I really like the art style and concept, nice use of the theme too

Good concept that isn't seen much in games. Pretty good quality for what's there, too. Clean graphics, and soundtrack is rockin'.

Control-wise, I'd have personally preferred keyboard input, but that may just be old habits speaking. Main issue was with menu navigation though - highlighting the entire clickable area would have been more intuitive, but it works as is.

Nice work! I dig the back and forth mechanics.

That is really cool! I love how you have to go to another world to deactivate parts like doors. Clicking everything got a bit tedious but otherwise it was a lot of fun :D

The art was pretty nice and the idea behind it all was also cool. But there were some camera issues during combat and then I got stuck in cyberspace after one of my avatars died.

Impressive! I like the concept and the art is pretty slick.

I feel like it would've controlled a lot more smoothly if it wasn't so happy to scroll when the mouse was near the edges, and it did crash on me once. Well done, though! The world and gameplay show promise, but making it faster to preview between worlds and making the action/controls more precise in general (make it easier to select characters rather than requiring so much clicking, for example) would go a long way.

There is a lot of meat here, both in terms of gameplay and story. Very nicely done. I love the setting and the characters have some well-written detail. Switching between sides is an awesome mechanic. I feel like there could be a full length game in this universe.

Simply amazing

Good graphics and music. I liked being able to switch between the two worlds. The moving and attacking was a little slow. If you sped that up and added some attack animations, it would be even better. Anyway, good job.

Took some time to take in all the controls and mechanics. But it was really cool that you managed to do a proper story in a jam game! A neat entry overall. The cyberpunk concept was really awesome.

Art was nice, Concept was nice, gameplay was OKAY but could get boring quickly

Took me some type to get used to the controls. When you lose it would really be better to have some screen, than just close the game. The graphics and sound are very good. Could use some more work on descriptions and what can you do when its your turn.

Wow, there's so much work put into this game! Controls were a little bit fussy but I got used to them. The switching mechanic wasn't immediately obvious and then I got stuck in cyberspace, but I figured things out after that. I really love a good strategy RPG and this seems like an awesome execution with a lot of potential.

Really really ambitious idea (that wasn't executed half bad!)
Loved fire emblem when I was a kid, so this is the kind of game I'd always wanted to make. Great graphics and music for this short of a time.

hey, thanks for your indepth comment, much appreciated! also: thanks for the advice to check out "the asylum", very interesting flash game, really weird as well :)

also really liked your game, very nice aesthetics and the concept is really interesting and worth expanding on! good job!

Great game. I really enjoyed playing it. Great graphics, sound and story. Thank you for that great game.

Great game! Though it did bug on me in various place like when open the other tab and the game scrolled into black screen, or like I can't end turn when the avatar died. I like to see the game polished and finished. Good luck. :)

Really COOL audio and graphics.

This is really impressive for a jam game. Great interpretation of the theme, and I like the idea of a world with a fragmented cyberspace thing... could definitely be a nice longer game :)

Incredible entry. A tactic-rpg is such short time? Amazing!
Hope you'll expand the idea and make a bigger game out of it. :)

When I click "End Turn", or when I alt-tab out and do something else for a bit, it scroll out of the map, into the dark, and I feel lost and scared because I'm afraid I won't manage to find back the play area.

I wish there were keyboard shortcut, because the entirely mouse driven interface is tiring to use after a while.

Nice little entry though. Would also have fitted well in the recent Cyberpunk jam.

The style of this is incredibly slick - both in how the game graphically and musically handles dipping in and out of meatspace, and the peppering of style cues from the GBA Fire Emblems, right down to the style of the mugshots.

I'm not sure if something went wrong on my side, but I was unable to unlock the second security door - you're unable to jump to wirespace next to it, and going back and defeating the first security gem again seemed to do nothing. Ah well.

Can't run, I'm using OS/x

really neat idea here, although there doesn't seem to be much of a penalty for having an avatar die.
On a side note, the character design is really impressive. You managed to fit a lot of personality into a small number of pixels.

That's the most innovative game I've played so far, and really cool for an RTS; I especially like the relation between life and attack power as it makes you think differently on who you send out. Very well polished for a game jam game.

Very cool. Reminds me a bit of Advance Wars DS. Mostly I'm impressed that you got a strategy-RPG working so quickly.

Really fun! I'm a big fan of the premise, it seems like there just isn't enough of that sort of thing in games today. The gameplay was reasonably solid, although the characters don't seem different at all (other than the icons, which are awesome), and I was puzzled about the difference between Attack and Break (I suppose I should have read the instructions more carefully). As for controls, I have a habit of clicking just off the text, which makes the option disappear...so I have to go through the selection process again; kind of tedious. I mean, obviously you want some sort of "cancel", but maybe, well I dunno. After a while it succumbed to kind of the same thing that a lot of tactics games get (and believe me, I've played a lot), which is the "move each person...end turn...move each person...end turn" kind of tedium. Maybe you can have an option for "fast play" where the characters don't move but rather "teleport" to their new locations. Let's see, the audio is great; I especially love how it subtly changes between the two "realms" and also when you get attacked. I would love there to be a save function so I can come back later instead of having to go through the entire game in one setting. And speaking of which, I had a problem on the third level: Two characters sit in the left room and spawn avatars, the other is in the middle with her avatar at the switch. Flip the switch to let the avatars into the top, flip it again to let in the security gems. I damage the gems but they kill me; all right, I'll spawn avatars again...in order to get them into the top room I flip the switch, which *resets the gems*? The level is impossible???

