Oh my gosh thank you for your kind words! And thank YOU for hosting this jam, I had an absolute blast making something for it and playing everyone’s submissions!
I love this so much, especially the procedural snail names and colours. I don’t know that I’d personally need gambling elements/any kind of player control to enjoy this more–it’s just really nice to watch these little guys go for gold!
This is great–I hadn’t read noticed the theme it was based on when I played it the first time, so got caught off guard when I collected a daisy, jumped and immediately flew out into the abyss. I kind of love it when game power-ups secretly disadvantage the player, so I loved this!
The inverted controls are a little tough to get used to, but they do make trying to drill holes and set up furniture hilariously disorienting. I just want this lil’ drillbug to have a nice home, but I put way too many holes in the wall!
I sort of like this throws you in the deep end right from the start–I had a fun time dashing around trying to save babies. The character art is really, really charming! I love the arms-raised crying animation when your character is idle, and the little grave and ghost that appears when they die.
Thank you! I had a lot of fun with those backgrounds, although didn’t leave myself much time for other assets. I’m so grateful to Hypertelex for the music, and happy that people enjoyed it!
This has so much personality, I really like the fish designs and the little defeated image that flashes up when you lose a catch. I had a great time puttering around the archipelago and fishing!
Ooh I really like how tactile the UI for this is. I didn’t entirely understand what I was doing–my shift slowly drifted out of sight, and I’m not 100% sure if my missiles hit anything–but I had a lot of fun twiddling with all the levers and dials! Great use of the theme!
Thank you! I got a little bit too into drawing those murals haha. The locations are based on half-remembered places around the town I grew up in. Although the real-life underpass I based that one on doesn’t have an yu-gi-oh! art, sadly
Thank you so much! Ooh, I appreciate you letting me know about the volume too. I code on a pretty old laptop with quiet speakers, so my baselines for quiet/loud audio are probably way off. Definitely something I’ll aim to fix after the jam!
I love everything about this, from the graphics to the SFX to the indescribable feeling of anxiety I had watching those timers count down. I have not yet succeeded in not making master angry, but I yet might.
Thank you so much! I had a lot of fun drawing the sun cursor (I’m obsessed with sun symbols). And, oh gosh, same–I added that line of dialogue pretty late in the jam. It’s probably an accurate reflection of where I was at by that point, too.
This is fantastic, I love the art and design, and all the details, e.g. the siblings’ skills and characteristics. I really like it’s centered around the relationship between people and their environment, too, and doesn’t treat fishing as some endlessly repeatable act.
Thank you! I overestimated how much I would be able to make in the first couple days of the jam (I always do lol)–I would have loved to have added more locations and things to do, too! (Maybe a future update).
I loved this! Really fun, twisty narrative. I know the game tells me upfront the cafe cutie is not a real person, but by god I wanted to do right by her all the same.
Thanks! The compass interface was fun to implement. I usually have a lot of trouble with the bitsy exit/ending functions, so it made it a lot easier to have everything pointing to the same 5 coordinates!
Thank you so much!!! I’d be really interested to hear about the Mac games it reminded you of, too. It’s an area I never delved into, but I do love the aesthetic of old hypercard / Apple 2 games.
Thank you for playing! If I’d had more time, I would have liked to really expand the underground portion and emphasise the urbex element more. I’ll probably return to this in a future game anyway, since I love creepy abandoned urban areas!
I really liked this, especially the gradual shift in tone, and the process of backtracking at the end. (I do also really like how the disembodied, all-caps voice is so consistently upbeat even as things become decidedly not-upbeat. It creates such an interesting feeling of dissonance.)
This is fantastic, it feels so much like a dream in a way that’s hard to articulate. Like, simultaneously surreal and and like there are layers of hidden meaning/significance? Going through the text output feels the same as trying to interpret a dream, which is a really cool mood. I also really love the moire effects you got through the close-set b/w type.
