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Nice relaxing puzzle game! I loved the art and the music. Definitely created a really nice tropical atmosphere with this one. The little idle animations on all the animals were amazing.

Great job y'all!

Thank you so much! This helps a lot

That's awesome!

I watched that video before when I was starting out with Godot. I was wondering more about detecting file updates. I tried it before in Godot 3, but couldn't seem to get it working.

Thank you so much! I'm glad you had fun with it

This is really cool! Really useful for me because I haven't gotten around to learning 3d modeling yet.

Did you write this tool in Godot? If so, how did you get the live sprite updating?

Hello gamers! We just released our entry to the 2023 Gamedev.js Jam: Cowboy Conundrum.

A pair of friends traveling to the past to get rich during the gold rush. But a confrontation with the local cowboys makes the situation complicated.
The game is an action story game and takes around 10 minutes to complete.

Play for free in browser here: https://nothing-d.itch.io/cowboy-conundrum.

If you like what you see, follow my itch account! https://nothing-d.itch.io/
I constantly join new jams and upload new free browser games.

Same

Huh maybe it just doesn't work on my mac. Thankfully I can run windows on my mac so I could play your game

This is my favorite game so far. The art style is clean and simple yet effective. Loved the simple movements with the windows and the tree growing small branches. The lighting effects were really nice. SFX were great (especially the tree growing). All around really good polish.

Then there's the game design. I've never really loved puzzle games, but this one really made me want to play more. All the different ways you could manipulate the light to your advantage and how the game guides you towards those solutions... chefs kiss.

What is the word supposed to be after the last level? I assume it says fin but I swear the last letter is an 'm'.

Awesome game! Please continue making games!

btw your game doesn't work on mac so you might wanna remove that tag

These characters are adorable!

The grandma explaining her repeating text with dementia and the grandpa with his world border house. Props to the writer!

I had to stop at the cave entrance after I came back from the dead end because I couldn't figure out how to get up that ledge. I feel like if I had played Getting Over It, I'd be amazing at this game.

Sad I don't get to see the rest of the story or any more of grandma. Any spoilers for me?

And I won't forget the men who died

Man this game is hard!

I was sweating bullets whenever I had 1 life left.

I nearly cried when I saw that I needed to die in the jump pad level. Hitting those large jumps feels frame perfect.

This is amazing for a first game jam especially with 5 people. I have trouble coordinating even in a group of 3.

Aww I'm sorry you didn't finish :(

The tileset looks amazing though!

I also messed around with controlling the enemies for a while and glitching them through the walls was pretty fun!

I love that you provided the planning folder. Seeing other people's design docs is always super fun.

Hehe I think I reached the win screen!

I loved all the unique abilities. The direction and range of them forced me to play in different ways.

I wish I could've seen more of that giant chef though.

Good game!

Thank you! 😊

Great game! I saw this in Jonas's video and thought the concept was really cool. I'm surprised how well I was able to control the AI. I like that you could see the enemies' thoughts which allowed me to plan ahead. I wish there was music to groove along to, but I understand how these things pan out. SFX worked well. Loved the dialog.

Great game!

There is a beautiful star that nobody knows about. If only they would turn around, their entire lives would change. But nobody turns around, nobody cares, I am the only one that can see the beautiful star. My surroundings slowly fade away as I am consumed by the star. All hail the beautiful star. The only one I can see.

That breaks the jam rules.

Cute game! Incredible pixel art. I loved that there was no attack cool down so you could just spam the sh*t out of it and look like you're floating.

Oh that sounds really bad. Could you tell me any things you did that started the bug and which browser you used (or which download)? Thank you in advance and sorry about the bug :(

Clockwise flipping is always the red one and counterclockwise flipping is always the blue outline. It can get confusing sometimes so it's understandable that it seems like they were changing.

Clockwise flipping is always the red one and counterclockwise flipping is always the blue outline. It can get confusing sometimes so it's understandable that it seems like they were changing.

Woah this is a great review! It's like I'm watching you play.

Very small detail/bug: in the bottles screen, if you move a mayfly around, he is displayed BEHIND the jar’s tag, as if he were inside the bottle.

This is on purpose. Given more time, we'd have put a jar open/close animation so that this made more sense

weird, tells me I fired detectives! :o Is this because I swopped around a bit in the hiring phase??

