Nice little survival game. The visuals are good, great choice of assets and good work making your sprites blend well with the rest. Only the background music felt a little out of place, it seemed to me too jolly for the setting.

I liked that there is a survival element, is coherent with the theme of the player character being an hunter. But hunting didn't feel particularly rewarding, in part because the amount health recovered by eating is much smaller than the amount taken away from the goblins attacks. Also is hard to eat while in combat and is hard to escape combat to heal. Some games solve this problem by allowing players to eat while the game is paused or by placing in the level design spots where the player is protected from the enemies.

The decreased health upon respawn is an interesting idea but it wasn't explained anywhere. For example just shortening the lenght of the health bar could be an indication of this mechanic. I ended up stuck on hard difficultybecause when the game reloaded from the last save it kept the number of deaths. The tutorial also moved too fast for me.

The controls felt a little strange. Left and right move the character, but up is used for shooting instead of jumping. Shooting is also mapped to the left mouse button, so mapping it to W is unnecessary for the keyboard + mouse layout. For a keyboard only layout Z, X and C are more commonly used as action keys.

lovely artwork. giving off strong "Kingdom" vibes. my only critique there is the parts with non-uniform pixel size.

I was pretty engaged, I think at one point the difficulty turned up to about 11 without warning.

But overall, well done!

The environment is wonderful. Amazing work on the depth of the backgrounds, the reflections below, the different lighting -- all amazing. I enjoyed the little dash-platforming in the caves, but I wasn't sure where I was meant to end up as I got to the pier and nothing happened, and I tried destroying the goblin coves but it seemed like they respawned -- lmk if I missed something and I'll have another go at it

that's a lot of art, nice job

Wonderful on all counts! Loved the gameplay most of all. Simple enough for someone like me, but I can imagine it ramping up for more experienced players. Nice music and sounds. Great graphics.

Ticked all the boxes!

Your Game Fantastic!

Nice reflections and look of the game... Not entirely sure how it fits the aberration theme though, still enjoyed playing and it's well made - great job! :)

I really like how the reflection in the water looks! The game is nice to play and looks good

Nice game! I liked the presentation and it was fun

This game is visually pleasant, which make me want to play more. The water effect, combined with the fact that the big pixels are in fact high-res, builds a retro-yet-contemporary aesthetic that combines nostalgia with shader/fx eye-candy.

Related to gameplay, I think that it will help to improve user feedback prior to the actions. So for example, when you are standing next to the fire, show  a"[Q] USE BONFIRE TO COOK" prompt on top of the player; if possible, even with an icon for the key. About dashing; the mechanic is good but instead dimming the icon, which doesn't tell much about when it will be ready, I would use a bar, even with seconds (and even tenth of seconds visible), and would make it pop somehow when 100% is reached. This might seem redundant, but remember that the player is not you, who created the game so, same as when we are learning something, we need things to be repeated several times before interiorizing them.

About enemy spawn; I would make it in slower pace, and would display something that let's me know than enemies are coming (maybe a sprite of an approaching enemy coming from the back, or raising from earth like a zombie?). This way the player can anticipate the moves, enemies don't just spawn in his face. Another good thing to do that would make the experiences richer is to make it possible to destroy the spawn point (maybe by shooting down some artifact at the top of a stick?) This would create a parallel mechanic: while you are being surrendered by enemies, yo have to chose either to kill them or to kill their origin.

Another good mechanic to add would be to shoot further, surely by holding the shoot key for longer time.

There is something with the controls that made me a bit confuse but can't recall what. I'd keep one hand for moving (ASDW, arrows) and another for shooting+action. Would also consider to fuse the cooking action with the eating one, so if you hit the action key next to a fire you always cook if possible (if not, eat), and if you hit the action key with no target you always eat (if possible), and if your are next to a character, you neither cook or eat, but talk. Does that make sense?

;) Good luck with your teacher!

Really cool game. The art / perspective reminds me a lot of the Kingdom series. I think the difficulty is just right.

I’m curious as to your intention with the dash ability. I ended up never really using it besides platforming and only arrow spam (without holding down to the maximum) at the monster den.

Despite the gameplay being just a little too hard because of the amount of trolls spawning, the overall experience is great in my opinion, I also like the art and effects a lot. Good job and good luck! :)