We had one artist on our team who had sadly had to leave our team today due to sudden personal matters.
We’re trying to reach out to artists right now and if you wanna collab with at least one other artist we can hopefully get there despite being at 0 artists right now lol.
We want to make a more small scope but polished game so I can at least say you’re in good hands if you wanna focus on quality over quantity <3
Hey, we’re a team of four right now. Our artist unfortunately had to leave our team today due to unforeseen family matters… So if you still haven’t found a team we’d really like to have you! We’re flexible and value working around our skillsets so we each get to work on what we want to for the jam.
We’re three kinda generalist hobby solo devs (so more programming inclined than art) together with a music guy.
However we’re working in Godot as a heads up depending on how much of dealbreaker that is for you. I personally really resonate with the sentiment of wanting to build a small very polished game over something larger though, so you’re in good hands there ;)
I would have loved to see more of a integrated usecase to holding the lanter tight, currently I would have preferred just to see more of the level at all times
Alright since I never got past the second moving platform, here are my thoughts: Being able to tap the direction you want to go speedy in a for a short window of time after leaving the wall would be a nice quality of life. Since that’s a core mechanic (I assume), adjust the level design to reward moving fast for long distances and make it fun to do so. Especially the beginning of the game should not feel this hard. A tad of Coyote time (of course!). Now the reason I did not play further xD WHY ARE THE PLATFORMS SLIPPERY?? Don’t have slippery platforms, please. That’s almost worse than platforms you have to move along with because the character is not moved along with them. Idk, sorry for not getting further lmao. I really enjoyed the character walk cycle and visual effect for moving fast though!
Neat little game! I would have loved for the gravity to be stronger as that would have made the inversions feel more snappy. Also I would suggest having fewer mechanics in play, since it’s a side-scroller, make the player auto-run. Then stick to the main mechanics which are gravity inversion, slide and breaking barriers. I’d also remove the slowdown from sliding as that came a bit in the way of my enjoyment of the movement. That one mode in geometry-dash but with an attack button and slides—essentially. As for the sound, the music was great! The art communicated the game well. Work a bit to simplify the cracked texture so it has no isolated empty pixels on the inside of the sprite.
Very nice entry! Here are my notes on what I’d spend time on. Sounds like you already have sounds in the works, so that’s great.
I would tone down the post processing filter a tad by default or at least make it an option
Since we’re always going up, I’d default the camera as leading up and center the player smoothly when falling.
Level design funnily enough. For such a movement based game it should be even more tight. I’d make sure the main “intended” path is obvious. The speedrun routes felt distracting at times like they were tacked onto an existing level and were distracting me as a new player. Just as an example I would argue that the wall in level 1 is unnessecary noise in the level design.
More particle effects, for instance on the bounce pads and level exit flags. Of course also sound effects here that match. I feel like the bounce pads could do well with some rainbow shimmer.
Movement notes, since that’s what we’re here for!
Coyote time should be added.
More player movement friction would probably improve the feel a lot. The jumping up walls is already quite chaotic (but fun!) so it kinda takes me out of the fun when I nail that and then hit a random spike because the player slid a bit too much.
In tandem with this, I’d take a pixel or maaybe two off the side of spikes which are on the ground (fine to still have spikes which are ledge-adjacent kill you so that you are unable to stand on the outermost pixel of the ledge). I died a few times jumping over what should be very easy jumps because I pressed too late and it felt like there was slight input lag (probably not the case but it’s simply gameplay feel).
Enjoyed it a lot though I don’t think I finished it as I never saw a timer (which… there may be judging from other comments?). Got to the seemingly empty level with a platform above you and a bounce pad on either side and figured that’s the end?
Not sure if I should have pressed all those elevator buttons. Well, I stopped my venture on floor 35.
Funny premise. Some funny dialogue, maybe add more variation to the floors or some sort of sense of progression? Or the ability to unclick floors? Dunno
The shooting made it quite chaotic and due to the level design I ended up just ignoring the enemies to get out because that worked better than trying to clear them strategically. So dunno, I’d try to rework either the enemy behavouir or level design so that it supports your mechanics!
BRUH! This is hilarious. It has no right to go this hard. It’s like getting over it … but with checkpoints, and bees! And.. flowers! And the flowers and the bees, you know… so speaking of jokes, hard mode joke and initial narration got me chuckeling xD
So I guess this is to “Getting over it” like “The looker” is to “The witness”
I was about to write:
“Though there is the issue of missing collision… which causes… well you can’t get the dash power-up :/ “
Then I checked the main page, lo and behold I could have not wasted my time finding grill-skip speedrun tech because I wanted to try to get that power-up despite the missing collision. It’s possible though to get to grill from down below using only the first two pinks… barely.
I have to say I kinda found that even with the broken collision, that section feels a bit too frustrating imo, I wanna hear more narration. Not miss a pink blob five times and ragequit xD
Oh and the music. Remixed classics, love to hear it!
I’m not seeing how you got to this game based on the Theme… But good on you! Feels very polished and that weird telephone weather effect scared the crap out of me—and then I gave up because that level was brutal lmao
And maybe this is because I didn’t have to correct program to unpack your game. But I had to change the extension from .rar to .zip before unzipping it. But that might just be on my end *shrug*
I found the art-style quite charming and the sound decent too! It was a bit frustrating that it was set up as a puzzle which was not too hard but then you die from the magnets and have to redo everything. And the way to defeat enemies was also not really adding the the charm of the game. Somewhere closer to a pure puzzle game is where I think this game would shine. Collect colors in the correct order and move through the correct barriers in order. Manual reset. One-screen puzzles. That way you optimize the thing which was most appealing about your game. I did like the wobbly bubble quite a bit. But I may be biased on that front :b
This is nice! Really annoying and challenging in a good way.
The 45 degree slopes should not prevent you from jumping imo. They should simply not be possible to go up forever, and then correct the level design accordingly. That way the movement would feel more dynamic because I actually quite enjoyed how the character felt to move after getting used to it.
Another minor thing is that it would make the first area a bit more enjoyable to be in if you added like a .1 or so delay between hitting an electric switch to the platform beginning to move. That way you could hit the switch in driveby and still get on the platform:P
For me the playable space was somewhat too narrow and it would have made it more fun if you could see a bit more while at the same time the patterns you have to avoid are more complex. This would also allow for more visual interest as it currently is a lot of looking at an empty screen and quickly reacting when something does show up.
I suppose you do have some great music to listen to in the meantime though:D
