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The clear and concise sound effects for every problem in this game. That is what makes 'The Problem with Trolleys' a clear trailblazer in indie games today. Each sound effect carefully swashbuckles through your ear and tickles your spine all the way to the last vertebrae. You don't play Trolley's for the incredible high art it can provide, but the sounds. The beautiful sounds. Can't wait for 10 hours of sol-vin sounds to relax and chill to.

I had a lot of issues getting through training. The bottles were falling too fast for me to get through and experience anything past Wave 1. I think this game could use a bit of a slow down on the bottle mechanics.

I liked this game a bit. Reminds me of worms but at sea. Didn't really understand the repairing mechanism.

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I can't get them to drop any fish for some reason. I've tried 'bonking' them from above and below but they never dropped their fish.

Submitted on JAM start.

Can't get the game to load in the browser. Unsure why.

I failed to actually play this game. I couldn't figure out the controls and nothing was working for me. I tried moving the ship and even attacking but nothing was working. Maybe some information on how the game works would be valuable here.

Had a lot of trouble with the controls and generally just killing anything. Effectively was eliminated before I was even given a chance to shoot the wave. I think this could be resolved by creating a small delay for the shooting mechanism from the enemies.

Small bug where the human can pin you against a wall and the you get stuck.

Thanks! Working on a new prototype of this atm. with more fleshed out ideas.

An entire game based around this could be some good fun. Start off with a single spell, but incompetently pick up other spells that you randomly shoot.

I enjoyed this, but character kept getting stuck on the platforms.

I think if you had to look down at some paperwork instead of scrolling that would go a long way. Also not instantly dying would be nice. Good stuff though.

I liked the movement, swinging animations, etc. but the puzzle concept was just a drag for me. I think I would have much rather just smashed down the door. Astronaut Slugger would be a fun title.

Got a score of 10,500. Very simple, could be a good mobile game time killer.

I actually think this could be a lot of fun. My only issue was the lag behind the cursor on player movement. Not sure what was causing that. I think it'd be worth revisiting again if you can correct and scale the game.

Definitely needs mouse controls for aiming, felt like I was fighting the game to play it.

Had this happen to me as well.

Gave it a whirl but ended up having the app crash on me while setting dials to sun, moon, star.

Hey there reviewers, if you're curious what my best score is:

Feel free to post a screenshot if you beat it.

Pretty good score, it definitely gets tricky with conserving fuel, and making sure your shots count.

My best score so far was 117,500.

Glad to hear you enjoyed your time playing it.

The art is nice. I got stuck on the gray block level, couldn't seem to push or pull or do something to the block. It became non-intuitive at that point. Sound effects would go a really long way.

Needs music, sound effects, etc.

Ambience would help a ton for this type of game and was immediately bored after not hearing any feedback when clicking on things / looking around.

I enjoyed the game quite a bit.

The first tile you're placed on should allow you to immediately move, otherwise the game is confusing from the start.

I had trouble seeing the 'walls' and I think you could benefit from an art style that maybe shows the walls 'deepening' into an abyss, or some kind of 'raised' asset to help really show what is a wall and what is not a wall.

For some reason I figured reaching the edge of the maze would let me reach the other side if there was an 'opening' on the edge wall. It didn't work in that way, so that fell non-intuitive.

Title music was a jump scare. Maybe consider fading it in, and half the normal volume.

Otherwise it's a game that plays like all of the other games that are just like this.

Really clunky. I'm having trouble trying to tell if bullets are even loaded into the chamber. It would help to have better visual queues for when bullets are actually available, let alone when I'm able to shoot.

Also the inability to use left-click to shoot was infuriating.

Thank you! I'm trying to decide if I'll take it further, I'm letting a few jams determine if the concept is good enough to turn into something larger.

Thank you! It was heavily inspired by Nausicaa and has been one of my favorite films for a long time.

Thank you!

It was interesting, the middle section was weirdly difficult.

I forgot to hit that big ol' rate button but did that too.

Enjoyment - 4/5, I was genuinely looking forward to this once I saw the shark model. It's just funny.

Concept - 3/5, interesting concept but there's definitely not a lot of room to go further with this. Unless you date whacky characters non-stop.

        
Presentation - 2/5, Going in blind, I wasn't sure what I was doing. Took me until the end of the game to realize how to play it.

          
Use of limitation - 5/5, alien language was 100% present.