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Wow

I'll never forget what you said here

It means a lot to me, it's the first time I've received such loving feedback, you've warmed my little game developer heart haha 

And despite all the obstacles you encountered, you kept playing and finished the game, thank you so much for giving our game a chance!  <3

We'll see if we can adapt the game taking into account the comments you've mentioned here 

Thank you <3

Argh this is something WE should also fix i apologize for you getting stuck liké that

And yeah Indeed there is not yet a saving system so you lose your progress :( if WE have Time we'll implement a saving system

But currently the Enigma should be solved by rotating all those Platforms by 90° and managing which gear side to turn (left on one Gear will activate something Platforms, right on the samedi gear will activate something else)

Hello i saw the video and Can Say that you're doing it right, it seems like your facing a unexpected bug

We think this Can be Linked to the hardware you have and so  WE have to adapt for it, Can you tell me what is your CPU and your GPU ? This info will help us to track the bug

I apologize for the frustration you got on this

Have you tried to put them to other degrees thate is more accessible for you ?

Hello, yes it should bé possible !

Message me if you dont find the soluce ill help you :)

Hoo thank you for the quick reply it is really appreciated !
But no problem if it was a poc and take your time !

To be honest i tested laigter and other similare software to create normal & specular map for sprites,and i turned that Laigter gave the best results when I asked artists for the results ! So i wanna use Laigter

And when i saw this plugin for Godot i was just amazed to see luckily i was as i'm using Godot ! So i'll wait it to be on the next Godot version :)

But anyway, if you need any help let me know it will be a pleasure to help here !

Not working for godot 4.3, can you update the plugin for this version pleas, it may be very usefull to have it inside the engine :) 

Not working for Godot 4.3, can you update the plugin for this version pleas, it may be very usefull to have it inside the engine :) 

Thank you  for the kind words !
We really appreciated your feedback !

Here is my review of the game

Cons

• Maybe its me but i didnt understood directly the goal at the start

• Some tomatoos are too near of the player at the start of the level, and when it moves it is really short to see them overcome (i think it is in the start of the
  
• Some micro level design element are maybe to much difficult (for exemple on last levels to avoid line of cheries you need to double jump but to avoid them you really have to be close on when to press the jump button to dodge them. Maybe doing first a shorter cherry line easily dodgable and then the second a bit harder and finaly those hard ones)
  
• I did not understood that the jumpers wil make your jump height higher if you keep jumping on them, so i felt a bit lost a first beceaus every time after the jump i went to the ground, but by practicing i understood. I mean it's not the 1st behavior we will exept of jumpers, maybe having a first one that only make you jump for a certain jump height the same time, and then a second one of another color that does what you did, it may be will more accepted as we'll know it is another jumper visualy and it would make sens it has another behavior compared to the other one
  

Pros

• Tutorials with text are really welcome !
• Really really nice take on the theme and special object !
• The concept is really original and verry funny haha when you took the cheries and it says "you suck" haha it made me laugh
• Overall good difficulty curves on all the game that's nice !
• Cool SFX, you have different "you suck" haha
• The music was cool but maybe personatly its not what i will exept from a platformer game
• Art is descent and does the job to make it fun to play

Conclusion 

you really improived yourself on this one wow !!!! The concept is really what make your game unique, and again i tryed to point a lot of thing on the "cons" sides but that's impressive what you have done when we compare it to the 1st platformer you did there is a great evolution !!! Also your level intentions are cool, even if its far from perfect on my opinion, you still apply the difficulty/intensity curves with a principe of diversity and that is like 70% the most importent thing in LD (Level design) so that's cool !! And finaly you took visual assets that looks good to help you to have the job done, and it works ! Its hard to make the visual when youre not an artist and i think you did a good job of focusing more on game design/level design, code and tutorial here it saved your time

Anyway im really impressed of your learning journey on game dev, i can't wait to see what you'll do on the future, continue the great job !

