This game has a really cool concept with the "get extra challenges for power-ups" angle, and I don't think it's physically possible for a game to have connected to the theme harder than yours. As some other people said though, I think there's some issues with the control and feel of the platforming at the moment. In a platformer, especially one where you can only get hit 3 times before having to restart the whole game, control and precision is pretty important, so it feels painful to die because I jumped high enough that the ground was off-screen. I also noticed that on the brave version of level 4 (the first double-jump level), I seem to die randomly when jumping near the end of the level. I can't see anything I'm hitting, so either there's something outside of the light range which I can't possibly see, or there's something invisible killing me there. If the controls and camera were tweaked and this issue was fixed though, this game seems very promising!
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Glad you think so!! We are aware of the platforming issues.. we really didn't have enough time to playtest through the levels :(
We wanted the players to enjoy the different endings at the end of level 10, but it seems like that'll be difficult to do so without the fixes.
Regarding that bug, I think you might have jumped high enough somehow to hit the invisible lose boundary of the game. That definitely shouldn't happen and we'll look into that. Thanks for bringing it up!
UPDATE: Fixed the issues in the new builds which are live now:
- You won't face the invisible barrier now (it was a miss on our part)
- The camera movements have been made faster and the position updated so you can see more of what is below!
- All 10 levels have been playtested and fixed for any hard platforming bugs.
- Added more lives and now the player starts at the last reached Light after dying :D
Hope you reach the ending message at the end of level 10 :D