Very polished and fun game. Visually super clean and the audio is great as well. I love the addition of the daily conundrum, feels like this could release already as a NYT games type of game.
This game looks awesome, music fits really well, and is very fun to play. The teleporting around while trying to surround as many enemies as possible while avoiding them, all controlled by the mouse at the same time, worked really well and was very satisfying. Congrats to the team!
The grappling hook definitely takes time to get used to since your momentum and speed is based on where you attach and your movement input during the swing. There are a few bugs with the targeting of the grappling hook that we were not able to fix before submission, sorry about that!
Regarding the controls, they were designed to have one hand on WASD, shift, and space, with the other hand being on J and K or Left Click and Right Click. I would love to hear your suggestion on how to improve the control layout since we had trouble deciding on it.
I am glad you enjoyed our game, thanks a lot for the good feedback!
I was so sad that the game ended so quickly! I want more! The movement super fluid and feels great, I am envious of your character controller. Animations were really smooth and well done as well. Lots of fun, well done!
This might be my favourite game of the jam. Very polished, awesome art style, good ambient music, and fun gameplay. Immediately noticed the inspiration from Slay the Spire, which I love, along with chess. Amazing job to everyone involved in making this game!
I agree with the others that controlling your character is quite hard but this game is really cool! With more intuitive and cleaner movement this game could be really really great. The pogoing and deflecting of bullets is sick, and the artwork look really good! Love the background layering. Congrats!
I really appreciate the thorough feedback, very helpful.
Regarding the countdown, we would also have liked to integrate it better into the game’s core mechanic but unfortunately without the age regression button it led to players having to wait until they could proceed with the next part of the level if they were too quick. If we had lowered the time available at each age then it would have made levels much harder. We will have to figure out a good solution for this outside of the game jam’s 4-day time constraint.
I am glad you enjoyed the game regardless, I really enjoyed yours as well :)
The fact that you were determined to finish our game while there are more than 10000 other games to play is a great compliment! I am glad that you had a good time despite the difficulty :)
Cool idea! An interesting puzzle game that has great potential. I got tired of the repeating music loop pretty quickly but the character controller was quite nice.
Brought back the feeling of portal puzzles, with a mind-bending puzzle mechanic. Really cool idea really well implemented. Puzzles were definitely difficult but finally solving each one felt great.
Really cool idea and very fun once you understand the various functions of the tiles. Clearer instructions/functions of the tiles would allow more people to get into the game and feel the enjoyment of figuring out the puzzles.
