I've always liked this character design for the Pizza girl, so it's great that you finally made a whole short for her! Your sense of humor is great, too (or at least as broken beyond repair as mine), I could tell as early on as the "Employee Training Video" at the beginning that I was going to enjoy this animation, and thankfully that turned out to be right!

...Out of morbid curiosity, what is animating in Blockbench even like? Is it even made for animation out of the box, without serious jiggery-pokery? I think I'm going to stick with the more familiar, "industry standard" animation in Maya or Blender, thanks...

I just love how Aardman-esque the whole animation is, specifically with the way Noisette's mouth moves like a Wallace and Gromit character. Also, it is genuinely inspiring every time you put out a 3D animation--every time I find myself accepting the lie that computer (CG) animation has to look rigid and overly-on-model, you seem to make something that challenges my entire perception of 3D animation even more than the last two Spider-verse movies!

What the Hell did I just watch?

This is such a cute and cool game, and yet another reminder of the type of indie magic that can happen with only 3 people working on a game they're passionate about (a programmer, an artist and a musician)! Waha's sprites are too cute for words, especially the funny little dance she makes when she clears one of the Tetris puzzle-like levels! I love the music, too, reminds me of the catchy arcade-style music I would regularly hear in the Dreamcast and GameCube era of gaming. The game itself is fun and well above what I would expect from a typical Newgrounds Game Portal submission, although it is certainly a work-in-progress in parts--in the description, it should mention that if you manage to get yourself stuck in a sort of "soft-lock" situation, the simple solution is to press "Esc" to bring up the pause menu and press Retry.

Once the kinks are all worked out and the second half comes out, though, I would love for this to get a proper Steam release--and I say Steam specifically because I recently got a Steam Deck and I would love to play ALL my indie favorites on that excellent handheld device!

This is so much less frustrating than the real MineSweeper.

This is EXTREMELY impressive! I'm a sucker for cute 3D platformers! The camera controls don't seem to work on controller (I have to use the mouse) and the music seems to cut off in an eerie way, but I don't care! There just aren't enough relaxing 3D platformers in this day and age, indie or otherwise!

I have so little understanding about how music theory works that I didn't hate this song as much as the current review average (about 2 out of 5 stars) would suggest. Very Y2K, I would imagine hearing this in a RebelTaxi/Pan Pizza video.

I’m not even remotely an expert on anything music-related, but I’ve always liked this type of music for boss fights. Question, though: is this related to the PSOne classic (well, good for its era) Croc: Legend of the Gobbos? Or the Croc games on Switch? Or something else entirely?

Good ol' healthy mangoes!

Dang, the perspective and composition is so interesting here! I know perspective in particular is easier to do in 3D rendering, but still!

Never turn back