Here is mys Review of the game, it is only me personal opinion : 

Cons :

•  The fact that  the character is auto-dashing when you have the energy bar filled is very frustrating beceaus you do not have control over that and you come in situations you just wanna move but it dash instantaly and make you hit enemies while you didn't want this
  
• When beating the boss it was hard to identify all the projectiles as they were of different colors, my eyes could identify them all and i felt like being hitted without being able to see them overcome. in bullet hell/vempire survivor game often bullets are of the same color,i think it should have been done this way, Also (maybe its me or my screen) but it was hard to identify the yellow bullet from the backgroun unit color
  
• The music doesn't restart after dying 
  
• Miss background art to make it prettyer, but i know it's hard to make art when you're not an artist :)
• there is a moment othere can be a lot of enemies and make it impossible to dodge them, maybe using level design elements of power ups to dodge them would have helped here

Pros :

• Juicy effect with little particles and enjoyable diverse SFX ! I really liked the enemy dying SFX haha
  
• The choice of the music were pretty good for the type of game
  
• In overall it is fun and there is a lot of enemy to kill and even a boss !
  
• Shooting system is simple but clear and does properly what we want

Anyway, i think you really got better here comparing to your precedent game, you were even able to make a little boss and that's nice !
I did more focus on "cons" to propose solutions that may help you to get better at developing games, but at the end i pretty enjoyed the game and i think you can be proud of what you made here :)

Thank you for the kind words we apreciate :)

Many thanks for the feedback ! I'm glad to see you enjoyed our game and that you felt clever at the end xD its a pleasure yo know you got fun on it :)

Thank you for the feedback i take it in consideration :) !

many thanks for the feedback :D

Ok that's true that xe may should add clear tutorials  or helpers on this to make the mechanic more understable !

Thank you for the clarification !

I pretty liked the game !

I loved the little Vfx, animations and camera shake and so on it quickly make the game having good feeling, you did your part on the juicness and it miss for a lot of the games on this jam so congratulations !!

The density mechanic is very interesting and i think it can even have more opportunities to offer a variety of games ! But at the begining it wasn't very clear for me how i can use it and interact with the wall even with the text tutoorial (which are really welcome thats good you did it)

One part of Level design can be improved i think, you learn most by die and retry, but the level are short so this is not frustrating to restart and you mlove pretty quickly and easily so thats fine if this  is intended in your game experience i guess ! But on the level design there is a good challenge curves and good variety on how to solve the "puzzle" to finish the levels. I really liked the fact it is dynamic with the enemy AI and the leaf flying and wind blowing so you have to react and think in the same time and i really got fun here it was a pleasure !

Unfortunatly there was no sound effects or music so the game felt really empty on the audio and it was a pity beceaus your SFX and animations would have benifit so much of that ! Donn't hesitate to take free of use SFX or music, even if it is not perfect or not have time to do it all, put in on the most important and recurrent part of your game it will improve your game greatly

I Liked the cartoony style, even if it can be improved (i think on my opinion) it works and is still pleasant to look at so that's fine :)

Anyway, i know how hard is to finish a game so congratulations to have made it  i think you can be proud of you !

I'm very happy to hear that you got fun on our game and thank you for the nice words this is really apreciated  :)

Thank you for the kind words and the overall fedback we truly apreciate :)

Thank you !

Many thanks for you kind words :)

I really would like to know what you didnt liked with the vine mechanics, can you describe me that pleas ? And if you have ideas to make it more appreciable for you ? It will help us to get better :) !

Really interesting and original game you have here !

I got really fun the level design i really nice really this is impressive well done !

I like the door mechanics you added to add diversity

Still, i did not understand when you zoom out why sometimes when youre going out of the screen to appear something else, sometimes it does, sometimes it does not, it felt pretty random to me

Also a bug on main menu, if you dont touch the fullscreen button you don't see the play button

Also i was searching for the jump on the space bar but it was the up arrox, maybe next time for plalatformer movement take the arow movement keys AND the WASD/ZQSD + Space for jump movement in account

Anyway the principe is really original and great you can really be proud of you :) !!

