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Could be because I never played games like these on keyboard. I just found it hard to get used to, but that doesn't mean that your approach is wrong or nieche. What I'd like to change is what you did with Z and Shift though. Z (punch) only works at smaller sizes, so pretty much useless most of the time for someone who's constantly stuffed. Shift (dodge) however is a lot more useful, especially against ranged enemies, but isn't really where the fingers are positioned. There are 1-2 useless keys inbetween, which isn't ideal especially for something you'd like to use as a quick reaction. 

I don't really see a point in the punch anyway as the kick/belly bump are pretty much the same in terms of attack area. Not sure if there are any combos you could pull off with both kick and punch, but to me the punch felt rather redundant and unimportant. Putting dodge on Z would make a lot more sense than having the punch there

Nice game. The controls are a handful - or three rather - but once you get behind it, the game plays quite nicely. Though the game definitely has its ups and downs. What makes matters worse is that the first two maps are really hard with how the game progresses. First, when you have no equipment and points in the skill tree, you get bullied by all the slimes until you've gotten a good grasp of the controls and some good gear. I tried my luck in harder maps before I beat the first one to get some better gear at least, which somewhat worked, but it doesn't feel nice to scrape some leftovers wherever you can get some just to be able to beat the first level. (Maybe I'm just bad on a skill level though, so I'm not really upset about it)

The second map is... weird. It's a maze, sure, and with the instruction to collect the keys for the bossfight there's some direction to it, but the layout really is annoying. Some passages you can't take because you either miss a little bit in jump height, or you're just a little bit too tall. So finding and memorizing not only the layout but also the paths that are viable is quite annoying. Here I noticed that the healing items only replenish your bursts when you're completely healed, otherwise they activate straight away. So a single hit from an enemy can keep you from stacking bursts. In the middle of a fight it might be useful that they activate instantly, but for every other purpose I think giving the player the choice of when to use them would be better. And then there's the bossfight... this could be me being too unskilled again, but I really struggle with that boss and only ever gotten a draw where we killed each other at the same time, even with level 3 and 4 gear. 

Third map is my favourite one of the four. Really the opposite of map two with how there is only one path. The cysts on the walls are a bit annoying, but that seems to be their intended purpose. This map tests your patience though as there are a lot of monsters with little room inbetween, so I had to spend quite a long time just waiting for digestion. Especially after I had to decide on a xp boost for either slaying or eating enemies. I think it would be nice if digestion sped up over time, like normal speed when you've just eaten and then faster and faster the longer you do nothing, or massage your belly. The boss here was a bit weird. The first time I had beaten and eaten those dogs before I realized they were the actual boss. After that I tried to figure out their moves, but now I think you're better off not thinking about that at all. The more you think you understand how they move, the harder the fight seems to get.

Fourth map - is a map. Nothing really stood out. Which is not a bad thing really, as I find the enemies and map design are a good combination. Haven't beaten the boss yet, but that one really boils down to energy management and mastering the controls. Speaking of which - they feel like really unintuitive. I know there were lots of games that used similar keybinds, but I can't remember playing  any of those. To me it felt like you were trying to map a controller onto the keyboard without reaching a satisfying setup. I think this game would really benefit from adding controller/gamepad support. Everything just feels like it's a ported console game. 

I hope there'll be lots of levels in the future that allow me to unlock more of the skilltree. I feel like the game could use a story that connects the different levels, but not necessarily so. Right now it's about doing whatever you want to and getting stronger through that, which is totally fine, although a bit unrewarding. With either a story or an unlock system (or potentially both) clearing levels and beating bosses would serve a higher purpose rather than just average loot and a bit more xp than common enemies

Just wanted to suggest that the dragon miniboss can be repeated and maybe even bred into a new parasite girl. I know it was said that we only scared it off when we fought it, so I'd guess there's already something planned for a second encounter.

With how the demo works right now, namely a single run up to the first boss, there's not much use for relics anyways. You've set your priorities in a sensible manner such that the most basic features come first. It was indeed fun to play once and see what this game has to offer, but it didn't leave anything open for a possible second playthrough. Continue adding content and features and I'm sure it'll get there eventually

For me it doesn't load either way... maybe you can see your linked one because you are the one posting it? idk if that makes sense .-.

