Hi ShootingDux!

I've had a play of Padlock Ranch, so here's some feedback for you:

• I think the premise and scope was a good idea for the jam
• The movement speed of the player character, as well as the movement speed of the cows, felt very slow for how large the field is. This made herding cows especially quite laborious
• I liked the little message you get after the game is done ("You thought you did a good job, but...")
• I think the zombies were a bit too tanky. Oftentimes I found myself starting by going to the barn and repeatedly stepping over the infinite ammo tile there, because I knew I was going to need at least six shots for even one zombie
• I like the general art and aesthetics of the game, it's very cute :>
• The SFX were mixed a bit too loud I think (and I didn't even realise the button in the top right unmuted, I thought that was just a notification of it being muted)
• That said, I do always like a 'pew' for gun SFX :>
• I think some music would help this game along a bit. Maybe something lilting and country-like?
• During the in-game instructions at the start, I managed to swipe them entirely off-screen and couldn't swipe them back
  • Also, I didn't immediately recognise the symbol for left click. That might just be me, though

In terms of fun, I think the general low speed of the player character and the annoyance of herding the cows brought it down a bit for me, and it felt like when I got a higher score, it was usually because the cows happened to wander close to the barn, and the zombies happened to not, rather than any better play by my part. I did like the aesthetic and light-hearted nature of the game, though.

I hope this helped!

I liked it! First of all, the gameplay itself is interesting, I enjoyed it. Great sound work, I really feel like watching an old decent B-movie. You need to voice the characters for a complete picture.
Details like stress blur look very professional.
I didn't understand how the strength of the locks works. First, I locked the killer in a room and he couldn't get out for a long time. When I moved away from the room, he just teleported after me (the room remained locked). I locked him in same place again and he immediately broke the lock and got out. But this is more of a positive stress.

Hi Abzi!

I had a play of Key Collector, and I have some feedback for you:

• The gameplay was simple in a good way, where each addition to the gameplay (more monsters) never felt like too big a jump. The difficulty was fairly well-balanced, too
• The hitboxes on the ground enemies (the round things with spikes) felt much larger than the graphic seemed to indicate, so the vast majority of my deaths were just bumping into their vague general space
• I appreciate that in a game like this, it's a very quick restart after a death. It might get quite frustrating otherwise!
• I found the music to be a bit grating after a while. Maybe this is just a matter of variety?
• I liked the designs of the monsters! Though I found the ground blobs more cute than scary, to be honest
• Sometimes when I was moving along the outside edge of the map to get my bearings, I bumped into some invisible walls. Is this intentional?
• The enemies that only moved when you weren't looking were really good :>
• ...Though they were the only part of the gamer I found even slightly scary. I'd say this is more of a horror-themed puzzle game than a horror game
• Also, on the final final level (that is, the level after the final level), the game almost crashed, but just about managed to recover. I wasn't sure if this was intentional or not, though.

Hope this feedback helps! ^^

Edit: oh, I forgot one thing! I couldn't actually see the door on 'the final level', so most of it was me just fumbling around trying to find it. Was this intentional?

I'm still playing through the game but I think the mechanics are mostly good. It took a little while to get the hang of it and it seemed hard to judge the damage I could expect to do but I think that's maybe something I'll reconsider when I play again.

Some of the colours of the buttons were a bit hard to see, like when I was in a menu to attack or choose an item I didn't notice the return button sometimes which is maybe something to consider.

The overall battle system was good in my opinion. Well done.

Hi bondreal!

Super difficult platformers are uh...not my strong suit, but I hope this feedback is still helpful:

- I like the lighting the game uses :>

- I found that certain hitboxes didn't match up to the sprites. The lava hitbox seemed larger than it should be, and the spikes had hitboxes on the sides as well as the top. I'm not sure if this is an intentional design decision regarding the spikes (as a call-back to old platformers), but to me, touching the side of spikes feels like it shouldn't kill you.

