I like the graphics/universe a lot !
The story you're telling is also interesting, this game is an art piece in my opinion !

I had a bug with the bees at first, they were fixed with some weird rotation and scale.

Anyways, a surprising introspective game that I would recommend !

What can I say? This is simply the best submission so far (I still have 13 games to play). You fit the theme perfectly, the visuals are really great, the music is good the controls are fine (a bit hard sometimes).

I already told you on twitter, but this can totally be a commercial game. I loved the story and the way you told it to us through both the text and the gameplay. It was a moving experience.

I think you’re going for first place, at least in my ranking!

Huge congrats for your submission!

Definitely a game that deserved its own category, congratulations to everyone involved. Art direction was amazing, animation and art was also really good, I really like the details, the flowers blooming as we walk through, the falling snow, the animated baby drawings,  the clouds and smoke, small graphical details like this that we often have to work a lot on to make them look good and that we always feel like no one will notice (at least I have this nagging feeling when I'm working on those, as a VFX/shader guy myself). The music is amazing, couldn't fit this atmosphere better even if you tried. I did had some trouble with the gameplay though, not being able to do short hops didn't mesh well with the tight platforming it required, especially when paired with the slipperiness of the character. We also couldn't safely move to the edges without sliding down, it felt like the character had a round hitbox that could slip through those edges. It was also weird how you didn't need to step on the clouds before their timer would start to cause them to poof away, you just need to touch them even from underneath, so if you misjudge the reach of your jump and manage to get there, they're almost out of time to be solid. Not sure if any of those were intentional to make the game more difficult, but they did caught me off guard, not sure if it's the best way to go when making a platformer. But all of these problems pale in comparison to everything else you got right. Congratulations again everybody, you did an amazing job!

I’m blown away by this piece, it actually emotionally moved me. The moment of moving to a slow walk after the death of a loved one (which you can interpret literally or more metaphorically of course) really got to me. It had a great pace and had lots of amazing little details: pressing space had a heartbeat, taking a wrong turn in the adult, cloud-shrouded maze meant you could get stuck [in life], and I guess that children over tech-exposed if their first crayon-drawn symbols include stars, flowers, and the sign for emails?? ;)

The meditation sequence was a nice twist and just worked nicely. I also love the intrinsic meaning of birthday cakes being checkpoints, wow, not sure I can think of another game where there was such actual weight and meaning to a checkpoint. Loved it.

Nit: a control to slide or disable audio is always a plus, that being said, it’d be a right shame to not listen to the music on this one. Also I think the wavey text could be toned down a little bit or made still for the smallest text font used.

What impresses me more, is how much effort you put on a jam game, with this deepness! you’re awesome dude!

Such a phenomenal game, fantastic take on the theme, making so much use of the mechanics. Congratulations and thanks for sharing! Everything was so well integrated. My personal favorite were the crawling/walking parts. So sweet!

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Reall good, hate the A & D controls(each to their own) the rest I love, good work.