Post by Imaynotbehere4long in small graphical inconsistency (almost fixed)

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I hope you're not feeling too down about all the problems I keep posting. As I said before, I think the game is good, and I really like it. I did find a couple more issues, though:

1) If I use the Hikkori Skull's phasing power and redirect my trajectory upward into a ceiling, I'll sometimes get stuck and stop moving until the phasing phase is over.

2) Another very minor graphical issue, but the purple smoke from the Hikkori Skull's phasing power is layered behind doors.

EDIT: Just noticed a typo in the ending: you wrote "rethorical" but the correct spelling is rhetorical.

Yal18 days ago(+1)

I don't think I've ever gotten this much detailed feedback from a test player before, but I wasn't expecting to have hundreds of tiny things to fix in a project I released half a decade ago... :P

(I'm adding all these things to my todo list even if I'm not acknowledging them with commentary)

Imaynotbehere4long18 days ago

Good to hear.

By the way, I forgot to mention another grammar mistake I noticed in the ending: Lloyd says "needs of the many is" even though the subject of the sentence is needs (plural), so that "is" should be are.

Imaynotbehere4long18 days ago

One more thing: the Big Hikkori snakes in the final world seem to have a hitbox issue. Their faces are harmless (even as far down as their mouths), but their tails seem to hurt you before you actually make contact with them. Did the hitbox get misaligned at some point after testing them?

Yal17 days ago(+1)

It's very possible, I'll need to look into it.

Imaynotbehere4long16 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

Just encountered a glitch where I hikkori-phased into the finish line and my character turned invisible until the game went back to the world map. I tried recreating it a couple times, but was unable to, so it might be one of those frame-perfect glitches where you have to beat the level right when or right before you transform back or something.

Also, I didn't mention this when I first posted about v1.0.8, but every now and then, the game won't boot into fullscreen properly, instead being misaligned down and right. Exiting and reentering fullscreen fixes the bug, so it's not a huge issue, and I also suspect it's on Game Maker's end because this never happened to me while playing v1.0.7.

EDIT: One more glitch: I entered a door right before I got hit by a projectile and died, but then the other room loaded and I was fine. I even had full health again, even though I was just one hit away from death beforehand.

Imaynotbehere4long15 days ago

Hey, I just noticed an odd quirk with the Balloon Cake's power: if you're floating and you move forward, you fall a bit faster than if you float down without horizontal movement. What was your reasoning behind this decision? Not saying you should change it; I'm just curious.

Yal14 days ago

That one is a bug, it's not an intended mechanic. I guess it could be related to the code handling slopes? Every horizontal movement starts by trying to move you down, it should ignore aerial states but maybe something is weird with balloon floating.

Imaynotbehere4long14 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

In the Sound Room, you mentioned being concerned about Rocket Rise being monotonous, and during my playthrough, I did start to feel that way about it. What do you think about using The Road Warrior for the cloud-tileset levels instead, leaving Rocket Rise for the skybase-tileset levels? I think it would work nicely for those levels as well as use a previously unused track. At the very least, I think it would fit Very Long Fall in particular.

EDIT: Speaking of Very Long Fall, there's a hole in the bottom-right wall that's plugged by an invisible wall, but previous levels have taught players that they can jump into those gaps by holding down to duck. This means the fake gap implies a secret area but is actually a cheap hit. Please plug the gap with regular, visible solid tiles instead.

Imaynotbehere4long11 days ago(+1)

More Sound Room typos:

So, I looked it up, and the correct spelling in English is actually "Minuet," with an i. "Menuet" with another e is the French spelling. Also, Dr. and Reaper should have a space between them just like Mr. and Lloyd should in the intro.

Imaynotbehere4long11 days ago(+1)

A couple things I forgot to mention before:

- In the vertically-wrapping room near the end of the game, moving into a wall while falling past the wrap-point will kill your vertical momentum as you almost land on the ceiling block. Do you think extending the walls vertically out-of-bounds will result in a smoother fall?

- The change-log says that coins now refill your magic meter a bit, but this is true only for loose coins. Activating coin blocks doesn't change the magic meter at all. Was this intentional?

Yal10 days ago

It was not intentional. I forgot coins collected this way are a different object.

Imaynotbehere4long8 days ago

A similar case to the Balloon Cake: doing a running jump is lower-height than jumping straight up without horizontal movement--and by a full unit, too. I'm guessing this is a side-effect of that same "move the player down when walking" code?

Yal7 days ago

That one sounds extreme enough that it might be on purpose (conservation of momentum and all that), I'll have to look into it. And you're 100% certain it's not because of releasing the jump button early when doing the running jump? (There's variable jump height so doing that will give less than a full jump)

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