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Loved this. Super polished pixel art and a real quick fun arcade-style gameplay loop with a nice little sense of humour. Incredibly complete little game for a week-long jam.

Awesome a beautiful little compact homage to Star Trek. Really cute presentation and felt like you were very much in the universe. The super low res art and style is incredibly well done. Loved it. a great little experience

Really polished for a game jam game. The platforming is pretty tight, the level design most of the time is fair and enjoyable. I've definitely played worse platformers that are full releases. Great work!

Definitely could've done with getting some music in there though!

I'm jealous, good work!

Super cute and cozy. Really reminds of the virtual pet craze in the early 2000s. 

Cute graphics, great menus and really fits the theme. One of the stand-out submissions in this jam!

Very cool concept and twist on the tower defence genre. Love the retro PC aesthetic and with the music it has a slightly haunting, sinister feel. 

I will say the game over music caught me off guard and felt rather out of place.

Very fun, cool game!

Nice sense of humor and some unique ideas. The hand-drawn cutscene is a cute idea.

It's a little hard to play with things coming at you from offscreen with little to no warning.

Unique and fun, what more can you ask for from a jam game. Incredibly satisfying gameplay loop with a fun light-hearted aesthetic. Great game!

I did have a bug where the upgrade menu never came back after a few rounds even after using all my balls which was a shame as that was a good run. I also think it could be a little clearer how the controls affect the outcome.

Loved this game, definitely one that could be polished up and make a nice small release out of.

Thanks! I kinda kept you locked into the minigame win or lose to make it a strategic choice as the game quickly gets more hectic you need to choose whether you have the time to start production or defend.

Thanks for playing!

Thank you! I've been playing a lot of Dredge so really wanted to use a QTE dial thing in this game 😅

Thanks for playing!

Thanks for the kind words. I kinda kept you locked into the minigame to make it a strategic choice as the game quickly gets more hectic you need to choose whether you have the time to start production or defend.

I also wasn't 100% happy with the key bindings, but also didn't seem like a natural set that everyone would like.

Thank you for playing!

A very cool twist on the Buster Bros,/Pang style arcade games with a melee attack. There's definitely a technique you can pick up pretty easy to guarantee a win, I'd like to see some variety in how different size balls react or some power ups/handicaps.

It's a very pretty game although I see that it's an asset pack, it'd be nice to see you team up or give the art a go yourself!

Very fun! 

Great art, every asset looked really well drawn. I also liked that it changed up a little about halfway through with the arm moving. The flip mechanic is well made and feels satisfying.

A little more variety would've been nice. By the last 30 seconds I was trying to land the pancakes on the fly in a way that they would stay there... I got so close!

I very much enjoyed the Star Fox style controls and the neon-soaked atmosphere, a great aesthetic. I also liked the semi-auto targeting system, great work!

Performance, in the browser version at least, was patchy at best. With lots of freezes to the point I thought it had crashed once. 

As others have said the link to the theme does seem a little tenous but overall it's a huge achievement for a week game jam.

Excellent artistic direction and a really cool concept. I love the idea of the goblins using any junk they find. The equipping section is very cool and I love how each piece looks in each different slot.

It would've been nice to know what each piece of rubbish does and how it affects in the two different slots. Sadly I got softlocked on my playthrough being stuck in an endless cycle of missing one another.

Thank you! The cat artist will be super pleased to hear! Sorry the QTE was a little difficult, that's all on me 😅 I guess when you've done it a few hundred times to test it gets a bit too easy

Thank you! Once upon a time the turret was twice as fast 😅

Totally agree on making things a bit more clearer, sadly time wasn't on my side and just wanted to make sure it played ok more.

Thank you playing!

Sorry for deafening you! Will definitely keep that in mind next time. There was a note at the beginning and in the description for interaction but yeah a bit more tutorial would've been handled if there was more time. Thanks for playing

Super cute art style and music. I do have to agree with the previous commenter that each stage was exceptionally long for a tower defence game. Much shorter stages would keep the player going to see the next enemy and tower. Alternatively a 2x/3x speed would've been a nice option, kind of like how Bloons does so if you're confident in your build you can just fast forward to the next wave.

A heck of an accomplishment in a weeks jam though! 

Looks like it had potential. The art style is cute and the gameplay loop looks like it could be fun with a little refinement.

As it stands though it's pretty unplayable, although you definitely could've made it easier on people by at least explaining the controls and the GUI in the description and by just ticking the box to allow us to fullscreen the game. The spawn rate at night is also insane which again was probably only one variable.

I'd definitely say go back to this when the jam is over and get a full prototype finished with some clear guidance to help the player know what is going on.

Awesome, super fun game. The amount of customisation and reverse tower defence theming work super well together. The art is pretty basic but it's all thematically the same and works together. But most importantly this was a lot of fun.

I'm sure there could be some more balancing done as I was able to finish on the first run with 2 over armor, 2 runes and the warp power up which seemed a bit OP. 

Loved it and would play a bigger release of it.

I liked your character sprite and how the lighting changes his shirt on the way up. It definitely hits the theme being a classic jumping tower platformer.

I understand it's an Only Up style rage platformer but they aren't that conducive to game jams as they actively try to make the player quit instead of pushing on to see more of the game. The incredibly floaty platforming and almost immediately (just two levels up) tiny single square platforms make it very difficult to want to push onwards.

