I'm conflicted about this game, because I want to like it a lot, but I also kind of hate it. It's really smart, and there's a lot of good design. But at the same time it's SO frustrating to play, with the challenges giving you absolutely zero room for error, and requiring that you often beat several in one room, where any one of them you could slip up because of a button press being a frame or two early/late.

You're so close to having an absolutely incredible game, but I got so angry I couldn't finish it (I died almost 100 times on the Coin Reflexes one, and just gave up on Shooty Bois). If you split some of those harder challenges into multiple rooms so you didn't need to do them all in a row, and made some of the jumps/gaps a bit more lenient it would be a lot less annoying I think. 

It's one thing losing a level because of pressing the wrong thing, but so much more annoying doing the exact same thing ten times in a row and it only working once because there's only one or two frames that the right input will get you through. The player has already learned what you've been trying to teach them, but they have to keep doing it over and over to get that lucky run where everything lines up.

The other thing is that a LOT of these levels require timing perfectly with the other slimes jumping, and because they don't telegraph that, I found myself just running into them 5-10 times in a row until I just happened to get the right timing. It didn't feel like a skill thing, it felt like a luck thing.

I'm really sorry for focusing on the negative, because I really love so much about this game, but playing it I just mostly felt frustrated and angry. It's so close to being amazing, just needs a bit of balancing. I've given you a good rating, because everything apart from the frustration is great.

The characters, the art style, the smart use of abilities, the fact that you can pause time to think about what to do next - it's all really great.  Also it's a great use of the theme. If it could just be a bit less punishing I think this would've got a full 15 from me.

- Joe

I felt it had great level design, and the mechanic opened itself up to a lot of interesting puzzles, however I think the controls needed some refining. Some issue I had were;

• - It took me a while to realize that I had to keep z held down in order to bounce off slimes, this should probably be mentioned somewhere because before I couldn't tell why sometimes I would bounce low and sometimes I would bounce high.
• - At times I would press x to choose an ability in the air and when I press z to do it I found that I was using a different ability than the one I selected. Maybe having a different button for the action and selection, or a check in code, to only change the selected ability if the window is still open after .5f of a second, to reduce the chance of this happening.
• - When getting a reset coin, if pressing Z would let you use the last ability without having to reselect it.

These could have just been me, but I feel if these inputs were polished up it would help reduce the difficulty curve and some frustration that can be caused by deaths that are due to unintended inputs rather than skill (though i'll be honest, I would still probably die a lot). I'll be uploading a video of my playthrough of some of this game soon, so that might make it clearer, hope this feedback is helpful.

Great game
Very polished for a game jam

The Z/X wasn't clear at the beginning, because I didn't understand I can only use an ability once

I love how your mechanics give a great and novel platform experience

We did a similar "one ____ at a time only" but opted for senses rather then special abilities
Your idea is much easier to expand and I using the enemy art for ability clarification is a really intuitive way to convey the ability's ... ability

Keep expanding on it :)

I'm going to start with what I didn't like. The controls were a little clunky. Possibly just because I don't like keyboard platformers. I picked the wrong ability a lot -- If you could make the non-active abilities fade out a little, that I think would add a lot of good feel to the UI piece of it. I also found that if you freeze time the same frame a bullet hits the button.... your audio goes craaaazy XD. Last small piece of critique: The audio in this game is well-done except for the sound when you are switching through your abilities, it's pretty loud and shrill compared to the rest of the game noises.

That said, this game is great! One of the longer games I've played this jam, and it played good front to back, pretty much. One of the most fun entries I've played so far. I sort of got a Celeste feeling when I was dashing into enemies and flying off their heads. There's a lot of potential with this game. Grats on a great jam entry!

This game is amazing! Its super challenging but super fun! Unfortunately, after passing "Shooting bois" (which I am extremely proud of) I didn't have time to do more but (if there is a level select menu) i'll try to beat the whole level! Very good game! But, the fact that you could pick up a coin to reset the abilities, even though its very fun, in my opinion, breaks a little bit the theme "Only One". Apart from that perfect game!

Hah, this is very hard :D
Intresting approach! I certainly is a tight platformer, maybe the learning curve is a little bit to thigh - for me it is.

In the end, I think your "one mechanic per room" is stronger than "you can only select one mechanic", so maybe roll more with the first one? But overall, very well done!

I played this game way too long, but I just had to finish it. There are so many levels. I got around 200 deaths :D lol

It fits the theme perfectly and I think its very original.

The only thing I'm not quite happy is with the controls. I think you tried to only use one button for your abilities, but maybe it would be nice to have each ability on a separate button because I mixed them up way to often, especially during the jump sequences. At some points I was sure to have selected the correct ability, but he was doing another one. Maybe a bug in the game.

You could then also add the spacebar for the stopping of the time. So this would be my suggestions:

• W for jump
• D for dash (yeah, same letter)
• A for shoot
• Spacebar for stopping time

Try it out and let me know how it feels ;) I would also test a version of the game using these theme. Maybe I'm completely wrong :D

I hope my comment helped you.

This was very difficult but also very fun! You did a great job designing all those puzzles - gotta love a game that pushes its players  to beat tough odds! Well done! :D

Cool idea but Very, very challenging.

I got stuck after a while, but I think I'll get back to it when I have more time, too many games to try in this jam.

Art and "story" are really good. Congratulations.

Here's mine if you can spare some time playing it. Many Thanks:
/jam/gmtk-2019/rate/463337

A lovely platformer with super cute characters, enjoyed it through :) Nice job!

Fantastic! Really smooth transitions between being able to freeze and unfreeze time in the ability menu. The feels like it was made by someone with a lot of experience in making games with the way everything flowed together. 

I'm gonna recommend this to a friend of mine that really likes slimes lol

Great job!

Really like it ! You made a reason behind the one-only theme and i like that (could say the grandpa' lore?). Fun puzzle game.

Game is great, once you get use to switching abilities, you start to get the hang of it. Love how the controls are on a sign at the start of the game, to blend in with the environment. Game feels very polished. The view is smooth and catches up with the object. Really like how you made restarting a game mechanic where it just kills yourself. Game overall is great, very special and unique.

Had a blast playing, the controls are a bit confusing at first but it becomes a good puzzle platformer once you get used to it. Great!

Awesome platformer/puzzle game? Really liked it. Feels very polished. controls are not perfect for me, since y and z are swapped on my german keyboard. :)

Very cool idea. As others said, the controls and level design can make it a bit frustrating, but despite these (minor) issues, it remains very enjoyable to play. Good job !

Solid game, would say not a fan of having to hold X then select to change abilities, and Z to use ability. would say SpaceBar be use to use the abilities and use the Up & Down Arrows to cycle abilities. makes it quick for the player and removes the need to pause the game.

Wow. Very cool idea of changing the ability.

I got used to the controllers for a little bit, but in general it’s very cool! Well done

Cool idea! Took a little while to get used to the controls (I'm not a Z/X guy) but after that, it was good! Chaining abilities was a nice touch and made for some pretty intense situations lol. Trying to make sure you plan the next ability while hanging in air before you fall to your death.. that was tense. Good job :D 

It's a really clever idea, but level design could use some improvement.