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The card design from a gameplay standpoint has a lot of potential. In my first run, I could already see synergies between some the cards. I would like to see a greater proportion of cards that affect other cards, or maybe even some that affect or react to enemy cards?

The amalgam mechanic is interesting, it feels like a cross between Inscryption and Dungeons and Degenerate Gamblers.

At first, I didn’t understand how to get to the isolated cards on the map, until I realized you could place cards to connect with them. Maybe I missed it in the tutorial, but I think that mechanic should be made clearer.

Thanks for playing! Having more animations was in the original plan and I really wanted to put them , but they had to be cut due to time constraints. Also, rebalancing the game is something I’m planning on doing after the jam.

Thanks for playing! I know there are a few things that need rebalancing, like the variation in distance between the player and exit is way too large. Adding more health potions may help, I’m already thinking of a bunch of ideas for a post-jam update.

I’ve uploaded new builds for all platforms that fixes the bug.

Hi, thanks for reporting the bug. I’ve managed to reproduce the bug and found the actual trigger: whenever a garbage line is added to the well, the game plays “Trance Dance” instead of the proper sound effect. I’ll upload a fix build later today or tomorrow.

Hi, thanks for the feedback. I made the page background darker so that it doesn’t blend with the game background.

No Problem! I think DAS Cancelling being off by default was just an oversight. Initially, the game didn’t have it and I added it in when someone else requested it a while back. I used tetr.io and jstris as a guide to implement it, but didn’t notice that in both games the feature is on by default. I’ll switch it to on by default in the next update.

As for the Dig mode bug, someone else did report it before: https://github.com/mstop4/bomino/issues/4. I haven’t be able to reproduce the bug consistently yet, but since you also encountered it in Dig mode, I know where to focus my efforts in fixing it. Thanks for the bug report!

Hi, thanks for trying out the game.

Have you tried toggling DAS Cancelling on in the Options to see if that improves the handling for you?

You can also find “Sand Cave” by Frau Holle on the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Frau_Holle/different-ways/sand-cave/

The menu music, “Work It Out” by Eddie Aich, is also on there: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/eddie-aich/single/work-it-out/

The “Unable to find game!” error is a longstanding issue with GameMaker and exporting the final app for macOS. It pops up even if the app is notarized. Moving the app to the Applications folder seems to stop the error from happening. I might try export the game as a .dmg next time to see if that makes things better.

Fixed in v0.18.1

Hi, thanks for reporting that. I’ll fix the macOS build as soon as I can.

Grand Dad!?!?

Great job, guys!

Awesome work! 🤘😣🤘

I think your submission has two copies of “Blue Horizons” by mistake, but I was able to listen to “Twilight Hour” on Soundcloud. Both are done very well, in fact I think I like Twilight Hour better than the official arrangement of “National Park” in HGSS.

Awesome work!

I’m pleasantly surprised at how much mileage you got given how short the original song is. Great work!

Great work! I like Easton Kingdom the most.

This is the kind I could spend a lot of time on. It reminds me of games like Adventure, ZZT, and VVVVVVV, with simple graphics and only a few simple game mechanics and the rest is just exploring a huge connected world. Great work!

I started the game and listened to the title screen. Was not disappointed. 10/10 would honk horn again. Keep up the good work.

Definitely loved the aesthetic of the game! I don’t know if it’s just me, but I encountered some audio stuttering whenever I built a building and when there were a lot of buildings on-screen. I would love to see this game expanded upon!

I love the concept of the game. The graphics and music are great too! Given the length of the game, some checkpoints or health recovery pickups would have made the game a bit less stressful for me near the end. :P Keep up the good work!

The visuals are bright and colourful, which really caught my attention. The controls took some time to get use to. I imagine this might work with touchscreen controls. Good work!

I love the cute and colourful graphics! The “S” key didn’t seem to work for me, but I still was able to play the game with the arrow keys. One suggestion I have is to maybe add a dash mechanic so you can more forcefully push your opponent. Keep up the good work!

Very interesting concept. The large size and scope of the world surprised me a bit given the time constraints of this jam.

My only disappointment with the game was that it ended too soon. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. :) You should definitely continue working on it and add more levels.

I love how addictive this game is despite its simple premise. This is the kind of thing I would play on my phone for long periods of time. I would love to see even more types of microgames be added to the game!

Great work! This looks quite ambitious for a jam game, I was surprised how well it worked out. The graphics look great!

Cool game! I like the art style and audio. I think there are some balance issues with the player’s firing rate. It’s a bit slow given how many enemies you need to shoot. Maybe you could try either making the player fire faster or the enemies descend even slower, or making them descend a set amount after X number of shots. Keep up the good work!

Thanks for playing it! There is a progression system of sorts in the game; the number of enemies that spawn increases as you keep destroying more of them. There was a plan to add distinct levels to the game, but that didn’t come to fruition.

I'm having the same issue with the game not running if I download it off the site. I think macOS is quarantining the game because it doesn't trust it, which happens some times with GameMaker Studio games. I'll have to look into it 

Thanks for playing my game! This is the kind of game I make when I don't brainstorm enough ideas and just go with the first thing that comes to mind. :)

Thanks for playing my game and catching that graphical bug.! I'll fix it later.

Thanks for trying out my game!

Honestly, I kept the tongue flick ability in just because it looked funny. It was meant to be used with the score combo system; you would gather multiple snakes together in the same spot by stopping them in place with the tongue flick, then boop them all at once. I didn't have as much time to refine and polish the game mechanics as I hoped, but I'm glad that I managed to finish the game.

Thanks! I tried to capture the feel, aesthetics, and mood of the original film in this game.

Hi skd, thanks for playing my game.
This game was envisioned as a touchscreen/mouse-based game, hence the simple mouse controls. I'll see if I can add some keyboard controls for moving the camera.

Thanks!
Quite a few people reported that bug with the Web version.  It was an itch.io-specific bug where the game didn't initialize the game's save data properly the very first time the game was run. It could be circumvented by simply reloading the page, but I patched it so that it shouldn't happen now.

Thanks for playing!
Someone else also reported that bug.  It was an itch.io-specific bug where the game didn't initialize the game's save data properly the very first time the game was run. It could be circumvented by simply reloading the page, but I patched it so that it shouldn't happen now.

OK, so I found the problem. It was a bug specific to the itch.io production build where the game didn't initialize the game's save data properly the very first time the game was run. It could be circumvented by simply reloading the page, but I patched it so that it shouldn't happen now.