Thanks for the feedback.

Now that the jam is over, one of the things we want to do is take the time to tweak and tune some of the basic mechanics like jumping, and try to get it feeling just right.

We will definitely be adding music to the game at some point, but (particularly since neither of us are musicians) had to accept it wasn't going to happen in time to be included in our submission for the jam.

Thanks for the feedback.

The getting lost thing is definitely something we've recognised watching people play the demo, and have been thinking hard about how to improve. Rather than banging on about these ideas here, I might post a devlog soon on what we learned about level design in the course of this jam.

Thanks for the feedback. Yeah, complete separation of aiming and movement is an awesome mechanic and would be the dream, but without a mouse or twin-stick controller our feeling is that it's impossible to pull off without massive compromises. We've thought about ways we could use the six-button version of the Mega Drive controller, but I'm still reluctant to go down that path - I never had one back in the day, so it doesn't feel like "authentic" Mega Drive experience to me. And even with the extra buttons, the worry is that it would become slow and fiddly, sacrificing other elements of the game we're ultimately trying to make. This tech demo gives us the chance to play around with fundamentals like the control system, though, so I'm sure we'll experiment some before moving on.

Speaking of an authentic experience, it's awesome to see the demo be played on a CRT. I feel like I understand now why there are musicians still putting out their albums on vinyl :) 

Thanks for the feedback. The level for this demo is shorter and simpler than ideally we would have liked, because time was short, but hopefully it managed to give a bit more sense of the "exploration" gameplay that we want the game to offer than a pure tech-demo would have done.

Movement in a game like this feels like it will be the most straightforward thing to implement, but then the deeper you get into it the more decisions you start having to make. We'll definitely be looking to tune it as we continue to work on the game, and hopefully can dial out whatever is making it feel "floaty" to you.

Thanks. Greater variety of enemies, with distinct behaviours/strengths/weaknesses, and boss bottles are all definitely in the plans, but we were very limited in how many of our aspirations could make it in to the alpha/tech-demo release we'd decided was our goal for this jam. We hope to show some of these enhancements soon.