Thanks for playing and I’m glad you enjoyed it. 

I’m curious, if you were to map the keyboard controls from scratch, what do you think is the optimal layout? I mostly use a gamepad so I feel lost sometimes trying to figure out what feels right on keyboard and don’t want to force players into awkward feeling controls. 

Thanks for playing and leaving feedback.

Did you play with a gamepad or the keyboard? I feel like I often pick a pretty bad control scheme for keyboard controls because I play most games with a gamepad. I'd love any recommendations you have.

Unless you played with a gamepad and meant you wish you could use the joystick instead of the d-pad. In which case I agree with you, but once I thought to implement it I didn't dare mess with the code that was working and just focused on some art and level design.

Thanks again for playing. If you have time to reply I'd appreciate it.

I downloaded PewPew Pete today along with the other PC only games I haven't rated yet. I'm trying to record all the Windows only games and give a brief recap in a stream since I can't play those when I stream (my main machine is a Mac and my HP laptop can't handle streaming). Should do that tomorrow some time. I'll be sure to tag you on Discord.

I can't tell you how much your positive feedback means after I played your stellar entry. Thanks for taking the time to play and explore the rooms and for noticing the little touches to animation.

I think I could have done a little more to teach players about how to recall the lasso and do things like get bigger jump bounces out of it, but that's for future rounds if we happen to revisit our entries. One choice I made that looking back I don't know why I did it was to have the lasso go into pursue mode if it hit a wall. I should have just had it start hovering at the wall instead! I think that would have made some of the more challenging rooms a lot more accessible. That's what jams are for—learning!

Thanks again for taking the time to play and leave feedback. I appreciate it.

Thanks for playing, but I'm sorry to hear it gave you trouble. If you're able to share, what was the issue? I'd like to fix it, even if we don't keep this game going in future rounds. Thanks for the feedback!

I haven't played it, but I remember watching a Snoman Gaming YouTube video about it a while back and thinking it looked like a really frustrating but fun and interesting game.

Can I guess, was it the top left room? The height challenge with all the swings? I was going to make it a little easier with some spots to breathe a little, but I was running up against the deadline and figured having two pretty easy rooms and two pretty difficult rooms was a good balance for players to choose their own adventure.

Thanks for playing and leaving a comment. I appreciate it!

Thank you kindly! I'm happy to hear you had fun with it. I had a blast making it and coming up with different platforming challenges which ended up with me probably making too many rooms, but once I had the GDKO collectable idea I couldn't turn back

What room(s) gave you trouble?

I'm playing and rating tomorrow. I replied to one of your tweets, but trying your entry as one of the first.

Thanks for taking the time to leave feedback. I appreciate it.

Dude, coming from you that is some high praise. I've enjoyed (and even been a bit jealous of) all the games of yours I've played, so this comment meant a lot to me.

The how, well, I hope I show some of that soon in a devlog. I recorded plenty of stuff, but the short answer is that I didn't do it at a sustainable rate. There's no way I could do what I did this round in future rounds. I wanted to come out swinging and I was really happy just with my dev art square, but as soon as I made him into a square bull it just spiraled out of control from there. I promised my wife future rounds will be a much better work/life/gamedev split ... I did late nights pretty much every night and a full day commitment each weekend. I tried to get creative with solutions as much as I could: like the enemy bullet particle and the character running particle are the same code essentially, just slight tweaks, same for the enemies dying and blocks breaking, and for art I reused my old robot rocket boost from Xander's last jam for the dash and went into my old pixel dailies submissions to see what I could rework for a background. Luckily I'd just finished a Slynyrd tutorial and made my own autotileset (way too complex for this character style) so I simplified the edges and limited the type of tiles. 

Even with all that though, this took a lot of of me (and I cut blocks and enemies you could pull with the lasso). I just had so much fun making the little world after I put together the tutorial I wanted more rooms and challenges to test what players could do. Future entries will be scoped way back so I can get enough rest and family time.

I'm playing and rating starting tomorrow and I've been excited to try yours out ever since you first started sharing on Twitter.

Thanks again!

Thank you so much for saying that! I way overdid it for the requirement, but this was the first jam where I didn't feel super overwhelmed and anxious. I put way too many hours in over the two weeks, but the time just flew by. This was a fun little world to build and I'm glad you liked it.

I'm starting playing and rating tomorrow. Still recovering from a late night to meet the deadline.