Thanks! Definitely wish I had been able to get a tutorial together. I 100% plan to keep working on it, I had so many ideas I couldn't do and really enjoy platformer level design. 

On each jump there's quite a few effects - a vignette that focuses on the player, some chromatic aberration, particles, etc. but the two most disorienting are likely the screen shake and the camera rotation. I tried to keep things at a minimum where they didn't feel distracting but I think being able to turn off those two would be a great addition for the future. I also have some ideas on how to tweak the rotation to be a bit less swingy that I'll for sure revisit. 

I linked asset credits on the game page, the specific song is here from this pack though :) 

Thanks so much and I'm glad you enjoyed despite the controls being difficult! :) 

My original concept was to find a way to sync the jumping to the music but exactly how to pull that off is beyond me. As is you just need to press jump right as you impact with a surface - you actually have a quarter second buffer ahead of time and a couple frames after landing where it will work. Lacking a tutorial really hurt in communicating this though!

 I had also planned on an optional feature to show little collapsing circle previews (like in osu!) as you come close to impacting a surface, but scrapped that just cause I knew it'd take quite some time for me to figure out how to implement. I still think that'd be a nice addition to keep in mind as I work on this in the future. 

thanks, I wish I had properly gotten the game to pause right away so it's not such a jarring start, as you do lose the bounce fairly quickly once you stop jumping with good timing. The decision to have you stop bouncing felt like a necessity to truly do something with the "don't stop" theme - if I had had time to put together a tutorial that explains you can restart bouncing by dropping to a lower level, that probably would've helped people since I'm getting the impression that wasn't intuitive to some people.

Once running, though, I think the timing window is fairly generous on the way towards an impact at a quarter second long (15 frames at 60fps), though to make the automatic bouncing feel correct there isn't as much of a window once you've landed (I believe it's at ~2 frames). If your internal sense of timing is to press jump right after you land then it will continually feel wrong, though. Not much I can do about that except I did put in the option to have the game handle all that for you and the option to play at a slower speed if  it was too difficult. Truthfully I have no idea how one could execute it any better, though it probably wouldn't hurt to include a third difficulty/accessibility option to make the input buffer window even wider (or smaller if people wanted more of a challenge).

it's a bit of a timing game, to try to press jump right as you hit the ground or wall. goal was to make a really bouncy character for sure , if it's too difficult there is the option to make the jumping automatic!

thanks so much! I definitely think a future version will have rising jump sounds with combo, especially if you like jump off multiple enemies in a row. 

i was definitely more concerned with making a fun game than a hard one, so I'm glad spamming space is an option tbh!

Thanks! I'm really happy I found the song in a pack I own, wish I could claim it as an original. I think the sound the snails make when you jump on them is pretty pokemon-esque too :)

thanks! Yeah I keep hearing from people the controls aren't intuitive at first, which seems a very reasonable criticism!

I think i turned off the smoothing for testing something and never re-adjusted it, might still be some but I'm not sure! thanks for the feedback :)

Thanks :) the inability to jump on your own once fully grounded was a core design choice to satisfy the "don't stop" theme, in this case don't stop jumping with the right timing. You can get bouncing again if you fall down to a lower level and time the jump button as you land. A lot of the level design is full of steps so you can have multiple opportunities to try to recover. 

Whether or not that's a good design choice, though, that's another question 😛

A few things I think the game really needs slipped through the cracks as I ended up losing a lot of time to various problems. Some sort of feedback when reaching a new checkpoint and a small into cutscene I had planned would've both made the goal direction clearer I think. 

thanks for checking it out! i wish the ui actually worked properly. if you navigate to the options menu you can enable automatic jumps  (and/or slow the game down) to make it easier if you want to give it another shot :)

thank you! :)