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Thanks for the kind feedback! :D yeah i think the controls can be mastered and then they feel great but there is some tuning to be done to make that mastery a little easier and the first drive a little less awkward :D

Hehe yes the crash cash lose felt a lottle harsh but also fed in to the arcade vibes :D and rewarded you for getting better at the driving (risk reward of drift but no crashing) 

Glad the arcadey vibes came across that was definitely the vision. 

Thanks for playing!

Thanks for the feedback! And yep i think the controls needed some work and the difficulty needed some further tuning . I have an updated version that I likely will put up post jam. 

Thank you! Yes i think there's lots of ways to add more content and variation to the idea which is really cool :) Thanks for playing :D

loved the idea and could see me losing so many hours to a overcooked x bolatro like. 

Was having a bit of a bug with selection / deselection on my phone (wrong item would react some times) but that didn't take away from how great the idea was. Would love to see this expanded.

haha thank you for playing - it's always nice when people are proud to have achieved something in your game :D

Thank you so much for your nice feedback :D

Thank you for playing and your kind words :D 

Ah yeah that makes sense - I think there's definitely tuning that probably needed to happen with dash speed, aim speed etc etc. I appreciate your feedback it really helps :) 

Yeah you nailed that atmosphere :) I think perhaps it might have been better without the platforming just to make it truly about the vibes... but regardless still achieved what you were aiming for :) 

Looking forward to your future work!

Such a cute game and a cool idea! Awesome work :D 

Incredible idea and incredibly executed - great work!! 

The art direction is incredible and I mean this in the best possible way: I love pretentious philosophy vibes in games... like the Witness and The Talos Principle 

Thank you! yes the feel of it really came together nicely :D 

Thanks! :D And yes tuning the AI / the difficulty has definitely been the core thing around this game! It's tough, because after a while of playing you do get better... but should you tailor the difficulty of the AI for a Jam setting... I think there probably should have been bot difficult settings - lesson learned for next time :D

well objective achieved :D 

I really like this twist on block pushing puzzles. Great idea and great work building new mechanics on top of the core idea! 

Thanks for playing - I really appreciate it :) 

Could easily see this being an amazing 8 hour indie title with the addition of some story and more world building in the caves. 

Loved the vibe and the idea... great work :D 

Thanks for your kind feedback - yeah it seems to work well as an idea but the execution (in particular the difficult might need some tweaks :D ) 

I promise it gets easier with practice :D (I've also tweaked things in a version that I might publish after the jam that makes things a little easier too)

Yeah I found that downtime hard to balance too - originally you could respawn but with a small amount of time ... but this basically ruined the whole premise... but I also noticed that, now you die for the round, there's a huge wait if that happens early. Spectate mode might help a bit, that's a great suggestion! 

Thanks for playing. 

I feel like you learn a lot just from going through the process of thinking about the jam and submitting something, and hey... that is a sweet flip board :D 

TBH I think this submission is a great art piece - like... "A Journey Delayed"  because you'll get there in the end :D 

An interesting idea/setting . I had a time where I think I poured the right amount, and I got a point for it. But then I was stuck in the pouring UI and had to pour to much to progress. Would be interesting to see all the stories you could tell to a player playing a barkeep with the occasional mini game of pouring drinks, changing barrels etc. 

Thank you so much :) The nice thing about the levels is once you had the mechanics it was quite easy to get 20 variants. I think there's way more to be done with some dedicated design time. 

Thanks for playing! :D

Great little game - a perfect game jam delight. 

Thanks for playing and thanks for the feedback. 

I think I definitely tuned the car controls after having already slowly got used to how it was working...so it landed in a place that's not very easy to pick up. and almost certainly not the optimal solution. I can zip around the city pretty well but that definitely is a complaint that many people have.

Definitely a good lesson in testing and refinement here :D 

Thanks for playing and thanks for the feedback. 

I think I definitely tuned the car controls after having already slowly got used to how it was working...so it landed in a place that's not very easy to pick up. and almost certainly not the optimal solution. I can zip around the city pretty well but that definitely is a complaint that many people have.

Definitely a good lesson in testing and refinement here :D 

Games that make me cry is my favourite genre... excellent work <3

What a cool idea and such a polished execution :D 

Coming from a relatively experienced background of engineering + making use of lovely assets from itch.io helped a lot.  Also, choosing ideas which required implementation of mechanics and not heavy refinement of content helped! 

