Yell at me about the game here. Game won't run? Game does run, but doesn't want to? You want to run, from the game? Do it here!

If you have a feature request (usually in the form of QoL improvements), feel free to suggest it here, although I can't guarantee I will be able to deliver on some of them, much less in a timely manner. (Just to clarify, I'm well aware of the colorblind situation. I have some ideas about it, but it's going to take a while. Other planned features include doodling/pencilmarking, key rebinding, and maybe savestating.)

If you are going to complain about a specific puzzle or section of the game, maybe try to spoil it? I dunno if spoiling is a thing in itch message boards but if it is then do it!!! If you don't, then a 5-nanometer spaghetti monster will crawl into your ear and play mariachi trumpet songs slightly off-key. You don't want that to happen, do you?

You should check out this twitter thread by Maddy Thorson, the creator of Celeste, on features that help a platformer game to feel better. Not all are relevant, but a few are essential like coyote time and jump buffering.

Another thing not listed there is related to jump buffering. If the player inputs jump before they've landed but could double jump, it should do a single jump (what the player probably intended) instead of consuming your double jump.

Good point! I'm not sure how many of those I'll implement, but corner correction and possibly some very slight jump buffering/coyote time sound good, especially for a few slightly grody ledge jumps that appear every so often in the level design. Thanks for the link!

Just gonna rot13 to be on the safe side here, no puzzle solutions spoiled but some Funniness spoiled, I guess?

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That's reasonable. When I start implementing the new options menu for Part 2, I'll be sure to include a setting to tone down intensive/visually distracting effects like that. Thanks for the report!

Sometimes, it's almost impossible to read the "CLEARED ?/8" numbers on the overworld, so I think the outline should be thicker on that text

i cant get back the minimised window on fullscreen (windows 11)

Here are my suggestions for this game and bugs that I found, coded in ROT47 to prevent spoiling game features:

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I need hints for world 9  levels,I can play 9-5 9-6 9-A and 9-C. I need 1 more level to beat world 9.

Edit:levels not levela and some capitalization

Edit2:just telling how many more levels I need,so i only need 1 or 2 hints

Any chance keys/doors could have a tiny number in one corner, or different numbers of stripes or something?  I'm not colorblind but I'm still having trouble with orange vs. red because I keep my monitor dim to avoid migraines.

Edit:  I just got to 1-8 and I wish you'd mentioned hovering keys/doors earlier, that solves my problem.  Still might be trouble if I couldn't see *any* key/door colors as I"d have to hover each one, but this is workable for me

I wanna lockpick part 2 is so close,
Yet so far.

a few silly/mildly goofy TOTALLY SERIOUS suggestions of mine, totally not way to late to be implemented.

treadmill - pushes the player character in one direction really fast, and the direction can be changed with a (world 8 gimmick)

endless hallway - a really really long level were one must simply run down an exceedingly long hallway to grab a key and then turn around and run all the way back to win the level

quantum keys - you don't know how many keys you have picked up, and you also don't know how many are needed to unlock each door until you hover you mouse over it (observing it)

time dependent keys - the amount of keys picked up is based off of the time of day in real life.

bucket of paint - turn all of your current keys into another colour, but after a while the paint dry's off and changes into a different colour, also changes the colour of the player character, they paint can be washed off by going into water.

poisonous gas - whenever you step into the gas you begin losing random keys at a rapid pace.

brick - is that door in your way? No worries! hurl a brick at that abstracted rectangular obstacle to break it instantly! just like in total chaos the game. [one use per brick due to fragility issues [just like in total chaos the game]].

Nokia phone - acts the same as a brick except can be re-used forever.

diamond encrusted drill - the first puzzle of world 8 too hard? simply drill through the wall and get that door! totally balanced.

paper keys - act just like regular keys, but if go into water they become...

soggy paper keys - you have to be moving slowly or else you will tear the keys apart, if you have any (world 5 gimmick) keys, after about 10 seconds they will dry out and become...

warped paper keys - the result of drying off your soggy paper keys

Separator Keys - They separate your keycount into separate signs:
Positive
World 6 spoilers: Artngvir
World 11 spoilers: naq gurve Vzntvanel inevnagf.

This is a toggle-on toggle-off effect.
This would finally make these cbfvgvir-artngvir Pbzob Qbbef openable! (W9 spoilers)
Upon touching an Unseparator Key, your total key amount of that colour will be set to all of the keys added together.
World 11 spoilers: Sbe rknzcyr, vs lbh unq 3, -2, 4v, naq -1v Checyr Xrlf, hcba gbhpuvat na Hafrcnengbe lbh jbhyq raq hc jvgu 1 + 3v Checyr Xrlf (3 - 2 + 4v - 1v).

