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[Schrompf]

I played the demo, too. Good work overall! It feels very retro

Unfortunately this also applies to the handling, which is very 1993. Details I noticed:

- Alt+F4 doesn't quit.
- Keys are not rebindable. On a german keyboard, Z is far away from X.
- Menu handling: There should be a message that Z is "back"
- Menu handling: It's not nice to the eyes that selected options get additional characters to highlight them - please use color our slight scaling to hightlight.
- If you already swing the camera left and right, you might also add a little look-around with up/down

Apart from that, this game could be the next CaveStory - I enjoyed it. But please do not make the same mistakes as CaveStory - weirdly placed save points that need typing instead of saving automatically, and difficulty adjustments by simply not providing save points in front of boss battles and such... all power to the retro and everything, but there are things which are history for a reason.

[SmudgedCat]

I like the game, I'm a big fan of pixely platformers and this one looks really cool!

Couldn't the punching glove be automatically equipped when it's collected?  It felt a bit awkward to go into the menus and equip something when I'd just started playing the game.  I'd save that tutorial for when you collect the next item and can actually swap between things.  Also, you can select empty slots on the equipment menu, I'd just prevent the cursor from moving to an empty slot.

The camera felt a bit jerky at times.  It looks like it's trying to move ahead of me to show what's coming up but if I moved back and forth a bit it felt like it wobbled around too much.

I'm stuck trying to defeat Gunnar so I'm not that far into the game.  He seems quite tough for a first boss encounter!

Cheers,

    Dave

[Blink]

This is awesome! It feels really natural, there's definitely the action-adventure platformer feel you wanted that's going on here (although the squirrels are a distinct departure from the norm, which gives you a unique look). Looking forward to seeing how far you go with this, I'll be trying it out a bit more and posting complete thoughts later this week if I can!

[agaetis]

  I can't remember my old user-name for this forum..

Anyway, I'd love to play this, but I'm getting "Unexpected error occurred when running the game" at launch. Do you have any idea what causes this? Does the game require Shader 2.0 or something?