Congratulations on your first gam jam entry! Really cool concept and quite an accomplishment for such a short amount of time; very creative. Once I started to pay closer attention to the mimicking mechanics, I managed to get a high score of 20. I felt like the low jump height was holding the gameplay back, but that’s something easily balanced and I bet this wouldn’t have been an issue with a little more time. I really enjoyed the spell variety and the artwork for the main characters is awesome. Great entry; I’m looking forward to seeing more of what you create!
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Hey, very cool! Level 20 is quite a feat.
> I felt like the low jump height was holding the gameplay back
Initially I thought spells like (Air+0) high jump would be way more intuitive in a way that you'd be like "Oh I need to jump high, let me grab air quick" but that was hard to put into practice. Movement spells are mostly useless in their current state. I get where you're coming from because I agree, but higher jumps would've made the flight/jump spell useless. It certainly needs balancing there if we were to continue the project.
> the artwork for the main characters is awesome
Haha when I contacted my friend I gave him full creative freedom for the art. I requested 24x32px sprites of hooded mages without legs which seemed doable in a weekend (you can see them in the design document) but he was like "Hell naw". But it came out really great yeah.
I'm sad that we couldn't fully complete everything because the person who did the voice lines actually recorded a lot more, but I didn't manage to put everything in.