Jumping feels smooth and responsive, solid platformer, and while gameplay was smooth, i didn't feel a connection to the theme.

That's lovely and very well executed (eggzeguted, yeah)! I'm so very much NOT fond of platformers that normally I'd pass by without even peeking into, however all the hype around THE EGG made me curious, and I don't regret a single second spent on this game. Love the implementation of coyote time and all those helpful little tricks, and the "try it and you'll see" tutorials that make you explore the possibilities (special thanks for the double jump and the whole section encouraging players to discover the mechanic on their own!). There is also a great replayability potential, as I feel some rhytm-game vibes in the sequences of eggs that seem to be possible to collect in one move without stopping - a perfect example of easy to learn/hard to master. Hats off, this is an eggsterpiece!

I am going to show this to my egg

Very fun 10/10 no notes

Actually small note, I did think the rotating eggs were clouds for a good long time, lol. might be worth doing a slightly different model of those!

Egg?

Egg

This game was a vibe. No marks. Only egg. Grats on striving and making game.

The music is SICK. Super chill game. Love it!

Charming with it's simplicity with nice funky BGM. Motivational messages made me chuckle here and there.
Congratulations on a release and (as I understand) personal victory!

simple and fun, great music, and i loved the motivational messages along the way!

Egg

A simple game that I liked, short and fun.

I liked the animations of the egg, that is happy when it walks and jumps, the poker face stays still, and the ending was unexpected for me.

After reading the interpretation of the theme, I like the ending more.

One note, I feel the contrast of the text and the background at the end isn’t that good after the desert, I can read it well but just it’s a little thing to consider in the future :D 

Oh, I like how the music is getting lower and lower the more you progress in the game and also liked the progression of the levels in the visual aspect.

I guess to end this I can say the classic, egg/10 haha

Thanks for sharing :)

EXPERIENCE THIS GAME FOR YOURSELF. READ THIS REVIEW AFTERWARDS.

ok so I've been thinking about this game over the past few days, and I think I've come to a conclusion.

egg? is an exercise in futility. it's also a story about learning a skill

you're told that the egg pickups across the map matter, but they don't. they do nothing, the final counter all the way to the right doesn't reflect them. you go out of your way to collect challenging eggs off the beaten path, all for nothing.

you're told that you're on a journey. but you're not. the whole game can be completed by simply pressing a button, only the button prompt is miles away.

the enemies; the pits, they're meaningless too. death costs nothing, it's barely an obstacle. by all rights, this game should be terrible. 

but egg? made me feel something. I think the greatness of egg is not in its systems, but in how it's components sum together to make an experience that genuinely made me reflect. 

what does egg? say?

well, one potential reading is that the true power is in knowledge; all of us could "hatch" at any point of our choosing, if only we knew how. but that knowledge comes through a tedious journey that, when viewed with hindsight, seems almost pointless. it comes through engaging in activities that ultimately do not bear fruit (collecting eggs). sure, you could hit U by accident, just as you *could* pump out a masterpiece game on your first try. but to attain consistently, you must first do *so* much menial, pointless work to acquire the relevant knowledge. only then could you hatch consistently; could you develop quality games consistently; could you truly master your skill.

to that end, the gameplay of egg? being bad actually serves it's theme very well. I don't want to replay egg? from scratch. and in the exact same way, I don't want to relearn game development from scratch either. 

how much of this was intended? who gives a shit, LOL. the proof is in the pudding.

Sweet. The egg turned out to be an egg :)

This was great! A game praising me as I go through the levels and collect things is something I didn't realise I wanted

This is my favorite video game. The only problem is I was playing this at work while my coworkers were trying to have a serious conversation with me, and now I'm in trouble.

I had fun with it, probably more than it's worth, not sure if that's a good or bad thing haha. I think simple janky games are funny. I liked finding the secret and all of the messages. Ending was great. Good job.

Thanks for being proud of me during the gameplay

Alright, so, Egg. Egg? Egg. Quite the eggsquisite eggsperience. Let's egg about it. Time to egg.

First of all, I'm impressed you managed to make an egg stand out so much and make it have such an oddly unique design with a simple two eyes, legs and a smile. It turned out super characteristic, which I liked from the get go!

The shadowsnakes ended up reminding me of old NES and Master System games with the way they looked and moved, so the way they turned out looked nostalgic and very cool!

I saw that you left some of the older builds of the game as public from when you were testing things out, and it gives a really cool perspective into seeing the growth and changes of this egg's yolk. The humble beginnings of an egg who couldn't yet double jump and of a camera who felt a bit floaty. An egg that was still raw.

Then, eggtest3 surprises you with a longer level design that was still in construction, huge groups of Shadow Snakes roaming around, platforms glued on top of one another.

And yet, the final version of Egg resembles a well balanced soufflé: looking super nice and well put together. Simple, giving space to only what's necessary. The music choice from the prototypes really encapsulated the experience of just starting out on game dev, trying things out, using those classic royalty free bangers, and it was a nice trip into memory lane for me, oddly enough. 

However, much like choosing the proper seasoning for an egg salad, the music choice for the version 1.0 was perfect!

I like the fact that you implemented a double jump, which aligns perfectly with your intentions of making something more accessible and easy, like a fried egg. The camera is a lot sharper, doesn't float and feels a lot nicer. The sound effects are satisfying, too! The tiny floating eggs in the background are also a very nice touch.

The way the commentator says "Well done Big Boy" is also quite eggspertly put together, much like a poached egg. The way the b's are capitalized further emphasizes the "Bigness" factor of this "Boy" (me)

One of my favorite parts of the game was definitely the wacky humor and commentary. It's right up my alley and gave the game an incredible amount of personality! It was the perfect seasoning for the game.

I also like the fact that finding redacted doesn't only give you redacted, but lets you speedrun the game's ending. It's funny.

Speaking of the end, the effort for the ending cutscene can't be understated and I felt the impact the cutscene had. The fact that the music slightly goes up in volume and that the animation keeps looping helped make it creepier in a way. The sort of creepy you feel when you fry an egg and the pan's too hot and the egg starts to swell and it feels like the egg will explode on your face! Quite creepy.

You started out with something so simple, and look where you got to. 

You can now officially say: I made a game!

And it's a good game. Eggscelent even, one could say. I really enjoyed it!

What was that?!
In all seriousness though, nice little meta game. Really enjoyed it. The only thing that spoiled it is that the dialogue is getting a bit too positive to a point where its sort of giving away what comes to the ending. But I still fall for it so I guess it's fine.

Anyway, nice game!