but I should say this is an excellent game, I’m having a great time.

Not much there, but your heart’s in the right place and you’re learning. Keep going

When playing on web, the itch.io buttons hide the score in the upper-right corner, even when window is maximized.

The instructions describe starting with seven (polyhedral) dice, including a d4. It also describes a dwindling pool, such that every die will eventually get stacked on the tower. A d4 die is almost always a tetrahedron with a base larger than any other die’s faces, opposed not by a face but a single corner between faces. How the fudge do you continue stacking the tower with “a second polyhedral set of dice” above that tetrahedron?

I don’t think this is what the game is supposed to look like: https://imgur.com/sshot-5d9nshN Is it because I’m getting 403 errors for something called “tailwind” ?

more skillchecks could be minigames like this.

Firefox 138.0.1 (64-bit) and Chrome Version 136.0.7103.113 (64-bit)

Trying the webbuild and I get these error messages in both Firefox and Chrome: The referenced script on this Behaviour (Game Object ‘Text (TMP)’) is missing! No GameObject found with the name ‘HEAVEN MUSIC’! NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. in BUILDWEB16.framework.js.gz:3:34928

webbuild. The longer I play, the more stuttering happens in gameplay. A problem with Godot?

Got stuck after I hit a teleport tile, and I’m on a tile between two walls but I can’t step off the tile.

If you don't play fullscreen for the scaling minigame, the itch.io buttons cover the "okay" button in the upper right, and you can click it and will change colour but it won't act like it was clicked.

Fox and Skye know what a video game should sound like.

web version crashed after the countdown and telling me the "secret":

Uncaught TypeError: GodotAudio.ctx is null