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Thanks for playing and for leaving a comment! And a very thorough list of positives and suggestions as well, nice!

It’s great to hear you liked the sliding and the gunplay. Sliding is also my favorite way of moving around the game. The enemies turned out good I think, we had a couple of designs that we didn’t have time to add, like a flying bird that drops bombs. I wish we would’ve had time to add those, but at least we got some variety in. My favorite is the cactus guy that pops out of the floor :D

That’s awesome that you liked the looping upgrades mechanic! We thought that would make things interesting, make playruns at least a bit different from one another, and tie in well with the theme. Same as with the enemies, I also wish we could’ve managed to add more upgrades than just “number” upgrades, such as the double jump you mention, or wall-bouncing, or stuff like that. At some point we mentioned making sliding or even shooting into some of the first upgrades (guaranteed at some point), but that might’ve slowed down the speed of the game too much, and maybe not feel too fair in the first runs.

I agree with your points about the floatiness, the challenge of the levels, and the variety of the levels in the different loops. For the first one, we could’ve done with more testing to find a better balance. For the other ones, we did have plans to have 3 unique maps, but like many other things in this list, we also didn’t have time lol. By the time we had the first map more or less done, we were close to the submission date. So the only option left was to try to re-use the same map but make them slightly different. However even with that limitation, there’s variety missing: the enemies are stronger but they’re the same, the tiles are the same, the blue lights make it look different but not too much. I’m glad we still got the 3 loops in, but I also definitely would’ve liked to have 3 totally different maps or at least more changes in between map repetitions.