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Tiny Baking Simulator by Sarah 2024-10-10T04:46:02Z

Oooh, I really love the art style and especially the little animations on the fairies! I really love the theme and idea of the game and I think there were a lot of different little mechanics and behaviors for the fairies???

Personally thought it was a little hard for me to tell what was going on even with the text but that could just be a me issue!

I also think some kind of timer or different use of the money could have been really cool(maybe I missed this though) I can totally see a larger scope version of this game on my phone or pc with upgrades, decorations, hiring workers (with personalities, I could totally imagine the different workers even getting into feuds with each other, workplace drama or something like that!)

I also want to ask if you made this all by yourself. Cus It's really cool if you coded drew and made all this stuff in only 3 days! That would be super rough for me for sure!

Tiny With Power by filgreen3 2024-10-08T22:58:11Z

I really like the game it kinda reminds me a little of "human resource machine".

I think the only real issue I ran into is accidentally placing blocks outside of the playable screen so all my spawners like got stuck behind where things are supposed to be. I also think a fast-forward button would be neat!

Getting Bugger by RizeDovah 2024-10-08T22:37:40Z

I really love the concept it's like snake meets vampire survivors kinda and the game is pretty fun but I struggled with a few aspects of the game!

I think the first thing is that I don't know if there was something wrong with my machine but the game was stuttering a lot and this led to a lot of frustrating deaths I also walked into a spider instantly upon entering the big room quite a few times!

the next issue I ran into was the movement I do not know if it was because I just have adhd or ran into a bug or something but I think something like an input buffer would make everything feel way smoother, I also ran into some interesting movement issues like moving backwards by pressing two movements at once and moving diagonally when pressing more than 2 movement keys at a time(you can even move multiple squares at once)

lastly, this may be an issue with my eyes as I have extreme nearsightedness but it's really really difficult for me to see spiders on the tiles from farther away for me at least the spiders blend right in and I can't really see them until I start painting the floor red with their blood.

I think this game would be awesome on a mobile device and I could totally see playing something like that on the bus or just to fill some time!

Paper Russula by Revetoon 2024-10-08T23:38:29Z

unfortunately cannot run game sounds cool tho

Paper Russula by Revetoon 2024-10-10T06:35:02Z

@jojopalambas I just downloaded the newest build im super excited to try it out tmr will update this post once i have done so!

something by TonySlav 2024-10-08T23:15:54Z

mysterious

NebuLeet Troopers by quasilyte 2024-10-08T21:53:07Z

I really love this game! It makes me think of it as a puzzle and I think it's pretty difficult. it took me a while to understand the card stuff which is an interesting mechanic but it felt a little frustrating I feel like later on the series of units you have to use and position are pretty specific and hard to pinpoint.

I would love a longer breakdown of what the characters actually do, maybe a little ticker for extra details?. for example the hunters were something I basically completely avoided because whenever I used them they would barely ever shoot and I didn't know why.

I really enjoyed this game and would love it more if it felt like I could make more informed choices rather than needing to trail and error as much as I needed to!

Regeneration by korzhik 2024-10-08T23:35:08Z

cool game i liked the hidden one on the second level, good apm checker. would like more levels after the third

Tamago Sweeper by Absolute Garbage 2024-10-10T04:48:50Z

Super interesting take on mine sweeper! i love the little theme and the flower with a gun.

its honestly super compelling and makes me wonder what a full indie minesweeper-based rougelike/RPG could be like!

I think it could definitely work! I'm sort of imagining of maybe loot "mines" and stuff like that, and a boss mine.

A Fish Based Game by rodney fan 2024-10-08T23:04:51Z

@rizeDovah thank you so much for playing our game and for the critique, all the animations and little fishes are procedurally animated! and they all have random blend shapes along with textures and gradient mapping to make for a large variety of fishes! it didn't come through all that well but it was a cool experiment and im glad it enticed you!

this is my first jam as an artist and designer as well as the first time I've used unreal so most of the heavy lifting was done by my partner @beadyeyes !

we really appreciate the longer feedback thank you so much for playing!

A Fish Based Game by rodney fan 2024-10-08T23:08:47Z

@gaalsien @xacce Thank you for the bruhs!

@david-soriano I am glad you liked the little guys I spent a lot of time on them :fish:

A Fish Based Game by rodney fan 2024-10-08T23:10:38Z

@tenai lol the fish do indeed be tweaking, I am happy that you defeated those bullies and I hope you were able to get to the ending!

A Fish Based Game by rodney fan 2024-10-09T08:38:21Z

@budaniel, I'm glad you enjoyed our game! We actually had a few issues early on with adding actions that were basically always negatives, and we ended up removing a few of those! Unfortunately, we didn't end up having too much time to tune things, which is a learning lesson for next time, for sure! I think its always funny when the opponent ko's themselves the fishes are quite silly!

@daredevinbegins Hey thanks for the kind words! this was my first time doing art and in unreal so im really glad you liked it!

@arenavgust Im super happy to hear that :blush: I worked hard on that darn fish!

