I enjoyed this one. I love the cyperpunk aesthetic. You really leaned into it and it looked fantastic. The blue super bomb was very satisfying to use, I liked that one a lot. It appears at the right time - those spinning dudes were no joke.

Personally I think one thing that makes exceptional games stand out is little moments that are really satisfying and feel really good. The moment I got into an elevator and it gave me a fast preview of every floor as I went past them and then I got to explore those floors was dynamite! I loved that moment. Really strong. 

For feedback I think the game is too large. I played for a while and then it felt repetitive, but the city feels massive and each building feels so similar to the last and each floor feels so similar to the last that I was getting bored by the end. It's too bad, I think you have a fantastic very short game that you could easily build into a much larger and really fun creation with the addition of more mechanics that just, for me, felt like it overstayed it's welcome a little bit. As I was heading towards my (fifth?) building the game froze and I couldn't proceed although I don't know if this is where the red door of a previous building used to be or just a random spot.

I look forward to playing more of your games in the future.

As a Tron fan I enjoyed this!

The Tron style concept of the game and Neon punk visual style of the game is very cool. Game plays more like a shooter than a crawler in my opinion. Not too much exploring, mostly shooting from what i saw . I couldn't get too far in the game. I clear the top floor of fragmented blocks then on the second floor fragments keep spawning right under my nose and i die at some point. But i like the idea in general, it's a very cool, creative jam game. I think retrofuturism theme  is incorporated very well too. Nicely done, thx for sharing !

Really liked the consistency and how everything was put together: visuals, sounds and plot are working together very well. Liked how you wrapped up the plot with those computer cpu\drives terms, i almost felt like a program in some obscure way...

 As said before about repetitiveness: I wasnt expecting 4+ floors(cells) in each tower (block) and started to feel a bit tired accepting my routine. Thats totally fine for 9 days tho, and of course some color separation of towers (blocks) or more floor size changing/generation differences could fix it.

 But maybe thats what an average defragger is feeling like? Just going from cell to cell, working hard, every milliseconds, tossing your destiny in the hands of some user who is trying to locate some old dog photo №2042 :) Thank you!

I got stuck between a virus enemy and the elevator right after I go down a floor in the 4th building, and I got shredded to death. Movement is great but the shooting is wonky, as others have commented. Fire rate should definitely be increased. The 80s cyberpunk / Tron-esque visuals are great. It's a cool game nonetheless.

THE PARTITION HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY DEFRAGMENTED.

I run into a crash a a few days ago so I was happy you updated the page with the cause so that from now on we could avoid it.

The game was fun, the atmosphere is well rendered though sound and visual and it fits the retrofuture theme. It controls well with the appropriate speed for everything, gunplay feels good, grenade usage is satisfying, the enemies propose an adequate threat for a jam and the game ends with a cool boss fight.

Thanks for sharing!

I really like the look of this game. Going up the first elevator is epic. It took me a bit to figure out that I had to look for the fragmented buildings to defrag them (it always makes sense in hindsight!). I also learned to step backwards onto the elevators after my first few floors. It would be epic if you used AudioStreamInteractive for the music and dropped the bass when you go up an elevator. I haven't tried using something like that yet personally but I bet it would rock here.

I really love the graphics and how hard you’ve lent into the specific aesthetics you were chasing! Superbly done.

The game-play was engaging too. Though real-time combat with a single ability usually can get a little stale, you solved it really good by having the enemies move relatively fast and forcing the player to rush into each level to not get stuck on the elevator and miss all the good heals!

Unfortunately the game crashed for me on the final boss-fight. So I didn’t get to see if there was a cool ending or something.

Very well made though!

Play-through with more comments!

Great game! Loved it. The art-style is incredible, and the gameplay really fun. Only feedback I'd give is the same as others have already given, that the game ends up being very repetitive after you go through a second building filled with the same enemies. But, for a nine day game jam game it's really impressive :)!

What a fun little game! Loved the visuals and atmosphere. I think for the jam version, the buildings could be a little smaller with only the 2 different enemies. It did feel like a lot of the same! That said, it did not overstay its welcome but, I did not want to grind through it again to fight the boss after the game crashed.

Overall, great work! Thanks for making this and submitting it.

You can watch my playthrough here: https://youtu.be/vUrNv49zg6s

I still need to go back and finish the boss, but I love the theming and aesthetic of this game. Having it all be a program that defrags your hard drive is super clever. Really feels like it could be an extension of existing Tron lore. I love details like your health being cpu usage going up, and how the fragmented/defragged blocks looking like how I'd see them in my head. Also your guide on the page was really cool, felt like an old-school game manual.

Haven't defragged anything in a while! This was great.

At first I thought this might be a bit too easy, but I ever increasingly found myself getting boxed in by a virus as I exited the elevator to then get peppered by a fragment behind it. That being said, the tuning was spot on for me, and I was able to finish the game on my first attempt, which is ideal for my taste. The visuals are lovely, nicely consistent and the enemies are well designed. 

I did have to click the shoot button throughout; I think the input event was being consumed by movement actions and thus I wasn't able to shoot with the keyboard while strafing unless I clicked, but it's a pretty minor thing in reality.

The written guide was very useful, but I probably would have made it without as I think you communicated everything splendidly in level, enemy and UI design. I'm finding it hard to find too much constructive critique! Perhaps the jingle was a little repetitive?

Overall this is an extremely solid entry, I had alot of fun playing. Thank you

A+ on the visuals, overall its a well put together game for a jam. Good work.

Nice pearl!

I liked the tron setting, and the simplicity of the game.

Had some issues with finding the correct building to enter, so went around kinda lost checking everything. Maybe have the active building in a separate color, or just make the overall area smaller. I liked the snappiness in the movement, even though I would like it to be even snappier. I had some issues with using the special ability on R, and several times in a fight I miss-pressed E instead leading to disorientation and failed special attack, There were some tearing in the buildings, giving some leaks that you might want to patch up.

Over all very nice. Prob worth doing some polish and releasing it after the jam.

Thank you!

Love the tron-esque vibes for the art style, well done there. Took me a while to realise I could just strafe away from enemy fire but that’s on me :D.

Did feel like I spent a lot of time just trying to find the next elevator though, an starting so far from the different blocks on respawn was a bit of a pain. But overall those are relatively small issues.

Nice work. Alas I didn’t not see it through to full defragmentation, must drives will remain as messy as they are in real life :D

I'm sorry, I really tried running it several time to make sure it wasn't on my side but the game is completely empty. All the rooms are empty, no enemies, no "elevators" like in the video examples... I'm confused

The Partition has be successfully defragmented :) I felt, that the game could have been a little bit shorter or it needed a bit more variety. Enemy placement was sometimes a bit unfair, but my heart was racing, when those sweeping bots were approaching. Movement was solid and had buffering and strafe combat worked well in this game. Solid submission :)