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Very ambitious submission! I think this style of platformer is an incredibly difficult genre for jams for 2 reasons:
- First, people tend to love or hate this genre, no in-between. The right audience will love it (Hollow knight, celeste, super mario maker 2, etc), but these style games also tend to receive a lot of hate.
- Second, the general mechanics typically require *super* fine-tuned, precise input handling (and state transitions for things like wall-grabbing). Getting an input system that works that precisely and *feels* polished typically requires TONS of playtesting to tune, which is a big hurdle on such a short timeline.
All that considered, I was very impressed with this one. The float mechanic took me a bit to get the hang of (I definitely almost quit after dying like 10x on 1-4, but stuck it out). I think there's still some room for fine-tuning the controls, I felt like the player should "stick" on wall jumps like a tenth of a second longer as it's easy to fall off when you'd intended on wall-jumping, but the controls were pretty solid overall!
Making 3 worlds of 9 levels each was also incredibly impressive, and they were all distinct with their own unique challenges. Each level felt challenging, but also playtested & beatable (although the mushroom gauntlet right at the end of 2-9 needs some adjusting, IMO, I'm pretty sure I died there literally 50x.)
World 2 was definitely my favorite overall, the lighting effects made for such a neat ambiance to the levels.
The mechanics are really unique, I really enjoyed floating as a leaf! I think it could benefit from still having a wider range of movement. I think it would feel even more leaf like. Very fun game!!
I blattformed my little heart out, great mix of levels and slowly introducing mechanics, i'm not the best at blattformers and got a little stuck on 1-8 for a bit but it was totally worth continuing on great job!!!
thank you so much for the feedback! World 1-8 really is a tough one, so good job for powering through!
I loved the game. The theme is full on point with the story and the mechanic of gently falling to jump again are cool as fuck. Also the level design and the art are good and well thought, imo.
I found it kinda hard in some levels, but this is pretty good. Congratulations!
Thanks for the feedback and glad you enjoyed it! Also very glad to hear you like the float jump so much!
I'm impressed by the scope of this game! I felt that level 1-8 was a big spike in difficulty - I'm glad I powered through it to see world 2, but I'm not sure how many players from this jam will reach world 2, let alone world 3. The movement and level design feel great, though a more gradual difficulty curve would feel more satisfying. The character art and backgrounds are beautiful. Some more SFX would enhance the player experience immensely, especially for a game like this. While there are some dissonant note choices from time to time, I liked the music aesthetic and thought it was quite fitting for this game - and I love that you wrote multiple themes for the menu and each level! Overall, I think the game has a lot of potential. Great work, team!
Thank you for the detailed feedback! The difficulty was indeed a point of contention all the way through the jam, haha. Glad you stuck with it and found it rewarding enough :)
BTW: You can press ESC to go to the menu and into "World Select" in case you want to try out the other worlds without finishing the first world.