As the member of our team that did the majority of the balancing and music, it's great to hear that it was stressful - it's what we were aiming for. We were heavily inspired by Papers Please, mostly because we've done jams before and quick game design is really our weak point. Thanks for playing!
We will agree with you, we do think it was maybe a little too close to our source of inspiration, but we're fairly content to let it slide since this we wanted to avoid designing new mechanics as much as possible.
Reminds me of Getting Over It. The visuals are great, and the music fits quite well, but gameplay is a bit too slow for me personally. That said, I'm also bad at this type of game...
The game is simple, but the pixel art is really cute and it's well executed. Some lateral movement might be nice, any maybe some music that loops less, but it's a good game
Really interesting idea. I'd like some indication of how many points a house it worth rather than adding it manually, but it's the start of a really great puzzle game.
It's a great idea for a puzzle game, if it was a little more developed. I thought it was maybe a little too hard, or no indication was given of how much each value would lose, but it was fun
Interesting story based game, although the prerequisite is that you read all the text. In a further developed version, I'd maybe cut down on the detail a bit to make it a touch snappier.
Either way, the graphics are good and the game is relatively engaging
The music and idea of the game are both quite good, although it has potential to be improved. There were also some hitbox issues and I ended up outside the map
Really neat idea, and the quick play time meant I ended up giving it a few rounds. The jump is a bit floaty, and a bit of randomness in the level would have been nice, but it's quite polished
The atmosphere and overall feel of the game is great - everything ties together nicely to produce one of the best feeling games I've played so far. The controls felt a bit off, but that might just be me
Really cool idea; I'm not sure I've seen a platformer with such a short time limit before, it gets a bit tense. I'd maybe replace the backgrounds because they aren't easy on the eyes. A simple parallax scrolling one or something would probably work.
I liked the art and music, it's definitely in a Mall, and the core gameplay does seem to be there. There may be some slight issues with the hitboxes though.
We tried our best to make it difficult, but not too hard. Turns out that was harder than we thought, so there's always the difficulty slider in the options menu. Thanks for playing!
Really fun idea, but I think you could definitely make the gameplay more tense. Maybe if there were specific stations for different toys, and the controls were just a touch more floaty.
Thanks for playing! It's our fourth (I think) jam, so we have a little bit of an experience advantage, although that's not to say we weren't panicking in the last 20 minutes
Thanks for playing! We realised that the date this is a bit off-putting during our extended playtest, but that was after the deadline. If there's further development, we might point that out in an interactive tutorial
It's a really cool level, and the driving feels really smooth. Some ambient sound effects would have been nice (birds, leaves, etc..) but otherwise fun
Cool idea, and the graphics are quite good. The controls get quite confusing, however. It probably would have been a better idea to just add some speed value to position rather than moving in the direction facing
