Oh thank you for your reply! I definitely did not realize the wall jump was a thing, and you're right - it was a breeze after that. I went back and succeeded in finding my spaceship. I'm blasting off agaaaaain
Alrighty so here are a couple more notes from my journey!
- I experienced a graphical error where sometimes gridlines would flash over the terrain.
- I also experienced a bug (?) where if I had one health left and pressed P to open the menu, I was teleported to the tree.
- The tree looked pretty unique and was a nice addition to the environment, but I would suggest adjusting it a tad to better reflect where colliders are. Most of the collision surfaces were lined with the green foliage, and since its bright green highlight is the lightest part of the sprite, that's where I expected colliders. However there were some areas that had foliage but no collider, so I kept accidentally falling off the tree. I didn't have this collider issue anywhere else in the game, though, everything else felt really clear.
- One other note on the tree - I might be misremembering, but did it grow convenient extra branches to get up to the spaceship at some point? Without a map, I really struggled and almost gave up trying to find the spaceship. It was only because of the Pause > Teleport to tree issue that I even came back to the tree and happened to notice that additional path. If it does indeed get added at some point to unlock that path to the ship, it might be better to have it there initially but blocked somehow, so that the player notes that it's a path to revisit later.
- I thought it worked really well how you changed the environment when the fire for that zone was lit. I totally see what you mean now about the mud. It definitely feels different to the ice. I wished there was a bit more of a change in the map rather than just the visual / terrain swaps (like additional paths that open, previously iced up), but even so I think the zone's visual shift was a really smart way to indicate which zones you had "finished" and which zones still had a nearby fire to find and light.
Despite a few bumps along the way, I still really enjoyed playing this one start to finish! It was so exciting each time I managed to find a fire and ultimately finding the ship. Solid little game, and I would love to see some updates!