Nitpick of the options menu, if you don't mind. When moving up to the tabs (sound, visual, etc.) with the arrow keys, you always land on sound, I think it'd be more intuitive if it selected the tab you're currently in.

wanted to say i really enjoy that the song from the Library has the same melody as 'daring damsels' song from All to get her- like what are the odds.. well it's true resonation rn this is gaming

Accessibility suggestion: when player mouseover an object, highlight all objects of same color.

bug report: in t2 - 5, i was sitting still looking at the puzzle, not interacting with the game, after a few minutes i hit escape to get into the options menu. the rotating black squares appeared and begun the screen transition, it succsessfully faded to black. the first half of the "transition to escape screen" sound effect played. after that the rest of the transition sequence failed, the screen remained black and the second part of the sound effect played. ALT + F4 was not working nor was CTRL + ALT + DEL or CTRL + SHIFT + ESC. the windows key brought up the taskbar, the button in the bottom right of the taskbar that normally mimimizied all windows failed to minimize the black screen. when i tried to open other windows the window preview on hover displayed over the black screen, but the window itself would not display when clicked. the computer power options were available. after this i restarted my computer and tried to cause the issue to happen again without success.

i hope this is enough information about what happened, im unsure where any crash logs might be, if those exist and are needed i would be happy to send them if i know where on my system they are, i am also willing to send across all of my computer specs and my save data for "i wanna lockpick", hope this helps :]

other important info: lenovo laptop with an integrated GPU
running windows 10
running the version of the full release of "i wanna lockpick" that was made public first. (the one released on valentines day).
other versions of the game were present on my computer, two copies of the demo version existed, one in a seperate drive (microSD ran through an SD card adapter), and the other one was in the downloads folder (same folder as release version)

if you need more information about what happened feel free to ask me, i will try to recall as much as i can about what happened.

If there is a door across a corner from you, and a key normally blocking that corner, you can sometimes unlock the door before collecting the key. Demonstrable in (Base64 for endgame spoilers) MC01, just hold right as you jump up after the tall black door.

I find it a bit annoying that when you walk a bit, do something and then undo, you get teleported all the way back. It would be nicer if you would be teleported back to the last valid standing location instead of the first one after the last action. I figure this can be changed by putting the player position onto the undo stack last and swapping it out as long as you are on a valid standing location. Also, touching salvage points should be an undoable action, which it currently isn't. Additionally, there is a bug where, when you did an action but are not in a valid location (like within a salvage point), you can't undo. Also, why do you need recentPush? Isn't recentPush always 1 once you pushed an undo stack frame? I mean, after every undoPOP call you eventually call undoPUSH, so recentPush will necessarily be 1.

You can cheese omega-9 by not hitting the purple blank door on the 0 bypass route to swap glitch and going in with white instead, causing you to shift orange but not cyan.

My game is quite often unfocused (on Windows), but when I click on it for it to be focused again, the pencilmark menu opens every time, which is pretty annoying. Maybe there is a way to detect if the game is unfocused on Windows, so that the pencilmark menu doesn't get opened in that case?

If i have to remember the setup for Stable Loop one more time i am going to have an aneurysm

Unsure if just weird intended behavior or bug, but: (rot 13) jura cynlvat guebhtu jbeyqf 1-5, v arire fxvccrq n (ahzorerq) yriry, ohg va jbeyq 6 v fxvccrq yriry 3 (v hfhnyl cynl va beqre, ohg v jnf fgvyy jnxvat hc), naq nf n erfhyg yriryf 7, 8, naq 9 bcrarq hc, ohg abg yriry 6. v nffhzr vg'f whfg n dhvex bs ubj gur yriry haybpx flfgrz jbexf gung v unqag abgvprq gvy abj, ohg gubhtug v'q ercbeg whfg va pnfr.

When I hit the "defaults" button in the sound options, the balance changed from its initial values.

When I changed the color of keys/doors, they didn't update until I quit and re-entered the level.

I actually have a sick suggestion for if you add operator keys (or whatever they’re called) back into the game. Spoilers, by the way

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(rot13)
gur tyvgpu bzrtn xrl qbrf abg tvir gur cher bzrtn xrl jura lbh bcra n cher qbbe orsber vg, znlor sbepr gur cynlre gb teno gur tyvgpu xrl gb cerirag pbashfvba /w

Bug report: If you open the warp menu during the transition after the introduction in a new save file, then you can move while the warp menu is open.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Enable the "Unlock Everything" option.
2. Go to the title screen and make a new save file.
3. Skip the intro.
4. Open the warp menu during the transition in the main hub.
5. Move.

hello! i am not able to get the game to run, i get this warning

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FATAL ERROR in Vertex Shader compilation

ShaderName: shdRainbowStripe2

D3DXCompile failed - result

at gml_Object_objWorld_Step_0

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stack frame is

gml_Object_objWorld_Step_0 (line -1)

anyway to fix this? there was a reply talking about this but the link to fix does not work