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Could you elaborate on this? Am I right that you were controlling throttle with the arrow keys? I wonder if I should abandon one set of throttle controls and pick either arrows + AD (or AS or QW or something) -or- WASD + arrow left/right. What sort of scheme would you find ideal?

I have not realised A/S are throttle too, my bad. That being said, the player is just holding either of those so unless there's a plan to have tight jumps which actually require slowing down, then it could be just a toggle/flip directions instead. Otherwise I'm not sure what would an ideal control scheme.

This is happening, but it's unfortunately really invisible to the player. The duration of the boost is related to the number of flips, with a bonus if the trick isn't the same as the previous one. Doing a new trick extends any remaining boost duration. I think I probably need a boost timer, and to explicitly show a +whatever seconds somewhere when you do a trick or something?

I knew about alternating tricks, but have not realised the duration changes with the # of flips. Then some feedback FX and/or UI would be great.

I'm slightly skeptical about stacking velocity, only because it seems like it would make it harder to design levels. But getting a bit crazy with it could be fun.

That's yr call 🙂 But yeah, it'd make lvl design trickier. You could add in shortcuts that can be reached only at super high speeds though (think intended optimal routes in Neon White).

Another trick you could add to sustain boost could be wheelies.