It is weird admittedly to have as a mechanic but trusting that the player would go bananas and find their way around it was the key to making it engaging. Thanks for playing! 

Yeah, I've only played the scratch version of Getting Over It (an actually really good remake of the game), but I felt that there was a bit of fun in having the player both be fully in control of their actions but also having no idea of what the outcome of said actions would be. You can predict more easily the more you play and it's intentionally not as challenging (up till the end) just to get the player to keep going. Thanks for playing!

Ah with that part, the pizzas will actually get closer to each other after waiting a bit. I had a hard time setting the pivot to the center of the pizza with the knives and but it was 100% doable if the jump is timed right so that you can get to the ledge on the other side. The more difficult part is actually the last section if you want to try that out. Thanks for the feedback! We'll try to be more careful next time when creating platforms and other stuff.

Just searched up Alt F4 and I see the similarities!  Tbh, I'm surprised I never saw the game before lol.  Glad you enjoyed our game!

Yeah, had I known what I know now about Unreal Engine, I would've included a widget for power amount in each jump but time was on our tails and just getting this mechanic to work alone was a massive workload for the first couple days of the jam. With what was said on the ladder, yeah that's fair. Ladders were a lot more difficult to implement than I had anticipated so I followed a tutorial that would just get it to go up. I still chose the ladder instead of a platform because it's always available to the player when it's needed, the player would literally need to get pick themselves back up from the bottom to continue, and with how we had made the wait timer to stand up be triggered if the player's not moving up or down, if the player lands there in that state they're never standing up. 

Thanks for the feedback and for playing the game! I'll take your perspective into account for the next game.

Thanks so much for playing! :)

Thanks for your thoughts! Although here's a couple things that we want to clear up from our perspective.

From what we've seen from when we were looking around at other platformers for inspiration, lots do have "limited" or "fixed" movement to keep the game balanced and leave the game's limits up to the player. The movement here is not completely restrictive as it's physics based, but it's because it's not entirely fixed that the player needs to take more caution than usual before their next jump as they could mess up at any point if they time some part of it wrong (which is where the risk comes in).

Some sections took more advantage of the mechanic than others but I believe that the base is there so that it can be further expanded upon like other platformers based on one mechanic but also requires precision and caution to complete (Getting over it, only up, chained together, as examples of inspiration for the game). 

For testing, we originally had a button (for debugging/playtesting with other users) that people could use to get back off the ground but it ended up being easily exploitable with no consequence and there needed to be a punishment for players that are landing on a platformer in momentum so the 1 second wait on the ground limit was implemented to counteract this. 

The most important thing we had to think up on was balance as the game should continuously challenge the player but not to a absolutely frustratingly pinpoint precision level so that climbing back up to where they previously were would be as tough a challenge as when they first came up. We felt the player should learn to become more familiar with the mechanic and get better in the process so they can pass through previous sections quicker if they were to go back down. I understand that there were other ways to use explosions as a mechanic for platformers but to not make the design process too extreme (and also fit within our abilities for 7 days), this is what we felt was the best way to utilize the mechanic and build a game around. 

Again, thank you for your thoughts, for trying out our game, and to keep expressing your thoughts to developers. 

Thanks for the feedback! The ladder was actually pretty weird to program as since the player had to essentially stick on to it and move up but it mostly works as intended so I left it alone to work on other things that were breaking the experience (you could easily clip through the original bowl model we used so we had to change it to another that wouldn't be as easy to go through for one).

As for the fart sound, it was originally going to be just the original explosion sound from unreal's starter kit but once the idea of using that particular sound came into mind, I couldn't just not include it. Maybe having the fart reverb sound as an option first in the menu would've been a better choice in hindsight.

All the other changes you made are valid as well, wish I managed to take a step back and see what more of the fundamentals were needed to make the experience more whole.

Thanks for playing!

Yeah, the benefit of switching from Godot to Unreal for this game was how well the ragdoll system worked and how adjustable it was. Of course the actual problem came up when having to actually follow the character in a technically "dead" state so there were a lot of adjustments for the final system in the game to work as intended. Nonetheless, it makes for some interesting gameplay as you become more comfortable with controlling it. Thanks for playing!

Wish I had the time to add assets that could be physically affected by the explosions but just the main character with the custom skin was a headache. Thanks for playing the game!

Also I've played a bit of yours, I really liked it but I have yet to actually play it on my desktop as the intended experience actually requieres but on browser it's really fun and cute too. I'll play it again later but congrats in advance.

One of the journeys of all time, thanks for playing!

This was made with the intention that it would be included in their training programs. Hopefully they see the vision.

Thanks for playing the game!