Cute game! Always nice to see a community event like this, and so far it's rather fun to walk around, talk to NPCs, emote at other Newgrounders, dress up my avatar, roast some marshmallows, look at some cool art, and just soak in the chill vibes! I like that the marshmallow roasting has a bit of a minigame and scoring attached to it: one of these days I'll perfectly roast one instead of turning it into cinders!
As the game is constantly being updated, here is some feedback for potential updates/fixes:
*There's a strange bug where the mouse pointer was not appearing when accessing menus: it's still technically there as buttons will react when you hover over them where the pointer should be, but it's very difficult to fly blind. It seems to be appearing for me now so either it was a freak accident or maybe it's been fixed.
*Speaking of the menus, they can be rather fiddly and weird at times. There has been loads of times where I've gone to click the Emotes tab, change my emote, and then come back out and suddenly my avatar has changed to something else! I swear I didn't click on an avatar, but maybe there's a strange spot where the Emote tab overlaps with an avatar and it does both if you click there or something of that nature.
*The basic interactions can also be quite fiddly. I'd expect that when I click on a gift in the distance that I'd walk up to it and then open it in one combined action, but instead it will only walk over to it and then I need to click again to open it up. Not bad, but just a bit awkward. There will also be times where I'm trying to click on something else and I end up opening a gift that was close to me.
*It feels rather limiting to only being able to equip one emote at a time. It'd be great if you had an emote wheel or could assign one emote to each of the directional keys: that way you could assign an emote for happy, sad, angry, encouragement, and so on, and could then get some more effective communication going as you'd be able to react more snappily!
*Been having some issues with saving information/progress. There are a lot of achievements I should've got for opening gifts that I don't have, and I used to have more emotes and avatars but they have been lost, and sometimes my avatar will reset as well.
*The activities are quite limited at the moment, though I understand that's part of the advent experience where it gets updated as it goes. Would love to see more little community events like the marshmallow roasting: you know, some multiplayer games that people can join in and have fun with!
Looking forward to seeing how it gets updated!
