Hello! Thank you SO so much for your extremely comprehensive feedback, we appreciate all the time and effort you put into it! For the glitches: we are aware of the ladder and slides stage having that issue, but it's a little hard for us to pinpoint where the problem points are. Do you recall any specific section where that occurred (like exiting the ladder, etc)? The second glitch is very interesting because we've not seen that before! We'll do our best to find and fix the bug.
We appreciate your suggestions a lot too! There is a quick "How to Play" screen that flashes before every stage as players enter the game, but we see how that can easily be missed. We'll try making it more obvious and/or understandable! For the items' abilities it's been interesting having a mix of people in playtests who either liked knowing what they did beforehand and figuring it out on their own as they played. As for the score indicator, we'll definitely take that into consideration!
There is actually a way to leave the game! There's a pause menu if P is pressed. We'd like to know if pressing P to do so would be intuitive to pause the game because we've been thinking of changing that to ESC or SPACE.
Again, we really appreciate your feedback!! We're glad you like it and we'll continue working on it to give you a better version!
You're welcome!! It feels nice to help out other game devs, and playing Mochi Madness was delightful :)
From what I remember, the ladder glitch would happen upon exiting. I wasn't able to just freely move off the ladder while i went up or down which is good!
Oh yea, you're right there was a "how to play" screen, my bad ^^' I suppose I forgot about it.
I can see why people may or may not want to know about the item abilities. I guess that will be up for you guys to decide, depending on the "tone" you want your game to have, if that makes sense.
Using P to pause the game isn't uncommon! But, more people are accustomed to using ESC or Space. In my opinion, ESC makes more sense, since that button is easier to navigate to for a lot of people.
You're absolutely welcome! I'll be looking forward to it!