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Overall I think this was really well made! Great use of the theme, and the visuals and sound worked together nicely. My biggest complaint though is that both of the camera movement axis are inverted, which made it very frustrating to play. Either this was an error, or you really need to add an option to invert the controls back, because I was unable to complete the game due to it being too frustrating to control as the platforming became more demanding

Great work! It fits the theme perfectly, and was a good length for what it offers

This was fun! My only complaint is that I thought I had to first find the gun, so I spent 5 minutes searching all of the homes only to learn that I already had it, and just had to scroll the mouse wheel. There doesn't seem to be any reason to use your hands, so why not just start with the gun out? The game also locked up for a few seconds when I got to the town square, so I thought it crashed, but it recovered. Overall it was a nice little experience though!

I actually ended up having fun playing this, good job! The inclusion of the arrow pointing you towards where the cartridges are definitely saved a lot of potential frustration. It was fun dodging the obscene amount of enemies and pink bomb cube things being thrown at me the whole time

This was a hilariously bizarre concept for a game, and you pulled it off so well. Great humor, visuals matched the concept, is theme relevant, and just the right length. Great work!

Fantastic job on the visuals! It was a little disappointing that there wasn't anything to do besides look around the rooms, but your team did a very nice job grabbing people's attention and making them want to see more. I hope your team continues working together, because you're off to a great start!

Overall I really enjoyed this! Great original visuals, theme relevancy, and sense of humor. My only complaint is that the tile based movement system felt like a hinderance, especially since everything is happening in real-time. My hands became so tired from spamming the forward button to move, and having to weave around just to line up a shot against an enemy. I also was unable to get out of the secret area, so I had to let the game fail me to start over

Extremely well made! The graphics were a treat to witness, original voice acting, very theme relevant, and fun to play. I really can't come up with any criticisms

I liked your concept and sense of humor, but the very slow pacing made it hard to play. I think the alien AI wasn't working properly, because it would stare at me but not move at all. I also had the game crash my browser when trying to use the web version. I suggest renaming your game files too because the zip was called New Folder, and the game was shroomjam24.exe so I had no idea what game it was at a glance. I think this could be a fun little experience if you greatly increased the movement speed, and make sure the AI is capable of chasing the player

Great job with the graphics, and making the game relevant to the jam theme! I felt that the pacing was a bit slow because of how spread out everything is, and it would have been nice to have some kind of sound effect when key things happen like collecting an item and getting hurt. Otherwise this is a great start to a little game. I hope you keep working on it after the jam!

This was a fun little experience. You have the framework for something that could go on to be a great game! I appreciated the original art and relevancy to the theme of the jam

Cool concept with a clever twist! My only complaint is that the static noise over the screen would make this nearly impossible to stream. Bitrate compression would blur everything over making it very hard for anyone to tell what's going on

I enjoyed the visuals and the concept behind it, but was a little confused about the gameplay. I think I won by accident just by clicking random things. There wasn't really any time to sit and read all the descriptions since the game started right away. I couldn't really tell what was going on, but maybe that's the point? Overall, it was a funny little experience that fits the theme and vibe of the jam.

Very well made, clever concept and use of the jam theme, great sense of humor. Easily one of my favorites of the jam so far!

Good:
- Great framework for a little survival game! I enjoyed the idea of having to fight off a continuous corruption as the days go on. It helped make things feel more urgent

Bad:
- The instructions were a bit unclear, so I ended up learning most of how to play just through playing the game instead
- The grass being a solid color made it a bit disorienting since I couldn't tell if I was moving or not. I feel like it could use a simple pattern to give a better sense of movement
- No option to pause the game with an ESC menu, or option to reset

Good:
- One of the most unusual interpretations of the theme I've seen so far
- A level of depth to the gameplay

Bad:
- I was very confused about how to play, and what my goal was. I read the instructions multiple times and still was unsure what sort of strategy I was supposed to use to find tiles that would harm the enemy. It felt like everything was completely random, so I couldn't actually gain an advantage through learning the mechanics

Overall it's great to see that you went with a gameplay centric approach to the jam, but I personally feel like people will have a hard time figuring out how to play

Good
- Overall a very creative, fun, theme-relevant game. One of the best games I've played so far!
- Best death sound in the jam
- Original art, story, and music
- Great sense of humor
- Creative interpretation of the Corruption theme

Bad
- The barrier of requiring people to download an external application (EasyRPG Player) to play the game will lose a lot of potential players
- Using WASD combined with Z and X was a bit uncomfortable to my fingers.  I feel like using keys such as space bar and ctrl or shift would have felt more natural
- It was a bit awkward to be pressing 9 and 2 for other mechanics. Seems more appropriate that restart button would be in a menu after pressing ESC or something like that

Great job!

