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Definitely difficult. slippery movement with very little air control. I slid into the spikes often enough.

Why do some of the ceilings just have death zones? why not just block the player with an invisible wall along the ceiling/edge of the screen?

Death zones everywhere, I'm not talking about the spikes, just areas that the player isn't currently allowed so there is an invisible area that kills the player.

you gotta do something about monsters moving between areas because the player cannot see or predict that.

Thanks for playing!  The walls disappearing when you throw a TV into it, is intentional

played and rated :)

The jetpack sound is a little loud (probably needs a tweak). I like the voiced sound effects though.  Good infinite runner game. Not sure the camera snapping to the new lane position is necessary, seems a bit jarring.  I will say that the flying skeletons are a bit difficult to tell which lane they are in (since they fly above it) maybe a large shadow below them could help indicate the lane they are in.

Thank you for playing, The objective of the game is just to escape the maze. there is no time limit but the sky darkens quickly.  The idea I had was for the candy to be able to placed as markers for the player to decide how to use, but I think they are a bit too scarce to be used that way effectively.  Some other objects placed in the maze could of helped to remind the player where they have already visited, good idea.

Cool game, nice animations and writing. nice voice line sound effects as well.

Awesome, a game with voice acting! Gameplay is quite simple but the level generation and atmosphere is very cool.

Thanks for playing. Carrying more candy was something I wanted to do originally, but ran out of time for unfortunately.  I hadn't thought of illuminating the candy only after they have been placed, that is a good idea!

Thanks for playing, glad you enjoyed the spooky vibe  :)

Cool platformer game! I think the pumpkins stopped spawning after 11 in my playthrough, not sure why.  At first I thought there was a double jump because the jump sound plays whenever you attempt a jump (even if your falling and can't jump)

Nice game, but needs a few tweaks.

Some things I'd change or add.

I'd rather just hold mouse down to fire every chance I get. click spam games are a not ideal imo. The coin count not updating immediately after you buy an upgrade (updates after exiting shop.  Prevent the player from walking off the map.  Since the play area is so small, lock the camera in a position that allows the player to see the whole scene. running between the shop and the spawner just to find there are a mountain of enemies lol.  I think the enemies should not collide with one another, otherwise they can push on eachother when they spawn (one of them landed on my head lol)  Oh and the music turns off when you open the shop and never turns back on :(

Very interesting game idea! I tried to change the mic sensitivity settings in the menu but wasn't sure if anything was actually changing. I think the game should display how many logs you have currently because since the game is so dark and there is no feedback (like a sound effect) when you pickup a log, I probably backed into one without even realizing it. Speaking up doesn't light up very far and its only for a moment.  

Some things I would change or add.  

I would change the volume of the monster's footstep to be based on how far away it is from the player.  I noticed the screen shakes does this already, which is great!  I would also stop the sound and the screen shake when the monster stands still. The torch fire is constantly in the way when you move to the right, I found myself always strafing to the left to avoid it blocking my vision, not sure how to avoid that but wanted to mention it is a bit of an annoyance.

Yes, I unzipped and extracted the files.  No error message I'm afraid, just ran program and waited for something to happen but nothing did.

Infinite runner with a twist of throwing items sounds interesting but unfortunately there are some game breaking bugs.  not sure how the score is handled, but I tried to throw items left and right and wasn't sure it was working. once i threw some candy, the newly spawned candy would fall through the road immediately so I could really only try to throw once or twice per playthrough. a restart button would be a nice addition to your menu.  There seems to be 5 lanes but I can only access 3 of them.

tried running the "TheRoad.exe" from the window's version, but nothing happened :(

Nice game! inventory is great! I liked the little quests and dialogue.  Wasn't sure about the instructions that were given in terms of direction. No way to indicate North/East/South/West.  had to watch the video to find the shovel, apparently I missed it the first time.  Got the yoyo and went to town on the skeletons but I wasn't able to find the tome unfortunately :(

I think the controls could use some tweaking.  I found it difficult to aim when attacking, I was constantly re-adjusting by running away from the skeletons just to get my aim right.  I noticed there was some sort of zoom in when watching the trailer, but never got it working myself, Tab key didn't seem to do anything.

Health bar is missing, would be nice to know how much damage the skeletons are doing.  Oh and I would add a way to stop the player from running off the edge of the map.

Awesome job!  Great atmosphere, art, and sound design!  I didn't finish the game yet (though I'm trying lol) but I think I get the general idea.  I initially tried playing the web build but was having some mouse issues as well as crouching and sprinting was causing me issues because browser commands were getting triggered, so I tried the windows version.  only issue I had was some rooms had pink textures (like the water room was all pink)

As for controls, not a fan of having to press A/D to slowly look left or slowly look right.  Moving by objects can cause the player to get stuck on them, which with the A/D turn can be annoying.   

