Hey man :D First, I'm so sorry it took me so long to reply! I've been fully engaged in a new project for the past 3 weeks, something a bit different aimed at mobile but it's teaching me a lot and I'm even considering making this into a mob game - not sure if it would work at all tbh but it'd be something a bit different at least haha ;)
Thanks for the crits - they are super helpful :D Yeah I actually sandwiched a couple of projects I had made a while back - a wordle tutorial I made when I was learning C# for unity being one of them, which I melded into Codsworths Machine :D I do like how it came together. I've been trying to refine and add more features and see if I can visualise this as a game worthy of Steam.
Yeah man the shadows I stupidly made as part of the actual sprites above them, which caused my tilemaps to clash and make it so the characters go behind the shadow - proper annoying but I'm pretty sure that's an easy fix, just need to make the shadows separate and on a lower grid layer!
Thanks for the tips, they are spot on. I've made Alex quite a bit faster, and have pretty much sorted the colliders now. That's annoying he wonders off the screen lol, thought I'd sorted that. Think I've confined the cinecamera too much on the sides as there are colliders there somewhere haha.
Thanks SO much for your time, and really sorry it took me so long to answer, tbh I hadn't checked Itch for a while cos I've been working on this mobile app. It's incredibly helpful and I really appreciate your time and expertise - thanks, man :D
Hope Tyrants Tower is coming on okay - you should defo look to get that on Steam, it's definitely up to that standard I think ;) If you ever want any playtesting done or brainstorming help definitely let me know in the Discord and I'd be well up for helping out!