It is what it says it is, a rogue-like deckbuilder. It's playable, but not really enjoyable (for me at least). The cards are hard to handle, sometimes a click is enough, sometimes you need to drag it, sometimes you have to drag it to a seemingly unrelated position on screen. The story, weird as it starts out to be, is quite nonexistant once you enter the actual game. A blant *rips the heart out* that only changes a bit between the different monsters is rather uninteresting. 

You bring up some nice ideas though with cards that play a turn later, haven't seen that one yet (though I must admit I haven't played the big games of this genre). I could see some nice gameplay coming out of this feature. Some more explanation about how this works would've been nice though as it wasn't really obvious that effects like +damage or -damage only last one turn. Some sounds and visual effects would be nice to have as well to see what's actually happening when you play a card. Previewing effects on mana, health and targeted enemies too.

As it stands right now, there isn't much of a rogue-like feature in the game, no relics, no powerups and nothing unlocks when you win, or lose, so it's just a deckbuilder at the moment.

I hope this rather negative feedback doesn't dissuade you from developing the game further. I believe that at this point of development pointing things out that are missing/not working is more helpful than an undifferenciated praise, but nonetheless you did well on several things and have gotten to a point where you have a playable game you can show the world. I'm excited for how this game will turn out when more is added

One of these days her buttons won't miss anymore...

it's a nuke recipe. three stacks (=48) brown chocolate convert to 24 white chocolate

White chocolate recipe shows only one chocolate for the ingredients, but uses two

Plants won't get registered in the recipe book when using mmb to pick them up from an oasis 

Galactica becomes permanently invisible when you change between fullscreen and windowed

Bonbon unlocks her final dialogue at 96%, ending her stage before completion

You can get trapped in a gate when it closes with you under it

 For whatever reason, this showed up when opening the recipe book. Just started the game and opened the book, so nothing out of the ordinary. It goes away when I close it, but it doesn't change back to the actual recipes either

Managed to automate nuclear power and plutonium. Now I'll have the ressources for automating carbon 
I really don't know how you all handle inputs while avoiding belts... But I don't have performance issues yet, so I'll continue using belts

Well, after looking into it, belts suck fps hard .-. Deconstructed only the belts from my current world (106 in total) and the fps went from ~30 back to 60 despite many machineries still working. I still don't know how not to use belts though, so I guess I'll have to live with low framerate now >~< But then again, I can't get the framerate down with *just* belts and items on them... idk

not sure if this direction has the same problem but if you build this setup going from left to right, so the other way around than is shown here, the single planting pot doesn't get a refill since the plants get transferred to the other storage too quickly. At least that's a problem I've been troubled with

In the clothing dialogue about latex, the girls talk about panties instead

Belt mergers would be nice, especially if they had a forced order setting like the splitters. It'd take away a lot of logic stuff with the gates and screens and whatnot, but having screens everywhere isn't that nice either

A mass select for destroying and maybe even copying buildings

A way to set a priority to funnels for when there are multiple accessing the same building's products

A shortcut to open the recipe to something in your inventory

An eyedropper keybind for selecting a building in the world to pull the building from your inventory

An indicator/selector for the screen when multiple numbers are shown, like in the "special" tab for the queen bee

Screen should be able to have a higher threshold than 1000, at least for targets that easily exceed that number

Range indicator for the hovering hand and forcefield crane

A setting for NPC to follow but keep some distance. I like having a 'companion' follow me, but with how they try to get as close as possible to me, it's a bit annoying

Next round of reports for the version 0.11b

• Saves from old versions cause the load screen to show no save slots and freeze the game so the screen cannot be exited
• Chateau gains a lot of HP upon digestin prey, exceeding her max HP in the process. The surplus HP shoots the hp bar out of the unit display.
  • Surplus HP reverts to max HP upon taking damage once
• There's a text box briefly showing up at the start of the "hard stage" (second level). It's empty and automatically closes within a splitsecond
• The following events caused the game to freeze indefinitely: 
  • Goblin queen eats prey
  • Dusk lamia eats goblin queen
  • Goblin queen runs out of hp, but is freed before digestion
  • Goblin queen is free, knocked out and has prey inside
  • Detained Goblin queen with Avalon
  • First eaten prey escapes from both the goblin queen and the Avalon
  • The next turn doesn't start, Alt+T does not resolve the issue, just progresses the turnorder on top of the screen
• Freeing a ko'd unit from a Schrödinger had the same effect
• No dialogue happens when using "shelter" (probably not a bug, but incomplete content)
• Enemy units have friendly dialogue towards the commander after succeeding in some of their skills. Just a bit weird I think
• Stomach sounds do not get affected by any slider for sound volume
• Roundhouse kick (sometimes?) does not hit behind
• The prey list does not scoll down, only showing the first three occupants
• Game froze when avalon got a level up from pampering shaman for the second time, Alt+T worked
• Battle overlay got stuck when enemy sporty theano digested prey before attacking. Both sequences played at the same time, showing both digestion and battle. Alt+T gets rid of that one image at a time, but if something else comes up, it just stacks on top
  • Even after all sequences played out, the following ones still get stuck on screen without finishing
• After Theano and Goblin stage gems and money got visually replenished, though after spending some it was back to the numbers from before the fight
• Avalon sprite is way too big in the gacha screen

