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Interesting game. The idea of being in one layer at a time is really cool !

However, there are stuff that you can improve for instance music was a bit loud and repetitive (I played on windows). The UI and game need polish overall but that's more a Jam issue with only 48 hours. 

Switching layers with only the tab button can be a bit annoying. I understand this choice but I think putting the enemies layer just after the environment layer is a bit more logical since you are moving in the environment then you get hit and you can see directly what's attacking you by pressing tab once. In your game you have to go through all the layers to see the monster which can be a bit irritating. 

I also think the pause layer is quite useless and getting rid of it wouldn't harm your game in my opinion. Imagine being a player and you need to pause the game quickly to do something else. In your game you have to go through the layers and stuff it can be annoying for the player. I think pausing the game should be a feature always accessible. 

Finally the game is quite hard to understand at first. At the beginning, you are lost in all those layers without knowing what to do. For your future games try to make some kind of tutorial inside the game which shows and introduces the game mechanics one by one at the player.

I also saw some bugs like enemies being visible in environment layer or if you start the game and don't press tab at all you can see both the enemies and environment.

Anyway good stuff ! Congrats !

Thanks for all this feedback! 

You're right there are a lot of design flaws and bugs. We were too ambitious for this jam :)

I actually wanted to turn the start room into a tutorial, with static ennemies and maybe a switch to open the door but we lacked timed and it turned out to just be the "press tab" UI text. 

But glad you like the concept! I hope we'll find time to make it interesting :)

Thank you for your feedback ! 

We did think about the layers order, but way too late, and didn't have time to really think about it. That's definitely something we want to improve !
Thanks for your advice on the pause layer, we'll think about it. We'll work on the tutorial part as well, we're still newbies for the most part ahah, we still have a lot to learn.

I'm glad you liked our idea though :)