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Anthony Molle2 years ago

I really really appreciate such honest and thorough feedback and critique! I pretty much agree with every issue you had the game and was totally understandable, a lot of those things I do really wish I could've gotten working in a way I enjoyed more in the time frame, and I'm definitely gonna put a lot more focus in on polish and getting a bit of playtesting done before release next time around, and I learned a bunch with this being my first jam! 

Thank you, though, for really compiling all of the major issues in one place, it's super helpful for me and I need to dedicate a lot more time to level design and testing in the future instead of speedrunning just trying to get it functional and having a few levels lol.

Thanks for the advice dude hope you had a great jam!!

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anttihaavikko2 years ago (1 edit) (+1)

Oh it was you first jam. Were you solo too? I'm guessing it wasn't your first game ever made though cause the scope was decent and everything (almost) worked. The balancing was the biggest issue and of course it can be easily fixed afterwards but it's always very difficult thing to get right when you're the only person who has played the game (and probably a lot more than most people ever will). Shouldn't feel too bad about it, I usually fall to the same pit and I have around 30 years of game dev experience and dozens of game jams under my belt. 😅

And the other "big" thing, the inverted controls, might just be a personal preference. Looking at the other comments, I guess I'm not the only one though. I guess it might be more natural for most people to make the character go towards the cursor. But yeah, kinda in the same vain as inverted y-axis on look controls, wasd vs arrows, jumping with up or separate key. Nothing really fits everyone so it's best to try to cover as much as you can.

Everything else was just very minor things that I'd just do differently. But I'm no authority on game design, just throwing in my two cents. 😜

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Anthony Molle2 years ago

Yup was workin solo! I've had some unity experience over the past few years and like a construct 3 game but nothing too crazy and wasn't very knowledgeable til the past month and a half or so when I really got kicked into gear working on a real solo project in unity and its been a real great time! Super appreciate your opinions and encouragement dude it means a lot coming from someone who's been in the space for so long!! :~)

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