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Very clever! There's definitely a deeper kind of puzzle game built into this, and could easily be a popular game if expanded. Very good job!

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You're absolutely right! I totally forgot about shadows. I was going to add them for the flying cars, too, to indicate roughly where they were, doh! Will try to remember to do that in the future, thanks!

I'm using Chrome on a Mac, and I don't believe I was in fullscreen mode, no. Definitely not, actually, because I kept clicking out of the game, which was my silly fault.

Tetris is a classic for a reason. Fun little submission!

I had a lot of trouble using my mouse because it seems the pointer finger and the mouse were offset by ~40 pixels or so, but what I was able to play was pretty fun! Well done.

I had some trouble following it/figuring it out, but neglected to read the nice explanation you provided, so that's on me. :P It's a very cute game! I could see this becoming something really interesting.

I like this! Very cool. Hard to criticize it, hits all the points that I like in a game.

Got through the entire game as far as I can tell, though it doesn't seem to end. The only real criticism I have is the scaling - the little guys don't really scale, and the bosses scale really hard. It ended up not being a problem, and frankly, if that's the only complaint I had, then it must be a pretty good game! :P Well done!

Had to play on web because I have a Mac! Very interesting idea. Had to restart a few times due to bugs, but, aside from a kind of frightening concept for people that have lived through such events, it was interesting! 

Ha! Thanks! And yes, I decided to take three random things and combine them in order to meet the theme criteria: western, futuristic, and fruits. I'm glad that came through!

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Thanks a lot, really kind of you! And yes, I agree that the battles seemed a bit long. We didn't want the player to get so strong they just blew everything away in one go - what fun would that be? But early on, they take a little too long I think. We did plan on having a "dice tray" mechanic that took unused dice from a throw and put them in the tray for some kind of special power, but as you can imagine we did not get around to coding that aspect, as awesome as it sounds.

The strategy is to eventually forge enough combos onto your dice that you can take stuff down faster, but you probably wouldn't see that until much later in a normal game, which I think will likely be 2-3 maps, maybe 4. We certainly didn't have time to make that though during the jam. :)

Thanks again for the kind words!

Great first entry for anyone! Very complete for a first entry, way moreso than my first entry ever was. :P I don't have much to say that hasn't been said already, but great work and would love to see more from you!

Conceptually, I like this a lot! Some of this may sound harsh, but I honestly don't mean it to be: Genuinely, there's a nugget of a game here that I think you could easily hammer into the real thing and sell it on the market. The combination of adding stuff together and getting combos is very interesting and there's a grain of truth to it that could make this game really take off.

I think there's a few things to improve on for this attempt. For one, hand-written stuff can sometimes be charming, but it's much better to just go get a free font and use it, for readability purposes. I like dafont.com for those purposes, just make sure it's a 100% free font so there's no trouble with you using it. At the same time, this would actually have dramatically simplified your game because you wouldn't have had to worry about writing stuff out and turning it into images, which aren't very readable for accessibility sake anyway. But really it's the simplification where it's at, so you could add more cool stuff.

Secondly, instead of stuff just disappearing if you tried to put it into the staging area (or whatever it's called) when there's something already in it, I'd have liked it to just go back to the inventory, perhaps with some kind of indicator that it was not a valid move.

Finally, indicators for the various states of the screen would be really good to add, like "Forge is in-use," "there's a new customer," etc. I think while the timer adds a decent and fun amount of pressure, it might make sense to spread out the customers a little bit and give them some random timings, instead of just one after another, to simulate that there are not adventurers going around all the time, but also at peak time, they can crush you and make it hard to keep up. There's something there, an economy management type of game, and I think you've almost got it!

Very good submission for only your second (or third, never know how to interpret those) GWJ!

I'm a winrar! :P There's one main thing that makes this game a little less enjoyable: no control of the camera. I think if you could just implement that, possibly using this tutorial from KidsCanCode, and get some better graphics and sound going, you'd have a great game! 

https://kidscancode.org/godot_recipes/3.x/2d/touchscreen_camera/index.html - note that in this tutorial, he goes into the project settings and enables "Emulate touch from mouse," a useful tip for also making your game slightly more mobile-ready, where tower defense games are really popular. If you look at my game (this is not meant to get you to rate my game :P), I used the above tutorial to create the moving around the overall map.

Great try, would love to see more from you!

Edit: Something I forgot to mention is that this is an incredible submission for just one person working alone. I've tried to make tower defense games before and they are hard. Very impressive that you submitted this even with the very basic graphics and stuff! 

Art was cool as mentioned before! I did also struggle a bit with the controls, but I could definitely see myself getting used to them, which means this could be a really, really fun game. Good submission!

Thanks, that means a lot to us! We are really proud of it.

