SAGE 2024 - Demo GingerSnap

The movement was stiff at first, but then I realized that it's actually super controllable. I occasionally dashed off cliffs thinking I could cancel the dash, which is something you could consider adding.
Because the movement was so responsive I felt in control the whole time and found maneuvering and dashing around the world and enemies super satisfying. She was also super forgiving on tiny platforms which was awesome.

There are a couple things that were a little frustrating.

First, it's very hard to jump while going down a slope, you might want to buffer the grounded state for a bit so the player can jump for a short time after leaving the ground.

Second, I would strongly advise removing the mechanic where picking up an element automatically tries to use it. It's super frustrating to see elements I want underneath ones I don't want, try to grab them, pickup the wrong ones, get stuck with a combo I didn't want, AND lose the elements I did want because they were consumed by the ability I didn't want. If you're going for a Kirby like mechanic where you can combine elements together you need to let the player explicitly decide when they want to add an element.

Other than that the game is pretty fun, the ability to chain dash is awesome and I love that you can change direction with it as well. Reminds me of Hyperlight Drifter which is a huge W.
Also Ginger adorable.

Thanks for the feedback!

If I understand you correctly, you can actually cancel dashes with Guard/RB! But you might be talking about something else, idk.

I think the movement comes off "stiff" at first because of the animations, which could use a helluva lot of polish. And will certainly be receiving polish.

Yeah, I'll certainly add a buffer for the grounded state. There's a portion in the jungle level I think would benefit a lot from that.

And yeah, that's something I've been tooling around with. Just wondering if it might be too confusing to players. But I want to make it where if you hold on LB, you don't pick up elements. Or vice versa. Like, pressing a button picks up elements.

Again, thank you so much for the feedback. Thanks for playing!

Meepalasheep said:

Thanks for the feedback!

If I understand you correctly, you can actually cancel dashes with Guard/RB! But you might be talking about something else, idk.

I think the movement comes off "stiff" at first because of the animations, which could use a helluva lot of polish. And will certainly be receiving polish.

Yeah, I'll certainly add a buffer for the grounded state. There's a portion in the jungle level I think would benefit a lot from that.

And yeah, that's something I've been tooling around with. Just wondering if it might be too confusing to players. But I want to make it where if you hold on LB, you don't pick up elements. Or vice versa. Like, pressing a button picks up elements.

Again, thank you so much for the feedback. Thanks for playing!

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omg I completely forgot that you mentioned in the tutorial that guard is how you cancel the dash, that's user error on my part.

For the element pickup, honestly I think all you should change is making it so that the elements don't auto equip and just go into your stored elements until you chose to use them.

Anyways, you got a great thing going, keep up the good work!

Sidega said:

For the element pickup, honestly I think all you should change is making it so that the elements don't auto equip and just go into your stored elements until you chose to use them.

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I made it so it works exactly like this, thanks for your feedback, again!