I pretty liked the introduction it is really satysfying  !!

The art style is reaaalllyyy cool, with the background music it gives a cool atmosphere (sadly the backgound music does not loop corectly so it drop the atmosphere ambiance and feel strange)

Unfortunatly the controls were buggy impossible to move correctly my character in the direction I want, and mixing this with the movement sped i thought really fast, it was pretty hard to make move this ball xD

I  liked the concept,i wasn unfortunatly able to pass the second phase with the ramp (the ball was always going too much in the air when my character wasnt able to slide properly

Also i really liked the tutorial text, may be they can be more readable beceaus i had some troubles to see them (maybe next time put them on a proper panel to make it readable correctly )but integrated like that i love you're not stuck on a screen game paused waiting you to read the text and enter an input, so good game design decision here !

Anyway congratulations for having bein able to finish the game :) !!!

It was tough for me as i did not understood how to get other object other than this only baril so i was really limited on my playtrghough and i get bored really quickly

I still funded interesting how to grab the object but rotating them is depending you own rotation (i know its hard i get threw that once in Unity and still wasnt able to solve that xD)

I founded still no real art and and not even a music was making the atmosphere sad and strange, i got more feeling of playing a software simulation than a game

Anyway i know how it is hard to make a game so congratulations for having made this far !

Your game idea is really original

I still misunderstood how fishing is related to the theme

Also i had a mixing feeling of loving and disliking the art (mix of cartoon and pixel realistic style disturbed me )

I loved the several mechanisms on it, even if i did not understand all how they intend to work and so on

Anyway, congratulations for having made this game :D !

i like the simple art style and the music, but i couldn't figur out how to pass the first hill, it felt weard the mouse game response i wasn't sure i was controling my character. And when came the "WASD" control well i didn't felt it was doing somethingAnyway, still congrat for having finished the game :)

Haha thank you :D

No worries, such warning shouldn't exist if the bug isn't existing as well xD

Yeah we're aware of the bug we mentionned it on the itchio page i apolkogize for the frustration you may got with this. Anyway, really thank your for having played our game !!

Many thanks for the kind words :) That's an interesting proposition here it will be interesting to implement it in the future then !

Hello and thank you for the feedback ! You are right we should implement a reposition feature of the seeds to increase quality of life in the game !

Thank you !

Harf im sorry you didnt undertsood the movement mechanics we should have a clearer explaination of that, thanks for playing :)

Thank you :)

Cons:

• Box collisions of the enemies in the first scene are too much hugeee and this so frustrating to be hit by an enemy when is like  2 meters distant from you it's uncomprehensive and feel so unfair
• The second level is too much boring an too much big i feel you artificialy make longer the time life of your game with this and i think it is bad beceaus there is no gameplay intention behind. I was searching really for long time for the last enemy (like 10 minuts) and i shutted down the game beceaus i had enough to not find it. But even when seraching the first enemies in this level i got quickly bored beceaus it takes long to get to one enemy to one  another beceaus the enemies are too far away .and beceaus i only find we can run near the end of the second level (i saw afterwards that it was mentionned on the control page of the itchio page but i take as hobbit to not see it to see if the controls are explained in the game, where it is suposed to be for me beceaus player have not to see a web page to know the control in a finished commercial game)
• Even if the special object implementation was original and nicely integrated to the gameplay, i didn't find it for the theme implementation even if i guess it is trhew the enemis chasing you behind you but it's really not everytime and not in the core experience of the game. this feeling is clearly no present in the second level beceaus you have to found them and not the reverse

Pros :

• The pixel art and mostly VFX are really cool and make sense with the game experienc i liked it ! (nice water effect on the second level good job !)
• I pretty liked the audio atmosphere of the game, the SFX i found well choosed and the musics too ! but i found the music choice of the second level too much relaxing for a game  experience where i thought you have a pressure of the enemies like i had in the 1st level. maybe it was intented to have so much music contrast betxeen the two levels, and it can be really goo to surprise and add variety to the game but with interesting pacing only beceause here the relaxing atmosphere in the second level  was more than 60% of my gameplay and i though it deserts the game experience you wanted to share

