Hey, good try for a first game! You've certainly got the basics down. Keep at it and I'm sure you'll be doing the advanced stuff soon. I liked the music you picked out, too. It's catchy. :)
Reviews for "Red Ball: Platformer"
Pretty good but you get hurt to easy, when you die the screen is pretty bad, grey wall is to tall, ice is to slippery and you get trapped at the first door. This is a good game for children but gets boring soon. But my little brother finds it amusing. Keep up the work. :)
Very good for a first attempt. I would like to have seen some animation on the character like a walk cycle or something but other than that the controls are smooth and the graphics are very nice. I particularly like the way you have created a parallax effect by fixing the background in place. I had no glitches or problems with the hit area on spikes.
Quite good for a first attempt, well done!
Just little bugs I found - the gold pyramid bait you placed worked nicely for the first time, but (after death) when I chose to go right instead, I got stuck because I didn't pull the level. Either make a signpost, add a restart button... or stairs. ;) Then, the upper part of the ball doesn't bounce off a tile and it would be more user-friendly if we could press spacebar or so to restart the game.
Ignore the silly unhelpful haters, for a first attempt at a game I thought you did rather well and as they say practice makes perfect so keep at it! Restart button would be helpful in the next game though... for those people who are dumb enough that can't figure out there is a switch for the grey wall and simply complain you can't jump high enough... but yeah good 1st attempt :)