Thanks! There is certainly some things that we wish we could have polished more but we still got a lot done! We plan on making a post jam version at some point.

I'll be sure to check out your game when I'm off of work!

Thanks, we didn't get to spend nearly as much time on polish as we wanted to. We were really working down to the wire on this one.

I know we were talking in discord when you wrote this but I still feel obligated to respond to all comments.

Thanks, part of the content we had to cut to release it before the jam ended was a time rewind. There were a  few gameplay ideas with this but I also feel it would serve as giving you an undo option quite nicely. In a full release we will likely try to include this. As for the crashes I've found it has crashed a bit more than expected. There are a few reasons for this all of which will be taken care of in a full release should we put one out. Part of it was just trying to make the game look so good that optimization suffered and there were no options to make the game look worse to run better.

I'll lower the default volume next time. As for settings in game that was because we had two different programmers on main menu and in game pause menu. Totally something we should have fixed though. Sadly we didn't have the time for it. 

There are a lot of things I want to do to bring that execution back up and get it more polished. I think my team managed really well and we were able to get a really cool product out but we may have been a bit too ambitious. The original goal was first 24 hours spent on the core game and the following 24 spent on just polish. It ended up not being that clean.

Anyway, thanks for the feed back and hopefully if we full release it then it'll be a lot better. I did quite like your feedback on needing an undo feature and how that works really well with one of the ideas we had but cut.

Thanks, yeah the terrain texture we should have put a little more work into, the idea was to cover it all with grass but that KILLED the optimization (even on higher end computers) so the texture didn't get covered up as much. 

(Spoiler paragraph) As for the house, you're actually supposed to continue up, past the well, then there is a hole in the ground. If you fill that hole with a rock your character can pass over it. From there you'll find a small cave with some trees and another rock blocking it off, break the trees and move the rock (or break the rock too but in this game having more rocks is generally better) Inside that is a key which goes to a gate nearby. Open the gate and you can continue to a new cave that leads you to the next level.

Unfortunately for the version that was submitted to the jam we forgot to include the json with all the dialogue which is why you see none on the first level and since the dialogue that plays at the end of level 1 is also missing it does not load level 2 correctly. Same thing for level 3. We plan on uploading a post jam version later with that bug fixed and a few others as well.

Also, I too am really impressed with what we managed to do in the time frame. My team really did a good job. I also got 4 hours of sleep during this whole thing because of how much work we had. lol

Thanks, we should have spent more time on the tutorial. Once you figure out how the game works it's a lot better but in a jam with over 5k games to rate no one is going to spend the time to learn how it works.

You're supposed to destroy the trees blocking your path. As the instructions said at the start, right click to break and left click/drag to move stuff around. The character at the start is trapped so you have to let him out. 

Thanks on the presentation comment though! We put a lot of work into making it look good!

Thanks, I'll be sure to let the composer know you liked his music that he made for this game jam!

So one of the parts the game needed more attention put to was a tutorial. I presume one of the dead ends you were talking about was blocked off by a giant hole. You're supposed to fill the hole with a rock so the player can move over it. It's not the most intuitive to be honest.

There will be a post jam version with some updated levels, tutorial, and most importantly we will actually package the dialogue.json file that didn't get packaged into this build. There's actually a whole elaborate story with dialogue boxes and all but because that didn't get packaged that system broke which has been detrimental as it now causes crashes sometimes, you don't get to see the story, and other systems that relied on it are broken too such as going to level 2 and level 3.

The character is out of your control so he goes where ever he wants. You have to limit the options of places he can go. The best way to do that is blocking of entrances to different areas and opening up ones to new areas. I do wish we could have had time to make a tutorial but we didn't even have time to patch a game breaking bug that popped up with 30 minutes to spare. Right now in this version only the first level is playable even though there is more than 1 level.

Had we had time for a tutorial we could have made the controls a bit easier to understand.