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Thanks!

Thanks, there will be a web version soon

Thanks, we just made attacks the same size for all directions so didn't think about it too much. It could be better that way.

Thanks!!

Oh, I didn't think there was an options menu because first menu only had start and quit options. This works really well, I think as long as they work the same it's fine.

Maybe you could show the attack area of the key with first input and use attack at the second input. Game is cool but randomly missing hits because I couldn't guess where the B`s holes would be felt a bit unfair.

Shouldn't controls be the same for both horizontal and vertical? It was impossible for me to aim, left-right felt backwards to me. Really cool looking game but couldn't enjoy it because of this.

Nice idea and cool graphics, it's a bit too difficult at first because it's hard to guess which pixels the font will cover 

Thanks!

Thank you, we are working on an update, and game will have proper options menu, rebinding and controller support after that 

Thanks for playing to the end! Right now there isn't a real end goal other than collecting all the coins and unlocking skins. We are already working on an update to the game to hopefully double the content.
Spikes already have smaller hitboxes, we couldn't make them smaller than this because of the resolution and to avoid gaps between the spikes.

Thanks, yes for going fast in levels you need to press a lot of keys really fast, but you can still play while going slow and have fun with the game in my opinion. I don't know what you mean by movement not flowing smoothly :/ There wasn't anything we could do about the font so sorry about that. But you can literally play the game without reading anything anyway.

Thanks!

Thanks, yes we spent a couple sleepless nights to finish everything :)

Thank you!

Hard 2d platformers are not for everyone, glad you enjoyed it anyway :)

Very nice controls, I've never felt dying was games fault even thought it's a bouncing ball it goes exactly where I expect it would. Levels are a bit unforgiving, could've started a bit easier at least 

thanks will do 

Sand Blade by chmann, eponn

Thank you!

Thanks. It's not just you, they are pretty slow but I had to write 3 songs in 2 days so didn't have a chance to think about it

Very cute visuals, nice unique enemies over all pretty good, I like it.
 I felt like enemies all had so much hp that I needed to stand there and mash the attack for each one, could be nicer experience if you made some of them die to 1-2 attacks especially because the attack animation is a bit on the slower end.  But that's just my opinion anyway some people might like this version more.

oh that's sad to hear, still pretty good game, I'll come back to finish it tomorrow, need to see the ending everyone liked so much :)

Thanks for the feedback, don't think we would change the core mechanics because that would mean clearing the leader boards and people already put plenty of time grinding levels. But I am definitely considering making more levels for the game after the jam, so I might add an easier area at the start 

Good game, combat felt good and rewarding my only complaint is levels are a bit too long and it gets too repetitive quickly. Adding some random missile pickups could have helped a bit.

Nice game! I liked the sound design and music a lot. One of my favorites in this jam for sure.

Thanks, I'm a fan of N games too, some of the obstacles are inspired by them.

Thanks, we are both hardcore 2d platformer players, so we didn't realize the game was too hard almost everyone mentioned that difficulty was too hard hehe, game has cayote time but the time window is much less then most game mostly because levels were too small we didn't want to make it too easy. Well, glad you enjoyed it overall!

Hey, this game uses one of my sounds from freesound.org hehe (pumpkin activate)
Nice game and great visuals

https://chmann.itch.io/sand-blade

thanks, I like your game too!

nice

Thank you, yes game takes some to get used to, and making the levels easier wouldn't help with this issue either

Thanks, we were expecting some people to find it too difficult,  I guess difficulty curve could be better, 
Also you can progress to next area without needing to complete every level If you have enough orbs, So you can skip some levels in each area if you don't like them or find it too hard

yep, it's in the same folder, just unzipped and played

windows, dying also closes the game by the way

pressing attack button instantly closes the game