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Timestamp	Since previous	Game		picapica's comment
Apr 25 18:16:52		Her name	♥ 3	I love the concept! With very simple means the game made me empathise with the protagonist, feeling the world shrinking. One thing I missed was an option to fast-forward the dialogue, that would make it more inviting to replay to get that other ending.
Apr 25 18:30:24	13m 32s	Johi Farm	♥ 6	As someone who often struggles with gardening, this game speaks to me. So many enemies hurting my crops! A simple and friendly little game, with music and graphics that fit the mood. I didn't get very far on my first three tries, so maybe it could have been made a little bit easier for the first couple of rounds?
Apr 25 19:34:54	1h 04m	Penicilin wars	♥ 1	Great to see someone doing stop motion! I like the concept and characters look good (especially the armed penicillin). I tried playing with keyboard at first, that works except I didn't find a way to fire my gun, making things even harder...
Apr 25 20:59:14	1h 24m	OUTWORN INSTINCT	♥ 1	This was a great experience from start to finish! I appreciated the mood, the feeling of a world falling apart more and more... I'd like to see the continuation that's hinted at in the end. The only thing I had trouble with was the text, sometimes it got obscured in the game.
Apr 26 13:21:25	16h 22m	ghost story	♥ 3	The mechanics with switching form works very well. I would easily keep playing if the game hade been longer. (Perhaps the ghost could possess bodies with other capabilities?) I appreciate the little pieces of story too, it gives the game personality. I got some sort of bug while playing the web version: every now and then when i respawned the purple blocks where offset a bit vertically, getting partially submerged in the ground. This happened less than 1/10 times but I got it a few times (yes, I died a lot). Some parts were harder than they looked, like landing on the platforms right after the gif above, you had to be at the precisely right hight to get through, otherwise my little ghost would just bang against the wall, frustrated. Overall a nice game with good simple graphics!
Apr 26 15:34:42	2h 13m	A Week's Passing	♥ 3	When day 2 started, I was a little worried that it would all be about routine and repetitiveness, but I was pleasantly surprised! The creepy, empty, low-poly world fits the story very well. I especially liked how it got harder to wake up - it really captured how it feels sometimes. The ending felt a little abrupt to me after the slow build-up, but I appreciated that the game was telling a story.
Apr 26 16:19:45	45m 03s	Space Hummus	♥ 1	I'm not very good att games that demand coordination, but I still got addicted and had to play it to the end! Nice touch to have a little story with it, too.
Apr 26 17:53:18	1h 33m	Don't Make Me Stop This Car!	♥ 2	I like that the game is autobiographical! I actually made it to the other town a couple of times, but that might have been mostly luck, since father won't let any traffic stop his progress. The "restart" after winning didn't work for me (but I could reload the page quickly so it didn't matter much). Too bad you had to cut the features making it more complex, they sound nice.
Apr 26 18:19:35	26m 17s	Contamination	♥ 1	A good concept for the theme, and a nice little game. The web player there seemed to be cropped a little at the top and bottom, not that it effected the game, but anyways. Unfortunately I had a hard time remembering how to use both movement and shooting, but it was fun to play several times anyway and at least I managed to get 148 points. Hmm... might try ooone more time...
Apr 26 18:34:33	14m 58s	Carefulzilla	♥ 3	Really cute game! So tempting to just smash everything, though... In my first try I managed to get stuck when I took a BIG step beyond one of those brown hills, that was i little frustrating. (But no real problem since i just had to start the game again.) Very rewarding to finally use the stomping power for good after being careful all the way there!
Apr 27 18:55:36	24h 21m	AETHER CRYSTAL	♥ 0	I liked it! It took a while before I realised it was a puzzle, and then it got more interesting. It has a nice, friendly mood and the minimalistic pixel art look good. But juust as I finally solved the final puzzle, the game turns all blue and everything freezes. I hope it can be solved, because I really want to know how it ends!
