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I had fun playing this, the atmosphere kept me Intrigued and I was curious to explore this little world :) would have loved to see some audio to enhance the mood, but I still enjoyed it!

thank you! I appreciate it 

thank you so much for playing, I'm very glad you had fun! and I agree with the feedback, especially the difficulty curve - the game went through quite a lot of adjustments throughout but didn't end up in a nice, gradual difficulty - but I'm very happy at least you had fun still :)

thank you for playing! glad you were able to complete :) and I appreciate the feedback

I really appreciate you taking the time to write such great feedback. To answer your question first, I did develop this solo and this was the first game jam I've been in. So to have someone play the game, enjoy it, and take the time to write all of this, means a lot to me. 

I'm with you on all the points, you are definitely not a dum-dum - after submitting the game a few people playtested and told me they'd be doing flappy bird for a while. And the difficulty curve is true, I needed more time to make the levels build more gradually, but just got stuck on other things :') big lessons learned from this very fun process

thank you again for playing, and the time to give your thoughts, I really appreciate it!

thank you very much for playing and for the feedback :)

and I agree, originally my idea was to introduce a small mechanic each level, and then the boss fight would combine that.... but y'know.... things changed quite a bit along the way hahah

cool atmosphere, reminds me a lot of Portal, and you drove that feeling home nicely with the robotic voice acting :) well done

and I really liked the rotation on the lab parts, it felt very mechanic and real

took me a little while to notice the gun, but besides that it was a fun puzzle game!

that means a lot, thank you!

thank you :) 

I'm not into creepy games, but I really had fun playing this! The mixture of scariness with humour and a quite unique art style was very appealing. I really liked the vibe you created! All together I think you nailed the theme extremely well, this was one of the strangest places I've seen so far :) 

I had to keep dying to find some answers (maybe that is the intention?) and that didn't feel as good as when I found something out that I could use later (for example the sign on the right of the staff door when you take a bathroom break). Again I dont play these games much so maybe you do have to die a few times before you get it. And that game over animation was extremely creepy lol, well done!

INCREDIBLE visuals! I'm trying to get into pixel art and this was fantastic. The music was great too, and together they felt super good, well done!

This is already peak visuals for me, so this is just nitpick, but I would LOVE if the band was animated. I know its a lot more work, but when I saw the hotdog alien animated but the band being static, it felt a bit odd because the band is such a central piece.

And maybe its on my machine only but I've hit a bug where the first time I have to hold a key down, my screen freezes for a while. This happened on both levels

But these are minor things, overall this such a solid entry, and seriously one of my favorite pixel arts I've seen. The feedback when you hit the keys is really good and the game felt challenging but the atmosphere is great, I had fun playing it!

Phenomenal game. I've played about 30 jams entry so far and this is the one I spent the most time on!

The movement feels super good. It is very challenging but very rewarding to get it right. You've made the enemies be quite difficult so it feels amazing to escape them.

The overall pace of the game is super well done too. You can feel yourself getting stronger (more projectiles feel very satisfying!) and the enemies getting harder, all within the span of a few minutes. The gameplay loop is very well polished and its amazing you managed to add a shop too. I got the buy a second-life and some upgrades and got a +4 minute run, it felt very satisfiyng! 

Also kudos on such a great tutorial, it definitely helped me lol

I don't know if this was intentional, or if I was misplaying, but I felt like the dash sometimes would fail me. Basically I would go through an area, instead of landing on it, so I would fall and take damage.  This was the only thing that felt "unfair" but again maybe I'm bad XD

Also I played quite a bit and only saw one rare powerup. Maybe that was the intention but it felt really good to find one! Would be cool to see them more often

But overall this was truly a fantastic game, if there was a category for "most complete/ready for Steam game" this would be my #1. I've had a really great time playing it, amazing work!

thank you!

I was addicted to Vampire Survivors for a while so I enjoyed playing this :D I think you got the main part of the mechanic very well, it felt good to run around and defeat the other enemies, and anytime I stood still the enemies damaged quite a bit, so it felt balanced

my main feedback would be that some additional sound effects would have been very cool, I felt like a lot was happening but I only heard a squishy/liquid blood sound. This would have made it more immersive, but overall this was a complete game and it was fun to play

thank you!

this was very fun to play, as others have said it was great how this felt like 2 games in 1. As someone who also went through the jam alone its so impressive to see how much high quality content you put into the game. There were a lot of different systems going on but everything felt cohesive. Nice work!

