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There is, but there is nothing in it (yet).

Great! Added the dev log.

Just checked the game is unchanged since the jam.

I believe the only thing that was updated was screenshots. Wait - scratch that I think we had a bug fix I'm not sure if it was before or after jam deadline.

You'll have to get into one of the lockers - have you figured out how?

Thank you for the feedback -what are you seeing?

I escaped!

Like the game feel, got jump scared by the monster more than once.

Agree with the other rate that you needed to separate the sprite bounding box from the hit box to allow me to move more naturally through the horizontal tunnels. I expect the hit box to only take up the lower half or quarter of the sprite in this sort of top down perspective.

Really like the lighting effects and music, and how the monster has it's own musical cue to let you know when it's close (but maybe still offscreen).

I had a real nice moment where the monster spawned on the other side of a doorway from me so I walked up and saw the monster behind the locked door. Went nope, going a different way, hit a dead end came back and the monster was gone.

Gave me a nice, oh crap, where did it go moment.

Would like a little more direction and sense of progression rather than randomly walking through similar looking corridors.

Noooo! Ran out of oxygen after picking up the fourth part!

Art is gorgeous, and  the choice to stick with minimal colours gives this a great distinctive look.

Super cute! And shockingly intense!

Was not expecting to be running for my life when I saw the intro screen.

Thank you for the feedback. We made a list of "awkward" shapes and skewer was definitely on there. So it was kinda hard to decide if that meant it was a good or bad for the game.

I struggled with the right timing for cooking. I want it long enough that you can go, "nuts to this, let me rearrange everything on the grill!" and short enough that I'm not stuck just staring at the meat cooking as the hangry meter goes up. One of the things the game not so subtly rewards you for is optimally packing the grill, so I sort of wonder if we should have implemented something that made it better strategy to more actively rearrange meats in real time.

Oh well, when I feel conflicted I just remember:

Grill dad still believes in us!

Gun feels great, skeletons exploding feels great, even the rocket rollerblades feel cool, I just wish I could play longer than 8 seconds before dying.

I feel like there is an arrangement of these elements that will feel amazing, but the tiny arena and PUNISHING difficulty make them hard to appreciate. Please take these mechanics and make some sort of roller derby inspired skeleton shooting game, because I will play the crap out of it.

I love this concept!

However, I did want to feel like I was making tradeoffs earlier, the board was so big on those first couple levels.

It feels like the equipping mechanic would feel better if the board was smaller and the powerups (especially the core ones) just a little smaller. I had to spend a lot of time fiddling between enemy waves. I think a smaller board would keep the concept but be tedious when you get a nice big item you want to equip. That way the focus could squarely be on making the interesting strategic decisions of wanting to carry a key or not.

The "charms" could be a 1x1 on a smaller board and I feel like I'd be doing less "busy work" rearranging things.

There is a very nice core idea here, though! Would love to see it evolved!

Thank you, I'll keep that all in mind.

I guarantee you the ones I reported were not borderline cases :)

I did - and in addition my account is set to not show nsfw tagged content - but thank you for the additional information.

Thank you, will do!

I want to make sure I'm using the right terms and reporting mechanism for this. For instance right now the top two responses on comics are straight up porn that are not tagged nsfw (https://itch.io/comics/new-and-popular).

When I go to report a project I get a form. The reporting form has the following categories:

Broken
Offensive material
Malacious software or virus
Uploader not authorized to distribute
Miscategorized
Spam
Other

...and a Description field.

What's the best way to fill this out so that moderators can quickly understand what the problem is and get the game properly tagged to not show up in the public feed.

Thank you! Need to fix a bug there, going to hot patch by just removing the introduction option for now ><

Been a big fan of your sprite art for a while, cool to see a new game! Have a hard time winning as hell but still fun to spam waves of guys.

Dang that was hard! Not breaking any speed records here :)

Thank you. The music is from https://itch.io/profile/sethersson and I love his music, especially what he composed for our other game - Prototype Glitch.

A beautiful experience cut short for me because of game breaking bugs :(

Shout out for Phaser! Your game is really unique.

I really like the little mini-game at the beginning where you are looking for yourself. It's a really great concept, and fits into the theme of the game. I would like to see that highlighted better in game - although you do mention it in the game description.

The clover mechanic is very cool and very imaginative. Because it lasts for so short a time and starts automatically on collection I didn't feel I could use it strategically though, which feels like a missed opportunity.

