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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Was the game free from bugs | #2 | 4.800 | 4.800 |
| Was the game well balanced | #4 | 4.200 | 4.200 |
| Overall | #8 | 4.112 | 4.112 |
| How fun was the game | #12 | 3.960 | 3.960 |
| Should this entry qualify for the next round? | #12 | 4.160 | 4.160 |
| Would you come back to this game again and again | #13 | 3.440 | 3.440 |
Ranked from 25 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Tremendous 🤝
What an experience, I really loved this game. Gives me Professor Layton vibes + the narrative really creeped me out (in a good way).
Side note That fabric design in the textbox I have on a shirt I own
All around *****.
Love it. Love the mixed mediums for the art style. Love the overarching storyline and juxtaposition of nature and natural textures against machinery. I chuckled at the boss not wanting to be recycled.
I had a great time on stream with this, even if the last puzzle stumped me for a bit. Maybe with more time you could consider including a hint system instead of putting it in the itch page text. But that's a small gripe.
Just watched the stream ! Thank you so much for playing, it's usually hard to watch someone play puzzle game as the dev of said puzzle game but with you it was reallly fun all along :D
Thank you also for noticing all the details (the clouds moving, the line around the pieces, the toaster) and lastly thank you for the the feedbacks ! It made me a bit laugh when you thought that you could only rotate the metal pieces (I am glad you find out quickly the real gameplay) it really shows that you can never know how someone is going to understand your game x)
I made the puzzles easier than how they were first. So for the hint, I was going to add it but then I thought "well now the puzzles are easy, there is no need!" (really a big puzzle fan here so they seemed easy to me) and I regretted that really fast xD
Thank you for playing every games, you and all the other streamer are really awesome for doing all this work !
I'm not the best puzzler! But I eventually learn. Ha! After playing through everything this was absolutely one of my favorite entries. Great work.
Wonderful art and animations! Very unique presentation and great music. I had to use the hint for the last puzzle, but I really enjoyed my time playing! Great work!
I love your unique art style, and creative take on a boss fight! The puzzles were really fun and challenging, but not too much, you found a good balance. The only thing that caught me up at first was I didn't know I could move the metal pieces until I read the description below. Overall, I very much enjoyed it!
The art style was so great and unique! The puzzles were a good level of difficulty for me and they were super fun. Great job :)
Really like this puzzle game as most people comment the art style is indeed unique, great usage of the little wobbly lines on the edges. A solid system! I was especially appreciative about the shapes the initial puzzle had and how you had to put flowers in between this was a genius mechanic reinforcing the narrative. Fantastic work, love the little story!
The artstyle, if you plan on doing something similar in the future I'll buy it
Your puzzles are very enjoyable and keep me engaged. The art styles used in the game are interesting and pleasing.
I do have one suggestion; it would be helpful if there was more contrast between the pieces or an outline to make it easier to differentiate the shapes while moving them around.
The collage artstyle really sets this apart from other entries. Also, the puzzle mechanics are fun and work pretty well. Only thing I'd change is pointing out that you click on the pieces to rotate them.
Love your art style and your unique take on a boss fight. As a seasoned puzzle game player and designer, I found the puzzles to be more tedious than challenging, but I feel that with a bit more intentional puzzle design, this game has a lot of potential.
Nice to see a puzzle game after playing all these boss fights! As others have pointed out I also had trouble distinguishing the pieces from the background since they both had the same amount of noise and similar colors. The difficulty felt right to me, I didn't use the hint though I had to remove every piece from the last puzzle to find a solution so maybe I just got lucky haha
this game was great! loved each of the puzzles but had a tough time with the last one but i am so glad you left a hint for it in the description lol
Oh my. I love this one! The art style and humour and writing is amazing! The puzzles were fun and engaging to figure out, Professor Layton-esque. The art and story elements combined remind me a little of Broken Age too, which is great! amazing job!
The boss gives you brain damage lol. One suggestion would be that the puzzle pieces sometimes blend in with the background and were difficult to see. Other than that the art, music, puzzles and story are perfect. I liked it a lot <3
I managed to complete the game. The last one was tough but it's a lot of fun and I like the artwork and story, whole game feels really polished
Really fun take on a boss fight! Liked the puzzles. My main comments would be that maybe some effects or sounds in the puzzle portion to give more of a fight feel could be nice
This is great!
I found it a little mind boggling but that's more my no coffee morning brains than the game.
thank you ! There are some tips in the description in case you got stuck, did you struggle somewhere specific ? Because I can add more tips x)
Haven't play Professor Layton yet, but if it's like this, I may have to pick it up. Unique gameplay. Felt a little more puzzlish than it did boss-ish, but I could see story-wise how that may be common in that style of game. Really liked the music. A good entry.
Fun puzzle game with a great story. Excellent job.