Nice concept. Only played a few minutes so far, so can't really judge the movement. The moment in the second level which is actually shown in the screenshot on this pace seems very difficult to clear.
I tried to play on Mac but couldn't get the download to work. One of the folders on the drive (the Mac demo) was empty, and the other (Mac version.app) wouldn't open.
Game's settings screen's resolution is incorrect despite everything else seeming to be fine. Couldn't play the game due to the fat post processing stack running really poorly. Please fix the settings menu and add a toggle for the unnecessary FX.
idk if I'm doing it wrong, but wall jumping feels slow and clunky compared to the rest of the game, and I cannot figure out how to do a weird jump on level 2, I get close, but no matter what I do i cannot get the jump. Are the any videos showing what I could be doing wrong?
I completed the demo and I have to say I think with some further polishing of the gameplay that there is something here. I really like how the game makes you pay careful attention to the the structure of the levels and in turn allows for organic discovery of new routes. Funny enough I'm working on a similar genre platformer right now called Clown Meat (not out, but has a steam page) and it was interesting to see some of the overlap in ideas in the design department. A big focus for me when creating levels was to add many different paths that were naturally hidden in the terrain. I found that it similarly created a great deal of replayability, opportunity to improve, and rewarded exploration even for players not super experienced with platformers.
A few critiques I have off the top of my very tired head: - There is way too much opportunity to soft lock in this game. I understand that there is a button to solve this, but every time I realized that I was stuck it felt like an irritating walk of shame to have to initiate the games fail state for it. I believe most instances of this can be solved with intentional level design. One hole comes to mind that I got stuck in that could have reasonably be replaced with spikes of a bottomless pit.
- Some of the bottomless pits were really deep. I don't really have much to add to this one I just don't understand why some of them took like 5 seconds to fall down. Created similar frustrations to the soft locks.
- I personally felt that a lot of the vertical movement felt unengaging. The wall jumps give you very little height and the jump pads are just railroading the player in direction they're aimed at. Not the biggest deal if the game is strictly focused on horizontal movement (for the most part), but even in the speedruns that I saw those moments where you have to move vertically seemed to kill the pace a little bit.
Additional things that I liked: - Sliding and maintaining momentum by hopping felt really clean.
- How you can dash through jump pads without activating them. Made them feel like secret obstacles that were engaging to precisely execute around and helped to distract from ledges that they were nearby (made me feel like I was discovering sneaky routes).
Overall, very cool game and best of luck on your development journey. I know you've given me at least a little bit to reflect about on mine : - ). At the minimum I wish I had given further consideration to mechanics that allow you to build up very large amounts of momentum.
hey all, i've made a video about Strata speedrunning if you want to check it out! honestly it only scratches the surface on all the precise movements that were required to get the world record. -blitceed
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where is the discord cant find it.
How do you dash in mid air?
Nice concept. Only played a few minutes so far, so can't really judge the movement. The moment in the second level which is actually shown in the screenshot on this pace seems very difficult to clear.
i love the chair
Finally someone found the chair
Also seems like lots of people don't like the neutral jumping, idk why though because its really not bad at all.
I tried to play on Mac but couldn't get the download to work. One of the folders on the drive (the Mac demo) was empty, and the other (Mac version.app) wouldn't open.
Game's settings screen's resolution is incorrect despite everything else seeming to be fine. Couldn't play the game due to the fat post processing stack running really poorly. Please fix the settings menu and add a toggle for the unnecessary FX.
idk if I'm doing it wrong, but wall jumping feels slow and clunky compared to the rest of the game, and I cannot figure out how to do a weird jump on level 2, I get close, but no matter what I do i cannot get the jump. Are the any videos showing what I could be doing wrong?
you have to dash through the spikes not doube jump, then double jump to get to the end
I completed the demo and I have to say I think with some further polishing of the gameplay that there is something here. I really like how the game makes you pay careful attention to the the structure of the levels and in turn allows for organic discovery of new routes. Funny enough I'm working on a similar genre platformer right now called Clown Meat (not out, but has a steam page) and it was interesting to see some of the overlap in ideas in the design department. A big focus for me when creating levels was to add many different paths that were naturally hidden in the terrain. I found that it similarly created a great deal of replayability, opportunity to improve, and rewarded exploration even for players not super experienced with platformers.
A few critiques I have off the top of my very tired head:
- There is way too much opportunity to soft lock in this game. I understand that there is a button to solve this, but every time I realized that I was stuck it felt like an irritating walk of shame to have to initiate the games fail state for it. I believe most instances of this can be solved with intentional level design. One hole comes to mind that I got stuck in that could have reasonably be replaced with spikes of a bottomless pit.
- Some of the bottomless pits were really deep. I don't really have much to add to this one I just don't understand why some of them took like 5 seconds to fall down. Created similar frustrations to the soft locks.
- I personally felt that a lot of the vertical movement felt unengaging. The wall jumps give you very little height and the jump pads are just railroading the player in direction they're aimed at. Not the biggest deal if the game is strictly focused on horizontal movement (for the most part), but even in the speedruns that I saw those moments where you have to move vertically seemed to kill the pace a little bit.
Additional things that I liked:
- Sliding and maintaining momentum by hopping felt really clean.
- How you can dash through jump pads without activating them. Made them feel like secret obstacles that were engaging to precisely execute around and helped to distract from ledges that they were nearby (made me feel like I was discovering sneaky routes).
Overall, very cool game and best of luck on your development journey. I know you've given me at least a little bit to reflect about on mine : - ). At the minimum I wish I had given further consideration to mechanics that allow you to build up very large amounts of momentum.
Just wanted to say there's already a game named Strata on Steam. It has around 250 reviews there, so doesn't seem like it would be easy to run over
hey all, i've made a video about Strata speedrunning if you want to check it out! honestly it only scratches the surface on all the precise movements that were required to get the world record.
-blitceed