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Amazing fantastic perfect

Nice and fun game! Calming and relaxing experience

Very wholesome and cute experience! ❤️

Had a lot of fun playing this game. The idea is very clever and the feedback is really nice! It was a bit hectic at times when there are a build up of enemies, but I think that’s part of the fun! Really fun game!

Really loved all of the mini-games and the bird player character is super cute!

Really re-playable game with lots of story! It was really cool that you could choose the path through the story and what locations you could go to, but also kinda funny you could skip everything. Awesome work!

Love the art style and I think the platforming mechanics resulting in some interesting puzzle-like moments that were fun to solve!

Great fun! I didn’t get to play it with the dance pad, but it is fun to play and PC with great music. The progression feels pretty smooth too!

Really love the art style and atmosphere while playing this game!

The final result for having build your own game engine for the jam is amazing!

Also the game runs great via WINE on Linux with is a +1 for me!

Fun game with some very interesting mechanics. I think it was a really interesting direction that y’all took the theme and I think the concept of a couch co-op horror game is awesome as well!

Very fun and super polished game! I appreciated that the AI was difficult enough to make you actually have to think about your moves! Great work!

Super fun and polished! Had a ton of legit fun while going through the game and learning the mechanics! Never got bored.

Great work!

Ran in a tiny borderless window in the center left of my screen for some reason. Once I figured out what was going on with the main menu, the game was pretty fun. Good job!

Very fun! Struggled a bit with the last level, but kudos!

Love the idea of a tower defense here! It’s a bit difficult, but had tons of fun with the cheats. Reminded me a bit of playing the hacked flash games in the good ’ol days.

Great work!

Koala is super cute! Amazing work! I enjoyed solving all the puzzles! I feel all that was missing was some light-hearted music during game-play.

Great work!

The linux build worked for me. I’m guessing the dev’s have an embedded pck

Had a good amount of fun! Game has some very intense and difficult moments. I appreciate the sound and music, while simple I felt like it added a lot.

Great work!

Good job on getting your first game to the finish line! I really liked the design for the player character! Would have loved to see a win condition though.

Great work!

Great feedback from clicks!

Thanks Adam! I really want to go through and give it a bit more polish, but I gotta lot of code I want to refactor. lol

It pretty fun once I got on each character’s abilites. The core game loop is good!

I’d love to see some hotkeys for the abilities! It’d make games move a lot faster once players get a hang of the characters move set.

It played pretty well! The sounds effects went well if the asset pack to give an eerie feel when using headphones. I’d love to get more feedback from enemy attacks. It can be a bit hard to react when there is more than one enemy. Great job! :)

Thanks for the feedback! When, I created it, I knew their would be that problem of jumping off the edge, but I’ve kept forgetting to fix it. lol

I have now two issues open related to your feedback!

• https://github.com/josephbmanley/the-connection/issues/6
• https://github.com/josephbmanley/the-connection/issues/4

Thanks, I appreciate it!

So I looked into it and it seems that the file is a zip package, but for whatever reason, is missing the file extension. So until this is resolved in the pipeline, you should be able to append a .zip and extract it. :)

https://github.com/josephbmanley/the-connection/issues/2

Thanks for the feedback! Throughout the jam, I made a lot of changes to the fonts and the like, but it’s faaaar from perfect and definitely still needs work.

Edit: Opened a related issue on GitHub https://github.com/josephbmanley/the-connection/issues/4

That’s unfortunate. I have little to no experience with osx and do not have a way to test it at the moment. I’ll definitely look into it though.

Apologies for the broken export!

A pretty creepy game. Real good for your first jam! I like the opening particles and the ambient sound effects really gave a feel to the experience.

Little tip, as a linux user, I had to install an additional package to unpack a rar file. Not super important, as we are minority of users, but a zip or tar would have been preferred. ;)

Good job!

Thanks for the feedback! I feel that I need to rework certain narrative portions, but I am glad you enjoyed it.

Haha. Yeah, elevators were something I scoped out, definetly something that should be added though. https://github.com/josephbmanley/the-connection/issues/5

I am super interested in this product, but I was wondering what the status or future is for a Linux release?

Hello there!

Glad you came across my post!

My name is Joseph Manley, and I am a fairly experienced programmer, especially in the realm of Networking and DevOps. I’ve been making hobby projects with Unity for a little more than four years and been doing the same with Godot over this last year.

When working on projects, I am a big fan of building and integrating custom pipelines and tools, which means that I prefer my code to be modular, reusable, and easily configurable.

I am a big fan of strategy, multiplayer, RPGs, and casual adventure games, but I am willing to work on anything exciting and innovative.

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AWS CloudFormation stack of the containerized version of Nakama running on ECS. This stack contains the needed infrastructure to entirely run Nakama securely with SSL and set up for easy integration with Nakama enterprise.

GitHub: https://github.com/josephbmanley/ecs-nakama

Glitch in the System

Glitch in the System is a terminal styled jam platformer with random map generation. As this was a solo project, I am responsible for mostly the whole thing, aside from the sound assets I used.

Itch.io: https://joebmanley.itch.io/glitchinthesystem

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A top-down jam game where you grab as much money as you can and get out! In this project, I was in charge of the code, design, and project management.

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Thanks for giving it a play! I've added the the bugs you mentioned to my agile board. The generation still needs a bit of work right now. lol Currently, they just spawn randomly in the map alongside everything else.

Currently, they are meaningless. lol I put them in to be part of an upgrade system I still haven't implemented.

I think it tries to by default, I'm not 100% certain what causes the file to get improper permissions. I make my builds via Linux command line, so I've never had that issue.

I got it to work, so it seems that your Linux build for whatever reason does not have execute permissions. (I've encounted this with a few other Godot games) In any unix environment (Windows Linux subsystem would work), you can run `sudo chmod +x APPFILE.x86_64` and that'll fix the issue.

Btw, good game, it played pretty well. I stood on the sides of the walls a few times, but I'm not sure if that was intentional or not. lol

Just beat the game, I gotta say. It was beautiful. The mechanic was super fun and actually made me play through a few times. lol Great job!

I'll give it a play when I get off work. Run the command `sudo chmod +x GAMEFILE` If you run that command before uploading it, future users shouldn't have that issues.