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A really unique idea and feels quite polished. The main menu being a board was fun.

I enjoyed that the heavier the tree gets the louder the landing becomes. Nice work on the AI chase/forget system. I got quite a good looking tree out of it!

Thanks for playing and your feedback. The snowball pushing should have been improved but it's one of those things that I didn't manage to revisit unfortunately.

Oops, I missed that in my credit list. It's from Godot Shaders: https://godotshaders.com/shader/starry-sky/

Really nice art style and all the juicy parts of the game that make it so satisfying. Oddly enough I also found the pause menu transition really cool. There's nothing to really improve upon here! :)

Simple idea and plays well... I died fairly quickly naturally but I'll give it another guy when I find more time. The visuals are oddly satisfying.

Superb presentations as always. Really nicely scoped chill builder.

I think the only thing I'd change it maybe giving quicker access to the shovel/magnet via mouse scroll up/down but maybe the game doesn't need that kind of speed associated with it.

I tried adding an image but itch is crapping its pants it seems... I played well after the end of the demo and filled the level with everything I could to stress my browser a bit haha :).

A fun idea here. The boss's talking audio was pretty funny.

The use of the mold to show where to put the stick was intuitive. I would have liked to have seen the outcome of the popsicle, like a quick particle or something when it's hit the end of the line. Then you get to see the fruit of your labour, even the wonk-sicles!

This was really fun and an interesting idea from the theme. The controls to steer were tricky to start with but satisfying to master. I like how the levels evolve into sleeping residents which definitely punished my ability to crash constantly!

The UI being set on the dashboard is a great idea!

I wish a lot more came out of the present mechanic as well but due to time it became a very very thin collection mechanic. I would have liked to build puzzles around building bridges out of the snowballs to cross chasms as well.

Thanks for giving it a shot and your nice feedback.

Hi Hzzzln, thanks for giving it a try. I also wish there was more but a lot of my ideas came far too late and I just needed to close the game loop as short as it was.

Someone else asked in the comments so I'm going to copy/paste my response from that:

Since my game mostly takes place on the X axis I have a global shader value for that position and another global shader for an edge thickness. I check the world position of the current pixel and if within the edge value I blend between grass and snow while applying a noise texture and TIME for some randomness

I'll throw the fragment part of the shader in since that's the only part doing anything.

vec3 p = (INV_VIEW_MATRIX * vec4(VERTEX, 1.0)).rgb;
bool in_danger = thaw_position >= p.x;
float noise = mod(texture(noise_texture, UV * (uv_scale / 2.0)).r + (TIME / 2.0), 1.0);
float dist = (p.x - thaw_position) + noise;
if (dist >= 0.0 && dist <= edge_thickness)
{
        vec3 ground = texture(ground_texture, UV * uv_scale).rgb;
        vec3 snow = texture(snow_texture, UV * uv_scale).rgb;
        float blend = mod((dist / edge_thickness), 1.0);
        ALBEDO = mix(ground, snow, dist);
        NORMAL_MAP  = texture(snow_normal, UV * uv_scale).rgb;
}
else 
{
    // Danger
    if (in_danger) 
    {
        ALBEDO = texture(ground_texture, UV * uv_scale).rgb;
        NORMAL_MAP = texture(ground_normal, UV * uv_scale).rgb;
    }
    // Snow
   else
   {
       ALBEDO = texture(snow_texture, UV * uv_scale).rgb;
       NORMAL_MAP  = texture(snow_normal, UV * uv_scale).rgb;
   }
}

As I try to point out in the post this is a very slapped together shader so none of the code is well thought out it simply looked "good enough" haha.

The ambience and atmosphere stood straight away on this one. It took me a few tries of failing miserably at the medium difficult until I dropped it to easy. A fun mechanic and the tower slowly changing colours helps you see which towers need attending even when you're focused on another.

Thanks for playing Pete. I agree about the snowball control. I got it to a state that was "good enough" and didn't revisit it unfortunately.

It was quite slapped together. I could have researched an actual dissolve but I just guessed haha.

Since my game mostly takes place on the X axis I have a global shader value for that position and another global shader for an edge thickness. I check the world position of the current pixel and if within the edge value I blend between grass and snow while applying a noise texture and TIME for some randomness.

Thanks for playing. I would have liked to add smoother transitions for the melting stages but I lack the art skills.

The take on the theme is really cool, lots of great stuff you can do with that. The game was great and the art style was fantastic. I found long jump mechanic a bit tricky but I'm not particularly good at platformers to be honest.

Thanks for playing. I enjoyed the "We're not worried about gifts though, I wanna escape the Thaw" haha. Focused on the objective :).

Enjoy this as a Trek fan. A great twist on the theme, interpreting it as "tow-er" never came into my mind.

It's got some nice charm to it. I had a few nit picks: If the game is mouse driven, I'd prefer to hold mouse to move rather than keep clicking. Secondly it's be great to increase the distance of interactions since some you had to be really close to.

Really solid game. The controls were intuitive and the audio was great. Really nice graphics too.

I might be a bit too dumb to play though, struggled on the first level haha. I'd suggest toning down the first level slightly and also allowing the player to mouse-rect/multi select pieces so they can move them in chunks if they're struggling to get the tower just right.