• Even if i find big level mistakes, there was also great sides like  visual guidance with decoration (in the second level), enemies  and glasses collectibles ! I liked the fact that you followed the path and, even if you didnt find any enemies you got the glasses collectible (thank you it was not a dead end  hard to reach with nothing) it is smart beceaus the player thinks he discovered on its own while in reality you leaded him there with the level design ! But maybe how this was made it was too much repetitive beceaus it had always the meme sequence : stone path that lead linearly to corrals  dead end with glasses to collect. I t can be good to play with this to make expectation to the players an play with it but here it was too repetitive beceause there was no diversity (like other colelctible , other decoration or other way of leading the path)
• I was impressed by the introduction and the narrative design you wanted to implement in your game, and i think it worked pretty good on the overall game beceause it play on the surprise effect and the player wanna know more ! Even if i found some incoherences (like ok how your character understant to collect glasses to then kill the enemy wtfk it was a script facility to make understand the player how and why using the glasses and it works well on gameplay point of view but made some incoherence on the narrativei think)
• The attack sensation with the glasses works really well and give a good sensation of the of power to the player and the delay isn't a problem if you feel the power of it ! maybe for the second enemy it felt less powerfull and so it seems like more frustrating to repeat it multiples time as the enemies of the second level have way more health
  
  Conclusion: A pretty good game with a real narrative intention that works, descent visual and music, and great VFX and SFX ! But it has real down side on gameplay that makes the game mixed between frustration and boredome, so a lot can be improved but there is interesting stuff for, like part of level design. 
  Even if i pointed bad things this does not mean you cannot proud of you, on the contrary i think you can be really happy with what you made and i know how  hard is to mak and finish a game so really congralutations for what you have done :D

Thank you for the nice words :)

Cons

Huge waves of enemies made me impossible to finish the game

• One enemy make a lot of time to kill
• Glasses are needed a lot to see enemies but they discharge too quickly and i clearly not understand how they charge and so on (sometimes i pushed the G button but nothing happened)
• You start with one life so you get killed really too easyly at the begining this is frustrating
• Miss signs and feedbacks to know clearly what to do and unterstand global object collected, i did not understood there was objects to upgrade my life, and there was item i wasnt able to collect i didn't understood why
• Sometimes my screen become black i wasnt abble to see, and sometimes there was too much lights
  The cart was colliding with enemies so i strugled to move it

Pros

• Tutorial explained clearly 
• Great visual and 3D models you really get the atmosphere of the environment you builded you really wanna to discover it, it is really impressive for a game made in 3 days
• Guidence threw level design was interesting
• respected generally the theme and its special object
• Good overall movement, it was cool to have a distant weapon

Conclusion: An impressive looking game that have still unbalanced enemies, bugs and lack of feeddback ad sign to understand what to do. There is a lot of potential and is fun to walk in the level but when it come to game mechanics, beceaus there not fully comprehensive and tuned, this is less fun. Congratulation far having made this in 3 days it's still impressive !

Ok i understood your limitation that is interesting to point them out thank you
So i played the web version, i saw afterwards the message pointing problems os my bad on that
To be honest i am using Godot and i was used to have problem on HTML export so what you mentionned really make sense for me xD
But i find to solve the performence problem on HTML export with  some of those things : Using the Godot Gdscript version isntead the Mono one for C#, Exporting  in compatibility mode instead of forward +, capping the max number of FPS, using CPUParticules instead of GPUParticules, etc. I'm using Godot 4.2.2, which versions did you used ?
Also look forward the Godot 4.3 version that will soon be launched and it seems like they fixed issues with HTML export : https://godotengine.org/article/progress-report-web-export-in-4-3/

Thank you for you feedback we really apreciate and we're gla you enjoyed the game :)

Woaw i wasnt exepting somebody making a youtube gameplay video really i appreciate, this make me think  We may need a Youtube chanell to showcase our games