games

the infinite bubble jumping in Animal Well is very easy

the taxi game is pretty damn good

at least from the demo I played

not sure if it was on purpose but it has that cozy ps1 style feel to it

did you go back to it with a controller?

nope

but if I ever buy the full game I will

i am already understanding why pika was annoyed

switches keep getting reset and its obnoxious

oh is polu also playing it now?

i had to stop because playing that on a plane while on very little sleep is not a good experience

was getting very consistent with the bubble jumping though

I played/beat it last night

it was good

What's the replay value like? Skimmed chat and it seems like a nice/short metroidvania with interesting movement tech

Pikas Kickflip wall thing was pretty cool

There's more postcredits than I initially thought, not a lot more, but the game overall (4-5 hours for 1st credit roll) it's probably more like 10-12 hours long total rather than 6-8 like I said last night there's also a couple tiers of speedrun and zero-death achievements baked into the game too, that ig might be replay value worthy

I don't see there being a lot of replay value personally, and its not the kind of metroidvania that would benefit from a randomizer or anything

worth playing though, if for nothing else that I think the game is technically/visually really cool

and the opening couple hours are def the strongest

No combat kinda hurts it for replay

once you do (or learn how to skip) the puzzles, thats it

Except the sine wave puzzle, I did that but it'll still take me 5 minutes to do it again

I know there is a 30 minute achivement, I can't be bothered

(don't have it on steam so less motivated)

Not seen is the 1.5 hours I spent trying to do a harder version of that trick earlier in a different room

Normally you can infinite bubble jump, but the dev added humming birds that pop the bubbles to some sections

so disc climb tech is your best moce

This game will have cool early speedruns, and an insane TAS

I legitimately believe you can use the disc to climb straight to the final area

likely 100+ frame perfect disc jumps

but I really think it is TAS possible

If there was no humming bird in the area between the final shaft and the start, it'd be human possible and easy

The game seems interesting enough then, but I don't think it's 25 dollars interesting. The lack of combat kills it a bit for me, but the Sine puzzle sounds interesting (or like a big pain). Maybe ill try the download that spooky(?) posted. I haven't watched Dunkey in a long time, but its nice to know he published an interesting game at least.

At least I know it'll be a good GDQ run to look for.

Its not

its a 10-15 CAD game

not 30 CAD

Its about double what it should be

Dunkey's name meant it'd sell at this price

so I get why it is

Yea exactly, they could get away with it this time. If his name wasn't on it this game wouldn't have moved nearly as much, especially at 25-30

It was #1 on sales though, but I wonder how much that really amounts to

yeah, the DL I uploaded is what Pika played, that's my copy of the patched game I bought on Steam

~8k, is the answer

it's sold WAY more than 8k

where the fuck is that number from

it's wrong

I'm going off steam chart, is the game not pc exclusive?

I know steam chart sucks, im just guessing

it also just came out, so expect lifetime sales to be way higher

the best metric is that sales are 10-25x the number of Steam reviews

Oh yea im retarded, it's multiplatform. I'm sure it killed on the Switch then, seems like it's a perfect game for that.

it's probably sold ~100k on Steam so far

if I had to guess

will probably sell 1-2M this year total, multiplat (PC/Switch/PS5)

I wonder what Dunkey's cut is

Dev is going to get a good return on his 5 years

And nowche has the code and systems in place to make a sequel in a couple years or so for much less work

these are unreliable, like they say

especially at release

but I'd be shocked if it wasn't in the ballpark of ~100k sales so far

30 dollars for a game with 5000 houra of content is a steal, who wouldn't buy it

lol

If the sandbox is as fun as it seems and there's more than just the disc and bubble jumps, I feel like a sequel would be really good for a game like this

my pitch would be make a noita-like sequel

I would not describe it as a sandbox

engine has fluid/light simulation down

oh I misunderstood

So, bubble and disc are probably the only interesting items

^

I really wish the yoyo worked like a grapple hook

so you could swing with it

Oh lmao ok, I love noita though, so that would be cool

the lamp is just a "we need this item to block progress" item, so it is worthless

I think mechanically, he has a great engine, and if he built a different game using it he'll make a masterpiece

the firecrackers are technically not needed at all