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In other engines it might be something to do with listening to inputs on the physics loop instead of the main loop, or something like that - but I'm not familiar with Love.\n\nI encountered a thrown error right at the finish on my 2nd playthrough, it says:\n\nError\n\nmain.lua:315: attempt to index a nil value\n\n\nTraceback\n\n[love \"callbacks.lua\"]:228: in function 'handler'\nmain.lua:315: in function 'update'\n[love \"callbacks.lua\"]:162: in function <[love \"callbacks.lua\"]:144>\n[C]: in function 'xpcall'\n\n","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1159911,"author_name":"John Gabriel","author_uid":"john-gabriel","epoch":1759707762,"text":"The music reminded me a bit of a DOS game running on an AdLib sound card - not sure if that was your intention, but I thought it was a nice touch. As has already been mentioned, the camera might benefit from moving more smoothly.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1168890,"author_name":"Baluj","author_uid":"baluj","epoch":1759867771,"text":"I find the controls strange. I wish there was a web version.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1170340,"author_name":"VikFX","author_uid":"vikfx","epoch":1759887756,"text":"Original and pretty graphics. Controls are a bit hard espacially with a french keyboard and sometime the player doesn't move.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1174986,"author_name":"nekowei","author_uid":"nekowei","epoch":1759973846,"text":"The artwork is beautiful. The idea of collecting creatures suits the theme. Keep up!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1178293,"author_name":"LDJam user 385997","author_uid":"385997","epoch":1760071584,"text":"Wow, an isometric game and it looks great. The controls can feel a bit unresponsive at times, and it\u2019d be cool if you could tell an animal\u2019s rarity from farther away. Overall, impressive work!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1187096,"author_name":"auxiliarymoose","author_uid":"auxiliarymoose","epoch":1761029503,"text":"I like the overall concept! The art, sound, and gameplay combine to evoke a nostalgic feeling that reminds me of some of the first computer games I played during computer lab in kindergarten haha. Good stuff!\n\nThe controls do feel a bit indirect... I think part of it is from up\/down\/left\/right being at an angle relative to the grid, and partially because of some of the input delay\/inconsistency. It also seems like a good strategy is to sweep across the map while holding the spacebar, since fast precision control is slower than just covering more ground. Maybe having the terrain be more of a limit could help with this, also perhaps something with expanding the playable area over time (\"you have 30 sec to get back to home base before your oxygen runs out, upgrade based on points, etc.\").\n\nAlso reminds me of Disco Zoo from nimblebit in some ways! Overall nice work, thanks for sharing :-)","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1188223,"author_name":"Palerus7","author_uid":"palerus7","epoch":1761239593,"text":"Pretty cool game, the soundtrack gets kind of repetitive though... Especially if there would be a Pokemon-like battle mechanic (like arena stuff), this could be a grown-out game one could find on steam! I also love the Graphics (that is a Love2D reference, i think that is your framework of choice?) and the sound, even though it is kinda repetitive (as I said before). 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