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WayfarerGames96 days ago

so this took the "player changes size" mechanic and made it... really fucking clever, wow. Puzzle challenge was perfect for a jam game - I could feel my brain cells getting a workout without ever really getting properly stuck - I'd die a few times and then have the "aha" moment pretty quickly, which made me keep playing!

I have a few minor issues:

  • being off-beat wasn't particularly intuitive, and I felt like that sort of puzzle was mostly solved by accident or because I just used the potions in the correct order by chance, rather than feeling like I had solved it.
  • manual reset gets a little tiring, I'm not too sure why it's included but it may be a genre thing that I don't have experience with 😂
  • always forward-facing character feels a bit jank

To be clear these are very minor nitpicks that would be expected from a jam game it's... it's just that the game is so good that they are the only thing I really have to talk about!

This isn't necessarily my favourite type of game, I'm not good at the thinky stuff, but I can see that people that enjoy this sort of thing would have a great time with it. It's a really polished entry, great job!

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Pip (Agapios Kokkos)96 days ago(+1)
being off-beat wasn't particularly intuitive, and I felt like that sort of puzzle was mostly solved by accident or because I just used the potions in the correct order by chance, rather than feeling like I had solved it.

A lot of other players have reported frustration with this mechanic. Our current plan is to indicate which skeletons you can with a sprite change between skeletons you can or cannot currently hit. What do you think of this design solution?

manual reset gets a little tiring, I'm not too sure why it's included but it may be a genre thing that I don't have experience with 😂

This is a bit of a genre thing, but we're planning to add an undo button, which should potentially ease the issues you were having. The manual resets are there to allow players to think about 'ok what just happened?', but I get the frustration.

always forward-facing character feels a bit jank

This one's the only one which we won't be changing all that much, due to it being a reference to a lot of old style DoS games which had the player always facing forward. It's a stylistic choice.


Thank you so much for playing my game! The feedback we got was really good, and well worth the wait :P

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WayfarerGames96 days ago(+1)
sprite change between skeletons

That's a pretty good solution, yeah! 😁 so long as you make it super obvious.

we're planning to add an undo button

I probably wouldn't ever use an undo button tbh, and definitely didn't stop to think about what I'd done. I just dive in and try things, but I'm certainly not the target market here - I don't ever play this sort of game xD

 It's a stylistic choice.

Ah I assumed the sprite was just because jam time got away from you, if it's a stylistic choice that's fine. Again, more target market/actual player mismatch xD 

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