- Your upward vertical speed shouldn't come to a stop so immediately when you're on a kick-off wall... I DO get the feeling that it waits until your upward trajectory has stopped before triggering the slide, but that still has you moving downward FASTER than you would have been at that point if you were jumping in empty space, when really it should be the opposite, no? It makes me feel like the walls are dragging me downward, rather than that I'm SLOWING my descent... (so, your speed sliding down a jumpy wall should slowly accumulate from zero like it does in freefall jumps, not instantly snap to full dragging speed -- it makes me feel like I'm travelling downwards too quickly, even though dragging speed is slower than your freefall eventually becomes.) - The hitzone for the dragging walls is a bit over-generous: try hanging from the first tail-pole (on the left), then slide all the way to the wall, then hold down and tap jump. It pushes you away from the wall like you just kicked off. You can do the same thing at the top where the key was: just stand against the wall, then tap jump; it'll throw you aside like you kicked off. - This makes me notice something else about the kick-walls: you go WAY further if you aren't holding against the wall when you jump off of them (even if you let go of the key a moment after jumping) -- this is only a problem because most games with that sort of move have trained me to expect that you need to keep holding against the wall or else you'll let go of the slide and drop like a stone.... so I was always leaping away from the wall with force that the game thinks I intended to put towards coming back to the wall, even though I switched to pushing away as quick as I could once I was in the air. (Actually, is that how it's meant to work? You go REALLY far when you kick off the wall without holding a direction..!) - This is a pet peeve, but I love jumping across the screen boundary in games -- a la Mega Man -- and it always feels weird and artificial to clunk against a wall until I land on the ground at which point I'm suddenly able to walk offscreen ;) - Another pet peeve: separate speeds for horizontal and vertical parallax (or in this case, parallax and no parallax) always feels artificial to me. (Super Metroid gets away with it in Crateria, but only because those whooshing clouds are so dizzying already, I think...) - Maybe there should be a sound when you hit your head on a ceiling? Just to establish that you stopped because the thing you touched is foreground rather than background, and not just because it was the highest you can jump. (I guess it doesn't matter that much..) - The cave walls stick out a bit too far from their collision boxes, I think
While I'm at it, a few bug reports just in case: - if you start or stop moving downhill on a slope, you'll "land" continuously for a few frames. - you can send Todo into an adorable moonwalk by tapping the opposite direction while holding either direction ;) - Todo can investigate things in midair, inducing a magical temporary hovering ability :) - If you graze a jump-up-through platform JUST right, Todo will land on it but stay in his 'jumping upwards' animation and be unable to jump again until he slides off the platform. (Try it on the thin platforms above the teapot breeding grounds.)
I think that's everything? X3 I have to go to bed regardless... Sorry there's so much. Let me wind down by saying I absolutely can't wait for you to have a chance to flesh it all out with your sense of humor and whimsy :) I already love it, but I can just picture what it'll be like once you've breathed more life into it :)
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- The hitzone for the dragging walls is a bit over-generous: try hanging from the first tail-pole (on the left), then slide all the way to the wall, then hold down and tap jump. It pushes you away from the wall like you just kicked off. You can do the same thing at the top where the key was: just stand against the wall, then tap jump; it'll throw you aside like you kicked off.
- This makes me notice something else about the kick-walls: you go WAY further if you aren't holding against the wall when you jump off of them (even if you let go of the key a moment after jumping) -- this is only a problem because most games with that sort of move have trained me to expect that you need to keep holding against the wall or else you'll let go of the slide and drop like a stone.... so I was always leaping away from the wall with force that the game thinks I intended to put towards coming back to the wall, even though I switched to pushing away as quick as I could once I was in the air. (Actually, is that how it's meant to work? You go REALLY far when you kick off the wall without holding a direction..!)
- This is a pet peeve, but I love jumping across the screen boundary in games -- a la Mega Man -- and it always feels weird and artificial to clunk against a wall until I land on the ground at which point I'm suddenly able to walk offscreen ;)
- Another pet peeve: separate speeds for horizontal and vertical parallax (or in this case, parallax and no parallax) always feels artificial to me. (Super Metroid gets away with it in Crateria, but only because those whooshing clouds are so dizzying already, I think...)
- Maybe there should be a sound when you hit your head on a ceiling? Just to establish that you stopped because the thing you touched is foreground rather than background, and not just because it was the highest you can jump. (I guess it doesn't matter that much..)
- The cave walls stick out a bit too far from their collision boxes, I think
While I'm at it, a few bug reports just in case:
- if you start or stop moving downhill on a slope, you'll "land" continuously for a few frames.
- you can send Todo into an adorable moonwalk by tapping the opposite direction while holding either direction ;)
- Todo can investigate things in midair, inducing a magical temporary hovering ability :)
- If you graze a jump-up-through platform JUST right, Todo will land on it but stay in his 'jumping upwards' animation and be unable to jump again until he slides off the platform. (Try it on the thin platforms above the teapot breeding grounds.)
I think that's everything? X3 I have to go to bed regardless... Sorry there's so much. Let me wind down by saying I absolutely can't wait for you to have a chance to flesh it all out with your sense of humor and whimsy :) I already love it, but I can just picture what it'll be like once you've breathed more life into it :)