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Timestamp	Since previous	Game		pparadigm's comment
Apr 24 03:04:49		Pizza Chef	♥ 1	I made a food-making game too, so I had to play yours! At first I didn't realize I could go through doors and then that pizzas needed dough, but once I figured that stuff out, it was smooth sailing. Sometimes hard to tell what toppings exactly are on a pizza.
Apr 24 04:17:07	1h 12m	Tetris Crush Saga	♥ 1	I like it because I can never line stuff up in Tetris, but I can click blobs of similarly-colored objects!
Apr 24 04:24:34	7m 27s	mechROMANCER : a top down shooter dating sim about relationships	♥ 0	I really like this combo! Since the shooting is kind of mindless, it works with the monologue. I agree with @Potondo that sounds when you or an enemy is hit/killed would make things clearer, since I wasn't really looking at the battlefield except with my peripheral vision.
Apr 24 04:29:55	5m 21s	Scream'n'Run	♥ 1	I have a headset mic and share a wall with neighbors. So I blew into the mic instead. The music is LOUD!
Apr 24 04:43:30	13m 35s	Unwinged Platzzle	♥ 1	Damn bird just wants to be under my blocks! Fun game though. :)
Apr 24 04:48:36	5m 06s	N☰ON ◥◤ COR☰	♥ 0	I had the same problem as sunnray, the game was too tall for my screen. However, I really like the aesthetic and had to play after seeing the images in the discord!
Apr 24 05:19:21	30m 45s	RPG Shop	♥ 1	I love the art! Playing this game was fun, and a lot easier once I realized you could move things around, not just push them. I'm going to try to get all the achievements. I loved seeing it in the discord!
Apr 24 07:12:56	1h 53m	The Place	♥ 0	I love the art and especially the sound design! I can learn a lot from this game.
Apr 24 19:18:28	12h 05m	Rainy Day	♥ 1	I really love the rain sounds and the bomb sound is hilarious. I don't think I'll ever win, but I might listen to it again at some point. Is there a way to close the game from within it?
Apr 24 19:30:26	11m 58s	Line 'em Up	♥ 1	I played the HTML5 version, and the graphics were a bit blurry in the instructions. I also had a hard time remembering which gun was which, and my left hand was starting to get tired with so many controls on it. I would've preferred to cycle through the guns with maybe a right click? I just don't play a lot of games with multiple weapons, so maybe this is more intuitive for someone who does.
Apr 24 19:34:27	4m 01s	Hungry Hungry Shippos	♥ 1	I'll be honest, I was secretly hoping this was a dating sim based on the title. But wow! The other shippos move fast!
Apr 24 19:46:01	11m 34s	OLEK	♥ 0	The art is beautiful and I love the idea, I just wish I didn't have to throw the key to get more cards.
Apr 24 20:12:46	26m 45s	Ritoru Ponpon no inu	♥ 1	Really hard but I like that you can iterate, and it's fun to see when you finally get it. Music can be a bit repetitive. The pause screen doesn't show the correct level number.
Apr 24 21:23:30	1h 10m	Crane Quandary	♥ 2	The controls are frustrating to me. Moving left/right with arrow keys and jumping with A just doesn't make sense to my brain. I agree with @Jaime-Paz-Lopes that it wasn't clear that you need coins and to press up to use the crane. I like the music and the art though.
Apr 25 19:57:37	22h 34m	Soul Sword	♥ 0	I'm a person that's bad at combat, so I'll probably never finish this game. But I really liked the creepy people who fade in and out of existence at your shop. I agree with @RobertoHigor that only loot should be lost, because money allows you to progress in the game. For a more skilled fighter, they'll have lots of loot and be able to progress quickly, but since I'm not skilled, I just ended up back at zero every time, and there's no way for me to try out the later (and I'm sure cooler) weapons and make my own way through the game, at a very slow pace. I'd play more if money wasn't lose-able, but I can understand if I'm not the demographic you're trying to target.
Apr 25 20:07:26	9m 49s	Chesburgrellia	♥ 1	I enjoyed the game, but the fighting at the top stressed me out!
Apr 25 20:24:53	17m 27s	You Can't Dodge Your Feelings!	♥ 0	After I figured out you could duck, I ended up just repeatedly ducking the whole game. Made the final scene less romantic though--I dodged her affection. A tiny quality improvement would be to have the words that are longer than the end of the textbox to never start typing on that line, but then next instead.
Apr 25 23:15:57	2h 51m	Advance Cookwares	♥ 1	This was a pretty frustrating experience. There was no clear indicator to me how much longer I'd have to tenderize, and the tooltips would come and then go away without me really knowing what was going on. I still have no idea what is happening with the tomato. I deployed burgers, but they didn't seem to do anything. The music was good for the feel of the area, but very distracting/overpowering when trying to internalize what I needed to do.
Apr 26 03:22:41	4h 06m	DUNK EM UP!	♥ 1	OMG! This is hilarious! I love the sounds and the music doesn't get annoying. I love the auto-aim because then my poorly-coordinated self can still play and have fun. Really great game!
