Well it took about 20 hours during our evenings, Wednesday to Saturday to put the whole thing together. I did all the coding and it was my first time back in Unity in a few years, so that didn't help. I'd say the main mechanics before tweaking and messing with art was around 5 hours.

Why do you ask?

Also, We put a few more hours into a patch that we're releasing tomorrow which really enhances the swinging gameplay (fully rotational player, rigidbody legs, some critical fixes that should actually make it playable on most machines).. if you enjoyed it (or didn't!) I hope you'll give that version a shot as it should've been that way initially.

Thanks for playing!

thank you for the feedback!

Speeding up the text was on the list that we didn't get around to. Lol

Our new update is way more fun. I'll link you a copy when we send it out.

Water is a second camera outputting to a render texture and then processed in a Shader. 

I had no idea how to do it.. until I followed this tutorial:

Looking forward to checking out your game when I get home tonight. Thanks!

hey! Yes.. it's my first time back in Unity in around 5 years.

I realized the issue was tying the physics to the Update method rather than fixed update. We already have a much nicer feeling update ready to release once review period is over. Full character rotation, inheriting swing velocity.. the way it should've been from the beginning. Kicking myself for not catching the Update issue but we sure had fun making it while... Getting back into the swing of things... :D

As for shift, I considered not using it for that reason on Windows, but couldn't think of a better key and hoped it would encourage people to disable sticky keys as it should be by default!! :) 

Appreciate the feedback and glad you liked the art, it was entirely hand drawn and I think it came out really well.

Thanks!

Btw, the issue with the slow player movement was my fault! Found and fixed the issue and we made the player movement a lot more interesting and fun so I'd love if you'd try it again after the review period and we can update. I'll try to remember to send you a link.

thanks for the feedback! 

Regarding the slowness.. getting alot of reports about that.. think it's the excess lighting. :/ 

Runs well on our dev rig but I tested (after submitting) on a slower machine and got the same effect. 

The arrows were very last minute and I did give them a 10% chance of passing through the vines but didn't have time to test. 

Not sure about why you had trouble grabbing after collecting the amulet. I'll look into it. 

Thanks for playing!

hi I think that's just poor performance on your machine. It's normally quite easy to move around and even do 360s on the vines. Sorry you had a bad experience. Will be posting a video so I hope you'll take a look and maybe adjust your rating based on that.

Bummer! It's likely poor performance :/  I built it on a pretty hefty rig and it seems the lighting/shadows is causing the character to move really slowly. on other machines. He's actually quite agile. Really regret not adding an option to disable the performance hitters. Really sorry about that, but thank you for playing. I'll be posting a video to show normal gameplay.

Thanks for the compliment on the procedural vines! Considering packaging and uploading to unity asset store for others to use in platformers.

hahaha our favorite review so far. Thanks so much.. the arrows were very last minute but glad we got them in!

Thanks for playing!!

Yeah, I've been hearing that and I tried it on one of my slower devices and got the same result.. such a bummer.. wish I added an option to disable the lighting/shadows.. but I was pretty hesitant to remove them because I liked the way the whole thing looked with them  lol.. but has been a good lesson. Thanks for playing despite the performance issues!

Hey Do you mind posting your PC specs? 

I have a feeling the lighting might be causing it to be slow on some PCs and just want to confirm. 

The jumping is intended.. we were using a double jump but got rid of it. The jumps reset every time you grab onto a vine.

lol ahh a death counter would've been a good idea! McKenna (who did the art) really struggled.. I think I underestimated the difficulty since I was used to it after working on it for a few days.. Also, I ended up doubling the length of the level right before submitting without testing! :/

As for the death, having a water splash was on the list since day one and never got around to it.. Need to get more experience with particle system. I also totally meant to add a bit of extra flair by providing a random description of what happened after you went under the water... and I forgot until just now!! Dang it! :D

Thanks for playing!