Apr 27 21:44:40	2h 49m	Naarrow	♥ 2	The way the game starts strangely repetitive adds to the claustrophobic feeling, the music sets a fitting mood, and the way it progressed made me feel like I progressed with it. I liked it when I got the hang of moving around (even though some climbing through narrow spaces was really hard). Then I got stuck, couldn't figure out what "dash" did, and I had to give up, grudgingly, because I wanted to continue playing!
Apr 27 22:35:31	50m 51s	Little House of Horrors	♥ 4	It really feels like a complete game with the art, the sound, the text, and the mechanics. I had to keep playing until I finally beat Cthulhu. Character stats that didn't effect the game (I think?) made me wonder if you're planning on adding more to it? Or was it mostly for getting the right feeling? Anyway, good game!
Apr 27 23:43:15	1h 07m	Where is mommy?	♥ 5	This really captures how horrible it was to be a little child getting lost, even your own home is suddenly huge and mysterious. Moving around and seeing stuff was a bit awkward, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing, it made me feel more like the little protagonist. I especially liked the getting-too-scared-feature!
Apr 28 13:09:18	13h 26m	Shrink	♥ 2	Good idea to use Alice in Wonderland! Mice as enemies was fitting, but I was killed several times before I even realised what happened, I didn't see them at all until the next level. I would have liked to explore the mechanics more, maybe growing bigger too, there's lots of potential there.
Apr 28 13:28:20	19m 02s	Naziverse	♥ 1	Soo... My computer crashed when I launched this (on linux). Everything went black, I couldn't do anything. A nazi conspiracy perhaps?
Apr 28 13:45:29	17m 09s	Finitely Big	♥ 1	A very very small game indeed. I would have liked to "do" more, but on the other hand, that would have been just as pointless in the end. A game well made to communicate this big/little message about futility!
Apr 28 14:20:11	34m 42s	Den	♥ 4	A beautiful game! Very fun to be a huge monster crushing anything in my path at first (the humans are so small and insignificant, they all look the same) - and then having to stop and think if that is really the only way to play. Hope you continue to develop it, I'd love to play more!
Apr 28 14:43:01	22m 50s	Smell World	♥ 2	The art is nice! The mazes I got seemed to always be rather easy, I could almost always just go in the direction of the smell, so every level was very quick. I feel like this game could probably work well with children! Also, when I tried it in my browser it wouldn't start, pressing the arrows didn't do anything.
Apr 28 15:18:48	35m 47s	Snowed In	♥ 3	The narration is great! It's a very nice little game, perfectly contained in its snow globe form.
Apr 29 12:31:02	21h 12m	Colonized Panda	♥ 2	Great storytelling! The idea is perfect for the theme, and there's a nice melancholy feeling (especially helped by the music) to being a lonely panda slowly dying in space. In a way it's logical that there's some waiting between events, when all you can do is spin around. But it got a bit frustrating, even more on the second round. So perhaps there could be a way to skip ahead, or to camouflage the waiting with something happening on screen? And maybe there could labels on the different meters, I kept forgetting which was what. All in all a very nice game, I might come back to try and get those four endings I haven't seen yet!
Apr 30 09:27:11	20h 56m	Our little island	♥ 1	Awww, a really sweet little game. I didn't understand the mechanics at first, but I have a feeling that the game was really forgiving and that it didn't hurt that I accidentally left my little brother hungry and sad for a while. The music was nice and the little sound effects were very cute (that is to say fitting very good). It took quite som time for me to finish, and I'm not sure I would have stayed for much longer without more feedback about getting closer to a goal. I'm happy to have played this!
Apr 30 21:03:14	11h 36m	Daydreaming Island	♥ 2	I really liked this one! The music and the fragments of text really sets the mood. I got a bug a couple of times where the text of one object kept coming back regardless of what I clicked. But it went away after the day was over. One thing I especially appreciated was the passage of time. In a way you're in a vacuum, but the hours keep ticking away giving it a sense of urgency even if everything is still. Some things just takes time, so it's nice that the game has things that just wont do anything until you go to bed and come back in the morning! I don't know if the time actually was important, I finished with a couple of days to spare, but either way it was great with the theme of contemplating life and death.
