I am amazed at how good this game is, Its so cool!! ^-^ The gameplay is smooth, I didn't encounter any problems, the music is perfect for the setting, the art is cute, and just the right amount of goofy and just everything about it is great from premise to execution <3 I love it so much that all the sound effects are self made it creates such a charming experience. I spent like 1-2 hours on this game just goofing around, trying to make the biggest, baddest humonculus in existence.
The few pieces of feedback I have are:
- I don't see the point of the healing mechanic. If you can just recycle the humonculus to get back the same ingredients, you can basically just make the same one and it gets created at full health for completely free. Either make healing humonculi free or give some drawback to recycling
- Very rarely if I open a menu it becomes invisible. I found that the best way to counter this is to remember where the 'go back' button in the menu is and just press that area. everything goes back to normal then but it would be nice if you could look into why this is happening
- perhaps a recipie book for the elements youve already made and a reference book for all the powers and traits you've already used would be pretty nice, but this isn't a necessity
Once again, this is probably my favourite gamejam entry so far and there are a lot of bangers in here.
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Omg thank you so much for your lovely words. We're so happy you've enjoyed our silly game and hope you did, in fact, made the biggest and baddest homunculus in existence.
To your more specific feedbacks :
- Oh no someone found it ! :x Yes, we realised that you could use the healing/recycle "abuse" to make your game easier. I guess the only drawback is that you have to redo your little buddies, but the healing system is more of a "ghost" of the beginning of the jam than a really thought system. Will probably swap for an auto-heal or something else entirely.
- The menu bug is linked to a transition/tweening issue, if you don't let the "animation" plays to the end it'll visually bug, but you can indeed find your way back by clicking to the other buttons. Nice catch.
- A recipe to ingredients you've already made is something that I want to add indeed, or at least something to add to the alchemy screen, so you can strategize better.
Thanks again for taking the time to test our entry, there's a lot of them in that jam.
We wish you the best ! 🦝🦝