Great job, great game! I am become death, destroyer of noobs.  camped at the level 1 based and got way too strong...I apologize for the beat down I laid upon a few new players.  It was neither pretty nor fair...Just imagine sitting down to try out a game jam game, getting ready to grind and then being smacked with 1k damage from an invisible enemy...I suspect they may have thought this was a bug, twas not.  You have been smote by the Madpeas.  One day, this game will be re-balanced to prevent this, today it is perfect.  

Wow, I thought this was a meme game making fun of people who think making an MMO is easy. I was expecting meme-ish dialogue and undercooked gameplay featuring pretend MMO elements to try to trick some people into wondering if the game actually had MMO parts to it or not.

Well, uh, no. It's not that at all. It's actually fantastic??

I went mouse-only due to my cat napping on my chest and couldn't believe how well I could play the entire game with one hand (waifu update when?). The presentation was so clean and gameplay basically felt finished besides the many skills obviously needing balancing. Exploring deeper into the world felt scary and adventurous. Dividing my attention between moving, attacking, and figuring out the combination system felt so good. Seeing another player filled me with so many different chaotic emotions and thoughts until they ran away and I continued slaughtering the innocent(?) enemy creatures in cold blood for more power. The thought of what could have happened in that chance encounter still stimulates my neurons.

Absolutely well done to the team! Brilliant entry for the jam and good luck in the future with this masterpiece in your pocket.

The ambition! The audacity!

I picked this up too late, so I only saw one other player (who fled from me!). All I could really do was kill mobs, and I eventually started losing health every couple of seconds, which I didn't expect? I assumed the thing in the bottom right was a mini map, but it didn't show anything useful (like the way back to the portal).

BUT I was on the internet!

Alrighty, finally took a look at this game!

From the get-go, the first thing I noticed was the music! The music is nice and went in a different direction than what I expected, which was pleasant. The second thing that caught my eye was the UI! I thought the animations on the UI look really clean! Same goes for the icons in general.

I also dig the sort of neon look the characters and enemies have.

One thing I wish there was was some sort of log or place to record the combinations that we discovered and what they make. There's a pretty surprising amount of combinations and they all possess multiple different effects. I must have spent a good 20 to 30 minutes trying to figure out a very specific combination I did by accident, so during that time I was just whacking monsters in the head, grabbing their souls and hoping I'd come across the right combination again, so it would've been nice to have a place to refer to regarding these discovered combinations (I did eventually figure out the combination).

I was also surprised that there's sort of a "stealth mode". I didn't use it because the character I made was more of a "me strong, me destroy" kinda guy, but I might revisit at some point and try to focus on building more towards a stealthier side to have a proper taste of it.

Another point I like as well is that the combat isn't necessarily forced, even if it's the point of this demo. The character has tools to dash away from any monster fights and could only probably be caught by another player. Speaking of which, I also liked that there's an upgrade for a player to deal more damage especifically against stronger players. Sadly I didn't get to see it in action, but it's cool to have stuff like that that can still level the playing field!

A suggestion I have for the UX is to have a small description show up when hovering with the mouse over the different ability buttons. I wasn't sure what each button made my character do and had to play around with it. I'm fine with doing that, but there's definitely people who might not be patient enough to explore options, which is unfortunate, but it does occur. Putting some sort of description as the mouse hovers could mitigate possible annoyance from those players.

At first, I wasn't sure if I was vibing with the gameplay controls, but after some time tinkering with everything, I started to get pretty used to them. I didn't quite figure out how to dodge properly yet. I'm not sure if dashing away as an enemy tries to attack counts as a dodge, but if it does, I don't recall seeing a signal that I did it successfully. There were mechanics focused on dodging, so at some point I'd like to try and understand the dodge mechanic a bit better.

I do definitely see the base of an MMO here and it does give me some of the vibes of some other MMOs I've played in the past. I'd be curious to see some sort of event more PvE-ish in the future against a boss, for example.

During my time with it, I encountered no glitches at all. I did encounter two players. The first one killed me in my first minute on the game, and the second one I killed with one hit, so I had fun with that.

If you guys were capable of doing this in two weeks, I can see you being able to scale this up for sure. As many others have said, this is really impressive. I could stay here saying things I'd like to see and all, but I'm sure you guys have a lot planned and a lot you wish to do already. It'll be interesting to see how this evolves. Very stellar work!

I found myself wanting more while playing the game as it felt empty a bit. It's a great idea to do an MMO and u did well but It could of needed a few things and like others have pointed out most of the inputs can be pressed down simultaneously as the inputs are feeling like they are done on fixed frames rather then a constant on frame based update unsure if that is due to the MMO portion or just due to code but overall it was a good attempt and good prototype and be happy to see if the movement gets fixed in a future update and the game gets much needed content to feel purpose while playing. 

Also glad u didn't go the Fullscreen mode like most people have done for the jam and have good optimization especially for an MMO and not complaining that I don't have good enough "Hardware" to run Webgl games. 

The game seems pretty polished! Obviously the mechanics work very smoothly, but I would like to offer some constructive criticisms

The fact that I had to hold 2 buttons to move in-line with the grid bothered me a lot. it was strange to move on diagonals of the grid when press ion just one of the WASD

It is not immediately obvious to me why this game needs to be an MMO. It is need that the multiplayer functionality works, but the core game loop seems to be timing and positioning of your character. Unless there are difficult bosses later on the justify multiple people teaming up on an enemy.

It is also not immediately obvious to me how the theme of shadows ties into the game exactly.

These are just minor criticisms on an otherwise very well-made game! Bravo!

With multiplayer… as an MMO… I can't even imagine the amount of work put into this. Obviously a very big flex on everyone here, but it's a really interesting and well-made game!

The controls do take a few minutes to adjust to, but it quickly grew on me. The gameplay is addictive: kill mobs and gain P O W E R. I liked having to time my keypress before the 1.5s action tick, but I do wish there was some visual indicator off to the side of how much time I had before the tick if i wanted to switch my actions last second.

I initially didn't know you could click on the orbs to sacrifice them, so I went a good 10 minutes without leveling any skills, just went around killing mobs without even picking up their souls.

Then I felt like things were just too slow. 25 mobs, then 50 mobs, 100 mobs to ascend? I realized I wasn't using the sacrifice system. Once I started using it, I was absolutely staggered when each combination led to something else, and I just kept wanting to explore more combos to see what skills there were, to the point that I had to start keeping track of the combos I went through already on a notepad. I don't think I was able to get through all the skills, but I'm crazy impressed with all the combos that were coded into the game. I like how the game funneled me to explore those things on my own, even though the beginning tutorial didn't explicitly say those thing.

I think everyone else has the same sentiment here, but damn fine work with this one.