Post by Igor Khotin in Frostlands jam comments

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Wow! It is probably the most atmospheric game I've seen in this jam. Nice color palette - I'm getting cold just by looking at it :)

The platform physics is really well balanced - on pair with Celeste and other iconic platformers. Music is nice (although, not very gameboy-ish ;) )And you even managed to put in a backstory!

Good job!

On improvements, I'd add a full-screen button with ability to zoom the view. Controls are fine, but I would prefer more conventional layout... Maybe Arrows + Space to jump and WASD + Right shift to jump. But this one is totally subjective...

Also, for some reason the top panel is messed up in my browser (Chrome 83 + macOS 10.15). The text is shifted and scaled into unreadable form :(

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Icoso3 years ago(+1)

Wow, thanks for all your feedback! This is all greatly appreciated, thank you! :D Let me try and get through this bit-by-bit!

Thank you for the colour palette comment - I'm glad it worked! And yes, I was definitely going for a Celeste type of feel, so I'm glad you picked up on it! Thanks also for noticing the physics balance (I'm glad I got that right, phew), and yeah the music wasn't as gameboy-ish as I liked, but thanks! Also the backstory wasn't a whole lot, haha, I just thought it was a good tie in to the many adventure elements found commonly in gameboy-style games!

I've looked into some fullscreen stuff already, so thanks for that too! And yeah, I do feel the controls are a bit wack too, I just wanted to stick as closely as possible to the gameboy control panel with a D-Pad and 2 other buttons, but thanks! :D

Sorry that the UI didn't work - that reeeally isn't my strong suit. Thanks for mentioning it though, I'll try and find a fix! :D

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