Good:
- Once I figured out how to play, which took me a long time to figure out, it actually ended up being fun
- Clever RTS / clicker hybrid style game
- There was at least an attempt to make it theme relevant, with how you 'corrupt' the units to fight for you

Bad:
- It was very unclear what type of game this was supposed to be. I tried clicking and pressing every keyboard key, but couldn't organically figure out how to play. I was about to give up, but after reading the readme I went back in and gave it a second try
- I understand that this is a clicker style game, but the amount of clicking I had to do to win became a bit excessive and now my fingers hurt. This was after all the technology upgrades too

Good:
- Great sense of humor
- Original art assets
- Very theme-relevant
- Decent challenge even if a bit janky to control

Bad:
- I had some pretty bad performance hitches on both the browser and desktop versions (Windows 10, Chrome). Game would freeze for a full second every once in awhile
- Game doesn't automatically restart after losing, had to restart the whole app to play again
- There wasn't much gameplay feedback. I knew that I was supposed to shoot the big RTC guy, but I found myself squinting while looking at the corruption bar unsure of if I was actually doing damage
- Corruption meter very difficult to see on top of the wild color palette of the game

Good:
- Cool use of the theme with how the game becomes more corrupted looking as you play, so the challenge becomes seeing through all the glitches
- No issues downloading and playing, window defaulted to a comfortable size
- Nice, simple pixel art

Bad
- Gamepad didn't seem to work despite it being described as a twin stick shooter
- Game immediately starts without warning
- The goal seems to be to collect 'bits', but the counter wasn't working, so I don't believe there is a way to win the game as of the time of posting this

The game still seems to be broken. Entering either of the 2 red doors soft locks the game. It's a shame though because I like the art quite a bit, and it sounds like you had some fun theme related ideas for it.

This was a very simple little 2D platforming game. I enjoyed the sprite work and the music, but there wasn't a whole lot going on gameplay wise, unless I missed something? I think there was only jumping and swinging the sword. I couldn't interact with any items other than enemies that hurt me. The variety in the level structure was nice, lots of changes in direction, climbing, descending. The ending was very abrupt, I assume you were short on time putting this together. There didn't seem to be any references to the jam theme other than a variety of mushrooms.

edit: I couldn't figure out how to get this game into full screen, so in the future I think it would be important to integrate a full screen toggle or resize function, because most people won't have the patience to play in a tiny little window.

A very short (~5 minute), but creative little game. You nailed the N64 style quite well. Clever concept. I look forward to seeing more!

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A very intriguing style that I can't say I've seen anywhere else...a combination of a sad, decrepit old knight with broken modern concrete buildings and rebar, rusty fences, low poly art with photographs. A very unique experience. I had a few issues listed below

I play it starting at 05:04:17

KIRA's games are some of the best weird little retro inspired games itch.io has to offer. I'm always intrigued by the stories, and never really know what's going to happen next. The Undying Beast was over all great, but the default mouse sensitivity on desktop is unplayably low. A controller isn't just recommended, it's actually required to be able to play.

game starts at 04:11:46, because itch doesn't like timestamped links for some reason

I enjoyed the visuals and the concept of a little christmas celebration for animals in a big city. I have to admit that I didn't understand what was going on in the plot, such as the animals using scientific names for various chemicals, and my possum mother apparently taking blood thinners at the end? No idea what that was about hah. Fun little experience though, I look forward to seeing more!

The game starts at 3:44:37, itch doesn't like timestamped links for some reason 

This was a cool way to show off your music, which was very enjoyable by the way. When I streamed this, it inspired us to talk about music and a whole lot of other things.

I played it starting at 01:43:16, itch doesn't like timestamped links

I loved the look and feel of this game. I'm always a fan of silhouettes of utility lines for some reason. You just feel cool and satisfied connecting things together, watching it transform. Great work! I'm looking forward to whatever else you come up with

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I really enjoyed this. I'll never get tired of incomprehensible moshed up text and 3d graphics

(starts at 00:31:47, itch doesn't like timestamped video links)

I'm a big fan of analog radio systems, especially use of morse code, and this game is easily the most fun portrayal of it that I've come across! Here's a video of my experience with it: 

Wow that's awesome! I'm glad you're still working on the game. I'll gladly give the update a try when you get to it

I enjoyed the visuals and the little bits of story I managed to come across, but I was very confused about how to progress beyond the hotel at the beginning. I admittedly was very tired after playing 10 other games before this one, so I might not have given this a fair chance. I wandered around for about 15 minutes unable to progress before I finally quit. It would have been nice to have some kind of objective indicator

The visuals and audio were delightfully abstract. The concept is innovative, though realistically I don't think people are going to come back and play each real life day. For the long term, I think letting players endlessly generate new trips would be a lot more fun

I appreciate the trippy visuals that the mirrored effect gave, but it became very hard to appreciate what was happening after awhile, so I think having that be optional would help a lot of people

Flying around was fun, but easily broke the game. Within seconds of flying I managed to clip through the ground and fell infinitely until the day ended because I couldn't recover from it