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I do wish you could check what you need at anytime though, and the background was nice at first but a bit much overtime due to how much space it took up during gameplay.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":789625,"author_name":"mmason","author_uid":"mmason","epoch":1649167645,"text":"@darkwolf @craig-l we did plan on adding an option to stop\/disable the background but ran out of time, may add a quick option for that to prevent people getting sick.\n\nThanks for playing","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":797268,"author_name":"EspyLinder","author_uid":"espylinder","epoch":1649201262,"text":"Fun and cute! I found the rainbow background was a bit much when paired with the thin font. 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Good job","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":817532,"author_name":"Archimagus","author_uid":"archimagus","epoch":1649469200,"text":"Interesting idea and thank you for the option to turn off the background, I don't know if my brain would have been able to not melt with a scrolling rainbow in the background while reading all that.  Some of the puzzles made sense, but others seemed kind of random, just click buttons until something new happens.  Still, I did make it to the end nice job.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":817546,"author_name":"Itskdog","author_uid":"itskdog","epoch":1649469492,"text":"Good job with this little adventure. It was fun trying to figure things out.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":830128,"author_name":"musaspacecadet","author_uid":"musaspacecadet","epoch":1650010031,"text":"great submission","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":831356,"author_name":"3079","author_uid":"3079","epoch":1650124507,"text":"A fun little text adventure about a timeloop, all the puzzles were pretty logical. I feel like some more work on the UI would make the game even better. Overall a good entry though, good job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":834084,"author_name":"his-games","author_uid":"his-games","epoch":1650372147,"text":"Pretty fun, confusing at first. Could do with some more ui polish, but it was good enough for a playthrough. Good job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":834091,"author_name":"zimny11","author_uid":"zimny11","epoch":1650372889,"text":"Interesting game. Nice game mechanics with a timer. Also, thanks for ability to turn off background. It is nice, but after a while it become a bit distracting. Good job with the game!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":834107,"author_name":"LDJam user 234769","author_uid":"234769","epoch":1650374424,"text":"Really loved this game, very cool broken aesthetics :laughing:  \nSpent at least 2 hrs winking at the Leprechaun.  \n100% would recommend.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":834108,"author_name":"squaxcom","author_uid":"squaxcom","epoch":1650374544,"text":"My old gamer eyes had a hard time reading the text, a little more contrast or larger font would be cool.  Nice entry.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":834116,"author_name":"SolanumTeam","author_uid":"solanumteam","epoch":1650375062,"text":"Really nice little game! I like the humor in it a lot! I'd just suggest to make the font a little bigger. Even in fullscreen sometimes it was hard to read. 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