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Timestamp	Since previous	Game		nyxkn's comment
Apr 7 11:54:41		Hooked	♥ 2	Cute little game. Nice art and a cohesive look and presentation. Intuitive gameplay. Repetitive mashing of the keys gets tiring very quickly so for this mechanic it's just about the right game length! Could have really used sound effects though!
Apr 7 12:04:43	10m 02s	DESCEND with CAUTION	♥ 1	Really well executed! It all feels very polished. Great presentation. Controls feel good, and gameplay is as intuitive as it is frustrating :) Very frequent checkpoints was super welcome :D Very fun experience overall!
Apr 7 12:12:10	7m 27s	DeepFrame 9	♥ 1	Excellent presentation! Great music and game feel. Nails the arcade vibe! Controls were intuitive and gameplay was fun for a little while, but gets repetitive very soon. Also felt a little disappointing how the momentum was killed regularly by the new floor, and the floors felt very "stopping". I would have liked to smash through stuff more easily :D
Apr 7 12:19:52	7m 42s	Descend	♥ 1	Oh my god what a good game!! The art and presentation is amazing! Really cool graphics and animations, and an excellent mood. I was hooked. Definitely could have played way longer. Very nice use of music. Way impressive for compo, well done.
Apr 7 12:25:49	5m 57s	Escape from the Depths of Hell	♥ 1	Simple game but nice art and aesthetic! The gameplay got repetitive very quickly. In terms of controls, the mashing might have worked better on the right hand instead of left? Music was also repetitive, but good amount of polish overall, managing art and sounds and all!
Apr 7 19:40:15	7h 14m	Submarine-Souls	♥ 1	Very cute looking! Nice presentation and surprisingly immersive world. Art is done with taste. Camera work is a bit chaotic, way too much screen shake :D Overall a complete game with nice art and sound effects!
Apr 7 19:51:47	11m 32s	Living Lift	♥ 1	Art was super cute! Really well made. I loved some of the surrealist furniture placement as well, and the open space between levels. Simple gameplay but entertaining enough. Didn't quite understand why the lift health was going down or why i got to level one in any case :D Whatever, I see a shiny piece of meat on bone, I like.
Apr 7 20:02:15	10m 28s	LD57 - Slappy's Reef	♥ 1	Such cool vibes! Really nice presentation. A little bit of framerate jank, but overall really fun. I'm not sure exactly what I was supposed to be doing but just mashing buttons randomly felt fun. I think that's the definition of success :D Really wanted to go see the platform in the distance hahaha. Super pleasant experience. Thanks!
Apr 7 20:08:14	5m 59s	Nightmare Digger	♥ 1	What a banger of a game! Took a while to figure out what was happening with the mushrooms :D Other than that very intuitive gameplay and the pacing is great. Not sure what all the things in the status bar where except for health or if the mattered at all. Fun regardless.
Apr 7 20:13:41	5m 27s	The Mine Beckons	♥ 1	Cute little game! Surprisingly more addicting than I expected :D Some sound effects would have done wonders I think! It wasn't obvious that the goal was to complete the whole square. I thought I was going to find things while digging. Anyway, thanks for the fun!
Apr 7 20:23:24	9m 43s	Wrinkles	♥ 1	Surprisingly addicting! And a little unsettling :D Great dialogues. Puzzles were very fun as well. Could have really shined with some sounds!
Apr 7 20:31:15	7m 51s	The Deepest Descent	♥ 3	Such a cool game! Intro was amazing :D Great music and sound effects. Art is excellent. Really cohesive feel and aesthetic. Gameplay was intuitive and fun. Movement was maybe a little too slow for the speed of the incoming madness, and difficulty ramped up pretty quickly. Very fun time, thanks!
Apr 7 20:43:06	11m 51s	The Void	♥ 3	Amazing art and presentation! Loved the story too. Very gripping! Maybe the writing at the end got a bit weak, and not sure exactly what happened in the last scene :D Really immersive experience overall, thanks!
