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Timestamp	Since previous	Game		jkyd's comment
Apr 10 03:14:43		The Deepest Diamond	♥ 1	I really liked the clever puzzle design unique to each sample! Also the stick figure animations are amazing, especially the jumping/falling frame with the arms up :)
Apr 10 08:26:31	5h 11m	Deep Dreamers	♥ 1	This was so good, you nailed the cozy platformer! I love the animations -- super cute -- and the sfx/music fits so well with the retro aesthetic. I did notice the shooting didn't always fire a bullet, so at first I thought the heroine was just ult-ing the finger guns for pizzazz x)
Apr 11 02:54:45	18h 28m	From Fossil to Fame	♥ 1	Cool idea! The t-rex animations were really well done, and I love the palette choice/background art. I did get stuck in the wall though when I deconstructed next to it stuck.jpg
Apr 11 19:18:23	16h 23m	The Signal	♥ 1	This was so much fun! Peeking around the corners in anticipation of hidden loot or a jumpscare really made you want to keep exploring, and the SFX and intro narration fit really well with the mood/style of the game. I would definitely play more of this, especially if there were more puzzle elements like the gun locker combo. I found myself reaching for shift to make the character run faster -- I feel like adding the option to run would be fantastic in addition to the slower walking pace, cause I did quite like the slower pace for adding to the tension or when you want to explore a new area carefully. Awesome job overall!
Apr 11 20:54:04	1h 35m	Duplo	♥ 2	Love the concept! The art direction/execution and palette choice is really cohesive and a treat to visually explore. I saw your post asking for constructive feedback: - Coming from someone who historically has consistently either done a similar "tutorial-screen-wall-of-text" or scrapped tutorials entirely due to lack of time, I've found it's just too much for players to read and have it stick all at once. Maybe having at least a tldr reference card for the controls somewhere in the corner of the screen or ideally introducing them individually with a prompt at the start while the player can try it out themselves would help a ton, especially when the controls for movement/interaction aren't super intuitive. - That being said, it's a lot easier to rely on a players previous knowledge of game mechanics, controls, etc., in terms of maybe not having to explain how to play. Something like changing the mouse cursor/highlighting a button on hover intuitively signal to the player that they should click here. Or for a point-and-click, I would expect maybe "E" to interact with a station/item and that just clicking on the doors/stairs would immediately have the character walk there and go through. - I think the camera-(smoothly)-snapping on the player when they walk off screen would be a great addition, especially with a time-based resources-gathering situation. I'd recommend looking into cinemachine (since unity), you can set rules to have it automatically do it for you. The game looks super polished/unique in terms of assets, so I think it makes the un-intuitive controls stand out a bit. This is a bit outta left-field, but I can imagine a cozy, exploration-version of this game being really fun to play :)
Apr 12 03:52:54	6h 58m	D.E.P.T.H. - Door Evaluation Protocols & Testing Hub	♥ 2	Finally, a fellow dev team who understood the true theme :) This was amazing 10/10
Apr 12 06:45:00	2h 52m	Luck Runs Out	♥ 3	I'm crying, this was beautiful <3 The entire time I thought the walking sfx was just a ticking clock, which honestly I thought was super profound with that one line that mentions you staying still while the world ticks on. At first, I tried to line up the player(?) with the circle outline on the background, thinking it would do something (maybe unlock the next line, or change the player somehow). Which, if you were ever to expand the game/do another similar style project, and want to add more gameplay elements, I feel like that sort of thing would be a great option to explore and would have a bunch of potential for creating other impactful ways to compliment the writing. This somehow reminded me of Disco Elysium, and all the best ways your Reptilian Brain or Inland Empire talk to you -- do you have any other work? I'd love to read it!
Apr 12 20:00:30	13h 15m	Lock Smith	♥ 1	This was so much fun! The idea to reveal the insides of the locks was fantastic -- the padlock puzzle was especially satisfying in that regard. The mastermind puzzle took me a bit to figure out that it was indeed mastermind, but I think it ended up being one of my favourites. I probably wouldn't have figured out the ordering of shapes by their number-of-sides solution without seeing your comment above. However, I think that it could help to make the graphics for the shapes a tiny bit bigger, as I didn't really notice them at first and the fact that the number of sides was important, wasn't super easy to read. We also made a lockpicking game! It's nice to see another dev team that was similarly inspired by "doors", and went for the challenge of tying in 2 themes :)