Honestly, fantastic game! It plays well, looks really well polished, has an interesting storyline, and is fun! Heck, you're both still making updates to make it more user-friendly! Honestly, the only issues I can think of at all that are left (at the posting of this comment) would be the minor confusion on what I was supposed to do with the boss's crown (shoot it, lol) and then just the fact that its hard to get the crown off (which is genuinely a skill issue on my part if anything, not on either of yours' or the game's parts lol).
Heck, even though I cant get past the boss yet, I'm still actively enjoying the gameplay! You both definitely deserve more than just a break lol.
Edit: managed to beat the first boss lol. now that I see level 2, i see that i should probably just watch a walkthrough, definitely a fantastic game, just one of those that requires more skill than I have (some of my favorite games fit this category of "I personally can't play it, but I do really like it" lol).
TomFulp
You did a great job, it's a really solid game and will definitely be getting featured on the front page!
As far as difficulty, the first boss fight has been really hard with the one death kills but it's quick to restart so people can keep trying without much fuss.
One thing I'm wondering is if using the mouse to shoot ever makes use of the mouse for aiming or if it's always one direction? If it's always one direction, I'd love an option to use the Z key to shoot and X to jump, maybe C to run faster as well. You could add those in without changing the current controls and then anyone who wants to play that way could do that. It's possible the range of the mouse becomes more necessary later, though.
HellfireJefe
THANKS FOR TAKING A LOOK TOM!!!
One thing we were a bit worried about was definitely the difficulty, we'd been playing the game for so long it was getting really hard to gauge how difficult it actually was. Some people will definitely like it, but I think the whole game is gonna need another pass when we have more time.
When it comes to controls, being able to use the mouse to shoot just felt like something you should be able to do, even though you can only shoot left and right. I'll see if I can get my friend to add some more control options, I'm hoping we can add custom keybinds in the future.
It's also possible that we'll change up the actual player abilities later, adding aiming changing run speed etc. but we really wanted to get this out for pixel day.
Thanks again for dropping your thoughts, I really appreciate it since we weren't really get much in the way of actual feedback.