Once Upon a Shell

Funky little game with a fun little main mechanic! And surprisingly a mini-roguelike! You get to buy upgrades between the races. However, there are some issues that seem to be indicative of a student project with a bit too short development. But with some minor fixes these could be dealt with: - No option for quick retry after losing. Whenever you eat the dust, you're given the choices to either go back to main menu or quit the game. To retry, you have to again flip through the intro AND the tutorial? Both can be skipped sure, but why not just add a "start from the beginning" option after losing? - Map variety. At the moment I'm not sure if the maps reuse sections from other maps, or if they're randomized (etc..). By adding some variants to the obstacles and surroundings (even just different models & textures) you could make the levels stand a bit more from each other. - Indicate the Player's position in the race? At the moment there is no UI to tell if they're in the lead. As a fun suggestion, you could do this diegetically by using the cloth with number that the rabbits have already, and instead of random numbers have the fastest rabbit with just number 1 and so on. If you're feeling even more funky, you could additionally give the turtle also a number on the back that "updates" whenever they pass/get passed by someone. - You either finish 1st or you lose. I admit this is just a personal opinion, but idk some kind of system where the penalty for coming up second (and so on) wasn't the same as getting the last place would be nice. Player could have some Honor Points (HP) and lose/gain those depending on their race placement.