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Amazing you were able to balance all the elements to make a fun challenging game with 3 different difficulties! The random generated terrain, the turned based strategy survival, the peaceful music and sound effects were all super impressive. Definitely taking notes lol. There is a lot of content here, and at first it was hard to take it all in but once i made the investment, totally worth it! Great job on this, you have a penchant for balancing and sweet game loops. 

Thanks so much!! It literally was exactly like that. We were going for a chill relaxing bird feeding experience and that was gonna be it, but then the idea for Keanu came up and we just kept coming up with "dumb" ideas lmao. Glad you enjoyed it, it was a lot of fun to make haha 

Thanks a bunch! I’m actually super happy with how the second song comes in and gets really intense lol, didn’t realize it could’ve had a rhythm element in there 

Thanks for playing and for the feedback, definitely had the instinct to go for strategy, difficulty ramping, lose states but it ended up messing with the flow (ex: getting stuck on just feeding birds and not getting to the end) 

Yea I’m realizing the whole game relies on if you’ve seen the references, otherwise it makes no damn sense haha

That’s awesome machinodude! I was on break too, I don’t wanna say how many hours I dumped in lol.  

Your game came out great, loved the vibe,  you made the right choice with the sound and voice acting. The experience you made was very easily recognizable,  which I feel like mine could’ve gone over a lot of heads if you haven’t seen matrix/Keanu memes

Hey thanks for sharing and for putting our game in your top list! 😊 also I love your use of ASCII, lol you got talent. I could easily see a game with those as characters.

In response to your thread, I'm studying Comp Sci too, working on my A.S. to get my programming skills up for game dev, so it's always comforting seeing others on a similar path. 

Ps: Your game is Breathtaking!

Thanks so much! I'm glad you tried it out, we definitely tried to emphasize the pacing and delivering a whole experience in -3min so I'm glad it seemed to work. Also being compared to a Pixar short is such a high compliment! Thanks again😁 

actually never heard of tic-80, that is a sweet feature

My strategy: Make an endless bread wall and cry.  Great creepy vibe, it was very difficult to see the required ingredients on what I'm assuming was the last level. 

This is great, love that I got that anti-masker fired lol! Not sure if it was intentional but I was able to access the editor by hitting esc in the main menu. Cool to see the code for the game, makes me appreciate the product even more. 

YAASS! lmao

Overall nice game! though some of the sock colors were a bit too similar, this concept has a lot of room for growth  

Great puzzle game! prolly spent the most time on this game out of any others. Moving the bricks in real time would've been fun, so you could build more complex shapes and balance things just right, however adding more complexity isn't always the answer. Overall you nailed it with the limitations of the build mechanic and made some really difficult puzzles. Great job!

Decent game, I liked the gravity reverse and most of the level design. I'd suggest coyote time in the future, some jumps I felt like I should have been able to make, also didn't even bother with the last level lol, nice work overall though!

Nice complete,  fun, and  simple game!😄

Thanks a lot! 🙌 I’m really happy how this one came together!

Thank you😄 Im glad you enjoyed playing it! I did have a feeling clicking the title to play was a bit unclear, thanks for the feedback!

First attempt at a logo, super not intentional thanks for lmk

Fun platformer, I like the idea its simple, and challenging. It would've been nice to be able to move with a/d, also i like that you can hang on ledges and do a ledge jump, nice touch

Art is beautiful,  sound is great, fits the theme really well, the game itself is very solid and has a lot of complexity, however the controls are a bit rough (using keyboard) I found it frustrating  trying to get the boxes I wanted to grab. All in all though sweet entry.  

First of all I loved the teeth brushing animation, that looks great. The difficulty curve does drop off after a couple teeth fall out,  maybe if the decay sped up with less teeth, might've fixed the difficulty balancing. I see you attempted some complex movement too, which is hard to get right but you made it work. Also great use of the theme!

Ambitious to make a rhythm game, I got 35points! Definitely a fun little game, could see this expanded on for sure

Its always great to see 3d games in jams, the theme is quite hilarious too. I did feel like the game was a little long (wasn't sure if there was an end and almost stopped playing). The character models were really funny too, well done!

Note: You can kinda cheese the game by punching the horizon with your force punch lol

😂 Glad you enjoyed it!

Congrats to everyone that finished and participated! Super fun getting this project working, this will be my 5th game jam I've participated in and I feel like I'm finally getting the hang of it. Funny thing is me and my brother didn't end up reading the theme "Decay" until about 5 days in and we instantly started shifting directions for the better. Unintentionally using just the theme of "mundane task" as a bench mark, then building on that to fulfill the decay theme was an interesting workflow. Handling one theme at a time made iteration a lot easier and the project probably wouldn't have been nearly as good had we known the actual theme from the beginning. Another thing we focused on this time in development was to emphasize curating the experience the game provides rather then focusing on game challenge or strategy (which if not balanced perfectly makes your game either frustrating or boring) Anyways,  just wanted to share my experience and let y'all know Ill be playing/rating all the games in this jam. Post Your Game here and leave alil dev log of your experience if you want, I'd love to read em. Here's our creation, Cheers!!😉

https://itch.io/jam/mundane-jam/rate/966880

Glad you enjoyed it, Thanks for playing tpickles!

Hey thanks for playing!  Not to spoil the reference, ill give you a hint "Guns, lots of Guns"😉