Cloudfall

I cannot get enough of this one! The seamless music shifts as you increase in height, the subtle difficulty changes as the clouds speed up... I could go on. You've got room to grow with the implementations of the mechanics (personally, I found it hard to progress with the slowdown mechanic, even though it looked cool... maybe it should just slow down the crow and let the clouds continue moving?), and a touch of leniency with where the safe spots on the clouds are would be nice, but those are just nitpicks. What a fun arcade game, with great presentation! Well done!

@retrisma Thank you for the feedback! It's a bit of a hidden mechanic, but the crow actually slows down to 25% speed while the clouds slow down to 50%. So the clouds do continue moving faster (relatively speaking), but the whole scene gets the feeling of slowing down. So you and I are thinking alike but maybe my implementation left it too ambiguous to the player, or perhaps the slowdown difference is simply not enough for the average player to effectively manipulate it in their favor.

really polished game! i love the soundtrack and how it adapts to the height, and also the particle effect for the clouds. the details of the flapping wings are also quite nice (although i thought the sound was coming from the music :p)

i also like the effect when you slow down time, however i found it kind of hard to actually use it (like the person above haha). its quite a shame since the feeling of it is quite well done

also i think that its a little rng based considering sometimes clouds are already going off the screen by the time i reach them o3o i know more clouds could pop up after it drifts offscreen but well thats the reason for like 90% of my deaths :p

great work!!

Silly crow, why doesn't they just fly up!

First of all, thanks for reviewing my game! I tried this one for a good 10 minutes yet I had problems getting past 150! At first I was thinking that the constant drum beat was a bit annoying but when I realized that the music starts to pick up when you get higher, the song was starting to turn out really good! The graphics are also cute, and I like that you can still see the cube that the crow stands on on top of the clouds haha. All in all, fun & addicting little platformer, and I hope you the best of the luck in ratings!

Fun game that reminds me of doodle jump.😀

I which there was another button for the bullet time tho' because it's not very useful right now I feel.

Fun! Biggest motivator to keep playing was honestly hearing more of the sick dynamic soundtrack.

Such an enjoyable experience! That atari HD feel with simple controls. Brilliant how you can jump and gain time with the same button. I got really excited when I unlock new music and colors the higher I went, it felt like a nice reward. Well done! You need to work on it a bit more or adding bird unlocks with different powers and sell it.

Cute crow and fun gameplay!
The disappearing clouds are genius! However, it would have been nice to have more RNG involved in when clouds disappear.
Overall, Great Job!

Hard, but also pretty fun. Well done.

Hard game, but addictive. Nice retro music. I liked it :)

intuitive gameplay! can easily be released on mobile good work! :thumbsup:

That soundtrack was tight AF

A very fun game. I liked the graphics and also the sound.

Controls are simple and functional, which makes the experience even better.

Good job!

Simple to learn, but still a challenge. Well put together. Good visuals, good sound. The clouds could have used a bit more work in how they look initially and how the platform part of them just fades away.

Great game! Thank you for making it!

reminds me of doodle jump. It's perfect for releasing on phones

Reminds me of Doodle Jump, but so much more punishing. I feel like if I miss a single jump it's over. A great, simple game with a cool aesthetic. Killer soundtrack too

fun game! i like how the backgrounds and music progress as you do. clearly a lot of polish went into this one.

Well done! Had fun playing it. I'm curious to see how it would feel to play if the time shift only partially affected your movement. So it technically allows you to jump further.

I really like the chromatic aberration when you slow down time, it adds a lot to the atmosphere. The only downside was the music, wasn't really my kind of music.

Pretty cool and addictive game, I like how the music changes the higher you go. Pretty unforgiving too ahah!

I like the game so much. Really clouds are so unstable.) I wish I could go through further in the sky. Maybe sounds could be not so annoying

Simple little game but it was fun to play. I Enjoyed it!

Really nice game. The controls felt incredibly tight and responsive, which is so, so important for this type of game. I also really liked the evolving soundtrack. A lot of fun!

