Well done all! The music, art and writing all worked really well together.
Small bug I ran into: a House tooltip got stuck and persisted at the bottom of my screen even after a battle and moving to the next village. It meant that I couldn't see what I was hovering over any longer.
Really enjoyed your game! The cats are so cute (and infuriating!) The fishing mini-game reminded me of stardew valley.
Minor feedback if you want to continue development:
I tried entering another house and my bucket got dropped in a way that I couldn't reach it.
I think having an NPC at the market that buys your fish would be more intuitive than going up to an empty stall.
The cat aspect is fun, but I didn't like that they also stole fish you were carrying so easily - made it feel like a waste of time chasing the cats sometimes.
Fishing was hard at first because the tutoral kept interuptting/getting in the way. I think the gauge starting before any fish appear was confusing.
When I had 3 lines, it was unclear at first that I was only bringing in 1 fish — didn't realize I needed more inventory.
Absolutely loved this! I have done this very thing on many beaches throughout my life. I felt like my strategy was unbeatable and started experimenting but still made it 775. I liked how the waves kept coming while you're shopping. Small niptick: the sand bar maybe would be better on the left side so it doesn't potentially block the shop guy.
Nice work! I don't know if was intentional but I got a rock-paper-scissors vibe with the units. I'm not usually a fan of tower defense type games but that was fun!
Nice, high-energy entry! Sharing some feedback because I think it's helpful in gamejams.
What I liked:
Added effects in dialogue to make it interesting
How you incorporated the Buh Ba Bam! title
Getting the player playing quickly (as the thief)
The combats were well balanced once I got the hang of all the mechanics
What might make it even better:
I felt overwhelmed by the tutorials and combat mechanics — perhaps you could delay introducing the boosting aspect or other elements until later
I lost interest during the lengthy dialogue after the thief part... I felt like it turned into a visual novel and that wasn't what I was expecting. Once Episode 1 actually started, I enjoyed it more.
Just to be clear: you want to delete the files from the deployed game folder (not your original one). I described the process over here if you want more detail.
One thing that we ran into with our game was itch throwing an error on upload because we had > 1000 files. Just in case other people encounter this, here's how we worked around it:
in step 1, make sure you select "Exclude unused files"
in step 2, before you create the zip of your deployed game folder, delete anything unused that got missed, including any .json files saved from the character generator (we had a lot of these, and they're not necessary to run the game)
Fun game! I probably prefer a variety of levels in tower defense games, but the simplicity works in this case.
One small issue I ran into: if you completely run out of coins, you can't do anything and the enemies just wander around the chest, rarely damaging it. Felt a little anti-climactic.
