Gravity Ascent

Reminds of VVVVVV, cool music and interesiting mechanics. Pretty hard to master.

Wow, you started late? This feels very complete, I like that it changes everytime. It is also very hard, for me at least u.u
Looks very good, and the gameplay is also great. Did feel a little clunky at times, but nothing major.

@Mobuos Hi, thanks for playing. I didn't start very late, but I'd say I missed about 1/6 th of the jam which is relatively late. I think it lacks some elements that gradually increase difficulty and improve replayability, but other than that it is fairly complete. I had to work up until the deadline and I could only make 10 levels / sections, when I was aiming for 20. I didn't have time to properly playtest it, but I'm glad you enjoyed it and thanks for leaving a comment.

@Jesus Thanks for playing. I partially looked at VVVVVV as inspiration. I'm glad you liked the music as I had to rush it in the last 30 minutes. The "easy to learn, but hard to master" is what I intended, since I wanted to make the game an arcade style.

Interesting concept and fun game but quite hard. I found my self stuck sometimes and couldnt go past the spikes without taking a hit.

@Gunnar thanks for playing and leaving feedback. I didn't have enough time to properly playtest the difficulty, but I was finding it easy. I don't know if you realised it but you can actually kill the slimes. I'm able to get past all the spikes, it just requires planning and in some case fast reactions.

Wow! This was a good entry. Although i got a little stumped by the black hole thingies. Nice job in such a short time tho!

@BluePinStudio, thanks for playing! The "black holes" are have a decent range and are fairly strong - the gravity is stronger as you get closer. They should mostly be avoided and are designed to try and prevent players from mindlessly shifting gravity up. However, even if you get caught in their range, you can often escape from them if you time your movement precisely.

Actually very solid! To me, the graphics and the fact that this is endless is what I prefer in this game.

A thing I struggled a bit with is understanding when it's possible to change gravity, because I would sometimes fly through the level for a while without changing gravity, so I end up forgetting whether or not I did that already.
I'll quickly make a comparison to another game: In Celeste, you can radically change the direction your character is moving in with the press of a button ("dash"), but only once until you touch the ground. The appearance of the character is changed while you're unable to dash, and I feel like Gravity Ascent would benefit from something like that!

Anyway, fun game, with more "levels" for generation, it'd probably be something I'd want to play every now and then!

@Taevas, thanks for playing and leaving detailed feedback. You're right that I should have added some sort of indicator for when you can flip as it may be unintuitive. I didn't realise this because I programmed the game logic, so it seemed natural to me. It didn't help that I hadn't had much time to add such polish. Similar thing with level generation, I was limited by time constraints as I originally aimed for double the amount of "levels".

Simple to grasp but tough to master! The graphics were nice, and the challenge of flipping your orientation mentally were nice. If you were to take this further, perhaps staging some of the obstacles in to help the player naturally grow their skillset would be nice - start with just mastering the flips and change of movement orientation, then adding in enemies, then spikes, then black holes, etc…

This was pretty fun and actually kept me playing for a good while. The procedural generation is nice, kind of reminds me of Downwell but in reverse. I almost always died when falling past the black holes though :(

It's a cute entry, with nicely polished graphics and audio (which is maybe a bit too loud compared to the music though). I find the gamplay a bit too unforgiving though. The gravity holes in particular just seemed like a coin flip (or else an extreme slowdown): once it starts pulling me in I probably can't do anything because usually I've already used up my gravity switch. I also think the player's hitbox should remain basically the same even as the player is flipping, otherwise you can be standing next to spikes just fine, then switch gravity vertically, but hit the spikes as you are "rotating" to align with the new gravity.

Cool graphics! I wasn't expecting too much in the way of gameplay but the blackholes are a nice innovation. I wasn't entirely sure on when spikes were supposed to be deadly, it seemed I could sometimes pass through them sideways, but not always? The music was fine and the sound effects fit the game nicely. A highly replayable entry with a few rough edges - if you smooth them out a tiny bit this would make a perfect competition game for the tournament. Great work!

Great entry! Very steady implementation and overall level of polish I think. Reminded me off VVVV.

My only gripe is with the controls or how the gravity mechanic works; at times it seem like you can change the direction whenever you want, at other times it seems like button presses don't get registered.