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Hey, saw your video on youtube, and tried out the prototype.
I went through the main story line, plus the optional boss and 4 coins.

It was fun, I like the movement and the wall jump + spin are pretty permissive when you have issues during platforming sections, so the game was not too hard. 

I like the child like wonder of it, and the cartoonish behavior in the cutscenes, like the post Giant Boss cutscene (shakedown, run back, put eye in, silly dances/running in circle). 

I was able to use Itch.exe with Wine, by using Lutris, so that I could directly play the Windows demo, and it ran fine.

Here are some issues I spotted (that might have been already reported, but just in case):

 - The first stairs and a few others, are not slopes so you can't climb them up by walking, you need to jump.

 - The music does get kind of loud compared to the normal volume of the game, so maybe you should normalize the volume of it in some way.

 - During the Giant Bossfight, the last pile of rubble that the Giant does before the catapult, I was run and jumping and for some reasons, I was still grabbing no ledge in mid-air, but moving as if I was. It stopped as soon as I pressed the jump button, like a normal ledge.

 - The combat seems the weakest point of the game, especially the optional Creep bossfight. I'm not sure how to make that better or adjust with more acrobatic plateformy combat, but the easiest strategy seemed to be jumping and downward attacking the head of the boss, killing him way quicker than 2 slashes, than retreat. But I might not have dodged much, so maybe using the dodge invincibility frames would make it trivial too?

In any case, is there some place we can subscribe to an email list, or is the Youtube channel the place to follow the game's development?

Thanks again for that fun 50~ish minute prototype, I was missing some simple fun games. 

Have a great day and happy game development.

Hello! I played the entire prototype, even getting the shovel and the mushroom hat. Overall great prototype. It has a lot of promisse. The art style is very charming, and I enjoyed the level desing structure, of an open area, but with "sub" areas with challenges.

My major two concerns righ now are:

• The camera freaks out in tight spaces, and it gets easely obstructed by trees and the grass. To this second problem, perhaps you can figure out a shader solution, that renders the character outline over everything, when the camera is obstructed.
• The move set of the character is way too powerfull. I could easely get out of bound by just wall jump/dash into the wall/wall jump/ dash into the wall... and also avoid most of the challenges, if I so desired. Perhaps you should limit the amount of times the character can wall jump, to avoid this infinite climbing.

Overall, looks very promissing! Looking forward for more!

Tried to download but my pc detected a virus :/

Pretty great game overall, though there are some bugs here and there, nothing major just mainly zfighting and placement. I enjoy the n64 aesthetic really reminds me of majora's mask. Some suggestions I would have would be the following

Soundtrack for the first area (Rain sound effect gets repetitive)

Make the climb tree mechanic

Make game more keyboard friendly

Cant wait to see the end result!

Really impressive and longer-than-expected prototype! I'm a fellow 3D platformer developer and so I've got a lot of feedback for you, but broadly just know this is really impressive and I had a lot of fun!

In no particular order...

- I never felt that the roll was necessary in any circumstance - it just felt like a more restrictive version of the attack dash, and it never felt like it'd be better to have iframes than to just put out a hitbox.

- The slide dash on RT killed me more often than it helped me

- The camera, unfortunately, is pretty rough. This is a combination of the actual way the camera is configured, combined with the level design. The level design expects you to go through a tiny hole that the camera cannot fit through, right onto a precarious ledge. What happens is that the camera aggressively pans forward, magnifying even the tiniest horizontal discrepancy, and ultimately makes me walk off the ledge if I'm not *extremely* careful. Additionally, many small or thin objects have camera collision when it'd be better to simply let the camera phase through them. Cameras are a super tough problem for this sort of game, so best of luck!

- It was so easy to break out of bounds with the character's movement that it was sometimes hard to understand the intended path. I had to pretend I was playing as a character with far more limited movement to be able to stay in the normal play area, or I'd end up out of bounds or criss-crossing different areas without even intending to. While degrees of freedom while moving are good, I think the world just needs to be better scaled to the movement of the protagonist, with a better distinction between play-area and boundary.

- I had no idea what to do after the boss fight. The environment had changed so drastically I found myself all turned around and didn't understand if I had hit the end of the demo, or had simply gotten stuck.

There's a lot to like here - wishing you all the best in the future!

nice idea

This was a fantastic game! I even made an outro half way through, but could NOT drop the game...Keep up the amazing work and left  a follow!