Thanks! Means a lot!

The TAS actually does some insane skips, a few of which are humanly impossible (some are humanly possible, but still not feasible for a regular playthrough).

I thought about adding more checkpoints, but decided not to. Last-minute idea was to make powerups act as checkpoints too, which made some screens easier, and some harder. For instance, the double jump powerup acting as a checkpoint meant that you’d have to learn how to do extended double jumps of screen-wide hazards, but I should probably have made a little more safe ground immediately to the left of the powerup, so you didn’t need to react right on the screen transition. But I guess an optional dynamic camera that follows the player helps with that a bit.

Adding more checkpoints, in my opinion, would make this game a little less challenging, and remove some sense of accomplishment when you finish a long obstacle gauntlet and collect a new powerup as a result. But I agree, not everything had enough polish, and some deaths may feel cheap.

Level design is probably my weakest link, and my goals for this jam were to improve skills in this regard and make a player controller feel agile. My previous games feel sluggish as hell in comparison.

Glad you liked the game!

Initially, the death animation was even longer because it waited until the player touched any solid ground, but when I added spikes to vertical walls, I had to change it to 1 second. Maybe it’s a bit too long still, but I didn’t feel it was momentum-killing.

Still, I played versions of the game for almost 8 days while making it, so by the end of the jam I could complete it with a relatively small amount of deaths. For a new player with no experience, this 1 second may add up a lot, so thanks for the feedback!

It’s a rather short game, so let’s pretend that I made it difficult on purpose to prolong it, like on good old NES, where many games were stupidly hard too. (I should probably have playtested it, but didn’t have much time left.)

Glad you liked it!

I don’t see an image, but I think I know the place. Yeah, it may not be obvious how to make many of the jumps, and I didn’t have time to properly playtest this with other people, so it may as well be janky, but I’m too familiar with it to really see that. There’s also a playthrough video on YouTube, linked on the game page, if you wish to see the rest of the game.

Thanks!

Well, that’s all the buttons TIC technically has, apart from D-pad, but I don’t remember any games that start by pressing a D-pad… :D

I can see this being confusing given that most people are playing this on a keyboard, though…