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kekelp2 years ago

Good game. I ran it on linux with wine and had no issues at all.

At the beginning it wasn't too easy for me to guess what my abilities did exactly. For example when I saw an enemy launch the spiked balls onto me I thought I'd be able to do the same and proceeded to ram straight into them. Also when I held Z for the first time and went into rainbow mode I thought that'd make me invulnerable for a short time (probably because it reminded me of an item in Binding of Isaac that had that effect) and also proceeded to walk into some spiked balls. It's not a big deal because I didn't die either time but it'd probably take just a couple more words on the floor make it easier, if you want to.

There could probably be some kind of "charging up" effect or animation when holding Z but before rainbow mode starts. Also it could be nice to have a different sound effect for taking damage and slamming into the walls.

You're probably aware of this already but a pause menu would be nice to have.

The outer part of the wall tile in the second world is too similar to the grass time to really look like a wall to me. It looks off especially for narrow walls like these ones

At some point in the second level something weird happened where my character sprite's scale got messed up and the pixels became rectangular:

I'd call them rixels but I think that's what people call rotated pixels already. I don't really know what caused it unfortunately, maybe slamming into the walls too much and/or going into the swamps. Anyway it fixed itself a couple rooms after.

Thanks for reading my essay, hope it's helpful.

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Heegu2 years ago

Thanks for the excellent feedback.

Using the spike balls as your own projectiles actually sounds really fun, I'll probably change them to look less spikey and allow the player to also push them as an attack. Objects which damage the player on touch should probably just be floor spikes or something.

You're right that the super charge should probably just have actual damage immunity. Stunning you momentarily once you hit a wall should be enough of a downside if you're locked in moving into a single direction already.

I'm limiting the gameplay to using only one button, so one of the challenges  has been about how the charging should function. Earlier iterations have included pressing the button multiple times quickly in succession, and having the player enter a "brake" state if you press the button again when doing the normal attack, which could then transition into a super charge.

Holding the button is probably what the input will stay as. You're right that there should be immediate feedback when you start holding it, maybe a charge meter or something?

A pause function basically exists, but it's currently only being used by the hit stun effects. I disabled the pause button for now because it otherwise breaks the hit stun and crashes the game. I'll look into implementing player controlled pausing and options before I release another demo.

Point taken about the tiles, I'm not 100% happy with them either. I spent way too much time making the brick walls look better (which is why I will be palette swapping them at least two times in other levels lol) and didn't feel like doing the same with a completely new set of tiles yet.

The sprite scaling bug happens when you take damage at just the right moment while being squeezed by slamming into a wall. I made one earlier attempt at fixing it, but also encountered it right before release. Thanks for reporting it.

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