El's World

Really interesting game. Playing around in it is fun, and I liked the idea of discovery in it. It reminded me a little of Starseed Pilgrim on a surface level.

I'm a little disappointed thought that the interactions aren't more clear, because I clearly saw some strange things happen but didn't have the time to realize what was happening.

On my first time I didn't find any new tablets too, so I replayed it later and indeed found a few more tablets, but it became less interesting to try different combinations because of the number of possibilities compared to the small variations.

And it seems radomized too, because I had a lot more different stuff with my 3 starting tablets in my first game than in my second.

But that's definitely an interesting game, and not something I thought I'd see in a jam!

Cool game! I like how pretty the world gets--the feeling of creation and just filling up a white space. I especially like the tiles that fade into each other, you can get really beautiful landscapes from that, and I love the little animals. I like that there was a freeform/implied objective to get all the tablets, but I couldn't get 2 of them :( The sound effects worked but you could make them more soothing/magical that really communicates creation. Thought the mana meter was unnecessary too; maybe trees could produce mana as well as the natural recharge? If you continue this, it would be really cool if you had music that changes as you build up the world. A spellbook that can be sorted by colour(of the resultant object) and object-type would be helpful too for keeping track of combos. Overall this was really fun!

...I felt so happy playing the game. Especially when bugs started to appear I wanted to procect them from all the bad in the world.

Working with the spells and the other interactions were really well made. Even though the goal remained as a mystery till I went to read the comments, the actions themselves were easy to understand.

Sadly the sound effect of casting spells gave me bad shivers. It break some immersion of the otherwise so harmonized world.

Good job!

It took while to understand how world is located corresponding itself, good you had made cube map down-right. It was nice small sandbox-game. I didn't open all the stane tables, but maybe 5-6. There started to be too many combinations already :D

I really loved the calm and openness of playing this game. It was a fun and relaxing time to just wander around and explore! I would definitely be interested in playing an expanded, post-jam version, were you interested in making one.

It took me a while to understand the layout of the rooms, and what I was meant to be doing. Neither of these is necessarily a bad thing, but maybe a little bit more in-game hand holding at the top would help make it more accessible.

Once I figured the open-world idea out, though, I had a lot of fun with this game. Definitely one of my favorites in the jam so far. :)

It was part of my Twitch stream last night, which you can check out here if you'd like: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/600892007

I play your game from around 28:20 through about 43:00.

Truly great work here. Would definitely love to see more!

Actually quite adored this game. I think it fits the theme really well and it was fun to discover new elements. Would be nice to have a history of things you've tried or other ways to explore things made. Though after awhile I felt i was meticulously brute forcing different combinations rather than the same sense of discovery I had earlier. I enjoyed experimenting but maybe something additional could have kept the sense of discovery and exploration going. The sense of "wonder". I enjoyed wandering around without a strict objective and that game scratched that itch for me.

The more I played, the more I wanted to keep playing! Even though it doesn't have music, I enjoyed the subtle "hum" of things flying around the world. It would be awesome if when I discovered a new combination, it would record my findings in some sort of recipe book. I hope you continue this project!

I didn't necessarily know what I was meant to be doing aside from guessing different spells. But it was interesting to find out what each combination did and I filled up quite a bit of the cube with stuff.

Incidentally the idea of representing a cube on a 2D plane was very clever. Confusing - but clever.

I'm not sure I quite understood what was going on in this game, but it certainly seems very interesting and unique. It's kinda fun just wandering around trying out different combinations of spells and seeing what happens. There seems to be a lot of detail but put into how elements in the world interact e.g. I saw a pool of water got slowly filled up by dirt next to it. I would like a bit more instruction, but maybe the would hurt the game's charm.

It was oddly satisfying to figure things out and discover new spells. I really like the idea of a creation game from a total white space and the idea of having each cube side be like a fresh canvas is cool.

Very cool game!

I'm very impressed with the implementation of procedural content in a game jam game. The number of possible combinations is astounding!

My main feedback would be that what you can do and how you can do it is kind of unclear, also the game window was kinda small.

For a first game jam game, super impressive, congratulations! :)

Really interesting game! I can't believe how many spell combinations you were able to add. I wish there was some sort of objective to the game so it would be more than just a sandbox, but it was still a lot of fun collecting and using spells.