Got a high score of 112100. This is awesome (especially for a one day jam, like what!). It's addictive in the best way possible. It looks and sounds so satisfying as well.
Like others have already said though, enemies can spawn on you resulting in a lot of situations where loosing hp feels impossible and while the effects are really satisfying, they are also really distracting and can make it hard to tell what's going on.
Finally got round to playing this! I love the really relaxing atmosphere as you go treasure hunting, and I love this interpretation of the theme, definitely a well deserved victory
Really intriguing atmosphere. The contrast between the quiet and isolating ship and the light speed stuff is great. I just wish there was lore though, it's hard to play this without wondering why you're there
The atmosphere in this is very well done with great sound design and art and I enjoyed the game play a lot as well. It involved a fun mix of reaction times, resource management routing and exploration in such a simple game which is really impressive.
There are two minor things that I didn't like, one being the fact that the camera trails behind you where it would be much more useful to be centered on the play or to trail in front of them so you can see where you're going better and so you have more time to react to the faces spawning just off screen in front of you.
The other thing is the fact that sanity seems to be spent whenever you swap between light and dark modes, but you're forced to leave dark mode whenever a face spawns in front of you means that winning can sometimes feel like it's a little bit in the hands of the rng behind where the faces spawn. As you can lose a lot of your sanity because the faces decide to block the same corridor you need to go down 4 times in a row.
But at the same time I feel like these things may just be personal preference, the limited camera view in front of you can create good moments testing you're reaction speed for instance. I enjoyed the game a lot and I think it is scoped perfectly for a week long jam
Only nitpick I have is that I would recommend looking into input buffering and coyote time next time you make a platformer, the lack of those mechanics in this game is very noticeable because of the difficulty (and the fact that the hour glasses only re-spawn if you hit the wall not if you hit the ground)
But I enjoyed it overall, loved the cute art and the level design was very fun
This is a cool way to interpret the theme, and a pretty ambitious game to pull of in a week and visually the game looks really good.
However I didn't enjoy this game that much because of lots of little problems and bugs that added up. The trades didn't work for me sometimes when I had the right resources, it's annoying to get stuck in ores when traversing the world on the bike, mining ore doesn't feel fun to me, the music doesn't loop. I got soft locked out of interacting with shops and the bike after one of my deaths (and the dust meter stopped filling when this happened too).
While I didn't enjoy the game as is, I'm sure others will, and it's really impressive how much you have done in a week while working solo and I think if you had more time to work on it, the game could become something really cool.
The presentation and story telling in this is actually beautiful, like it's a really simple story but it still moved me which is something I would never expect from a game made in three days and the desolate and bleak atmosphere fits well with it.
A minor nitpick I have with the game play is that I wished movement inputs were buffered, it feels frustrating to press a button to quickly move out the way of a seal only for the input to get eaten and then the seal to hit you.
But other than that the quality of this is incredibly impressive for the time scale
Really enjoyed this one, love the humour, One mild nitpick I had was I wish the camera was centered ahead of Santa so you can see more of what's in front of you. But overall I was won over by the charm on this one
Really fun game! Love the addition of keeping track of everyone's high scores. I had some performance issues running it on my browser though but it was still fun to play despite that
Fun experiance! The puzzles were really fun! I felt really smart for solving a bunch of them. The art and the atmosphere are really well done, and even the way the itch page is written/designed helps draw you into the world.
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I got through everything relatively smoothly until I got the third report. Had to watch a guide to figure out what the solution to that was. I might have been able to solve the final puzzle but the "clock" hint was a little too cryptic for me personally. Maybe if the lobby clock was in base 10 it would have been easy to notice that your clock was wrong which is clearly a hint, but the reason to the time difference wouldn't be obvious at first.
The upgrades have actual art attatched now, awsome! Also while I like my loadout idea, I do admitt this way is gonna make it much easier for future devs to work on game and balance it properly. Well done!
As a 3rd time jammer, yeah this one seems especially tough. It's supposed to be for fun though and no one finds burn out fun. Remeber to take brakes or even skip days if you need to.
