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Took me embarrassingly long to figure out that the container in the middle WAS the empty battery I had to pick up. 

I found it interesting that the very thing that is trying to kill you is also what you need to power items. A fun duality there. I may circle back to this game later.

Sending penguins on missions definitely has potential. Implementation is just a bit too rough currently to let the charm shine through.

I loved the animations for the jumps and the way the NPC got depressed when I burned his log. I wish I could figure out what button presses led to which animations more consistently. Grabbing onto ledges seemed very hit or miss.

Great game! My top pick for the jam. I had fun figuring out the building logic of the pipes. I wish I'd been able to play it on stream. If you can get the pck file added I can show it off on stream later and praise what you did.

The trick for deleting: you have not be placing an item. So if you're placing pipes, you have to click pipes again to deselect and then the right click works. An easy fix on the button logic so you can right click to remove at anytime. 

Had a blast playing this. I had trouble getting my max population to increase, though. The way resources were gathered wasn't entirely clear, either. I seemed to be able to just slap gatherers in the middle of nowhere and have it work. The "don't worry about this faction that will shoot you" line was hilarious. Would love to see this fleshed out.

Best art of the jam by far. The movement is a huge improvement over the last entry. Definitely keep going with this.

Was I supposed to keep hitting the button? Because I only had 2 enemies spawn and then nothing.

Right arrow would have also worked as the starter mechanic.

I will give you this: you had the best thumbnail out of all the games. The movement and attacks from the robots seemed relatively random. And I seemed to die randomly without warning.

Of the 4 games with a timer, this one was the best balanced. I had incentive to get the batteries for more time, but never so much pressure I felt I couldn't explore. Combat was solid. The shuffle puzzle hack was good, though I couldn't solve it in time. The wave form hack I couldn't get working. That might need some debugging.

The art, sound, and concept are great. Similar to the other 2 games with timers, the flower timer needed to be longer (or adjustable via difficulty) or include more heals. There was a persistent bug where thrown items could stick to walls and become irretrievable, leading to soft locks or death. Not sure if that was a hit box issue or not.

There's several elements I liked. The required repeat after rain to see everything, for example. I would like more things tied together, though, such as digging out the relics affecting the ending. Those and the secret messages felt more like red herrings than elements of the mystery or world building.

For 4 hours of work, it's very coherent. Music is great and the guy controls well. Have the crumbling start slower at first and get to full speed later. As is, the first challenge is one of the hardest, where a single mistake is instant death. Conversely, it gets easier toward the midsection when you can get to it.

I liked how the vehicle handled. Same as the others, I could not handle the way the camera moved. It only took me a couple play throughs before I had to quit due to getting dizzy. I also second having a more generous timer.

I like the play on the old saying. One request: please do not use copyrighted music. I had to exit out and restart with it muted when I was streaming.

Had a blast with this. Loved the humor. I could see several more layers being added on to make it more fleshed out. References to NFT's would make it even funnier.

As I played the first 4 screens, my reaction was, "As long as the developer doesn't add timer pressure, this can be a lot of fun." Then the timer hit and I realized the game is basically unplayable in its current state. The timer needs to be slowed down by a literal order of magnitude.

The "water makes you go faster" mechanic was intuitive and I figured it out just from walking over it after killing an enemy. Design of the MC and the sound effects are great. Voice acting was good to include. This is a great start to a full game you could sell for money. Add voice acted cut scenes and refine the models and you've got a solid start here.

Main areas that need refining are the hit boxes and camera.

The shotgun part made me laugh. I love little random bits like that. The Angry Birds reference in the 3rd level was great. I absolutely want this expanded and filled out with more levels. Keep them on the same scale, but maybe add things. For example, a Canadian penguin who can cheat to reference the Olympics drama. The contrast of us, the heroic murdering penguin being round with the others being rectangles was a great choice.

The shotgun part made me laugh. I love little random bits like that. The Angry Birds reference in the 3rd level was great. I absolutely want this expanded and filled out with more levels. Keep them on the same scale, but maybe add things. For example, a Canadian penguin who can cheat to reference the Olympics drama. The contrast of us, the heroic murdering penguin being round with the others being rectangles was a great choice.

