Thanks dude really glad you've had fun with the game !
Yeah most of the time the best i can do is try and mash up some oldschool games's elements i like together and put my own spin on it, and seeing that people seem to like it, it might not be that bad of a process i guess XD
At first i wasn't sure if i should keep the real time switching or not but then i thought it would probably not be fun being stuck with one character past the selection screen, so i had the players decide in a "portrait of ruin" kinda way :p
Yeah i wanted to try and have a sort of dodge mechanic with I Frames that would double for some movement in the levels, to mix it up a bit from just run jump attack, and i mean come on its a video game, if you get some i frames might as well be able to slide trhough some fire :)