Loved this! Really great art and fun gameplay, the potions all felt fun and unique! Some more damage feedback (both taking and dealing) might be a nice idea for the future but genuinely amazing work for the scope of a game jam!
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Let me cook in the Shadows's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Artistic Style | #401 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Theme | #653 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| Cleverness | #755 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| Playability | #804 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
Ranked from 1 rating. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Judge feedback
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- While the art style for practically everything in this game is wonderfully done, the controls are easy to follow and there feels to be a bit of a challenge dealing with enemies while sticking to the shadows, it also feels a bit too quick getting defeated by both the sunlight and enemies while moving around so much. My assumption is that this is on purpose, so it may be a skill issue on my end. Along with that, my experience led me to not really be able to use the various created potions against any of the enemies; while throwing them was straightforward enough of an action, there didn't seem to be any actual result when they got to their target, so I'm not sure if I was just missing something there as well. Overall, I do think that the way the themes were used were done in a way that made this interesting to play; with traversing between shadows and using elements together to create new/different things. Keep up the good work, all the same!
Did you include your Game Design Document as a Google Drive link?
Yes
Seriously... did you include your Game Design Document?
Yes
Is your game set to Public so we can see it?
Yes
Tell us about your game!
Avoid the Sun, it does damage! Hide in the shadows, they heal!
Collect ingredients: Orange, blue and green ones
Cook them into 10 different potions
Throw those potions at foes, until the forest is safe.
Controls: (also shown ingame)
WASD - Moving
Space - dive into shadows to heal and walk faster
1,2,3 - Add ingredient of specific color to cauldron
R - Cook ingredients in cauldron
Q, E, Scrollwheel - Cycle through cooked potions
Right Click - Aim and throw selected potion
C - look at Cookbook
Enter - Restart after Game Over or Game won
ESC - closes the game immediately (better don't press it!)
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