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[Super Gravoor]

panning back to the starting point just to reload the entire level anyway is really annoying.

re dev: thanks that improved it a lot!

Chris responds:

Completely fair point. Thats a hang over from an earlier version of the game where the levels were connected and it had a bit more of an open world design. I should go back and take that panning back out. Thanks for the feedback.

Edit: I've taken out the panning and reduced the time it would have taken for the panning to start. Hopefully that should speed things up a bit.

[Blast Magus]

i just don't get how you go from a masterpiece like everloom... to this.

re: how? it was fantastic. beautiful pixel art, good animation/atmosphere/music and didn't overstay its welcome.

Kajenx responds:

Lol, a lot of people hated The Everloom. XD

[Heliox Station]

'x' throwing the object you're holding by default is very very VERY annoying.

oh and some of the puzzles require you to be so fast (hitting a button and jumping over to a box that is disintegrating from the button and leaping off it up onto a ledge and leaping out off the ledge to catch the replacement box mid-fall and doubling back mid-air to get that box up on the ledge for laser redirection.. and all of this in like a half second. that's unreasonable. just because i can pull it off doesn't mean any other player can.

also in this very puzzle, there was a bug where once i'd pulled that off there was an emancipation grill up top, making it impossible to get over there with the fan cube. when i reset the level, it just didn't do that again so i was able to beat it. very frustrating level. and the x throwing instead of dropping by default was game-breakingly bad.

it still gets a 5 from me because this type of game is my favorite cup of tea

re author: well when i looked up a walkthrough to hopefully find a more natural way of doing it, i literally found someone doing it the exact way i did it.

you obviously need to refactor the design on that level. if you didn't intend anyone to be fast then you did something hilariously wrong.

also re author: don't call it a fizzler. call it an emancipation grill (like i did) because that is absolutely what it is. pay respect to your inspirations. don't try to pretend they didn't inspire you, as in the case of portal 2 directly for that particular mechanic.

kaiakairos responds:

idk what shit you were doing but you did it WRONG. The only reason you can hop off the disintegrating blocks at all is because its a lil speedrun bug i left in intentionally (for silly). Not a single one of the levels (except maybe one in the glue area) require you to be fast
ALSO the fizzler on top is not a bug that is intentional level design

[Paper Planet DEMO]

upgrade options popped up. so i clicked the one i wanted. nothing happened. clicked it a few more times. and then the options just went away.

afterwards, i was left wondering if it was designed so that we had to press a key to select an upgrade and if that wasn't immediately obvious to us, you punish the player by taking away any upgrade at all.

edit: i see. i wasn't aware I needed to shoot to select them. thanks for clarifying

Willops responds:

I think you might've been sitting on the continue button by accident? If you rotate the turret to face the upgrade you want you can shoot it to get it.

Edit: I went ahead and changed the way continuing from the shop and item waves works. Instead of sitting on a button you now shoot a box, hopefully this should make it easier to avoid accidentally skipping items.

[Amazing Monk]

music/art great

mechanics/gameplay loop? -10/10

death almost NEVER feels fair. i'm zooming my way up and then i'll see something far in advance and somehow still fly straight into it.

the handling/mechanics are just way way way off and need to be completely overhauled.

Relieable responds:

Thank you for your feedback!

[Repopulation]

really clever game mechanic.

i annihilated it as expected (everyone on NG, especially the moderators regard me as unreachably super intelligent)

please make more games of this quality.

MartinJacob responds:

Thank you! Keep crushing it

[Mr. Stretch and the Stolen Fortune DEMO]

controls and timing are extremely annoying.

the art and music are nice. i didn't actually find the sound effects very satisfying or well designed though.

Muketronics responds:

Yea, we don't have a sound effects guy its all just royalty free stuff off the internet.

[The Spin Slasher]

fuck. dying was too painful. lost everything from such a super longass run

great game though.

but something needs to persist through deaths.. and you need at least a few more upgrade types

like maybe additional blades, some kind of passive healing, (or a shield that regenerates), maybe a roll/dash type mechanic, some kind of projectile weaponry or just randomly spawning powerups that shoot out a nova

really the most unempowering thing here is the space in between the saw and the player. that needs to be filled or shrunk somehow

IceCreamer89 responds:

Thank you for your detailed feedback and suggestions to improve the game

[Pico-Cross Collab 2023]

i like it but i wish the numbers and icons had higher resolution. it's really jarring in the grid

JSuika responds:

You could barely see one of those but you can also click these to zoom in! I also tried doing that while I was in progress to this game :)