Holy shit, this game was awesome all around! It's really funny and charming, and I really liked how well polished it was. I genuinely think this is a serious contender for the winner of the jam. Amazing work!!!!!!
This game was great! While it is short, the artstyle, writing and the pure vibe of the world carries the experience all the way through. The soundtrack was pretty nice, but I think the game would have benefited from having some more ambient sound effects, like distant church bells ringing out from time to time or just hearing the wind blow. Just some more sounds to add to the mood.
A lot of the mechanics are rough and unpolished and I should have spent more time making the core gameplay loop better. Definitely gonna improve it sometime in the future.
There is a tutorial but I don't think I explained the mechanics of the teleport well enough. You are sort of meant to rely on the teleport mostly and only walk to get in range of neon lights, but I should have designed the levels better to incorporate that.
The gems were a last minute implementation which is why they don't work that well.
Tbh I'm not really sure what i was thinking when it comes to how the background moves. It is tied to player movement because I wanted it to have a 3D-esque perspective kinda thing, but it didn't look that good and I didn't change it for some reason.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! The dash mechanic is really rough around the edges. I wrote in the tutorial that you can dash when in range of neon signs but I should have better included the tutorial or made a better tutorial in general. I'm definitely gonna improve the particle system sometime in the future because after playtesting I saw that the lag is a serious issue.
It's also pretty much the first real 2d platformer I've ever made, so I haven't really gotten the physics and movement completely down yet.