Apr 26 04:21:26	58m 45s	MASHED	♥ 0	Hmm. On my screen it seems like the bottom and top of the game are cut off in full screen. I played the Eggplant (inspired by Eggplant Kindergarten) first on easy and won, but then I tried to play the broccoli on easy and only got: hmm.png I'm going to try restarting and going windowed and seeing how it is. Windowed is also cutting things off--it doesn't seem like the graphics are scaling. noscale.png Seemed awesome, so I'm disappointed that it's not working for my machine.
Apr 26 05:07:06	45m 40s	Type Ball	♥ 1	Progression was a little bit slow for me, but that was the only issue I found.
Apr 26 05:22:10	15m 04s	Shuttle Launch	♥ 1	This is a game with such a weird vibe that it seems like a game that could transform with crazy secrets that you find only after exploiting something that looks like a bug but was intended, especially with the piano notes that were out of place. Neat experience, but like many others, I wasn't really sure what to do.
Apr 26 05:39:22	17m 12s	Cosmic Smoothies	♥ 1	My screen wasn't big enough to show everything, either in the browser or downloaded. :( too big.png I was super excited to play this game because the smoothies look mouthwatering, and I love games about making food (that's why I made one!). I really liked the music and looking at the art, but the controls were a bit difficult to get used to.
Apr 26 19:13:57	13h 34m	Carried Away	♥ 2	He never comes back after the Grand Prix???? ;_; WHAT IS HE TOO GOOD FOR MY SOFT HANDS NOW!? I UPGRADED THAT BITCH WITH CARE AND HE GHOSTED ME! More people need to be let down by his actions!
Apr 26 20:03:08	49m 11s	Feed the Beat	♥ 1	I'm not good at these games, so I got 5475, but it was really fun. I did seem to be experiencing some lag from time to time though in the browser version that made it frustrating because it would change up when the beat was supposed to hit. I'll try again on the downloadable version. Love the mashup, and the songs didn't get too repetitive, I just wish the "you hit the beat" sound was more melodic with the music.
Apr 26 20:17:14	14m 06s	The Cards You're Dealt	♥ 1	There's a lot I can learn from this game about game design, so good job! Very enjoyable to play.
Apr 26 20:28:39	11m 25s	DRAGON PET SIMULATOR (Virtual Pet + Stealth)	♥ 1	I enjoyed this little game. Haven't played a game with non-pixel graphics in GameMaker that I know of before this one, so it was interesting to see. Mine's also a short cute game in GameMaker if you're interested.
Apr 26 20:41:15	12m 36s	discardagain	♥ 0	Loved seeing the images in the discord! I love how unique this game is.
Apr 26 21:03:49	22m 34s	LoveGarden	♥ 1	I really liked this game, even without sound, but it was anticlimactic when I won and just got a victory screen. I wanted a blushing carrot! It was also harder to find matches in such a small grid and I wish it would've recognized T- or L-matches.
Apr 27 02:36:04	5h 32m	Dog Petter	♥ 1	Another game in GameMaker! I'm always curious to see what other people come up with. I liked this game!
Apr 27 05:39:54	3h 03m	Just Relax	♥ 3	Pretty chill game. I like that progression is one thing, and health/coins/etc are optional goals.
Apr 27 06:44:36	1h 04m	Shuffle Knight	♥ 2	This was a fun game to play! I liked the graphics and the mechanics are really neat; I could see this successfully turned into a full-fledged game. Aside from some refining of the movement, the only thing that bothered me was that the music was much too loud for an extended period of time. Other than that, this game was great!
Apr 27 07:10:15	25m 39s	Flowdrive	♥ 0	I used to play this game in notebooks on the bus on field trips... write out X numbers in pairs and try to connect them all without crossing. It was nice to have that memory brought to the forefront of my mind, and this is a new beautiful way to play it.
May 1 07:06:41	95h 56m	Misty Night	♥ 1	This is a really solid game! I love witches, and while it was a bit frustrating starting over from the beginning, I think I'll be returning to this game multiple times to work my way through it--the atmosphere that the art and music make is so immersive.
May 2 06:39:54	23h 33m	Get 'em All	♥ 0	This was a quick exploration of a small world. I enjoyed looking at the animated plants and goldfish, and I enjoyed the trees as the "background." I made two small, one medium, and one big fish in someone's backyard and ended up with maybe 4 different cards throughout play? The one that makes you fast, the one where you can throw a rock, the goldfish one, and the make a goldfish bigger one. Once I summoned my 4th fish, there was a lag spike, but it went away after a little while. The walking sounds were unexpected at first but I grew to like them. I think they might've been better with more bass and lower in pitch, though they weren't bad at all. Was there any place to use the rock card and change the game world? I tried throwing one at a window, and another at a door, but it didn't do anything that I could tell. After a while, I couldn't find any more cards. Are there meant to be a limited number, or are they supposed to continually spawn? I was expecting the latter, but it didn't seem to be the case. I think the biggest thing I wish this game had is a way to change the game world. All you can do is summon fish, but I want to go in a house or earn new cards or at least earn an achievement when I've collected all the cards. I'm curious to hear what your goals for this game were during the jam.
