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Feedback comments for LD57

Timestamp	Since previous	Game		pro4's comment
Apr 8 16:57:13		Adam, Rejected	♥ 2	Nice work on the voice acting through the game. I liked that there were little snippets throughout that narrated more of your journey as you made progress back up. I would've liked to see a few more mechanics or upgrades, but given the short context of the jam, and the huge amount of narrative work done, I enjoyed the concept and exploring all the way to the end. One small feedback when you beat the game and it fades to black, it would've been nice to flash some end credits/game ended type text as I was waiting to see if it was going to fade back and another segment was going to start.
Apr 8 17:10:07	12m 54s	D.M.C : Dwarves Mine Caves	♥ 3	I was a little confused at first when I lost my first play through and only after realized the timer on the ship is what I needed to return within that limit. I know there is an upgrade to show the timer when you are at depth, but I think that should have been enabled from the start as it is a pretty critical element for the game. The digging and gold collection felt pretty good. Especially once you got better pickaxe upgrades. The running on wall upgrade was a little awkward for me to use, but I think it could be very powerful if you dig straight down shafts. I ultimately ended up losing because I thought the wall run was going to be able to get me back to the surface a lot more quickly than it actually did :( I would've liked to see more combat. I only ran into the bats at the surface and didn't see anything further down, but maybe I wasn't able to get far enough. Nice work!
Apr 8 17:40:44	30m 37s	Meanepth	♥ 3	Wow, really amazing work yall did here. I really got into the atmosphere and storytelling that yall were selling here. I'm pretty amazed at the amount of 3d graphics work done here too! Tons of assets and really compelling environment. /spoiler One small feedback I'd have is that during the first really intense section with FX red/shaking, it was difficult to find the object I was looking for. I had actually tried to click it earlier, but I guess I wasn't looking dead on at it. Giving a little bit more leeway during that segment might be helpful to players. Really nice work!
Apr 8 17:53:42	12m 58s	Descent Protocol	♥ 2	Took me a little bit to get oriented and understand what I was doing, but once I got the hang of it, it was a pretty fun! I liked the little minigames and the music was really jamming. I did have some difficulty with the radar and I'm not sure what I was doing wrong there. I was just stopping the drill whenever I saw a visible change in texture on the sides. Cool game!
Apr 8 18:03:50	10m 08s	Lifted	♥ 1	Nice, I got the good ending first try! Cool little narrative story concept. Would've been cool to go inside the buildings/doors that you walk past and have some more characters to interact with to further push the question of whether you should advocate leaving the depths or not.
Apr 8 18:33:41	29m 51s	The Adventures of Wormington	♥ 2	Wow, this was really fun and didn't realize how much time passed until I beat the game and it said 19 minutes lol. Really fun trying to collect as much as possible and get super long. I was hoping to get the last upgrade for 999 when I returned with the key, but that got the game complete screen so I'm not sure what that final upgrade was! Argh... Really had a blast with this game. Nice work.
Apr 8 18:42:08	8m 27s	Orb of the deep?	♥ 0	This was insanely difficult. I was able to get about 6 skeletons deep before it was just too difficult for me and then having to restart all over was too much for me to handle lol. Main feedback would've been trying to slowly ramp up difficulty so the player learns certain patterns like wall sliding, or distracting with jumps, or assassinating while on wall slide. Cool concept!
Apr 8 18:55:09	13m 01s	Mariana's Secret	♥ 2	I got down to the orange area with the giant kraken squid thing, but couldn't figure out where to go from there. Was there more or did I reach the end? Also, did the shooting gun thing do something or was that a feature that was cut due to time? Cool little game though! I really enjoyed the artwork and exploring the maze to find the next way down.
Apr 8 19:06:23	11m 14s	Root & Rope	♥ 2	Loved the graphical style and the control of the gnome + rope. My favorite level was 7. Not a big fan of the super tight swing jump on level 8. Wasn't able to beat that one :( Overall, cool game and fun to play.
Apr 8 19:22:25	16m 02s	Goblin Quest	♥ 2	I liked the slayer the spire choose your path down the depths. I started out with the mischief goblin and got my second zap goblin. Shortly after that poor mischief goblin died and it was all down hill from there as the scaling of multiple enemies quickly overcame my one remaining guy. I think if I had maybe slightly better optimized my item usage I couldve gotten a little bit further, but felt pretty tough! Game feel was good. Fun mechanics and item usage. Loved the music in the background of battles, really set the mood just right haha.
Apr 8 19:39:36	17m 11s	Onkalo	♥ 6	I was able to get to an ending (bad end?), but not sure if there were multiple endings. I played through a second time going a different route to see if there was something different, but I got the same ending again. Really liked the mysterious story and beautiful artwork! Definitely pulled me in a lot and I was very curious about the world and area you were exploring.
