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I don't have the details written down, but whenever I tried to access the store page through the app, it resulted in a blank white screen and an error code. I think it was something like a 503 error, but don't quote me.

There was an issue with the app earlier today. This is probably a remnant of that. However, downloads do work through a browser, at least for me.

I get the same issue regardless of what game I try to install, so it seems to be a fairly broad issue.

This is a very cool project, and very hard :). I really enjoyed it and hope you keep going. I'd love to see more of this(Although I still have some levels to beat!)

I did run into a bug(?) wherein hitting the Escape Key twice(playing on Keyboard) knocked me into what I think was the Picotron editor, where I could view what looked like source code. I couldn't find a way back into the game after this. I genuinely can't tell if this is a bug or an intentional hidden aspect of the game ah-la Doki-Doki Literature Club.

(My sincere apologies if this is totally out of line, feel free to ignore me)

I can only imagine how stressful and frustrating the present situation is, both with the bundle specifically and with the geopolitical state of things generally.  I think a lot of the community is also stressed and frustrated and they can react negatively as well. I think we as a community can get into a negative cycle where we are all lashing out at each other.

At least for me, Pride Month, has always been about community building, and I have nothing but respect for the massive community you have brought together and the huge amount of work you have put into this. And yet, I have been kind of disheartened to see the turmoil and infighting the delay has caused.

We, as a community, absolutely need to give you as the organizers a lot more grace as this gets figured out. You are right. You have volunteered a massive amount of time, and you are not our employee. With that being said and again understanding your very valid reasons for being frustrated and noting that I have no right to ask this, I would none-the-less ask that you give us a bit more grace as well. I really don't think posts venting your (again very fair and valid) frustrations (like in the previous two posts) are good for the health of the community, or for building that sense of togetherness that Pride Month is all about.

On a different but related note, as far as I know, there hasn't been any public movement on your excellent suggestion to celebrate a few projects a day. Is that something that the community could take on in some capacity, to get the ball rolling and get something off your plate?

I have no right to say any of this. I'm not an organizer. I'm not a submitter. I'm just a Queer person out there on the Internet who wants other Queer people to be Healthy, Happy, and Together, and wants this Bundle to succeed. 

I've had a lot of fun scrolling through the list of submissions. A whole bunch seem really cool, and I'm curious what interests everyone else. I'm generally most interested in Physical Games usually TTRPGs and the fuzzy area around them.

One that really seems awesome is The Grizzle by Aleks Samoylov. Something about it reminds me a lot of the West of Loathing Games/Series. Something about the combination of the somewhat dark/horror-ish art combined with some of the sillier mechanics of Skullduggery or playing as a sentient mason jar is a really fun combination that I'm excited to read through more.

Another one I really like the look of is Johnson Ofair's The Lost Bookshop. It describes itself as a game of curation that encourages community engagement as you build your hoard curated collection of books. Overall, its " something to encourage you to explore new books, read widely and build something," which I certainly think I could use a little more of in my life.

Those are just two that caught my eye. 

Are there any that stand out to you? :)

My pleasure! It is far more impressive knowing it was a first(I think) 3d Project! While a bit buggy, it is a fully put together game and is far, far beyond anything I could do :). Great job and I hope your future projects go well!

Hello!

First of all, mad props for participating in the Indie Bundle for Abortion Funds. It is really amazing to see the community band together to deal with these issues.

I'm not really sure if you are fully done with this game and are working on other things, but I have a couple of suggestions and what I hope are constructive criticisms, either for improving this project or for your next one(which I do hope you make because, despite the issues, I did enjoy this).

Firstly, I do really like this style. I think this kind of art is great, especially for this type of game.

Now on to some of the less good, glitches. I got kinda soft-locked basically immediately. I entered the first dungeon and killed the boss before talking to any NPCs or getting the quest to kill the boss. So, when I did get the quest, I couldn't complete it and it locked me out of all of the other quests, so if I suggest something that does exist and was locked behind this(of if I suggest something that exists and I just missed cause I'm dumb), I'm sorry. I also encountered a weird bug where healing potions would(some of the time) only actually heal me after I got hit by an enemy. I would drink a potion, walk around for a while, and only be able to heal when I found an enemy to hit me. Additionally, in the 4th dungeon(which I think was the last) I ran into an area I just couldn't seem to get past as their was a pillar in the way(although I could have just been being dumb or it might have been locked behind a quest).

Now onto the gameplay itself. The game is easy. Like, really, really easy. i got through the first three dungeons and as far as I could into the fourth without dying once. unfortunately, it was not due to any great skill on my part. the combat is very simplistic. i strategy I used was stand still, hit enemies with the heaviest melee weapon  have, and chug a healing potion when necessary. this works 100% of the time. Making the combat more dynamic by adding more movement options like sprinting, a roll, or something would help a lot. so would giving enemies different attacks that can interrupt the player's attacks, and placing a cooldown on healing potions. These changes are mostly designed to prevent the type of cheesy strategy I used for the whole game. 

This strategy was enabled by the economy being broken. I was able to basically spam potions the entire time because money was so easy to come buy due to two factors. First, when I reentered a dungeon after clearing it, the chests respawned but the enemies did not. This was made especially game-breaking because chest dropped tons of copies of items. In the first dungeon, one of the boss chests dropped 5 life amulets(I'm not positive what they were called), which in total could be sold for like 800 gold. Then, since the chests refreshed, i could just reenter the dungeon, sprint to the end due to the lack of enemies, and make a cool 800 in like 20 seconds. This got worse later in the game. In the third dungeon, one chest dropped 6 or 7 demon armors, which together could be sold for over 2000 gold. Since health potions are 20 gold, that's a gain of over 100 potions in 15-20 seconds.

Another thing I would change is the map and camera. One thing I found confusing was that the minimap showed the player moving east to west/vise versa, while from the perspective of the player, they were pretty much moving north and south. this made navigation confusing. This may have been slightly offset by the camera rotation, but this feature was clunky. I suggest removing this, and instead having a fix camera that turns as necessary as the player moves. in addition to helping the camera be less clunky and help with map positioning, it could help hide unfinished areas and prevent the camera from clipping into geometry.

Final weird thing I encountered was with the leveling system. By the time I got stuck in dungeon 4, I was level five. I had gotten to assign four points(all were put in strength for more efficient whacking). I think it was supposed to be two points per level, mostly because everything I had an option to level up, I had two points available. If this is the case(which might not be, in which case, ignore me) then I missed out on four upgrade points. Additionally, at one point, the "number of points available" stat in my character screen was very buggy, and at one point said I had negative one attribute points to spend. The xp bar was also weird. Sometimes it seemed to go down(by best guess for this is something giving me a ton of xp and cycling over to the next level but I am not sure and don't really have proof of this).

While very buggy and despite the fact I didn't really finish it, I enjoyed playing it. i find it especially impressive that you made this with such a small team, I certainly couldn't do it. I hope you go on to make more things and improve, and I really hope some of this was helpful!