Ebb and Feel

not-tomo 2021-10-04 23:38

Absolutely loved the atmosphere and music! The environments and character art were both beautiful. The falling platform mechanic was well-implemented, though they felt like they took a little too long to respawn.

3lstmsinatrenchcoat 2021-10-05 00:45

The movement is a bit too slow for me, but the level art and the music are really pretty.

sorrer 2021-10-05 01:47

Art and music are so good! The movement and platforming mechanic felt a bit slow and I couldn't jump after landing on a platform a few minutes into the level. Otherwise love the atmosphere!

seracrooce 2021-10-05 01:57

Art and Music were really good! Though the animations felt a bit weird to me, I thought that the movement felt good and was intuitive. Even if it was on the slow side.

hwaet 2021-10-05 01:59

The art and music are great. Wonderful ambience! The character controller needs work. It's too slow (if you want slow, I suggest a different walk cycle). There are times when the walk cycle didn't trigger and other times when the colliders didn't work and I fell through stable platforms. It's a great first pass.

baconeta 2021-10-05 05:35

@not-tomo we did consider speeding them up... but we didn't get any playtester or self feedback to reminded us to actually do it!

@3lstmsinatrenchcoat @sorrer thanks for playing and for giving feedback! Honestly, we were gonna roll with our sad level to be a little slower feeling than the others but we just never sped it up on the others. A quick and minor change I think we could easily make.

@hwaet @seracrooce I was literally so close to fixing the animations but I just ran out of crunch time :( It was based on a bug that I've fixed before so i knew what to do... Next time I'll prioritise better but if you wanna give it a another replay in a few days on our dev branch, please come check back!!

brooobin 2021-10-05 16:48

I genuinely love the art and music, that really brings the atmosphere come to life. Unfortunately I experience some unexpected things. Sometimes the walk animation doesn’t start and I just slide. Also the ‘enemies’ disappear sometimes, and I am not sure if that is as designed or if that is a bug.

baconeta 2021-10-05 17:31

@brooobin hey! thank you for playing!

The sliding is a known issue (oops, that's my bad) that I've fixed but don't want to add onto the main code branch in the spirit of LD. The enemies are supposed to disappear, although it shouldn't be quite so sudden as it is (and should let the player know more info about them through notifications). To explain, it is a representation of sanity that the monsters are disappearing.

Hope this helps!

brooobin 2021-10-05 17:36

@baconeta Ahh yeah it does! Thanks.

mejzlosh 2021-10-05 17:58

Beautiful! The artstyle with the music just sucks you in. The overall pace and pathfinding might be a bit slow for me to enjoy it to the fullest. Reminded me of Mononoke and child of light :)

st00nsa 2021-10-05 18:56

The music... it's so good. It's give the atmosphere and the mood. Love it. I really miss checkpoints or just lives (hp), it's super hard to pass monsters and cactuses.

baconeta 2021-10-05 19:06

@st00nsa Monsters don't kill you, but they do something else :)

There's a few tricks to getting past the spiky bushes... can you figure it out?

Thank you for giving our game a go though! We appreciate you :)

st00nsa 2021-10-05 19:15

@baconeta I have tried it again. So the monsters are not hiting me. But I can't figure out how to pass bushes... And what potion do?

baconeta 2021-10-05 19:18

@st00nsa ... it's kind of part of the experience of problem solving to figure it out! :) Try checking out the flowers on one of the early platforms... some messages appear as you play - read and solve ;)

Also the potion(s) has(ve) a slight effect that makes one of the mechanics of the game easier or harder, depending on where you are.

Part of the challenge is to work it out! :D

trypants 2021-10-05 21:49

Environment art is beautiful!

Minor things: Controls felt a bit "floaty". Falling out of screen felt too long. Going back to the beginning every time got a bit frustrating. Would have liked some indications on what are my goals/objectives.

Music was good. Love the ambience.

noctiphobia 2021-10-07 04:41

Lovely graphics and music, creating nice mood. I appreciate not doing pixel art (although I understand why it's chosen so often).

Some minor things: character should move faster, I also agree with the "floaty" comment. The animation after landing didn't switch to walking animation. Some checkpoints would be nice, too.

bqq 2021-10-07 19:51

The background art and music create a wonderful mood! The gameplay felt pretty punishing, some checkpoints as mentioned above would really help so I wouldn't need to backtrack if I waste the red potion for example.

potkirland 2021-10-07 21:47

i really like the idea but i got a little lost! the mood is awesome really and this was done in js?? pretty good.. hope to see a build with clearer istructions and play it again :smile:

turquoise-moon 2021-10-07 23:37

I love the art. I also got a little lost, wasn't really sure what I needed to do.

laurari 2021-10-17 16:19

Amazing art and fantastic music (kudos for the composer!!), but I did not understood the game :sweat_smile: I agree with the comments above: it would be nice to change the speed of the character, the animations between states need some fixes, checkpoints would be appreciated, falling takes forever, the credits button is not working...

I would also like to have some more context of what each potion does, because I used them both but didn't notice anything (maybe more velocity with the pink one?)

Nice entry but needs some polishing, hope to see an update someday!! :smile:

kiwi663 2021-10-20 18:35

Very cute game! I love your art and mood!