Lost Child

My only issue with this game was the infamous flower jump. I get why it works the way it does after seeing the reason, but I think you would have been better off just making the flower move horizontally. Less interesting, yes, but the mechanics of jumping weren't well conveyed at that point.

Other than that there's very little to find wrong with this game (save for microscopic nitpicks) owed to its small scale. It looks great of course, and from what I can tell the mechanics work just as expected.

Really cool atmosphere! The lighting creates a cool dreamy feel. The mechanics were introduced very naturally before using them in more challenging ways later.

I enjoyed the the indirect way of controlling the character, but the way of making them jump was a bit unintuitive for me. I was stuck on the level with the vertically moving mushroom platform thing for a while and had to check the submission's description for the hint. After that, it did make sense though!

Good job, it was fun to play!

It's impressive enough to make a live-action game with this level of polish as-is, but to incorporate clever movement AI as well? That's genuinely a feat for a gm48 entry, so really well done on that!

Very pretty graphics and effects, fun gameplay with intuitive, simple controls (I was bad at it, but that's definitely on me), overall a really nice lil experience that was well-scoped and beautifully presented.

The last level was a little anticlimactic, and some of the jump requierement were a little weird (that level with the flower going up and down was a pain.. ended up clicking directly at the opposite of the room and it worked 😅) but everything else is on point.

Oh, some of the options had some weirdness too, like the volume control needing you to click multiple time, or the resolution numbers that seem way off, but I'm mentionning this because I think it was funny, it had 0 impact on the game. And yeah I noticed this because everything else was so polished. I'd say it only missed a few levels, and maybe an intro to add some context and it would have been perfect :)

The graphics and music were great. They created an atmosphere that was spot on. I think that's what I liked the most in this game. The idea and mechanics also felt original. The mechanics were also taught along the way in a manner that felt natural.

I liked some of the puzzles, but I think others could have been improved. For example the level where there was a big gap with a teleport to the start of the level on the bottom and a platform moving in the middle was kind of pain. It felt only like fighting with the game mechanics, not like solving a puzzle. Also the fifth level was a little weird, as the child didn't want to jump for example when I tried to bring it close to the gap, take the vines down and then go for the jump.

I can see some link to the theme of non-violence even though it feels a little unclear. I also found a minor bug, at least the fullscreen setting doesn't get activated when the game starts even though it is saved in the options.

Overall the game has a great atmosphere, feels finished and is nice to play, except in a pair of levels.

Very well done. The way the mechanics were taught and the puzzles were presented was natural and easy to follow. I like how this game uses a different control scheme to differentiate from other platformers, while also designing some of the puzzles around the controls.

Awesome solid game! I got stuck at the jump puzzle for a hot minute, but eventually realized what you were signaling to do. It looked and felt great, good job!

Cool game! I like the simplistic yet intuitive controls. The levels spoke by themselves about what you're supposed to do, that's what I call game design! I also really like the shader work you did on this, it really made the level feel more alive and mystic. My only issue with this game would be the fairy sounds that play when you move the mouse can be kind of annoying at times, but despite that it is a pretty fun entry!

Really nice art, sound, animations, GUI, and graphics (everything, really), but I couldn't figure out how to get past the part with the ledge.

I was unable to get passed the portal section but I liked the art and the world, the controls felt very dynamic in how the character interacted with the world. Good job on getting a full menu system in place too for the jam, I was surprised to find a full options menu

I thought it was a cool idea with solid gameplay. The art and sound were great.

Wow. This game is incredibly gorgeous. I absolutely love the art style, music, and font choice. Everything together with the gameplay makes this feel right at home alongside other pre-00s adventure games like the Original Prince of Persia and another rotoscoped pixel art adventure game that I can't think of the name... it was sci-fi and you were stuck on an alien world. Anyways, the bit depth of this game reminds me of games that came out of the Amiga, something of which I absolutely love. I personally love the use of color and contrast here and its refreshing to see among the washed out neutral colors.

The game play was incredibly genius, a point-and-click game is difficult to get right in a Jam setting, and pathfinding can also have its unexpected quirks. Still, you took the challenge head on and made an incredible game. I only had one screen where I had a frustration with the AI not doing what she needed to do (the one with the vines under the cliff), but overall it was just fine.

When I first opened the game I was hit with awe, and then I was immediately immersed with sound of soft crying, an unexpected detail that instantly gave me a goal beyond just text, an emotional attachment I was not expecting that made me want to see the journey to the end. Very well done, this could easily be a full game I would pay real money for with more development.

Also, bonus points for having an actual bonified options menu. I appreciated having audio sliders.

I am SO bad at convincing the child to jump instead of dive in to the portals! 😅 though this is a unique idea and I like the atmosphere and style you've pulled off. Switching up the control scheme is a nice change as well, albeit with a few clinks in the jumping portion. But it's a nice, short & sweet experience, good job! :)

The artwork/atmosphere is really great. Really good quality, the gameplay feels good too.

Things I liked:

The atmosphere was great, when in fullscreen the sounds + the details in the forest (like the fireflies) was really immersing. Very impressive.

The controls were a little clunky (using both mouse buttons in very quick succession) however, I think this was intentional to make it harder; and thus I consider this a game feature that, though frustrating, actually added to it.

The way you progress through the levels feels really good.

The portal mechanics are excellent and I loved the final level.

Things I didn't like:

Due to the length of the game compared to the length of the soundtrack, the music became a little repetetive. Though this didn't affect gameplay much, and it still sounded great (I can just imagine being stuck on 1 level for hours with the same soundtrack over and over lol).

I appreciate that the things you need to click on had quick a low opacity to make the environment shine and be the focal point, however I think it should still be slightly more prominent when you're clicking on it.

I'd want more levels. It felt like with each level you introduced a new mechanic, or a variation on a mechanic the player knew. However it felt like it was building up into some super hard final level with portals/vines/mushrooms all over the place. But the final level only took me 3 attempts to beat. It would have been cool to see a rageworthly level just before the end.

Art is great, soundtrack soothing, controls pretty good, gameplay is farily interesting, but I got stuck where there is a cliff with vines at the bottom. The section before where you ride the mushroom thing and move the vines out of the way is great. Definitely has potential. EDIT I did, in fact, get past it