It was a pretty well designed imo. There's nothing really that I disliked about it. I know it's still in beta but here's some suggestions I have from a player’s viewpoint are: it could be cool if there were some different level themes, like there could be ones that are different biomes or different times of day/night. It would also be cool if there was a little bit of shading on the dirt near the edge of the map where the dirt would kind of fade to be darker to give it a bit more atmosphere since the sun wouldn't be able to hit the lower parts of the dirt as well as it would hit the top, making it look less flat (even though its a 2d game, some shading on the ground/dirt would possibly give it more detail. Although that would probably be very time consuming for little difference.) The gameplay is pretty much perfect so most of my suggestions are texture related, but here's two gameplay related ones, possibly for another thing to interact with in the world could be a teleporter. Not sure how it could be implemented well, but thats just a random new mechanic I thought of that could possibly work if you were to make some larger levels. Another random mechanic that could make it more fast paced if you wanted certain parts to be faster paced could be speed boost pads that the player could run over to give them a slight movement speed boost for a few seconds, although fast paced isn't always a good thing, it could work for some longer levels possibly. And one last thing, I'm sure you probably already thought of this but, adding sound (and possibly background music) would give a lot more life to it. Overall I really liked the game, it was a fun time playing through it.
Thanks for the suggestions!
Art isn't my strong suit, so I just made enough to make the game feel a bit more polished. Visual variety is definitely something I'm planning on adding at some point, but I wanted to get a good grasp on how the gameplay (and maybe story) would work before I did too much on the art.
Since I mostly focused on solid gameplay mechanics, I'm very glad to hear that you don't have any complaints about those.
On the topic of speed, I don't think that it is necessary for the game to be fast-paced. As I work on the art, I hope to develop an atmosphere, so that there would be something to look at and take in as you think.
Yeah, I agree it is not necessary at all for the game to be fast paced. For the puzzle difficulty, I think it has a pretty good balance of difficulty, not too hard to where it takes too long to figure out making it repetitive, but not too easy where not much thinking is involved. I really liked the challenge of chapter 4 the most, since I liked the mechanics of having 3 blocks instead of 2 which gives it a nice difficulty boost for the final few levels. It took me about a hour and a half to complete, although I was going for the bonus parts which contain the little white dot things to collect too on almost every level so it probably took longer doing that also, but I don't think the length of the levels or game is a problem at all. Can't wait to play the completed version!