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I think I started losing my mind a bit x3
I was calling the entity "a big hungry boii" by the end. One of his threats felt so needy, "I'm hungry! Hurry up?"
It was a cool little game! I didn't really feel in danger at any point, but I'm also good at stuff like this.
As other people have said, the controls were questionable, but the main issue isn't the controls, but the movement and environment. Getting stuck on random objects, struggling to climb hills, barely being able to get up stairs, none of that has anything to do with the control scheme, but has everything to do with the character controller and how they interact with the world.

Got through all the current levels without spending a life! Really fun platformer, though getting back to the platforming after dying takes a long time. I slipped off of platforms a few times, so the character could be a little tighter controlled, but it wasn't enough to ruin the experience or restrict my platforming abilities.

I cannot explain how happy it makes me that so many people have been enjoying the game, I'm really looking forward to sharing the post-jam build with everyone, and thank you for playing it on stream!

The post-jam build has the rocket tooltip pop up during the tutorial, which I hope will alleviate this issue a little.
I'm really glad you enjoyed the game! You got a good time for a first completion too, well done!

I almost got all of them!! Fantastic little game, very calm. Kept me playing way longer than I thought it would.
Upgrades cost 6375 total
37920/37936 (minus upgrades)
44295/44311 (including upgrades)
(These numbers are straight from the developer)

Fun little prototype!

Fun! I don't think I'll do another run, it didn't seem like there was quite enough depth for that, but it was very enjoyable. Felt inspired by Into The Breach, which isn't a bad thing :3

Got all the stickers after wave 19. Very fun game! Wish there was a bit more depth, but it was really good regardless.

Surprisingly spooky and fun for a small package

Update on this - While I probably won't release a postjam build until the judging is done, I've made a few improvements, and better contrast across the board is one of them! Thank you for the feedback <3

Thank you for playing! I'm glad you enjoyed.
As for the suggestions:

• Auto building factories would probably be annoying the implement, but being able to quickly plan a bunch using scrolling/shift and ctrl hopefully helps a bit with that

• Hmm. A friend initially suggested something else with time, but later went back on it after saying it would imply the wrong playstyle. I think keeping the days high may have the same issue. Skipping large amounts of time isn't generally a good idea, so adding a setting to enable doing it easier might not be in the game's best interests

I understand where you're coming from with your suggestions, I just don't think they'd quite work out. Thank you for taking the time to give feedback though, even if the ideas aren't implemented, taking the time to understand why they won't be is helpful in its own right.
Oh, nice time by the way!

More than half the time left, very impressive!

That's exactly what the initial plan was, I'm so glad it worked out! Thank you for playing, and for the feedback.

I'll definitely do this for a post-jam build. Thank you for playing! I'm glad to hear the tutorial was effective.

Simple, short and sweet. Doesn't overstay its welcome, and has a lot of fun little items and descriptions.

The best time I've seen so far is 4y3m12d, I wonder if anyone can do better?

Got 1400 on Restore. Very fun little game! Had a little trouble at the start figuring out the mechanics, but once I got it I had a blast~

Wow! I didn't realise that box flying trick was possible! Very cool~

A nice time improvement too. Well done. It was fun to see the testing ground used as a skip. However, that and a few other things have been fixed now.

I've finally uploaded the newest build. A lot of changes have been made, a lot of improvements, and a couple new levels to fill things out properly. A full 12 levels now! Which means 12 ducks, with another one hiding somewhere in the level select...

I'm really happy to see you've been enjoying the game! I think it would be interesting to see an All Ducks run, if you haven't already tried~

It's 5 am for me, so this'll be the final update to the game for the jam. Thanks for playing!

There's a couple ways I've seen it be quacked, but that whole chamber has been reworked, so no longer shall you need to fret <3

Hello!

Thank you very much for playing, it's very gratifying to see people enjoying something I've put a lot of effort into.

I especially appreciate the clip at the end~

However, the jam isn't done yet, and I'm still working on the game! A couple added levels and a lot of reworking for the existing ones. (And much more interesting duck placements~)

I hope you'll enjoy!

Update on this: A new build has been released with lots of fixes, including fixing this crash.

Since this game handles maps with text files and has an import function, you can create your own maps!

The builtin maps have an "export" button beside them, which will show you their text files so you can use them as reference.

If you want to share your creations, post them here <3

Oh, and here's a little treat for you: There's a rock that doesn't show up in any levels.

The core gameplay is fun, and the art looks nice and usually reads well. Carefully dodging bullets while returning fire, testing your luck with how many fish you can take out before they finish reloading, it's a fun little experience. I overall enjoyed it. It wasn't a perfect experience though, so here are my main complaints:

The fish moving through walls is a little weird. Not sure how I feel about it, it's kind of part of the gunplay but it's also.. Odd.

The difficulty was an issue. I would either blaze past everything after getting a little lucky, or I'd die in the first level.

When you run out of ammo, and you've got no grenades, you're basically dead. Wish there was a little melee attack or something for those cases.

I wish the character was a little faster, or the levels a little less sprawling, so I could spend more time playing the game and less time walking around.

The bosses aren't as good as they could be. The fact that the shielded boss can spawn fish that themselves have shields can definitely cause a lot of annoyance.

