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Pretty cool level design!

Alot of begginer pixelartist make the mistake of having good sprites but no consistency at all, all of the games sprites look really good individualy but look very mistmached and off putting when put together, it looks like 3 artstyles at once, good tip would be to use Lospec for color palletes and sticking strictly to the color pallete, or when designing a charater to use the color pallette of the assets you use. Even more important is that every pixel is the same sizes, so all the sprite are imported at native size + no object scaling in the engine, another thing is that you always keep every object on the grid besides non static objecets so that the game retains that pixel perfect look that gives pixelart games its charm. Rules are made  to be broken but I think you have to learn the fundementals first cause pixelart can be a bit of a difficult art form at times and it takes quite alot of skill to execute very well :D.

The movement system is quite rudimentary and it lacks cayote jump (Being able to jump even after falling off a platform for a small time interval) and the pre jump... thing... forgot the name (clicking the jump button in the air makes it so that for a short time you will jump if you hit the ground), thease things are really important for any platformer really and are the core things why games like celeste feel so good and satisfying to play, the dash mechanic is quite well done but a tad bit too snappy, maybe the player should retain a little bit more momentum after the dash. There also seems to be a little delay between clicking a key and the character starting to move which does not ruin the game but makes it much less satisfying.

The sound effects and music were really good btw!

Overall, amazing job for your first game, my first game was way worse lol!