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Hello,

Thank you for the feedback. We appreciate your thoughts and criticisms.

While we agree with many of your points regarding the fine tuning of mechanics and game feel, this game was (as you pointed out) a student project and our first game.

To your first point, all elements of the game were carefully chosen, tested, and implemented within the constraints we had as students. For example, you mentioned the dash coming to an abrupt stop. This was designed to allow players more accurately land on platforms from below as opposed to flying past them. If we were to recreate this game today, perhaps this mechanic would function differently.

Ultimately, when we created it, it was a labour of love by students who were passionate about games under tight constraints. It was completed and released 7 years ago for free, and has not been updated since. We're sorry it wasn't up to par for you.

Hey thanks for playing! Glad you like it :D

Thanks for playing & glad you enjoyed it!

Yes, this was our first real attempt at creating a boss. Glad you managed to beat him!

Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed the game :)

Thanks for playing! Glad you liked the game and the pause menu!

Thanks, glad you're enjoying it!

Thank you :)

Hey! Thank you for the kind words!

Glad you're excited about this. The Twitter & Discord are the places to keep an eye on for updates :)

Hey! So glad you're excited about it! We post updates to Twitter and our Discord, so check those out for more frequent posts.

Hi, Halen is not a robot. :)

Update: We have updated the game with the fixed AI! It is much easier to play now :D 

Glad you had fun! Yeah that's a good strategy haha. No time to shoot and move. We're excited to get the updated version out to play!

Update: We have made a change to our AI that makes it function the way we initially wanted to, and we'll be updating the game when the voting period is done. 

Hi andrebariani,

Thanks for playing! We unfortunately ran out of time to get our AI working the way we wanted it to, and as such the game is VERY difficult. But we're very proud of our visuals and sound effects! 

*Update: We made a change that makes the AI much more reasonable. That update will be available as soon as we are allowed to update the game file on Itch.

Hi cjgunnar, 

Thank you for your feedback! We are definitely aware of the difficulty. This was our first Unreal project (former Unity devs) and, as such, our first time using Unreal's AI Behavior Trees. Unfortunately we ran out of time to get the AI right and now it is WAY too difficult. 

Thanks for playing! 

Hi Skett!

Thanks for the feedback! Our AI is definitely way too hard in this game; unfortunately we ran out of time to really nail the AI processes :( 

Hi Romulator!
Thank you for the feedback! We were definitely aware of the extreme difficulty with our AI turrets. We formerly made our games in Unity; however we have decided to make the switch to Unreal for various reasons, and this Jam was a sort of "test" for us to review what we have learned about Unreal for the last few months. This was our first time making AI in Unreal, and we went with using Behavior Trees. Unfortunately we ran out of time to get our AI to the point we wanted it to :( 

Thank you for playing our game!

This is so cool! Thanks

Yes, agreed! Those are great games! Thanks :D

Hello, thanks for the comment. Don't worry, while this game will not be receiving any updates or expansions, we also wish to return to Halen's world in the future. Should you wish to keep up to date on any of our latest projects and news, I'd encourage you to join our Discord community and follow us on social media @skypyre

Hi! Thanks for posting the video :D

Thanks for playing! Glad you enjoyed the game!

Hi thanks! Glad you liked it! Thanks for the feedback

Hello darklord,

This game was made as a university project two years ago. As such, we were still learning about game development. Unfortunately one of the areas that did not get as much attention was graphical settings and optimization. The settings do affect some areas, however, they are not enough to really affect performance.

Rest assured, since then, we have learned a lot and have improved on this front.

We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

Hi Len, I can tell you, you aren't the only one asking XD

For this specific game currently on Itch, we will not be updating the project. It is what we produced while at school and wish to keep it as is.

Something we have said in other replies however is that we have not forgotten Halen and her world. We look forward to revisiting it. Best bet is to follow us on Twitter and/or join our Discord to not miss updates.

Thank you so much for playing Halen!

Hi LordofNope! Watched the video and it was great. Thanks for playing, happy you enjoyed it. This game was our senior year university project. We are not currently working on updating it, however we have not forgotten Halen! We would like to revisit this world in the future!

Hey, thank you for the kind words! We can say that we have made a new game that was released on Steam at the end of June! The Blobs Fight is a local-multiplayer party game with support for up to 8 players!

Check out the game's page here: https://www.skypyre.com/blobs-game/

We are still supporting the game and have a set of patches and updates coming as well!

Hello,

The game is a Windows game.

Hello,

Thank you for the review! Glad you enjoyed the game! 

For the issues you mentioned and encountered, I would like to say that we are aware of them and have learned many things since the release of this game. As this was our university final project, we learned a great deal and tried new things. That being said, we very much appreciate the feedback. 

We really love these characters and universe we created and are glad that others do too!

Thank you for playing,

SkyPyre Studios

Hey CoalFire! Thank for playing, and glad you liked it! In this version (beta), bots are not implemented. As you mentioned, the castle level is much nearer to completion than the lava level. We wanted to give players more than one map to play on, but also wanted at least one map be visually polished.

Hey! Thanks for playing! Glad you liked it :D

Wow! Thank you so much! We really appreciate it :D

Do not fear! We have not forgotten Halen and Sharp and we will be revisiting this universe in the future!

Glad you found it haha! Hope you enjoy playing!

This is a really cool DIY game! Love how powerful the gun shots are. The color choices are awesome and the overall simple shapes aesthetic works so well! 

I don't know why those other blue circle dudes want you dead, but good thing you know how to make weapons XD

At the moment we are focusing on other projects. If ever we do revisit this game, we may discuss the possibility of adding subtitles.

Glad you like the game. The AI isn't the most advanced, we admit but if you stop moving, you will die quickly. As long as you are always moving, you should be pretty good.

Thank you very much! Yes, she did an excellent job. But don't forget the other characters ;) All the actors were splendid

Happy to hear that you enjoyed playing!