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Hi, I'm glad you brought it up! It's indeed my inspiration for this game. Good catch!

Hi Ivory, very interesting game. I love the physics, music and style. Things are very coherent and fun. For critique though, the 2D claw and 3D environment seems a bit unintuitive for me. But overall a great game, good job! - Frank

Hi Coop, I think there is a problem with your link. When I click on it, it says "Sorry, we couldn’t find that page". And it's interesting that the link says Youtube but it's actually a Vimeo video. I'll watch your playthrough if the link works for me. - Frank

The fact that the prompt only asked for a non-person pov prototype and you delivered a game with this level of completion marks it a very overachieving project! Great job on making this a full game. I think you must've put down a lot of effort in making the camera working due to how you need to deal with quaternion rotations. Good work! - Frank

This is a very fresh perspective, and I love how you turned this game philosophical. Also, the font choice is fantastic -- even though ppl might say it's such a small thing, but I do need to point it out your attention to detail. I did open my eyes the first time playing it, but it didn't ruin the experience at all -- When I realized what you  meant to narrate at the end, it still blew my mind. So great job on that! - Frank

Hi, I think the feeling of swimming in the lake is really nice. And the physics when you hop out of the water is very realistic. However, I do find that if you tilt your camera at a specific angle, you will be able to see the entire under-water stuff without the intended fog/volumetric. But great job overall! -Frank

Thanks for sharing :) I have no idea you can do IK like that! I learned a lot today!

I did notice when you bend the head inside, the lines are straight instead of continuous curves. But still, this is so cool! Thanks for sharing :)

This is absolutely amazing! Thanks for sharing :)))

Hi Nate, I decided to leave a comment here instead of the play page because I saw your conversation with Cooper. I did immediately notice the technical effort you put into this. I've done a similar thing but only via the animation function that Blender has to offer, but limitations such as no physical integrations will apply in my approach. When I saw your spider's leg has physical attributes, I'm in tears.... I hope you see this. Can you share a youtube tutorial or webpage that leads you to this point? Or just talk through the basic workflow to keep my mind unblown! Again, INSANE work! - Frank

Hi, I like this game a lot. I see it as a game of precision and control. I think if you play it two or three times, you will master the mouse control of the cat. Like BlankSlate stated, I also enjoyed 'cat time'. There is this consistent flow of game states present in your work, which is admirable. If I have to give one critical point, it would be that the spawning of the cucumber is too random, sometimes I have to eat it just to get through. There is no such thing as getting a perfect score in this game. Which is largely fine... one should not play this game competitively anyway.

If you happen to see this, I wonder from a technical standpoint how did you make the cat's body curve like that? Is it two bezier curves you draw through programming? That's insane. Teach me senpai. - Frank

What immediately caught my eye is the art style. Heck, even the itch.io page looks like a charm. From the critical side, I'm sorry that I broke your game. If you keep spawning sand and push the crab to the border of the screen, the crab will eventually fall down to the very bottom. I'm not sure this is intentional or a bug.

Ok, here comes the good side. Which is everything! I so want to download this game, as Kirijo suggested, and use it as a wallpaper! I remembered I played something similar on a mobile device once, I couldn't remember the name of that game, but the general idea is the same, and heck, I couldn't figure out how the algorithms are written. Did you use a certain customized program or is this the particle system w/ physics? - Frank

Hi, I think you've done a tremendous work working with the text input system. The cat is very cute. And I like your embedded music player. Personally I haven't encountered any critical bug, even though you've said that there are some bugs somewhere. But overall the game ran smoothly on my side. Good work. -Frank

Thanks for the feedback. I will checkout your cat in a bit!

(READ AFTER PLAY) (SPOILER ALEART)

Hi, I think this is a fabulous interpretation of what a real pet game is.. a bunch of code cheering you up, through emotional means that only make sense subjectively to the player. I only have very small things that I can comment on your games... These are trivial, like how at the end you can generate food even before the monster eats them, and the previous food will be just gone, and also like how I anticipated some eastern eggs at the end. I think I tried to feed it more than 30 times, though I don't see anything come up. Maybe I should try to feed it more than 100 times? Idk... But you see where I'm going. The emotional connection you've created made me feel really difficult to quit this game. And for that reason I kept finding eastern eggs, though I couldn't, so that's a bit frustrating.

I love the aesthetics of this game, the bunny is so cute, and the mechanics add more to it. The petting animation is definitely killing. There is one critical comment I can make though, I hope the tutorial is clearer for new players. I know how to play this game because I playtested it before it comes up here, though reading the comments below makes me think yeah, a better tutorial could kill it.

