I appreciate you taking the time to give it another go, and for the further feedback. I'll definitely take that on board. As for plans to update it, I might dabble with it a bit (fixes here and there, some polish around the menus and SFX). I'm not sure whether we'd add more features. We did have ambitions for all kinds of things but they became out of scope. Either way, I'm grateful it's something you want to share with some friends!

Great retro artwork on this one! It took me a little while to get accustomed to the controls and mechanics, but once I got the knack for it, it was good fun. I did a few plays - none of them ended particularly well for me lol
Nice work!

Hey, thanks for the feedback and for checking the game out! The browser version should be OK, but bear in mind that you can control the camera rotation with the mouse (as well as the zoom level). It's a shame you got stuck on the platform - there's a chunk of game after that. It's definitely possible to get up there, but I suspect the jump height could be made a little higher. I didn't have time to sort out the trees, unfortunately but they were definitely on my radar! It's worth having a scan of the controls on the main Itch page because you can return to the previous checkpoint with K (thus avoiding any loss of progress), and you can sprint (this will come in handy with jumps).

I thought this was a cool game and it's pretty fun trying to move the items around to balance the scales. I didn't have so much trouble with the randomness of it given that items could be moved. Maybe there could be a mechanic where certain items track the player and others don't. Some could even damage the player if they land on them

This was a neat take on a classic. It ramps up nicely and you can see the attention given to the level design. Nice work!

It's like the Dark Souls of my team's submission lol
Nice work!

I thought that the artwork was brilliant, and your hamster is adorable! The mechanic of stealing size by defeating enemies was also interesting. Great submission!

A nice take on the theme! I particularly liked the mechanic of leaving behind previous selves to solve the puzzles. The level design was great, too. Nice submission!

This is a cool submission. Some things I particularly liked were:

• the interesting mechanics and creative take on the theme
• the artwork looked great from the main menu, right into the game
• the music reminded me of Age of Empires

Great job

This is a really creative take on the theme - I wasn't expecting to run into any game show games. As others mentioned, the voice over was really cool and gave it a unique feel. Nice submission!

Thanks for checking it out! Would alternate or customisable control schemes have made a big difference for you? It's often something that gets overlooked in jams

Thanks for checking the game out. I think those are all fair pieces of feedback. With a bit more time we would have play tested more and tweaked some of those things. For instance, we did dabble with the idea of moving away from a laser (which uses a raycast behind the scenes) to a spotlight with an area for detection. We also considered having a cooldown-based ability to "boost" the power of the laser which might have helped with the grow/shrink speed issues.

Thanks for the kind feedback and for the suggestions! I'm going to sort out my VM and give your game a go before the deadline closes!

Thanks for checking it out! By round 3 the conveyor gets pretty fast, but maybe the pace should pick up sooner. I'm gonna get my VM set up and give your game a go before the deadline closes!

I loved the noir art style, the character designs, the music, the environment and the animations! The move set is interesting, too. My favourite was the crash bandicoot spin :D

Nice submission!

This is really impressive for  a game jam submission. I think it had a decent level of polish across the board. Well done!

Nice submission! It has all the core things a good game should have (decent music, SFX, nice models etc). I particularly liked the shield bash attack. As others have suggested, it'd be great to keep working on it. Good job

Really cool! I loved how large the world was and how much was in it. The environment looked really great. The helicopter controls were good but I did find the mouse sensitivity a little high. Great work!

The design, mechanics and story really stood out for this one. A great example that text-based games are still fun even today. Great submission!

I really love the mechanics in this one! It's very DnD-esque with the dice rolls and turn based combat. The drag and drop interface was well designed and versatile. The class and enemy variety was also impressive. The assets used were well chosen and utilised. Great submission!

Really cool submission! 

Some of the good things that stood out to me were:

• Having a mini-map that's pretty neat for a game jam game
• The artwork, aesthetic and general retro style
• The music (although some variety would be even better)
• SFX were solid
• The level design was incredible and the volume of levels
• The credits screen was also really good

I think being able to see the odds when you get into a fight might be a nice feature for the future. Maybe even introducing flee mechanics with probabilities, too.

Great work!