...also a lot of late nights and PIZZA :D 

Absolutely incredible entry. 

Love this so much - there are lots of rhythm games - but this one felt the most like the rhythm mechanic was part of the narrative as well as just being executed well. 

The only thing I would have liked would have been to be able to continue from a certain phase, or at least skip the tutorial, but yeah was amazing work :D  

Thank you so much for your nice feedback. 

The UI was definitely something I was a little worried about because I feel like I had too much I wanted to convey to the player and some of the static UI can get in the way of the dynamic UI (the direction arrows) 
I think a mini map would really help with this (allowing the waypoint markers to have a dedicated location instead of at the sides of the screens) but it's really nice to hear that the UI still worked well enough for now :) 

And yes - thank you for the nice words about the map - that was basically the aim of the project so it's really nice to hear it appreciated, thank you!! :) 

Yeah I think that works well! I used to play a lot of MtG and there's a cliche of "Life is a resource" and "If you have 1 life or more, you're not dead" and I think exploring that space in lots of different video game genres is a really interesting vein for ideas. 

Feel free to tag me if you end up with any more updates or large scale projects that expand from this - would love to see them :)  

Thanks for playing!  

Yeah - I started off pretty rough at the game... but after some play time it got much easier to hit accurately with the twin-stick shooting...

 I also like the slight difficulty in hitting in this context, given it leads to long, drawn out duals where it's easier to dodge the bullets (like a bullet hell) than it is to actually hit... which then makes the duals very swingy - where just one hit nabs a bunch of time and puts more pressure on... BUT the dual doesn't end quickly so there's time for tension to build. 

I think, on balance, there needs to be some tuning to make it easier to aim/hit... but not all the way :D 

Thanks for playing and your lovely feedback :D 

Yeah there were SOOO many ideas I wanted to try when I heard the theme, but this one instantly stood out as a must try - I think it worked out :) 

Yeah once you have the game tooling and mechanics in the levels were just variants and placements... Having some automated testing of them also helped so that I could have a good idea of whether they were beatable etc as they were created. 

Congrats on the 3 stars :D (double congrats for doing it as the construction site foreman intended ;) ) 

Thank you, yes - Justin Timberlake was definitely an inspiration on this one ;)  

The idea really works as a forcing function for players to push forward , but as you can see in the comments on here - sometimes it doesn't quite work so more refinement is needed :D 

AND thank you :) I think the multiplayer is probably O K for the Jam but I would need to really test it's stability in a real setting lol. 

Thanks for playing! 

Yes I think that chaos and processing what you need to do is part of what makes the genre work... but you need to dance the line carefully - and I think that's hard, you managed it with most of the games and narrowly missed with others but a great experience :) 

Loved this! 

Big fan of the art style and weaving the narrative in to the gameplay and back the other way so well.  Think there could be something here to expand in to a larger project! 

Shame it ran a little choppy in browser, I think that will hurt how many people get to experience it but people SHOULD take the time to play it as it deserves it. 

I like the idea of health draining down as a motivator to push a player to act and press forward. 

I actually had a submission that was playing with this ideas as well: /jam/gmtk-jam-2026/rate/4822158

Thanks so much for playing the game and your nice feedback! 
Agreed with your thoughts! I had play-tested some other mechanics and variations but they didn't feel polished enough to make it in to the itch deployment.  I also think very few of them would have solved the "just use the push charge every time" which definitely feels like the biggest issue ATM. 

I also think even the 20 levels I DID include could have done with more balancing and refinement - in particular there's some building shapes that feel like more of the same... 

I have toyed with the idea of a different mode instead of/in addition to the classic "Get 3 stars on all levels" mode: a Rogue-lite ish mode, where you would get a limited number of uses/limited funds across a run (which would mean even if there were some OP charge-types, you would naturally be motivated not to just use them every time, because you would run out. 

Cool concept - love a wave shooter. Might be worth having the "press 3" for ball vacuum on the screen for the first wave as it's such an important mechanic.  

I didn't read the instructions properly (because I'm the worst :D ) and thought I had to use the tractor... which I found difficult to drive and indeed, did not collect the balls... 

Great work though!