You're getting dangerously close to becoming a spiritual parental figure with all these wonderful words of encouragement, little egg ☀️ Thank you for giving our lil' game a crack and sharing your feedback sunny side up, it made the whole team feel warm and gooey inside 💚

Thank you so much, I'm really happy to hear you enjoyed experimenting with the shadowcrafting system - I was worried that it was a bit unintuitive, but you've put my fears to rest! We appreciate you checking out our game and sharing your lovely feedback, have yourself a wonderful jam 💚

We didn't intend for the game to require super precise positioning on the player's part, so definitely not on you! I'll bring up going over the level geometry and we'll get any knobbly roots tucked away. Thanks for your feedback, and the really sweet compliments besides; I'll pass them on to the whole team 💚

It's been inspiring to hear whenever someone digs the vibes of the garden, we're definitely keen to put some more time into getting it buffed and shiny, and we've got oodles of ideas that were out of scope for the jam which we may revisit; we're just as excited about possible future development! Thank you for checking it out and letting us know you're keen to see more, it really means a lot 💚

Thanks for stepping into the garden, we appreciate hearing how folks got on!
It's definitely important to us to make sure the love and care we put in gets a chance to shine, so it's lovely to hear that you could see glimmers of that. We'll be sure to start any future development by bringing some clarity to the unintentional chaos! Thanks again for the nice words 💚

Thank you so much for your really lovely feedback, it's wonderful to hear that you got a good feel for the game!
The tutorial absolutely needs some more pointers - did you find the two additional tabs on the right-hand side of the left half of the notes page? A lil' easy to overlook, but you can click on them to open 'em up, and they give pointers on how to interact with some of the creatures, among other tips!
I've just booted it up myself to check, and noticed that something that isn't covered is that as well as skittish creatures that'll flee from you unless you're sneaking, there are some friendly creatures that will come investigate you if you hang out loosely nearby (a '?' tells you when you're stood in the perfect spot to get them curious about you).
In hindsight, not being more explicit with the workings of the first creature you need to collect was an oversight on our part, but we've learned a lot from the feedback and are excited to make some updates post-jam!
A guide/walkthrough is a wonderful idea, will have a think! Thank you again for your kind words and for checking out our game 💚

Thank you so much, that's so sweet! Great feedback to have, we came to the same conclusion after playtesting it ourselves but had to prioritise squashing some bugs, but hopefully will have some time to return to it and get the game flow feeling buttery smooth. We're so glad you enjoyed your time in the garden, thank for you sharing with us! 💚

Mighty pleased to get such praise from the king of the sloths, our long-eared, tree-dwelling friend shall be honoured. Thanks for checking our lil' game out! 💚

Glad to hear the notes were useful, big props to PiersSK for wrangling them together on top of everything else! We're jolly pleased to hear everything was smooth for you, thank you checking it out and for the sweet words 💚

Thanks for the lovely feedback, we're always pleased to hear how people found our game; tutorialisation and readability are such important aspects of games, it's good to know where a little extra polish is needed! 💚

Thaaaank you on behalf of all of us, so many wonderful things to hear! Once I saw Jen's art for Tene I just couldn't help myself from hatting the cottage, delighted to hear you liked that silly lil' choice 💚

Aren't they adorable!! 💚

The puzzles do have fairly set solutions - basically, the final concoction will fill each of the three slots (head, body, feet) using the aspects from the jar of the smallest size that contains an aspect of that slot type eg. the small jar will overwrite any slots it has in common with the medium and large jar, and the medium will do the same for the large.
If you hover over the final concoction in the bottom left (the sparkly potion bottle), it should bring up the contents of all the occupied jars and show which aspects are being overwritten by greying them out - from there you can shuffle the individual shadows left and right to see how that affects the final shadow!
Regardless, it wasn't our intention for understanding how the puzzle works to be complicated/block people from enjoying the game, and we may try and tweak the tutorial post-jam to better communicate how it works! Thank you for trying it out and letting us know how you found it, feedback is super important to us! Thanks for the kind words 💚

Thank you for your so cute comment, I've passed your compliments onto the ch(i)ef (artist Jen, who designed all the characters and creatures) 💚

Couldn't agree more; Jen's an absolute star! Thank you for the helpful feedback - we're considering picking up dev again after a break, and honing the tutorial is near the top of our list. Thank you for the kind words 💚

Paper Mario was definitely an inspiration when working out how to combine Jen and I's styles, so glad to hear we landed in the right area! We were collectively distraught at the idea of dropping the sloth after Jen presented their adorable sprite, but thankfully the animation leaned into cute rather than devastating! Thanks for the kind words 💚

Beans :3
Lovely to hear such kind words, we're glad you enjoyed the vibes 💚