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Hi there,

Fumes is a fast paced single room PvP dogfighting game, where you play against one of your friends. You both spawn trapped inside a small box and the first player to reach 5 points wins the round. You can use your flares or flight skills to dodge incoming missiles. 

I never actually announced the game in here(nor have I ever actually used this feature in the 4 years that I've been using itch.io so excuse my awkward writing) and after a whole year of Fumes still sitting at 0 sales I thought I'll give it a try. I reworked my itch.io page to look a bit nicer, I wrote a short blog post, and put the game on sale for 1$. I would really appreciate it if you try this game with one of your friends. 

You can get the game here.

This game is awesome, the art is great the sounds are nice and the tools are so creative and fun to use! 'The only nit pick I have which is only there because of the limitation is the damn phone, there is so much potential for a really cozy rpg that actually has good gameplay but the phone buzzing and moving onto my screen every few minutes had me rage quit. But you didn't choose the limitation so it is well implemented I must say, 10/10!

OMG, the opening cut scene is so cute, great story and the art is awesome. Gameplay is great, almost shrimptastic one could say!

I actually love this game! I normally hate maths but having to do these small calculations in my head asap to make sure i can sell enough beignets while also managing my supply is super addictive and fun. The are is also really cute and my boss was very happy :) 

Thank you, I love the vibe of Keep driving :) I only ever played the demo last year tho, I gotta play the full game someday!

This game is so incredibly cute, the art is great and the interaction are really nice too and the limitation is there as well. I got so many sandwiches im a very mean seagull 😎

Its a very immersive game with awesome art, really impressive for 2 weeks!

The implementation of the limitation here is superb! Great game, I dont think hes ever gonna buy me that sandwich :( 

Lovely game, I really like the art and the sound effects. Very cozy!

Thank you, yeah that's a fair point. I do have a voice line about eating a sandwich if you fail too often and a sign next to the pool saying no diving but that is kinda too subtle.

The flying is so cool, and the music the music is so good!

The graphics are awesome!

https://spacecat-studios.itch.io/professional-pool-diving-simulator

Discord: @thecatfromouterspace

Im rich 😎 , really fun game!

The gameplay is really cool, made me feel like a detective! I like that the main character is a snow man, gives it a nice contrast to all the other games and makes the summer theme pop. All in all a very cute game.

Very cool game, especially for a first game jam! Barracuda is the perfect choice of fish too, they look so scary underwater and much bigger. Oh and I found a bug where if you hit one of the blue pools on the right from below at the right angle the game bugs and thinks your in water and you can just fly around in the air c:

Thank you! I wish I could make a web build but the compute shader I wrote for the water simulation doesn't work on web :(

Fun game, unfortunately there was a bug where my smoothies disappeared as soon as I picked them up :c

I like cat games, and the plot twist at the end is great. 8/10.

I think this is my new favorite game of the Jam

Great game, really good incorporation of the theme. Really cute walking sounds, i love it.

I'm too cool for the sun 😎

Ohhhh the umbrellas pop the clouds?! I thought they pop if they move atleast 3 blocks TT

Gave up on lv 11 with 475 total moves, very fun.

The entire time I thought Sandburg must be english since I can understand it, then I realized that Its German, and I am German. Lovely art, very nice game.

Never did I have this much fear of accidentally serving a child the right ice cream! It's a very charming game.

As a diver I can tell you that's exactly what fish do underwater. Also the first game I played that incorporates the limitation really well and it has sandwiches!

Grandpa omits a dark aura, unlike Gertrude my beloved.

This game is cute, let me know when the good ending becomes available! 

This game is hilarious, I like it.

Oh sick! You looked so professional I thought It was one of those posts. Im working on a game where you build a stupid ship for a hoplessly optimistic penguin trying to escape the arctic summer and reach the carribean. I already have an awesome composer on the team, would you like to join us? Send me a DM on DC @thecatfromouterspace

Heya, Im making a little game where you build stupid ships for a hopelessly optimistic penguin trying to escape the cold arctic summer in search for the carribean. I love you music, wanna team up? Dm me on DC @thecatfromouterspace

Are you looking to be paid?

