I loved this. The whole aesthetic theme and music and even the slightly irritating/repetitive high-pitched jump-noise made me feel so calm. It was very enjoyable, and the control scheme, although evidently in need of being 'polished', was also great to me.
I'd also really like to know what song was playing over the course of the game :)
Reminds me of a game i played a while back called Limbo, especially with the all-black hero/foreground while the background actually conveys something other than shape, so i like how you designed the look, win for me.
The way you move/control the actions though, that kind of got me. I like the movement/jumping, not bothered by the cricket chirp even though you could've lost that, but the 2 things i hated were:
-The fact that the little magic ball moved really slow, especially on parts where you had to jump to move the screen so you could see where it went
-And the fact that if you switched characters to the little guy and then went back to the main hero, the other guy would no longer follow you. So if i managed to eff it up and mistakenly press E on a level, then go through a really wide jump, i couldn't get the little guy back if i needed him and had to reset the level.
The music was...okay, it fits really well and i like it, but i almost think that only sounds of the surroundings would've done a better job for you, with some other sounds here and there. But maybe that's just me.
One thing i DID adore though...the intro was only 3 pages long. I hate it when people draw those out too much. Thanks for that :)
All in all, for your first game, this is pretty playable, although on parts of it i wished i played with a controller so i could smash it against a wall. :P
Good luck with your future projects!
Would be alright except for an EXTREMELY annoying... almost cricket like chirp that sounds whenever you jump. It's a sound beneath the characters noise when jumping and it plagues my ears something fierce.
Music is great. Graphic is still good. Gameplay and storyline are bad. The control is actually clunky. Well, maybe its the physic codes of stencyl/flixel that sucks, but again you can have less physics elements in the game. For example, the boxes are pain in the S. Here's your three stars for music and graphics. (The hardest part in making a stencyl game is graphics)
Also, if you do the music yourself, I would like to say that you are actually quite good. Where can I download that?
So, the thumbnail looked pretty cool and I was looking forward to trying this out, but I get here and find that the game has apparently been copied without your permission, so you provided a link to play the game at your website, which would have been fine if the link had actually worked. feelsbadman.jpg