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Unique concept with a lot of charm! The art style and sound comes together well also. I believe allowing the player to shake faster/less startup would make the later  part of the game fairer and feel better in general. Overall a great entry!

Great entry! The art is simple but smooth and well polished with nice music and sfx. The gameplay is pretty unique that also fits the theme well!

This was pretty well done on gameplay, art, audio and design! Great job! If I had to give constructive feedback on this, it would probably be on the sudden button change for Level 2 and the level design being a bit confusing for where the player has to go. Overall though this game is 5 stars down!

This is really creative and unique! Definitely punishing on the gameplay but nice to play overall.

This game is simple and felt really good to play. It is unfortunate that there wasn't many enemies or challenge because of the spawning issue but overall great gameplay!

A nice, polished and put together game! The art and effects work nicely with the audio.

Here is my quick to play game: https://itch.io/jam/solo-dev-game-jam-4/rate/2928173


I will be rating all of your games also! Thank you.

It can be challenging to get into but overall has fun shooting and moving mechanics!

Appreciate it and nice gameplay either way!

This game has a solid turn-based combat gameplay loop. Each specific action felt important for which enemy I was facing. The music was also pretty catchy and was nice through many resets. Other than it being a bit buggy, the problem I found playing was how unforgiving it was. Some enemies will destroy your health if they hit you and these attacks come down to a chance. Even when I defeated the enemy, it was pretty much run ruining and forced to start from the beginning. Overall, this was a fun entry and fitting for the theme. 

This was pretty enjoyable and a fun use of the theme! The doodle artstyle works great and is clear for each upgrade in the gameplay despite being minimalistic. The preview is also a nice touch to know how the robot will work. Although I didn't much impact on the the gameplay, it felt enjoyable to watch the bots go, how they reacted to the physics and creating a combination that had the best chance to win.

This is very polished especially for a game jam! The game controls were just fine, the assets fit the atmosphere and the bgm and sound effects all feel complete. The beginning orders felt rough to get through as a new player because there were many things combinations (later learning single ingredients are never the answer) to experiment with. After getting the flow of it, the details of each ingredient stood out with the most of messages and it satisfying to understand. Overall, great game!

This was pretty fun for me! A great choice for the theme also to pick your own debuffs. I do feel the UI and background art felt off compared to the pixel art ice cream and some numbers on screen were unclear to me. Other than that, the variety of buffs made this fun to replay and the gameplay overall flows great.

A nice, short experience with fitting pixel art and audio. Changing the colors of at the start to change the story and potions is a cool concept and I would love to see more of how that would affect a playthrough!

Thank you!! Going more in depth on the tutorial might help with clarity also.

Appreciate the kind words and glad you liked the details! :D

Very detailed and helpful review from Brad as usual!  I especially agree completely with adding sound effects for clarity possibly adding visual cues when the AI decides to do different actions. Glad you we're able to enjoy it overall!

Thank you for the feedback and glad you liked it! I absolutely see how it can hectic so that's a good idea to make it easier things easier to track.

I'm really glad you like the art style! I believe a multiplayer tabletop aspect would be cool with this too of course with something not so deadly lol.

Thank you, thank you!

This game is creative and very polished! Everything fits well in the Pico-8 art style, color scheme and the 3D toasting section all just looks cohesive. The Toaster Hell section had a classic, arcade feel especially with the add on of the high score. Although the game doesn't go in depth or expand with new mechanics on gameplay, the difficulty scaled really well making it fun to replay.  Can't wait for Refrigerator to close out the trilogy!

This was really enjoyable to play! The art style was charming and clear for the player.  The gameplay was smooth and user-friendly with a lot of small details such as the crystal glowing in the UI and arrow after collecting them all.  With that, the tutorial was paced really well leaving nothing to be confused about. The resurrect and army mechanic was innovative and fits the theme perfectly. The only issue is that these mechanics or the fireball aren't needed to beat the game as you can sprint pass all enemy projectiles and pick up crystals. Other than that, playing the intended way is pretty fun. (Also loved the title screen Easter egg!)

