Dye Hard

If i had the time to bring in the other bosses, there would have been more dialogues :D

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• yeah, it wasn't mentioned a lot (at all?) but the camera is indeed too close. I am surprised it wasn't brought up more often, though i didn't realoze it myself at first. This is the first thing i intend changing, as it also has the con to make the dialogue block the view and narrow your vision. This might mean i need to change the sprite sizes, but i'll see
• in a gif i have made for the game, i realised indeed that the character was moving too quick in relation to hazards. On simple trick i can make is have a timer for that sort of collision, as well as the obvious slowing down the characters. This is especially an issue in the last room.
• I intended to have shooting enemies, amd most notably the boss, but total lack of time unfortunately!
• the controls kind of puzzle me as to why people find it weird. I am guessing it might depend on your habit on using a controller or not, but my thinking behind that choice of jkl is that in controllers, you have movements on the left and actions on the right, which then feels more natural to me for a platformer than the arrow keys and xc combo (also i despise the usage of z as it's often reversed with y, in my own keyboard, and for zqsd keyboards, which is worse than the wasd issue). It's also a very common writing positions, so hands shouod be comfortable in that setting. I'd have more control types for flexibility though, there even is one in the game, but i lacked time to set it. That said, although unconventional, i was often told it was fine when you got used to it, so i never really bothered excluding that jkl input type. But i get that I should try to deviate from this, even if i personally disagree with that. I'll think about it for next times

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Yep, I didn't manage to smooth that camera whenever switching position (I couldn't just slow it down cause it would make it difficult to catch up), and kinda left this for later. But I lacked time later (as you noticed) so I was unable to implement it. I'll definitely fix that for the post-jam version!

And yes, planned more things overall. Green enemies, shooting enemies... So thee last room was a last minute addition to allow for some juice-fight, and since it was also the last room, i made it more difficult to keep the game a bit longer, as otherwise it'd just end without a proper fight. Like... it's doable :D Just... too difficult!

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Definitely, the number of rooms here are due to a lot of other issues! I intended 2 rooms per color then a last boos room. There will be a fixed version of the game, but there miiiight be a full game spawned from it. (though keep in mind that I didn't make any sound, Wangle did :p )

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Good to hear things like "i was sad when it ended" :D

I never noticed the leaf suit issue, but i assume it's because of the way i handle collision with knockbac; i do an xprevious check for both object but apparently that's not enough so i assume i need to subtract the speed too, so i will check on that, thank you!

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The camera changing ways quickly is something I struggled with for a while as I was unaware of how to properly smooth it only when the player changed direction, as I couldn't get that transition smooth and changing the speed altogether made the whole camera slow as a result. In short, I was not able to fix that and just figured I should focus on other matters instead, so I didn't get back to it cause it didn't feel like such an important issue when I left it in. If possible, i'd like some more elaboration on what felt the least polished gameplay-wise, as I am not exactly sure what you exactly mean (with examples, etc)

Also, the introductions logos took literally no time, as these type of assets are not included in the rules as part of the game (they have no gameplay value), they're just our usual logos - mine has literally just a different sound than last time(although Wangleline's new and was done entirely by her) I purely, solely focused on the gameplay elements and didn't give much care on the sprites, but did indeed spend a good bit visual effects, as they were essential for the satisfaction imo, and more exciting to work with. But they didn't take as much time as you may think :p

What did hinder the workflow was the COUNTLESS amount of unexpected bugs and behaviours that I had to fix. Those really slowed me down, and that comes from inexperience and lack of coding the past few months. Hopefully, I hope to get better to eventually make a game for the gm48 that wouldn't be slowed down by technical occurences like these.

Anyway, thank you for the feedback and thank you for playing!

Yep yep, I intend to finish what I initially planned for the game!

I never had any feedback on the issues you mentioned and never thought about it. I assume the camera is a bit too quick to catch the player, who's already too fast? I guess I should make the screenshake an option to avoid that kind of uncomfortable issue. It's hard to think of these things, so thank you for pointing it out. Juice is nice, but it shouldn't be at the price of comfort.

