This was a super chill last game to play for today before bed. I love just wandering around as this little dude exploring the mountainside. Your thumbnail is absolutely gorgeous, I think it's the best one I've seen in the jam so far.

As some of the other comments pointing out, the main thing affecting your game is that the pixels crucially need to all be the same size for the aesthetic to gel, I made the same mistake in my first pixel art game. What I do now is decide early what the game's "working" resolution will be, then I choose a canvas size for my main character accordingly, you can easily look this info up for other games to get an idea.

Let's say you go with a 16 x 16 character. Besides the landscape, that 16 x 16 is now your reference for everything else in the game (a good choice since the main character is always on screen). An elephant twice as big as the player? Okay, let's use a 32 x 32 canvas this time and fill it up. A little rock? Maybe I'd even keep it 16 x 16 for convienence, but just remember to take up less space in the canvas, then drop them both into a test scene to check the size works, or even keep your player on a different layer to compare while drawing. No scaling allowed! I hope that clears it up, it took me a minute to understand at first, but now I can't unsee it.

Neat! Really relaxing to play, nice music! Also, how cute is the little panda? Awesome! Did you create the whole art yourself? :)

Rate no. 13

The good stuff:
- I loved the music, fits the game really well
- The art was well made
- Level design and the way the enviorement was put together looks and feels good

The stuff to improve in:
- Stop the pixel inconsistency, it doesn't and will never look good. Just tell the artist to do it in a set size instead of scaling it afterwards.
- As McJordan32 pointed out, the transitions are really slow when there's no reason for them to be like that.
- I agree with what Roaming Maelstrom said, the jumping is really weird, I don't understand why there's a delay.

edit:
- The survival part of the game is sort of irrelevant as you'll always get enough resources to survive till the next one and you never need to go out of your way to find food or something.

Sprites and art are of an extremely high standard. As someone said on discord, very reminiscent of Celeste in that regard. Good choice of colours. NPCs stand out for me though, particularly in the dialogue. Vibrant and overall very effective. Only issue was some gaps between terrain sprites (the cliffs).

The calming music complements the graphics very nicely. The SFX add to the whole package too.

Simple and yet reasonably effective interpretation of the theme.

I did have quite a few problems with the gameplay unfortunately. Namely:

• The jump felt weird to use. I did not like the length of the delay before your character jumps, that you keep all your momentum if you touch the [A] or [D] keys, and that you cannot use [W] to jump
• The first Quest to collect trash seemed a bit too far spaced out. I had trouble telling whether I had left the area where you could find the trash or not.
• I'd say that Camps should warm you faster. No point in making the player wait around.

With all that said; Aesthetically excellent game that needs some more work on the Gameplay and Design aspects of it. Still a very good submission. Nice job!