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Ooh, keen eye, spotting the reused assets!  It's a popular place!

I appreciate your playing and taking the time to leave a comment and some constructive criticism as well.  I hope to revisit this after the judging and clean it up a little, and ass some more fun stuff.  Make it make more sense etc etc.  But thanks again!

Would you believe I ran out of time?  I had a big production planned!  Crazy, I know.  Thanks for playing, though, as always!  Check back in a couple months and I may have something added.  But also I say that every time!

Charming and funny!  Great job!

Oh, I left a reply that may shed some light on the problem.  Yikes!  Sorry about the bugs!!

I'm not exactly sure what's going on here but I suspect it has something to do with the "peeled potatoes" being in your inventory.  There are several tools in your inventory that peel potatoes so I think maybe one of them is wrong.  Using the potatoes on the Y-Peeler (which Jobie claims to hate!) will work.  Or that using the mandoline on the peeled potatoes removes the potatoes from your inventory which would also make this happen, I think.  Luckily, you can actually skip the mandoline step completely!  There are also still debug controls in the game so if that doesn't work "ctrl-s" will give you every inventory item which may also work.  Plus, that would give you a look at some cut content and other weird and broken stuff!

EDIT: I think actually doing the thing you are instructed in-game to do is the problem.  Don't shave the potatoes.  (What a weird sentence)

Very easily could be a bug as there's a few little oddities in the whole thing I couldn't quite pin down.  The inventory window up top is disallowed so you can concentrate on what's before you on the prep table.  The way it's supposed to work is click on the mixing bowl of potatoes, click on the cast iron.  If that's not working then I'm really not sure what the answer is except maybe starting over and hoping hoping that the next try is more successful.  Not a great answer but that's game jams, I guess!

At any rate, thanks for the kind words!!

Think of this as a Version .7 right now.  It was for MAGS and I dug too deeply and too greedily so it remains unfinished.  Check back in April and I think I will have a more polished experience.  Thanks for playing though!

This was done with the Tween Machine and I really think I was pushing it to its limits as I had an undo history of like 20GB.  But it totally handled it and if you need to move stuff around then this is totally worth $5.  I love it and use it a lot.

This is a great little tool.  You can try it out and see how it works for youfor free with the single building maker but honestly if this kind of tool seems at all useful to you (it does fill a sort of niche need, granted) I would say it's worth the five bucks just to get the city builder.  Fun idea, simple and elegant implementation.  No notes.  I love it.

It occurred to me that I downloaded and used this tool and never even left a comment lol.  Indeed, most of the traffic to the jam game I made with it actually comes from the link on this page, too! 

At any rate, it will definitely help you make a dungeon crawler the old-fashioned way (and very satisfying if I do say so!).  A whole dungeon in only a handful of sprites!  Dungeon Calling!!

Thanks!  I just love EGA and I can't seem to escape it.

Thanks!  Initially I thought "cutscenes" would be too complicated because I didn't want to have to redraw them x number if times but then I realized that I already knew what the answer would be so I would only have to do it once.  And then I went wild.  I used to be anti-closeup because I wanted the player to do their own imagining of what the character looks like.  That's because when I first played The Secret of Monkey Island it was jarring to me to see a closeup of Guybrush because I had already developed an idea of what he looked like.  So, my solution here was to simply begin with a partially obscured close-up to split the difference, I guess.  At any rate, thanks for playing and thanks for the kind words and good luck to us all in the judgement!!

The art and animations are great and it's a funny game, too.  It's perfectly tailored to the jam theme as well and while the gag is classic (I don't mean that in a rude way) the take on it feels fresh and delightful.  All around fun.

Another very strong entry from Lorenzo.  I'm as astonished by this one as I was about last year's entry in that there's a half an hour of gameplay and some relatively deep mystery given the scope of the thing.  The artwork is as impressive as always as well.  Just a real treat.

A fun game and quite slick and polished for a jam game, too.  I love the animations and art and jokes. Recommended!  I'd play a sequel just sayin'...

Thanks for playing! 

Hey thanks!  I just love EGA and it really tickles me to make something aesthetically pleasing out of such a strange assortment of super saturation and weirdness.

No, that's all of them.  I intended them to be different kinds of ambiguous.  After some similar feedback however I did make the "rain ending" animation a bit more upbeat but I think now that maybe I should have done a bit more lol.  But thanks for the kind words!  Maybe I will flesh out the mechanic a bit.  If you saw the EGA FaceMaker 3000 (also on my page) there's a ton more "compatible" art that I could use in a larger project.  Thanks again!

Oh no that was a debugging trick that I was using to try to get the "stacking" correct that I forgot to remove.  So, Easter egg!

If you're on a phone I left the cursor off so you could just use your finger.  But it's so small on a phone!  Anyway, press "M" to make the cursor visible if you're on a computer.  I should probably update this to make that a button you can just push.  But thanks!

Last year I got dinged in the judgment for not exactly having story closure.  I'm not an expert here but having played some of the games last year they ran the gamut from complete (but simple story) to barely a game at all.  So, the answer is I don't think there's a minimum but it would behoove you to keep it simple and complete rather than ambitious and not quite all there.  As far as length is concerned mine was about fifteen minutes probably but there I really don't think this matters as much as having a complete narrative.  Like, a setup and payoff even if it's only an eight minute game.

Yeah, the map was actually for debugging until I made it a "feature."  That's why I had Dracula say "this map sucks!"  He's telling the truth!!

Oh, wow.  I can't believe you put together such a complete package in two weeks! Great game.  Love the aesthetic.  I knew I would like it as soon as I saw the reflection animation on the pilot.  That's such a nice touch.

Great atmosphere!

Oh, thanks for the heads up.  I fixed it to default to windowed mode (which I also prefer) and also I think the winsetup should be working now.

I am so smrt! SMRT!!  I'll fix this right now.