(Josh)

I love me some Portal-esque gameplay, and this game delivered that experience. The art and sound (despite some commentary in-game saying otherwise ;P) looked good for having 48 hours to do it.

I liked the idea of throwing a die in 1st-person and having the upward face be an ability; that said, the actual act of throwing the die and hoping it landed on the ability I needed to use was a bit frustrating at times, especially in cases involving the missile turret. Knowing what I needed to do to solve the puzzle and not being able to execute it because the die didn't roll the way I needed it to didn't feel great. Being able to rotate the die while holding it, so I could start my throw with the die positioned to my specification, might have made it easier to time the throw better to make it land the way I wanted it to.

Overall, great job!

It's a very fun game. I completed almost every level, but in one of the last levels I somehow teleported myself and the cube out of the map and fell into an infinite hole. After I played the game I watched the video and realized I was doing almost everything wrong, but still got through every level. When I played the game I didn't knew about charge throw, I didn't knew about cube sentience ability and I thought it only lifts it in the air.  But I think that is what made this game soo good, that almost all puzzles had different solutions and I didn't have to do everything the intended way. 

I liked the game: 

It is incredible that you guys are able to make all that in just 48 hours. Hats off one of the best I've played in the jam.

Cool game, but I don't think I solved any of the puzzles the intended way lol. I jumped on walls, ran away from turrets while hoping to get the teleport ability, teleporting when you were supposed to use magnetism, and much more. I also felt like there was too much luck which made the gameplay quite frustrating. I would've loved to see these mechanics combined to create much more interesting puzzles but I understand that 48 hours is a very short time frame. Still, I enjoyed the game and some of the puzzles were pretty cool. Great job!

I am a fan of Mental checkpoint and watched the video after playing. I would love to see a fleshed out version as there's a lot of good ideas. 

I would mention issues, but you've covered most of them in your video, but here's a couple thoughts. 

Another interaction you may have missed is using Sentience as a double jump, as you can stand on it and lift yourself off the ground, then jump. 

In terms of puzzle design, I would like to see levels that need more than 1 ability to solve. I think the design space is there to be explored, but understably not explored fully for 48h.

Once again mhch love to Mental Checkpoint. Was a lovely surprise to see a gmtk jam from you, and I enjoyed seeing the development process. 

Had a lot of fun completing this game !

The "narrator voiceline" power is definitely making the experience much better, but it being a manually triggered action meant I often forgot to roll the dice on the yellow face, most times I remembered before triggering the next room but I missed several voicelines unfortunately. I can only imagine the laughs and tears I would have shared listening to those, the deep thoughts and introspections following the wise advices... 

Had a few bugs but nothing that was game breaking thankfully, despite trying things like swapping with the dice while holding it haha.

I probably cheesed a lot of the puzzles, picking up the dice through doors or using the wrong ability to complete the level, but that's not necessarily a bad thing, made my experience more special and funnier.

However I do think that with all those abilities, there isn't enough variance to really justify them. A lot are interchangeable in multiple puzzles, which kinda makes the abilities feel less useful. 
If the focus is to make a puzzle game I think it's really important to nail that aspect of each unlock completing a gap in the player's action set, even better if you didn't know you had a gap there and you jut discover a whole new set of possibilities, mind blowing style.
For a more adventure type of game though, it's less important to have tight mechanic design and the slight overlap between the powers means it makes it easier for players to do what they want because they don't have to think and remember of the single ability that allows them to do the thing they want, but that also means puzzles relying on those have multiple solutions and are generally easier to solve, while also being less different from one another (the abilities do similar things => the actions to solve the puzzle must then be similar too), and might make it less interesting because you can spam the same solution on multiple puzzles in a row.

I feel the latter is what happened, there was many ways to deal with each level, which makes the level design much harder to do as the amount of possibilities you'd have to account for and design around is too high.

Also does not help during a jam to have that many mechanics as you don't have that much time to polish, which makes each ability less polished overall.

Still had fun trying to solve the puzzles in not the right way, throwing my dice at rockets and rolling times and times again to try and get it to roll on the face I wanted rather than the one the game was trying to enforce.

One major disappointment though : when I got the green ability, I immediately went back and managed to get up in the hallway in the deceptive crack room and was met with this obnoxious dead end : 

Now I can go back watching the devlog :D

Edit: also, missed opportunity to name it Rolling Shutter Labs

got stuck in the level you need reflexes cause I run the game at 5 fps. still fun though 

Dice was hard to roll around, and maybe instead of having ex. 1 ability and 5 empty ones, have one ability on all 6 sides, and then when you get more abilities half and half etc.