good game but without a way to kill the bats it gets pretty easy to make the game next to impossible
otherwise this game is surely going to get past judgement
Reviews for "The Forest Mirror"
JosephMoonGolf responds:
Thanks for your feedback! I'm glad you liked the game. As for the bats, I never considered a combat method, so thank you for suggesting it, because difficulty is something I really want to get better at.
Awsome game but it´s so slow, can you correct it? and wahat software you use?
JosephMoonGolf responds:
Thank you for playing! I have updated the game and hope that this fixes any lag you were having. As for the software, pixel art was designed in Pyxel Edit, and the game was programmed in GameMaker: Studio.
Wow...I almost gave up when I got stuck on the first part where you have to fall in the pit, having said that, I like this game a lot, I didn't know what to expect because there were no instructions on how to progress through the game, that's why I'm only giving you 4 stars. Keep up the good work I am excited to see more of your work!!!
JosephMoonGolf responds:
Thanks for your feedback! I'm sorry if you found the game confusing at parts, I was experimenting with giving the player little instructions and more indications on what to do, and I will try to improve the way I do this in future projects.
Neat little game! I also agree with a combat option for the bats.
Excellent work and love the graphics!
JosephMoonGolf responds:
Thank you! Combat is still something I am unsure about, I enjoyed luring the bats out from where they were blocking my path, but I will take this idea to future projects.
Completed the game in 35 minutes with 18 deaths. Here is what I think:
Positives:
- Cool concept with two worlds.
- Cool jumping mechanics which made me think hard how to reach places especially last two faeries.
- Open world, collect diamonds and faeries in any order you want although from left to right is obviously the most logical one.
- Nice retro graphics
- Nice music, I liked how it was different for each world.
Things to improve:
- Not being able to kill beasts that attacked you was very annoying.
- It would be better if there were a status bar with lives left, number of collected diamonds and faeries. Time spent and amount of deaths should not appear on status bar to maintain the peaceful non hurry atmosphere. If it is not so already then timer should stop when character is not moving, so that player can go and have a time off screen.
- Sound of bats flapping their wings was ok, but sounds wolves made were annoying and unrealistic.
- Sometimes when jumping the character made annoying screeching sounds, seemingly randomly or maybe it was when hitting a wall I don't remember exactly.
- Invisible platforms were not a good solution except that one time when they represented tops (bottoms) of roots.
- White dashed line rectangles looked ugly and out of place.
So game is good on major points but has minor issues that could be improved.
JosephMoonGolf responds:
Thank you for your review! I understand your comments about the wolves sound effects, the game was made for a game jam and I was running out of time for adding these sounds, so blips were all that I could think of. As for the screeching sound, I believe that what you are hearing is the bat's sound effect for being alerted of your presence, this sound will occur when you are within close enough range of a bat and that must be why it happens sometimes when you jump. I will take all your comments into my future projects and I hope to improve.