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JHax

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Timestamp	Since previous	Game		JHax's comment
Oct 8 14:02:33		Shnorps: Invasion of Blorps	♥ 2	It's really fun trying out different combinations of effects on the towers, and something just very appealing about stacking stuff on top of each other. I think I'd like the area of effect circles to stay up a bit longer or fade a bit more gradually - very much a nitpicky criticism though. Otherwise visuals are great and the creature sound effects are fantastic!
Oct 8 14:55:05	52m 32s	Viral Nexus	♥ 2	Took me a little while to put together exactly what the numbers in the left panel were, but got there eventually! The mechanics work really well - the nanites taking any available path and any adjacent tiles forming a path adds a really good level of complexity to how you need to approach drawing paths. Gets some great depth out of an easy to understand premise!
Oct 8 16:32:02	1h 36m	Whisker Warrior	♥ 3	Graphics are incredible! Completely ignored the block mechanic to begin with, but the fact that blocking stuns enemies is super helpful and adds a bit more depth to the combat. I did find it a little tricky to judge the whether enemies were within range or not, but that might just be a bit of a skill issue on my part.
Oct 8 16:44:34	12m 32s	TINY CREATURE MEMORY WAR	♥ 2	Great blend of mechanics - makes for a satisfying play! I found the difficulty spiked a fair bit on level 3 as well. The art is fantastic - loved it!
Oct 8 17:50:51	1h 06m	Evergrove	♥ 2	Very satisfying exploring around in this, haven't quite figured out whether there's an ultimate thing to find or if it's just for the joy of exploring (which is good fun!) Will probably have another go in future!
Oct 9 12:08:55	18h 18m	Dwarf Colony	♥ 0	Think I ran into a bug with this (on the web version if it's likely to be relevant) - I built a few farms (and a mill) but wasn't getting any wheat. The dwarfs on the farms didn't seem to be moving as well. Otherwise - enjoyed playing this!
Oct 9 12:41:11	32m 16s	First summer - a bee story	♥ 1	The artwork is absolutely gorgeous! The music also fitted the mood really well, like kind of calm but a little bit foreboding so it's a relaxing play but there's also a sense of "Winter is coming and we need to be prepared" Initially I also found the restriction of one type of flower a day a bit frustrating, but once I started to understand it was more of a way of making the player have to remember / figure out routes a bit more (at least that's what I got from it) I had a bit more of an appreciation for it! Was a nice level of engagement having to go "ahh, if I want to get the token at this hive I need to make sure I'm following these flowers" Really liked this!
Oct 9 14:53:52	2h 12m	Tiny Poopers and You	♥ 1	The creature animations give them a good bit of cutesy personality. Good fun!
Oct 9 15:03:06	9m 14s	Hemogoblins!	♥ 0	Great pun title! Really satisfying difficulty curve with the enemy upgrading vs your own ability to upgrade. Really like the spend health to use special abilities thing as well!
Oct 9 15:24:30	21m 24s	Rattalion	♥ 4	Enjoyed the music and the medieval manuscript illumination art style, really well executed! Only being able to attack / heal on certain beats adds a good level of challenge as well.
Oct 9 15:36:19	11m 49s	Webby the Spider: Bug Catcher	♥ 1	This is a really cool concept, took a couple of goes to start getting the hang of it but it's interesting enough to want to keep trying!
Oct 9 15:49:56	13m 37s	PLEASE, GNOMORE	♥ 1	Loved the sound effects, just a very joyful game!
Oct 9 16:08:45	18m 49s	Stolen Colors	♥ 3	Art work is very charming! The army building mechanics are really cool as well! Did find it got difficult quite quickly, would be nice to retry a level rather than having to start all the way from the beginning again. Overall really good game though!
Oct 9 19:36:33	3h 27m	Tiny Galaxies	♥ 3	Had a great time playing this! Kept going for much longer than I planned to - although sadly not sure it shows on my leaderboard position XD TinyGalaxyLB.PNG
Oct 9 20:03:54	27m 21s	Butterjar	♥ 1	Cool puzzle game, art style is great generally, but something about the trees feels extra good to me.
Oct 9 20:27:21	23m 27s	A Bug's Maze	♥ 2	Great maze! The different abilities added a nice factor of making you try to remember where you saw certain things to come back to when those abilities unlocked. I really liked the pixel art for the insects as well - the artwork overall was good, but the insects particularly stood out to me.
