Need feedback for my 2D platformer (Play it in your browser)

buzzbuzz20xx

It's HeartBeast's 2D heart platfromer but with a few more features, there's 6 short Levels to play

you can use a controller too

xyz

buzzbuzz20xx Plays well. Add some sound effects and a visual feedback when picking up hearts. Provide a way to skip that countdown at the start of a level or get rid of it completely. Given the overall pace and length of the game, it's just annoying to have control taken away from you for a relatively long time. It breaks the flow of the whole experience.

buzzbuzz20xx

xyz thanks for the feedback !

I'll lower that countdown for sure XD

JusTiCe8

I agree with @xyz , timer is pretty useless and frustrating and sounds are very needed.

Also, WASD are mostly good for EN keyboards, arrow keys would be at least welcome and later key redefinition in settings.
It could be also good to add a little info at the end of the demo telling more levels will eventually come later, not a non reacting retry/next pair of buttons.

So good job so far still lot's of work remain.

By the way, I've started a project I called "Game Foundation" with the purpose of providing a main menu and everything needed to make the boring part of game creation easier with the ultimate goal to just "plug in" the game into it, fine tune stuff and voilà, have a game with professional look, with all options like profile, settings (for 2D/3D/whatever), network options, cloud saves, languages. Saving hundreds (literally) of hours of coding & designing UI.

Regarding the sound part, I've come up with this in my Ishid-O-Matic Reborn game by creating a top-level/root scene which manage all sounds & musics, and the other parts just need to deal with signals and proper global data to know which sound to play in which case.
It's still the very beginning still it can be interesting to some people here I guess.

buzzbuzz20xx

JusTiCe8 thanks a lot for the feedback !

I'll check out your project when I can

Jesusemora

buzzbuzz20xx plays well, the timer is annoying but understandable given its a time based game. maybe add a big sign saying "LEVEL 1" or something during the countdown to call the attention of the player.
the one problem with the game is the "next level" popup, it starts at retry level and space is used for accept.
you should rebind this to something like enter, I restarted level 2 8 times by accident.
When I first saw the trampolines, I confused them with spikes and was wary of them. change the triangles with lines.
And then I fell on the spikes because I confused them with trampolines.
You should also add some spikes on the horizontal squares, or something to tell us that they are dangerous and to be avoided.

buzzbuzz20xx

Jesusemora thanks a lot for the feedback

all your points are very valid and i'm already working on improving the game

ZV9GAMES

Everything they said, and add touchscreen controls. You have a potentially addicting phone/tablet game if you can spice it up a bit, give a story in sound or something like that. Cool.