Yep, but hiring and firing the same detective on the same turn always nets in a 0 reputation loss/gain

The fact that you do not know the tasks before hiring makes it partly like gambling! Quite hard to figure out how the whole system works at the beginning! :o

This is a weird one, because if you were able to see the tasks from the start, then the game would be too easy since you'd be able to always win (or at least reduce losses significantly). This system forces you to think ahead and account for all possibilities. Very rng, but it's possible to take a lot of rng out with planning.

In the task-selection phase, the mayflies are sometimes a bit too close, and will always come back in such a formation! X) I think allowing them to spread a bit would help, especially to distinguish them.

Definitely need to fix this one.

"McFly" XD

XD

I just think some of the management should be introduced more progressively, as it can get overwhelming at the beginning.

Agreed. The complexity was one of the main things we were worried about. However, it would have taken a significant amount of time for mechanics introductions though. We tried to make it so that even if you picked randomly for everything, you wouldn't lose too much (unless you're really unlucky).

Thank you for playing our game and giving such an in depth review!

I really enjoyed this. While the concept of the game was simple, the story kept me hooked for the entire game. I'm surprised you were able to fit in a completely different mechanic in the second half.

Great game!

It's a bit buggy, but I love the ambiance of this game! The polished cutscenes mixed with the art made this experience feel very noir. Well done in 48 hours!

Fun game! Well done in only 1 day! It always amazes me what devs can do in such a short amount of time.

This could be a cool multiplayer party game. The sound and art design are already there for that type of game. Nice touch at the start with the intro music!

The only issue I had was when I entered full screen, the mouse was always offset based on the distance from the center (Chrome). Otherwise, great game!

Fun little short puzzle game! I especially love the sound design. It made for a very relaxing experience which stops me from getting frustrated on harder puzzles.

Great levels

Simplistic art

The only small piece of advice I have is to add input queuing so that while you're moving and you press another movement button, it'll automatically move when possible. Other than that, great game!

Really cool idea! I liked the fact that creating a larger machines weren't always better because you have to deal with the pieces that fall off. This meant there were a lot more interesting ways you could play the game.

I wish there was a way to keep previous build though because then I'd be able to try out the best option for each playstyle much more quickly though I do understand why you'd want to prioritize other things. This feature would have kept me in my flow state for a lot longer.

Awesome ui, definitely noticed the polish. Really cool intro/splash screen and the sfx with the Godot eyes blinking were surprisingly nice. Unique restart button that tied into the world nicely.

Great game!

The penguin just shoots at you for a while, then leaves. With a little more time, I would have liked to add some bar at the top indicating this. Also, you're not actually supposed to be able to hit the penguin, it just inherits from the enemy class that can be hit. I thought I put the penguin far enough to not be hit. Oops.

Wow the art is gorgeous! The animations for the player were really fluid and those environmental pieces just hit the spot.

This game is definitely very challenging, so I really appreciate that you gave the player a quick restart.

The platform controls are all very well done, but the juggling is difficult.
I saw that you increased the hitbox of the light sticks quite a bit and I think maybe the player could get some of the same treatment. There were a couple times when I thought I touched the fire, only to have it shatter right next to me.
The trajectory of the fire is sometimes hard to imagine so I recommend adding a trajectory line.

This game was clearly well polished, and I think if you playtested a bit more and gotten feedback on the difficulty you would have made a perfect game

Hello everyone, quick note from the developer.
Here are some known bugs that unfortunately we can't fix during the jam:

- The menu button on the options menu softlocks you.
- If you rebind your pause key to Left Mouse Click and exit the menu without resetting it the game softlocks.

Let me know if you find anything else, and I can add it to the list.
If you do run into these issues, reloading the page should fix it.

Thanks so much for your compliment! I really appreciate it

Thanks for your comment! Game balance is difficult for game jams so we added some difficulty options.

If you go into the settings menu, you can select a difficulty mode more suited to you!

Good news! If you go into the settings menu, you can rebind the keys!

Click on the key you want to change and then press the key that you want to map to.

The text in the levels unfortunately won't change, but the key bindings do!

Oops.. That's not supposed to happen. We just uploaded new exports so it should be fixed now. Thanks for letting us know!

No there is no building table. Once you gather enough materials for an item, you see it appear in the crafting menu at the top left. The inventory is only the nine slots.

Glad you liked the options menu! I made it in a previous jam and have been using it as a template for all my games.
Here's the github link to it if you're interested: https://github.com/SuddenlyNothing/BaseGodotProject

Hmm that's a bit concerning. Did you also have stone? The crafting recipe for fires is 20 wood and 20 stone which is listed on the itch page.

If you did have stone, you can try dragging an item out of your hotbar and picking it back up which should update the crafting list.