such are my machinations >:) def check back after the second leg of the jam, I will have pre-set event times so that there are more people online at once :3
It was so so so cool to see everyone playing at the same time, and the impromptu hide and seek is 10000% the kind of thing I was hoping for! The nonverbal communication and making up games is EXACTLY the vibe haha
Thanks!!!! for featuring me and for all the feedback that brought me, it's SUPER helpful towards knowing what to focus on going forwards :)) ❤️
Hi thanks so much for playing!!!! I was in the stream but didn't have audio, im def gonna watch back through and take notes :3 It made me SO happy to see so many ppl online at once !!! 🥰
and, yeah I actually have a whole different design I'm implementing rn for the accessories! What is there right now is really just a placeholder so that you can change the accessories at all haha 👍
also yaa im def going to try to balance against the "never change weapons"/"just use rocket launcher" issues,,, but well see if i continue this one :)))
The animations are CRAZY good !!!! And it's a fun concept, although it's a little jarring that it just quietly starts over when you die. It feels like an old flash game to me, especially with the squelchy splash sound effect in the screen transitions!
unfortunately I couldn't figure out a way to make it work as an actual game 😅 I'll probably just take what I learned forwards to other projects instead :)
This is really good! I really like how ominous the fog is, and the cool shader crunchiness you get sometimes (like those weird parallel bars that appear on things as they come out of the fog), and the running function. You did a good job!! :)
Criticisms:
The mouse's position wasn't locked, so I had to spin to reset myself a couple of times haha. This also made it a bit awkward to interact with things, because that was based on the facing, but I intuitively was trying to click on things not in the center of the screen. Just a little UX thing to think about
It wasn't immediately clear that hitting the ores was doing anything, it might help with readability to add particle effects or cracks on the ores. u might have already included sounds but i had it muted so i couldnt tell oops
that other one was the last point ,itch just wont let me delete this bullet point 😭
edit bc i also realized: all ur itch pages just have hte default formatting! It goes a long way to even just set the colors or add some cover graphics, also you can request access to change everything's css if u didn't know! Thats how ppl kinda go nuts w it lol
and, the world generation is really simple actually! It's just: at each point in a square grid, generate some objects with random probabilities, then put things (spikes, milk) on top of it if it's a block. Oh, and it also has conditionals to make everything become more sparse at the edges and to have a more open top and more closed bottom half. Not sure if that actually explains it at all haha
This one was really fun!!!!! It has a bit of the same kind of sparkle that Link To The Past has... I really enjoyed exploring, seeing things I couldn't interact with yet, and then finding out what they were for later :) I just wish it had more areas and more things... Oh and the dialog was really charming!