The final boss seemingly just sat there, and then the game seemed to hitch for a moment, I heard a bunch of gunshots, and then I died. No idea what happened, and I'm not going to play the whole thing again to find out.

The game often lagged when I threw a grenade.

Being a web build, the game has limited resources. Perhaps that's what causes these issues.

Again, the game was fun! All of the complaints above weren't enough to ruin my experience with it. The different types of gun were fun (The sniper seems overpowered, mwahaha~), the randomisation of enemy gear was a fun addition, and the game has a lot of potential, even if it wasn't realised within the deadline of the jam.

Cute game, with charming graphic effects and calming music.  The concept was fun. The baby was, uh, pretty creepy, which I guess is kind of the goal.

Though, there wasn't nearly enough feedback to know you were doing things right, and the jumping mechanic really needed to be explained better, because I didn't figure it out until after I had beaten the game.

It felt weird to have to constantly click to move around rather than holding. I guess it makes more sense with the context of the jump mechanic, but since that wasn't explained well, it just didn't feel like the right control scheme for this game.

Relying on the mouse exclusively isn't great for accessibility, but with a game jam game, that's just how it works out.

Well done on the game!

It's a fun little game but the mechanics aren't explained well. I didn't realise until after I'd playing it multiple times (to test the keyboard controls) that there was a lot more going on than I thought.
My main notes:
1. The music is very helpful for understanding the current state of the game

2. I didn't notice until my third playthrough that the humans came to investigate if they heard something breaking nearby. This wasn't helped by the fact that they only seem to actually investigate some of the time.

3. The tables seem inconsistent at best and detrimental at worst. I, again, didn't even realised they existed until my second playthrough. And when I tried hiding under them, I'd sometimes be spotted anyway, and then I'd be trapped under a table with very little chance of escape because there's a human right next to me.

4. The keyboard controls are, it must be said, terrible. When I saw that the game had keyboard controls, I expected that I'd be able to press right and move right, but instead I'm moving the cursor and then using space to move to that location. This is weird and unintuitive, and lends itself to being incredibly slow, which isn't good when you're being chased by multiple humans! (The mouse controls made sense and worked well, just would have liked a different system for the keyboard controls)

5. It was annoying scrounging around the map looking for unbroken items. It would have been nice to have a little counter telling me how many items I have left to break, so I at least know I'm not wandering around for nothing. Perhaps a little pointer to the nearest unbroken item even.

6. Humans would often notice me from offscreen, which was really annoying because it didn't feel like I could have done better to avoid it. Zooming out the camera a touch or shrinking their sight range a little would have helped with this, so I can see them before they see me.

Overall, very neat! Wish there was more to it, and just a touch more polish. Some bug fixes and more levels and this game would have been a lot more fun, which means it has good potential. Well done!

Thanks for playing!

Did you notice the title? ;)

If not, try skipping through the levels to get back to it a couple times.

Playing 2.0 using Mouse and Keyboard

- There's no prompt to show you how to leave the options menu. Not a major issue, but it's still a bit annoying.

- The player is taught that 'E' can be used to throw, but not that LMB can be used to do the same thing. Since the mouse is how you aim anyway, it makes sense to at least teach them that without experimentation or checking the options.

- Looking into the options reveals that RMB (along with Q) is used to cancel aiming. Given that a much more common action is changing the magnet's polarity, perhaps it'd be better for RMB to be bound to that? Or maybe even MMB. Having all the magnet controls on the mouse would be nice. It would also be nice to be taught these controls in full.

- It's not obvious that when you turn on toggle aim, the cancel aim button becomes the toggle aim button. Both of these are hidden in the options menu and the cancel aim button wouldn't normally be taught to the player.

- The final puzzle was significantly harder than all the previous ones, mostly because it seemed to require timing more than thinking. The way I solved it was to throw the red magnet into the blue electromagnet on the right and then change its polarity midflight to fling it to the switch on the right wall and then run to the left before the block got pulled all the way up. It's unclear if this is the intended solution.

- When changing controls, it's impossible to change anything to E, since it seems to be the cancel button. This isn't shown anywhere, so it was confusing.

- Having the left and right mouse buttons forcefully locked into their controls doesn't seem like an optimal solution. Many games allow two inputs, a primary and secondary one, to be bound to the same control. Perhaps it'd be possible to implement this? I did check, and LMB and RMB can easily be bound to other controls.

Overall, a fun demo. My gripes with the controls don't ruin the experience at all.

The sparkles are how many floors you have completely cleared. Marked every bomb, I assume also revealed as many tiles as possible.

 The patches of grass are all the same, they're just equivalent to a 0 on a minesweeper board or a safe-space on a nonogram board. The different sizes and colours are just for visual appeal, they don't mean anything.

Tick tock tick tock tick tock :):):) I'm losing my mind :)

Fantastic game, really fun, lots of different things to do, though a few modifiers would be nice, I can't count how many times I've been trying to mess around with some things or was just having mindless fun and then a stray rocket ended me, or how many times I was duelling with one enemy and another came in and knocked us so we weren't aligned anymore. A few options like changing the player count and toggling rockets would be appreciated, but it's still a great game, non-the-less!