A few suggestions (hope you read these comments for feedback). It's kind of hard to do all those commands one handed (I mean, I get why you made the game to be operated by one hand...huhuhu) so for ease if you could make it so the arrow keys could also control Max's movements (forward, back, jump, crouch = right, left, up, down buttons) to give players a two handed option that'd make it easier. Also, there's not really a way to deal with enemies behind you, is there a plan to allow Max to turn around? And finally, don't know if this is a bug or not, but I can't repeat the slide attack right away. So sometimes I'll slide attack one enemy, but can't slide attack the next. Is there a timer or distance you need to hit before you can slide attack again or...?
Despite that, I really, really enjoyed this demo, Max is so freaking cute as is all the humanoid enemies! I love your art in this, and I love having a cutesy femboy game like this, thank you so much!!!
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You can change the controls under options, controls. Then click a box and push an input. Though for me the arrow keys are already auto as a second choice for movement controls.
The best way to "deal" with enemies from behind is to time your jump. The special move also takes them out as well, but you only get 3 shots.
Yes, the slide has a cool down. The green bar at the top right is your indicator for when the cool down is done.
You should be able to use something like SharpKeys to do that. It does on-the-fly keyboard remapping: https://www.raymond.cc/blog/download/did/805/
It`s very similar to JoyToKey which maps controller input to keyboard which I use with this game, since I despise keyboard controls lol: https://joytokey.net/en/