Thanks so much! I’m really glad you liked the concept. We wanted to add more upgrades and fine tune them a bit, but as usual there wasn’t enough time for that lol.

I watched your stream after it was uploaded, so thanks also for streaming our game! It’s very insightful to see someone else playing and progressing through the game

Thanks for playing and for leaving a comment! I’m glad you liked the game, we didn’t use ghosts & ghouls as a reference to be honest, but I’m glad to hear that comparison and that it felt like an authentic SNES-era game :D

It’s good to read that the enemies were good, we were trying to get as much variety there as possible. We didn’t even have enough time to add all the ones we wanted, but at least we got some different ones on time. As they got stronger in later loops we wanted to make them look different too, like more robotic, but there was no time for that either unfortunately.

Interesting, I didn’t see that with the spikes, but I can see that happenning since the damage detection was simple in that case. I didn’t think of adding the coyote time! That totally makes sense for a platformer of this kind, we should add it as an improvement.

Ohh yeah I know which snake you mean. That’s on me actually, I placed it there. I actually thought it was kind of unfair too, since it would wait for you at the edge of its platform, and slash you as soon as you were in reach. Like you, I also found the cheese of shooting it from the other side, finding the right altitude to fire while in the air. That made me wonder if someone else would find that cheese, so I left it there. I’m really glad you found it too, since it gave me confirmation lol. But it’s true that it should be a bit more accessible than relying on a cheese to beat it.

Thanks for playing! The idea of using the theme was that by the time you get to the end of the level, this “entity” kills you and you start all over again, as if it was Groundhog Day for example. Once you complete 3 loops, you win.

Oh we still have some collisions to polish so I can see that some player movements might glitch or a bit or be a bit weird. The music/sfx bug with the sliders totally slipped me, maybe we didn’t connect them to the proper bus? We should’ve probably done a bit more testing around that. I didn’t test the sliders too much, most of the time I wanted to listen to the great music and SFX that our composer, they did a great job :)

Thanks for playing our game, and for leaving a comment!

Oh that’s interesting, I wonder at which parts of the map you got stuck? Collisions sometimes did weird things sometimes for me, like for instance when sliding under stuff, or when sliding into walls. Entering the ladder climbing animation might’ve been a slip of leaving something in the map that should not have been there. I’ll see if I can find where that happens.

Still, I’m glad you liked the game :)

Thanks for playing and for leaving a comment! And a very thorough list of positives and suggestions as well, nice!

It’s great to hear you liked the sliding and the gunplay. Sliding is also my favorite way of moving around the game. The enemies turned out good I think, we had a couple of designs that we didn’t have time to add, like a flying bird that drops bombs. I wish we would’ve had time to add those, but at least we got some variety in. My favorite is the cactus guy that pops out of the floor :D

That’s awesome that you liked the looping upgrades mechanic! We thought that would make things interesting, make playruns at least a bit different from one another, and tie in well with the theme. Same as with the enemies, I also wish we could’ve managed to add more upgrades than just “number” upgrades, such as the double jump you mention, or wall-bouncing, or stuff like that. At some point we mentioned making sliding or even shooting into some of the first upgrades (guaranteed at some point), but that might’ve slowed down the speed of the game too much, and maybe not feel too fair in the first runs.

I agree with your points about the floatiness, the challenge of the levels, and the variety of the levels in the different loops. For the first one, we could’ve done with more testing to find a better balance. For the other ones, we did have plans to have 3 unique maps, but like many other things in this list, we also didn’t have time lol. By the time we had the first map more or less done, we were close to the submission date. So the only option left was to try to re-use the same map but make them slightly different. However even with that limitation, there’s variety missing: the enemies are stronger but they’re the same, the tiles are the same, the blue lights make it look different but not too much. I’m glad we still got the 3 loops in, but I also definitely would’ve liked to have 3 totally different maps or at least more changes in between map repetitions.