Great work.

It's cool when you can chain together attack and keep going higher and higher. Simple to pick up and play!

Thanks for playing Sesso. I can't take any credit for the soundtrack unfortunately, I had planned to write some music for the level, but I just wanted to get the game done slightly earlier.

This kept me engaged enough to finish it. I had a little issue solving the flag puzzle but only because I didn't know I could drag them, luckily a comment here let me know. Other than that it was fairly straight forward though some interaction highlighting would have been welcome.

Loved (what felt like to me) a deadpan stare into the camera at the end haha.

Hi Ille!

Thanks for playing. I've tested again myself but didn't run into that climbing issue and the code just gets axis input so shouldn't rely on either press or release. How bizarre, I wonder if there are some godot input issues I'm not aware of in certain cases or platforms.

In any case, thanks for the feedback :)

The concept of the tower being used as a skill tree of sorts is clever. I did get the weapon upgrade issue that others have mentioned where they disappear for a round, I'm not sure if that's intended as a cost vs reward style upgrade.

I like the slower pace of the weapons compared to other survivor games because you need to put a little more thought into your movements and the hit audio made it very satisfying.

I really enjoyed this one. It's incredibly satisfying to get the upgrades and destroy the tower more effectively until you complete the game. The polygon destruction was really cool.

Great polish on this game!

I think I spotted some of the art work on the discord and knew it was one of the games I wanted to try. This has a huge level of polish and there's a lot for me to learn here and apply to my own work to reach a higher standard.

Beautiful art work, atmosphere and a simple to understand and solid gameplay loop. The only thing I'd add is maybe some more interactive events e.g. part of the tower "creaks" and you have to investigate where the issue is on the tower and tap to repair it. If you leave it then that floor collapses.

I found this quite difficult but I bet it's a game that if you stick at long enough you'll master it. It was fun though, I like the moba style. A healing skill or a healing zone near the tower forcing you back when you take too much damage would have been nice.

I really like the art style too!

Thank you for playing and for the kind feedback. I'm primarily a coder but trying to get a little better at the art side when I can so it's nice to hear some of my effort paid off. Glad you enjoyed it!

As others have said the waves were a bit long and could have used a faster pace. I got to stage 2 with the very tanky mushrooms.

It plays nicely, the grid placement worked really well. I enjoyed the calm atmosphere and towers swaying.

Really enjoyed this. It took me way longer than it should have (over 7 minutes!) but I got there in the end. Really nice puzzles making great use of the teleport mechanic. The retro graphics and audio worked great together.

Played well for me though the audio for the lasers faded out after a while and didn't come back. Love the voxel aesthetic and the "fun fact" billboard on the base was great! 

Thanks man. I don't typically enjoy platformers so I've never made one before. I've been playing a lot of Mirror's Edge: Catalyst recently so I "borrowed" the particle trails from there. Really simple to implement as well, I'm glad you enjoyed the details! I'll give your game a try later, thanks for playing.

I really appreciate the kind words here. The air control was my bad attempt at fixing level design problems and unintentionally went a bit too far and as a result it doesn't feel as responsive and fast paced as it should do. Cheers for playing!

I always have the best of intentions to add various options menus and controls etc but I never seem to be able to get around to it. A bit more solo dev jams and I'm sure I'll get it sorted.

Thanks for giving it a try!

Thanks for playing and for your feedback. I wanted to stop infinite wall jumping so one quick way was to heavily dampen the in-air acceleration but I agree I was a bit too harsh and as a result it feels too punishing and float.

Thanks for the great feedback Maaack. 

Would you mind expanding on the control issues was there bindings you would change or was it the controlling of the character and them feeling rigid when moving against walls?

I'm also curious about the interaction bug. Was the grate in range of the candle when trying to interact? 

Cheers

A really fun puzzle game with a great visual style that reminded me of the dithering that Obra Dinn uses. And what I was hoping to happen at the end did happen so that was really cool.

I have a few nit picks but they aren't anything that really ruined the experience. The audio of the doors was a little loud and when multiple doors are opening/closing the sfx can layer up. The orbs when dropped can sometimes be difficult to see if you're in an already bright area.

Overall a fun game :)

I really enjoyed this one. Easy to follow mechanics and played really nicely. The implementation of collision based on being in range of the light is great.

A bit more audio feedback when lighting and picking up/dropping the orbs would have completed the experience but that's a nit pick. Nice work.

It's cool to see all the ideas for the theme. A vampire didn't even cross my mind so it was a really good idea given the mechanics you can build around them.

The last jump took a few tries but that's fine given it's one of the last pieces of the level. It's always satisfying to pull off a double jump so I don't have an issue with it.

Very fitting music too!

I admittedly did a pretty poor job on my character controller. The non-sliding being the biggest problem so apologies for that.

As for the 2nd issue, if I'm understanding it correctly, the ability to interact is tied directly to what the player can see in the light. So if an interaction is too far out of the lights range you wont be able to interact.

I'm glad you enjoyed the atmosphere, it seems a little rain audio goes a long way :)!

Really fun game. The idle animation for the duck is so oddly satisfying and the different death animations were unexpected.

I think it's a great amount of difficult just enough to make you hate your stupid hands but also the right amount to keep trying.