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[Billy_Basso]

Travel Mouse is a relaxing metroid-vania, with a strong emphasis on atmosphere and puzzle solving.

I posted a gameplay video on the front page of my website:

http://billybasso.com/

I've only been working on it for about two weeks, and plan to continue all summer.
I'd appreciate any thoughts, suggestions, gameplay ideas, you know, what ever you think..!

[paulisere]

I like the look of it. Obviously I have only seen the video that you posted on your site.  I think one thing that would be really useful is if you could zoom right out and pan around the level so that you can plan how to get the little triangles.

Just a thought.

Paul

[Billy_Basso]

Yeah, I agree. That's definitely necessary. I was eventually going to add camera panning to right analog stick.

[James Coote]

I too found I was getting disorientated watching the video. If you decide not to have a zoom, you would need either a map or some direction arrows or a compass. Something to direct the player to the next place

Maybe it's just the video, but the music was far too quiet. It's all very well being subtle, but if barely audible until I whack my speakers to full, then my eardrums will get blasted when I alt-tab out and to another application that also uses sound

I assume the mouse will eventually rotate relative to the direction of gravity that is pulling it, and also not clip the asteroid as it lands

I also assume there is going to be some way of failing (like falling into forever or dieing if you land from too high)?

The vanishing point lines. At one time the mouse seems to pass from above to below the plane of the background. I felt like that ought to signify something but it didn't