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Oh man what a beautiful game I really loved this. I’m going to start off by saying that the music was so good and fitting. Please tell me y’all made it because it was just so good. The computer start up sound fills my complete soul so much. Additionally the sound was amazing apart from certain things that you click being very annoying. I wish when clicking on something that plays a sound it would cut out the previous one instead of adding to the chaos. It got particularly annoying on Carl’s website because the hitbox for the fire overlaps the buttons that refresh the page and take you home.

I also love the immense amount of detail and personality on each and every website, and I also love how the game doesn’t take itself too seriously while still invoking a sense of mystery, suspense, and adventure. I think the sound design and music added much to that as well. I love the default jazzy song so much AAAAAAAA it’s so cozy!

Locky is great. Truly the gigachad of the ages except when he is hovering over whatever I need to be reading.

Okay to anybody who hasn’t beat the game (trust me you’ll know when you beat it), the rest of this will have spoilers. Please beat the game.

Okay I really love the note that thrown away in the trashbin is literally just the MC’s scrapped notes of joining a furry rp fourm. I was so prepared thinking that it was some cryptic puzzle but no this kid is just embarrassed lol.

Also why in the world does Carl have the link to Heaven on his webpage?! WTF?! WHO IS THIS GUY!?

I will say it just felt kinda weird that Carl was the only website that showed up when searching stuff in the bar. It’d be nice if the websites that showed up in the popular section at least could be searched for, or perhaps in the theming of parental controls it could be like “Sorry, but that site’s blocked”. That would honestly be pretty funny.

Additionally, I kinda didn’t like that part of the game required exploring beyond the game. It just felt kinda weird… I know some people enjoy it but it just kinda breaks my immersion for me because I’m reminded that I’m playing a game and that that game is loading something in my browser. The nacho videos were absolutely hilarious though. Just wish they could be played through the game instead…

Final nitpick (and trust me these are nitpicks), is that the prompt for “Seen anything strange?” not doing anything when you haven’t seen anything strange. I kinda wish it had a response like “Liar”. The “we don’t take donations unless they are screened for radiation” line had me in tears man. I love subtle parodies like this.

Back to the good stuff, using the water bucket to put out Carl’s fires was also very cute. That was such an aha moment for me. Like I was so confused and I was like… Wait… Fire… So much fire… Carl Daly’s Car Retail!!!!!

I LOVE THE WRITING IN THIS GAME AAAAAAAAAAA

I hope you get Carl’s voice mails I put a lot of passion into mine.

Edit: If anything y’all should be proud that y’all made a game where when I got stuck I wanted to continue. For hours. And that’s not something I can say really about any of the games I’ve played for this jam.

Oooo okay!

Aww thank you! Yeah this game suffered a lot from “I really want to add the whole entire world with all the little details I had in mind” syndrome.

What a fun lil’ immensely disturbing game! Genuinely made me really uncomfy playing it.

Thank you!

What a silly lil’ game. I love how everything starts to spasm out especially with the addition of jets.

What a…

Not so fast guy.

Very fun! My favorite was when the frame would move around. That was the most panic inducing.

Yeah I’m totally stuck. My plan at this point was to literally call 928-433-CARL but I doubt that’s the solution. If you could give me a hint or something that’d be nice.

I loved this game so. Much. I haven’t rated it yet though because I haven’t beaten it and I WANT to. I’m just stuck at good ol’ Carl Daly’s website and have no idea how to progress. Perhaps a good nights sleep will help idk. When I beat the game I’ll say more but dang this game is immersive.

I is confusion

I do enjoy the 2d-3d graphics. Why is the squirrel so squished? I found that pretty funny in an enjoyable way.

Yayyy thanks!

This is a phenomenal game. I love this concept, where the fact that the only stimulating option is to hold space but the more you do so the character’s you want to see reactions to start to panic more and your heart starts to sink and AAAA this is so cool!

I totally understand. I’ve experienced similar troubles with stupid bugs making chunks of game inaccessible because I was too ambitious with adding more content. Idk if that’s the case with y’all but if it is I feel ya.

Man I don’t want to rate this game yet because I can’t start on it but I loveee the intro so much. The atmosphere is so good. Unfortunately I’ve tried the browser, v4 windows, and v3 windows and everything seems to crash after the cutscene. I’m gonna follow y’all ’cause I really want to play a fixed version after the jam.

Very fun! I love this concept of just rapidly switching between weapons. A quick note is that because Unity already supports full screen you shouldn’t have to add that option in the itch page. That option kinda causes some problems.

This is perhaps the most cinema cine has ever ma’ed.

Yay thanks I’m quite proud of the designs of the areas and stuff. A lot of the realistic images (like tables) are made with lots of sprites, like a ton of wood textures and gradients overlaying them.