Got to 224!
Not sure if that's considered high haha.
Thought I wouldn't need the timeshift mechanic at first, but once the clouds started getting faster, I really found myself using it a lot.

Neat little project! Reminds me of a moodier version of Ice Cream Jump. I like the effects you put it, they really help to add that little bit of extra polish and spice. Could also be called "Crowfall" hehe :)

Nice entry! Fun twist on the endless jumper genre. Really enjoy the progression of the music and shifting colors as you progress. Would be nice to see something where you can start at higher levels, rather than always working from the slow bottom zone. Also a bit strange to see that the clouds only start to wrap back on the screen when they've completely left the view, rather than as soon as they start to leave the view, maybe smaller platforms but the full wrapping would add coherency and maintain the same difficulty balance.

The adaptative music was a big surprise!

The change on the colors and music after a certain point added a nice touch to the game! Very fun and addictive, good work!

This is really good! I wasn't good enough (mostly mentally) to be Top Crow, but I loved the soundtrack changing over time. Enjoyed the dev time-lapse & gameplay video to see what I was missing; I'd genuinely pay money for this progressive soundtrack haha, the second stage of it is a little murky compared to the cool beginning bit of the song but when the rest of the song starts coming in??? Hoo baby!!! That's what I call a bop! A *jam!* *A real slapper!!* And the bird was so cute, I loved the art a lot! I appreciate seeing the white squares as indicators of where on the cloud is landable, though it also slightly detracts from the cloud being a cloud, but I think it's perfect regardless. Amazing entry, wish I was more coordinated!

Very cool little arcade game. I'm not crazy about the sharp corners of the cloud blocks, the flat top is fine but the corners kinda throw off the look for me. Audio is good, I like the progression as you get higher. I never figured out what the point of the bullet time effect is for, just to slow down time to make better decisions? (btw I think I ran into a bug where if you use that ability as you die it keeps the music slow)

I also wonder if this would work well as a 1 button mobile game, where you only jump and depend on the cloud movement to keep you centered.

Overall a very cool game!

This is really well executed, but very challenging! I often found myself with nowhere to go. Still, I guess that is part of the planning and pathfinding aspect of the game. I LOVED the music, and having it change was really really cool. The graphics were simple but it all blended really well, and the color changes were subtle but really cool.

This is nice! The art and music are super polished for a compo game, definitely the best part of it for me. It was cool seeing how the level progressed the higher up you went. While the time slow mechanic is cool, I have a few gripes with it: I don't believe it is obvious enough how the speed of the crow vs. the clouds change (for a while there I thought it did nothing but slow down time and was effectively useless) and that it is mapped to the same button as jumping. There were many times I wanted to jump immediately after landing on a platform but input a jump too early, and as a result time slowed down for a brief moment, tripping up my already-early timing and making me run off the cloud without a jump. I lost many runs to this.

That being said, having a very simple and easy-to-understand control system is admirable and my minor nitpicks are drastically outweighed by the insane quality that went into everything else about the game. Very well done!

I really like how the music changes as you get higher, and the evolving background was really nice too! I actually attempted to do something similar in my own game, with shifting backgrounds as you get up higher, so I think that's really cool.

The music sounds really good and the little bird is adorable. Being the terrible gamer that I am, I started this game and for some reason the bird just kept running right, and I was pretty sure it wasn't supposed to do that. I was about to comment that I ran into a bug, when I remembered I used my controller for a different game earlier in the night and it was sitting there, giving me input haha.

SO once I tried the game without the bird constantly running right, it was 1000x easier haha, and pretty fun. But i'm still bad at the actual jumping, so I couldn't really get past 150 ish.

Overall, really well done :3

Great game ! It looks great and very coherant, the music is great plus it speeds up with the gameplay.

The time shift mechanic looks amazing but doesn't seems very usefull to me, as everything is slowed down. I would love to be able to slow down only the bird, or only the cloud, but both at the same time doesn't really create new opportunities.

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The dynamic music and presentation are great, I really liked that cloud dissolving animation! I noticed that when I died in slow motion, the music was still in slow motion when the game restarted.

This was one of my favorite entries this LD!