Willow Wood & Pillow Soot

Well that was something. A pretty short entry but a very good one! I really like the art style and the main mechanic, and the ending song is pretty beautiful too. Wonder what else you can do with this idea?

Well, damn. I wasn't expecting to cry tonight, but thank you for making me.

As soon as I saw that the main mechanic of the game is taking things over, I knew it would end in taking over something pretty... insane like you end up doing in the ending, ha.
Great presentation, fun concept, great game.

Another wonderful entry. I liked the art, story, puzzles, atmosphere, music and the beautiful ending.

Thanks for enjoyable submission.

Your entries are always an absolute pleasure to experience, and this, while short, was no different. Beautiful graphics and animation work, charming music throughout, and a really neat puzzle or two to boot!

Very nice music and art! I wish it went on a bit longer. :)

I did manage to get stuck once and had to restart, but apart from that, it was a very nice experience. I'd like to see the mechanic elaborated upon some more!

Finally figured it out! Well, I had to read the feedback to get past the tree, but it was still fun. Short, but sweet.

This was a really nice, relaxing puzzel game with a unique mechanic. The music and art style were both on point, and it has a fun little storyline. As people have mentioned already, the aim is a little off, but all in all a great game! Good work!

Short sweet and charming as H-E double hockey sticks.

Art, music and puzzle mechanic were all really well executed so I find it hard to think of any feedback besides the shots being off center from the wand but it didn't really hinder the experience all that much.

Great job man!

I am so bad at puzzles games! 🤣 but this was super cute and so charming - as people have mentioned, the directional shooting was a little off but that didn't stop me enjoying this experience, I will have to revisit and try to escape but all the same it was a wondeful game with cute art and music, good job!

I played though your game on steam : https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1628068563?t=01h13m25s

it was a nice little Experience, though I did softlock the game once and had to start over.

The whole game has lots of charm, and I really enjoyed the music. Funny enough, I got past the tree just fine but was stuck on the acorn because I could not see the lantern on the right at all. Might have been my monitor brightness. For the characters that have movable appendages, I think the game would look a little more polished if the spell was casted from the end of the wand rather than just in front of the character. You could track this point by using lengthdir_x, and lengthdir_y along with some arm length constant and the angle at which you're drawing the arm. With some minor adjustments, the lengthdir_x and lengthdir_y could be added to x and y of the arm anchor point to get the wand end point, since you mentioned you were less experienced with programming!

Okay... this was absolutely adorable and calming! I was also stuck at the tree on the first play through (thanks for the hint!). There is something about the story, music and art style that just makes me feel good. This has been the most memorable game that I have played in this GameJam so far - great work!!

Wow, great game, Mark! Certainly retains the bonte avond charm, but I really loved that mechanic. Great art, cute little story, I enjoyed it a lot!

For me it seems to be a unique game idea with a calm mood, however I was stuck very fast. Just passed the magic wand to pine tree and that is it so far... What did I miss?

Edit: Thanks for the hint :), I could complete this relaxing game.