May 2 19:10:42	46h 07m	World Destroyer	♥ 1	I liked it! NIce simple mechanics that made interesting problems. But had to stop after a few levels when I got too frustrated by my mistakes. I'm not very good at games that demand timing and coordination, my brain kept going the wrong way when I was on the "bottom" half of the world, so I can't really blame the game for that. I appreciated that you could shoot yourself in the back if you weren't careful, that's a nice moral to a horrible world destroying story!
May 2 20:34:21	1h 23m	Insekter!!	♥ 3	That's some hardcore space capitalism when the vending machine kills you for being in debt! I was about to give up really early, I kept dying in the very first time I met the bugs. But! I persisted and was rewarded. It was very satisfying to get the Big Gun after fighting so hard for it (I especially liked that it was so powerful that it pushed me backwards). Then it was really fun for a good while. The music is nice and adds to the stressfulness. Unfortunately I managed to end up out of the level somehow, out in the black area. Too bad, because it felt like I was getting close! Anyway, it was fun! (I feel compelled to say that spiders aren't insects, even if that is completely irrelevant to the game.)
May 8 21:07:53	144h 33m	Barter	♥ 0	I liked the idea! Getting friends of friends to trust you seems like a good and sort of realistic way for things to work. And the thought of flocks of men without shirts or pants, milling about wanting to trade stuff, is funny. I got that bug with the remaining window too (in the web version), but I managed to play for a little while at least.
May 16 16:55:05	187h 47m	Platform Styx	♥ 3	I loved this! I loved it so much that I kept playing and restartng even after running into several problems. The first time I ended up outside of the train after the first carriage, that was interesting, but unfortuntately I couldn't get in again. Then the game kept crashing just before the end. And the camera movements made me a little sea sick. Also, my computer didn't understand the fonts in the start screen. But really these things didn't stop me from enjoying this a lot!
May 16 19:13:47	2h 18m	AS Mall World	♥ 1	The money gun is a great idea! It was a bit hard reading what people were saying, but that wasn't really a problem since it was mostly small talk and advertising, just like in the real world. For some reason the game didn't work when I tried it on itch (I just got a black screen) but the web version worked fine. I enjoyed it!
May 16 21:21:20	2h 07m	Spike Spire	♥ 2	aahh, i just had to give upp without even getting anywhere. i'm not too good at this kind of game, but at least i was prepared for it to be difficult so i'll try not to take it personally. i'd try it again if it was calibrated a bit to make it a little less impossibly hard. nice music (it's still playing in a tab as i'm writing).
May 17 10:10:58	12h 49m	Kryp	♥ 0	Linux user here with more problems: I didn't even get the start screen, it was all black. But at least I got music! Too bad, it seemed nice!
May 18 20:49:39	34h 38m	Jar of Life	♥ 2	This was a very nice little game! It's so simple, but that doesn't make it any less interesting to look at. Very much like looking at a little piece of nature going about its business. I didn't really understand when my predator would die (are there clues that I missed) but it was so easy to just start up a new game and experiment, so that didn't reallly matter. I liked it!
May 18 20:58:04	8m 25s	Heckin' Ants	♥ 2	Nice and simple! I likes the background images. If I didn't have to start from the beginning I would have played longer!
May 19 16:51:02	19h 52m	Flight of Claude	♥ 0	How did I miss that there was a magpie game until now!? Lovely story (and longer than I was expecting!) and beautiful images. (I was sad that it wasn't for linux, but I got to borrow a windows computer just for trying this.)
May 19 20:12:57	3h 21m	The Dance We Do	♥ 0	Very nice! Like filling in a colouring book, very soothing. Maybe the final level was a little too long, but I guess it fits with the pleasant slowness of the game.