A really unique concept that makes this game really enjoyable and replayable especially with achievements. I wish I saw this earlier and had the chance to rate this for GMTK!

There was a jam this week. Other than that, very unique experience that you can't get elsewhere!

This game is one of the best examples of the theme "extract"! The theme of it is the core gameplay through money pick ups and getting out with it to the truck. The entire concept of the heist fits with this gameplay, art and music.  The AI made it challenging to really avoid and try to stealth. It felt like I had to get caught and at some point try to lose them which felt odd but the game flows together and is pretty replayable.

The game feel is what stands out the most from this. Every shot, movement and control of the light felt really smooth and impactful. The visual effects such as lighting really does this well on top of fitting sound effects that makes the atmosphere really fitting. The gameplay was intuitive and simple but still gave depth with the level design and the zombie's AI. This game is very polished and overall felt great to play! 

This was a very immersive! The game did a really great job at keeping me hooked and wondering what will happen next with the art, effects, dialogue note, looting and lighting torches. This build up of the game was very impressive and really cohesive in the gameplay. I spent time really planning trap setups and making sure I was prepared for what would come as it is emphasized very well. I was a sad to see that my traps hadn't saved in between rooms (or had no effect?) and really most of the spawning gameplay came from player attacks. It was short, but overall a really great experience to play!

This is the Puffer Putt sequel we ALL needed. The inspiration from games like Super Monkey Ball + Golf With Friends can be seen here and it works really well together gameplay and artistically. What stands out from this game is the design of each gameplay mechanic working with the pufferfish. This made each level really unique and presents their own challenges(some with too high of a difficulty spike though). The audio ties everything together with multiple quality BGMs and satisfying sounds for many states of the pufferfish. The main gameplay issue (as a mouse and keyboard player) was controlling the camera. I believe the camera was very sensitive and made levels much harder than they were. Overall, a beautiful installment into the Puffer Putt™ series! 

This is a really good concept for the game.  Working with the claw physics is cool although it was a bit confusing to get it working. With some polish on the claw mechanic, art and audio this can be really fun to play.

Thank you for the detailed response! This is very inciteful and does really well on telling me where I'm on the right track for. Art wise I do think a colored outline for the trees would help as I didn't want to do a white one as it would look unnatural with the environment but with none it makes it inconsistent gameplay wise. I also was trying to find a fix for the slight jitter and that being the solution makes me facepalm. In summary, this is all good feedback and doesn't come off harsh that I'll keep in mind for future projects.

Thank you for sharing your experience! More content and detail are things that I really tried improving on and I'm glad you noticed that in game. After playtesting it a lot, I actually reduced the regen time and enemy health. So maybe I could've gone a little bit further with that. Appreciate the feedback!

Thank you for the nice comment! I'm happy the variety of levels kept it interesting!

I appreciate this very much! I'm glad all of the small choices made added up to something big for the experience. Thank you for the kind feedback!

I think it's cool we both had the "Use your health as a resource" concept for this but yours had it for buying turrets which is an interesting idea. I hope one day we can see this at its full power!

This would work well as a mobile game with the fast, simple replayable gameplay. The 1-bit style looks great on this and with the features you listed would give the game more depth.

A truly immersive experience unlike any other. Microwave/10

The art style, background music and click sounds all really tie together well. I love the gameplay loop as it lets the player learn and play at their own pace while having a lot of depth on the efficiency of your planet.

Another banger from the Banjiro Team. I can tell a lot of effort went towards this with the amount art, music, voice clips and programming to pull this off. Gameplay plays fine, similar to beat em ups like Streets of Rage but what stood out to me was the audio no doubt.

The whole aesthetic stands out the most for me. The animations and chill music let's you get real comfy while playing.