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[Alex May]

OK, based on 10 minutes or so play

• The game is completely delightful and charming.
• Graphics are super sweet, the different frame rates of the animations no longer seems to bother me for some reason. Delicious animations for other elements like electiricty, garbage chutes, robots.
• Platforming is fun, and the controls make sense and work well, very responsive and smooth, the sounds and particle effects really help to make that so
• Music is fun and great
• Everything works, no problems or bugs encountered yet, but I didn't try to break it particularly yet (box under lift for example)
• Some harder jumps were annoying as you have to start again - maybe checkpoints around the harder levels?
• Death by falling felt unfair - too harsh? Checkpoints again or a heart/health system?

So far really enjoying it. Great work.

[Alec]

I agree with Haowan! Everything feels super polished. Great work, man. 


I would also agree that the game feels a bit too punishing at point, but I realize that this plays into the design. I think just having a faster respawn (you die, and after 1-2 seconds you're starting again) would make it feel less annoying. Having to see the death message and reload the level feels like a bit much. (I also realize that that's temporary)

I also ran into some interesting problems with the box + platform test level, but I'm guessing you're probably already aware of them?

Anyways, awesome work. Can't wait until the community gets its hands on it and starts cranking out content! 

[BMcC]

Word, thank you!  Yeah, the gameplay-specific stuff is still in its infancy.  That's what Milestone 3 is going to be all about. 

It's almost almost done.  Should have it out tonight, if all goes accordion to plan.  My nervousness is slowly turning into relief...

[Frog]

Yay! I've been waiting for this for a while now. Do you plan to eventually release the source code?

[BMcC]

Not the source, it'd be pretty useless (and embarrassing), honestly, but every bit of the logic is external, so once there's a lot of global game elements, it might be helpful to some folks.  (And even adaptable into other games using the engine.)