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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| UI | #1 | 4.273 | 4.273 |
| Enjoyability | #5 | 3.818 | 3.818 |
| Uniqueness | #10 | 3.636 | 3.636 |
| Farming | #10 | 3.636 | 3.636 |
| Theme / Secret Requirement | #10 | 3.909 | 3.909 |
| Bug Amount (5 Star is no bugs) | #15 | 3.818 | 3.818 |
Ranked from 11 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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- I would love to see more things on the island, like maybe a cave, or something like that. look for the guard body or something! I'm not sure what direction you are going, but more NPCs would be amazing as well. More Farm stuff too!
- (Also posted in game page as a comment) I think the script and delivery are funny and charming, but the pacing is a bit awkward. In other words, the silence between scenes, the camera being completely static, etc. But I like the interactions between the characters. The world art is a bit too saturated in my opinion, and it only feels more jarring given the skybox-less sky. The UI art is simple and effective, and the sephia palette helps with production times. Sound effects were lacking, a good "punch" and "crunch" with high quality sound effects really go a long way with the immersion, even if the game looks cartoony. When you show the connecting spheres for tiles to drop on to the floor, it made me assume we'd be able to extend them by drag-and dropping further away. That might be a good feature. Also I think it'd be cool if we could open inventory with I even if Tab does the trick, many people will be used to doing that. Kudos for not giving up, and keep up the good work!
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The scroll for tips on the right side is a super good idea, I am going to implement this asap. The crafting system is intuitive and easy to understand. I am a fan of the narrative driven game. You have done an amazing thing here!
You are welcome :D I had some experience with UX and I love make UI. My team member is backend dev and he hate it :D Thanks for your kind words :)
Farming: I would have enjoyed more than 1 type, but the functions were absolutely solid and rooted.
Enjoyability: The voice acting was intriguing and had me wanting to hear more. I just had to see what you guys would say next! The fact that you got functioning walls and a bed was very impressive as well.
UI: The UI was top notch. I would suggest making the smaller text a bit easier to read somehow, maybe a sharper color choice for the smaller text.
Uniqueness: The dialogue choice had me cracking the hell up. keep it coming. A panda who loves bamboo? You gotta really get those cheesy jokes in there. there does have to be a good balance though!
Bugs: There were 2 bugs i found. "up" on a controller sends you straight into the sky, and if you position it just right, you can build on trees.
Theme: You got the "Magic" Requirement quite nicely, with the magic panda and the spooky voice had the horror theme technically.. Nice!
Thanks for your powerful feedback :)
We thought about more plants type, but deadline interrupted us :c We had great time making this dubbing, but also we were scared how people react. Now we now it was worth to make it. I will try your suggestion about text size, should be better :) We forgot remove dev fly mode, sorry.
Funny story, when we started this project I moved to bed and couldn't sleep! And bum! I had idea, It was like 1 AM, I should be sleeping but I took my phone and recorded all scenario to not forget next day :D
The game is awesome! The tutorial is really appreciated and the funny dialogue and voice acting made this game stand out. The crafting system and farming are really user friendly. Although, there were two small problems.
1. When every you pressed the up arrow key, you would fly akin to minecraft creative mode. I think it was a dev tool left in by accident, but it didn't really effect gameplay much.
2. When breaking structures like a wall or floor, it would delete the surrounding as well which caused frustration.
Outside of that the game is outstanding!
Good to hear your feedback :) We also love how voice acting look. Yes we forgot to remove this dev tool :D The build system was very hard for us and it needs refactor. Thanks
This game is Bamboo!!
The writing and voice acting is so cute and funny, and got a genuine laugh from me many times. I really appreciated the tutorial, and it really gave the game so much personality. Supporting cast panda helping move things along made me feel warm and fuzzy and not alone in a new world, lol <3
I love the building system, but I had troubles where I would destroy one wall, but it would destry my floor too. And another issue when I tried building again where it was deleting stuff AND placing the thing I was trying to place (i,e, deleted floor while trying to place wall).
Otherwise this game is very cohesive and I'm impressed, especially for the short time we all had! <3
Keep it up!!
Thanks for your feedback. I am very glad you like magic panda :) Yeah the build system was for us a big challenge and not everything is right. First thing which we want refactor is this system :D We want continue develop this game :3
Really nice game, loads of personality. Great work
Thanks for your feedback :)
I got a few chuckles from the dialogues, kudos to the writer and the voice actors! That old Chinese proverb is indeed very wise, it's what every dev lives by.
Thanks for kudos it was not easy to tie it all together but it was worth it :D
Really solid game! The voice acting is really cute and the lines are pretty funny ^^ Graphics also participate in the overall cuteness.
Everything works perfectly, the most impressive thing to me being the building (or plowing) system. As a base, it's all pretty great. Didn't try to save and load, though.
Well done!
Good to hear your feedback. We also love voice acting and had fun creating it. Wasn't easy to create this building system and still needs much improvements, but glad you liked it.
Cute game! The crafting seems to work very well, although I'm not sure there's a purpose to building the house in so much detail (it could have been a single unified object).
The UI is excellent. The game has a fully functioning inventory system, plus multiple merchant screens, and it always remains both clearly legible and bug-free
I would say the night is too dark to see comfortably. Also, the sound effect of the pickaxe isn't quite synchronized to the swing of the tool.
Thanks for your feedback. Our testers did great job with finding bugs soo we did much work to fix all of them :D We will look into making night more comfortable and synchronizing tools and sounds :)
This game is bamboo! The writing and voice acting are so cute!
Thanks for playing. We are glad you liked it :)