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DrManatee3 years ago (1 edit) (+1)

Wow, this game was great! The aesthetics of the game were on point, and it seems that the agonizing you mentioned over the level design really payed off, because I felt like the level design for this game was great! I always like a game 10x more when there are collectibles, so thank you for that! Did you have to manually set down the spawn points? If so I can see how that would get tedious lol

I had a few issues with the game:

- The player controller felt really sluggish, the jumps always felt like I was jumping against the wind

- The game mechanic doesn't really match the theme. The hazards aren't really a failure,  as almost all the time they are beneficial to you. They could've been retextured as portals or something and the game would've actually made more sense

But overall, awesome game! The backgrounds were really nice and the level design was awesome. Good work!

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Davidiko3 years ago

Thank you ! Appreciate it.

I had to build everything in the two layers seperated. Which means, since the layers move in a different speed, that I couldn't just put things up and test it. I had to start from the beginning of the game each time, run to the current spot, than mark a few positions to see an estimation to where I need to put up the second layer. And in order to check if you can make the jumps, if it plays right etc I had to restart from the beginning each time for every small change.

- The idead behind the controls is that I wanted the player to feel the distance. This is a point a few people have already pointed out and I want to fix that. The player moves at the same speed in both later, but in the further one he covers more distance hence slower. I have a gut feeling that what breaks it is the trail effect. It's exactly the same as the one in front which makes it heavy. Or was it too slow compared to the other layer?

- I agree. Tho, the spikes started out as a portal and the main mechanic was aimed towards the arrows but my siblings found that since there are too much teleports. (Seems like our mind automatically connects teleport with each other, not with this mechanic). I wanted the game to be like the last levels, where you need at parts to dodge the arrows, than stop and let them hit you. Time your jump in order to hit the arrow etc. But I just ran out of time and was left with the introduction to the switching layers mechanic with the spikes, and 3 levels which were actually what I planned.

Damn sorry for the long one, I appreciate the critique and it helps me figure out what I want to add to the game <3

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DrManatee3 years ago(+1)

Wow that sounds incredible tedious, but congrats for pushing through! 

I think the issue I had with the movement was that the player moved really slow and felt like his jumps couldnt cover much horizontal distance. I think the feeling the distance idea is cool and could've been done with a faster move speed as well.

Yeah I really liked that arrow part, thought it was a cool way to take the mechanic. I don't think there's any issue at all to changing the spikes back to portals after the game jam is over. The jam is done, so you don't have to try and adhere to the theme anymore. And I think that for players not playing it in the context of the jam the current iteration wouldnt make a lot of sense to them, they'd be like "how come spikes are what causes this switching mechanic?"

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Davidiko3 years ago

For sure. Thank you for that! Really helped me to put my head around the changes I'm about to make.

<3

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