Controls are snappy! And I love the snappy little avatar. I like how I become a tiny square when I press down. This is hard, I'm not very good at platformers, but I had a good time! The art and sound strongly recall a retro style I appreciate, the sound really seals this. I'll try a few more times to get to the end, but I wanted to leave a comment here before the Jam was over.

I quite like the idea having to time the extra rules myself and it added a lot of extra interest for me during the platforming. I can't say I feel like I ever figured out the window within the count to jump/duck though, so I ended up just spamming the inputs like a maniac. Regardless, I had a lovely time!

AAAHHHHHH!

THE WORLD WILL EXPLODE IN 60 SECONDS!

is a great game that made me scream in panic whenever I failed a jump. All these extra rules in the end make it pretty hard to finished but it's possible

Great game! Huge congratulations! It's incredibly well-made, and, for me, the difficulty hits the perfect sweet spot to make the player feel the pressure of the bomb timer. Great job!
By the way, if you have some free time, I'd love for you to playtest my game as well and let me know what you think!

Cute level game. I think the first bit trying to get through the gap was too hard for me :D 

I really like the art. It was really cute. The mechanics I really thought were clever. However, not showing the timer made it more frustrating than a interesting puzzle that I would have to solve as I progress through out the game. Tho the addition of the new mechanics on top of the timer was a great twist on this whole mechanic.

Enough charm to keep me invested through my plays. It might seem silly to say the writing was great, but sometimes the white space can be just as interesting as a super meaningful dialogue tree. It was my reward for beating a layer, just so Blorbo could pow, stick it to the Demiurge!

For a game about the countdowns, that are so intrinsically linked to the countdowns in mechanics, I really don't think it would have made the game too easy by showing them to us. We have the godhead after all. With a clock for a head. He could just watch in the background. The game was absolutely punishing, but that's not worth any less. I wanna be the guy is fun genre and rewards patience and investment!

I have to give kudos to the character controller. There's a reason you don't see slopes absolutely everywhere in gamejams. You have to find the right asset, or put time and care in, to get those sonic levels of snappy-feelgood on slopes. None of the hurt boxes felt cheesy, and the jumps had in just enough forgiveness to keep me feeling like I really could save the world this time. The graphics are right where they need to be, completely coherent across the experience! xx

A bit too stressful and precise for my tastes, but there's an audience for this type of difficult platforming game. I love your interpretation of the theme and the gradual addition of extra rules. and player needing to count down in their head.

As mentioned in the previous comment, I also got tripped up by counting whenever I got frozen. I can't put my finger on it, but I think it would be more intuitive to release the freeze one "tick" earlier so that it lines up with the tick where you would get frozen. I'm guessing it currently happens at the end of that tick because that's the window where you need to jump/duck, but I think you should just make the player immune from freezing directly after the tick. You could also show all in-play timers while frozen just to help the player understand, then hide them again once unfreezing.  I'm sure the best solution will reveal itself with iteration and playtesting.

The cover art and banner art of the page go a long way to bring your vision to life, given the simple art style, but for the finished version, it would be nice to develop the visuals in-game a little. Simplicity and visual clarity are good, but I think it's just a little too abstract for the stakes of blowing up the world to mean much because it doesn't feel like an inhabited world.

Anyway, great work and good luck with future development.

I this is the most the thematic I felt..

I was actually counting down "4, 3, 2, 1, 0..." "4, 3, 2, 1, 0..." (For the slay the princess fans out here, you know the cadence I'm referring to lmao). I honestly loved the story, its simple. I bomb made to explode in 60 seconds. Saw blorbo as a friend, maybe had hope to stop it from exploding... And the ending was a bit tragic.

Argh, Its was a good experience. Its short succinct did its thing well and that's it. It's my first high rating for narrative, and the gameplay... it was great. The leeways from the jump and ducks, (heh the duck timer is a duck), and the overall test at the end to see if you've got the timing down. It's well made!

Thank you for submitting to the game jam!

My god that was good. The subverted expectations from the start were wonderful. And making the distance you have to travel after learning about the duck count, forcing the player to learn it, was master class. Fantastic job!

WOOO Finished the game, i liked it a lot. having to time my jumps to the beats was really fun and i liked the levels. Also the jumping felt really good, that's always nice to see. The art was simple but it was super charming, loved the Enemy design, scary and fun at the same time.  I felt really challenged in a good way at the end. althoug i was confused for a bit, because it wasn't very clear that i had to jump or duck at the end.

Awesome short game, like I'm recommending it to people to try, its real fun.

Thank you very much for adding linux build! I really appreciate it! Also, a very great game. It has so much fun packed in it!

I really loved not having any visual notifier of the timer, this gives me constant pressure to keep track of time in my mind for the 5s rule. This keeps my brain busy and intrun engaged! Really loved the ideas!

One slight inconvenience was the long dialogs, needing to wait like 3s when I die/timer runs out can be challenging for my brain with attention span of a goldfish