Heys, really enjoyed the harpoon mechanic and it became very satisfying to find where to go. I liked the old gold you could collect and the uh varied prices you might get for things. The sea texture has already been mentioned so i won’t mention it here. Interpreting the logic of where things were hidden became a nice little puzzle in itself. Hidden corners and ends of puzzle sections was very nice. Well done.

I had a really hard time with the palette, especially near the water, so I unfortunately couldn't play it for very long. But the *art itself* is really cute, and from what I did play I enjoyed. I'm sorry I couldn't play more to give more meaningful feedback.

Cute signals for treasure to dig and overall smart stage design, I think I ran into a softlock on one side though sadly. While I enjoyed digging around and finding the diagonal sea patter becaume quite tiring/trippy to my eyes, even more as if you diagonally down it seems to be vibrating, which is either cobblestoning or just a visual “artifact” of the pattern, but it did disallow me to play for a long time.

Graphics wise other that the sea patter I like what you had, the color palette is punchy but not offensive, walks that fine line well.

SFX and music were cute, well done on those!

Overall cool idea and entry!

Nice little exploration game! The way treasure is hidden reminds me of how it is in the Golden Sun games, so thanks for the shot of nostalgia haha

This game is really nice ! I like how you were able to make to make such colorful and varied environments with only 4 colors, good use of patterns. I was so happy when I find all the pirate ships.

There are so much different antiques to find. I wasn't able to find them all... but still filled a good part of the museum, and enjoyed reading the little texts.

Some feedback : the player doesn't know he has to press A to interact with NPC and other elements, I think an input prompt would help. Also at some point I went too far and it took me a while to find the TP again, mabye a map, or just an arrow to avoid getting lost. I also find a glitch to escape the bounds around the museum entrance, but I think you should keep it, OOB is fun.

Nice soundtrack, but my favourite detail about the audio is the different walking sound depending on what tile you are.

I'll come back to play after the jam, I'm hyped if you add the things you had to cut off after the jam.

Really good job !

Really liked this one! Exploring around and finding all the little treasures was really fun, and the world is so colorful and nice to look at. The whole game feels really cozy and has a great Gameboy vibe. Nice work :D

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This was exactly a game for me. I had fun exploring around for everything. It was fun looking around  like "hmmm, I feel like there's something here" and then there was! My biggest gripes are that some of the ground tiles are hard to interpret, so I didn't know I could step on certain things until I did by accident, and it's pretty easy to get turned around exploring for treasures. A map of some kind would be incredibly helpful.

You did a great job with a lot of the treasure items though! Most of the time when I thought there would be an item, there was, which was neat, and you made the dig radius pretty generous which keeps it from getting frustrating, since if you solve the puzzle it doesn't tend to matter if you aren't standing right over top of it, so I liked that a lot!

I really enjoyed being able to hookshot the museum curator to speed up my turn ins. Ambitious color scheme executed well. Scale a little too big for me to play in one go, but overall a pretty solid loop. If I could save, put it it down, pick it up later casually, it would help a lot, though I acknowledge this is out of scope for a lot of jam games. Very nice entry.

This game really feels like an adventure while being mindful of the GB's capabilities. Such diverse environments that don't ever use tile transparency or, of course, more than 4 colours. This palette is performing miracles, speaking of. I can tell the devs really love the GB. 

The one thing I'd have to say something about is the music. It's not that it's bad; far from it, it's quite good. It's just that each track could be longer, could have variations according to biome, etc. given that you're going to be listening to them for quite a while.

Also, the axolotl pirate is incredibly cute!

Great game!

Very good game. On theme, with authentic GB art and direct gameplay actions.

I've got stuck exploring for the first time (maybe the rocks were just a bit out of the frame so I couldn't see the way forward or back), but I've tried again. Didn't get too many treasures since after some I felt the task would be a bit too repetitive, but I've really enjoyed the game in general.

As for feedback, I get that you wanted the museum to be big, but it's too much. With only 4 items there I had to spend minutes trying to find them. This mixed with a very repetitive music was a bit annoying. The world music though didn't feel repetitive, it sounded pretty good. The hook is a great mechanic and makes a lot of room for level design (risky in some cases since it might be annoying to use the hook and be slightly over the water tiles to be sent back).

I think the annoyances of big map or having to repeat a hook are part of the gameboy feel though, so not really a problem.

Good job!

Amazing game! Makes you feel like a treasure hunter. I managed to collect 47 items got exhausted afterwards but had fun. I also love the museum music.

I love how all the items you collect appear in the museum, it makes progression more fun. Also nice colour palette too, using 4 different colours instead of shades makes the visuals more unique.

Where this is on point, it's a gorgeous game. Where it's off, it's a little jarring, like the water. Still, it's more good than off, for sure. It's got a lot too it, and that's amazing in and of itself. I think it's well put together Absolutely love the palette.

I managed to collect 24 treasures.  I tried to stop at 16, but ran into another 8 before I found my way home -_-.  Really impressive world size and detail!  I found (and then later spent way too much time trying to abuse) what I assume is a bug - it seems the black danger zone only respawns you on a timer, so if you take little halting steps you can move while it's not respawning and then stand still, and get across up to 3-4 of these tiles that way... It seemed like there were some places I couldn't reasonably get to / out of without abusing this though (especially on the right, there was a big harpoon area, I found a bunch of treasure, but I couldn't find any way off without walking across 2 danger tiles... quite possibly I missed something though, it's a big map!).  Just wandering around did get a little old long before I got all the treasure though, it would have been good to have either some other mechanics, like buying some new upgrade that lets you get past certain obstacles, to keep it fresh.

The sound was really nice, I was still enjoying the music by the end and it was quite nice having even different footstep sounds for what I'm walking on!

Very cozy and chilly game! The different sounds for the terrain types and the vast variety of the world overall create a nice and relaxing experience. Reading the subtle clues in the way the obstacles were placed felt satisfying and was a good use of the limited map design a gameboy game would have. It would have been great to talk to more NPCs while searching around. But, still, I really liked your interpretation of the secondary theme!

So much to look for, and so easy to loose oneself in the bizarre colourful world.

I had the most fun just zipping around with the harpoon :D

Man, you're good at hiding things!
I wandered around for a while and only found 7 treasures. Finding them all will be a real challenge, and I love that!
One thing that could help is a faster way back to the portal, since I couldn't remember the way I came, haha.
The music is very chill and well-made, even though it's just a looping melody!
Very, very good job!