Amazing! The graphics and sound are very good! The gameplay is engaging and creative! Great job!

This was amazing! Such a creative goal of a game and the controls were pretty intuitive for handling the complex task. I love the audio and art too! Only thing I wish is that if I held 1, 2 and 3 and the same time, right/left clicking should change the intensity of all lights at once. Would make for cinematic endings where all lights can be dimmed simultaneously!

Very impressed by the artwork and sounds in this game! I had a little bit of trouble in the beginning to figure out how everything worked, but once I got it, I truly had a lot of fun. A very high-quality game for being made in just 4 days, amazing job!

The idea is very original. I loved the core mechanic of the game. The art style is very well done and the music make you feel like you’re at the circus! Well done guys :)

Found this game from your stream!

First off, incredibly creative idea. The presentation of it was unbelievable. It’s actually crazy to think this is from a game jam. I don’t think I’ve ever heard good voice acting like this in a game jam which already blows my mind, but the aesthetic is GREAT and the controls are super cool. There’s something really simple but great about seeing the spotlights against the little cardboard cutouts on the stage that is so simple, so quick to understand, but just looks great.

10/10 on polish alone, great work!

Beautiful game with nice art and voice over! Great job!

fun little experience! it was a little confusing how the scoring worked and the hand cursor was a little fiddly, but very charming presentation and idea :)

wow, i really like the art style and the vibe, and really fun. it kind of reminded me of overcooked actually haha

Wow! Super creative and unique gameplay. I used to do stage tech in high school where I sometimes operated the spotlights   so this game was extra fun for me. I adore the cardboard art style. The music and voice over was awesome. It was a little hard to tell when to get the timing right for the sound effects, I was getting a lot of boos lol.   Really impressive and polished game. Terrific job!

What an amazingly creative game. The art is absolutely stunning, especially for a 4-day jam. We went for a similar art style, so it is super impressive how polished you managed to make the whole game. I really love the amount of features you managed to add to the game, and I love the soundboards especially. My only nitpick is that I wish there were more of a difficulty curve/ways to mess up with harsher penalties. But for a jam game, this is super impressive. Great work :)

A very creative take on the theme! sadly, some of the buttons/ lights didn't seem to show up for me, although that may be a browser issue. The VO was top notch!

This was such a fun and original idea! I loved the circus theme, and the art, music, and voice acting all felt surprisingly polished. The mechanics were easy to pick up too. Great job!

WOW! I've never seen a game about a concept like this before! It was extremely unique! I LOVE circus themed games, and this was very entertaining. The art style and soundtrack are phenomenal! Wonderfully done!

Hey, thanks again for playing Dawnfall on stream, watching someone go in cold was really useful, so I owed you a proper go at yours :)

The art got me first, those cardboard cutouts look weirdly real, like someone actually built the set and took a photo of it. And it teaches itself as you go, I never had to stop and work anything out, I just kept up with the show.

Best bit for me was noticing my own muscle memory kick in. Partway through I was hitting all 4 lights without thinking about where they were, and that’s when the lighting guy thing really clicked, you’re not the one on stage, you’re the one making the show work.

One thing I wasn’t sure about, once I had the 4 spotlights with the biggest light I could just put all 4 out on the stage and kind of coast from there. Could easily be that I wasn’t playing it right, but if not, difficulty tiers might be a fun option for the post jam version, something that keeps making you move the lights around instead of parking them.

Also had my hand end up above the sound board at one point and had to restart, looks like a couple of other people ran into that one too.

What was the most difficult part in making the game?

The art and sound design was excellent, definitely among the best looking games I've played this jam! As for the gameplay, I definitely like the concept and the basic gameplay loop of tracking performers with the spotlight works very well. However I got quite confused when I tried to incorporate the more advanced abilities. The basic descriptions of how to use them wasn't really enough to make it super clear and as far as I can tell you can't read the descriptions again after buying them? I think it would help to get a proper mini-tutorial for each one and to be able to go back to it at will to remind yourself of how the ability works.

The way you control the spotlights felt a bit finicky once you had more than one, are you meant to only be able to move one at a time? It becomes difficult to track more than one performer at once even with multiple spotlights if you can't move them simultaneously in some way. I also didn't realize that you lose money on electricity by keeping them on, as that's not made clear within the game itself.

All in all, a very professional-looking game, great presenation and atmosphere, and I think gameplay is good at its core but unfortunately a bit confusing. Great job!