Tried shooting the apprentice with the gun, didn't seem to slow him down so I'm not sure what purpose the gun has.  While running away from the apprentice, I noticed him get stuck in an attack loop that caused him to not move close enough to me. so I watched while he swung the knife a bit lol.  Reloading seems to waste previously loaded ammo.  Twice all doors in starter room were locked and I could find no keys. The gameplay can be a bit slow with all the waiting for the apprentice to move out of the room, i think the apprentice rarely moved more than 1 room away.   Restarting is a bit slow with all the menus.  Couldn't find a way to put equipped item away, sometimes it gets in the way.

Thanks for playing, and giving feedback! the maze SHOULD be procedurally generated (assuming I fixed that bug) I did feel like it was missing some sort of agency as well, something a monster chasing the player would help with. or at the very least some sort of creature that the player has to deal with.  I originally was thinking of making some sort of bat enemy but ran out of time :/  The TVs can actually be picked up by interacting (E) with them, and can be thrown,  and destroy the walls, creating sort of a shortcut.  The maze is square and only so large so breaking through some walls can allow you to escape much faster.  But that feature isn't entirely obvious, so I need to work on that.  I originally thought of the candy as a sort of breadcrumb that the player can use to mark where they have or haven't gone, but I think I need more candy for that.

Art looks nice and music is good, but I did feel a little confused during gameplay.  Hard to know when an enemy will shoot or not, so I'm just shooting at every target at least once per round.  Bug i found, when the game ends and the screen moves upward, the player can still shoot and it slows down the transition.  I'd just make it more clear which targets are going to shoot at you since you obviously cant shoot at all 9 without reloading. or maybe make reloading faster?  A little more visual feedback is always nice.

Very polished game, nice work.

Fairly difficult, definitely challenging.  Would be cool to add a way to repair walls to give the game more longevity.

Visuals look great, game is fun and challenging but I felt the need to move off beat which felt unsatisfying.  Something I'd love to see is a quick way to retry instead using the mouse to click 'main menu' and then click 'play' just press space again to retry.

Thanks for playing!  I noticed a little too late that the purples were a bit too difficult to move with.  Will fix after the Jam.

Very nice.  loved the music choice and the story. unfortunately it was hard to focus on reading all of the lines when the bullets started flying.  A shielding ability would of been nice, I felt like there was a point where I couldn't stop getting hit lol

Fun and Unique, I felt controlling movement with the mouse was a little strange but I'm not sure what I'd change it to. Neat Puzzle Game.

Easy to understand, very difficult to beat.  64.9% I'd call that a success even if my crush is not interested.  Song felt fairly long, my arm is tired now haha

Takes fairly long to move things around and there is alot of waiting for the object to move through its path.  Maybe speed up the movement a little and make it easier to move tiles like drag and drop.  I enjoy the puzzle part of the game though.

Very neat puzzle game. played all 15 levels. pretty challenging too!

It is fairly difficult. I find it hard to remember what colors correspond with each tune. So when I need a red projectile, I feel like I'm struggling.  One fix I thought of would be to have each tune shown below but have 1 light up when it is in use.  Interesting game idea!

I suppose if you are using AD for movement then Z jumping would be awkward. I Realize that when I tested I was using strictly Arrow Keys and Z.  I guess I should of just made spacebar jump. Will fix after Jam.

A large healthbar would of been nice, I felt like I was spamming spacebar so much just hearing slashing, not knowing if the boss had infinite health or not.

I feel like the default values gave me a 3 star win most of the time, is there a 1/2/3 star ranking? I just assume that was what it was.  if so maybe the rank thresholds need to some tweaking to incentivize making faster setups.  The game looks great though and I do like the idea of puzzles made of train tracks with timing/speed.  One thing I'd love to see would be a way to select which level to play.

Highest Score I've gotten so far

I wish there was a couple more checkpoints in the lava section. Nice game. I missed 4 coins, 885 seconds, 170 deaths lol.

I'd Change the controls to something a bit more comfortable.  I personally think mouse and keyboard is not great for platformers. something like Z Jump, X Attack, C Dash, and arrow keys to move/aim.  The alt key is just very awkward to press when your fingers are already resting on WASD and space.  The game needs something to do other than simply surviving.

The Art is amazing, I love a good rhythm game and this is great. I will say sometimes its a little difficult to know the rhythm because you need to remember the timing each notes comes into view but it's a neat challenge. Nice Job!

Man, I must have failed like 20+ times before realizing all I need to do to survive was hit the spacebar at the right time and I could completely ignore the red and blue notes.  I've read what some folks have said and I'd have to agree Vertical note movement would of been easier to pay attention to.  Nice game once you realize how to play but man, why not have the keys for red and blue be next to each other? very awkward finger placement.

PS. is there a way to restart the game besides just relaunching it?

Enjoyable game, actually pretty relaxing regardless of the danger of rising lava lol.

Bugs found:  Character animation is broken after you die once.  I was able to spam E and get multiple hits from one "beat"

Very fun and addicting. trying to get a perfect score. Just gotten B as my highest rank so far.