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[Heat]

This is nice; *great* for a first game. The story was interesting, even though it's quite common in platformer games. It is good when a platformer isn't just all about "hop all the way to the end", but has also another layer.
I liked that the game mechanics wasn't the same all the time (wind and gravity experiments, etc.), the main models look fine, but you can't really enlarge a tiny pixel figure of Katherine across the whole screen (and add rotated versions of her), it doesn't look very good. A silhouette might be better. The same applies to the monster mess after the level in which you cross the invisible bridge and take the yellow ring.
The difficulty was reasonable, but hard for me because I had to restart the game four times as (in different levels) the plugin suddenly crashed, I don't know why.

I had a slight feeling that the beginning was more worked-through, as you venture closer to the end, the tiles become simpler and are cut either on bottom or on the side (for example the level with "HEAT" written all across the sky and the grass levels afterwards). A little problem I had especially in the cloud levels - when you jump *facing* a tile, you go up freely, but when you turn around and jump from the same spot, you get blocked.
Some of the other bugs I found:
- In the "red level with stairs and a monster going down", the monster can fall on your head and stand there, not hurting you at all
- In later levels, there's a tiny transparent dot in the bottom right part of the screen, it shouldn't be visible I think
- Are the squares in text (for example in the "long fall" level) intentional? Maybe unsupported font, I don't know.
- You can stick to a tile if you keep holding an arrow key (but you say something similiar in your Note 3)
- In the wind level, the first "hill" can be partially passed through
- In the epilogue, a "Th" shadow appears behind few texts

That's all I could find, hope that helps.
I think the very end could be done in a more interactive way, because you play through the game with little to none knowledge of the background story, only knowing that you have to get your memory together. When the real story begins, you can only listen.

But I hope I didn't make you upset - as I said in the beginning, the game is very good, well done.

Dark06Star responds:

first I have to really thank you for this message and I am really glad that you liked it.

now about Katherine.. yeah you do have a point there, but it I wanted to show how he is so obsessed with her.. I tried my best when I enlargeable her, trust me I had to do a lot of fixing to make her look decent, but I'll try again and maybe make her look better.

And the game crashed at some places?.. I wonder why.. I had that problem in the cloud level but I fixed it. I'll look that up too.

and with the tiles. I made them more simple because Heat's "perfect world" started crashing down ... it became bland and empty.. not as beautiful as before, that was my point honestly ..

- thank you for showing me the "enemy falls on your head problem" because I didn't notice it before. I'll fix that right away.
-and yes the blocks are intentional. as in he is trying to block out everything people said..
-The stick to a tile problem is really annoying me :/ I keep trying to fix it but I'm not sure how, I have something i want to try i think it will make it work better.

And about the ending part.. I don't know what to add exactly. because I want the player to start creating his own version of the story while playing.. like "is Heat insane?" or was he always like that. what is he trying to remember. what the big secret is. who is trying to stop him. I want the player to put the pieces together after of course finishing the game. I wanted to add more but I thought It would work better like that..

Once again I thank you for this message, I'll work on the game once again and improve it as much as I can.

[Shooting in the Dark]

I was expecting quite a different ending, but I guess it's better this way, it has deeper meaning and makes you think. I liked how you were and were not able to choose what to do next, in real life it's kinda the same. Arguing about video games making people violent is absurd, if it was true, I would as well get violent from watching a movie, reading a book, seeing a cat kill a mouse. No one wants to kill people *just* because he played a FPS - as you said, it's mainly because the ambient we live in.

Nice game, well done.

[Scorged Moon]

I managed to get stuck in a tile in the level in which you jump in the large chasm with plenty of tiles.
As for improvements, I'd add some ambient music and enhance the graphics in the city, which is quite bad.

friendscomics responds:

Thanks for the feedback. I'm will be adding some music,score, and enemies and of course better graphics.

[Mr. Pong gets Abducted]

For 90% levels it is enough to just hold right arrow key to get to the right side. Maybe the best option is to make a limit for maximum distance per one keystroke, but that's up to you.

baldosgate responds:

Thanks, I prevented that mostly I think.

[Red Ball: Platformer]

Quite good for a first attempt, well done!
Just little bugs I found - the gold pyramid bait you placed worked nicely for the first time, but (after death) when I chose to go right instead, I got stuck because I didn't pull the level. Either make a signpost, add a restart button... or stairs. ;) Then, the upper part of the ball doesn't bounce off a tile and it would be more user-friendly if we could press spacebar or so to restart the game.

[Â Rectangle Avoider]

It would be great if the pattern changed from time to time. Like this, you learn what you have to do to avoid the balls and triangles and your score only depends on how fast you are able to do it. A little surprise, something unexpected every like 300 points would make this game better.
But the game was fun, I liked it.

[The Impossible Game]

That's not exactly the kind of thing you should tell us in the Author Comments.
It really looks like "blah, I quickly patched this together, enjoy or so, I don't care, just give me good ratings!". If your game is worked-through, players will appreciate it, but don't expect any easy 5 R votes just because you need them.

If you want to know any bugs, so for example, you can jump in the mid-air if you just slide off a tile.

monkeywantbananas responds:

Thats the point. It's kind of like double jumping

[The Slacker]

It's quite straightforward, but keeps entertained for a while.

[Dimension Jumper]

Tell me one thing - did you personally win all the levels you designed? If so, then I wonder how did you manage to fit in those 8 hours. ;)
Just one thing I found quite annoying - the level restarts when you touch the left side of a tile. Sometimes you don't even fall down, but the screen suddenly fades. Maybe it's intentional, but still...

I know it's meant to be impossible, but there should be at least hard/easy mode (or 2-3 easier levels), or some not-very-tireless players will rage-quit soon and give you bad rating.
Congratulations on your first game. ;)