The last room was a last minute attempt to make content, as i was low on time. I basically threw everything and couldn't make anything else. The same is true for upgrades, who were mostly a last minute thing. I initially intended choices of items to choose what you upgrade. Then noticing the time running low, wanted random upgrades but that told you what they did each time. But sadly time was running too short :o That's how game jams work i guess :D

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I'm glad the art was "well done" because I rarely spent as few time making the visuals. The npcs were especially rushed!

Can't blame you, I wasn't able to make a proper checkpoint and I was rushed by the deadline, o yeah, the last room is harsh. Kinda like old games focusing on making the game hard to make it seem longer aha

Glad you enjoyed the juice of the game and "Mr Cool Dude" (although I don't think it's ever mentioned that it's a guy :p )

Yep, the last weapon was a last "oh crap I gotta publish the game let's unlock the last damn weapon just like this"

I didn't have the occasion to spot the glitches because of the limited playtesting the time allowed me to have.

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Thank you for playing probie! The balance is due to throwing everything out to show off a bit of stuff, so I didn't have the time at all to test it

Oh, right, i should have slipped the controls in a dialogue considering how unusual that scheme is, my bad. You shouldn't need to rely on the description to enjoy a game~

Yeah the difficulty drastic increase was solely to show the game's "potential". You were not supposed to get the green attire at that point, but i lacked time so i threw everything I could and couldn't test it out. I wanted to give the player a way to get back to the shop for new upgrades but didn't manage to make the platforms work as intended.

I also initially wanted the room to restart at the last room you were in but that created lots of errors, so I would have needed a save system which I didn't have the time to make.

A lot of time was lost trying to fix the bazillion errors and unentended behaviours! (At least i can't be blamed for prioritizing art this time aha)

Also Wangle did a fantastic work with the sounds! Thank you for your feedback!

Heyyy glad you enjoyed it, thanks for playing~

Thank you very much! ❤ ~ Kwis & Wangle

Thank you for playing Dye Hard :D

Thank you for playing!

• I am not so sure what controls are best suited. It was intended to have several layouts, but due to the deadline, I did not get to change them. I figured wasd +jkl was comfortable because of the way our fingers are placed, while retaining the good old d-pad on the left, actions on the right scheme. But I'm glad it can be picked up cause it's difficult to tell what is comfortable for people
• Thank you for the dialogue! This one is dear to me because I love making that kind of things. I had even better dialogues in mind, but lacked time. It would have given context to the last room as there would have been another boss saying (but in a better manner) "Hey, know what, I'm not gonna wait for you to upgrade and stuff and use all my troups at once. It's totally not because the dev lacked time or anything", that was already a time saver option, but that couldn't be added. :<
• The difficulty was because I wanted to throw everything because the game gets more fun when you can crowd control. ...which relies on upgrades. And sadly, the platforms aren't suited to climb back up, which would have allowed to grind upgrades. As a result, it gets insanely hard and I didn't manage to test this out. You just need to be lucky with the upgrades!

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Actually, the kills rewarding so much money is because I was not able to finish the game, but since I wanted the player to be able to pay the shop and that It was impossible to come back to the shop, I figured I'd be extra generous with the loot!

• Yeah, actions not being cancelled when dying is due to how I needed to code it, I was unable to "block" the player's actions without change several things, and that was something I preferred not fixing because of the deadline.
• Damn, I tried my best to avoid the wall glitches, I thought it was fixed
• Oh right, good idea

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Thank you! :D and thanks for playing~

Hehe thank you for playing and flattering our ego!

I'm glad it was able to tell that I aimed to look for some kind of paper/sticker aesthetic!

I basically unlocked the green attire because I wanted to give it to the player to enjoy the tools he could get, but didn't get the time to introduce it properly.

About the colors, I intended to leave all stickers (flame dudes, the player) be the only coloured as I liked that aethetic. It would have been difficult for me anyway as I still need to learn how to do that sort of things.

Yes, as soon a I thought I'd go for flat characters (by accidentally setting the image_xscale wrong), i figured I'd try to make them die like paper!

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