Wow! For a first submission, this is incredible! Also very, very difficult. :P Main thing I'd say is a pet peeve of my own, which is to include WASD as valid directional controls - it's easy to do, and helps those of us that don't have arrows on our keyboards (I had to do a remapping for this and a previous game, so it was okay, but still, easy to add in project settings under input). At some point I thought I was really kicking butt, and then I got absolutely nusted and wanted to start again to see how far I could get - that's a great sign for any game!

I can't wait to see more from you! 

Oh, thanks! That really means a lot to us! 

Fun little idea! I think there's a number of improvements that could be made, just going to list a few and hope they're helpful. The game overall had a great idea behind it, very fun conceptually - I love games with mini games like that, especially when the mini games make sense within the context, which as far as I can tell they all did very well. 

But I didn't fully understand what I was supposed to do with most of the mini games. While eventually stuff kind of made sense if I just clicked about randomly, when there are some different mechanisms involved, it's always best to have some kind of explanation, even if it's just on the itch page itself, for how to achieve your goals, or otherwise the point of the game can be lost. 

You can turn on YSort for your scenes very easily; anything that inherits from Node2D has a YSort property on it now, and if you have that, your character only shows up behind things when it is actually behind them, while appearing in front of them when it is supposed to be in front. It takes some tweaking, but hopefully that's a helpful tip for you!

A simpler tip that is perhaps my own pet peeve is to include WASD as up-left-down-right controls in your project settings under the input. It's not hard to do, and can make it easier for some people who don't have arrows on their keyboard to play the game.

Finally, even though there weren't a lot of animations or anything, it's still useful to have your character flip when swapping left/right. The easiest and generally best way to handle that is to look at the sign of your input.x  and do something like this:

var sign_x = sign(input.x)
if sign_x != 0 and sign_x != sprite.scale.x:
  sprite.scale.x = sign_x

This will make it so that it flips left and right, along with any children, such as hit boxes, of your sprite. Note you don't want to flip the physics body around this way as it can cause weirdness in Godot.

Overall, it was an impressive effort for a short period! Several mini games can be really hard to pull off. 

We genuinely appreciate feedback like this, so thank you! One thing to note, in addition to what Gamma has written, is that if the game was longer, you would really feel like you're starting to control the chaos/randomness by forging your dice however you want. As it was, we simply didn't have time to include more maps and such, as I had mistakenly made the map navigation much harder than it needed to be. Thank you for playing though even though you don't think it's for you - I fully understand, and if I didn't know I wanted to have it "eventual controlled chaos," I would be right there with you!

Thanks! The only reason I can think of for a value not sticking is the drop targets were too small. That's good to know and is feedback we'll take and use. 

Thanks a lot, that means a ton to us! We are intending to. We knew we had a runner as we playtested it and just kept playing. :)

Thanks!

Yeah, creating a game in 9 days is no small feat! It's good advice - we'll try to create it in 5 days so we can properly balance things next time.

Thank you so much! Our team is very thankful!

Thanks! Yeah, it's funny, everyone loves tornado, but ice was my favorite too! (Though tornado was more fun to program. 😂) Thanks for playing and the kind words!

Thanks for playing, really appreciate the kind words!

I just get the next integer from a random number generator and put it in there. Everyone knows I GWJ a lot of the time and I haven't kept track. 🤣

Crud! I was going to implement level restarting and completely forgot. My bad! That's a great call-out.

Thanks! I went with the music that reminded me the most of the Rockman theme from FTL, and thought it fit, but for sure it's controversial! And that's cool, I was inspired by Hoplite. 😂 Glad you liked it!

Hard game, but interesting! Make sure to remember to set your scaling to keep and canvas items, and then make sure you set the size of your canvas on itch to be a multiple of your actual resolution, so it expands nicely and is easier to see everything. Generally though the game seems good! Couldn't figure out how to get away from the one guard who chased me and died immediately, but figure that's probably a difficulty tweak that you didn't have time for, since it's such a short time. Great submission for a first-time sub!

Yeah! I wanted to do that but ran out of time. Thanks for playing, appreciate the feedback!

Very cool! Glad you were able to finish this. It plays really well and could be expanded in the future!

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Interesting game! Had some difficulty getting around the rat immediately, but overall the game was pretty fun. I liked the music and while I can't play 3D for long (I get motion-sick easily), this one felt better than most 3D games somehow!

I had quite some difficulty trying to figure out how to make this work. Perhaps it was just my own inability, but I also didn't get any sound, and I'm wondering if I missed too much based on that - not going to rate it for that reason. But it's very, very cool otherwise!

I ran into the same issue as Not-Only But-Also below, where I kept falling through the floor and it caused me a lot of problems that weren't able to be fixed without just refreshing the page. I think conceptually though you have a really sweet game and should definitely develop this into something more if you can. It's good stuff!

Incredibly weird and interesting game! Very abstract while still having a very concrete purpose. Conceptually I loved figuring out how to get around the map and stuff, very cool!