I've been messing with balancing and some polishing and think I've gotten things a little more balanced, my initial intention had the difficulty build way too fast and that only make certain issues way more noticeable :s

Thanks for the feedback and thanks for playing!

Yeah, I have a lot planed for balancing and expanding post-jam hahah Hopefully I can get this to shape up into something nice :)

Thanks for playing and for the feedback!

It's just a bit unfair right now, nothing you ( or anyone ) should feel bad about, I hope to get things to curve nicer so everyone can have fun trying to claim a high score and feel enveloped in the world :)

Thanks for playing, I'll definitely be continuing post-jam!

I could see a 2D spin-off being interesting, but I'm keeping focused on 3D for now hahah 

That said, I have a lot lined up to try to address the difficulty and unfairness of the current game's gameplay, so hopefully post-jam I'll be able to do some testing and get something both difficulty but fair :)

Thank you for the feedback, it goes a long way!

Yeah, balance is the next big focus, I have lots of ideas I'll be testing on people with various degrees of skill to see what works out best :)

Thanks for playing!

Don't blame yourself, it's pretty unbalanced unless you're bunny hopping around, and the game doesn't really explain that or teach how :s I'll be working on a bunch of things post-jam to help balance it out and hopefully make it more fun and approachable!

Thanks for playing, I'm glad you could still enjoy the game :)

Yeah, still a fair bit of tweaking and work to go to get things nicely balanced hahah

Thanks for the feedback :)

I'm glad you enjoyed the game :)

Thanks for playing!

Yeah, I agree, I'll be working on a bunch more post-jam to smooth out the difficulty, clean things up, and flesh out the game with more interesting and (hopefully fair) challenging content  :)

Thanks a bunch for the feedback, and thanks for playing!

Glad you liked the visuals!

I totally agree, while I do really want this game to be hard, right now it's just unfair and doesn't really lead in in a friendly way :s I'll definitely be working on that in the first pass post-jam :)

Thanks for the feedback!

No doubt! That's the main thing I'm going to be working on first, the lack of sound or any form of indicator for enemies behind you is currently really frustrating and leads to a lot of unfair deaths and that's not really what I want. I'm going to be spending a lot of time on this aspect to get things into a fair brutal difficulty range. It's never fun when a hard game feels hard just because you can't see the future hahah

Thanks for the feedback and thanks for playing :)

Thanks for the kind words! 

Yeah, PS1 horror games were definitely a big inspiration for me here hahah

Hahah Thanks for the kind words and thanks a bunch for playing!

I'm really glad you enjoyed it :)

That was one of the big inspirations for the enemy design when I realized my initial AI wasn't very fun hahah

Thanks a bunch for playing, I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

I'm happy to hear that!

Thank you for playing :)

Yeah, I ended up wasting a chunk of time on trying to model and texture the entire environment before realizing that was not going to work out in time and instead implementing the render feature as you see it now. That cut off my time for sound which, as you pointed out, left some big issues in keeping track of the world and enemies in it. That also included time to have a friend test the game where I could have noticed some other issues with the difficulty :s Such is the life of a jam though hahah

I'll definitely be working on polishing it all up post-jam!

Thanks a ton for taking the time to play and give feedback on my game, I absolutely loved yours!

Amazing score!! Better than me hahah

So, strafe-jumping was actually the intended way the game was to be played. However, I realized after barely making the jam end time that there's almost no way people will know that's what they are supposed to do outside the dialogue about jumping, which even then is really cryptic and still confusing. My plan is to make the standard jump apply the same speed as strafe jumping and kill strafe jumping in favor of that. There will also be a short segment at the start of the game that has you complete a super short jumping introduction just to get the player understanding the mechanic. Hopefully that will fix the issue people have with how unfair the speed is without strafe jumping. I don't blame anyone for not working that out hahah

Alongside that, I'll be adding some cool new enemies that spice up the gameplay in fun directions, so hopefully you'll get to see things when the come around in a more polished and exciting fashion :) 

Thanks a ton for the feedback though, I'll do some testing with the idea to see how that feels!

I really hope to be able to have a friend or two join on to expand the game out with good sound and hype music. I definitely agree about sound likely heightening awareness to surroundings. I'd love to get things to be really clean so you can focus on movement and awareness and not just fearful of a sneaky backstab any any second hahah

Thanks a bunch for playing and for the feedback :)

I'll definitely be giving some things a go and see what I can work out to fix the unfair death situation!

Thanks for the feedback :)