i really love the art. the music is charming and effective. the little bad guys are super fun to dispatch. i loved using both power-ups.
unfortunately, the experience was marred with a lot of tiny frustrations. they were frustrating because i really wanted to enjoy this experience. below is my long list of feedback. i hope you revisit this project with an update, because i think this game is very close to being special.
feedback:
- the background was a little too busy. i didn't have any difficulty identifying threats and items, but a less busy, black background might really soothe my eyeballs.
- a tutorial teaching the player how to run would be very nice. (instructions on the itch page don't count!) i spent the first 10 minutes thinking there were spike pits that i could not jump across in level 1.
- speaking of spike pits, putting spikes directly below a fall that the player can not see is really mean. :'( i would advise removing these.
- dropped inputs. i will hear the jump sound but my girl won't jump! i couldn't reliably reproduce it, but it seems to happen when i change movement directions and jump on the same frame?
- on 2 instances i got hit and got teleported back to the beginning of the level, but i still had health left. very strange bug.
overall, i wasn't able to complete level 3 due to dropped inputs and the teleport bug. i REALLY appreciated the secret path in level 2, otherwise i'm not sure i would have made it to level 3.
i think the reason i appreciated the secret path was because i could quickly get back to where i lost a life. maybe a checkpoint system would be nice.
thank you for making this. my critique is long because i truly believe you can make this into a lovely little game with an update. i hope you keep at it.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate you taking the time to both play the game and write out such a detailed review!!!
This was my first time attempting to create something complete from start to finish and there's a lot I'd do different if I was working on it now, but I definitely agree with what you're saying!
(the spike pits in particular, instead of removing them I'd probably want to make it clearer that you can look down - something which I think most people never realized. If you hold down the camera scrolls down and you should be able to see the spikes before making a blind jump)
Also, I'm really happy you found the secret path! I was hoping that people would.
Sadly, I've lost access to the project file for this and all my older projects when my SSD died in December, so I'm not able to update it short of starting over from scratch. 😢 I still have the art as I back that up separately, but it hadn't yet occurred to me that I should back up code as well.
Once again, thank you so much for this! It really means a lot to read it.
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thank you for making this cute experience.
i really love the art. the music is charming and effective. the little bad guys are super fun to dispatch. i loved using both power-ups.
unfortunately, the experience was marred with a lot of tiny frustrations. they were frustrating because i really wanted to enjoy this experience. below is my long list of feedback. i hope you revisit this project with an update, because i think this game is very close to being special.
feedback:
- the background was a little too busy. i didn't have any difficulty identifying threats and items, but a less busy, black background might really soothe my eyeballs.
- a tutorial teaching the player how to run would be very nice. (instructions on the itch page don't count!) i spent the first 10 minutes thinking there were spike pits that i could not jump across in level 1.
- speaking of spike pits, putting spikes directly below a fall that the player can not see is really mean. :'( i would advise removing these.
- dropped inputs. i will hear the jump sound but my girl won't jump! i couldn't reliably reproduce it, but it seems to happen when i change movement directions and jump on the same frame?
- on 2 instances i got hit and got teleported back to the beginning of the level, but i still had health left. very strange bug.
overall, i wasn't able to complete level 3 due to dropped inputs and the teleport bug. i REALLY appreciated the secret path in level 2, otherwise i'm not sure i would have made it to level 3.
i think the reason i appreciated the secret path was because i could quickly get back to where i lost a life. maybe a checkpoint system would be nice.
thank you for making this. my critique is long because i truly believe you can make this into a lovely little game with an update. i hope you keep at it.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate you taking the time to both play the game and write out such a detailed review!!!
This was my first time attempting to create something complete from start to finish and there's a lot I'd do different if I was working on it now, but I definitely agree with what you're saying!
(the spike pits in particular, instead of removing them I'd probably want to make it clearer that you can look down - something which I think most people never realized. If you hold down the camera scrolls down and you should be able to see the spikes before making a blind jump)
Also, I'm really happy you found the secret path! I was hoping that people would.
Sadly, I've lost access to the project file for this and all my older projects when my SSD died in December, so I'm not able to update it short of starting over from scratch. 😢 I still have the art as I back that up separately, but it hadn't yet occurred to me that I should back up code as well.
Once again, thank you so much for this! It really means a lot to read it.
Played this game twice so far! Got only to the third level.
Very nice gameplay and the graphics are very well done!
Congrats, Ellie!
Thanks a lot!!