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i'm not sure that changing the text of the final message would've actually helped us? since we were already assuming both that there was another layer, because we hadn't figured out what the hints even were, and also the game established that it was willing to mislead us. so "you're done! you've solved it! there's nothing left!" reads as though there is a cheeky wink afterwards (and naturally, we were greedy for MORE PUZZLE).

we can't really think of any way to actually solve this? it's probably fine as-is, but we still wanted to share our experience so you were aware.

the only thought i actually had about possibly fixing it, was revealing (one of?) the A hints, but that might also make their hintiness too obvious

thank you for publishing such an excellent and unique puzzle! my partner and i just spent three hours puzzling through it and we enjoyed ourselves thoroughly!

we figured it all out without any of the hints from the bottom of the page, left or right, only to be extremely skeptical of the final message telling us we were done, especially since we'd already previously been fooled by the initial (lack of) instructions. we had all this information we hadn't decoded and figured there must be one last puzzle. dunno if there's any way to fix that, but it was a little frustrating having to peek into the spoiler forum to figure out that no, actually, we were, in fact, done; the game was not lying to us, for once.

Ahoy developers! It looks like you've got your Steam integration configured for "Mandatory", which means that people who got a copy of your game through the Racial Justice Bundle can't actually play it. You should probably fix that if you want to remain in the bundle.

Here's what the console logs look like if I try to run it (with wine) in an environment without steam (to be clear, in my case, the game doesn't launch at all):

$ wine ambidangerous.exe steamfile:Z:\tmp\ambi/steam_appid.txt
Steam being initialised with appId 1077420
Steam_Init
Steam - SteamAPI_RestartAppIfNecessary
Steam - Steamworks_InitCEGLibrary
Steam - SteamAPI_InitSafe
SteamAPI_InitSafe() failed
Steam_Init
SteamInit failed: Steam must be running to play this game (SteamAPI_InitSafe() failed)
Steam restarting via client
Attempting to set gamepadcount to 0
Not shutting down steam as it is not initialised
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minFPS, maxFPS, avgFPS
30, 30, 30
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minFPS, maxFPS, avgFPS
30, 30, 30
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I'm kinda sad that the rest of hatgirl's movement repertoire didn't make the cut. Double jumping, wall jumping, and diving really made the movement in A Hat In Time feel unique. As is, this feels like a (really well done) generic 2D platformer with a hookshot mechanic, that has A Hat In Time theming applied to it through dressed-up signs.

The side of the obelisk puzzle's platform is climbable: https://gfycat.com/ImpracticalIdealisticCommabutterfly

The savefiles are stored in  ~/.config/unity3d/Denki/Autonauts on linux

I'm not partaking of the compo (and don't have an LD account), so I figured I'd leave my comment/bug report here:

This is pretty slick, I definitely like this mechanic, and don't think I've anything quite like it before.

The weapon breaking/cooldown mechanic is a little confusing, it doesn't always happen and I'm not quite sure what the conditions to trigger it are. Is it something to do with the colors of the enemies and the weapon?

When you manage to get a bag or three, the bulk of that lane's discovery section drops down past the bottom of the screen which makes it kind of tricky to deal with monsters, or use items, that happen to have fallen in. 

This was great. Thanks for stealing those hours from me :P

I think I've got a bug report for you though: It's possible to complete the left-hand side without getting the item in that section. Which confused me pretty thoroughly when trying to get through the room with the three switches. The issue is that it's possible 1) to push things by using inside corners to get an angle on them and 2) to stand on the edges of tiles that are occupied by pushable objects. I used 2 to get through the item-gating room (by getting on the bottom edge of the floating platform and pushing the block up) and I used both to get through the puzzle just afterwards (the last boulder-push required jumping over the gap and *into* the boulder making sure to push it before I could fall)