Cookie County

Hi, I'm your tester for the feedback pairing event!

I'm going to split this feedback into different topics:

• OVERALL: I really like the theme, it's cute and you managed to make me feel like it's Christmas while I played it in late January! I did not encounter any specific bug or technical issue. The visuals are clean and the gameplay works well, it's a nice take on idle games. It reminds me another game I've played for last Brackeys Jam that happened in a bakery too with a twist.
• GAMEPLAY: It's interesting to have a map for an idle game, quite unique. I just wish it was easier to navigate, sometimes it felt like the camera was moving too slow at the start or too fast at the end, but besides that I did not have much trouble to travel across the map, the little button to come back to the bakery is a smart addition! About the cookies mechanics, I like how you can customize them, it's so cool! The progression throughout the game is insanely well managed, it's almost felt perfect. However, I had trouble about the shooting mechanics. The cannon was a bit hard to control, I did not understand at first it could rotate around the whole screen. I would have liked to be able to selec which cookie I was shooting, because I had to shoot all the previously baked ones to shoot the ones I was baking. As the shooting is kinda slow, it sometimes took me a few minutes to finally be able to shoot new ones.
• NARRATIVE/THEME: Very well done, the environment really makes you feel like it's Christmas, there's a chill vibe, very relaxing. The city lighting up as you progress is great, you feel the difference as you progress throughout the game. The citizens give life to the city, it feels very alive more than a scripted movement.
• VISUALS: Wonderful, the artstyle is perfect for this game. The only thing I think was lacking is a bit more VFX for more juiciness and some more feedback for player actions. But besides that, I don't know what else to say, it's soooo good!
• AUDIO: The audio loop is nice, I did not feel like it was too repetitive, and it participate to the chill vibe, thumbs up for this one! About the voice acting, it's cool to have it in games, however I felt like it was not necessary for the tutorial, as I was reading the text faster than the voice was talking, and I was more disturbed by it than it was helping me.
• UI/UX: The UI is intuitive, there's exactly what's needed, I did not end up lost in too much UI like in some games. Overall, the user experience is smooth. Maybe just the cannon in the UI felt weird, maybe another way to handle/display it would be less disturbing, idk about this one.
• GAME FEEL: As I already said, it sometimes lack visual feedback with VFX. However, the audio feedback is good. I like however how some actions you make in city have visual impact like destroying a snowman, that's nice, it makes me feel I am impacting the city in real time. Same thing for the trees and houses lights.

That's it for me, well done for the game, it's cute and unique. You did an amazing job, here are my favorite thing about it: progression, map design, visuals.

Congrats to you all!