Apr 8 19:55:41	16m 05s	Diggin' Deeper	♥ 2	Ah dang, I got down 32 levels and didn't realize that 40 was going to be the end! Pretty fun and I liked the slow ramp of difficulty as you moved faster and faster with depth. Really liked the dwarf sprite and his tools/jetpack. Nice work!
Apr 8 20:07:06	11m 25s	Minion No. 1067809362	♥ 4	Fun little puzzle platformer. Liked the humor in some of the sections like the personality test lol. After beating the game, I actually restarted to try level 1 again and see if there was anything was hidden, but didn't find anything! argh lol Nice work!
Apr 8 20:29:40	22m 34s	The Scourge from the Deep	♥ 2	Fun little boss fight. Was able to beat it in 1min 15seconds after a few deaths against him. Tip for others, but there are health stored in the barrels! That helped a lot. Nice work!
Apr 8 21:32:45	1h 03m	fooDMancer	♥ 1	It took me a bit of trial and error, but once I was able to fill out my recipe book I was able to start more reliably fulfilling orders and feeding the minions. Mechanically I liked that you could combine two of the same to basically eliminate them and keep drawing from the deck. Also making two ingredients per type allows you to handle some bad randomness with input ingredients. One small feedback would be to make the upper right task and recipe book a little bit more prominent somehow. I didn't notice them at first and they are very critical to actually beating the game! Nice work! (pixel art was fantastic btw)
Apr 8 21:56:11	23m 26s	Cavedude	♥ 2	Holy smokes this was difficult lol. After many trials and tribulations, I was able to get to the third level, but by that time I was just too beat down to continue any further lol. I watched the youtube video of your playthrough and the levels afterward looked insane! Dev is definitely a kaizo enjoyer lol. One small feedback point, but it would be nice if there was a coyote jump timer to give a small amount of leeway when you run off a ledge. Maybe there was one, but it felt like it was very very short. (very noticeable when you dont have your second jump and you are on an inert platform). Really cool work and I loved the character sprite and overall responsiveness of the movement.
Apr 8 22:38:40	42m 29s	HellDigger – A Cozy Idle Game	♥ 2	Was able to beat the final level and drill to the core of the earth lol. One small request is that it would be nice to have an "add all" type of button because i had like 15000 drill machines and 18000 demon bosses i could've added, but didnt want to press the +100 that many times. Oh, also it would've been nice if I could reroll the shop or refresh the shop to buy even more items. I was so flush with cash, I just bought everything and I still couldnt spend it all fast enough by the later levels. Fun game!
Apr 8 22:51:36	12m 56s	Dwarvenshaft	♥ 1	Fun! It started out a little slow with my single guy, but once I got several guys going, and especially when they were upgraded with drills, things started going really fast! So fast I literally mined out the whole map lol, nothing was left. Loved the pixel art, the chanting song in the background, and the little dudes running around on auto mining as fast as they could with drills. One small feedback I'd have is it would be nice to be able to scroll faster around the map. I know you could click on their portrait in the market screen to jump to a spot, but I also wanted to just pan around and watch the mayhem. Nice work, really enjoyed this.
Apr 8 23:13:28	21m 52s	Debts in the Depths	♥ 1	Really fun! Was able to beat the first boss, but then got absolutely stomped when I got to level 24 with the double boss battle. That was insane! depth_score.png Beautiful pixel art, lots of great juice like busting through the walls on level transition and very fun core mechanic. Great work!
Apr 9 22:28:44	23h 15m	Ruby Hole	♥ 2	Super fun! I liked the different tile types to work with and the objectives appearing further down to add back to your tile stack. First try I got to 78 rubies, which felt pretty good! The mushroom caves in particular felt good when you closed them off. Nice work!
Apr 9 22:39:37	10m 53s	The Altermind Project	♥ 1	Pretty interesting experience and I got a good chuckle out of the ending. I think we might be safe for a little bit longer from my alter ego. Cool idea and nice execution!
Apr 9 22:43:27	3m 50s	Bungee Spelunker	♥ 1	Really liked the graphical style and simplicity of the game flow. I did pretty good on the way down, but on the way back up, it was quite difficult to see the ore as it was obscured by the cave walls. I still was able to get 9 on the way up, but I think it would've been nice if there was some kind of indicator to help me know where i should start shifting towards as it was difficult to move by the time I could see them. Nice work!
Apr 9 23:35:48	52m 21s	Hollowspire	♥ 2	This was really fun. I liked the slow change in music as you descended until it become a bit disturbing at the end lol. Really cool game and loved the execution of the little guys/their upgrades.