It's like seeing ashes heating into a diamond. This alpha is too enjoyable to play through despite every aspect of the gameplay holding it back. Can definitely be great if you continue making it.
Also the familiar form strongly evokes the Morph Ball and that's just even more charming.
This game could be really be fun to move in as long as the level direction is right!
The slippery movement doesn't lend well to tight and precise areas. Ray's area though, felt great to run in because of the large space! What's important is making the levels mesh well with the gameplay, hope this is a step in the right direction.
Might need explanation somewhere about controls, and there's also a bug of game over screen appearing during sailing for no reason, but otherwise the game is pretty neat. I like how the protag's story is handled.
The gameplay foundation is pretty good! there's only a clunk with the slipperiness of movement. It could be kept as unique part of how the game plays, but it will interrupt with precise movement, like maneuvering around spikes.
It works pretty well on the gameplay part. Only it's hard to move the camera between the pack of jailbirds currently moving and the pack at spawn. Maybe needs a faster cam or teleport the cam.
