Hey, this was really fun! I really liked the challenge structure here. I appreciate how friendly the design is, too. There's so many points where you can make a slight mistake and it sets you up for failure, but you have a brief window to save yourself if you maintain a cool head. Really good rage game design, at a "scale" that works perfectly for the time you had to make it for the game jam. Very smartly designed. After 20 minutes or so I turned off the music and turned on my own tunes, but I can't hold that against ya. And the use of theme... Scale... yeah, I sure am scaling this mountain!!! Innovative. Fun.
People in my stream chat were saying "why does cirno not simply fly up." Stupid question. Because that's not how the sport works. Why don't people in football simply carry the ball into the goal? She's skating because it's more fun that way. As the Touhou Spell Bubble story mode establishes, Cirno is a gamer, after all.
However, even though I liked Cirno's Not So Ice Day, I do have to give the Writing category a 1/5, because you could have Written "Getting Cirnover It" as the title, and didn't
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Thank you for trying out the game. Glad you had fun.
I watched your VOD after seeing this comment earlier.
I didn't think Esc as an exit button would cause as much issue as it did. Really sorry about that. I thought it would be nice to have an exit button, but I forgot that the Escape Key is fairly common as a pause button too. I'm also really glad you found that early and didn't do it 20+ minutes in. I hope other people aren't doing that either.
I definitely should have added more break areas in a few areas. There were only like 4 or 5 of them and they would not have take away from the challenge if I place them well.
The camera moving during pause was supposed to be a little QoL for when you're falling and the level was being obstructed by a blind jump or something similar.
"Getting Cirnover It" is a really good name. I went with the name I chose because before knowing if I wanted to partake in the Jam I thought of "Cirno's Not So Ice Day" and that made me want to make a game with that name.