Well, it's been a long time since I last played this and since then many other games made me forget this one mostly. So I can't really tell you which aspects of THIS game I liked the most, but can tell what I like in general. Hope that still helps with your feedback collection

Story / Gameplay
I like it when the main aspect of your creation is interesting and fun. If you write an interesting story with fun (or enjoyable) characters, I don't mind if the gameplay isn't that fun. Vice versa, if you manage to make the gameplay interesting, the story can be boring and I'd still like the game. What I'm trying to say here is, do what you're good at to the best of your capability, and try not to interrupt the good parts with too many or long parts that aren't. When the fun minigames are separated by arduous walls of text, then I probably won't like the game. Of course getting both good and also well intertwined is the best, but that's hard to do. If you still want to achieve that but feel like programming, gamedesign or storywriting isn't coming easy to you, maybe try to reach out to others to colaborate.

Art
Great art is always appreciated. Though what I find great and what not can be quite arbitrary.  Art can help tell the story, sometimes even substitute for it entirely. I like when there's consistency between different depictions and dislike when there are things shown that are different in the story. But art can be a dealbraker for me too. If the depictions stray too far from what I like to see or are too different from how I imagine characters based on the story, then that alone can be a reason for me to drop a game, no matter the quality.

World
I'm a fan of pretty much every type of setting. Scify, fantasy, real world, dystopia, horror... Some more than others, but it really just depends on the story that's being told. Worldbuilding can be a mess, if the story makes jokes about it. 

Characters
I like quirky characters the most. They can be stoic or grumpy, but a small obsession of theirs can make them fun and enjoyable. On the other hand I don't really like it when a character is defined solely by that obsession or quirk. This is okay for side characters that aren't explored too much, but for those who are more in the foreground, they should be multifaceted. 

Engine
I suppose you're working with rpgm too, so I'll give some feedback on that too.  rpgm is good for mixing gameplay and story telling, though both will be just good at best. Problems I've encountered with rpgm are for one the inability to save during a dialogue, so long conversations are rather annoying when you can't quit when you want to. The built in battle system is good for the intended purpose, but hard to do something else with. Turn based battles and ressource grind are easy to accomplish in rpgm, changing that up though kind of falls flat no matter what you do. On the other hand it's much easier to avoid and fix bugs or unintended behaviour, unlike anything physics based.

Conclusion
So all in all I like anything outstanding. Be it a novel concept or high quality execution of your ideas. Tell me a story and I will listen, give me a puzzle and I will solve it. But feedback on your project directly would probably help you much more since I'd be able to point out things I like or dislike that are related to your project and not just a vague spectrum 

after pulling up the tutorial a couple of times during the first round, I eventually got how the card game was supposed to go. It's quite confusing since several things are explained that don't matter at all, while some things that mattered weren't explained.
Haven't tested around too much since I wanted to get the recipes right, but after finding out that you could combine small flavours of different categories to make one large flavour of the most supplied small ones (only tried supplying neutral flavours though), it was just a matter of figuring out the counts on the food supply. I barely used the action cards though as I could make the ingredients add up on their own, but the way they work was a nice addition to just merging flavours.
All in all I'd say the game was quite fun, albeit a bit short. The mismatching ingredients to the given recepies was only explained at the very end when it already didn't matter anymore, and was a bit weird, but those are things that can barely be avoided when working in such a tight time frame. 
I hope you get back to this game eventually as it somewhat felt like just the prologue cut out from the whole story/game.