I tried so hard to make booster the rooster win level 2 but just couldn't do it lol, still had fun playing it and felt the game was challenging but in a good way. As someone who's also tried to incorporate some funny dialogues in the submission, I appreciated the funny atmosphere you created :) I'll try to come back and finish at some point, great idea and fun game!

thank you very much!

great game, so simple but hilarious and felt super fun to play. Amazing idea on the theme

fun game! I enjoyed the take on the theme with the acid rain. I got stuck at level 4 and wasn't sure how to proceed, the bug wouldn't die/I couldn't jump on top of it, and I couldnt reach the ice in a single jump

thank god I'm not a real detective, I only got it right after exhausting all options lol

even though it was short I had fun and the visuals were all beautiful. Its a great idea and I could see many different cases being fun to solve in this way too

thank you so much for playing and for the feedback. This was my first game jam and I had such a great time making the game, and hearing others enjoyed it is extremely rewarding. I really appreciate it!

beautiful atmosphere, you really cooked with the visuals and the music! I thought the style was super cool and I really liked how you incorporated the strange themes into it

thank you!

what a fantastic game. This hit me on a personal level because I both love the Escher-like shapes and I am trying to learn pixel art, so this was a complete package. Really beautiful stuff, well done. I loved the atmosphere.

the world is so fluid and smooth, even with the weird shapes, that it makes me wish the mouse clicks had a pathfinding element to it. It breaks a little bit from the flow to have to keep redirecting the character, especially in such a cool world around it. But overall an incredible submission, amazing job

I mean this in a nice way: but what the hell did I just play lol - super strange indeed and I love the idea. My only suggestion is that it was too short, I quite enjoyed the pirate level because it required me to explore the map a bit, but the others felt straight forward and didn't require much going around. Short but fun entry, I had a good time!

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beautiful visuals and audio, I loved how the SFX would change on day 4 when the screen was changing. I got a bug where I couldn't finish, I got all my tasks done on day 4 and couldn't enter the house :/

but overall really cool to see the atmosphere you created

I loved the take on the theme! I had a very similar idea too where the controls get inverted, so it was cool to see you implement it :) 

the audio was not working for me mostly, it would work in between rooms but not during most of the time. Still I really liked the atmosphere, lighting, and the feeling of playing within the pyramids. And I wish the map would display my current location so its a bit easier to track, because its already hard enough from having inverted controls. But overall I still had fun and loved the idea

super spooky atmosphere! I tried this game many times but couldn't do it lol. Don't usually play scary games but it was fun while it lasted :) 

zank zyou!!

thank you!

thanks for playing and the feedback!

This was a brilliant take on the theme. The concept of the game is very cool and I could definitely see this being a longer game with multiple aliens/environments to puzzle over. 

My main gameplay frustration was that I repeatedly got Ding Dings that were impossible to place. Maybe I just misunderstood, but I got like 5-6 of them that wanted to be near the table and near the door, so it wasn't possible to place. Not sure if this was intentional but left me with a feeling of "ah I can't manage this, better just shove them far from everything"

But overall this was honestly a great idea. With some visual polish I could see this being a really fun and expandable game! I had fun playing it

great take on the theme, this was absolutely a strange place :D and I appreciated the "real human" voice acting contrasting with the strange world, it made it even weirder

my main suggestion is that the level of collecting the orbs felt a bit repetitive, there was 9 in total but it was kind of the same motion. You had some that required jumping which was nice, so maybe even expanding on that and making different ways of catching the orbs would be cool

although I didn't finish it (stopped at the third level trying to get across the moving parts) I had fun playing it! The main mechanic is simple but it has depth, because each missed shot has a consequence. I think its quite fun to play, and I also think the ability to do smaller shots + shots while you are landing would make it (i.e. to prevent from rolling into sewer water) would make the gameplay even more fun. 

I also really appreciate the story and the humor. I loved the messages when you die or complete a level :) 

can you make it playable in the browser? that will help attract a lot more plays rather than having to download

I really like the concept! I made it to the end and had fun playing it, but as others said there some parts that felt a little bit clunky. 

Some examples to me were in the underwater world, the movement felt a bit hard to control. I felt like my character was drifting (maybe intentional because of the water?) but it wasn't easy to maneuver. Similarly in the alien level, even with the double jump the way to climb the platforms was a bit difficult

On the other hand though some things felt quite nice, for example smashing down through the wood felt fun. Overall was a good game and I enjoyed it :) 

hey I'm also having the same issue as below, can't play the game

this was so creative and well executed. I loved the dynamic of the game, personally I had never played in a platformer concept like this before. I was honestly quite inspired by it, its such a cool game

the visuals/atmosphere are beautiful too, I loved some of the sound effects: like when the guy dies and everyone in the theather gasps, or at some point a phone started ringing hahah

it did take me a little bit to understand how to play after you were done jumping around. I died repeatedly because the guy just wouldn't move the way I expected, so I was like how does it work? But then it clicked and it was fantastic. So my only suggestion would maybe to make it a little bit easier to understand at first.

Although the above cause some hilarious moments, because I was trying to lift the platforms up and the guy would (randomly it seemed) jump up, causing him to shoot upwards incredibly fast and smash his head, causing some funny sound effects! 

but overral a fantastic submission,  I very much enjoyed playing it! 

thanks for playing and the feedback! :)