But in all, I definitely want to see this game developed more. ;)

Great concept!

That's a whole lot of stuff for 3 days! I'm not really an RPG guy, but I really dug the Wireside mechanic, great work!

Really nice graphics and sound. Although I had a bit of trouble with scrolling, especially around the edges.

Wow, wow. Very good! I like the cyberpunk take on the theme and the way it reflects directly on the gameplay. Good graphics too. Controls need a little bit more polish but, hey, it's ok, it's a jam after all.
You should definitely keep working on this.

The premise of the story is interesting, I found it remarkable that you got to extent on the story in a LD game.
When I found out that this was a tactics game I thought that was awesome, I would like to make one some day as well.
I got stuck after some advance and the dead of my avatar with a black screen.
The music I think needs to be a longer loop, and the controls do need some work, they're confusing at first but you have a pretty good base for a greater game in this genre.

I liked the interactive music between real world and avatar world.

Wow a turn based strategy game this is really neat! Unfortunately some bugs got in the way of me finishing it but holy crap the GREPHIX! and the story sounds reeeeallly good too!

Wow, great execution and funny plot :D I wish I could make a pixel art game like that, I tried but didn't know how to make big pixels... The gameplay itself is a bit boring though, it takes a lot of time to walk around, waiting periods between rounds, and a lot of clicking. Maybe it would help to give the characters some abilities like in Chrono Trigger (my favorite RPG), require them to be in some configuration and use the terrain. Given the time limit it's of course very understandable that that wasn't possible.

Love this game. One of the most complete and polished entries I've seen this LD. The concept is a great start for puzzle levels, I agree that the flow could be better, one thing I can note is being able to attack directly after a move, instead of re-clicking the character and then the target.

Story is pretty cool too. I'd like to see more!

Wow, that music is fabulous! Has an interesting premise and use of theme that could definitely be expanded upon even further. The gameplay is fun, though at times a bit clunky: maybe make the scrolling a touch quicker and eliminate the need to click walk everytime. But I suppose those are pretty minor criticisms. Anyway, in summary, I really liked it!

The controls could have used a little tweaking, i.e. no need for the 'walk' option, not putting the end turn next to a scrolling screen, not switching to wireside when you spawn an avatar as the character's turn has ended.

Minor issues aside, the core gameplay is really solid and is ripe for expanding further, the music is awesome, and the story and characters were engaging. Credit also for presenting the theme in an original way. Good job!

I liked it but if you're avatar gets killed you gant seem to continue?

A number of people have said that you can't continue if your avatar gets killed--have all y'all tried pressing the space key to swap between meatspace and Wireside?

Oh thanks. I'll take another look now that I know that.

Glad to hear it :>

We should have perhaps put the controls in-game, too! Something to keep in mind for next time.

Excellent job, graphics, game mechanics, sounds & musics, everything is here to give a good result, congrats !

Nice graphics and songs! Switching to the virtual world to interact with the real one was a nice mechanic.
The game was nice, but it need some changing... Should I be able to respawn at the virtual world countless times? What about leveling and equips? I know that 72 hours isn't a lot of time, but if you guys make another version, think about that. :)
This could be a lot more fun than it is... my only problem is the interface. I feel like it would be a lot easier if everything was done through the keyboard.

Impressive content, art and music!

Wow, this is just GREAT!

It is exceptionally well written (should have guessed by the detailed comments you left us!), and the 'dark world' twist on the tactics gameplay was awesome! I also loved the take on the theme - Ray Kurzweil stuff seem to be quite popular these days! :D

The interface / controls get in the way a bit - the one thing I think would make the most difference in that department would be increasing the clickable area of things (characters, walk button, etc) and making them highlight when you are over them. I believe these two adjustments alone would greatly reduce the amount of times one accidentally clicks outside the command areas and end up cancelling it and having to redo it.

Anyway, this is an exceptionally complex and well realized entry for a 72 hours timeframe. Quite impressive! Congrats, and thanks once again for the detailed comments on our game!

Cheers

Interesting concept and cool graphics! Love it! Fits the theme perfectly.

Really impressive for that short amount of time.

Wow, nice game and great art style!

Font is hard to read, but that's minor issue - overall good execution! :)

Didn't quite grasp everything about the story, especially the ending. They found a lot of bodies, and, uhmm, she started crying?

I can feel the ambitions seeping out of it, which I love, although I get the feeling that you did not have Enough Time. The levels felt a bit empty, and you didn't see the npcs that you talked to, which was confusing.

Very nice base game though. The wireside/meatside stuff could be explored far more, I feel.

Wow, great to see a turn based strategy game again. These are so hard to pull of.

Incredible game ! The story was really deep and interesting. I loved also the battle mechanic, both original and well-balanced. Controls were a bit hard to figure out though.

Great entry, I'll check out your other games :)

(and it passes the Bechdel test ;) )

Holy crap, this is amazing, i can't believe you did all this in 72h. I like the Banner Saga-style combat, and the wireside toggle is really interesting, though there didn't seem to be much of a penalty for losing your avatars. Graphics are awesome, music is amazing. Would absolutely love to see an extended version of this. Impressive work!

Really well made and nice graphics! I got stuck after killing some enemies tho, I couldn't get through doors?