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Unfortunately, Discord is not accessible in my country. Because of this, I’m unable to join your Discord server. However, I have subscribed to your YouTube channel and I truly support your work. I live in Turkey, and this situation is outside of my control.

During the jam, I will regularly follow your YouTube livestreams and the itch.io page, and I will make sure not to miss any important announcements.

I would also like to briefly share my situation. My main computer is currently broken, and continuing game development on an old machine will be quite challenging for me. Receiving the reward would help me repair my PC and continue my work properly.

I apologize if this message causes any inconvenience. Thank you very much for your time and understanding. I appreciate your decision, whatever it may be.

I played your game and it was very enjoyable. The character animations looked really good, and the character details were also very well done. Unfortunately, I didn’t have enough time to finish it, but I still had a lot of fun during the time I played. If you try my game as well, I would truly appreciate it.

https://itch.io/jam/metroidvania-month-30/rate/4120574

Wow! I played your game and it was so much fun that I didn’t even realize how time passed. Sometimes my computer makes a lot of noise, and I usually put on my headphones so it doesn’t bother me, but the game was so enjoyable—especially swinging with the rope like Spider-Man—that I didn’t even notice the sound at all. If you have time, it would make me really happy if you played my game too.

https://itch.io/jam/metroidvania-month-30/rate/4120574

Thank you very much for your feedback and for taking the time to share constructive criticism. I truly appreciate it.

The points you mentioned are very valuable to me, and in my next project I will pay much more attention to hooking the player within the first few seconds.

I’m sorry for the bugs and issues you encountered. I developed this game on my own, and unfortunately I wasn’t able to test every part thoroughly, so some problems were missed or couldn’t be fixed in time.

From what I understand, you may not have spent a very long time with the game. This game is designed to slowly open up with new enemies and mechanics. If you didn’t feel like continuing, that’s completely understandable and simply means the game might not fit your personal taste. Still, your feedback is extremely helpful to me.

I also noticed some movement-related bugs after the game jam submission period ended. If you encounter them, restarting the game will continue from the last save point.

You can return to the save point by pressing R, and delete save files with Ctrl + R.

I hope you continue playing and enjoy the game.

I’m also sorry about the sound and music — due to time constraints near the deadline, I wasn’t able to include audio at the quality I wanted.

Merhaba, oyununuzu denedim. Kontroller ve kamera biraz sorunlu geldi, ancak 3D bir oyun için bu aslında normal—özellikle de bir oyun geliştirme yarışması için hızlıca yapılmışsa.
Bunun dışında, aksiyon harika ve eğlenceliydi ve dürüst olmak gerekirse, hikaye de fena değildi.
Vaktiniz varsa, oyunumu da denemenizi ve geri bildirimlerinizi paylaşmanızı rica ederim, bu gerçekten gelişmeme yardımcı olur. https://itch.io/jam/metroidvania-month-30/rate/4120574

Öncelikle, oyunu sonuna kadar oynadığınız ve bu kadar detaylı ve faydalı bir inceleme yazdığınız için çok teşekkür ederim. Beni gerçekten çok mutlu ettiniz - okurken neredeyse mutluluktan ağladığımı söylerken abartmıyorum.

Oyundaki sorunlar için özür dilerim. Oyunu tamamen kendi başıma geliştirdim ve maalesef düzgün bir şekilde test edecek kimsem yoktu, bu yüzden bazı sorunların gözden kaçması kaçınılmazdı. Anlayışınız için teşekkür ederim. Geri bildiriminiz benim için gerçekten öğretici oldu ve bir sonraki projemde çok daha dikkatli olacağım.

Görseller konusunda, özellikle arka planlar ve kayalar konusunda kesinlikle haklısınız. Bazı kısımları aceleye getirdim, bu da oyunun biraz fazla sade ve sıradan görünmesine neden oldu. Notlarınızı ciddiye aldım ve gelecekte buna çok daha fazla dikkat edeceğim. Sırt çantasına gelince, insanların bu kadar beğeneceğini gerçekten düşünmemiştim, bu yüzden bu fikri beğendiğinize çok sevindim.

Kombo bekleme süresi ve ileri ivme hakkındaki görüşleriniz de tamamen haklı. Geriye dönüp baktığımda, bu tasarım kararlarından bazılarını ben de sorguluyorum. Daha iyi çözümler kesinlikle mümkündü, ancak zaman çok kısıtlıydı. Ses efektlerinin olmaması da zaman kısıtlamalarından kaynaklanıyor; kötü sesler yerine hiç ses olmamasını tercih ettim. Ancak, nasıl hissettirdiğini görmek için kesinlikle geri tepme eklemeyi deneyeceğim.