Apr 7 20:50:44	7m 38s	Clambell's Great Escape	♥ 2	Really cute! Surprised at how good the controls felt! I was having loads of fun until the boss showed up and it was Super hard. Very cute art and sounds, and lovely smooth gameplay. Maybe boss a tiny bit too hard :D Such a relaxing atomsphere overall. Thanks!
Apr 7 21:20:37	29m 53s	Game Graveyard	♥ 3	Cute little game. Music and sounds are pretty nice! Art is okay but environments are very plain and repetitive. Gameplay is very difficult at first until you get a couple powerups, and then it just becomes a bit boring and there's too much distance between the pickups, and you're mostly going towards them in a straight line. Some enemy spawns were very annoying. Another easy improvement for game feel is to just make the hurtbox on the character smaller than the sprite. As it is now it's so easy to bump into things you didn't even think you were touching! Overall, could use with some polish and smarter enemies!
Apr 7 21:27:17	6m 40s	Handbag Havoc	♥ 2	So cute! Really nice art and aesthetic. The music is nice but gets repetitive quickly. At first I was trying to be careful with the bag, but after a while I just started to quickly throw everything out and it was SO satisfying :D I'm so glad you only added penalty and didn't fail the stage on items dropped!! Thanks for the fun experience :D
Apr 7 21:31:56	4m 39s	deep trouble.	♥ 2	Simple gameplay but quite engaging, and the levels are well designed. Engine sounds is a bit loud and gets annoying after a while. Overall nice atmosphere and cute art!
Apr 7 21:40:07	8m 11s	Depths of Color	♥ 1	What a cool idea!! I enjoyed this so much! The cat was extremely cute :) I enjoyed trying to find cat as quickly as possible and really got into it! Also very nice that you let the paintings stay to have a longer look at them. A shame that the bgm music track was not looping, because I got stuck staring at the last painting for a good 3 minutes before finding cat :') Overall really simple gameplay idea but so much fun! Thank you for this experience.
Apr 7 21:49:53	9m 46s	Crust Busters	♥ 4	Such a good game!! Mad high energy action. I wasn't expecting to play a racing game with actual opponents! The interactions felt so satisfying (bless their souls). I was wishing at times I'd be able to go faster but I was always on the edge of "if I went a bit faster it'd be amazing" but never quite got there. I'm sure you could add even more high octane action in here. Extremely satisfying gameplay and idea. Would definitely play more of this. Great amount of polish and very cute flavour text and setting, and excellent music too. Thanks for the experience!
Apr 8 07:03:43	9h 13m	Deep Mech Salvage	♥ 3	Pretty well executed! Art is nice. It takes a minute to get used to seeing things correctly but then it flows quite well. Well polished and gameplay feels nice. The music was a very good track but I thought maybe it was a little too high energy compared to the visual style. The basic gameplay plan was intuitive but the goal of the game wasn't very clear! Like should you come back to the same tower or find others? Is the goal to explore or just get scrap? There was also no counter for total scrap collected so it didn't feel like anything was happening. And how to unlock the other weapons? If you show them you will need to hint at how to get them. Overall very well executed mechanically and good polish but a clearer presentation of gameplay goals would have helped a lot!
Apr 8 07:47:09	43m 26s	Awakening	♥ 2	Very pretty! The minimal aesthetic worked really well. Gameplay was intuitive at the start but I think the level design could be better. The level openend up to a pretty big complexity very quickly and it wasn't so clear where to go or what the next immediate goal should be. One annoying thing was how you could fall off to a lower level on the thinner ledges, but this often caught me by surprise as it wasn't so obvious which one was half width. Overall great atmosphere and visuals! With clearer gameplan goals it could feel a lot more immersive.
Apr 8 07:56:54	9m 45s	Doctrines - LD57 Game	♥ 2	Really cool visuals and art! Monsters looked really cool. Gameplay was okay but cards were very limited and repetitive. It was also really hard controls-wise to pick cards 2 and 4 and that was a little frustrating. Also not sure what was going on with the ??? card? It didn't do anything and just stayed on the field. Music was great and very fitting for the atmosphere. Nitpick, plot wise it made little sense: why am I summoning things just to kill them? :) With a few more fun cards and no mouse selection jank this could have been way more immersive! Overall great vibes and aesthetic.
