Hey. A small, simple and cool little game you have here. Never felt more satisfying to crush other boxes with my... box? I guess it sort of fits the theme of the jam, since you just bring mindless destruction to your own brethren. The controls are easy enough to figure out, although the idea of jumping to space is a bit odd. All in all, an ok game for the game jam. It could have a lot more, but the time constraint makes it understandable. I featured this game as the first one in my Ludum Dare 33 Let's plays video: https://youtu.be/S9iaUJfSWPs . Keep up the good work, and I'm sure you will be able to throw out a decent game.

You got the simple visual aesthetics fine but the audio department need serious work and the gameplay needs a bit of fine tuning to be more entertaining and engaging.

Please find some audio and kick things up a bit. Let the rhythm guide the player around your game. It is a must or the game will be very dry.

For the gameplay, so touching an enemy means "game over" and if an enemy escapes to the left, it also means "game over"...

Tell you what. Since this Ludum Dare is "YOU ARE THE MONSTER", give that box the player controlling a meaner look. Give him teeth, cruel eyes, anything. Now, go find some sound of dogs with rabies for this new meaner box and pumpkin squishing sound for gore. Replace those "tum tum" stomping with the new monster and gore sounds. We got a monster!

For the gameplay, if you touch an enemy and you die, that feels inferior. Remove it. Instead, to make things more engaging, I suggest have the enemies try jumping over the player and sneak over the player at faster speed. This way, the game would feel more like you are the monster and will not let anyone escape. Let the game be over only if an enemy escape. With this, you now got yourself a cool cruel cube monster.

Sorry if I speak too much and make you feel bad but... I mean, hey, the theme is "YOU ARE THE MONSTER", so let's kick things up to eleven!

after a while i stopped bouncing and was just stuck floating, which made the game nearly impossible to play beyond that point

The game mechanics are simple, I guess... I have no complaints about the core mechanic. The background really looks nice. I like the urban feel you're using with this.

I cannot help but bemoan the lack of music or ambience apart from the background. It's so quiet; I would have hoped even for the faintest traffic noise, but not even that was present. It's too austere. What the game also doesn't tell us is that even touching a box by its side makes you automatically lose, despite not being out of bounds. It's a bit of a nasty shock.

The other thing is that I get that you're handling a box monster. At least *make* it look remotely evil... Or maybe, give it some character. Make it a pretty, pretty box that's actually evil inside. Surely it's not that far-fetched? You've got *some* artistic skill, at least from what I see with the BG. It looks so good; I really, really wish you could make your imagination run wild with this.

2/5.

Need more sounds in 8-bits but not bad