Thanks for playing. You're absolutely right about the damage feedback. What little SFX there is was created and added in the final hours before submission :D

If I had more time I'd have definitely added that one

Nice submission! It's polished with simple mechanics done well. Frustrating (in a good way) and  pretty addictive (I had to finish it). For most of the game I fooled myself into thinking I should base my clicks off of the NPC, but actually you should use the markers on the background!

Great work!

Thanks for playing - I appreciate the kind words!

Nice submission! It's simple mechanics but fun and addictive. The power ups were cool! If you keep working on it, I think being able to jump would be a nice enhancement

Tell me, what's the kid going to spend all the money on?

This was fun, challenging and addictive!

Here were some of my favourite things:

• Good use of assets - the animal outfits are cute
• Being able to yeet children across the sceen
• It's a really unique and fun take on the theme
• The enemy movements really added to the challenge and varied quite a lot
• The use of static and moving obstacles

Here's some constructive feedback:

• The difficulty seemed relatively consistent throughout - it started off quite tricky and remained so up to the stand
• The audio is super low to the point that I originally thought you didn't have music or SFX. I only realised because I saw you listed them on "existing assets". That's when I cranked the volume up a ton. There's no way to do this in-game either
• Feature request: I'd love to have a kick ability with a cooldown to occasionally yeet the kids without losing

Great submission, well done!

Congrats on your first jam submission! Also, thanks for the stream the other day.

Here's some of the things I really liked about the game:

• Moving while shooting/being able to move around generally
• Having an upgrade system with some variety to choose from
• The animations on the enemies were cool (blinking and boosters)
• All the core pieces were there (SFX, music, art and mechanics) which gave it a finished feel

I think these small enhancements are worth considering:

• A custom reticle for the mouse cursor
• Maybe separating the upgrades purchase from the win condition, and having the upgrade window automatically appear and pause giving you choices
• Varying the pitch of the shooting sound

It was a fun and solid submission, nice work!

Thanks for the kind feedback. I did check out your game and found it to be really fun!

A really charming and cute game, with crisp and responsive controls. The artwork was also beautiful. Great submission - well done!

This was awesome!

My favourite aspects were:

• Great level layout and design (the staircase was especially cool)
• The music was great. Did your team make it?
• The variety of abilities available to unlock
• The enemy variety was decent if you explore enough to find them
• Frisby is MVP
• The story was cool and unique it's like System Shock: Dungeon Edition
• Having such a stable web build for a 3D game like this is impressive

Some really small things I think would make it even  better:

• Name the abilities when you unlock them rather than keeping them as question marks
• It would be cool to have a heavy version of the standard melee attack by holding left mouse for extra damage
• I think a horizontal health bar that's centred at the bottom of the screen might work better

I had a blast, great submission!

I think maybe my best bet with static spike traps is to maybe introduce a small collider on the bottom section so that if you're running into them without jumping, you just hit a wall. Then if you jump onto them you take damage. That, paired with some SFX to better indicate taking damage would probably be a big improvement. Thanks for both of your input!

I had a lot of fun with this one. Here are some of the things I liked the most:

• The artwork - I thought it was really polished - especially for the characters and the vehicle
• The exploration aspect of the game - necessitated by dwindling resources
• The enemy sounds - which I found hilarious

From the layout of the vehicle, it looked like you considered other survival metrics like sleep or training at the gym? Or maybe they were just there to set the scene. Either way, that was cool, too.

Nice work!

Thanks for the kind feedback! I'd have loved to dig even deeper into Metroidvania territory but I just didn't have the time

Thanks for trying it out!

A really unique take on the theme! I especially enjoyed the artwork and music - nice submission!

Thanks for checking the game out and I appreciate the feedback! I'll be sure to check your game out before the rating window is up. I'm gonna play a bunch of download only ones including yours tomorrow when I set up my VM :)

Nice submission!
Some things I really liked about it:

• Being able to choose from two different player characters
• The weapon variety
• Tutorial/training area
• Nice artwork and animation

Good work

This was pretty fun when I got the hang of the controls. My default is to lean on WASD but that's pretty much impossible with the sword and bow controls (arrow keys are the way to go for this one). The enemy variety was cool and the platformer aspects weaved into it was a unique touch. Nice submission!

Incredible! Very impressive and enjoyable to play. There were so many things I liked that I won't go into all of them but I was especially impressed with the variety in enemy types, envoys, blessings and projectiles. Fantastic submission, well done!

An interesting concept and well executed too. Nice submission!