Hey, wanna colab? Im making a small game about building a stupid ship for a hoplessly optimistic penguin so he can reach the tropics. DM me on Discord @thecatfromouterspace

Are we still elegible to participate for the price if one of our team members is based outside of the US?

Thank you so much for the comment this helps me a lot. While testing i thought something was off and I only now realise that its because i designed the game that you kinda have to walk towards the danger. It would be so much better if you actually had to mine and run from the monsters and problems.

I found one issue where when you restart and press the start button twice the games "main menu" re-appears. This game is so cute and i think with sme obstacles it would be even better, nevertheless I enjoyed destroying the boxes in 0g, great game, very charming, 9/10.

Edit: I got a new highscore of 6355

Does fit the theme somewhat well,  Awesome gameplay loop, sadly the audio was very quiet, cute graphics 7/10

Game Design: Unfortunatley theres not much gameplay so I cant really rate this, you proabaply ran out of time. 4/10

Fun: It was really fun to walk arround and talk to the people, they were all unique and really charming just like the cutscenes but more on that later. Its really cute and you can see that effort was put into this game. 8/10

Innovation: This is probaply another category the game severly lacks in, while the story is charming and cute the gameplay is very generic. 4/10

Theme: There was a storm and in the dinner it was pretty calm so that fit the theme perfectly, unfortnitually it does not fit the gamemechanics that arent really there, calm before the storm also reflected in the slow wlaking vs the intense cutscenes. 9/10

Graphics: I really like the graphics, I cnt really be nutral with them as my first gamew were also in python with these hand drawn graphics. The colors really pop out of the dark background seperating the calm even further from the storm and they are obviously not realisitc or perfect but it has its own style, the cutscenes were really great, I did not expect them. The main charachter doesnt really fit but its obvious you kinda ran out of time with that. 8.5/10

Audio: It is there, its above average and fits the game really well 8/10 

Overall I really like this and it has its own charachter wich is reall good. Keep working on your Game design skills and make more charming little games like this, I wish you the best of luck. Solid 6.8/10

Game Design: The gameplay is fairly simple requiering you to go from a to b and pick up items while avoiding land wich is really hard to hit, Sadly boats cant hit each other so there goes a great oppertunity to make the gameplay more interesting. But what really held back the game are the camera controlls, they are slow and for some reason it goes faster when you move your mouse off the button(wich probaply isnt intended) other than that the game design is pretty decent, altho there are a few important elements missing in the comunication with the player such as showing a price tag for buying and selling items so you could calculate your profit e.g.. 8/10

Fun: The story seems liek a heavy foxus of the game and it starts of pretty good. The concept itself seems really fun and relaxing but because of the limited time the camera controlls feel clunky stopping the fun at a .6/10

Innovation: Its not the most innovative game as there are a lot of simmilar games, it reminded me a lot of some mobile airplane trafic controller game but its in a unique setting this time and has a few own ideas. 6.5/10

Theme: It doesnt reflect in the mechanichs. The storm part is implemented into the story, but unfotnitually the story is more about a break after the storm before the next smaller storm ? The story started really well with the calm before the tsunami hits europe but then during the actuall game it has already hit europe for somer reason 6/10

Graphics: I lile the color scheme, really fits the vibe, there are a ton of mixels tho making it look cheap wich could have been avoided, there were 3 artists so you should have had enough time for that but i know how hard it can be to manage a bigger group of people. The font doesnt really match but it still looks cohesive thanks to the colors. 6/10

Sound: The sound design is really nice, there are even audio settings 9/10

Overall its a good game jam game with a bunch of content but it does lack at quality here, Id normally let that pass but with 6 people it could have gone better, there might have been trouble in the team but I cant know that so ill round it up to a 7/10