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Good job on the game!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":992773,"author_name":"Thenerdster","author_uid":"thenerdster","epoch":1696307539,"text":"@don-shinsk Thanks for playing! This was my first real solo game I am used to having my friends to help point things like that out. I learned a lot this jam, which is what matters to me. :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":992837,"author_name":"LangiT","author_uid":"langit","epoch":1696308148,"text":"Great work on your first solo game! It's such a fun experience being able to ship it. This was a really simple, but fun platformer. Keep up the good work and can't wait for you to grow more as a game dev! :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":993928,"author_name":"MetaGen","author_uid":"metagen","epoch":1696318881,"text":"All other feature is quite impressive but the character control is not such comfortable. Controlling Character over the jump pad is so hard that I mostly kill my player character within 5 seconds after spawn. I think this point is the only  defect of this jam entry. This can be fixed, right?","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":993930,"author_name":"svkj","author_uid":"svkj","epoch":1696318889,"text":"Nice.  Great animation on the main character.  I got all the orbs except the difficult one.  I tried pushing the block to create a platform but still couldn't make it, haha.  Fun though.  Good job","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":994482,"author_name":"Thenerdster","author_uid":"thenerdster","epoch":1696324339,"text":"@svkj Thank you so much, I wanted you to have to push the block off and jump to it. But then my kid showed me you could just jump from on top of the block and make it. 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I am excited to play your games :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1001832,"author_name":"Ifman1","author_uid":"ifman1","epoch":1696373482,"text":"Challenging platforming.  I had to bust out my 90s style mad platforming skills, yo!  Fun and beautiful.  On a side note, this kicked in something on my graphics card that freaked out my UPS.  TOOOOOO MUUUUCH POOOOOWER!!!!!  I guess that's the price of those awesome graphics.\n\nAlso, finishing the level just to get a chance to do that level again.... bleh.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1001902,"author_name":"Alpie","author_uid":"alpie","epoch":1696374424,"text":"Nice character model you got there! Due to spinning camera on platforms it was real complicated to speed run ;D","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1002096,"author_name":"walaber","author_uid":"walaber","epoch":1696377340,"text":"simple idea, always a good choice when you're learning something new!  keep it up!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1002267,"author_name":"Thenerdster","author_uid":"thenerdster","epoch":1696380066,"text":"@walaber @alpie Thanks for playing. I have my head wrapped around Unreals Blueprint model now. Excited to try some new things out. ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1002463,"author_name":"Smoe","author_uid":"smoe","epoch":1696383350,"text":"The character model and animations look really good, but unfortunately I feel like the platforming needs some fine tuning. The character feels a bit too floaty and it makes the sort of tight platforming that the tech demo environment wants feel unfair.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1002938,"author_name":"Cody Raethke","author_uid":"cody-raethke","epoch":1696391610,"text":"Not much to it, but still a decent amount of fun. The controls were pretty rigid feeling, so it took me several tries, but I ended up getting all the orbs in about 30 seconds. The graphics weren't very cohesive - are they original or from asset packs?","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1005956,"author_name":"Coro_yy","author_uid":"coro-yy","epoch":1696435900,"text":"I love the character model. It's nicely rigged and animated. Great idea overall. A simple jump and run. Could've been a bit more difficult to fit the theme more and maybe 2 or 3 more levels that get more and more difficult.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1009417,"author_name":"Daniel G","author_uid":"daniel-g","epoch":1696486264,"text":"Very interesting idea, good job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1011198,"author_name":"Devez","author_uid":"devez","epoch":1696526670,"text":"It looks like you had the basics down, could have made another level or this one bigger and more vertical. Great effort for solo though, especially if you were learning as you go :ok_hand: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1011782,"author_name":"EgorMnc","author_uid":"egormnc","epoch":1696535947,"text":"interesting game and its concept","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1017929,"author_name":"ArthurSenpai","author_uid":"arthursenpai","epoch":1696751209,"text":"For a solo-made game it is pretty good !","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1025864,"author_name":"Alexaur","author_uid":"alexaur","epoch":1697466641,"text":"A frustrating game, and I mean that in a good way. It's nice that the restart was so quick, because I died a LOT. I'll admit I couldn't figure out how to get back from that platform you get to by pushing down the block. :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1029057,"author_name":"Nathan Franck","author_uid":"nathan-franck","epoch":1697816162,"text":"Pretty tricky on my laptop trackpad and wasd, sure it's a cakewalk if I had a mouse. 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