Apr 8 08:06:40	9m 46s	Home is where hell is	♥ 3	Cute game with cool aesthetics! A tiny bit short but it worked fine with the more puzzle feel of figuring out the way. Music also quite nice, and the concept/setting is great! A pretty nice take on the theme. For controls I'd like to have a separate hand for jump (like arrow keys + space), which was somewhat possible by using W to jump. Just a little unintuitive. Overall great visuals and quite immersive, and great music and atmosphere!
Apr 8 15:35:14	7h 28m	Ciggy	♥ 5	Cute game! Great amount of polish. Gun was suffering from "starter pistol" syndrome and could have definitely been made more fun to shoot :) Gameplay was rather chaotic. Was often getting damaged even when I thought I'd dodged. Also took me some time to figure out there was a jump button as well! Could have been way more immersive with some music! Overall well polished entry and a cute backstory. Thanks!
Apr 8 16:28:09	52m 55s	HIM(1).Locked	♥ 3	This game is so gripping! I've been stuck not being able to unlock [DELETED] or HIM(1) for the last 15 minutes. Can I get a hint? I NEED TO SEE THIS THROUGH. Art is great, and the music is excellent and fits the mood so well. Overall amazing atmosphere and story/writing is top notch. Please help me get to the end so I can move on with my life :D
Apr 8 16:36:15	8m 06s	Not Too Deep	♥ 4	Super cool idea! And really well executed. Amount of force feels pretty accurate! And some of the... situations... really make you care for the result and try hard to get it right :D Art was well made and a little unsettling. Final scene was just mad, 10/10.
Apr 8 16:42:05	5m 50s	Endless Depth	♥ 1	Cute game! Really good on the procedural generation. Art was minimal but worked just fine. In terms of controls, since it's directions only I'd have like to play with arrow keys instead. Projectile hitboxes felt very unforgiving and made for some frustrating deaths. Overall well made on a game that feels rather complete!
Apr 8 16:57:30	15m 25s	Meanepth	♥ 3	Amazing locations! Such a good atmosphere. How to progress wasn't obvious and had to come back to the comments to learn about the shaking objects. On my first playthrough I did actually E some of the objects but the range was too unforgiving and doesn't work unless you're right up to them. Anyway glad I figured out because some of the laters locations were so good! Reminded me of SOMA. Excellent work on the art and assets, and the low-res visuals. Thank you for the experience!
Apr 8 17:04:49	7m 19s	Scavenger Deep	♥ 1	Wow, the art is amazing! The whole atmosphere and mood is great. The setting is also very intriguing and immersive. Everything feels well polished as well. Gameplay itself was maybe a bit uninteresting and repetitive. Otherwise very well made entry! Definitely stands out among the rest. Well done, and thank you for the experience!
Apr 8 17:13:38	8m 49s	Below Birdsong	♥ 2	Interesting setting, and art was nice. But gameplay was super basic and there wasn't much to do. Level design was very flat and there were no interesting features to jump around. Particularly annoying was if you travelled one way and the door spawned the opposite way, forcing you to backtrack. Enemies were really hard to see as well. Could definitely use some more interesting gameplay!
Apr 10 09:47:28	40h 33m	Sub-Silence	♥ 2	Great presentation! I think you've really nailed the atmosphere. Aesthetic was minimal enough to make you really feel the situation. Gameplay I think was a pretty good idea but I don't actually think my torpedoes were doing anything?? Even when I thought I'd lined up the enemy very well they'd still be there. If they take multiple hits, or if the torpedoes have a chance of missing, then that should have been more clear. Otherwise it just comes off as "not working" for a new player. Overall loved the theme and atmosphere! Gameplay could use improvements.
