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okAi7 days ago(+1)

Cute little game!

This one has a unique concept, and I think it could definitely be fleshed out a lot more into a pretty tricky puzzle platformer. I think there are a lot of ideas that can be stemmed with the idea of moving flowing water around a level, like maybe there is a strength of water which can affect how high a sprout a sprout goes, and possible routing water around a level to get it into specific spots.

The movement can definitely be a little bit hard, but if that is intentional then it can work, similar to hard platformer games like Jump King. Although, i'm not sure if your goal is to make a rage based game like that, but I do think that you should at least pick a side on which you want to do than rather be in the middle of annoying / difficult movement but not leaning into it.

I do like the other feature you have where the player slows down a little bit before falling when entering a new room, since I feel like this could easily be overlooked, but you took the time to implement that so players can get a sense of their surroundings before being thrown straight into the next challenge. 

Nice work, It would cool  to see it be expanded upon :)

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Mathinfernal6 days ago

Thank you so much for your very helpful and motivating review ! :)

I'm going to answer to all of your points progressively :

1.  I had many more ideas like a leaking pipe wich would make the water level go up instead of throwing water out of it, or the fact that the water sprouts could force a valve or a cogwheel to move a specific direction to force the sprouts and conveyor belts to move.

2.  The movement was in fact inspired by Jump King at first and then just became a way to force the player thinking a tiny bit before jumping to estimate where he would land (it's why the jump power isn't random), so it is a bit hard at first but when we understand a level it can be easier to reproduce the correct movements.

3.  Thanks for noticing little details like that ;) at first  I had to find a way to force the player stopping when entering a level because he would keep the velocity of his last jump before (wich made the game completely unplayable) and I also wanted it to not be abrupt so the player don't think the levels are jump random but indeed a path on the map (only the last one with the bottle of water could not be like that because I kind of missjudged my time and had to abandon a lot of levels).

Overhall I'm still working on the game as of today and I already fixed some bugs (like the one where the valves have a rollback when we go too far), improved the visuals, and added a save system for leaderboard.  I hope it could be a cool little game later but I'm still very proud of it since it's only my 2nd game jam. :)

Thanks again for your help and the time you spent writing such useful and detailed commentary ! :)

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