Having a bit of a background in 3d movement at this point definitely informed a lot here! It let me to get the movement refined to a nice level without too much trouble. Ledge grabs definitely help add sort of premium feeling to things, and are just nice to have in when 3d platforming is involved in general.

And yeah, i really have been itching to make some combat so i went all out on the idea here! I'm pretty happy with how it ended up and the amount of depth i was able to squeeze out of things.

A lot of the game is just kind of operating under the assumption that the player wil actually want to play the game and engage with the systems in the short playtime of it- being able to run from every enemy encounter, moves cancelling a little too freely into themselves, and it being extremely easy to get an enemy infinitely stunlocked. Its definitely stuff i'd have to address in a full release, but im not sure if i'll get to that with this. 

Although, part of not doing that was just led by not having checkpoints either, being able to run thru the encounters allieviates that a bit i think!

 But yeah, i'd probably lock you into encounters with the enemies were i to make an expanded version.

Yesss thanks so much! I understand that 3d animators are hard to come by, especially in the indie scene, but i wish more people would try!

But yeah, had a good time making combat animations here.

Thank you!! I'm not sure how exactly i would've done it here, but i definitely intend to play with more defensive mechanics in future action games i make. 

Suprised myself a bit, tbh! Was really happy with how it came out, just the right blend of stuff i'm experienced with and and stuff i'm less so to keep me engaged i guess, lol. Thank you though!!

Thank you!! A friend of mine really likes the lil angler moles guys too, they're a good time haha

Well, if you both didn't like the music and the colors, it just kinda sounds like you have a different idea of how the tone of the game shoulda been altogether! Which is fine, but I am fond the style of music for this at least, i think it goes well with the mood i wanted to make, thuogh i'm sure a custom made track would've fit a bit better.

 The enviroment definitely still coulda used a lot more love, but it's a sore spot for me and i definitely just put more time into the core gameplay, haha.

I think, in the context of the game, the fighting is it's own reward. I dont think i'd want a scoring or style system, but i was tossing around some other ideas to to try to egg players into having a bit more variety, like making hits with the spear make the throw do more damage, or having the gun a limited ammo system that you need to refill while making it a bit more powerful, i guess potentially by also attacking enemies, but other things would be on the table too.

The only one of these that made it in of course was disloding the spear to make enemies spew health orbs. That one i could justify since I needed to do -something- to let the player heal, and i didn't just wanna do like, estus.

I would probably lock you in the room for enncounters, at least for somet of them were this a more fleshed out game though.

Informing the player of when enemies are dead is also fair, i'd probably also just want health bars to go with something like a color change or effect, lol.

Thanks for the feedback and critique though, i'm really glad you liked it! I'm not sure if i'll continue this game in particular, but i'm sure many ideas here wil carry forward into other stuff i do!

Thanks so much!! I'm glad you liked the level design, it's not my strongest point but i had fun with it!

Here's hoping i get a full game out soon for ya, haha

Yeee that's what i like to hear! Glad you had fun with it!

Thanks so much! I spent most of the jam just refining it, glad it payed off!

Thanks so much!

And yeah, all the programming was done via blueprints for this, and all my games so far lol