Apr 10 09:56:46	9m 18s	A Well to Wonderland	♥ 4	Hey really cool game idea! Took a while to figure out the controls. You'd expect the character to move with arrow keys. Once figured out it's quite fun. The hitboxes on the obstacles were MASSIVE though. You'd get hit without the sprites even overlapping. You usually want the hit/hurtboxes to be actually smaller than the sprite for good feel. Otherwise collisions feel very annoying. Also never default to sound being at max level :) Good that you had a setting but it was only reachable from main menu and not in-game, so just make sure that the default is sensible! Art and music was nice and a good aesthetic. But a few gameplay implementation issues and unclear onboarding.
Apr 10 10:06:50	10m 04s	Vanity Check	♥ 2	Fun little game! Presentation was a bit messy but gameplay was intuitive and worked alright. On first playthrough I just went straight up and fought what I assume is the final room and completed the game like that. But then I went back and tried the other rooms too and it made more sense. Maybe a better way of forcing the correct progression would have worked better, making sure players see more of your content. Overall funny setting and dialogues. I think art worked ok though it was quite minimal. Decent entry!
Apr 11 18:52:54	32h 46m	Diggin' Deeper	♥ 2	Really cute and fun game! At the start I thought controls weren't working because it wasn't intuitive you had to click on play. Game's really well executed. Nice art, nice music, gameplay works fine. A small improvement could have been to stop a little once on a new level to have a chance to strike the new layer instead of always skipping the first tile. Would have been a bit smoother and prevented some waiting around for the dwarf to come back just to strike one missing tile. Pretty fun gameplay overall and neat atmosphere!
Apr 11 19:16:02	23m 08s	DungeonDescent	♥ 1	Extremely addicting game :D I came across a few really broken combos, and that is FUN. Obviously it's really hard to balance all these effects well in a short jam, and I'm glad you erred on the side of "possibly overpowered" rather than being too stingy. Seeing big numbers and breaking everything is way more fun :) Took some time to figure out it wasn't match-3 but rather draw a line between the tiles. But then it was smooth sailing. Overall visual presentation is a bit messy, but works just fine. On a few occasions I unlocked so many things at once that dialogs overlapped weird and wasn't sure which one to click first. Anyway, super fun, thanks for the experience!
Apr 11 19:25:41	9m 39s	CONFESSION	♥ 1	Hey really interesting game! I'm impressed at how good the visuals are. Some really cool transitions in there as well. Interesting story but the ending black screen is a little underwhelming. I was almost expecting the game to start again as a time loop. Anyway, anything would have been better than black screen :D Text was moving too slow, that's always frustrating. Never a good idea to put a cap on reading speed! I realized at some point I could hold click but a second click tap would have been better, because with the hold it's possible to skip multiple lines at a time. Anyway, cool experience overall, but maybe the story needed a bit more fleshing out!
Apr 11 19:33:07	7m 26s	Holy Moly!	♥ 1	Hey this was really fun!! I love the idea of the moles being so violent :D Really well executed game, and so polished and complete! Great art, music, sounds, and gameplay works really smoothly. Surprised you managed such a complete experience for compo! Game didn't seem to work at all on firefox btw, but chrome worked fine. A small complaint is it would have been better to have more warning of when the farmer were going to shoot. As it stands, you just had to wait around far enough to dodge and then tackle them. But that made for a less flowy experience. Anyway, great game!
Apr 11 19:39:53	6m 46s	Voyage au centre de la Terre	♥ 1	Interesting game, but I had no idea what I was supposed to do at the book battle! The one line of voice over was excellent :D
Apr 13 10:58:39	39h 18m	Focus Hunt	♥ 1	Cute game idea! But way too hard! I couldn't find any of the letters except L and that one didn't seem to work. I assume they have to be found in order? Also couldn't find the rabbit. And tbh, I couldn't even find them in the clear picture you posted above!! Anyway the blur effect is really cool! Music got a bit annoying after a while. You had a mute button but I didn't use it in case it also removed the item found sound. Overall a nice and complete entry. Just way too hard :D
Apr 13 11:05:32	6m 53s	Sokobound	♥ 1	Really neat presentation! Very minimal visuals but all so polished and it looks really clean. The puzzles are insane. Got hard stuck on tunneling :( Anyway great effort and overall a very polished entry!