Neat little game~ The SFX when placing the gears are very satisfying. I wish there is more challenging puzzles but it seems straightforward than anticipated. I did stuck on Level 2 for some reason, I thought I messed up something but I think it's a bug on the gear placement as it is fixed after restarting. 
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Visuals | #708 | 3.732 | 3.732 |
| Audio | #717 | 3.341 | 3.341 |
| Creativity & Theme | #876 | 3.659 | 3.659 |
| Overall | #882 | 3.444 | 3.444 |
| Enjoyment | #1033 | 3.244 | 3.244 |
| Seriousness | #1434 | 3.244 | 3.244 |
Ranked from 41 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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The suggestions are on point haha, both were planned to be integrated during the jam, but my focus on polishing the game left me with too little time to work on these sadly. I'll continue the development for sure though seeing how many people think the game has potential!
87 days ago(+1)
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Yeah, the game definitely needed more levels, I know Game Jam games shouldn't be too long, but they sure as hell shouldn't be too short either like mine is haha
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I completely agree that the tutorial could have brought the player to understand by playing how gear deletion works. I won't lie the tutorial was kind of a last minute addition some it's very crude and doesn't do a good job to teach especially the gear deletion.
Ah, yeah. A friend of mine that tested the game also found himself stuck and didn't know how to remove a gear. The tutorial really does a bad job of teaching this since it doesn't explicitly tell how to remove a gear and instead teaches how to open the options of a gear which contain the remove button.
For reference, to remove a gear you currently have to right click it which will open its toolbar which only has the remove button for now.
Anyway, thanks for letting me know!
89 days ago(+1)
Thank you very much!
Yeah, the levels without darkness can't even be considered puzzles at this point, and I knew it when I wrapped up the game, which is why I at least tried to make interesting shapes, but it doesn't change the fact that for a puzzle game, the puzzling aspect is very poor..
89 days ago (+1)
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Yup, the level difficulty is really abysmal right now, which is my biggest pain point. It's partly due to the fact that I didn't have time to implement other mechanics than the darkness and Light Gears, but I could also have made better levels with what I had in my opinion
The mouse click holding / draw-style placement method was suggested by a lot of other people, and even though I wanted to do it, had I known so many people would ask for it I definitely would have prioritized it haha
89 days ago(+1)
Thank you very much for the review and suggestions!
I'm definitely hoping to add some more mechanics to the game as I'm not satisfied with the puzzle aspect at all! Some of your suggestions are things I envisioned initialy but either didn't have enough time to integrate, such as activating other mechanisms, or didn't see how to integrate it cleanly like the different gear ratios.
Yeah, it'd really have been nice to have an undo button, I didn't even think of it during development but in retrospect that should have been in the game. A restart button exists, but with itch.io's fullscreen mode it bothersome to access as you have to press Escape which normally opens the Pause menu which has a restart button, but if you're playing in fullscreen it'll first exit it without opening the pause menu..
Anyway, thanks again!
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