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A nice polished typing game.

The first time I played I definitely missed some mechanics, so I wonder if the explanation page should go before the game play rather than after you lose. But I can see the appeal of throwing the player into the action. But before I saw it I assumed you had to type the last word in the chain, rather than any word, and didn't realize you can get rid of words by making color chains.

I think the use of the limitation might be a little weak. It almost feels like while playing you are destroying the bad thoughts not injecting them. The text outside of the game says I am injecting bad thoughts to control the game but when I play it I type them and the pop like I destroyed them. Combine that with the upbeat music and it feels like a game about overcoming your negative feelings, rather than brainwashing someone.

Overall an enjoyable jam entry.

Fun incremental growth game.

I like how the viruses are cute little guys while the cells look like an animated biology textbook. It works together well to give it personality, but also a realistic vibe.

Some music would be nice but the sound effects were good.

The ending was a bit anti-climactic and it might have been fun to see a cataclysmic failure of the host or fight against an immune system but these are both reasonable limitations for game jam scope.

Overall an enjoyable game jam entry

The characters are cute, I especially like the dark wizards who just shoot people with guns.

I would appreciate some tooltips or UI elements telling me the stat of the units I can build and what the various timers in the UI mean. I did get some impression from gameplay that skeleton = weak tank, imp = weak dps, mage = strong dps, golem =  strong tank. At the start of the game I spammed a lot of skeletons and at the end I spammed a lot of mages.

The music is grating, I turned it off. Its nice you can turn it off, but slightly annoying that opening the menu automatically pauses the sound, which makes it hard to adjust volume properly (in this case it didn't matter because I just wanted it off). The sound effects are much better than the music.

The core gameplay of overwhelming your enemy with units and snowballing more territory into more money is fun. I do think the 5x5 grids slightly overstays its welcome compared to the amount of novel gameplay. But not by too much and I did complete the game.

I restarted at the end to see how different the map would be. I noticed you can get dramatically different numbers of plain fields (the easy area that gives one gold). Given that the only time you are at risk of losing is at the start before you establish a foothold any map with few fields will be a lot more difficult.

Overall a solid game jam entry.

Clever puzzle game with a nice use of the limitation. 

I think the time limit could be a bit more generous and it would be nice if you could go back only one attempt in the 4 puzzle as it starts to get tedious to redo 3 different routes just because you made a mechanical error on the 4th. Unfortunately I hit escape (or something) on the 4 puzzle and the game turned grey and wouldn't let me continue so that as far as I got.

The visuals are functional. They work well from the game and don't take away form its gameplay but don't rise to the level of making me want to play the game because of the visuals.

Overall an excellent jam entry.

Clever puzzle game with a nice use of the limitation. 

I think the time limit could be a bit more generous and it would be nice if you could go back only one attempt in the 4 puzzle as it starts to get tedious to redo 3 different routes just because you made a mechanical error on the 4th. Unfortunately I hit escape (or something) on the 4 puzzle and the game turned grey and wouldn't let me continue so that as far as I got.

The visuals are functional. They work well from the game and don't take away form its gameplay but don't rise to the level of making me want to play the game because of the visuals.

Overall an excellent jam entry.

Thanks for the feedback.

Very Solid

Things I liked

• Graphics are polished.
• Nice style with mostly 2D style in a 3D environment
• Intro is fast paced an easy to follow

Issues I encountered

• Tiny bug but when I put my cursor over the X in the merchant menu it reverted to a regular system cursor
• The text on Mirror Shot was a bit hard to parse

Things I didn't like

• It would be nice if different towers had different art (I know that would bee a lot of extra assets and may be out of scope)
• The amount of inventory management I did was significantly more than the amount of inventory management I would like to do.
• Maybe getting less, but cooler stuff. Eg hammers with much more drastic effects, but less frequent.

I would recommend adding instructions to the game page as it isn't obvious how the game works.

If I understood correctly the idea is to survive a certain amount of time and you can roll which may create more hazards and may create more useful things like health. That idea seems neat and fits the theme of the jam well.

The game has a nice cohesive feel.

As an asset pack addict, its super impressive that you made all the assets yourself.

The biggest issue is that it feels padded out. Given the limited amount of unique content, which is 100% understandable in a game jam, the levels overstay their welcome, lasting too long and becoming boring. I think it would be better served by simply reducing the repetition in each level so they are shorter.

The second main issue is that shields seem too generous. I can AFK in certain parts of the screen and my shield will just block all damage. The regen rate should probably be slower.

But overall, it's a well-done game and captures that arcade feeling.

Good work.

This game has great style and art assets.

The menu is beautiful and nicely animated.

I did run into a few issues. First the player character doesn't always face the right direction. The math for choosing which sprite to use seems a bit off.

Audio wise, I would prefer that the scream be used a bit more sparingly.

