Did the game look and feel smooth on your machine?

Everything worked out smooth

Could you navigate the levels without confusion?

I got through three levels with little confusion. I didn't realize the fire hurt me at first, so danger awareness was acquired through dying.

Was the game too easy/challenging?

Once I got the hang of the game, it became much easier to navigate. I did not get to any boss fights or any puzzles requiring too much complexity, so I can't comment on those.

Did you have fun playing?

I don't play a lot of platformers, but the good ones always are relaxing and this one relaxed me, so it must be good.

The game ran fine for me.

I only had time to play the first two levels.  Didn't have any trouble navigating.  They were fairly easy, but I don't think that I can really give a good answer to the question of difficulty with the short time I had to play.

I did have fun playing and I really enjoyed the music.  

I don't play a lot of platformers so I am not sure what advice I could really give here to improve it further.  Adding some kind of visual effect when an enemy is destroyed would make it more satisfying to hit them I'd say.

I didn't get very far into the game but I played the first 2 levels:

Did the game look and feel smooth on your machine?

Yes, but I have quite a good PC. A little bit of a weird visual tear roughly in the centre of the scren when I jumped around half the time, this was on a 144hz monitor.

Could you navigate the levels without confusion?

Kind of, I don't see the point of the very zoomed in state and could have done with a level of zoomed out more or even 2 more levels of zoomed out, but the level map UI made it easy to cross reference.

Was the game too easy/challenging?

I didn't play for very long because I don't really play platformers, but it was good so far. 

Did you have fun playing?

Yes, I liked the music and the sound of the crab/ the fact crabs move sideways and the theme feels nice and original.

All other feedback is greatly appreciated as well!

I was a bit confused why there were mushrooms in a beach theme. 

Wasn't sure if the fish/platforms were damaging me as they seemed to be but I couldn't see any indication of current HP. I think enemies need more obvious animations and player needs screen tint for damage or a heart UI system, since it seems you don't die in 1 hit.

The controls UI screen is really good. (And also nice to see controller support too, I played with keyboard  only and the controls felt good, although W + S controlling zoom was a bit weird initially.)

- Did the game look and feel smooth on your machine?

- Works perfectly fine.

- Could you navigate the levels without confusion?

- "Level Select" has collision shapes which tracks Overlap, I'm entering the level immediately by touching the collision shape by subpixel of the character's mesh. Needs more room to move around, and Interaction with a signboard of desired level instead of Collision Shape->Begin Overlap event.

- Was the game too easy/challenging?

- Inconsistent. It has some strange game design. Why can the generic platform (fish in the water) do damage to me? My hits can whiff at point blank, making me open for incoming damage. The character's mesh is rotated instead of flipping, probably it is intentional but common Platformer games usually utilizes the mirroring of character's sprites. To flip the mesh, multiply Y.scale by -1.0f instead of adding +180.0f to the Z.rotation.

- Did you have fun playing?

- Thanks for gamepad support. It was very fun until Level 4, where the environment was too hostile with all these fish-like platforms and fires always hurt me.

- All other feedback is greatly appreciated as well!

- You're using [Destroy Actor] blueprint node which makes the target Actor disappear instantly. Instead, I would recommend to make some animation of destruction/death, make the enemy's mesh dissolve (Mask out the opacity in Material properties. You will need a Dynamic Material Instance to operate the Scalar Parameter values in Blueprints), and call [Destroy Actor] just after that.

Had me laughing at the sounds and the environmental settings. Music feels suitable and the levels are diverse. I would've liked some landing animation to let me know when the crab is fully grounded and can rejump.

Well done AsE,

What Stood Out (For Me):

Art Style / Theme:

I like the art style and theme of the game, it reminds me of my crash bandicoot days.

Variation in Environment:

When I plunged underwater and found I was able to jump much higher, that was a cool experience.
I think expanding on this could be a great way to open up various forms of gameplay for players.

Power-Ups:

Although rare, at least in my playthrough thus, they provide some ability enhancement that diverges from the traditional gameplay.


Feedback:

Coyote Time:

I think adding coyote time to jumps is a good idea for most platformers, it usually provides a smoother gameplay experience for players:

Telegraphing Enemy Attacks:

The mushrooms specifically, I was unsure when exactly they were going to attack. Perhaps providing a more obvious load-up phase for attacks, or a red area around them indicating how far away you need to be, would be helpful.

Limited View:

I did figure out that you can zoom out a bit, however the limited view still posed a problem in some cases:

There were a few times where I was either able to jump really high, or I was on high ground and I needed to progress to the left or right (usually right), but there was no way of knowing what lies below when falling down. It feels a bit like rolling dice to see if I'll end up getting hit when I fall down (especially by the fish).

Having an ability to directionally move the camera in an intended direction (even if briefly) could help with this. 


Control Pop-ups On First Encounter:

When first encountering the breakable ground tile, I think it would be convenient to show a pop-up of ("E") for players that have yet to pause the game and are unfamiliar with how to break the tile ground. This could provide smoother gameplay. (But I do appreciate the pause menu)

Checkpoints:

Checkpoints, for more casual players, might be beneficial, so they don't have to start from the very beginning when they lose a life. (It provides a sense of progression, especially to those less skilled in platformers)



Keep it up! 👏

This game is so weird but not in a bad way. Very creative setting and layouts. There can be some improvements after applying some after effects and such, but I liked the overall aesthetic. The pause menu surprised me the most, really cool looking. Well done!

Overall had fun playing. Nice sound effects and I also liked the boss design. Reached level 9. The initial levels were easy (that is good to get to know how game works), diffuculty progression on later levels was also fine. I got stuck for a while on level 8 and got frustrated a little by having to repeat all of the level every time to get to the place I needed to practise. You could add some life refreshes somewhere on levels maybe, so player can take more than 3 hits on one try, or checkpoint in the middle of the level. But maybe I'm just bad at platforming :)

The whole game brings up Little Big Planet vibes. Maybe adding more interactable things like buttons, triggers or movable objects to enable logic riddles would make the game mechanics more interesting. Also a well animated character is important for platformer games. Walk animation make crab look like it is floating and breaking jump animation where needed would also make difference (When you jump and hit ceiling and fall to ground faster, the jump animation still playes while crab is already on ground).

I also found that the rotating platforms can get you at really high speed when jumping on them at the right moment. Maybe that is a good developement direction for some harder levels?

Good luck on further developement :)

Hello. The game played smooth and the levels were easy to follow, with or without the mini-map. The difficulty was ok and it was overall fun! Maybe increase the crab animation frames to show the legs moving faster and reflect its speed?

The game was smooth  here, but I had a problem with the  Anti-Aliasing, the levels are intuitive but I find it a little bit easy, besides that i see some potential on the game

doesn't run on browser or linux, can't play it :(