Oct 9 22:34:37	2h 07m	Pill Sub	♥ 2	It's a challenging game, but it's really fun! I think I would have liked a way of upgrading things so they break a bit less often, but that's just down to my own preferences really.
Oct 10 17:05:49	18h 31m	runner	♥ 1	It's a fun mechanic to have a bit of a play around with and the graphics are lovely. Great work for a single day!
Oct 10 17:18:03	12m 14s	Bee Bop	♥ 3	Excellent game! Really love that you've fully run with building a game out of bee waggle dances! I enjoyed the more complex path setting stuff in the second level to avoid the birds as well. Music, appropriately, was really good and the graphics and animations are very cute!
Oct 10 19:00:27	1h 42m	Lead and Conquer	♥ 1	I always love a game that does something vaguely graph theory adjacent! I had a vaguely similar idea floating around for it the theme ended up with Pathways so cool to see that someone made a game like this. Really like what's there - a bit of a shame there's not more levels but quite a good problem to have!
Oct 10 19:05:45	5m 18s	Silly guys breakthrough	♥ 1	Cool little strategy game! Maybe a weird thing to focus on but I really liked the look of the health indicators!
Oct 10 19:11:07	5m 22s	Humans left	♥ 1	Really well scoped for the time you had! Impressive to put something so affective in such a short time! Music's well pitched for the mood and the sort of crawling into the hole animations are a really strong element of polish.
Oct 14 20:35:07	97h 24m	Vox Regis	♥ 1	As many have said already - the voice lines really give this a great edge and using Townscaper to build out the setting for the game is such a cool idea. The gameplay pulls together really well as well - I caused myself some problems by letting one gang get too big to the point it was quite hard to get the others to whittle them down, nice that that kind of strategic stuff crops up quite naturally from how it's all set up!
Oct 14 20:50:42	15m 35s	Maratus In Love	♥ 2	The jumping mechanic's fun if a little tricky to get the hang of at times. The presentation is absolutely gorgeous! I particularly like the slight sort of grainy effect you get in a few places, it just fits really well. Music is lovely and calming as well!
Oct 21 19:17:53	166h 27m	The Witch's Offspring	♥ 1	The art and storytelling in this are really lovely. I'm not sure if it was a deliberate choice or not but the sketch style of the cut-scene-y images works really well to build the mood in my opinion - sort of works well with the perspective of the story I think. There are a few bits of polish and quality of life things that would be nice to have (reset being the main one), but seems you're well aware of those already and sorting them out! The falling animation stood out to me as a particularly good bit of the in-game art!
Oct 21 19:31:31	13m 38s	Paper Russula	♥ 2	Mechanics are really interesting, takes a good bit of thinking to figure out the best way to approach things! Not sure I stumbled upon a particularly good strategy, but I enjoyed myself! The fact that you have to place an item every turn adds a nice edge to the difficulty as well. Art and music both really fit the vibe.
Oct 21 19:46:38	15m 07s	Beanel	♥ 0	I was going to suggest adding in the ability to hold the mouse click down to keep shooting - then I tried it and you already had that covered! Pixel art is great - the frog is probably my favourite on that front.
Oct 21 19:53:55	7m 17s	Frog's Bedtime Story	♥ 3	The art work is so well put together, it's clear you've put a lot of effort into it! The frog jumping animation is particularly delightful! Everything feels very cosy and cute - hope you manage to take it a bit further after the jam!
Oct 21 20:00:49	6m 54s	a Tiny Working Day	♥ 2	Everything works really well together - a simple gameplay mechanic but implemented really well. The artwork's really cute!
Oct 21 20:46:21	45m 32s	Tiny Turf Tussle	♥ 4	Incredible stuff! Genuinely hard to find fault with it. The music and artwork are both great and it seem exceptionally well balanced given there's not a huge amount of time in a jam for play testing!
Oct 21 20:54:49	8m 28s	Squizzard	♥ 1	There's a pleasant Castle Crashers vibe to the graphics. Takes a bit of experimenting with what bits to get first to get through the first few rounds, but I think that works well for a jam game.
Oct 21 21:58:56	1h 04m	The Mims	♥ 1	Got really hooked on this and played it for wayyyy longer than I meant to! Made it through a year though after a wobbly first go at it. Took me a bit of time to understand the difference between an enclosure and a neighbourhood, but managed to figure it out early enough on in my 2nd go that it didn't cause too much trouble! The creature designs are brilliantly adorable. Seeya's probably my favourite!