Zorluk konusuna gelince, yine haklısınız. Seviyeleri tasarlarken kuralım "eğer ben yenebiliyorsam, tamamlanmıştır" şeklindeydi, ki şimdi bunun bir hata olduğunu anlıyorum. Ayrıca, geliştirme aşamasında Super Meat Boy oynamamın zorluğu istemeden etkilemiş olabileceğini de itiraf etmeliyim 🙂 Zıplama hassasiyeti sorununun farkındaydım, ancak o zamanlar kötü bir tasarım kararı vermiştim ve bunu gelecekte düzelteceğimden emin olabilirsiniz.(I’m sorry that some sections felt like they came straight out of a ROM hack game. Some of those sections were unintentionally unfair due to my inexperience, and this is something I’ve learned a lot from and won’t repeat in future projects.)

Soldaki sonsuz boşluk aslında daha fazla içeriğe yol açmak için tasarlanmıştı, ancak ne yazık ki zamanım yetmedi. Sonun kendisi de aslında tam anlamıyla bir son değil; devamı çok fazla geri dönüş ve tekrar içeriyordu ve hikaye bitirmeye değer olacak kadar güçlü değildi. Bu yüzden orada durmak dürüstçe söylemek gerekirse yanlış bir karar değildi.

Tekrar teşekkür ederim. Bu yorum benim için herhangi bir ödülden daha değerli. Oyunumu oynamak ve bu kadar düşünceli geri bildirim paylaşmak için zaman ayırmanız benim için inanılmaz derecede önemli.

Hi everyone,

I want to share something I realized during this game jam, because there might be others like me who didn’t notice it at first.

I understood my mistake in this jam, and I want to explain it so you don’t make the same one.

First: don’t start your game without guidance or a tutorial — even a very simple one. Like in my jam game, nothing was clear at the beginning.

No matter what you do, show the best thing you made as early as possible. Literally tell it to the player through gameplay.

For example: I made a 4-hit combo combat system (left click combo with 4 animations). But in my game, this almost doesn’t exist in the first 5 minutes.

Please don’t do this mistake.

Use the thing you are best at, the thing that is the most fun, right at the start of the game to hook the player.

This is my advice. I hope it helps someone.

I don’t want to be misunderstood — I’m not blaming anyone. No one told me this before, and now I realize that maybe many players didn’t even know my game had combat at all, so they couldn’t finish it.

Maybe no one told me this, but now I’m telling you.
Maybe I saved you from realizing this much later.

Thanks for reading until the end.

I looked for a team but I could never find one. I’ve always made games alone and I never had a team. I can’t use Discord because it’s not available in my country. You’ll see — on my own, I will make a game much better than yours. This is what revenge means.

Merhaba, benim de 2 yıllık Godot deneyimim var ve piksel sanatım gerçekten iyi. Ama sorun şu ki Discord kullanamıyorum. Hâlâ bir ekip bulamadıysanız veya zaten bir ekibiniz varsa, Gmail üzerinden iletişim kurmamız şartıyla beni ekibinize ekleyebilir misiniz?

karaoglanh478@gmail.com

Hello, which game engine are you using? If it’s Godot, I can do 2D pixel art, but due to some issues, we can communicate via Gmail.

I'm using Godot Engine 4.4.1, and while my game was working exactly as I wanted yesterday, today it says there's a JSON format error — even though I haven't made any changes. The AI that was functioning perfectly yesterday is now showing a JSON format error.
Was there some kind of update that I missed?Please help me. If this error continues, all my hard work will be wasted. I'm on the verge of crying. Am I the only one experiencing this error? At least someone tell me, "I'm not getting this error," so I can be sure the problem is in my own code and try to fix it.

Please help me. If this error continues, all my hard work will be wasted. I'm on the verge of crying. Am I the only one experiencing this error? At least someone tell me, "I'm not getting this error," so I can be sure the problem is in my own code and try to fix it.

I'm using Godot Engine 4.4.1, and while my game was working exactly as I wanted yesterday, today it's giving me an error saying there's an issue with the JSON format. I haven't made any changes, but the AI that was working perfectly yesterday is now showing a JSON format error. Was there an update or something that I wasn't aware of?

Thank you! I really had a lot of bugs in my game, so this extension gave me a bit of relief. But to be honest, when you said “so many amazing projects,” I got a little scared 😅 — still, it just made me even more determined to improve mine!

Hello, if you are going to make a 2D game, I can do the art, but since there is no discord in our country, you can send the files via e-mail or I can contact you. https://yusufdark.itch.io/the-nightingale-and-the-rose. My pixel art is good.

Yes, you can be sure it's mine

There shouldn't have been any issues. Where exactly did you get stuck? But if you want, I can send you a full gameplay video of the game, or you can just tell me where you're stuck. I’d really like you to see the ending.

Thank you! I tried my best to polish it as much as I could.

Thank you so much for your support. I did my best and tried to create something that won’t feel like a waste of time.

Thank you so much for playing it all the way through. I admit that the ending is technically bad — I didn’t sleep to finish it on time.

It's a really good game. I wish I could try something like this.

The pixel art was very good. The music was relaxing and the game was fun. I wish you had put a little more effort into it. It's a really good game.

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