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They should only fall when they ragdoll, 3d gameplay was an unrealised stretch goal, mostly because I couldn't imagine how to deal with the aiming. Player movement was deliberate as instant starting/stopping just looked robotic and a little jarring on the camera, but it might be overtuned, I'll revisit. The aiming guide might be casting to/from the wrong part of the player character, though it's also not using the mouse position directly; more like a virtual joystick as direct position was bugged when I tested not long enough before the deadline. Cheers!

Enemy alert range is *way* too high, you need more obvious tracer effects on the bullets if I'm going to be shot from 3 screens away. I'd drop the "restart" menu and have it just be "click anywhere to restart"; given how quickly you die the faster you can get back in to try again the better. The guns need a laser sight or something because the animations point them the wrong way sometimes which I didn't usually notice because I was looking at my crosshair, and with the tracers being subtle it usually took a couple of shots to realise that it wasn't firing where I was telling it to. Personally I'd also make the crosshair more obvious; a bit bigger, a less neutral colour, something like that. Mines could be a lot more obvious; they aren't consistent as they get shot sometimes, so it took several lives before I realised mines even existed and I wasn't being hit by grenades from off screen. Oh and sometimes when shooting the camera jumps up or down. Weird problem, makes aiming annoying. Good effort, visuals look nice and levels show a progression/escalation, though I think I should probably see the first enemy in the game before he kills me.

The UI definitely needs a pass; I spent a long time struggling on Evaporites before noticing that the evaporation basin had been quietly added to the *start* of the building list, which I had to scroll to see. Visually stuff's also a bit busy; lower contrast on the world tiles would probably help. The progression is good though, functionally very well put together!

Satisfying little sandbox!

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Very ambitious with the different areas! The precision on the jumping in the mountains kicked my ass.

Very tricky, struggled a lot with the first corner lol

Yeah the level's a lot less than I wanted it to be. I didn't want to throw infinite spawners in because they can be a nuisance, but there's not enough going on with what I made. Great call on the audio; dash I forgot but the start/stop following hadn't occurred to me!

Lovely! The caught animation is great, though the hit detection felt a little wonky at times; darts instantly hitting walls behind me if I stood too close.

It's quite difficult looking in two places at once constantly for the speed buff. Maybe the ring could be over Pippa instead? Very charming, lovely art!

Really excellent!

Thanks! I spent most of my dev time making them act cute, then spent the last two days making it so you could catch them and throwing a level together :D

Better visibility of stats and an explanation of what's actually happening in combat; explanations for what exactly the stats govern. Maybe some control over roles or loadout? Slow guys with shields don't end up doing much. The little window that pops up when you click a starknight in combat should probably just appear in a consistent location instead of trying to appear near the starknight in question; it gets lost behind the foreground sometimes. Alternatively just move it above that layer, but I think consistent location is better. The description panels for perks sometimes stay visible after the mouse moves away. Other than all that, very solid entry!

The visuals are barebones and the sound is passable but it controls very nicely and working multiplayer in a jam entry is very impressive!

Neat! Wants some polish; feedback & sound effects. Maybe something to spice up the travelling segments like a combo meter. I did softlock after beating Dizzy once; I'd died, so maybe related to the music bug Mauno mentioned?

Needs some UI, quite hard to approach. You could even have a hotbar type thing with the key bindings visible on-screen. Sometimes the girls wouldn't teleport and the game isn't telling me why. To my taste I'd say the gun(s) should auto-target something when a fight starts with interaction just for retargeting on something specific. Cute concept and good start!

Very cute art! Balance felt a bit brutal at times, especially the end of the second level, and I think the walkable areas could be a little clearer maybe

Perfect and horrible.

Neat! Small bug; if you rapidly right click you can duplicate your held balls. And game-over yourself if you do it at the wrong time.

The narrow hitbox is very unforgiving, but then I guess that's the point I didn't figure out what shift did on my first run. Ouch. A little indication when you've overcooked a jump would be a nice touch; vibrate the sprite and un-squib or something. Very cute little platformer, I'll have to try again to get all the stars!

The aberration made the UI a little hard to read, and my poor index finger would've appreciated auto fire by the end, but a neat little game!

Edit: I also wasn't quite sure what the two different turrets did, but everything worked out when I'd fully covered the outside surface of the comet.

Platform edge visibility is a bit rough; if you don't want a texture or shading then a slightly different colour on the top/sides would help. Other than that great, and a 10/10 title

Fun! Wants more visual feedback; I kept going into slow motion and couldn't figure out why or when it would stop. Something to make it more obvious that you're moving to the right like a floor texture, though I understand the environment was last minute. At one point a Dizzy  was standing inside Jelly but wasn't dealing any damage so I'm not quite sure what happened. I enjoyed turning Lia into spaghetti.

