Thank you! Glad you enjoyed.

Thanks for playing! I would have liked to do a cutscene but they take me a week to make on their own with all the detail usually. So wasn't going to worry about it during the jam since we arent graded on story. But I'm still developing the game. My story at the moment is Tomato Face is collecting cash to buy a brand new protein powder that was on sale for a limited time - so gotta go fast! Consider this the story you would read in the instruction manual for now. In a future update I will work that in. But for now, I'm focusing on getting the most out of the game play. For the jam, I wanted to focus on game play above all else.

Cheers! Yeah, now that its post jam I can redesign the game so that time is not so important. Basically the timer will count up and there will be no fail state in the post jam version so the more casual players wont get as frustrated. But for those that do want the pressure of time, there is still the stars to collect so it will cater to all sorts of player styles. I wanted a high time pressure to be a more central mechanic in the jam version (even though some may feel its too hard at times... sorry!) only because time was the theme, so I wanted to lean into that time pressure harder than I normally would when designing a game.

My player characters hitbox is 8x8 pixels, the animation of the player character varies between 8 and 10 pixels high frame to frame. I chose to make the player character that small because it means the player takes up minimal screen size and therefore, the player can see what is coming easier in the sidescroller levels, but can also get more level geography out of a single screen. The low res of the GB screen makes platformers very cramped if the player character is too big. Wario Land is is a good example of a large player sprite that works but that is slow paced (both warios speed and the various enemies) so it the low resolution isnt a problem so much.

I have actually changed the parameters of the platformer engine post jam to make the game more responsive (just the acceleration and deceleration and also how the movement in the air handles with some changes to the platformer.c file) but I can still share the parameters I have with you if you want.

Thank you! Thanks for the bug report. It was such an ambitious game to put together in 7 days that im not surprised there are a few bugs hanging around. I have been going through it all and will be fixing it up for an update once the voting ends (also a bunch more changes to polish and even some more content!!)

Thanks!!

Thank you so much! Glad you had a great time. :) I'm looking forward to playing your game this week once I have some time to myself.

Thank you so much! my aim was to do 18 levels and I fell just shy of that. But I will likely finish it off and release a big update when the voting ends. Bug fixes, make it a little easier, tighten the design and even make a final level like I planned!

Thanks so much! I have been continuing to polish it post jam. Dealing with bugs and tightening the level design and progression elements etc. Should have a decent update ready by the time the jam voting ends.

Thank you! Ill look into this bug. Can you unlock the 17 star lock at the end even though it says you have 16? Or is the game not letting you unlock it? I've had others complete the game without this bug but I'll do my best to figure out what happened in your instance. Definetly dont want this to happen when you spent all that time on it. It's not easy to 100% it! Sorry that happened to you, what a bummer.

EDIT: I have a suspicion that the last coin you collected on one of the levels is missing an increment +1 event. it would have set whatever level it was to star achieved but not incremented the number. That would explain the map icon showing you got all the stars but still showing 16 over all. Plus would explain why others have got 17. The last coin they collected on whatever level it is would have had the increment event in it. I'll see if I can locate it and let you know what level it's in.

Thanks so much :)

Ha yeah, its a bit hairy at times. If I had another day, I would have been able to polish the difficulty and progression but I just plain ran out of time there. Spent the last day trying to fix bugs rather than deal with player feedback. Didnt even have enough time to send a build of the game to a playtester. Such is a jam. But I'll release a v1.1 that finishes it off with all the polish it needs (and maybe a few extras ;) )

Thank you!! Glad you like it so much =D

Thanks! Yes, I couldnt resist drawing a detailed picture of whatever that 8x8 pixel player character was.

Thank you! Yeah, I speedrun games myself so definetly had that kind of player in mind here.