Still amazing! I think your art skills are equally as impressive as your coding skills. I hope I can do something like that!

Thank you for replying! I feel like I learned a lot today, this is a killing technique! I'll definitely let you know if I come across a similar concept to work on  :)

Legit soothing game. I love the neon lights you put out. Sometimes I just want to sit in front of a desk and hit something -- this gratified my will. Though I have to say, there aren't that much interactive elements as I anticipated. I thought this is a full-fledged music rhythm game, which it didn't turn out to be that. I understand though, we only have a week, along side all the other assignments we work on. So don't worry. - Frank

This is absolutely killing. I love your characters so much. Playing the game makes me want to kiss someone, which is great. Games are supposed to bring love, not hate, to our society.

OK, back to the game. I think one thing that you can take advantage of is to make the tutorial better. I'm hooked by the concept, that's why I read through your entire start screen, but I don't think an average player would have the patience to read it through. (unfortunate for them, though) - Frank

Wait, did I just play a game published by Ketchapp? Nope, because it's better than those! I like how the music *does have an effect on the gameplay, not just plain boring BGM that don't add anything at all. When the game ends, the music slows down, and for some reason I really want to keep the music going so I played again and again. The only thing I could say about it is maybe the difficulty at this stage is quite random... Sometimes I start very chill and easy, and sometimes it's very, very hard. So not good for new comers if that happens.

If you do get a chance to read this, may you teach me how you've made the background move like that? The patterns looked very cool. - Frank

Aesthetically speaking, as Phive has pointed out, you have really pursuit your own style here. You must be very proud when someone can say that to you, it means that your name now embodies something, and the game itself brings an signature to enhance what you already offers.

From the standpoint of mechanics, I like how difficulties are slowly being introduced. Though, I hope there would have been some sort of screen shake or effect to comply with the "cling" sound effect.

If you do get a chance to read this, may you teach me how you've made the banner disappear? Did you use any form of shader or procedural scripts to make that happen? Or just plain animation created from another software?

Looking forward to get your response.

Interesting perspective. The drawing brings back childhood. - Frank

Thank you for your feedback. 1-3 is definitely up to tweaking, only if I have more time I would change the attributes to make it feel right. 4 seems like a bug, I didn't encounter it during my playtest, but I'm eager to try again to replicate that issue.

Thank you for your feedback. I didn't want to be too hard on the players, so I did make the hitbox wide on purpose. As for the trees, I think it's about the frame rate, I've already included everything in FixedUpdate, but sometimes you do get more trees than the others.

Woah, after learning about behind the scene. I think it's even more magical. To know that all the models are just cubes is insane. Thank you for sharing!

I enjoyed the 3D feel and how you crafted the trees to be nice looking. Good work! -Frank

Definitely an accurate clone! I like how it's now we have an HD version compare to the original, while the feel and look is exactly what it was. Great job! -Frank

This is so cool Nate! I can't tell if this is made in 3D or 2D, and there's definitively some magic to the shaders, if not mistaken. -Frank

I love how you model a city even Robert doesn't want you to do it!

You rebel! And it looks so good

I want some bananas now.

The spider is so cute!!! It transformed in both x and y axis

I hope I hasn't crashed that many times but fun game in general :p

The mechanics is really easy to play with & understand. This game is beyond cuteness. I wonder if some sadness is mixed in between as well :(

A very progressive step up from the last version. I remember playing this last week & it was fun already. But hey! You made it much better!

I think this game will totally blow my RTX2080

Ward 307 is a autobiographical visual narrative game that explores a fraction of lost memory from designer's childhood. It is a 2.5D platformer in which you explore my memory of a hospital ward. As a kid, I was locked in this room for 100+ days. It was intended to be boring, scary, and monotone. I chose this theme because this is the single most personal and important part of my life. If I hasn't survived from Meningitis, I would've been dead already.

Making the game throughout, the most interesting part is placing all those little tricky place that plays an animation/sound when you pass by. I think those are fun and I even walked by them redundantly just to see how well they work. The most boring part is to figure out how Trigger works. I did over a hundred Google search on how to precisely control colliders and triggers. I'm glad that at the end it works. However, for a tragic yet mysterious engine-level shader reason I have to upload this file as an exe for windows. Considering how I haven't touch a single bit of shader and we did not learn about that yet, also the fact that this worked minutes before the last WebGL build, please excuse me from this unprecedented incident.

Player 1: ZX movement, C jump

Player2: NM movement, B jump