At the end of the platformer level, I thought the main character was getting hit by the police car coming from behind!
Also, I didn’t expect the car chase! Unfortunately, I had some issues with it and other sections, listed below.
Note that I’m playing the post-jam version, so the initial jump issue was fixed.
Gameplay
Car chase: I couldn’t jump above the barriers except in rare occasions, so I had to dodge them all besides the cars, which slowed me down quite a lot. The prediction system showing future obstacles in red is interesting, but without the distance left + color changing when coming closer, it’s hard to tell which obstacle will come first when 2+ are coming. So sometimes I’d just go on the wrong lane and hit the next one. I could not catch up with the criminal truck because of all this delay and just gave up.
Once, I tried to jump over the barriers, only to get rejected and fall on my back, causing instead game over (Failure, you wrecked you car!). Another time, a civilian car hit me from behind and also caused wreck game over. I’d rather have a classic life gauge or, since hitting something makes you waste time already, no additional penalty (but a Retry button instead so you can retry if you know you’re not gonna catch up in time, instead of willingly crashing your car).
UI
The main character name in the top-left near the health gauge gives the impression that she’s talking when another character is talking because the avatar + name appears near their speech bubble
Cannot skip cinematic
Animation
When falling, stylus crane animation is a bit slow
Also, it took me some time to realize it’s part of the “paper” aesthetics.
Physics
3 balloons gap: the 3rd balloon collider was disabled, so I kept falling through it. I had to keep pressing right from the edge of the 2nd balloon to make a big jump to the next ground to go on; and it worked!
After falling, if you Attack (Z), then move, you can move even during the “stylus crane” animation. It causes the character to be offset from the crane (e.g. a little on the right of it), causing character to fall again in the void at the end of rescue.
Exploit: you can also use the Attack during the crane animation to actually hit enemies
I think I saw this bug once, where the jump was just not enough to get over the pipes, but I only saw the bug happen 1 time. Most likely if you played it again or restarted the level (got enough damage) it would go away ? Its a hard one to fix since it only happens quite occasionally. I'd encourage you to try to play again, most likely you'll be able to jump over it with no issue.
I love it! The character designs and the Paper Mario-esque of it all was so cute! I have to say I did struggle a bit on the car chase, but overall it was such a fun game!
I think there are a lot of little tweaks I can make on the car chase to make it better, like zooming the camera out a little bit so you can get more space / breathing room. Changing the telegraphing of cars so that the alpha is gradually increased or maybe the scale also, so that overlapping obstacles are easier to see.
There was a lot of stuff I could have experimented with here and would have loved to have added, tweaked etc. However, ran out of time !
Anyway, hope you had fun with it, even if you struggled !
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Nice paper aesthetics!
At the end of the platformer level, I thought the main character was getting hit by the police car coming from behind!
Also, I didn’t expect the car chase! Unfortunately, I had some issues with it and other sections, listed below.
Note that I’m playing the post-jam version, so the initial jump issue was fixed.
Gameplay
Car chase: I couldn’t jump above the barriers except in rare occasions, so I had to dodge them all besides the cars, which slowed me down quite a lot. The prediction system showing future obstacles in red is interesting, but without the distance left + color changing when coming closer, it’s hard to tell which obstacle will come first when 2+ are coming. So sometimes I’d just go on the wrong lane and hit the next one. I could not catch up with the criminal truck because of all this delay and just gave up.
Once, I tried to jump over the barriers, only to get rejected and fall on my back, causing instead game over (Failure, you wrecked you car!). Another time, a civilian car hit me from behind and also caused wreck game over. I’d rather have a classic life gauge or, since hitting something makes you waste time already, no additional penalty (but a Retry button instead so you can retry if you know you’re not gonna catch up in time, instead of willingly crashing your car).
UI
The main character name in the top-left near the health gauge gives the impression that she’s talking when another character is talking because the avatar + name appears near their speech bubble
Cannot skip cinematic
Animation
When falling, stylus crane animation is a bit slow Also, it took me some time to realize it’s part of the “paper” aesthetics.
Physics
3 balloons gap: the 3rd balloon collider was disabled, so I kept falling through it. I had to keep pressing right from the edge of the 2nd balloon to make a big jump to the next ground to go on; and it worked!
After falling, if you Attack (Z), then move, you can move even during the “stylus crane” animation. It causes the character to be offset from the crane (e.g. a little on the right of it), causing character to fall again in the void at the end of rescue.
Exploit: you can also use the Attack during the crane animation to actually hit enemies
Dont understand how to get past the pipes. List of controls in the game or on this page or anywhere would have been helpful.
There r controls in the game. Pay attention to the caution sign lol! Also u can use a xbox controller!
We saw the caution sign for attack. Couldn't navigate around or attack the pipes best as we could tell.
I think I saw this bug once, where the jump was just not enough to get over the pipes, but I only saw the bug happen 1 time. Most likely if you played it again or restarted the level (got enough damage) it would go away ? Its a hard one to fix since it only happens quite occasionally. I'd encourage you to try to play again, most likely you'll be able to jump over it with no issue.
Hi, the jumping is fixed in the "Post Jam" version =]
I love it! The character designs and the Paper Mario-esque of it all was so cute! I have to say I did struggle a bit on the car chase, but overall it was such a fun game!
Thanks for playing and leaving your feedback !
I think there are a lot of little tweaks I can make on the car chase to make it better, like zooming the camera out a little bit so you can get more space / breathing room. Changing the telegraphing of cars so that the alpha is gradually increased or maybe the scale also, so that overlapping obstacles are easier to see.
There was a lot of stuff I could have experimented with here and would have loved to have added, tweaked etc. However, ran out of time !
Anyway, hope you had fun with it, even if you struggled !