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It was fun having to jump while moving to keep platforms up, but also be careful to dodge the holes in the ground :O)","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":852714,"author_name":"red-stake","author_uid":"red-stake","epoch":1664868259,"text":"I liked the idea of switching between characters that handled differently, but I did kind of struggle with how floaty the jumps were, maybe because I'm not great at difficult platformers. I think the core idea is a good one - you could have a lot of interactions between the two characters based on when they freeze (e.g. jumping off each other).","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":871644,"author_name":"Gooz","author_uid":"gooz","epoch":1665047586,"text":"Fun game machanic and levels need too focus, I like it picasso","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":886779,"author_name":"Izzo","author_uid":"izzo","epoch":1665599944,"text":"Impressive entry especially considering this was the compo and you made it with SDL\nIt was rather challenging but fun to strategize what order to use my peops in :)\n![the-end.png](\/\/\/raw\/bca\/z\/53148.png)","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":886811,"author_name":"someone","author_uid":"someone","epoch":1665601766,"text":"Nice platformer. Its a good challenge with a decent number of levels, and they weren't too long as to be frustrating.  \nI like how the sand blocks worked. It was a fun challenge to get both characters across them.  \nMy main issue was the moving platforms felt quite buggy.\n","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":886857,"author_name":"Luka Roli","author_uid":"luka-roli","epoch":1665604579,"text":"Very good, concise project. I'm impressed by all that you've been able to do in 2 days. The platforming challenges work well and it was fun giving a bit of thought to strategy. Too bad the controls were like 90% responsive, causing me to fail a few times. Managed to make it to the end, it was not that difficult. Music and visuals work well. I like the layered background.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":891529,"author_name":"epeachyband","author_uid":"epeachyband","epoch":1666150172,"text":"Awesome game. Good challenge. 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