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A jam submission

CottonwoodView game page

Submitted by Malyven — 4 days, 19 hours before the deadline
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What did you update?
Bug Fix - Can spawn infinite puff's and movement by spamming spacebar.
Bug Fix - Music defaults to off.
Bug Fix - Pause menu can be opened multiple times.
Bug Fix - Raven Sprite rotation
Bug Fix - Raven could catch seed after dropping final seed.
Bug Fix - UI did not scale.


Tutorial Improvements - switched from timed display of various components to manually triggered step through.

Created Android version.
Created Windows version.

What you would like feedback on (Optional)
Tutorial flow has been suggested it be changed, ideas for different ways of educating users on the gameplay.

Name of updated upload (if downloadable)
Cottonwood.zip - Windows

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Submitted (1 edit)

It looks quite nice but, it's not much of a game in my opinion. I decided to try comparing two games where one I tried to get the score as high as possible, and another where I simply left the game on to do its own thing. Somehow the latter game actually has a higher score than the former. 

I'm really sorry to say while it does look pretty and I like the aesthetic, this doesn't really feels like a game to me, it feels like knocking on the glass in a goldfish bowl and the goldfish just respond randomly each time, sometimes not responding at all.

Edit: Right, I realized my comment was really unnecessary harsh and deprived of useful information, so just ignore all of it.

The problem lies with that randomness play too much of a part, but since it is the main mechanic, I really do not know what to tell you for improvement that doesn't complete changes the game...

It did fits the theme of the jam, but I would say the player shouldn't feel mostly random in their chances in a game

Submitted

I personally like the tutorial as it is now. It instructs the basics of every part of the game clearly and doesn't spoil in full detail about the other clouds. A bonus could be videos showing the instructed parts? For example, a brief basic video of what is a good way to setup movement with the seeds.

There seems to be a potential bug. If you go to the last instructed part, go back a step, you can't go forward through the instructions again until you start the game again.