As I said, I'd do it myself. I just need the project files or something to work on

Is there a chance this gets another workover? The text is sometimes rather hard to understand. I'd help correcting the mistakes if that's okay for you

do the other crewmates teleport out of the cave yet? I've built a teleporter where they stand and also a hub, all powered up, but their dialogue isn't progressing

Edit: Found out you can use the hub to teleport. A bit confusing since the hub is described as the teleport destination. Either way, is there anything after that?

bro...

I don't think you can be sure that you got 100%, but what you can do is look for open ended rooms on the map. if there is no white border or a hole on that side, you should be able to go there. Though I haven't been able to do so myself as some entrances are blocked or too hard to reach

Is there actually a weight that can collapse the floor like one of the pretans(?) mentioned?

Would like to have a way to look at the whole map so that navigating stages that you already explored becomes easier

This looked like a (semi-) relaxing kitchen handler game at first, but it turned out to be a test of speed, dexterity and patience. Oh, and memory too. That combination isn't something I'd want in one game. 

The concept is great, fattening up returning customers over time by completing their orders. Though the execution on the gameplay side of things isn't. At least not if the goal was to get the same vibe as games with similar gameplay loops. Having to fight the fidgety physics seems like an unintentional part of the game that increases the difficulty by a lot without really delivering a payoff. 

And as if that wasn't enough, said physics get jumbled up every other day to make keeping the burgers together even more of a problem. 

All in all I'd say that there might be an audience that enjoys the additional difficulties compared to other kitchen games, but I'm not part of that and I can't really see the target group being  big enough to justify such decisions.

how'd you get that green bar to be so big? 

--nvm just found out. it increases with capacity

Nice game, you somehow made the (relatively) low poly style look quite nice. Played this on pc and got through to the (current) end nice and smooth. What wasn't smooth was how I get screen tearing whenever I turn the camera, so some more options would be nice. I also noticed that the game closes completely after I save, instead of returning to the main menu. 

About the characters though - I find them all more or less unpleasant to talk to because of their attitudes. It seems like everyone is so hostile to each other, including the mc herself. But that's just preference I guess. 

The demon seems to be out of reach after she gets bigger, so the coin game can't be played anymore. Not that I was missing that part of the game, but it doesn't really seem that intentional.      [Edit: After restarting the game, she got back to normal size, so I guess some process got stuck at some point instead of resizing her.]

In the conclusive talk with the redhead you were talking about having a hard time making clothes behave with other body types, so how about instead of having a separate cloth mesh that has to conform to the player mesh, you just colour the player mesh at certain regions to make it look like they were wearing clothes? This'd circumvent any clipping issues, though I do realise that not all clothing items are suitable for this change, like the dress top. Just wanted to leave my idea here with you, so you can try out a new approach to the problem.

It's got to do with the Game Jam this game was part of. I am not quite sure how this system works, but I assume the dev can pick these wild cards and design their game to include the stated features. I don't know if there's a reward for fulfilling more wildcards, but this seems to guide the development into a certain genre, which probably changes each year/jam

not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but the bell tower doesn't give me any events still. But it occasionally says that there is not much to see, wondering what else it could be used for. 
If it has to do something with fairy weight, I haven't gotten too far with those (all under 100%) 

Got the artefact after 10 days, I hope I didn't miss any journal entries... the last one seemed a bit like a last entry, but I don't know for sure... was a neat story that accompanied this game. I really like how you can manage your moves such that you can (almost) always get the first hit, just by putting in some effort in finding the right location to fight.

At first I was really confused as to why the upgrades didn't work, but that was just me reading the numbers wrong, interpreting an L as a 1. The font fits the game, but also makes this an easy mistake to make.

does anything even progress if you yourself don't gain weight? I've been playing through a couple of weeks now but everything seems to be the same even though I try to feed others (Yuka mainly) or train Erika for that matter. 

Just played through(?) the game, raiding the military base. Had a blast playing it, but when I came back to itch I saw some content that I didn't find in the game. Like the cow costume, or anything that seemed to resemble a second (or further) episode. So, is that still to come in a future update or did I just miss it?

I find it quite frustrating to draw the lines as they disappear even if I drag them across the middle. 

The game itself however is quite nice, although a bit too hectic for me. The (current) ending was worth going through that though

damn, that's crazy

There are quite a lot of knights of evoria now, yet they refuse to team up for more than one afternoon... What trying times we live in

Oh I didn't even see that you could write your own decisions, good to know. 

The situation with AIs being this expensive to use is not great, yeah