Found this from your post in Eggplant!
Nice platformer. Looks good, plays okay. Nice work! Too bad there’s no gamepad support. I used Steam’s “Desktop Configuration” to make my gamepad emulate keyboard inputs and it was much more enjoyable to play. I finished it!
I found the levels get frustrating at the first level with a key. There are challenges without any safe practice earlier in the level, so I have to pass the initial gauntlet, trial and error, die, repeat. (When I see the three green squares I think “is my dash long enough?”, jump+dash, and sail past the platform and die. Then I think “I can probably just dash”, dash and walk off the edge and die. Then I just jump.) However, I thought the introduction of guns and long unlock blocks were both well done.
There’s also some blind drops without communication of safety. In that first key room, you drop into what looks like a spike-lined room but it turns out there’s a safe place to land. If the safety was visible before you drop, I wouldn’t try to dash to the side to anticipate the exit.
A few issues with dash:
- it seems I’m unable to dash out of a wall slide – which sometimes caused me to fall to my death.
- I think dash takes the direction you’re currently holding without any leniency to change direction after you press dash. I’m usually trying to push both at once and often don’t dash in my desired direction. (Forgiveness Mechanics: Reading Minds for Responsive Gameplay is a talk on the subject.)
Regardless, nice work and congrats on shipping!