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thanks for playing it through!! this was so fun to watch :))

incredible game!! loved the art style and felt very ambitious for a jam game. great work getting everything implemented and all the art put together!!

really loved this one!! simple but effective and satisfying gameplay. great use of the theme and object. great work!!

thank you for playing through to the end!! i'm glad you appreciated that, it took a while to design the constraints to make jingle bells without it being too immediately obvious lmao

thanks so much! that's exactly what we were going for. i wish we could have made it a little more expressive while still being satisfying as a puzzle game but that's a hard balance to strike, and i'm very happy with how it ended up given the limited time :))

thank you! indeed there was, i see your game is unity and ours is godot but you can feel free to have a look at how we implemented it on github if you're curious :)) https://github.com/Samiser/christmas-tree-decorator/

thanks so much! we defo wanted to keep things simple so just tried to keep it constrained but execute it well

no i think it's neat! its like a custom chess variant, i think it was just a bit hard to identify which custom piece mapped to what chess pieces but i think it's cool, it's difficult to be cleverer with the game design to signal that sort of stuff with such short time ya know. i really liked the game tho, and it's neat to see a fellow puzzle game maker!

and yea that makes sense, i figured out you could use the king as bait because of that lol

thank you so much, that's exactly what we were going for!! it was an interesting challenge, the code is actually all on github if you're curious. the constraints were implemented with an abstract class (new godot 4.5 feature!) where each subclass defined the constraints and the description text, then it was just a matter of creating arrays of constraints for each puzzle which defo made creating the puzzles a bit easier.

constraints: https://github.com/Samiser/christmas-tree-decorator/blob/main/scripts/constraint...
tree 1 puzzles (arrays of constraints): https://github.com/Samiser/christmas-tree-decorator/blob/main/scripts/puzzles/tr...

totally agree!! i had that down as something to add if we had time but ran out of time to do it sadly. that and the ability to export/import tree configurations so they could be shared but alas, we didn't end up having that much time to work on it sadly. really glad you liked it, thanks so much! :))

thank you so much! yea getting the speed right was tricky, we were aiming for something for a bit more chill but that makes sense, thanks for the feedback :)) 

this had a perfectly christmassy vibe to it, and it was a fun take on the theme. the art was beautiful!!! i found guiding the reindeer with the lights a little clunky but i think that's kinda the point of the challenge. regardless i had fun playing through it, and i really enjoyed the vibes. excellent work folks!!

fun & creative idea! i was a bit confused initially about the order of the pieces, since it's a bit unconventional, but i think that's meant to be part of the puzzle right? managed to get all the bells and i enjoyed it :)) i'm curious how you did the chess ai, did you implement it yourself? regardless, great work!!

i absolutely loved this!!! even though it's small scoped and the interactions are small i genuinely loved all the characters. you have a great knack for writing, and the game looks so beautiful. very satisfying and cute game, excellent work!! (bro is smoking and doesn't even care 💀)

beat the game!! i really loved the vibe, lots of nice juicy effects and the sounds are really satisfying. really nice work in creating a spooky but christmassy vibe. i loved it, great work!! the ending was a real gift ;)

i did it!! took a few attempts to figure out that i needed to deliver specific items but i really enjoyed the gameplay once i got into it. great work!!

thank you so much!! yea we ended up a little short on time to really refine the storytelling, and working in the environmental details into it. im really glad you enjoyed it!!

thank you!! yea the blast shield was just an environmental thing you can interact with but doesn't serve a function. totally agree about the download being after, we should have spent a bit more time tweaking the speed. thanks for playing!!!

no the screen slowly going white was the ending! that means you got all the messages :) thanks so much for playing!!

thanks for playing! can defo see it not being one for everyone but i'm grateful you tried it out :))

thank you!! much appreciated :))

thanks so much for playing on stream!!

really cool game!! enjoyed the story and you really created a spooky vibe, great work!!!

thanks so much! this should have been clearer but after one signal you go back to the signal finder (joystick) and move on to the next one! that's kind of the game loop if that makes sense 

thank you!!!

thanks so much!!

wow thank you so much!!

oh sorry about that! i tried to put all critical information in the "decoding" and "protocol" commands so you could run them and re-read whenever necessary, was there something missed off of those?

also any more specific info on the decode command not working would be great, you're the first to report issue with it so would love to fix if theres a bug

thanks for playing regardless :))

this was so cool!! what a creative and unique game. initially i was a bit confused by the quick typing events (i tried to type the text in quotes) but figured it out quick enough. great vibe and i love the art. excellent work!!!

cool lil game! really liked the art and enemy designs. with some audio this would be v good. great work!!

thanks so much for playing!! i totally agree, we meant to add something like that but ran out of time. glad you enjoyed it!

very nice game!! loved the art and the vibes. it felt a bit too easy/quick, i beat it very quickly, but as a fan of cujo this was really cool to play. great work!

i wonder if its a mouse sensitivity thing? were you moving the mouse up and down to turn them? we should defo have made it clearer that you have to move the mouse up and down i think

very cool entry! love the vibes and the art. was a bit awkward to scroll on the investigation logs, a scroll bar would be appreciated. racoon was a cute lil guy. great work!!

ah yea, you might have missed it but this is explained in the terminal by running the `protocol` command, would love for you to give it another try! you have to find the coarse frequency first using the bottom right knob, then you'll see the waveform

what an incredible game!! you packed so much into this, and its such a detailed and well crafted narrative. absolutely loved the writing and the vibes. wonderful experiece!! great work!!!!

computer! i was playing the "full game" version if thats the right one?

fun and cool game!!! my fav part was the level design, felt very surreal and spooky. took a few attempts being caught by the opps but the checkpoints were helpful. great work!!

this is one of my favs of the jam so far!! i loved the look and the vibe of this, plus the voice acting was great!! very spooky vibes, there is something deeply scary about being lost in a cave and this captures it super well. great work!!!

clicking on play didn't seem to do anything? not sure if i was doing something wrong but yea i got stuck here. love the eerie vibe though :))