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Overclocked by Coda Highland 2021-10-05T22:39:09Z

aesthetically i think this is really cool! really reminds me of the old days playing flash games, but with a really fun, glitchy vibe mixed with retro style computer windowing. very nice!

i will say that the game felt really difficult to play, even with the cheat to finish off the defrag puzzles. i never really found myself able to get to another defrag puzzle before the game would reset me, and the platforming felt a bit unresponsive at times. i do really like the idea you've gone for though, and with more play testing and tweaks to the platforming/puzzles i think there's something real fun here!

Mystic Push by TheSomeoneXD 2021-10-05T23:13:30Z

the sheer level of polish, atmosphere, design, honestly it's hard to criticise this! it's a cute lil puzzle game with a gorgeous aesthetic and incredibly fitting soundtrack. everything feels like it's part of a well oiled machine, fitting snugly together.

i will mention one thing however. i feel that the view got in the way of being able to understand where the goals for the pillars are, as well as the available paths i could walk down. this made surveying the puzzle to come up with a plan of attack a bit harder than i would have liked. i do appreciate that the goals for the pillars have a glowing halo above them for visibility, but it's rather faint and took me a while to understand what it was for.

but yeah, otherwise this is really quite a lovely little game, excellent work!

Time Rift by Unrivaled Super Hottie 2021-10-05T23:01:58Z

the set pieces, the graphical fidelity offered through unreal engine, the theming all feels very cohesive and make for a strong aesthetic. i also like the general direction of the gameplay, i think it's got heaps of potential (i really enjoyed getting up to speed and getting to grips with how to best navigate levels!)

there's two major sticking points for me though i think, and that's the current design and the font choice.

i'll talk about font choice since that's the shortest of the two, but basically the font chosen for the pyramid environment is really not good. this is both because it's really difficult to read, and it's actually a huge accessibility problem. i get that it looks neat with the aesthetic, but to me it's far more important to ensure that your text is as legible as possible to as many people as possible.

as for the design, this is a bit harder to pin down. i think some of my issues may boil down to certain mechanics needing further refinement to feel more consistent to play with, but other things such as the player camera height when sliding, level design tricking you into doing something that will end your run, the lighting being so dim in areas that it became hard to read the level, and some other stuff lead to make the game feel more frustrating instead of fair.

again, i do want to reiterate that i think you've got something really interesting going on here! with further refinement to the mechanics to make them feel more consistent and more playtesting and iterations on the level design, there's really quite a lot of depth for you to explore and base a really fun game off of!

The World is Unstable by Nick Soliz 2021-10-05T23:20:11Z

nevermind that this is your first game--this is really quite great! sure, graphics, music, whatever might leave some stuff to be desired but quite frankly you've hit the nail on the head with something that i think most game developers struggle with all the time: fun game design. you've taken an incredibly simple concept and have run with it, not adding in extra fluff and keeping it focused on the core of game's goals. it's super focused, and shows that you all have a lot of potential! keep up the good work, you're all doin some great work and we love to see it :)