Thanks, glad to hear you liked it!

Art/animations were for the assets, so credit where credit is due! 

Thank you for the very in-depth review and kind words 💪🏼😊

You got lot of our points we were trying to make with the game, so lovely to hear that we didn't "hide" them too deep 😅

Hahah, don't beat yourself up mate, it's a learning curve for sure, sometimes running works and sometimes few risky dodges might reward you to get the xp. Also once you get few powerups it gets easier. Was hard to find a perfect balance between difficult but doable and so that it would work for everyone. That's for sure something even more in-depth game testing would have helped with.

Thanks, that's exactly what we wanted to portray with the "dimensions", and I do completely agree that art work synergy ain't the greatest. Neither one of us are artists, but we knew we didn't want the levels and cutscenes to be too similar since they're two different dimensions, so couldn't use the same art assets and couldn't find two different ones that would fit out idea. Definitely need to find an artist for the next one 😅😅

Thank you 😊

Hahah please do, we tried some SFX on the shooting and on enemy hit, tried volume, fading, etc but they just overwhelming since there was so many hits happening at some point. But yeah I do agree that SFX is needed, just didn't have time to find and fine-tune perfect ones 

Thanks! :)

Thanks mate! Glad to hear you enjoyed it :)

Well we're not artists nor musicians, so those we obviously have to get them somewhere to start with. It's not everyones cup of tea and we didn't have someone who could do those in our team unfortunately. But I do understand your point, but still I would argue that most of the game was made by us :D From creating the story, to the coding, to the gameplay, to making cutscenes and building everything together and things like boss having same powerUps as your choices/etc, so even with us not making the art ourselves I wouldn't say that we didn't contribute.

Dimension wise I would say that mental health is a dimension of yourself and fighting your inner demons takes you into your own head and facing yourself as the main boss is part of it and that's in a different "dimension". That's how we liked to think the theme. We didn't want to just go with the dimension changing, we wanted to think other aspects of the word dimension as in having two worlds (the real one where the cutscenes take place and the gameplay where you face your inner demons and fights inside your head). Mental dimensions and a lot that revolves around that.

Yeah I completely agree on the contrast of these two art styles, as mentioned before unfortunately we had to go with what we had and we didn't want the art to be the same, since we wanted to show the dimensions of those two separate worlds and how the person sees himself in his head is different.

Balancing the game for sure is difficult and don't get me wrong we worked HARD on that and in the end we felt like we found somewhat a working solution and the feedback I got it seems people have got to the end. It can be beaten with other PowerUps as well, but obviously speed works for one kind of tactic. 

Just tried to bring our ideas/thoughts on your points and I do appreciate the honest and indepth feedback and don't take my answers as attacks on your points, they're good questions and I appreciate them and I hoped that I was able to open our thought process and answer your questions :) !

It's true, it ain't always fun, but by facing your inner demons and seeking help, it can turn to happiness at some point, or at least managable :) 

Thank you for your comment and sweet words :) 

Thanks! That was something I personally really liked and will definitely in the future further develop for some other game perhaps! Choices you make affect your story and especially since your boss fight was yourself, it was obvious that he would have to have same kind of powers. 

Thanks, great to hear you liked it! 

Thanks for the comment! :) Yeah we wanted them to be two different worlds, the other one is in his head fighting the inner demons. Glad you liked it and found it fun!

We wanted to add a lot more powerUps and other stuff, but didn't want to make it too long either + tbh also started running out of time. :D

Thank you so much! :) Haha, yeah the vision blurring was last minute add, but we ended up loving it and how it brought another dimension to it, since inner demons can very easily blacken your whole view of life and all that :D 

Aah yeah, the art we used for it wasn't the greatest, not artists ourselves so that was a bit hard. But appreciate the feedback and the review! :) 

Thanks for the review. Yeah it might take a few tries , especially if games like this ain't your genre.

But glad to hear you made it further. Didn't want the game to be too easy though, it's a hard balance to find something that works for everyone.

Thank you so much for the comment! Yeah it's a hard start, but once you get a powerUp or two it gets easier and then the boss fight gets interesting since it might have some differences based on your powerUp choices! :D 

It's not everyones cup of tea and I completely understand that though! :) Theres always games for everyone and that's what I love about gameJams and game development all together, so many different ideas/genres as there are imaginations thinking them.

Thank you so much for the comment! I do agree that the styles should intertwine a bit better, but we also wanted it to have different styles, since the other one is happening in his mind, so in there it's his imagination and mental health and has to fight the inner demons to be able to surive. Also art was not our strong suit, we needed to stay with free assets, so hard to find something that are different but still work together well! :) 

Thank you so much, means a lot! :)

You and me both mate, you and me both :D Glad to hear that you enjoyed it! Tried to have our own twist, with the story and the boss fights! 

Thank you so much! :) Means a lot

Glad to hear, yeah we tried to be careful not to take it too far but also give player an actual game to play instead of just the story.

Hahah, yeah we wanted it to be difficult, but still doable. It might take some tries but once you get a level or two (maybe take a further path to the xp), you will start to absolutely destroy the inner demons and then you'll meet the BOSS :D 

Thanks for the review and kind words! 

Yeah we kind of ran out of time to add a lot more powerUps, since most of the powerUps also affect how the boss is going to be after level 1, so it wasn't just adding a simple powerUp, but also hooking it to how it affected the boss. But if there would be further development on this, I would love to add so many more powerUps (I got loads in my head :D )

Thank you for the review and glad to hear that you liked it!