Judge feedback

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• My god, this is hard. While I'm simply not gamer enough to get far into the game, I have to say that I'm very positively surprised by the end result you achieved here in the short span of the jam. At all times the mechanics feel correct. No matter how many times I fall or miss a jump, at no point does it feel like the game cheated me out of a success, it is clearly always my fault. And this is perfect for this kind of hard to beat climb game, because not only it makes for a hard challenge, but also one that everyone playing knows that they can beat it if they are good enough, it invites challenge. Both the collisions, rotation and momentum from the gun are working extremely consistently, to a point I believe I only encountered a weird interaction once, and that was the very edge of the bouncing block, so that's just physics doing what physics does. The level of polish on both the mechanics, the art, and the level design is very impressive for something made in such a short time. The art is very coherent across all the in-game aspects, which creates good immersion and an overall is something good to look at. The sound effects around the gun definitely help to give better feedback on the players actions. A couple things that I would like to point out. While you did provide a GDD that contains the basic concepts of the game and art, I'd recommend you to spend some more time on it in the future. That goes specially for any project that you plan on having a bigger scale than a jam game. It is important to put all the details of what you are planning, how mechanics work as well as other things so that you always have something to source when planning next steps of development or making sure the development is following the originally desired outcome. This will prove specially valuable if you ever work with a team. Other than that, some smaller things that I want to be picky for you just because you did a great job, and I'm sure were just cut because of limited time but still good to mention. Would be good to see some more work on the UI, not in terms of adding more information, just working it better into the style of the game. Both menus and in-game. Adding more juiciness to the gun and character would elevate the experience of the game a lot. ie some vibration of the weapon when fired, reload animation, visual reaction on the character when moving/shooting/spinning.