Congrats again on finishing your first project and for finishing on time!!
I played the whole thing from start to finish and really enjoyed the game play gimmick and how well you implemented the concept into various puzzles without the need to add any additional gimmicks. Between the difficulty ramping up and the length not being overly long, nothing overstayed its welcome.
There was input lag from my mouse that made some of the trickier jumps get a little bit frustrating, if only because I knew I had the solution down and was just fighting with the game itself to execute it. I see someone else mentioned the sticky walls as well - not only are they a good way to get somewhere you shouldn't, but they also killed me a few times lol I would clip the edge and fall down into an enemy. I'm not familiar with the program to know what to suggest on either front though.
There was also a level where I was killed by an enemy and he didn't respawn afterwards (the one with the coloured moving platforms and enemies of the same colour on them. It was the first enemy) The enemy deleting itself out of existence made my life easier though :D I'm not going to complain.
Wonderful work overall! I especially love the vibe of the game; it's very chill with the cute background animals and the dreamy music. Good work! Whether you choose to polish this or work on something new, I look forward to it ^^
Cool game! The weird art really fit well with the music, I liked it
It isn't 1-bit but the intention was there, it's tough to actually have only 2 colors on screen at any time... and your game probably fits the rules, because your art files are 1-bit!
One gameplay aspect frustrated me though... I really like a lot the "changing colors" mechanic but it was not very well implemented on the technical side, you have to get a very precise timing to change colors very fast. I'm sure you can find a way to do that, that would greatly enhance the player experience!
Cool game! I will def rate it once we can, 1 thing i will say (i like to see the breakability of game jam games), you can jump over the boundaries just by spamming jump, and cling to walls just by holding down A or D. As it is your first time, im not really going to much doc for it, but its just a pointer :smiley-face: Also, i just randomly bugged out on the smiley face levels multiple times (i didnt try anything, it just bugged), maybe implement a level reset button? (like "R" or something)
The art is really cool, i would just be careful with the greys, as it is truly meant to be 2 colors only, which means only 1 color (black in your case), and 1 other, (white). In this instance, there are 5 different colors in 1 shot (im not mean so i am not going to doc everything here), so just be careful with that.
I got Super Far, and then the game FROZE AGAIN 6 minutes in. Seems like a fun game, but I really can't keep going. If you fix the freezing, then lmk and I might try it again.
Overall, a really fun game just limited by the freezing! Music was great, 5/5 on that.
If you get a chance, could you rate my game? It is The State Of Matter. Thanks!
Gameplay: 2/5
Sound: 5/5
Art: 4/5 (some of the artworks didn't really fit together)
Not sure why there are any greys in anything, i only ever used solid black and white. Maybe has something to do with compression and large pictures? i will try and go back to fix that, i noticed that on the bunny animation too. Not sure about the freezing though, I cant seem to replicate that problem so i wouldn't know how to fix it. "Q" is respawn
i didnt know that! maybe put that in the description of the game. as for compression, on images, set filter to point and compression to none :smileyface:
Thank you very much for pointing these out. I uncompressed background images, fixed the smiley face issue (collider was set too low, I did fix that previously but editor crash might have undid that). I changed Respawn to 'R' since that appears to be the norm.
It might be that the texture filter is "linear" instead of "nearest", if you used Godot to make your game you can go to Project Settings and in texture you can change "default texture filter" to nearest: what this does is that when displaying an image with pixels bigger than 1x1 (for example, if you scale an image), for each actual pixel on the screen, instead of picking a color in between the colors of the two nearest pixels it will chose the exact color of the nearest pixel (I might not have explained very well but that's my understanding of it)
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Fun game! Great job. The black/white player was a cool use of the theme, and the movement felt great
Congrats again on finishing your first project and for finishing on time!!
I played the whole thing from start to finish and really enjoyed the game play gimmick and how well you implemented the concept into various puzzles without the need to add any additional gimmicks. Between the difficulty ramping up and the length not being overly long, nothing overstayed its welcome.
There was input lag from my mouse that made some of the trickier jumps get a little bit frustrating, if only because I knew I had the solution down and was just fighting with the game itself to execute it. I see someone else mentioned the sticky walls as well - not only are they a good way to get somewhere you shouldn't, but they also killed me a few times lol I would clip the edge and fall down into an enemy. I'm not familiar with the program to know what to suggest on either front though.
There was also a level where I was killed by an enemy and he didn't respawn afterwards (the one with the coloured moving platforms and enemies of the same colour on them. It was the first enemy) The enemy deleting itself out of existence made my life easier though :D I'm not going to complain.
Wonderful work overall! I especially love the vibe of the game; it's very chill with the cute background animals and the dreamy music. Good work! Whether you choose to polish this or work on something new, I look forward to it ^^
Cool game! The weird art really fit well with the music, I liked it
It isn't 1-bit but the intention was there, it's tough to actually have only 2 colors on screen at any time... and your game probably fits the rules, because your art files are 1-bit!
One gameplay aspect frustrated me though... I really like a lot the "changing colors" mechanic but it was not very well implemented on the technical side, you have to get a very precise timing to change colors very fast. I'm sure you can find a way to do that, that would greatly enhance the player experience!
Cool game! I will def rate it once we can, 1 thing i will say (i like to see the breakability of game jam games), you can jump over the boundaries just by spamming jump, and cling to walls just by holding down A or D. As it is your first time, im not really going to much doc for it, but its just a pointer :smiley-face: Also, i just randomly bugged out on the smiley face levels multiple times (i didnt try anything, it just bugged), maybe implement a level reset button? (like "R" or something)
The art is really cool, i would just be careful with the greys, as it is truly meant to be 2 colors only, which means only 1 color (black in your case), and 1 other, (white). In this instance, there are 5 different colors in 1 shot (im not mean so i am not going to doc everything here), so just be careful with that.
I got Super Far, and then the game FROZE AGAIN 6 minutes in. Seems like a fun game, but I really can't keep going. If you fix the freezing, then lmk and I might try it again.
Overall, a really fun game just limited by the freezing! Music was great, 5/5 on that.
If you get a chance, could you rate my game? It is The State Of Matter. Thanks!
Gameplay: 2/5
Sound: 5/5
Art: 4/5 (some of the artworks didn't really fit together)
Use of Theme: 4/5
1-Bit: 4/5
Not sure why there are any greys in anything, i only ever used solid black and white. Maybe has something to do with compression and large pictures? i will try and go back to fix that, i noticed that on the bunny animation too. Not sure about the freezing though, I cant seem to replicate that problem so i wouldn't know how to fix it. "Q" is respawn
i didnt know that! maybe put that in the description of the game. as for compression, on images, set filter to point and compression to none :smileyface:
as soon as a level loads in, press the jump button to replicate
Thank you very much for pointing these out. I uncompressed background images, fixed the smiley face issue (collider was set too low, I did fix that previously but editor crash might have undid that). I changed Respawn to 'R' since that appears to be the norm.
no problem!
It might be that the texture filter is "linear" instead of "nearest", if you used Godot to make your game you can go to Project Settings and in texture you can change "default texture filter" to nearest: what this does is that when displaying an image with pixels bigger than 1x1 (for example, if you scale an image), for each actual pixel on the screen, instead of picking a color in between the colors of the two nearest pixels it will chose the exact color of the nearest pixel (I might not have explained very well but that's my understanding of it)
I love the background and the music! and the transition is really cool!!
tis done!