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[Tankmas ADVENTure 2024]

I just wanted to say I love today's music so much. It's very very different than all of the other days, and even kind of somber and melancholy, but Tankmas is finally over and it feels fitting. In any case, it's a beautiful song.

This was the first Tankmas I ever played through each day, and it was a joy to watch it develop over the course of the month, even if it started out a little rough around the edges.

Proud to be a part of this!

squidly responds:

I keep saying this but somehow the track always fits

[SCAMS_FOR_THRILLS]

This was really addictive. Reminded me a lot of Jackbox's Devil and the Details with all the quick little minigames and I liked the way you could minimize them on the fly if you just wanted to do a quicker scam. Love the seamlessness in the way the story is implemented too. Really well designed game!

crow-seeds responds:

https://imgur.com/a/MqvU4fd

Devils in the Details was one of my biggest inspirations when I was making the minigames, happy someone caught that haha. Glad you enjoyed the game!!

[Shadow Gauntlets]

Got stuck on the 11th level with the swinging tires, but this is a nice game! The controls take a bit of time to get acquainted with, and admittedly, I'm not quite fully acquainted myself just yet, but they get the job done.

I love the simplicity of the art, and you clearly had a lot of fun coming up with a theme to each of the levels; each one feels fresh and it keeps things interesting when you're always trying to guess what might pop up next.

One of the best Flash Forward entries I've played so far! :D

VicBiss responds:

Thank you! It was all worth it for people to see my stir fry animation.

Getting stuck on level 11 seems to be a common theme, those orange levels are supposed to transition from the more aesthetic and chill levels to the more challenging levels but it's obviously a steeper curve than intended

I made a couple of changes, level 11 as well as a few later levels should be easier and grapples should be more 'magnetic' where you don't need to be as accurate with your clicks. Pushing the update may have wiped your save data, sorry about that!

[Skeleton Day]

Feels like a promising start to SOMETHING, but I don't really know what that might be yet...
Visually, it looks great though, and the goofy vibe is pretty charming.

TeamTamago responds:

Thanks, all I can say is Bone Santa

[Dwarf Planet One]

Will need to play more of this later on, but really impressed with the bit I did so far. Like your entry from last year's Flash Forward, this is a similarly otherworldly experience, and I still can't get enough out of all these surreal geometric patterns and textures you've got going on here. Overall, there's a fantastic aesthetic and atmosphere and the intro does a really nice job at setting the stage.

I can potentially see this being a bit tedious and frustrating depending on just how big this level gets as it opens up, but the mechanics themselves are really interesting and inspired. Gonna have to circle back around to this one after I play some more of the other entries, but I think this is my favorite so far.

Emrox responds:

Hey thanks! I just played your entry, and thought it was really good as well! (And an ambitious length - that is a lot of drawings for something so manicured-looking!)

[Hex Character Maker (Update)]

A really cute little character creator, although I feel like the controls are a little complex for what it is. I really wanted to just be able to click on the tabs and colors, but the mouse controls only work for a few of the menu buttons, which struck me as a little odd.

Still, I had a lot of fun playing around with this, and I miss seeing stuff like this here!

Snow-Hex responds:

thanks a lot for the feedback, I thought about the mouse but I decided that it would be more entertaining by keys (you can also use a controller), as if it were a real game where you create your character before playing. :)

[Bride]

This is so darn cute. I love all the bride sprites so much; you emulated that Game and Watch style perfectly!

KittyhawkMontrose responds:

Thanks so much! I studied so much G&W, but it wasn't hard because I love that early 80s Nintendo aesthetic. I also had to make it accurate for MAME!

[TrashKitty]

OMG, Danny Devito, LOVE

MadNukin responds:

haha first one to notice it ;D

[Unprofessional Mischief]

Still gotta get to the boss yet, maybe when I plug in a controller or something, but I really only have two main complaints at the moment.

First is simple enough, the movement speed might be a touch too sensitive for this type of game, and the second is that having obstacles that require you to shoot through when your gun can overheat feels kind of unfair, especially with how long it takes for the gun to cool down. There aren't too many instances of this type of issue, since there's usually multiple routes you can take, but it does happen a couple times per level it seems.

Overall, it's a fun game with solid mechanics though! Looking forward to trying it with a controller sometime! :)

Peti responds:

hi bleak-creep

[Kawaii-Chan: The Girlboss!]

Gotta try out this game from some of my old collaborators!

Sprites are pretty darn cute and the menu music after you get a game over sounds lovely. Gameplay works well enough for what it is, though it could definitely use some kind of scoring system or better feedback once you kill an enemy.

I'm giving it a 3 since I think that's the goal of the game jam? But I'll up it/subtract it later if it helps balance you out :)

GetterRocka responds:

Thank you for the feedback, working on this project definitely gave me a bit more confidence in my ability to make pixel art.