May 2 06:55:21	15m 27s	Action fool (russian folk game)	♥ 0	Man, the art looks really awesome! I'm sad it isn't playable.
May 4 23:32:32	64h 37m	Eldritch Cuisine	♥ 0	Man, this game is fantastic with it's sound, art, and its play-ability. I'm so glad I was pointed this way by @infinitycore. I love food-making games, and that really held with this one even though it's not a "typical" food game. I have to say though, the atmosphere was so intense. With the beating heart and the constant atmospheric sounds, it was like a constant pressure on my soul--which is fantastic for mood, but made it so I had to stop playing after a bit, due to just being physically uncomfortable. I think what also contributed to that is the first-person perspective and the view-bobbing... I can get motion sickness from that, and so I was ever-so-slightly queasy while experiencing this TENSE and overwhelming/oppressive atmosphere. I can see myself possibly coming back to this game in the future, but the effect it had on me physically might keep me away. It definitely made it less fun to play, even though I liked the experience. I really loved how large yet sparse the pantry was. I know that's probably more a product of it being a jam game, but even in a full release, I think that would be the way to go.
May 5 01:20:11	1h 47m	Zumaster	♥ 1	This game was fun and because the asteroids aren't too mobile, it wasn't stressful to play. I hope this doesn't overwhelm you too much, but I have a list of things I'd like you to consider if you make a future updated version: - when learning the controls, I ran into an asteroid and I thought that the losing health ticks were a bit fast. I'd like to see a damage cooldown, where there's a short period of "invincibility" after the ship is damaged. Really liked how your "redness" indicated your damage level, though my familiarity with the game Heat Signature kept making me think it was how often you were thrusting. - the music is okay--it doesn't get annoying after a bit, but I think this game could benefit from a more atmospheric, sparse, spacey soundtrack, or at least a track that's a lot longer with more variation - it was hard for me to distinguish the orange and the yellow from each other based on color, but they also had shapes in them, which was a great addition for usability. One way to make colors more distinguishable is to mess with the saturation. Really I'd just like to see more differentiation between the yellow and orange. - Since it takes so many of the same orbs to remove them, a way to make the game more match-able would be to reduce the number of colors by one, so that matches are more likely. Or you could reduce the number of orbs required for a match. Just right now, it seems too slow to get a match. I agree with the ideas to only be able to fire orbs with colors that are already in the playing field. - the edges of the room seemed to be beyond the edges of the game window for me, was that intentional, or just something with my machine? Either way, it didn't feel right. - because the red orb doesn't have a glyph in the middle, it feels different from the other orbs, even though it acts the same way (I thought it would explode upon matching, because it's red, I guess). I'd want to see a glyph added to the red one as well, just to even it out. Maybe a dot or plus? - I really wish escape paused rather than shut down the game. It takes a really long time to play this game in its current form, and sometimes I needed a break from the intense concentration, and losing what progress I'd made up to the point that I wanted to pause was a bit saddening. - I agree with the person above that having a small score animation when matches happen would add juice and also point the player in the direction of the score - I really liked the asteroid physics and the way the ship moved about the space. - Sometimes I could shoot past the surface and into the heart of an asteroid, which was mildly frustrating, but I could see how this might be difficult to address technically. - I was wary at first of the ship controls, but they were very usable. However, sometimes my mind would mix up the shoot and go buttons. - There needs to be a win condition since it takes so long to clear the level 😭 - At some points during play, I wished I could see the orb I was going to shoot and the orb after that one, just because sometimes it's difficult to maneuver into the small asteroid crevice and if there's two of the same color, I want to shoot them rapid-fire after each other. Overall, this was a really fun game that triggers the completionist in me too, because it felt very playable and the steps to move to the next point were obvious and felt accomplishable--it was easy to get into a state of flow. I'd really love to see a more polished version. Actually, on second thought, I really wouldn't because I'll waste so much time playing it! :) (But let me know anyway if/when there is one) I hope this feedback helped! I thought your game deserved a playthrough after you promoted so many under-voted games, and I wasn't let down. P.S. Because of the shade of the blue orb, and because it has a star in it, the orb looks like a blueberry and I really like that.
May 15 18:34:20	257h 14m	Snail and Salt	♥ 1	I like the dichotomies of the snail and salt and snail and racing... really good use of the theme. Got a bit stressful near the end since it was going so fast, but it was fun to play. I'd be even more excited about this game if there were sounds.
May 15 20:59:14	2h 24m	Are You Smarter Than An Alien?	♥ 1	"Not too proud of it" -> gets first or second in almost all categories. Goes to show that people don't know their own strengths. Congratulations on your game!