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Timestamp	Since previous	Game		SimonL's comment
Apr 21 08:42:13		YMGYPBVF: You Must Gather Your Party Before Venturing Forth	♥ 1	Very engaging and nicely balanced. Feels really rewarding to figure out the levels. Overall very nice, even though soundeffects and graphics could be a little more atmospheric. great job!
Apr 21 08:53:32	11m 19s	Heart Combustion	♥ 0	The idea is super awesome! And the tutorial gave me more than a little portal vibe. Graphics are very nice (even though a little demanding for my laptop). Sadly the game crashes quite often so I gave up after 3 minutes of playtime. The idea is definitely worth exploring more :)
Apr 21 09:10:03	16m 31s	Planet Alerino	♥ 1	Played it through! I like mouse + keyboard controls. Just from the game, I didn't know what's my objective (what to keep alive). I even thought, that the enemies are somehow feeding that plant which they were gathering around. In the end I found out, that they are trying to destroy it and I helped it grow :D Could be a bit atmospheric. Also a little to easy. ah, the big health bar on top was empty right form the start throughout the whole playthrough. I guess this was a bug? Solid entry all in all!
Apr 21 09:13:02	2m 59s	Homelette	♥ 2	When the game first started and I heard the music I had a big smile. For some reason it fits very nicely. Graphics also look quite cool. I couldn't play very far sadly, since the controls are just not working on my laptop with a trackpoint. The camera move way to fast when I touched it.
Apr 21 09:18:21	5m 19s	Billy 335 the Bot	♥ 1	Awesome entry! The game mechanics are new to me and very engaging. It got tough very fast though. Maybe add some shortcuts like changing direction while hovering and arrow keys. Graphics are fitting and the sound is very atmospheric. Don't have anything to complain :)
Apr 21 15:23:06	6h 04m	Now That's A Cool Sun	♥ 0	The game idea is very original and nice! I played it under wine and had some graphic and audio issues: background sound was somehow grating and the health bar of the planet was right in the middle of the screen (above the sun and everything). But no point reduction for that since it was made for windows. also like the humour of the game. All in all very good entry. Keep up the work :)
Apr 21 15:38:21	15m 15s	Someone called for an ambulance?	♥ 1	Very cool entry! At first I thought the controls are a little wonky, but after some time I got a hold of it. Then it felt really awesome racing though the city, jumping from the highway down to the streets and sliding around corners. Music was neat and reminded me of theme hospital. Room for improvement could be sound effects and somewhat funnier symptoms of the patients.
Apr 21 16:34:19	55m 58s	Green Dream	♥ 1	The concept is really simply and in the beginning it looks trivial, but quickly it gets quite hard to balance all factors. Controls felt a bit confusing. I always confused push left and right because Solid entry!
Apr 21 17:04:22	30m 03s	Sweet Baby Boi	♥ 2	Oh man, i just wanted to say that the graphics are crazy good. However the game itself is quite disgusting. So the plan has probably worked out!
Apr 23 21:20:30	52h 16m	Wandering Star	♥ 1	The art deco art style is really something. I very much liked it (5/5). The gameplay itself wasn't that revolutionizing sadly. And for some reason my star was always shrinking and not really expanding no matter how many star I've eaten.
Apr 23 21:33:03	12m 33s	Ark Survive	♥ 1	I like the setting very much. Also graphics are really nice as well as the music (with the latter becoming a little repetetive over time). The one problem I had with the game is the gameplay itself. I didn't really get what I was supposed to do. The choices, while funny, felt very random. In the end I failed my way through and learned the answers where I wasn't dieing by heart. In the end I still enjoyed the ride because of the nice humour :)
Apr 23 21:42:08	9m 05s	Saving Emperor's Chick	♥ 1	I'm not sure if I got I right, but it appears that the game is only ~10 seconds long. When saving the penguin from the one bird I immediately win. This aside, I have to say that the graphics are very cool and quite cute. Some music would have been nice. Not entirely sure what else I could review :)
Apr 24 23:14:41	25h 32m	Crazy mechanism	♥ 1	Definitely has potential! Of course it is a little rudimentary without sound and everything, but the core gameplay was fun. I needed a few tries until I knew what I need to do. So a little explanation would have been nice as well.
Apr 27 10:30:40	59h 15m	For Ducks' Sake	♥ 4	Very awesome game! The only thing I can think of as an improvement is a bit more atmosphere and story.
Apr 29 19:51:00	57h 20m	Exo Keeper	♥ 2	An exceptional entry you've got there! The concept is just awesome. Species 5 and 7 really got along together in my game. They dominated the ecosystem and spread wildly. Room for improvement is definitely on user guidance. Everything is just overwhelming the whole time. Even though there are just 3 clickable things and one of them is the info-button :D There appears to be so much going on the screen that it constantly feels that you are not in control. A tiny thing that would help a lot is a small up or down arrow in which direction the parameters on the right are in-/decreasing. The music was very fitting and relaxing. The graphics of the individual microbes were cute and fitting. The planet itself hurt a little in the eyes though, because of the very hard differences between and the colourfulness of tiles. Other remarks: - the info button hangs quite often - on my small laptop screen the info box was hard to read. Switching to a monitor with more vertical space resolved the issue btw: now that I'm writing this comment I see the explanatory video you made. That helps a lot!