Thank you! Definitely needed a little bit more time in the oven, but it makes me happy you enjoyed the cutscenes :)!

This game is so fun and weird and cool. At first I debated if the fact that bombs could kill you was a bad thing, but there is something so energizing about accidentally not throwing the bomb that hard and having to figure out where to run so you don’t lose all your progress. The one thing I didn’t like was the background music :/, too repetitive and didn’t really felt like it fit the vibe of handling lethal explosives. Other than that amazing job for your first ever game! (Even if this was like your 5th or 10th game it’d be really cool)

Yay I win! Simple but enjoyable. I really love the introduction of the ghosts I wasn’t expecting that.

Man the dialogue at the start is really fun, and the camera switching to the mimic was really cool. I think the game suffers a little from “too hard syndrome” (not that I would know anything about that haha), but I do love this idea of mimi trying to become a good mimic.

This is such a fun concept! I really enjoy the drowning animation, and the fact that life insurance shows up as an option while you’re doing so. That made me laugh. I’d also get stuck jumping from the boat because when I’d angle myself above the boat my guy would try to go super fast up.

I really love the vibe of the escape scene. After that though it always seems to bug out when I die in combat. This concept is fun though and I was thoroughly shocked when there was more beyond the burning building. The animations are awesome and the music is awesome. Who made the music?

Oh yeah you are meant to lose the tutorial don’t worry! Honestly this project suffers a lot from over ambition (mostly on my end lol) so I’ve definitely failed at making certain things clear. Unfortunately because of a dumb mistake I made (setting a 3 to a 4) the game is impossible to beat. But I’m happy you checked it out.

Truly a tragedy

LAST MINUTE REVIEW:

Really silly, I love and hate those dust bunnies so much. The hand hovering over the object you are interacting with to carry it was also very funny to me. Runs pretty smoothly when not full screened, but for some reason full screen makes things super laggy. My main complaint is that you have to drop the vacuum to pick up other things, when I feel like it’d be more fun if you had the vacuum at all times seeing as there are so many dust bunnies.

Very fun! Very silly!

Really enjoyed this! The world and sound and music is so pretty, and creating tiles of land is really fun and mind numbingly relaxing (which is a good thing to be clear). I am also a little curious about who we are as the player in this flooded world. It’d be cool to expand on that story a little bit with possibly more relics and debris that give an impression of this past world.

Really enjoyed the art and thumbnail. I’m curious what this game is supposed to be about in general. My head canon is that the kid is trying to ascend to a cleaner room so they don’t have to clean their real one but the roaches are grounding them back into reality - preventing them from taking any shortcuts.

Art is soooo prettyyyyyy.

I might just be impatient but the plants do grow kinda slow. The music when outside the garden also feels a bit out of place. However I do love the choice of music for inside the greenhouse. It gives “off to another day’s work vibes”, while the other song gives “Together we can thrive™ PSA vibes”. Honestly I feel like having no music outside, and just having some birds chirping and wind blowing would be awesome I think.

Also I soft locked myself my first time playing because I bought two carrots with my $30 and had no more money left for soil.

But again, did I mention how pretty the art is? I did?! Well I’ll say it again cause I love the art so much lol. I love the fuzziness of it all. It makes everything feel so huggable and thus cozy. The backgrounds especially are so pretty.

Very not cozy spring vibes lol. Honestly I was a little bit confused on what exactly my goal was other than explore. The world is so weird and buggy it’s hard to tell what is meant to be that way and isn’t and it’s such an interesting/surreal vibe. I will say I think the music is too…. Well-defined for the game, even considering it’s supposed to feel off. Even if it was bit crushed a little I think it would feel a little bit more in line with the world. Also I love that guy in the middle of the field. Dance on my man.

I love this concept so much. The visuals and music are also so fun and spectacular, and in that department the game is very polished. The light blue corn is so op lol. I don’t know if it was intended that each of the three times you hit it you get 15 corn.

The sound design is so calming and relaxing, and the art is pretty cute! There are so many ducks I feel like I’m starting some sort of empire lol. The shop is a little interesting however. When paying for the duck upgrades for example it would upgrade one at a time instead of the upgrade I actually purchased. So when I got gold ducks they were blue :(

Other then that, good job!

I’m so happy you enjoyed it so much!!!!!!! Unfortunately I’m gonna have to reject your request to make a game together, but again it makes me very happy you enjoyed it.

Little game SHOCKS world by getting BIGGER and STRONGER.

Thanks for playing it anyways! I’m glad you found it funny despite not being able to understand a lot of it. Means I’m doing something right in the presentation of things. :)

That’s the secret they don’t teach you in school.

Such a great father

Thank youuuu! I love the cube controls and wish I had more time to make an environment where you got to play around with them a little bit more.