Neo Food Fighter

Feedback as I play:

• Please, think of people with different keyboards, i know you're using the usual keyboard control but keyboards like mine have the z and y inverted. I wish devs would default to xc instead of zx cause it's impossible to play without switching the keyboard type... which makes it very annoying for me to feedback as I play cause I gotta switch everytime...
• Pressing down to go to the next room feels counter-intuitive, games usually go with pressing up
• Could have kept the skateboard all the way through, feels weird that it gets "equiped" when you move
• Enemies move a bit too fast/have too much health considering how fast the controls are: it makes them hard to anticipate as we don't always get the time to see them
• They glitch when they are above you considering they want to chase you, so they keep moving left and right
• Not sure what items do except giving you life. I believe one gave me more attack, but because I don't see what they do, I can't quite observe their effect, as I don't really count how much I attack them, so it doesn't feel different with each pickup. I couldn't tell what the downsides or upsides were, so it made the choice not exactly feel like a choice. Like, what am I risking? It give me health either way, so I'm gonna take it. If it told me what i could earn/lose, it'd make the choice relevant
• I wish I had a bit more control while jumping

Feedback after I'm done playing:

Visuals and music are rather sweet! The controls feel a bit clunky but the fast pace makes it kinda fun to zoom through and it's cool that you get rooms to get your item on!

Pretty nice, I really liked the music! I think for a jam game, the different item should be explained in the game. Even though I read the description, I'm still not sure what each item I took changed. And without any information, it's hard to make a choice :( The only item I understood is the watermelon, and I had to pick it up twice in the same run to be sure 😅

Apart from that, I think the biggest improvement here would be on the readability. Like, it's hard to know what is a platform or not for example (especially in I think the second level, when you're blocked from jumping at the start). Also enemies' heads sometimes disappear in the background, it's a little creepy :D

The collisions could have used some help, but I love the lighting and fast food.

Interesting story. I included it in my GM48 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/mhNq7rNpmB8

I love this game haha. It feels real old school in the way you move, The music is really fun, and The Skateboard is hilarious to me when he moves, Really clever way to save some time on animations. It felt good to hit the enemies, and exploring was fun as well. I didn't really understand the theme relation to "Side Effect" though Overall really fun game.

Those last minute title and end screens though. Anyway, cohesively styled platformer with decent music, not the most polished. Enemies were a bit hard to deal with since they just follow you horizontally at a slightly slower speed and there's not much visibility to the side with the game's aspect ratio. Pickups were nice except it was often hard to know exactly what they did (or if they did more than one thing).

It's short and sweet, good art and fun concept - I had a lot of fun, I would've liked to have seen more of it so I hope you do continue to expand on this, but good job! :)

This was surprisingly fun to play, although I feel like it would be even more fun if the enemies could jump. Other than that, great job!