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This concept is really simple and in turn has a lot of depth. If you want to do well and beat the RNG, you have to use strategy. On to the criticism...\nGreat pacing with the appearance of the cracks. You're barely hanging on most of the time, but the only way to lose is if you make a mistake (you can never blame a loss on the RNG). After 24 minutes, the music starts to get a bit old; for a game like this something less upfront may be better. Your game has a really clever core gameplay loop that never gets dull. Overall, I had a blast with this!\n\n![Untitled.png](\/\/\/raw\/09a\/64\/z\/4cf8f.png)\n\n(I recorded my run; if you're interested in watching let me know and I'll upload it)","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":798988,"author_name":"LDJam user 184264","author_uid":"184264","epoch":1649216540,"text":"This game has a solid foundation (unlike the dam). I particularly like the art style in the intro. So far my best score so far is 1153.\n\nThe one critique that comes to mind is that pressing E so often and so quickly whilst also using WASD is uncomfortable. Maybe make right click move the ladder like @callicou-jack suggested?","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":802820,"author_name":"Julia Nistel","author_uid":"julia-nistel","epoch":1649259182,"text":"@darkwolf thanks buddy, I did the intro scene and I'm glad you liked it, it was a lot of fun (:","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":810711,"author_name":"uboretsky","author_uid":"uboretsky","epoch":1649345922,"text":"Trust me, Im an engineer","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":817512,"author_name":"n00b","author_uid":"n00b","epoch":1649468891,"text":"I think the game had an interesting concept but it just did not feel fun. The controls felt a little awkward and the music was kinda irritating.\n\nOn the pros, the controls were responsive and I thought the graphics were pretty good.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":817548,"author_name":"LDJam user 212364","author_uid":"212364","epoch":1649469515,"text":"Nice job on that, it was fun to play and I was able to get just under 2000 for the score. This would have been a great thing to have a high score saved and also would have been cool to have like a global scoreboard. I do wish there was some indication of how far away you can be to a crack to be able to seal it, there were quite a few times where I thought I was close enough but couldn't. I also think the cracks could have contrasted a bit more against the background. They could get hard to see at times. 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