For a single day this was great. I gave you most of my feedback on stream.

Kudos for having a proper game setup and ending. I enjoyed most of the mechanics. The menu and the hit boxes were a bit janky. The amount of control I had when jumping was nice. Also, good job including a tutorial level. 

The physics in guiding the slime team is pretty cool. I could see that mechanic used in a more fleshed out game. Definitely keep it in your bag of tricks.

My main suggestion would be to allow us to get rid of Bludgeon after a certain number of cards are acquired. It very quickly ended up being a dud "penalty" card that actively dragged things down. One way to do this would be to require min 5 cards in the deck during load out, that way we can't soft lock ourselves with a 0 card deck.

Being able to jump while on the slide would have helped. The whip felt ineffective as a weapon so I just avoided the bats instead of confronting them. Graphics were pretty good. I appreciated being able to spot the piles from far away.

My favorite of the games. I didn't go in expecting to finish it, but the game loop with the upgrades from unlocking rooms got me to complete it all. My main recommendation would be to have right mouse click in addition to E for picking stuff up.

Hitting the angle jumps with WASD was quite tricky. The jumping and sounds were pretty good.

Hands down my favorite game of both this jam and all prior jams. The digging mechanic is gloriously smooth. Love the humor (do more of that). As others said, you can easily flesh this out into a demo for a full game. Make the cure for mom more expensive, add more upgrades like more space. Add more random audio things. Another layer below to dig to create more machines. You have the foundation of a stellar hit here that could catch on with streamers.

I love how the allies were basically smart missiles you buy. Flying around was smooth and fun. This reminds me of a remake of a classic space game from the 80's. Would love to see additional upgrades for your fighter and allies. A boss tier "ace pilot" enemy would be a great addition. You could spot him by his fighter painted red!

This game gave me PTSD flashbacks of the impossible to beat NES games I ran into as a kid. Probably as intended.

I was able to get to the background shift at 10k. But my hand could not spam space ba rlong enough to hit 100k. I had to stop in the 20's. I'd say cut the high score at least in half, maybe down to 25k to be reasonable. Hit boxes were also a little wonky and I found a bug where the corpses could kill you.

Fun and light. This ended up being the game I played the longest because "number go up, brain goes brr."

I would have liked the quality of the food to relate to the boss. We end his threat by tempting him with food. Requiring us to hit a minimum level in a set time would relate to that.

The equation for the progression of food is way off from drink. The cost to level up a meal is simply worthless versus the return. While drinks are always the way to go. More control of the individual characters would make it a bit more immersive. 

The graphics were pleasant. The writing was a STRONG stand out. Loved the dialogue.

I figured out the "tip to the side and pitch to turn" trick, as well as a fun loop da loop trick to line up with the runway. I wasn't able to land properly, but that was on me. A weird thing is that the yaw never really turned the plane. I'd start to move a little, but rubber band back to my prior heading when I stopped. I don't know if that was on purpose.

Definitely agree with varying starting positions with difficulty.

A solid game overall. You should definitely make this a full experience.

I actually dinged it for being a visual novel when I played it on stream. And now I find out we could click on things. My bad. The story was easily the best of any game. Felt like an actual Winnie the Pooh cartoon episode. LOVED the pun. Since there is a game element (my fault for missing it), this is my top choice. I would recommend making the flowers pulse or glow a little to make it more obvious what to do.

I figured out the diesel and the generator - nice "Pbbbbt" sound on the generator. But lots of issues. The fog seemed to get denser randomly so I couldn't see anything. Ships seemed to spawn unevenly, so I went a while before anything happened in a couple runs. Mouse sensitivity needed to be toned down. What was the purpose of the lookout platform? I couldn't see anything from it.

Giving us a look at the map and how ships move as an intro would help.

Controls are my biggest complaint. Having to click over and over on something I can see to mine it out made me wonder if there was a bug in the interface. The music was a highlight. Very nice and ambient.

I had some issues getting this to work. Love the idea and the idea of mouse to move a light. But during the game the light jumped around erratically and wouldn't shine where I pointed and everything moved at a snail's pace. I don't know if it's my browser or the game.