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Brackey's has a good tutorial on this. It teaches both how to use a tool and steps to creating a good-sounding piece.

Cool to see you got a full board clear! When initially designing the game I feared that unorded matches would make it trivial to find dice combinations, although in hindsight it may have been better. The 'parity' matching condition was added as a sort of duct-tape fix to allow you to re-roll dice because it was too hard to find any straights, doubles or houses under normal circumstances. Were I to remake the game, I'd definitely test how it feels to play with unordered matches.

Big thanks for trying the game and the feedback!

Thanks for the extensive feedback, it helps a lot!

I kind of regret not teaming up with a playtester, as both the comments and watching people play have shown that the game is skewed heavily towards my personal playstyle which is more short-term matching rather than a grand plan. I think the Zachatronic approach you mentioned would be a great way to mediate this, as those games tend to reward you on different criteria.

Also yeah it probably needed a second look at the level/move descriptions. I noticed a few typo's, but it seems some of the moves don't explain themself very well either. You mentioned needing a house in level 6 for a single coin, this shows that I didn't write the house rules in a clear way. You can do larger combinations than 2-3 which increase coin rewards (4-4, 2-6) which could've been communicated more explicitely.

Wildcards being unhelpful was more of an oversight. They choose the move that rewards the most points and don't take into account coins. They're also generally buggy with houses. Board size (and layout) was meant to vary between levels, just didn't have enough time.

Once again, I really appreciate that you took the time to write this feedback. It helps a lot.

I'm delighted to hear you picked up on the sfx being in sync with the music. Joschgu had the bright idea to make the sounds in the same key as the music, these are then delayed until the next 4th note so they play in the same tempo as well.

Great to hear you liked it! There will be a (hopefully) bug-free post-jam version in the near future.

Cool concept and great execution! The art and music complemented the story really well. Levels managed to do a lot with few objects.

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That's a great suggestion! It'd probably make the transition between levels a bit less jarring.

Cool concept, the levels were a bit dark but despite that I feel they did a good job of exploring the possible puzzles you could make with these mechanics.

The battery imposes a small speed penalty and after a while it deals damage over time, although it seems I made both penalties a bit too lenient since people are confused about it.

Also yeah it's quite a coincidence these games both have the same name.

It only works on the Windows/Mac versions, the web browser doesn't show it.

The penalty takes effect after some amount of time, perhaps it just takes too long.

Thanks! I noticed the gameplay issue of running with the battery too but couldn't think of a fix for it in time.

Oops, I never noticed that. Nice catch!

Thank you, the logo animation looked really smooth and made the splash screen pop quite a bit. Great work!