I'd also highly recommend jumping into one of the Godot 4.x releases so you can release a web build, wayyy more people are willing to play a web build than download an .exe.

That battle music sounds awfully familiar...

Very cool game but the pixel font is an awful choice for a game built entirely around letters. V, U, W are so hard to guess until you've made the word you think you're making and then it's invalid...

Super cute, loved it. I did manage to softlock myself behind a bath when I upgraded and put the bottom left one in though 😅

I was using Chrome on a desktop. My PC is fairly powerful without being nuts. 

A fantasy bullet hell crawler is a very cool idea. 

The art here is funky with fun enemy design. 

Sadly it's overly difficult with zero feedback on what is effective. You have 2 weapons, but you cannot tell which weapon works on which enemy, or even if the weapon is hitting the enemy. Most enemies seem to be able to be kited but even the very first enemy in the game is ludicrously tanky.

There's a lot of potential but this falls into the "making it hard for the sake of it" category. One of the biggest flaws a game jam game can make. Players will play something that is too easy. Players will play through something that is easy and then gets hard. Players will not play through something that seems unfair from the start.

Infuriating. Annoying. Evil.

I love it.

Exactly what this kind of game should be. The simple art style is used well and the squares actually manage to have some personality. SFX also support the game well.

It's simple, it's not flashy but it's packed full of gameplay.

This is tricky. It's very hard to keep your eyes on all four walls at once.

The idea is cool but the performance is also very laggy, I'm presuming due to being a 3D web build. It makes placing and moving the light and towers far more difficult than it should be.

The concept is good and I'd like to get further if performance was better.

I did not expect the little bird to be packing so much heat! That's quite the gun sound effect 😂

It's a fun little arcade shooter. 

I'm not really sure how it fits into the themes of alchemy or shadows? There's also not much reason to leave the bottom floor and allow the enemies to come to you, there needs to be something that motivates the player to move from the bottom.

Super atmospheric. I particularly enjoyed the way the smoke bomb was used 😂

Really pretty art, a simple yet effective crafting system and nice stealth mechanics. Overall a lot of fun.

The crafting/stealth did feel a touch disconnected but with more puzzles and situations I'm sure this could be worked out.

Really polished for such a short time and well written.

Great work! 

I'd love to hear your feedback on our game. Thanks!

Ooooh fun. Please drop a link for where you're doing this!

Really fun stuff, the use of the 4 powers is intuitive and fun. Although the softlock is very unfortunate.

The art is crisp and nice, the UI is also really nice although maybe a semi-transparent background for the circle would make it a little less intrusive. 

There's a lot of potential here with the combination of the four powers. This is great work for a first jam, a million times better than my first one 😅

Adding sound, even if it's placeholder stuff would've really enhanced the enjoyment.

Please give our game a shot and give some feedback! 

Great stuff, I had a lot of fun with this one as I do love a solid platformer.

The theming is great, visually very pretty and the wall jumps are crisp.  It's the perfect size for a demo and isn't stupidly difficult or too easy. Controller works well by the way also.

It is a little rough in areas. The first 2 levels have some tricky-ish platforming but that's all forgotten about come level 3 and you just kinda run through using 2 of the powers. Some of the powers have no use. Some of the art doesn't match other art. It's described as a cozy platformer but then you have big upbeat music that's not exactly in line with the idea.

With some work on level design and really tie-ing together the theme, art and music this could be a cool little release. I had a lot of fun and played through the whole thing. Thanks!

Please give our little game a shot and leave some honest feedback, we like to know where we can grow.

Fantastic pixel art, super detailed cat and tileset. 

Some interesting similarities to ours with the use of light and a thrown potion mechanic. A fun maze escape game although it feels a little sudden and inevitable when your time is up. You got a real good glow on your light in this, I wish our lighting looked that good.

Fun stuff, look forward to seeing what you guys build in the future!

Congratulations on finishing your first game! 

It's a pretty fun concept and plays like a solo board game which is pretty fun. The menus and UI are really well set up and visually it looks really good. A few alternatives in decisions to rolling dice may help mix up the idea a little as I feel this could get stale in a longer game pretty quick.

Great work for 2 weeks solo! Look forward to you finishing more games!

Very stylish. Love the art and atmosphere of the game. I'm not the biggest horror guy but you got my interest and I really enjoyed this game. A good mix of puzzle and horror.

I love the games that put a unique twist on the theme, great idea! 

The visuals and the soundscape enhance a very cool game with a simple mechanic. 

Simple yet emotive, great stuff!

Cute. Nice visual effects and bouncy soundtrack combine to make an enjoyable little experience. 

Feels like a nice combination of the shmup and Survivors-like games. 

Absolute gem of a game and I'd buy a full release of this. 

Real chill vibe that quickly becomes frantic and out of control when things heat up. The switching potions and trying to maximise your hits is a fantastic gameplay loop. The path choices at stage 5 add another cool dynamic to the game. The art is cool, the music vibes perfectly well with the game and it's just one of those games you can see yourself saying "well, one more run..."

The potential for the roguelike power ups is really good but right now they feel pretty inconsequential or truly amazing. So a run can be pretty lucky and get the right shop choices or be cursed with very poor options that don't add much.

Loved this game, good luck developing it further!