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[Pengu Saves Christmas DEMO]

awesome job here - game is fun to play, the song is a lil bop, the movement is smooth and fluid and it shows

overall, i think if you were to do more with this past the demo, i would suggest adding some more personality to the game in the form of bad guys / villains, and a story of some kind. i think the gameplay is very polished and good, and it's worth thinking about & expanding into the questions of, who is this lil penguin guy and what's he up against? you could show this thru cutscenes, or just thru the gameplay itself, but I think putting effort into this would really help bring this up a step from sonic derivative game to charming n' goofy platformer

but yeah, for a newgrounds demo, great job!

STANNco responds:

i have plenty ideas for the world he inhabits, so it's definetely something i will try to flesh out!
There wasn't a good spot to show it off in this demo unfortunately but i've already coded a giant mech for Pengu to control

[Landmine Cube]

constructive feedback:

there's too much emphasis on trial and error for the puzzle mechanics to be fun here, at least for me. there were multiple situations in which i had to pick a direction and guess, hoping for the best, which is kind of lame. it'd be nice if you took the minesweeper approach and had some kind of visual indicator for the amount of nearby mines, or had some kind of different new mechanic here to engage with.

also, the movement is kind of janky. it'd be nice if you could hold arrow keys to move a bit quicker or tap to move faster than the game lets you, since if I tap a direction a bunch of times the current scenario is that the game drops your inputs.

also also, the sound effects would benefit from a bit of mixing, i think they ended up being much louder than the music and the victory sfx doesn't really mesh with the game music

Pitigamedev responds:

Thank you for the feedback, I will dig in to that

[Upbound]

neat lil game! feels like doodle jump with a countdown timer. you guys should think about adding NG leaderboards to lean into that competitive element. nice job!

yahhcheee responds:

yep!! we're looking into it!

[Kill Laanie Race or Die Super Laanie Update]

the game is unplayable for me - the races seem to end like 8 seconds in randomly, i think you should turn off ending the race if the other racers die (from comments that seems to be what's happening - can add respawn for them or something or just turn off ending race when that happens?)

and don't worry about the game jam thing preventing you from updating this that's silly, game jams are designed for you to put heads together and create cool stuff - that's their core objective. you can still update the game if you want, i think this is a scenario in which it's worth adding fixes and you can always just say 'originally made for game jam ____')

EDIT: i think this miiiight be because of varying frame rates on different computers? could try making racer speeds frame rate independent, might fix the problem if that's the core cause. couldn't say for sure but that may be why for some people in the comments this doesn't seem to be an issue.

GNOSTU responds:

Hey Coolturtle30 Thanks for taking the time out to play my game. The Studio is working on an updated and more playable version for those who have high end pc's. I hope that you will change your rating when the new update arrives. We are thinking of changing a lot of the game as a whole including graphics and game modes.

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