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Not sure how neither of us thought to put in a cutscene skip, especially considering we literally had a testing shortcut to do exactly that x) Thanks!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1142453,"author_name":"Silas Reinagel","author_uid":"silas-reinagel","epoch":1744280464,"text":"Buttery smooth animations. Clean and broad variety of mini-puzzles. Cohesive and clean art style. And that bassline, oh yeah! This game is great! It feels really expertly crafted with love. ","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1144823,"author_name":"Lyssa","author_uid":"lyssa","epoch":1744341354,"text":"wow the sheer STYLE on this game alone is incredible! The color, sprites, animation- what a treat to look at you guys did an incredible job on this","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1146274,"author_name":"Agraffs","author_uid":"agraffs","epoch":1744401583,"text":"Really nice game, the concept is nice, really original. It has a nice depth to it as it takes some time to understand each lock. And the graphics are also good. GG ! Really cool entry.  ","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1146321,"author_name":"silkworm_sweatshop","author_uid":"silkworm-sweatshop","epoch":1744402707,"text":"Nice, love the style! Everything feels very polished and juicy both visuals and sound. Great music too! Had a lot of fun learning the mini games, just wish I could skip the intro so I could get more tries going faster.  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I enjoyed finding out what kind of puzzle every door had ","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1146879,"author_name":"jtap","author_uid":"jtap","epoch":1744423980,"text":"Fun game and interesting puzzles, beautiful art, pleasant difficulty, but where the police car is I couldn't do anything, maybe there was a bug, but there was no progress in the cylinders. Anyway it was fun, thanks","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1146883,"author_name":"JamesGames1000","author_uid":"jamesgames1000","epoch":1744424340,"text":"I loved it definitely one of my top 3. If you plan on adding more post LD add a skip intro button because every time you lose you have to rewatch it. What did the doors button do? Great game :)","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1146954,"author_name":"jkyd","author_uid":"jkyd","epoch":1744428286,"text":"@jtap oof, that sucks it happened on the last door! Yeah, we forgot to reset the progress bars for that fishing mini-game after you've already beat it once within a run -- we'll get around to patching it\n\n@jamesgames1000 Thanks, yeah we'll definitely be adding that in :) Doors button was supposed to be a collection view of all the doors you've been through and a way to replay specific minigames (initally thought it might be useful for testing\/de-bugging), but we didn't get around to hooking it up so it's currently just a monument to our hubris","format":"md","likes":4,"spam":"N"},{"id":1147007,"author_name":"Wolfier","author_uid":"wolfier","epoch":1744430442,"text":"I don't disagree, Doors would of been a better theme. Great Game","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1147027,"author_name":"Adam Martin","author_uid":"adam-martin","epoch":1744431633,"text":"Love the graphics and mini games. The music was perfect. The theme was a bit loose, and not sure how depth really fit in, how many doors can you get through?","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1147294,"author_name":"LDJam user 384191","author_uid":"384191","epoch":1744448269,"text":"Nice! The graphics and animation are great, and the whole \"minigame succession\" kinda reminds me of the Wario Ware series. Great game!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1147396,"author_name":"LDJam user 202408","author_uid":"202408","epoch":1744452121,"text":"Very fun and creative game, I like the variety in puzzles and the beautiful animations. The game is simple but engaging enough to keep me replaying a couple of times even after I beat it. The music is a bit repetitive but I think you did a great job!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1147476,"author_name":"cluster7ck","author_uid":"cluster7ck","epoch":1744455865,"text":"So cool. This has some crazy amounts of polish and I love, love, love the color palette. The number lock almost was my demise :D ","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1149450,"author_name":"Flying Butter Studio","author_uid":"flying-butter-studio","epoch":1744546508,"text":"Very fun game and perfectly executed ! I only see good puzzle ideas here: great job ! The animations and the sound design are a big plus, I had a great time playing your game (3 times :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: ).\nThank you for your work :heart: ","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1153238,"author_name":"Ani","author_uid":"ani","epoch":1744840409,"text":"Such a polished game! Lovely colours and smooth animations. I also would've liked a cutscene skip option, but only after watching it at least once, to appreciate the work you put into it - very impressive!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1154917,"author_name":"Mamboman","author_uid":"mamboman","epoch":1745093961,"text":"Wow what a nice game! The intro is great. The music fits so good! I enjoyed it a lot. I had to was caught a good amount of times so an option to skip the intro would have been nice. But then again it's so cool, that one can watch it several times =)","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1155961,"author_name":"ShadyShade","author_uid":"shadyshade","epoch":1745286928,"text":"Beautiful and funny little game, well done! :thumbsup_tone1:","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1157555,"author_name":"mao","author_uid":"mao","epoch":1745547998,"text":"Love the variety of the puzzles! I replayed a few times to see them all, although I was disappointed to see that they didn't seem to unlock in the \"Doors\" menu (at least in the web version).","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1157587,"author_name":"suvi","author_uid":"suvi","epoch":1745562122,"text":"@mao You and me both! Unfortunately, we ran out of time for the door menu. But, the good news is that it already works in the post jam version, and there are more doors. We'll post the update when they shut off the ratings some time tomorrow. Here's a sneek peek:\n![Doors.png](\/\/\/raw\/444\/43\/z\/6c74e.png)\n\n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1158277,"author_name":"Kabbi","author_uid":"kabbi","epoch":1745686061,"text":"We also hoped for doors) I really love your art style!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld57\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/digitarium.itch.io\/lockpicks-11","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"97361","g_author":"1214084","g_event":"LD57","g_eventkey":"111","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"449044","g_title":"Lockpicks-11","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"46","g_commentcount":"28","g_site2_node_id":"410965","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"410965","n_urlkey":"449044","n_parent":"406845","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/57\/lockpicks-11","n_slug":"lockpicks-11","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"214084","n_created":"1743810762","n_modified":"1778825130","n_version":"1309676","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD57","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":1,"author":214084,"body":"***You've been thrown into the depths of a heist.***\n\nHelp our thief prove they're not out of their *depth* when it comes to lockpicking their way to freedom. 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