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Review and Giving Feedback to Entries

A topic by dan.collins.dev created Mar 13, 2024 Views: 741 Replies: 41
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Like last MVM, I will be recording my playthroughs and feedback on the entries I play. I'm not participating this month, but I had a lot of fun last time doing this and many found it to be helpful. I hope everyone had a blast working hard on their entries!

Submitted

Hope you check out mine! https://itch.io/jam/metroidvania-month-23/rate/2565490

Will do

Submitted

Check this out if you have time! https://itch.io/jam/metroidvania-month-23/rate/2530813

I'll put you on the list!

Submitted

Definitely gonna check out the stream - feedback on any game is useful to all of us devs. Thanks for doing this!

https://coinbirdface.itch.io/dreamweaver - Here's our entry, would love to see you check it out!

Adding your game to my list!

I reloaded your game several times and still had a lot of visual issues. If you can release a executable, that'd be nice. If not, just let me know when you've fixed the web build. It looks like a lot of work went into your game and it would be a shame to not be able to play it.

Submitted (1 edit)

Hey Dan, thanks so much for giving our game a chance! We apologise for the issues. We've fixed the issues on HTML now, and we've added an executable as well. Hope to see you giving it a run soon!

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Alright, I give it a play as soon as I can.

Submitted

Feel free to check out mine too, I'd love to have some feedback on it :)

https://itch.io/jam/metroidvania-month-23/rate/2586815

Putting it on the list! I'll link it on the rating page once I play and upload it!

Submitted

Thanks :)

Submitted (1 edit)

Check out mine if you can put it in the schedule. It is a bit short, so it should not take too much time. :)

https://itch.io/jam/metroidvania-month-23/rate/2582691

EDIT: Now I see you are the dev who made Barn of Duckness. Great game, I enjoyed it greatly! :D

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Haha thanks a lot! I actually have you on my list already. I saw that it's written in C and uses emscripten to make web builds. I've made a very simple game using C++ and SDL and I also used emscripten to make the web build, so I'm excited to see what you are able to accomplish because I had a really tough time trying to implement continuous collision. I'll play your game as soon as I finish the few that are higher up on my list!

Submitted

Collision resolution was indeed a nontrivial problem to solve, but I find it satisfying when I finally manage to solve that kind of problem. 

My solution was to simply incrementally move the player, pixel by pixel (first horizontally, then vertically) and check for collisions in each iteration. Also, in the collision resolution I gave the highest priority to pushing up, then to pushing along x axis and lastly to pushing down. That was in order to make the player movement mechanics less frustrating to the player in most cases (i.e. player has a greater chance of "squeezing up" instead of unintentionally/unexpectedly hitting the head when trying to make a jump).

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That's pretty similar to how I approached the issue. It worked absolutely fine until i started making the platforms tile-based. Then I add some really undefined behavior that I never got around to fixing.

Submitted

Interestingly, for me, this is what actually solved problems with tile-based colliders. I guess the difference in outcomes comes from some other details of implementations.

Submitted

Hey Dan this is our teams entry for the jam https://samu1407.itch.io/blobterminator . Would really like to see you playing it and hear your feedback. Thanks in advance!

No problem! I'll add it to the list!

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We would appreciate feedback for our jam entry. You played our game Goats Gorge in the last jam and gave us valuable feedback. Meteora by EelShep, Living VideoGame Music Composer, Dozambique, Joseph_MorMar, Unnamed1334, binaakwii (itch.io)

Oh yeah! I remember Goats Gorge! I actually played your entry already, still need to upload it though. I will say that I enjoyed Goats Gorge more and it felt more complete than this entry. If I remember correctly, my biggest criticism for Meteora was that it felt like a lot of rooms didn't have purpose from a level design perspective. I know I didn't complete this one, but I think I still had some good feedback to offer, hopefully.

I'll come back to this game after the jam ends and give it some more time. I think the video is roughly 20 to 25 mins. I know I played Goats Gorge for over an hour haha.

Submitted

We would love some feedback on our game, if you have the time!

https://itch.io/jam/metroidvania-month-23/rate/2534148

Thanks for streaming these out -  it's super helpful!

No problem! I'll add it to the list!

Submitted

Hello, if you're still testing the games could you check out mine ? I'd love to have your feedback

Rate Headvania by U_rain for Metroidvania Month 23 - itch.io

:)

Yeah, I'll put yours on the list.

I've recorded what I managed to play, but its very short. The controls don't match the description on your page at all. Everything that displays the A button to interact with doesn't work because the A key is moving me to the left. Basically, all I can do is move around and jump.

Submitted

Sorry for the trouble, maybe it's due to you having a different keyboard organization because i developped the game in AZERTY. In fact i put the touch to interact on "q" but it worked on "a" 

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if you are still testing, would love your thoughts on our submission!

https://magic-milk-creative.itch.io/fleshteroid

I've added it to the list!

Submitted

If it catches your eye, would love to see ya tackle mine. I'm pretty happy with how it came out myself:
https://itch.io/jam/metroidvania-month-23/rate/2578858

I'll add it to my list!

Submitted

Would love to get some feedback for my metroidvania.

Link: https://tempdistraction.itch.io/bert-vs-5-big-guys

Added to the growing list!

Submitted

We would also love to get some feedback
A WORLD A/PART: FROM MAN by forklovee, aRFIAN, CelediW, McMadus, cvkier (itch.io)

I'll put it on my list

Submitted (1 edit)

Hello! If you are into puzzles and wierdness I would offer you this:

https://mrbell270.itch.io/tetroidvania

It would be wonderful to get some feedback and directions for improvement and transition to full game.

Thanks for your great initiative!

P.S. Est. play time ~20-30 minutes

Alright. I'll give it a shot. 

Submitted

Thanks!

Submitted

Hey, I don't know if you're still open to new entries, but we'd love it if you'd try our game too. Excellent initiative and I thank you whatever the answer, here is the link: https://apotheosishorizon.itch.io/threaded-memories

I'll add it to the list. Trying to get to playing as many as I can with the time I have available.

Submitted

Of course, thank you for including our game too!