Thanks for the comment, very happy that you found the movement gameplay quite unique, I'm trying to create a game that changes around the usual platformer games, but still be a platformer. I really laugh with the "“I wanna be the guy” styled spikes." comment. I updated the gameplay so these moving spikes, the ants and other traps don't kill you at one hit, making the game more playable I think.  

Thanks!! I will keep it up for sure!

Thanks a lot for your comment, and happy that you liked the music. The language feature is something that I had to add for sure as I'm not a native english speaker. Actually, I grew up in Spain and here you have in the same country multiple languages, and it is such a political topic, that I just wanted that anyone from anywhere in the world could play it in its language. 

At the moment only 4 are available, but I plan to add if possible all of the. Also I will separate the USA english and the UK english, and also Spanish castillian and Spanish latinamerica. Still a lot to do in that sense, but at some point I want to add at least 10 or so of the most spoken languages in the world.

Also very happy that you think the game is fun! this is my objective overall, at the end, as I gamer myself I loved platformers and wanted to create a game that people could love as well

I do apologize for that bug. In the new release I think I had solved it, but still will have to wait for feedback. I am struggling working around the canvas, and how it re-scales with screen size. Still, I see that you tried playing around so thanks for that and your comment. 

I'm happy that despite that horrible bug you found it kind of enjoyable. I will keep working on it for sure!

I'm very glad that you found it enjoyable. I released a new update with changes in the gameplay mechanics so the game is less punisher. I introduced a hearts system, that if you get hit, you lose a heart instead of directly dying. You can also gain hearts. I also added the collectables to make the game more dynamic, and if you get them all you get an extra life. 

Thanks for the Big Journey game reference. I watched some gameplays and I believe I will introduce some elements in CvA. Thanks again for your comment, and I hope you like the new update if you play it :)

Thanks for your comments! yeah the edges movement is still so so, at some point I will see how to improve that.  

So glad you enjoyed the game! I've used opengameart in the past, the ant that you see in the game is from that website. However, when it came to music, I did not found much useful tracks or sound FX. At the moment, the music is from NCS, most of it and the sound FX are from Pixabay. I find Pixabay library and sound FX much wider and user-friendly.

Thank you so much for your feedback! I really appreciate your comments, it helps a lot to improve my game. This is also my first developed game.
Going through yourpoints:

 - Noted. I will improve that aspect of the game so the jumping vs not jumping parts of the scene balance and match with puzzles and exploration.

 - Do you have any suggestions to improve that (the box dissapearing)? maybe I made my game in a way that it punished too much the players. Another comment said that if my game was supposed to be rage-platformer it shoud be clearly stated. But my idea is not a rage-platformer itself, but to incorporate some elements of it like the moving spikes or the box that if mess too much you have to die to restart the level. As I said to him, I plan to find a better balance of this added difficulty and game fun. And I thank you for letting me know.

- I may add a checkpoint just before the first spikes move. It can be noticed, specially compared to rage-platformes, that it is not all the time. It is just that in some parts of the levels, you have more difficult traps to avoid. Some parts of the levels are very simple

- I plan to give it a re-think to the music. A lot of improvements are pending in this area.

 - Artstyle: totally agree. I plan to have consistent artstyle by the end of the month or begginning of the other.

 - I'm so sorry about that bug :(. It was supposed to be solved. I'll look around it, that animation when switching scenes have given me quite the headache. I think it has something to do with canvas scaling, if you start the game and quickly switch to full screen it should not happen.

 - Ants: with the cotton they are the core of the game. I really worked a looot in the jumping and moving algorithm, so I'm happy that some people are appreciating that. It adds the difficulty I wanted for the game. And yes, I know, when they come from above you are mostly fucked (you still have options to overcome them). But in my opinion, that added difficulty makes my game stand out of the crowd. I can make the ants a bit smaller, but I want them to project fear to the player. They are the adversary to beat in the story.

So thanks also to you for playing my game and giving me your feedback! I'm very happy that despite the art inconsistencies, people are finding the gameplay to be enjoyable.

Thanks so much for playing my game and for your words and feedback! I'm so glad that you liked the cotton character and that you perceived the game as fun. I plan to upload an even cuter cotton in the next releases :).

Thanks for letting me know about the controls issue, I will make a workaround so that if you are moving right and press left, it automatically moves left, and vice-versa. I'm used to play releasing the key when I don't intend to move in that direction, thus never realized of that bug. Real thanks as I need this kind of comments to improve my game. The collision boxes might be too big indeed. I recently changed all maps and maybe some colliders are not set properly. Do you remember which object gave you that impression?

I plan to release future updates of the game in this month. I could like to have a stable product by the first days of October.  Stay tuned as I will implement some of the improvements that other users as you indicate.

Hi,

I really appreciate your feedback, it is the kind that helps me improve my game :). I intend to remove all pixel art artstyle and replace with realistic artstyle. At the moment I have as pixel art: the statues that triggers teleport, the checkpoint, the chain and the fire at level3. Probably I will have to do some work around the portal itself as well. Regarding music not quite sure yet what to do. A lot of people really liked for example the song of the first level. I will try to listen to everyone and come up with a balanced solution.

Thanks for the movement comment!! I will sort the climbing around the boxes (and other objects), but I like the boxes as they are elements that can be used to solve puzzles. Regarding animations, I plan to add a dying animation for the cotton as well as improve the dying animation for the ants. 

The gameplay: I had to google it and play some games to understand what a rageplatformer was. And here, as you could notice, my intentions and ideas are still unclear. My initial idea was not to create a rage-platformer. I based myself a little in games like supermario and sonic, and built from there. As I was making the game, I felt it was too easy, and started incorporating elements of rage-platformers (without knowing this was indeed a genre). And so the result, a game that by definition is a platformer, but it also has a story, it has large maps to explore and solve puzzles, it has a lot of traps (I plan to add more as the player advances throught the levels), and it has the ant enemies (more kinds of ants to be added as well). 

I wanted to create an original, different gameplay. At the end, I'm a very good programmer, but have no idea of graphic and sound creation. So the art is not mine, but the gameplay is. So I decided that the differencing factor for my game is gameplay. I will also improve music and graphic elements as I go, but gameplay is the key for me. I want to create a challenge for the players in a fun environment. But this will require several iterations and feedback from gamers like you.

The story is improvised, it can change at any point. For sure, it will include a magical world, combined with some post-apocaliptic features. The idea is that the world is so contaminated that it created life out of cotton fibers (thus the name polusan), and it mutated ants (and more stuff). Again, the idea is not to make a rageplatformer, but a platformer that incorporates some elements from rage-platformers. 

So, thanks so much again for your feedback. I wanted to explain my ideas so people can understand a bit the game concept. It's my first game and I'm still new into game development. I will work towards finding a better balance of the vision I have.

hi there,

Sorry about the bug when you ran out of lives, it should be solved in this new release. 

The music is not mine, the main tracks are from NCS. 

I'm very happy you enjoyed the game. I uploaded a new release version if want to check it out

Thanks for your reply! I am already thinking on how to rework the art and I am looking to to collaborate with a graphic designer for that.