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Really nice work! I missed this one during the jam, but it's one of my favourites now. So polished, and I love the Board Game feel.

That was a delightful little game! Nice work on the art — and yeah, as NotTodayDio said, the bedroom scene with the light coming in was really perfect. Congrats! Please make more games!

Hahaha, OMG it does look like that Github graph! Thanks for the kind words! 

Great score! 

So. the art was already next level, but then I spotted the carved bear holding a fix on the popup frame and my mind was blown. The audio/music matches the game very well too. Great work!

The flapping/falling feels really good — i like that i can hit space a few times and make up a lot of height. Other flappy games i feel like I don't have enough control in the moment i need it. Nice work! 

You did it!!! So many people have (fairly i think!) commented that the game was a bit too hard, so i was wondering if anyone would make it through. Thanks for sharing this :D 

I think I set the difficulty too high! I'm so glad you enjoyed the art and music. Thanks for playing it!

Ah a "zen" mode would be perfect! Good point too about the pixels filing,  maybe I'll fix both after the jam. Thanks so much for playing and your kind words.

Woah, if you get to the bottom of it I would definitely read a blog post about that!

It was Firefox running on macOS . It's a MacBook Air M2 with 16GB RAM

First time I played, the kitchen didn't render for me, but I tried again in a different browser and it worked. I wasn't able to crush the leaves in the mortar and pestle, I think because i only have a trackpad on my laptop, so i got a bit stuck. I'll try later on a PC with a mouse! 

Wally is a lovely character and the parallax effect moving between scenes is really comfy. Great work overall!

The pottery wheel was cool, and I liked the artwork for the trees

I liked the character animation, and the art for the bee idol is very cool too. 

Wow, don't sleep on the Swap Theme button, its almost like a different game! Nice work!

The art is some of the best I've seen in this jam, well done! I found the story intriguing and I was curious to learn what was on the torn up note. I got stuck trying to figure out how to distract the blue tit, but it looks like others have figured it out so maybe I'll give it another try later. 

I had a lot of fun pushing the chicken around it made a cute sound.

I am impressed that the tidiness lasts a whole month :D 

Really nice cozy game, I liked the little "minigames" of throwing the trash in the can and dusting things. I'd play more of this. Congratulations!

Thank you! I worked hard on the difficulty pacing, so its super nice to hear it landed!  I like where you're going with the more columns idea .... :D 

Oh no! Maybe the mods on discord can help? Ah I found the link and played it here https://dabed-thejoker.itch.io/bloom-shop-game — sorry there were some problems submitting. I enjoyed the artwork and the music.

I really enjoyed the huge bounces when i got the timing right. Good work with the artwork too, the color palette for the jam worked well here! Fun take on "spring" also.

I really enjoyed the huge bounces when i got the timing right. Good work with the artwork too, the color palette for the jam worked well here! Fun take on "spring" also.

Beautiful game, and wonderful presentation too — I love how the play area is so circular and you matched the background so that it sits seamlessly on the page! 

I didn't initially realize what kind of game it was, so I just started arranging the flowers and it was very pleasant. It was a fun surprising moment when the flowers merged and it clicked for me what the objective was! 

Good use of sound too, the environmental sounds really connected to the theme. Well done, I would be proud to make this game!

I love my traffic cone hat! The customization kept me going. Cute chunky bee and nice light music, great work!

Hmm, the itch.io page says "developer has not uploaded a game yet..." but i see another review here so maybe I'm doing something wrong? Looks cute from the screenshots though!

I had fun with this! Thanks for making it

> There is a significant difficulty spike from level 1 to level 2:

Yep, you’re right. I wanted the first level to be almost like a tutorial that would go by easily, and then for the game to ramp up from there, but it’s a bit too steep of a jump. It’s tricky to gauge the right difficulty for a game jam!

> I think it's pretty unfair to penalize players for tapping the wrong key

This one we had to do, because otherwise players could just spam all keys over and over to get through every level. It does kinda mean that things snowball a bit though. Maybe I'll find a way to make it less of a penalty than ignoring a note entirely, maybe half a life or something?

> My biggest complaint, why are the key presses randomized? I can't memorize the patterns to get better, I can only really hope that the RNG is more favorable.

So there definitely is randomness but if it helps at all, the randomness is constrained. The frequency of the notes is controlled by a difficulty curve that I tuned for each song to try to match the intensity of the music to the challenge of the stitching. Here’s the curve for the second level: 

You’re totally right that it takes away the strategy of memorizing the song though, I only mention the curve stuff so you know that it’s not fully an RNG situation!

> I spent all my time looking at the left side of the screen and couldn't pay any attention to the square, so I couldn't see how far into the song I was.

Ugh, yes 100% this one hits. I struggled with this too, all this work building out the pixel “print out” thing and then the player never looks at it. Overlapping is a good thought, maybe I’ll try that out!

> With all that being said, the music is great, the art is great, it has a fantastic atmosphere, and I did find myself wanting to replay it just so I could get through it.

Thanks so much for playing it so thoroughly! I hope you make it through the 4 levels, I believe in you!

Hmm hooked... there's a crochet pun in here somewhere. Thanks for playing!

I enjoyed the gameplay a lot — I would have played more levels for sure.

I loved this little journey with the bee! The variation in background art really helped keep each level fresh and made me feel like i was travelling through the world. Congratulations on a lovely cozy game!

Thanks a great score! 

I liked the liquidy slime animations a lot! Nice simple and very pretty game. Great use of the colour palette. Well done!

I enjoyed commanding the bees, it made me feel powerful. Nice cozy feelings making jam too. Congratulations!

i liked flinging the frog spawn around, and great job on the art!

I like to eat glue.

My secret is to build tulips :D I really enjoyed the art in this game, and I had fun triggering the screen shake in time with the music! 

Even though it's not finished, I had fun doing donuts on the grass! Cute truck too.

Holy smokes, this is extremely polished!  The hint aura really helped me line up with the beats and i the character read really well against the platforms and background. Congrats to the team! 

I played a lot of the original minesweeper on old windows computers, but having a little character i have to keep safe at the same time was a super imaginative twist.  I also really like how much depth there is here, I'll be coming back to play more soon. Congratulations on a great game!

Amazing work! Well done