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OK I FINISHED IT.

First i'll answer your things!

-I was hoping I wouldn't need to fix that dashing hit box problem. but sounds like I need to.

I'm really sorry for that, because i know how tricky it can be to have varying hitboxes. My suggestion would be to have a different hitbox only for detecting blue walls, and leave the normal one for white walls (as they'd just give you back your dashes anyways)

-I'm very unsure about how i'm going to add indicators for jumps you have left that don't look horrible, any suggestions?

I would probably avoid them completely (they'd take away from the atmosphere): i'd just make an small subtle effect when you *get back* your dashes rather than when you use them. So you would know if you touched that wall or not, in those cases where the hitbox maaaay have touched them!

-Why another zoom level? right now the zoom out lets you see as far as you can jump horizontally and vertically.

I'd say just to be comfortable in those edge cases, as they can happen. https://i.imgur.com/SZboCKK.png (supposed to go down in that part, however the stakes of the fall make it really uncomfortable)

-did you find ANY shortcuts? because if you didn't, then i can see how things would have gotten way to frustrating at the end. Doing the caves over and over would not be very fun.

Found a few! Biggest one was from the lonly heart to the part i struggled with. Then there was also one from the "forward jump" part i talked about, by jumping under a big platform to the left instead of entering the caves on the right. There might be more, but i can't remember. Saw a few cheeky ones in those last parts, but they were too risky for me.

-have you explored much? (ie. found the mysterious hatted kew statues? or the Noe A. Tablets?)

Found them indeed! Most, at least. Most on shortcuts, I skipped the king in the last screenshot because i didn't know it would still let me continue.

-how long did you play?

The really tired me at 4Am played for about 2 hours, and now i came back and after a few podcasts i finished it in 50 minutes, starting from the lonly heart.

That last part is killer indeed, that i can say. Discovering the Lonly heart shotcut made everything quite easier. I had gone down there up to the king when i was just exploring, but i didn't realize that it connected downwards. Maybe with zoom out i would have seen it, can't remember!

https://i.imgur.com/RxKrvu4.png

This is my proof. Also, you should probably center the texts from the interactables. Like, the ones that appear on the world, not the textbox ones. Nitpick!

Spoilers, in any case.

Is there something supposed to happen at the end? I walked up to the big golden statue and i just went through it, and then to the border, and then it closed. It was kinda cool, but the statue makes me feel i missed an interaction.

Also, fun thing;  I was listening to a video podcast and when the game closed this popped up in my face https://i.imgur.com/suE5mMf.png and for a second i really thought you had put a scary face at the end, hahahahahah

Hope it all helps!! I really enjoyed finishing this game, man. Hard as nails games like this always leave you with that sensation at the end. Ahh, nice. I need a beer.

First of all, thanks a lot for playing it, really! It seriously needs more stuff and polish, but the basics are there.

-for the first button in the game, because it was placed some distance away from the door, it  was not immediately obvious that it would stay pressed, I assumed it would unpress  and died for it, you might consider just putting the button closer to the door.

You know, that is actually a really really good idea. The player throws the box, the box hits the button, the door opens, the box just rolls away  through the open door and the player realizes the buttons are only pressed once. It's good!

-I exited and changed the controls so that W ...

That's good! Personally i have a better time using AD and spacebar, which really shows in both games different designs, hahahah. Might need to add a menu to change stuffs easily when it's done, or at least keyboard presets.

-I beat it! missed 6 coins somehow. found 2 secret rooms. I presume the :( means you aren't mad, just disappointed

i'm happy people play it to be honest, hahaha. That one secret is quite a nasty one, i'd probably make it a little bit more easily found. Just a tiny bit, so it still feels secret.

-If I were making this, I would focus on interesting level design that involves trick shots more than swarms of enemies, and spikes. If you do want more enemies, then try slowing the game down, a little, it will make the combination of one hit KO, spikes everywhere, and enemies to avoid easier to manage in the beginning.

That's a good idea, People really didn't like the enemies, and myself i got to say they slow you down way too much, specially with double speed. They are better when they are kind of a puzzle, like the ones where if you bounce them wrongly they end up in spikes.

BUGS

i really really need to fix all of this before even continue making the level.

-there is a pixel wide gap you can see through at the bottom of the panels that cover the hidden entrances and exits

Luckily that is a really really easy fix, i actually knew about it but ran out of time and just made the build, dang

-i managed to get stuck in a wall, could be a fluke, could not repeat it
It happens, Unity sheananigans. Problems in the way the game generates the colliders. It's weird, as it does not let me fix it manually: the character bugs out with the new colliders and doesn't give back your jumps.

-sometimes when i fall on spikes, two sets of NOOOOO! will appear (indicating that my pizza is screaming i guess? ;) )

-you can get two failure sounds if you die and then your pizzas or vice versa.

its  a l i v e. Ok, actually that's because of my spaghetti coding when making the instances of the box and the character. I will probably overhaul the whole death system, or at least put a lot of tape on it, i really need to. It's easily replicable if you die  from the spikes on the last vertical moving platform. The body is still there, invisible, yelling, while the decoration body that falls down also appears.

-it's possible to leave the fire hazard at the last possible moment, your pizzas will catch on fire but the game will keep going without resetting

oh that's bad, i absolutely thought i had fixed that. Noted.

-The list of controls when configuring the game contains duplicate entries for certain commands, not sure why.

I haven't touched that one at all, though i think i tried to do a two player version  very early in development. To explain, this was a work for class that i intent to continue, at least just a bit, and then release for free. So it mutated a lot from the very beggining. I really need to clean up all those things. I don't even think that starting unity box will be there at the end, though we'll see!

-I could not figure out how to get a controller working right, I couldn't seem to map anything but the mouse to aiming, and i couldn't trigger the fire action with the controller either.

I don't have a controller, so i can't really try it, though it must be simply because it's hardcoded to those. It does not even check for a "Fire" action, it just checks for the mouse button outright. I hadn't thought of playing it with a controller! I need to get on that. I wish it was as easy as in Gamemaker, because in unity stuff like that is kinda weird, at least coming from GM.

Thanks a lot for playing!!! I'll probably won't work on it for a while (i somehow landed a first job as a pixel artist and though it's kinda awesome, it eats up my time like no other) but i have a file with stuff i need to work on for it. This is all going there! Thanks again, man!!

Also, just for my own ego: it was actually way harder, with more spikes and missing the last checkpoint, and with the boss having more life and stuff. But juuust in case (class project, after all) decided it was better to smooth all of those things over, hahahaha  >:)