Thanks for playing and I'm glad you liked it! We probably could have optimized it better for performance so that's on us too. If we had more time we would have looked into unloading more things to reduce performance but we didn't get around to it. I'm glad the core mechanic came across well despite that!

Thanks for playing! If you got the change in music then you definitely beat it. We wanted to add some sort of victory pop-up but that was one of those things we had to cut on the final day. The elevator is definitely buggy, we probably spent about 12 hours or more just trying to get that to work properly. It should come back down if you interact with the button at the bottom but it was still not always behaving on that. Otherwise it just goes up, but it is at least intended to go back down to the ground floor. I'm glad the outdoor scaling was fun! We were worried it was going to be too difficult but we also wanted to have some challenging sections in there as well so it sounds like it worked.

Thanks for playing! Definitely could have done better directing people where to go, something we'll definitely have to keep in mind. We'll also have to work on the lighting so not so many places are dark like they are.

Hm, I'm not sure what the frame issues were. We weren't reading any null variables on our end. That said, one of us was on fairly old hardware and the other was on brand new hardware so testing was a bit weird. The character issues with the low settings are wild, it's definitely something we noticed happening but too last minute to really dive into how to fix it. I hope you were able to enjoy it despite that! 

I wanted to add a win screen or something to make victory more obvious but I can confirm of your screenshot that you made it haha. We wanted to let you play past the ending so you could continue messing around with stuff so that's why we didn't have it cut to a win screen, but we should have made a pop-up window or something like that. 

We'll have to look into more air control too. The jumps did seem a bit wonky at times so you are on to something there. Thanks for playing and all the feedback!

Thanks for playing! I'm glad you liked the overall look of the game. A combination of cc0 assets and some homemade ones. The lighting is definitely a bit rough, we probably should have spent a little more time on that at the start. For the final room, there is a few bookshelves next to each other and that's related to making it to the top most floor. It's a bit of a puzzle with no introduction but we wanted to see how people handled it so we threw it in at the very end.

Thanks for playing! I'm glad the gameplay came across well. Sorry for the empty area a bit, we originally planned to build a town around the tower that would also serve as a tutorial area but we didn't end up having enough time to add that.

I'm glad you liked it! It depends on which part of the tower you reached. If you reached the top checkpoint there is still one more floor above that but if you got to the point where the music changes and its a room with all glass walls then that was the end of the game. We probably should have rigged up some sort of victory text for it haha. We weren't sure how many floors there would be initially so that ended up being a pretty slapped together last minute finish we put on top.

Thanks! I'm glad the visuals came across well :D

Thanks for the feedback! That's definitely something we could do better with the UI. Maybe we could add something like a color highlight around an object when you look at it or even a bit of text to pop up saying if it's scalable/can't be scaled. We kind of wanted to hide the hole in the wall as a scalable at first but this is probably an area where being more generous is better.

I was worried when we first had the idea that the core mechanic would be too shallow but a lot of the puzzles ended up really designing themselves it felt like. So I'm glad the depth came across to you as well and not just us while designing. Always hard to tell if it just seemed interesting to us or if it would be entertaining for others too.

Thanks for playing! I'm glad you liked it and thanks for the feedback on the lighting. Definitely should have spent a bit more time lighting up the level. 

For the time, honestly it is bit hard to say for sure. Usually the two of us would spend about 5 hours in a call when we were working on it at the same time, so probably around 65 hours for each of us or a total of 130 over the month. But there was a little more time added in when you look at the times we were doing updates separately. But my best guess would be a total of 130-150 hours. So probably about 4-5 hours a day. I probably did not sleep nearly as much as I should have haha

Thanks for playing and I'm glad you liked the character art! We actually turned it down a bit too as the higher res version of the character had some unusual bugs with the hair and not staying in the correct spot. Sorry we didn't get the checkpoint working fully, I think we figured it out now but missed it before the end of the jam.

I'm glad you enjoyed it! We were hoping to get a bit more backstory in but unfortunately ran out of time. Sorry we didn't include a tutorial about the elevator! One of those things that slipped our mind so that's why I added it to the page instead but we really should have gotten something in the game to explain it. Thanks for playing!

Thanks for playing and the feedback! I'm glad you liked the overall concept and sorry that pillar jump section got you. The checkpoint system is definitely still quite a bit buggy, it does usually work but we weren't able to get a tutorial in time for it and it doesn't always do what it's supposed to. But usually it should work if you go to the elevator on the first floor and press E while standing on the elevator. But really wish we had gotten a tutorial/Press E to use message in before the end of the jam. 

Thanks for the feedback on the lighting too! We wanted to try out a lot of the newer lighting systems with Unreal so admittedly we probably went a bit overboard or could have done better balancing the light.