Thanks! I've modified the camera movements a bit already, though I'll do a more thorough pass on that once I'm sure I'm finished with the trap and platform layout. Kill box for the right path is on the to-do list; I did wonder if it was too harsh without. Similarly I also need to extend the health regen delay to start a few seconds after mercy ends; you're not meant to get that extra hit, it's an oversight I noticed but didn't get to fixing. BGM was a good couple of hours pratting about with the banjo kazooie sound font trying to game-ify "Happy Halloween". I'm happy considering I've never actually authored a track before. 

If you're curious (and not busy rating the other entries), the updated version linked has BGM for the left path. Also some extra camera movements, but those were barely tested.

Thanks for the feedback! Good point on the timing of traps; the drop platforms need a timing retune in general; they need to spend longer visibly lowered before resetting imo. I'll also look at adding a particle glimmer just before the swing on the blades or something. They're actually a moving overlap volume hugging the blade rather than a momentary area, that may or may not be the correct approach. It seemed most flexible for what I was expecting to do when I made them. I don't think I did a pass adding camera tweaks to the blade area, and if I did it wasn't a good one. I should add a kill volume so you don't have to redo that whole area despite the checkpoints up top; that did occur to me at the time but the coin toss went the other way. Confusion over being done after the drop down occurred to me also, but I didn't expect the macguffin to be easy to miss visually; you must have fallen on it or something. I can reuse the victory grabbing animation from the cup to make that very obvious, though for the water side I'd have to reposition it for that. The invisible wall was a leftover for preventing the player from falling out of the map, I should've gotten rid of that one specifically, but then the elevator back up was a last minute solution. If you don't move at all it drops you where you're meant to be, and I didn't consider what people might actually try to do based on what they were seeing. Didn't have time to diagnose the tracking, it's a bug and I'm not sure what's going on; alternating shots will track and fail seemingly at random. There was an intention to modify the tracking so that you had to at least partially face the target, but I don't think I implemented that at all.

The vertex snapping was a code snippet I had to hand from the ps1 stuff I was messing with a little while ago, I didn't especially intend to leave it in, as it does make her inconsistent with the environment. I don't remember exactly how the ps1's behaviour operates but clip space snapping is how the emulations I found approached it.

Thanks again for the comprehensive feedback!

Ah I see, I did get quite careful about taking pictures after the spooking started. The lights got me through it anyway, I just wasn't quite sure if I was meant to be finding collectibles instead!

Good atmosphere! Could do with the blurb being in-game; I wasn't quite sure what I was meant to do as I downloaded from this page instead of the main game page. I'm not 100% confident it was working fully as I won without being attacked, but spooky things did happen so might've just been luck.

Amazing visuals, incredibly well executed! Text occasionally felt a little slow, and I wasn't sure if I needed to do something at the title screen. Oh, and some kind of indicator, perhaps hotkeyed, to show where you can click as I spent a little while waving the mouse around when those opportunities came up. Unless you're nostalgic for Sierra's 2-pixel scissors of course :D

Made me use one jundred perjent of my jrain

Fun! Esc isn't a great key for the menu as it frees the cursor and it wouldn't disappear again for me. Could do with some feedback on shooting/hitting too; killing enemies felt a bit inconsistent and I'm not sure whether that was just me missing  because of the angle or something.

Cute! Space to restart or click to flap would be good; one-handed gameplay.

Good atmosphere! Assume I'm done after one wave? I did a lap afterwards but didn't spot anything. The door works on the trust system it seems.

The description made me think it was just the first room initially. I reached black bricks, looked like that was as far as it goes? Fun concept!

Stellar art and dialogue!

Love it! Could've done with a "zoom out" function, or maybe arrows on screen pointing to whichever fireworks aren't set correctly when you press the launch button (which was only really a problem for me when I didn't realise how big a map was). That and/or a sprint key to help get around quicker when you're not placing stuff.

I jaughed. I jried. Truly the real jorb was the jriends we made along the way.
Lovely little project! Some kind of simple "collect things for extra points" objective could be fun.

Funny idea, the captions were great. I want - perhaps need - the thrown bottles to be able to hit Sakana.

+1 on feeling a little lost, but other than that it's lovely!

Interesting aesthetic!
The TTK on the snowmen is very unforgiving; imo there should really be an audio cue, or checking for them should be easier. I checked the room, saw nothing, and died ~5 seconds later on one occasion, unless I misunderstood something. I'm not personally a big fan of mouse controls, especially in full screen; it's ok for the interactions but the buttons are small enough to be frustrating, though part of that will be me using a trackball. Being able to press A/D to switch screens would go a long way for game feel.
Fun idea anyway, and I think the working area is laid out well. I'd love to see it polished up a bit!

Thanks! The screwdriver is currently useless and the hairdryer's use is broken in this build so sounds like you got through everything :) There were a few ideas but I didn't find enough time to work on it over the holidays; I'll at least do another art pass and probably try to polish up the progression, maybe add a couple more "puzzle" elements/sequences.