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Great job, honestly.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":776340,"author_name":"Balgorode","author_uid":"balgorode","epoch":1649074001,"text":"I rather enjoyed this one, sometimes the way to beat levels could be a bit finicky but overall it was really fun. One thing I will say though, jump\/ghost button should have been SPACEBAR.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":776344,"author_name":"Frib","author_uid":"frib","epoch":1649074085,"text":"The ghost mechanic combined with all the various obstacles is really nice! It adds an interesting twist to platformers","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":776345,"author_name":"Lighty_the_Light","author_uid":"lighty-the-light","epoch":1649074098,"text":"WTF this game is just awesome!\nSmooth control, good idea.\nI'm soooo impressed.\nNice job pal!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":776360,"author_name":"Lighty_the_Light","author_uid":"lighty-the-light","epoch":1649074421,"text":"\u5144\u5f1f\u4f60\u8fd9\u6e38\u620f\u7889\u5821\u4e86\uff0c\u53ef\u5426\u52a0\u4e2a\u8054\u7cfb\u65b9\u5f0f","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":776405,"author_name":"Arcobaleno","author_uid":"arcobaleno","epoch":1649075122,"text":"+ Perfect handle\n+ Fluent visual expression\n+ Excellent level design\n\u975e\u5e38\u51fa\u8272\u7684\u8df3\u8df3\u4e50\u3002\u673a\u5236\uff0c\u624b\u611f\uff0c\u5173\u5361\u90fd\u6253\u78e8\u5f97\u975e\u5e38\u597d\u3002\u725b\uff01","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":790722,"author_name":"Nick Saulnier","author_uid":"nick-saulnier","epoch":1649172528,"text":"Super fun, refreshing to see a cool take on platforming.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":800004,"author_name":"Dandala88","author_uid":"dandala88","epoch":1649231576,"text":"The ghost mechanic was really hard to get used to at first but once you got it, and it kind of clicked, it had a really good feel to it. The mechanic did start to feel a little dry after a few levels. And I could feel that in the quick ramp up of difficulty. I think the graphics fit well and the sounds matched good enough. \n\nThis seems like a game that, if fleshed out a bit more, could be a classic. Learning that ghost mechanic, again, eventually sort of clicked and felt really good. Thanks for your contribution!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":808129,"author_name":"ClaytonRumley","author_uid":"claytonrumley","epoch":1649302248,"text":"I considered a similar \"you die then ghost you completes the level\" game for this jam but went in a totally different direction. Love your take on it! An impressive number of levels for a 48 hour jam and once I understood how ghost mode worked it really clicked. \n\nI like how your first few levels are also tutorials on the mechanics...well thought out!\n\nThe minimalist graphics were reminiscent of GameBoy games. Would have been nice if the cannons had similar \"ba-doom\" sound effect when firing (like in Super Mario Bros.).\n\nWould love to play a fully fleshed out version of this game. Well done!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":816406,"author_name":"LDJam user 234567","author_uid":"234567","epoch":1649447406,"text":"Once the game mechanics understood this game is perfect. I felt like I was playing on Nintendo Gameboy.\n\nSimple, only black and white but great game!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":835717,"author_name":"The Great Gallus","author_uid":"the-great-gallus","epoch":1650511209,"text":"What a fantastic little game this was!\n\nGameplay was a lot of fun. I thought that it was going to be pretty simple when I first saw the core mechanic of the game, but you really took the basic concept and ran with it to create some fantastic levels. Slowly adding new elements like the anti-ghost fields and the bullets to ramp up the difficulty was great too. Got a lot of mileage out of the concepts. I do wish that the floating death apples(?) respawned so that you didn't just have to restart if you messed up those sequences, but the levels were short enough that a restart didn't take long at all, so it's not really too much of a problem in the end.\n\nGood job on the level design, particularly when introducing the bullet mechanic. I kept trying to find a way to zip through the anti-ghost barrier in that level (having pressed Jump almost immediately after being hit, as I was getting into the rhythm of doing) but couldn't figure it out, so one time I just didn't press it out of curiosity and, voila, I could immediately see the way it worked. The limited options in the stage make sure you really know how that works before moving on.\n\nThe graphics are charming. You made great use of the limited monochromatic palette you were working with. The main character (especially in ghost form) is cute and everything in the stage is clear and unique. I was never confused about what anything was once I interacted with it once, and even on the complex stages, things were still readable and never got jumbled. \n\nChoice on the sounds were good too. The ghost sound effect felt like it matched the phasing concept, and the death (and complete, actual death) sounds were very fitting.\n\nOn the theme, you mentioned that the inevitable isn't technically delayed despite the death reversal (with the inevitable being death). I think that you could have hammered it home by having the level goals play the \"death\" animation to send you to the next stage, which would really give you that delay. Either way, I think your play on death reversal works pretty well for it.\n\nThanks for this game, it was a great experience. If you plan to do anything more with this concept in the future, I'd love to see what else you can come up with playing off of this design idea!\n\nPS: Really cool of you to include a level skip feature! 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