On Thin Ice

• When you force fullscreen, please leave a way to naturally end the game other than alt+f4 (escape, or escape via menu), or allow us to remove fullscreen with the default command
• When restarting, it feels awkward to get thrown back to the menu. With a game like this (precision platformer/die and retry), the player usually wants to give it another try as soon as he dies
• I like that the ice only breaks when you jump. That way you can kinda think on it.
• Why is the joystick (as opposed to d-pad) not active with the controller? Works fine with the d-pad but I like to play with the stick if I want to
• The game didn't need to break blocks as you end on the other side. You're gonna break a lot of them anyway, which will naturally make the game harder. In fact, I even think you should have done the opposite to get us to have longer runs: create blocks instead of breaking them
• Jumps need coyote frames, frames where you have a few pixel spares to jump after quitting a platform
• Ambient is cool with the wind and all but watch out, as we're not supposed to use already made assets in this jam. We can use sound generators like bfxr, but taking direct sound effects is normally against the rule (regardless of free use), unless it's from the yoyogames marketplace
• The game felt kinda nice though, I like that the difficulty is influenced by how the player does

The atmosphere is gorgeous. The art, the wind sounds, Mmmm!

I wish you would have added support for WASD movement, as arrow keys + space feels weird for people like me, who are only used to WASD.

Anyway, great submission!

That was a cool game! ( Get it, cool... ice?? ...sorry). I struggled a little bit with the controls, felt I had to just hold W and spam buttons a bit, but that's more a negative at my platforming skills than the game itself. My best was 3, clearly I need to play more platformers :D

Good entry!

Great entry to the jam, I really enjoyed playing this. I was incredibly bad at it, but I did really enjoy navigating the crumbling ice world =)

A neat little game. I liked the aesthetics and the main mechanic. There's a lot of options to move around. However, I think that as an arcade game, it should be technically possible to get an infinite score, however here you're doomed to fail, no matter how well you play.

I played with the keyboard and found it extremely hard, I am not good at platforms, though. That apart (as it is not meant as a criticism), I love the idea, really original! Maybe I would shift it more into one of the two directions: more skill based (maybe bricks collide after a while) or more tactics based (easier controls and more planning).

But after all I think this is really worth to be polished up and released as a full game.

This is slick. Difficult, but a playable kind of difficult. I really appreciate that you took the time to make the platform mechanics solid with additions like wall sliding/jumping. Presentation is great -- overall this game feels solid and fully realised in a way that's rare for jam entries.

I found the controls a bit awkward though -- space and shift are two buttons I'd rather not use together, and I prefer platformers like this to use the up arrow for jumping (I would have liked it as an alternative at least). But that's largely a me thing.

Did i miss something, the D-Pad wasnt working? And was there a button to quit the game. I had to end it over the task manager, since i coudln't exit it otherwise.

Other than that, i liked the entry, but with keyboard it is quite hard to play.

Nice little game, I couldn't beat it because the fish was twice the size of my head but nice entry, ^-^

I had so much fun with this game!

What I liked: -Controls and "feel" of the movement etc are very on point -Very clever gameplay that inspires to mastering the art of icecube jumping -Sound effects are nice -Minimalistic player model works really well -Atmosphere is cool (hehe), gives off Celeste-y vibes! -I got three fish

What I'd like to see improved: -Having the game completely restart after dying takes a tad too long -Also, showing the whole level upfront and not being able to move could frustrate after repeatedly dying to stupid mistakes

Will definately keep this on my computer for killing time!

Great game! I found the controls a little hard to get used to (mainly because it wasn't picking up the control stick on my gamepad) but it was fun to play!

This game was really challenging! It feels complete and held my attention easily. I really like this exploration of the theme.