Thank you very much. If you want to learn how I did the character customizer, I made a tutorial about it https://firetotemgames.itch.io/superhero-academy/devlog/98803/2d-character-customizer-tutorial-unity.

Back to your feedback. Don't ask me why I made the 4 characters minimum restriction for the name. I already had somebody else giving me bad feedback because he couldn't give his character a 3 character name... What some people don't get is the joke that the first name is always not available. The game is lying here and your name is never ever used anyhow :D

I assume that the jump latency is caused by the webbrowser, because I have not implemented any delay. I have implemented some delay for the attacks, or I would call it build-up. That was a dumb idea and I would remove it :D

Ok, I have never seen the two bugs you have encountered. I know that the web version has some weird bugs, the windows version does not have. So, if you want to give the game another try, play the windows version. :D

I know that the keyboard controls are not great, but there is not much I can do about it other than asking the player to play with the controller :D 2D Platformers are just meant to be played with a controller.

Yeah, the web build is full of bugs the windows version does not have. I have no idea why Unity is doing this... Trying to fix the bugs from the web version is a shitty task for a game jam, because the compilation takes something like 10 min during which I can do literally nothing. If we continue to work on the game, we will find the time to fix those bugs.

It's sad that you didn't get past this point. The game might be a little on the more difficult side :D You are missing some jokes, theme related dialogues and the punchline at the end.

The sfx for the checkpoint is already on the todo list + a visual indication which checkpoint is active. I might also increase the trigger area for the door so that a player always activates the checkpoint :D

Thank you very much for your feedback. I will definitely play your game this weekend. It looks really cool and people seem to like it a lot.

Your name has to be at least 4 characters. Don't ask me why I put this restriction there.

Just add a number to your name. You might get the message that it is not available, add another number and try again :D Your name is not used anywhere in the game. This is one of the lies the game is telling you.

Thank you for playing it! ;)

If you need a tutorial for the character creator, follow me on itch or twitter. I should finish it this weekend.

https://twitter.com/FireTotemGames/status/1169363826887860232

Character Customizer Tutorial

https://firetotemgames.itch.io/superhero-academy/devlog/98803/2d-character-customizer-tutorial-unity

Thank you very much. We were able to pull this off because we took leave and by working like crazy :D I roughly put 100h of work into that game. My two colleagues something similar I would say.

Yeah, the main idea for the game is revealed after the training and we put some other portions in where the game is lying to you. One thing is that your first name is not available, which is complete bullshit because your name is never ever used again in the game :D Not many understood that joke I think :D

The issue you are talking about is something that got added through building the game. In the editor the player is blinking in white and also the enemies when you hit them. I recognized it too late that we had this bug. Sorry that this makes controlling the character worse...

you're right about laser and dangerous electrical stuff but unfortunately there was no way to add all these things that I had actually thought of. For example, I also prepared an explosive tile (bomb) that was not integrated. Thanks for playing it anyway and thanks for the positive feedback! :)

Yeah, we are also stunned by what we were able to pull off within in this week. A lot of time and work was put into it tho, but it was totally worth it :D

You are the first one that is mentioning the spikes and I have to tell you that our graphics designer was also not happy with how I used them. And I also agree that the spikes are not so nice and some point should use less spikes (level 2 - dash). Unfortunately the time limit prevented us from changing the levels. If we ever continue on this game, there will be much less spikes, maybe even none because they do not really fit in such a futuristic theme.

Thank you very much, but I'm not planning to make a kids show anytime soon :D haha

First of all thank you very much for your lenghty feedback. Really appreciate it. Here is some feedback to your feedback :D

What do you meant with utility in your first comment? The character customization is purely cosmetic and should make the game more interesting for you because you have a character nobody else might have :D Especially with the possibility to give him a name. Btw. the game is lying to you that your first name is not available because your name will never ever be mentioned in the game. I think nobody got that joke :D

Yes, Hollow Knight was my main inspiration. Did I do a good job reconstructing the controls?

Yeah, I did not really tweaked the gravity after I thought it was ok. I got then used to it while designing the levels. Unfortunately, none of our testers mentioned that the gravity was too high, so I didn't change it. But after getting this feedback several times now, I will pay more attention for my next games. Maybe I will make a checklist for my testers so that I get feedback for everything :D

Yeah, I used the cinemachine package from Unity which has a look ahead feature but I could tweak it so that it felt right. I will tweak the shit out of it for the next game :D

Thank you very much for playing the game until the end. Some people were not able to finish it and therefore didn't get the punchline/twist of the game.

Thank you. We take it as a big compliment because nobody of us is a professional :D We are all just starting with game development.

Everybody loves the character customization. If you click on follow you will get an update when I make the tutorial for that. In case you want to learn how I did it.

Thank you very much.

Check your comments, I already played it. Comment Nr. 4. ;)

In case you want to learn how I did the character customizer you should follow me because I will make a tutorial ;) https://twitter.com/FireTotemGames/status/1169363826887860232

Character Customizer Tutorial

https://firetotemgames.itch.io/superhero-academy/devlog/98803/2d-character-customizer-tutorial-unity