• As an action game

It's good, I like the whole corrupted sector concept, but the AI feels too sluggish. I couldn't understand what the induvidual powers did, either, but used them anyways. Also, the two levels felt identical, with the same enemies and boss. But, I believe you can improve all of these.

• Is the game balanced?

As far as balance goes, the game felt too easy. I rarely lost health. At some points, the sheer number of enemies coupled with the small size of rooms provided some difficulty, but the boss was too easy. (Maybe give him a melee attack too?)

• Easy to keep track of things during combat?

Mostly. Player health and enemy positions were simple to keep track of, but enemy health wasn't as all the enemies bunched up together. Ability cooldowns were fine, but since I didn't know what they did, I just kept cycling them.

As for AI...

I'm not really sure how. Since the rooms are already quite narrow, there's less scope for convincing enemy AI. Maybe you could add extra enemy types, like one that heals other enemies.

For the boss, you should add a melee attack or something. Maybe add boss stages, triggering when health goes below some level.

You should probably go through a few articles on Boss design. Those will help.

Overall, pretty good concept you've got going on. With a little more polish and a few additions, this could be great! Just think it through.

• how well it works as an action game
  • The controls are very responsive so that's good. A variety of enemies would help.
• is the game well balanced in terms of difficulty (too easy or too hard?)
  • I found it pretty easy. I didn't seem to be close to dying at any point.
• is it easy to keep track of things during combat?  esp. health, ability cooldowns, and enemies
  • Everything was pretty clear. It would help if the abilities had names maybe?

• creating convincing enemy AI besides simply chase the player and attack; advice and resources are both appreciated
  • I would recommend reading up on the Finite State Machine pattern. Here for example: https://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/finite-state-machines-theory-and-...

 It was funny when the environment changed. I agree with the other review: sometimes you feel that you didn't click even when you did. I don't think it's a bug, but perhaps it's simply that things are going fast and you miss the sheep a bit. Anyway, check that the collisions are good enough; given the pace of the game, this is important.

Giving some more variation would be nice. Giant sheeps that require multiple touches or something. Also, marking the already touched sheep would be useful.

Try to make a mobile version!

I enjoyed your game! The only thing I could say is it might be worth putting a language warning on the game's page just to sure people are aware of it before playing. :)

Hey there! I'm not on Windows at the moment but I'm curious how you got the different layout on your game's page. It looks neat!

I've added WebGL to the available platforms, so now you may test the game from your browser. Thanks!

I liked this. There were just a couple of screens that swapped out the R key for another which broke the consistency of always using R to return. I guess using arrow keys to navigate the options (instead of pecking at changing keys) may make it more accessible too?

The music fit for me, but I wonder if the different sections could trigger a nice subtle music crossfade to fit the new setting and help to paint a better picture of progress in your imagination.

Nice work! I was hooked to find out how it ended. :)

I played your game on a windows computer and here's my feed back.

• Controls

Because of the locked camera view the controls should be reversed as of s = Forward (all from characters perspective) a = Right and D = Left. Also because your just running forward there should be no need to go backwards.

Jumping in the game is delayed from when I first press space, I don't know if that is in the game or just because my computer is crappy but the jump should be one to one.

Because the jumping was delayed I couldn't get past the first jump and can't make much more feed back one last thing I noticed was a stiff running animation for the girl, this could be because of time constrains or other reason but either way its up to you to make the best choice.

- difficulty

I thought the game was reasonably challenging.  I made it to 148 point on my second try.  Seems well balanced.

- overall fun

I enjoyed the overall aesthetic  and feel of the game.  Shooting the enemies felt good with the accompanying screen shake.  I like the combinations of the four enemy types.  They all require the player to react in a different way.  Well made game! 

-critiques

I felt like I needed an incentive to play after awhile.  I'm sure this can be improved upon with adding more variety and depth of play the longer the player lives.

Hey, I noticed this game a while ago but I didn't have time to play a text based adventure. Until today: I finally checked it out and it was good / nice / it reminded me of Eclipse Phase. 

I found a bug? Actually I'm not sure, I wouldn't be surprised by a fake error message at this point in the story. Anyway here's a screenshot of it:

Anyway a little feedback for A Planet of Certain Mass: 

I loved it!

I felt like the game could make it clearer to understand (outside of text I mean) when the character isn't in control. 

It never was very clear what option forces the player forward and what doesn't, this could totally be intentional but in that case I never noticed anything that used it to hammer in a concept / as a trap / as a valuable mechanic.

I really enjoyed the pacing and in particular the first instance of the text just changing ( I was fine / freaked out or something along the line) instead of bringing up more info. In general I really liked that mechanic, the only criticism I have is that it didn't feel right for the choice of eye color, that was a different situation / choice / case than the previous ones.

I'm not really spooped, more like intrigued. Like a story by Agatha Christie isn't really scary but it is mysterious and fascinating. This game reminded me of stories like SCP and those found in the Eclipse Phase manuals.

Uhm, honestly I feel like I forgot one or more choices I made but here's what I remember: I checked my health, I didn't attack the ship, I tried to pull out the girl from the tree, I wrote that the AI was still working.

Finally I only have one question: am I right in thinking that in this future everyone is female? The six grandmas thing and the fact that you're never told your sex (are you? maybe I missed it) is pushing me to believe that, but I'm also unsure if I just didn't pay attention to something at the beginning...

Well that's it for me, have a nice day!