Hmm, I would advise to imagine that you don't have a month. Imagine the game should be done in two weeks. And reserve the other two weeks only for unplanned difficulties. Good luck!
Hey people, we are currently a team of two: a programmer and an artist. We are going to make a top down hacking-themed game on this jam. We'll likely use Creative Commons music in the game, but as it comes to sound effects, in would be very cool to have a dedicated sound designer. If you're a good one I'll integrate FMOD just for you. :D
Enjoyed the art style! Had a little struggle in the beginning, because the camera was on a nearby log and I thought I need to jump there :D Only after 10-20 failed attempts I realized there are other directions to look at.
Nice game, I like the minimalism here. The only issue I had was a small animation glitch with Forward Jump Forward Left in level 7 and Left Forward Jump Forward in level 8.
Good one! I found it quite easy, never even needed to move lights (and it would be too slow anyway probably), but the game surely can be fun after a bit tweaking!
Not a bad start, but ghost behaviour sucks - can just walk near the wall every level. Maybe if it saw the player and jumped a few tiles at once or something, it would be more challenging. Same for candies, I noticed they decrease each step, but still I never had a need to be economical with steps.
Also movement is laggy for me (though I ran on Linux under wine).
Liked the humor and atmosphere. Levels are not bad, but clunky at times - colliders are too rectangular and strict, corridor ceilings are too low, have to jump blindly without knowing where is the safe spot to land, etc. Also they feel very similarly, so I gave up eventually (but I still won at first playthrough with chicken ending :P).
Got a crash, when in level with two monsters I pressed W after dying.
___________________________________________ ############################################################################################ ERROR in action number 1 of Key Press Event for W-key Key for object oSign:
Unable to find any instance for object index '7' name 'oPlayer' at gml_Object_oSign_KeyPress_87 ############################################################################################ gml_Object_oSign_KeyPress_87 (line -1)
And in the same level, I went to the left (after reloading the game) and fell from the level.
Yeah, I didn't have much time for balancing (and I only got 503 points myself max, because there was no time to play it much), currently only speed increases over time, and the most frequent element should be fire (so it's hard to not play at all). I guess it maybe accidentally got balanced by something else. :'D
My use-case is creating a map (for in-game level selection) with both mountains and deserts at once (not completely flat, maybe a bit wavy at times). I'm not an artist to create textures myself, this is why I'm looking at this tool in the first place :)
If I buy the current version do I also get the update to next version and further updates for free?
Enjoyed the game and the minimalism of its mechanics, reminded me of Pacman. Footstep audio though was annoying, and it was a bit disappointing to collect pages, which can't be actually read afterwards.
The core and graphics are good, but the level is based around doing the same thing on repeat with little variation. I guess my game suffers from this too...
I liked the mechanic, it's kind of a co-op game where you control both avatars!
Some elements weren't obvious or didn't stand out well over background, but I figured out after a while.
It seems like the mechanic, while good, is a bit limiting, so you had to add those jumpers, which I hated, because they are hard to use. But since the game is short, it was an enjoyable experience overall. :)
Good game, unfortunately I placed a sunk wall in one of levels and can't remove it (all other objects I can remove with right click except this one)...
Cool that all characters are with different abilities, would be interesting to see them interacting with each other (like e.g. in DROD). Black tank was kind of boring, but I liked the snake twist/trolling in the last level. :)
Also nice touch is the ability to undo the restart :D
Thanks you very much for recording, sorry that all is lagging, need to optimize... :/ We managed to get it to 30 fps for my PC (weakest in the team) by the end of the jam, but still not enough.
Nice Thomas was a clone idea! Or clown :o) Like the graphics!
Some more feedback: not very clear at start that climbing by fat guy is possible. Hard/impossible to go out of spikes pit. Even less clear that climber can make ladders through floors! And intro texts are too fast for me to read. :)
