The idea with the magnet is nice, and, overall, the puzzles were alright, but here's a couple of things that I didn't like:
- most of all, the character controls are not good; the jump felt floaty, the movement was unresponsive; throwing the magnet felt junky; whenever you fall on the ground, you slow down for some reason... a big room for improvement in my opinion
- a lot of time is wasted on waiting for all the mechanisms to move; please, make them move faster!
- in the later part of the game there were a couple of puzzles that solved themselves for me; I simply jumped on some buttons in a random order to see what they did and found myself solving the puzzle, not realizing what exactly I did to solve it; maybe it's just luck though
- the last puzzle was quite easy for me, I feel like it should've been harder
I believe I released my first game back in 2014, it was also a 2d pixel art platformer made in gamemaker :) have been making these kinds of games games since
I'm also an okay pixel artist\animator, and know a bit about music (but am not a pro by any stretch)
Hey! Thanks for the review, I really appreciate it! Glad you liked the demo :)
There are 3 people already commenting on the attack getting eaten thing. It actually was a deliberate design choice, but it seems like I might have to change it at least a little bit since so many people find it frustrating. Oh well!
Most of the features you are talking about will certainly be in the final game, it's just takes a lot of time to code all these different menus, and I wanter to roll out the demo asap :D
And don't worry, there's certainly will be story and lore