- The music's pretty neat, though I wonder if it might work better if it kept playing after death, rather than always returning to the start.

- It felt a bit awkward to use WASD and E for the controls, specifically for the sprint. I'd recommend putting the sprint on SHIFT instead for that control scheme

- The sprite work is simple but effective. The slimes are quite cute!

- The birds sometimes got stuck inside the ground, usually when they were flying up into it

I didn't end up beating the game, but that might just be on my poor skills. An optional mode with checkpoints would be helpful, but that might go against the design ethos you're trying to imitate, here.

Hi estebesz,

I played Darkest Maze, so here's some feedback for you:

•  I love the main character sprite, it's very cute!
• The sound effect beep upon choosing a level etc. seemed to be a bit too loud
• The fire crackle in the background gives a nice soothing quality to the game
• With that said, I think a little music (probably something quite simple and understated) could help to enhance the experience
• I couldn't quite figure out why I was dying on one of the later levels—the death tile looked the same as the other ones, as far as I could tell. Was I just missing something obvious?

Hope this helps!

Hi cartyrs! I had a play of Apparition, so I think I've got some feedback for you:

• I think I mentioned this when I commented on the dev log, but I really like the game's art! ^^
• If you talk to Eden immediately after waking up (at the start of the game), it will replay the cutscene where Eden asks for Heather to get the Wilde off the bookshelf. This might have caused the possible softlock (more on this later).
• I think the slow pan up to reveal Eden as a ghost at the beginning is really well done :>
• The scream SFX when Eden is explaining about the occult stuff at the beginning may be a bit too loud?
• I didn't find the library puzzle to be too difficult, once I realised I'd already picked up the first book and just didn't notice >.>
• The tile to the right of the front door to Eden's house has no collision (the tile covered in papers). It doesn't seem to let you get out of bounds or anything, just something minor I noticed
• I like the dynamic between Eden and Heather. I think it's nicely written!
• I believed I ran into a softlock bug. Basically when I got back to Eden's room and started drawing the sigil, when I talked to Eden, she just went through the intro dialogue again (the one at the top). I've tried interacting with everything else in the room (including Eden), and I can't seem to progress, so I think I'm stuck? That, or I missed something obvious, in which case I apologise for that ^^'

I might have another playthrough tomorrow and this time stop putting my QA hat on (i.e. intentionally going against what is expected). I did like what I saw so far, at least!

Hi,
This is actually a fun game, but the mechanics are way too hidden. I cannot tell what any of the powerups are supposed to do. One of them apparently reduces my life every step, perhaps it also have some upside to it? I dont know, and I dont know which one is doing that. Sometimes I die, sometimes I become totally OP with 100% crit and oneshot everything, but why my runs end up like that I have no idea. If you add some animation on attacks, both your own and enemies, it makes it easier to understand what is actually happening -> which I guess is: if theres an enemy in the square you are moving towards you attack it, right? Still not 100% sure lol. Perhaps some color coding on the powerups, perhaps a popup text that says "+crit" or something as you grab it... But yea, the game is really neat but bump up the visuals to tell us what is going on!  :) 

Hi,
You should make the sword and dash activate on button push, not button release as it is now.
The diagonal dashing seemed akward, at lest on the tiny platforms with release button to dash. Sometimes you are on a tiny platform from where you have to diagonal dash, but there is almost no room to start walking diagonal + press and release the dash, it felt way too precise. I would do away with the diagonal dashing, at least if there is no way to line it up while standing still.   
There was also a platform where a skeleton was waiting for me so it was basiaclly impossible to dash over there without him killing me. Shift to dash is also awkward due to the "sticky keys" popup on windows. I died by falling but the enemies did not. I somehow became invincible at one point, which was nice because I got to see the boss witch was very very cool, he was easily the best part of the game.  Intro story and cutscenes are very nice. Camera panning to the doors I unlocked was very nice. Music was good although there was some uncomfortable total silence when the track was going to repeat.

Very cool boss!!