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Thank you! I've actually had been working on a new capsule image while I saw your comment! 😅 Just updated it. I'm not much of an artist, any thoughts?

I reallyyyyyyyy  like the general vibes/aesthetics/theme of this game! I think my favourite of the jam so far. I also really enjoyed testing all the different abilities and trying to use them to kill specific enemies (especially these annoying summoners). My biggest pain point was lack of a clear goal, from the comments it seems like after X amount of waves you win the game? This wasn't obvious to me, and I would like some sort of visible indicators that I am making progress. Also, I think the game would be just this tiny bit better if there were more gems (worth less). But overall I really liked it, good job!

Looking at your previous comments, I think you would appreciate a longer feedback😅 so:

I did one run with a full boomerang build and while it was fun at the beginning it quickly turned into "do I see a boomerang (or a boomerang upgrade), +X permanent damage per hit gem, or just obviously good things (dice, donut)". In the end I just quit because I was getting bored (ended with best round 632784).

Now, take all of this with a grain of salt as I don't have that much experience in this genre of games. If the boomerang thing is actually a good strategy, then it should be more deep and complex and if it's actually a bad strategy (I might just be a bad player 😅) the game should have killed the run much quicker, so I'm incentivized to start a new run with new ideas. I think in balatro the target grows pretty slowly between the blinds(?) but when jumping to a new difficulty it really spikes, so maybe something similar would be nice here?

Also, it seemed like the buffs/passives were really focused on just one specific kind of build (e.g. boomerangs)? I didn't really have a hard time choosing an upgrade to take.

The visuals are 10/10, look very professional and I really liked them. One suggestion would be to start breaking the inner layers of the ball after the first one, so there's more visual feedback in later rounds. There are also some accessibility issues:
— While I'm fine with background moving when I move the mouse (which some people might not be, and it should be an option in the settings) I really don't like the buttons in the main menu moving
— Some texts were hard to read with the crazy background, and I often lost my mouse cursor. If you will be changing the background or doing a custom cursor later, please take that into the account.

I also have some random polish feedback, roughly sorted by importance:
— If the weapon tooltips were long they went off the top of the screen, which made it impossible to pick the X  best weapons (at least in my case where the only difference was amount of damage at the top of the tooltip)
—  Maybe in addition to the speed in settings, speed up the animations depending on the expected length of the fight? (e.g., there are a lot of weapons or weapons with long animations → speed up)
— Considering that each weapon can only have one gem, could it be displayed on the pedestal so for example it's easier to locate a weapon without a specific gem?
— Showing a shop with $0 at the beginning of a new area was confusing to me
— I locked a weapon without noticing and was confused what the lock icon meant. Figured it out eventually, but maybe add "Locked (RMB to unlock)" or sth?
— Moving weapons around didn't feel that intuitive, I would have preferred more drag-and-drop behavior (but in the end I figured it out so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
— In the "Choose X that remain" screen there should a piece of UI showing "Selected Y/X" and the proceed button should be visibly disabled until you do it
— When it goes into the select screen, and it shows "It's time" (or something similar) I would add an explicit "press to continue". I'm conditioned by games to wait because maybe they will continue by themselves while I'm clicking, and then I will skip to the next part by mistake.

Good luck with Steam! (I might try to do a steam release with my game too, so hopefully it goes well for both of us 😅)

Fun game and cool idea for the theme! I think some more strategic choices would be nice, e.g. if there would be some enemies who can only be hurt be a certain type of weapon or a robot who is much faster and allows you to move quicker when looking for a robot/enemy. But good job!

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Thank you!

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Thank you! If your friends had any thoughts on the game, please let me know!

Downwell was one of the inspirations in terms of looks and vibes! As for the rogue upgrade - the enemies at <0m where supposed to be quickly kill the player and not really be part of the game 😅 But I might leave as I think people are enjoying absolutely destroying enemies at the end!

Thanks, I will check out the CTRL ALT Defeat!

Thank you! :)

Ah yeah, fair point

I really liked it and finished it! I had a similar idea for a game for some time so it's nice to see it realized! It would be nice if the physics was more deterministic - at the start I was trying to do things like "throw a box at an specfific angle so that it lands perfectly on the zone" but after a few iterations it always broke somehow so I just run from one place to another but I think that's more boring. But really fun in general!

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Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

Enjoyed the game! I also had problems with reading the font at the beginning 😅 Also I didn't really realize how the collecting works and just accepted that it works in mysterious ways :P I know there is an audio cue but maybe some visual feedback would be nice? (or maybe I just haven't noticed 😅)

Thanks! I'm not exactly sure what do you mean by "full-size walls" though 😅

Thank you! Yeah, this issue sometimes happens I wasn't able to fix it in time 😅

That was definitely one of the inspirations!

Thank you, I'm happy that you liked the aesthetic as it's pretty cheap 🙈

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Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks! Yeah I kinda didn't want to bother with the music and decided to focus on other things 😅

Thank you! 💜

Thank you!

That's the plan so far!

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Glad you enjoyed it!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks!

Thanks for playing!

Thank you! There's a large chance I will continue developing it into a full game!

> I did that to reach -814 meters

As far as I know, that a world record! :P (thanks for letting me know, I will try to fix it)

Thanks for playing!

Love the visuals (and just general polish of the game and itch.io page) especially the way your guy floats nicely when moving! I was mostly dodging the fishes and not shooting at them, and so the gameplay was pretty laid back. I think I would enjoy if the game promoted some more aggression from the player but overall a really cool game. Nice work!

Thanks for playing!

Enjoyed the game! I found the story interesting and liked the boss fight. Although I don't really get the platforming controls and pretty much kept pressing the W key 😅 One issue I had is that in one part (pic related) I spend a lot of time not realizing that some bricks were platforms and not just background because they didn't really  stand out

Nice! I wasn't able to progress very far but I keep coming back to this game every few minutes for another session even if I rage-quit most of the time 😅 I liked that you can save yourself from falling all the way down with the shooting, and it really feels like someone with a lot of skill (not me) could do some really crazy speed running techniques. The only issues I have are with the reloading: 1. It felt annoying when I forgot to reload before an attempt 2. I feel like the reload animation/progress bar finishes before I can shoot. But still, very fun and will probably play it again later!

Thanks for playing!

Not sure what's causing the rendering issue :c, it works on win11 firefox, but I will look into it.

Very cool! I spent quite a lot of time playing it! My biggest problem with it is the animation speed, which is too slow in my opinion. But really fun game!

Really fun idea! I especially like the aesthetic, very unique!