Yeah, slow at start. I was considering giving early PvE rounds half durability or something along those lines to speed progression up. I might redo this game (properly) some day. Thank you for your feedback!
This is by far the best feedback I've gotten yet. Thank you so much. Please understand, that I can't comment too much on it, since this would ruin future feedback (and skew data for my thesis).
Yeah, I see how it's unintuitive. The main mechanic is similar to that of Path of Exile crafting - which in itself is quite complicated. I've added tooltips to improve clarity.
I've since added tooltips for the unlocks/materials. It's slow - noted! PvE is against AI, and yes, PvP is against other players. The game is asynchronous multiplayer (you play against players who reached the same wave as you)
It was made during the jam, for the jam - but it functions as the prototype for data collection in connection with my thesis, which I'm currently writing.
Yeah, seems like some see the game like that - I assume it's an itch.io thing, since I've never had that problem before. Sorry!
Huh, hopefully others don't see it like this. I just doublechecked both Godot and itch.io settings, and it's fine on my end. Sorry!
EDIT: Ah! I see. The game was not optimized for fullscreen, which some platforms autoplay the game in. Playing the game on a desktop in browser without forcing it fullscreen should work.
In general, yeah, at some point you will unlock enough crafting materials (if you keep beating the PvE), that you can do meaningful crafting. Thank you for your response!
The theme is "Go deep". The game jam page mentions examples like "an underwater cave", "don't stay at the surface", and "dig further" - I would say a game about transporting a mineral through a cave is implementing the theme :)
Great! I went looking for "something missing" for quite a bit, but picking up the rune and dropping it again made the game progress. All in all, a game with a very nice feel.
The first playthrough lasted until the very first spike appeared and hit me - every game has a learning curve, right? ;) After that, I just wanted to beat the score in one of the screenshots, and I lasted over a minute getting 85k or so.
What a great sound design to go with the "feel" of the game. Sure, the music and effects are not initially made by you, but tying it together like that takes skill. I'm a sucker for these very concise, but very polished, games. This is definitely one of the better ones.
I agree with you 100%, that I scaled the point system incorrectly. As it is, you get more points per mini-game stage completed the larger your initial isolation range is - and I should've scaled it with time. There's no real incentive to risk points right now. The nudging is finicky, and it doesn't help with the cursor flickering in the web build. You only have 3 nudges for each mini-game, which is not well communicated.
Thank you so much for the great feedback. This is exactly why I love joinging these competitions. People really care :)
Thank you for trying it out! "I think the game was broken for me, I never got any thoughts" - I'm sure there's a clever joke I could make, but I'll refrain ;). Did you press E to think, solved steps of the puzzle and then clicked the collect button? I have not had any issues regarding that, and I've playtested it maybe 500 times. Regardless, thank you so much for the kind words!
Thank you a bunch for giving it a good try! "Seems like not every round is winnable" - yeah, that's exactly it. Sometimes the random events simply make you lose, or the first event takes away the teleporter. With more time I probably could've given the player more agency.