@loveschach Hey im super glad you enjoyed my silly little scribbles! thanks for playing our game!

A Fish Based Game by rodney fan 2024-10-10T01:39:47Z

@quasilyte Thank you for going through all that effort to try out our game! I'll be sure to add a zip option to the itch page as well as a youtube video going through the game! this was my first time going through a real game jam like Ludum Dare and we will be sure to try and making something more web-friendly in the future. i really liked your game and im super happy you decided to try ours out!

@vindicta Thank you for playing!

@alxje Lol the bruh sound effect was pretty funny I think @beadyeyes did it as a joke placeholder but it was just so funny when we were testing and the fish kept suiciding off the sides of the tank. I am super glad you enjoyed it and maybe putting these notes in a pause screen would have been good but we really ran out of time, i really wanted an exit button so you dont have to alt f4 every time to exit the game. there are also quite a few softlocks we are aware of we initially wanted to make the claw machine alot harder too cus we thought the dynamic of a hard-to-catch fish probably being better than easy-to-catch fish was good.

overall we definitely overscoped for our first jam and there were alot of learnings to be made!

@calcopod Thanks for playing im glad you thought it was fun! when we made this we did wonder would we be the only ones to find this funny and im glad that isnt the case! the game is pretty buggy especially cus my partner quinton had to keep explaining how to even use unreal engine at all so didnt have extra time to focus on code.

@keat-heat thanks for playing! we really appreciate it

@bacalear im glad you enjoyed the mood of our game!

@iwant-pizza thank you for playing we really appreciate the feedback, we definitely didn't get the time to properly bug test or polish the game. if you have any design opinions please feel free not to hold back and tell us about them we would really appreciate it as graduates of a design school!

A Fish Based Game by rodney fan 2024-10-10T05:41:45Z

@stormburpee thanks for playing our game im glad you enjoyed it!

@tuism Hiya thanks for the feedback! there were absolutely many many issues the tank one being one that is honestly one that should have been fixed before release.

as for the refresh button we actually never thought of adding something like that and that's absolutely fair!

as for the swim-in direction, you are absolutely correct the direction in question should have been actually stated, especially because it is always the same direction every time.

as for attacking you are right there is actually no real attacks in the game originally I wanted us to have like skills for the fish to use as attacks ones with Aoe and VFX but that was unfortunately out of scope for sure. the attacks are just sort of collision checks with a cooldown and so swim towards fish becomes basically an attack.

yep the stickies were definitely a repeated feedback point! i think in the future for a system like that a pause menu should show you the notes again.

as for during the fight, the only thing you can really do is to tap on the glass to trigger the effects on the On top glass thingy. as for the fish jumping out thats actually quite surprising there isnt any fight timer and you can actually get soft locked there pretty easily so I think you just had a batches of suicidal fish you are absolutely right tho its super high variance with little to no control really from the player.

we really appreciate the detailed feedback like this BTW thank you so much for your time!

A Fish Based Game by rodney fan 2024-10-11T08:48:56Z

@sviborg heya! thanks for playing our game! im glad you enjoied the procedural animation i had no idea how to do them in unreal but its actually really simple! maybe i should make a breakdown! the art was definitely very much a test from me to see how i could use certain techniques like gradient mapping, and blend shapes to make different variants of fish i will certainly be making a post about it if you would like to see more its all pretty simple and something that anyone can do pretty easily (especially since this is my first time in unreal!)

@wdnmdld 谢谢 Thank you for playing our game! I'm glad you enjoyed the breeding system!

@absolute-garbage thanks for playing! the animation is all procedural and if your interested we could do a post on how we do it, using just a few unreal nodes really did the job and made pretty solid looking animations, i would have liked to do it a different way but unfortunately i am no so familiar with the unreal systems!

I honestly agree I kinda just like watching my fish swim around and survive actually thought about making it more of a fish farming game once we realized the combat didn't have very much depth to it. maybe in another timeline!

The abyss by xoudz 2024-10-08T23:29:24Z

I don't understand russian but I played it. very short would have liked some choices.

Super Axolotl Adventure by Dianavi 2025-10-08T05:39:36Z

i love the art style and the addition of the achievements system, funny issue i ran into actually is that i use a vertical monitor for coding and when i opened the game for some reason it went on that monitor instead and i couldn't see anything so when i reopened it i was pleasantly surprised to see an achievement.

The Collected by Tetramollaxx 2025-10-08T05:32:55Z

"O_O this is the end" lol

i enjoyed this game alot honestly it was fun and short and i can see room for more stuff to do. can 100 see the opportunity for more variety in people and like some other roguelike mechanics like "items" or challenges if you continue working on it!

Drunkink by voidsrc 2025-10-08T02:10:38Z

Fun game i enjoyed it, i tried it with my drawing tablet too and it eliminates alot of the shaking.

SaleDay by Lapher 2025-10-08T05:45:51Z

Looks like y'all had a very similar idea to the game we made lol we even named ours "doomsday sales" your game is definitely more hectic tho! i had a good time i love how the NPC's are menaces which we wanted to do as well but ran out of time unfortunately.