So charming! I like that you can control the speed and craziness with the amount of imps you have. The art is so cute and whimsical and the little level complete sound is satisfying!
Wow, this is so polished! I hadn't tried the first version so I'm not sure what was added, but you have so much attention to detail and the game feels really great and complete. The first thing that delighted me was getting to frost the cupcakes and seeing the swirl appear 🧁
This is such an interesting idea! I know fine tuned details and tutorials aren't always feasible for a game jam, but spending some time on the wording and presentation of rules could go a long way in the next part. The mechanics seem solid and you have a good amount of different beads, so it doesn't seem like you need much change on those fronts!
The comment below makes a lot of great points. I think the one about showing the color rules separately could apply to the bead material as well- maybe you could have a reference sheet visible at all times, that the player can switch pages on to see the rules for all colors or all materials. That way when you hover over a bead, it only has to say the color and material, and there's a consistent place to look for the rules.
I think having a convention for how the rules are written would help with the readability too. For example: (current rule for glass)-- "if a gemstone is placed between two glass beads on each side, all involved base points are multiplied by 2."
(alt format)--"2x base points to group when a Gemstone has 2 Glass beads on each side"
^the bolded words help identify the key points, and I think the 'effect first, then how to do it' formatting is a little more common and recognizable for roguelikes.
Some visuals would help even more! a low-budget way to show a chain like above in text could just be (OOXOO), where if you use it consistently 'X' is established to be the first property mentioned in the rule (gemstone). You already do something similar in some rules (ABCBA), I think it just needs to be used more regularly to stick in players' brains.
Great work again! Excited to see what you come up with for the next part of the jam :)
Cute! It seems like you have a solid base for adding more content in the next phase :) A lot of nostalgic dress up games that this reminds me of use abunch of sparkly effects when you reveal an outfit, and even little popping animations to give feedback when you click on anything. Stuff like that might be good to add in the next phase to really sell the ~vibes~
Ooh great job on making this feel tactical! between the string physics, the dragging movement and the sounds it's all very nice and crunchy (positive) I agree with the other comment about the background; I think if you make that a little more muted it'd be much easier on the eyes, and easier to tell the difference between the bead shapes. Well done, it feels nicely polished! I'm excited to see what else you add :)
I love the 2.5D art, the way the animals hop and flip around is so charming!
I'm not sure if it's some weird optical illusion, but some combination of the overall aspect ratio, the shape of the dog, and the perspective makes moving up and down feel slower and less pleasant than moving sideways. (Actually, it probably is the perspective- if it's on a 3D ground plane with an angled camera, the same distance will feel shorter bc it's squashed by the orthographic camera )
I wonder if manually making the up/down movement faster would help with the gamefeel?
Really fun! The mid air jumping is challenging but addicting to get right. Nice music too and I like the robot's floppy arms :) It feels really polished.
I think the idea has a lot of potential, the controls are just a little too confusing to get used to. It's not always clear when I'm doing something incorrectly or if there's a bug. Nice music though and I could see this being a really relaxing puzzle game if some bugs and the controls were ironed out!
If this had obstacles in, I think it would be a really nice chill game! The jumping physics feel good, and I like how the sound scaled based on you jump height. The sounds work really well with the whole atmosphere. Just needs some obstacles and scoring to keep people playing!
This was fun! I like that the fire rate is so punishing, since it makes you be more mindful of your shots. Didn't make it too far but I could definitely see this being addicting.
Super calming and satisfying! The music was nice too, I really wish there was some sort of shwoop sound effect because I think it would be even more satisfying watching stuff slowly fly towards you that way :)
The idea is really cool! I agree that the possessing felt kind of inconsistent, I saw in the controls that you could possess cars and security bots but it felt like you had to approach them at a certain angle or something, I couldn't really tell. The main character design is cute!
This was a lot of fun! I agree that it would be nice for the enemies to have less health; I don't play a lot of shooters so the mouse felt a little too sensitive and made it difficult to focus on the enemies. The arena looks super fun though and the sound/music really makes it exciting!
Thank you for the detailed comment! I went back and dropped in some quick 'ploppy' sounds 😊 The music cutting in between levels is definitely something I'd lke to fix eventually, but I think it'll take more rearranging haha
Thank you all for the comments and feedback! I've uploaded an update that disables the diagonal movement, as that wasn't intended to be possible. There seems to still be some glitches with the character's rotation occasionally, but they do not appear for me in engine so I think it's wonkyiness on the html5 export side :/ I also added arrow key support in case that is more intuitive for some, but be warned that the up/down keys make the page scroll, which gets pretty annoying. The overall unintuitiveness of WASD in isometric view was just poor planning on my part, but all in all thank you so much for testing this game out!
Thank you! I'm an artist by trade so I went with Unreal to avoid coding languages haha. But Unity definitely seems like a more reasonable option for these jams because Unreal engine doesn't support html5 exports from 4.24 on :/
