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Not been much of a fan of hardcore platformers but this ones fairly... interesting, seems pretty sad too.The controlls feel awesome... sadly too hard for me. How long have you been on this project for? Years? Thats impressive, i'd love to know more about the game ^^
Once again good job!
Hello! Glad to hear you found the game interesting.
Regarding the development time, it took us around 5 years to the first release, but we had many periods of burnout. Some weeks or even months we would either barely make any progress or not work on it at all. So, we suppose 2-3-ish years would be a good answer.
Interestingly enough, there's a ton of lore for the game. A lot of the story dialogue is only accessible through beating the game at least 5 times, turning on more and more challenges each play-through. However, the global story of the game's world is a lot larger than that.
The story and world building for this game's universe has started good 5 years before the game's development. Unfortunately, due to mental health issues, we couldn't add everything we wish we did. Even with all those extras, the game was originally planned to be interconnected with several other, now cancelled, game projects, all telling their own story yet tying together at the end for a grandiose culmination.
We could go on for hours about the passion that went into this universe, but we'll spare you the time. lol.
Still, we're happy we managed to create at least some form of experience. As much as there are still bugs and balancing issues we'd love to fix some day if we ever manage to rekindle that game dev flame in the future.
Thank you for the comment and for your time. Hope you can get some fun out of the game, and have a great day!
oh wow for two years thats awesome- im sorry to hear about the mental issues... that sucks if you need someone to talk to i can try to listen, hope youre doing better :( you seem so passionate about this at least. It was nice to hear you talk about it, you seem fun to talk to!
I hope your passion rekindles! It would be awesome to see projects like these again sometime. I might beat the game once but 5 times would be insanely difficult for me to the point i may not try haha- but the fact effort was put in for new content 5 times of beating it is awesome.
Sorry if you expected me to stop replying i just had new stuff i wanted to say
There's no need to apologise! We simply prefer to wish the best onto others, leave the world a better place rather than worse and all.
We're doing everything we can to get through the hard times. Life loves to leave surprises so who knows what creative endeavours we'll end up with in the future!
Thank you for the comment, and a small pro-tip: manual coyote ledge grabs help a ton with late game levels if you learn how to use it.