One little question: am I supposed to go faster moving diagonally? If not I use this very simple code in my Phaser games to normalize movement speed:

let character_direction = new Phaser.Math.Vector2(0,0);
if (input.left) {
    character_direction.x -= 1;
}
if (input.right) {
    character_direction.x += 1;
}
if (input.up) {
    character_direction.y -= 1;
}
if (input.down) {
character_direction.y += 1;
}
character_direction.setLength(PLAYER_SPEED);

Game is HARD. Haven't finished it (yet). Keep getting caught by some c'thonic plant creatures or ghost squids before I can get all the photos!

Alright, back to this strange liminal space and time to collect more photos!

Nice game.

Thanks for playing!

Yeah, our original idea was to layer 4 loading bars with different "mini-games" but due to time constraints (our team didn't actually start development until Friday afternoon) we had to cut it down to 2.

So I accidently played this without knowing you could move with AWSD or arrows and it was... surprisingly fun. Also the normal game (with AWSD) rocks.

Love the little surprises and sense of humor! Very polished and very fun.

I'd love for this game to have more "juiceness." For instance, I think it could use better feedback for when the player is hit - screen shake, knockback, and/or white flash. As is I have a hard time knowing when I get clipped by an enemy.

The environment is simple but effective.

I also wish there was a little more gameplay...

The problems with game jams is there is just so little time for course corrections. I wish I could have fixed some of the issues with the main game loop. Sigh.

Glad you liked the aesthetics - I think our artist and sound guy really hit this out of the park.

Nice job getting a fully functional rogue like together in 3 days. The level generation seemed very solid and I it was nice hunting for keys to get those bonus points.

That seems like an awesome set of features that would really go a long way. I really liked your game, and I know that it's hard to get all the features you want into a game jam game - so I hope I didn't come off negatively!

I found the controls counter-intuitive, but the core idea is so solid and I love how the baddies exploit the different parts of the combat system - very clever design for the enemies.

I wish the controls had been tighter, because this is very skill testing and I don't like having the option to blame the controls instead of my skill :)

Also the powerup selection was a little frustrating. I'd hop on an archer and they'd be the last enemy in the wave and instead of getting the health I'd desperately need I'd get +100 points. I like how you tried to integrate the power-up selection into the primary game loop, but I didn't like when I accidently didn't get what I wanted.

Overall cool concept that feels like the core of a good, fun, arcade game.

Nice concept. I encountered a few bugs - like if I barely went into a room and then backed out the camera wouldn't follow. Also it would be nice if the game had a little more feedback on hitting the enemies. 

However, things like that are par for the course for a game jam - I really liked the creepy vibes you managed to evoke.

I like this game - but had to stop playing it after I accidently threw away my 3rd powerful item because of the UI for item management. I just wanted to swap items!

Oh well, aside from that gripe, nice well made game that does a really good job of achieving that "abstract" rogue like experience. I'm curious how you could make the extreme abstraction of the roguelike genre fit into the theme of the game - a stack of cards or something like that?

Polish level for this game is insane, great job. Honestly my only two gripes are that the jump for the bubble felt a little 'floaty' and that aiming felt finicky - but those are really, really minor quibbles. Amazing work.

Nice game - has the makings of something more than a game jam!

I like the variety in rooms and enemies and objects you managed to sprinkle in here as well as things like a functioning minimap and procedural generation. How did you manage to do all that in 3 days!?

If you want to expand on this concept I think you need to figure out how to better incentivize using the vacuum - between it's short battery and range I was mostly feather dusting my way through the game. I think it would also help if hitting enemies gave more tactile feedback - I wanted something juicier for hitting them or hoovering them up.

This game is very cool - solid presentation, good mechanics, good execution.

Nice procedural creation - the room variety was nice. The traps are really unforgiving, but I get that is kinda the point.

I love the atmosphere you created with the minimalistic graphics and nice sound. I especially loved the UI - very clean. It's funny that we both made a very similar type game!

I'd love it if this showed the revealed stage again after you failed (so you can see where everything was).

What's the license on these? I was interested in using them in a tiny toy project.

Yeah, I don't think I would have consciously noticed it if I hadn't just implemented something similar for a slow motion effect - but it makes such a big difference. I'd love to know how you achieved the sound technically. How did you filter it? In engine or did you preprocess it?