Thank you! Towards the end of the jam I was looking at adding slightly different mechanics to the different levels, but sadly I didn't really have time to make sure it worked properly. It's something I might still revisit.
My original plan was to draw the trajectory that your jump would take with the current value of the dice, but I ended up forgetting to add that. I'll experiment with that when I come back to this game, but I'm glad you enjoyed it anyway in the meantime! :)
Huge thanks for the feedback! I'll probably revisit this later this week, and I'll definitely try to make it communicate your death better. Would you mind trying to describe in a bit more detail how the controls felt clunky, so that I can try to improve that too? I obviously played the game a lot during development and got very used to it, so I don't think I'm able to judge it as well myself. :)
Thank you! Interestingly, the graphical style mostly grew organically from a random technical decision I made to represent every sprite as a single 64 bit integer. I guess that vaguely emulates the hardware constraints games were dealing with back in the day, which is why it's visually so reminiscent of old games.
Thanks also for the suggestion. I had some more ideas for this game that I didn't manage to get working in time for the jam deadline, as well as one or two that I came up with afterwards, so I might still revisit it later!
I really appreciate that! Writing the engine code myself is the fun part for me, and as long as you're solving fairly specific problems it's not really a ridiculous amount of work either. :)
If you haven't written graphical games without a premade engine before, but would like to try it, I would strongly recommend checking out the start of the Handmade Hero series by Casey Muratori.
