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This was fantastic; the art was terrific, the sound was eerie, the slow progression of the house decay and the eye peeking at me the entire time were all fantastic. My only critique, and it's barely a critique would be the inability to go back the way you came. Still, I can see that's probably because the deterioration depended on your continuing to go right. It cracked me up because it made me think of Zoolander's, "I'm not an ambi-turner; I can't turn left, okay!"

This was insanely good. I can see a lot of potential in this! I would love to see this with more polish and personality from the survivors versus monsters! But for the 7-days this is perfect!

Ah, thank you! There is an option to fast forward; you just press space while the text is typing! I should have put that in the instructions. I did notice some tags appearing; I'll have to figure out how to stop that. It's my first time using Inky, and I'm not a programmer so was a bit of a tough one to wrastle. I will definitely be finishing off the sound and art once voting is over.

Hey! I think I've gotten this all fixed, thank you for flagging the issue!

Yes! Same here. I'm hoping to do roughly one a month, so if you have any in mind, message me. I'm .moths. on Discord!

Thank you! It's just a hobby but it's so much fun, I'm going to add some more backgrounds once the voting period is done! :)

I agree it definitely needs sound; I'll be working on adding it after the voting period! I'm not gonna lie though, I've never done sound before so I'm a tiny bit frightened to try haha.

Thank you so much! I'll send through a message if I get permission to try to fix it again, so frustrating it's still broken, I swear I fixed it!

Thank you! I really appreciate that! Gwen's a monster, so I don't blame you, haha; she wasn't too mean, right? I was a bit worried I pushed her too far.

Got dang, I thought I fixed it. Thank you so much for letting me know. I definitely will be adding sound once the game jam voting period ends. Was Gwen too mean? I had some feedback that some would have liked Gwen to be like 2% less mean.

Hey, that's totally okay! I get you, game jams are super stressful, you still did a great job!

Thanks for flagging this, I think I've fixed it as well as another issue flagged by my friend!

Oh that's such a shame, I was really hoping I'd managed to get rid of all of them.

The sound on this is really solid; first game I've seen today that let me adjust everything to my liking! Agree that the wolfsbane acquire was really cool! I also found the fight a bit rough, I died pretty quickly.

Would love to see what you make next or even collab on something though, amazing work!

Love! Rhythm games are fantastic. I love the theming, the name being a play on words, and the vibe with music. The only issue was that the browser version didn't work well, so I downloaded it. The controls are a bit confusing. The keyboard works to an extent, but I had to use my mouse to get the game to start after the opening cutscene. I would LOVE to see some funky backgrounds and theming change as you get a higher score. Ultimately, it's a groovy idea.

I didn't realise that the was a score bar at first because the background was a bit too busy.

I had some issues with the ingredients not moving with the plate; when I tried to move a plate because there was too much to organise, I dragged it into the pink sauce bottle, and the bottle disappeared completely and turned into a pink splat sprite! I also really wish I could make the dialogue type faster. I love the original art assets and am a big fan of cooking management games; I think it's really fun that you combined horror with this concept.

I like that you worked on your art assets yourself. In the future, I would recommend putting your action buttons closer to each other. You want to put them close to where the hand is so people don't have to stretch their fingers too much. Using two hands is fine, but even then, the buttons weren't super clear and the description of what controls did what at the start disappeared a bit too fast for me to read. Overall a great start on your first ever game!

The same thing happened to me! I'm guessing the bar is filled with money because of the electricity bill?

I really like the sound, although I found the walking audio to be a bit grating. I wasn't able to finish the whole game as I found the West Wing a bit frustrating to get through but I really like the graphics and the camera mechanic.

I'm unsure if it bugged out or ended where it did. I like the concept of having a game advise you not to play, very much like the beginning of Clive Barker's Mr. B. Gone, "burn this book," but it didn't go anywhere. I also think that a basic grammar/spelling pass would add a lot of polish!

I kept going left but eventually got attacked by a rat and couldn't do anything except go back to the start, at which point none of the options worked. I also found a rusted pipe but couldn't grab it, which seemed counterintuitive. I love pick-a-path games, but having the directions typed makes it a bit frustrating.

I'm terrible at these types of games so ultimately I couldn't beat it but I love the concept!

I found the building collisions a tad confusing, but I love the concept. The boss dude was super cool to see, and I love that some of the upgrades reflect on your car. I also really like the ground skidding type effect when you make a quick turn. The amount of enemies was doing my laptop in a little but that might just be a hardware issue.

I think the timing delay in selecting the hauntings got a bit frustrating, but I love the concept and the effort that went into adding an interesting mechanic! I also would have loved maybe a few chances at haunting them rather than needing to do it perfectly on the first try.

The audio cutting out was a great tension builder. I feel like the scares were a bit spaced out and I would have liked just a bit more brightness so I can see behind me, even before the lights cut I couldn't see much which took me out of the horror. Overall a really fun concept!

Oops just realised I should have left my comment here:

I really love the visual style of this game! I'm not sure if it was just my laptop, but I was unable to move the camera whenever I was walking. I really like the dialogue sounds and the pixelated effect. 

Thank you so much, I've never uploaded an executable before so I had no idea!