The tactical mode required me to read a lot of text to use and seems a bit awkwardly integrated into the rest of the game, which is otherwise intuitive if somewhat repetative.

This is a neat and polished game.

The biggest issue is that unless you maximize the window, the upgrade bar might not show up, which makes it easy to miss out on the mechanic entirely. It might be fixable by messing with the viewport settings in itch.io

Balance wise, bounciness seems like the most dangerous upgrade. I was able to get to the point where all upgrades were fully maxed out without upgrading bounciness once without much trouble. Once I got that first bounce, I was almost immediately deleted.

Good work.

The game has a neat theme and the minigames are fun and thematically neat.

My main criticism is with the UI. The transparency makes it harder to read and doesn't add much IMO. Also while explaining the mechanics for each game once is great, it quickly becomes repetitive. Once a player successfully completes a certain minigame, they shouldn't need it to be explained to them again.

I did run into an audio bug a few times where sound effects got stuck in loops. This occurred first in the leaderboard at the end and occurred in the WebGL build (I have not tried the desktop version)

Thanks for playing! Glad you had fun.

From the feedback I have been getting it definitely sounds like the player needs some more navigation tools for level 2. Also, level 2 might just be a bit too big  and desolate for its own good. 

Things I liked

• Great environment design
• Neat particle effects

Room for improvement

• Gameplay was a bit confusing.
• Once I figured out how it worked, it was a bit tedius to do the same plateforming several times over because I had to die then respawn to progress.

Glad you liked it.

I had to scale the grass a bit oddly to prevent random holes from appearing in it when the player moves. Might be making it look a bit off.

Thanks for playing.

I am planning to add a compass that points the player towards bosses next.

Things I liked

• Good number of platformer mechanics with no bugs I could see.
• Lots of levels.

Opportunities for improvement

• The elevator platforms stand still for too long, which makes them a bit boring to wait for.
• The rules for whether the ghost can go through laser doors seem inconsistent, sometimes it can sometimes it can't

Things I liked

• Art is nice. I especially like the tileset at the beginning of the level.
• Cinematics were cute

Opportunities for improvement

• Had a fair number of bugs.
• Enemy projectiles moved a bit too fast causing frequent deaths
• No checkpoints (might not be needed if the enemies were less murderous).

Things I liked

• Nice fever dream aesthetic
• Gameplay is neat.

Opportunities for improvement

• Shouldn't it be Seppuku not Sudoku? Or is that deliberate and I am just being obtuse?
• Fire guys seem a lot better than exploding guys, even given the higher price.
• It wasn't initially intuitive that I needed to manually control my "tower" guys. Had pop out of the game and read the description.

Things I liked

• Neat visuals from simple meshes
• Gameplay is simple but fun.
• Transitions into ending scene before the gameplay overstays its welcome.

Opportunities for improvement

• Made me a bit dizzy while playing it, might be worse for people prone to simulation sickness.

Things I liked

• Visuals are excellent.
• Feels polished for a jam game, I didn't notice any bugs.
• Overall, very well executed.

Opportunities for improvement

• The difficulty ramps up a bit too slowly.  There were quite a few waves that felt too easy before the challenging ones came.

Things I liked

• Elegant and consistent art style
• Nice looking UI
• Gameplay worked smoothly with no bugs

Opportunities for improvement

• A single bullet killed multiple enemies, making staying alive a bit too easy.
• After enough waves it gets a bit too repetitive, some enemy variety would be nice.

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Great voice acting and a spooky atmosphere. The voice actor sounds very calm and collected which is kind of odd for a horror game.

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Upload says its missing UnityPlayer.dll Might want to upload it as a zip with all the needed files.

When I try to run KeepingTabs.exe it asks me about a missing .pck file. Are you missing the game data files?

Ok, I updated to love 0.9.2 and the game ran just fine.

It was a very nice game and quite a bit of fun. It feels quite polished for a game jam game. A few thinks I noticed while playing.

It took me a minute to tell the difference between walls and unseen areas. Perhaps some visual distinction would be useful?

While running into dead ends with a horde of zomboids behind you can be exciting it also seems like getting far is a matter of lucky navigation. Perhaps some way of hinting towards the right direction would be a good mechanic. Footprints? Bloodstains?

Neat and interesting game although the mechanics seemed a big opaque at first (maybe that's just me). Definitely one of the more polished games in the AI game jam.

This is very neat. It would be nice if you could download individual faces as images. I think they would make good forum avatars or game characters (If you are willing to allow people to use them in such ways).

Hello I am attempting to play and give feedback to the other games in the AI game jam.

When I attempt to play this in Ubnutnu Linux version 14.04 and Love version 0.8.0 (default version in software center) I get an error message.

The error message reads

main.lua: 80: attempt to call field 'setDefaultFilter' (a nill value)

I am not sure if this is a problem with my system or the game. Do I need a different version of love?