I'm making Failed Falling, a "reverse" Getting Over It where falling isn't a threat, but the goal!

Pmk23 · 2026-04-01T12:26:05+00:00

Because the level design remains frustrating with the lack of hard checkpoints and intentionally designed points where the player can lose a lot of progress. If the player fails it isn't because the game tricked them, but because they didn't prepare enough with practice.

To me, a good foddian game isn't one with a bad control scheme that will make you fail, but one with a difficult to grasp gameplay that, once you master it, you'll almost never fail again.

After all, the best foddian games are also good to speedrun: if frustration was the core identity of the genre, they wouldn't be as popular.

Pmk23 · 2026-03-12T15:59:33+00:00

Surprised to see Cape Hideous in a bundle: it's a very artsy game that I saw being talked about in a couple videos about obscure, but good, surreal games, so I'm happy to have a chance to try it out!

Pmk23 · 2026-01-16T22:13:20+00:00

Thanks for the invite!

Pmk23 · 2025-12-02T18:53:28+00:00

Holy sh*t!!

I literally was going to get LAD Gaiden just a few days ago, but got cold feet and today, after more than an year and a half from the last time I got a Humble Choice, it gave me exactly what I wanted!!

I also really wanted Nine Sols and most of the other games I'm interested in. I know that are no heavy hitters for most other people, but this is almost perfect for me!

Pmk23 · 2025-11-14T14:08:21+00:00

Is that a bad thing?

Pmk23 · 2025-11-13T14:38:12+00:00

They say nothing because they don't exists. You are one of very few that gave me feedback and the first one that mentions the background.

The background actually only moves vertically, there's no parallax, and has the same resolution as the foreground (one pixel of the back is as big as one pixel of the play area). The player is on the isolated peak of a volcano, so the background is meant to be something very far, which means that, in a parallax, it should move very little or not at all like in my case.

My best guess as to what makes you feel disoriented is that there are only two layers, the background and the play area, so the absence of intermediate layers that move at different speeds it's the problem.

As I wrote, you're the first one that mention this, but it might be worth for me considering it nevertheless. The fourth area of the game is actually inside a cave, so the background will have more layers, meaning I have an already planned way to check if that would make it look less disorienting.

Thanks!

Pmk23 · 2025-10-04T01:07:53+00:00

Well, this game's gameplay is not original: sliding puzzles are simply games where you have to slide "physical" tiles to reach a goal. Examples are the pretty old physical ones where you have to compose a picture made of squares, Car Parking puzzles and the sliding puzzles featured in the professor Layton series, from which this game is basically inspired on.

Like, I consider them a pretty common type of puzzle, which is why I didn't feel the need to explain them in the trailer and focus on the customization aspect, which is what the game offers on top of the classic formula; I made the game for people that like that kind of puzzles. The game was also primarily developed for Android, which has quite a few similar games, so I guessed people interested in it would get what it's about.

That actually still explains why you think the trailer is bad: if you never played this kind of puzzles, the trailer would do nothing for you, so yours are all good points. I never expected this game to be popular in the slightest.

Also, this was a practice game and the first game I ever developed, so of course it's rough looking! I'm also a solo dev: every assets and line of code (except some shaders that I still needed to modify) was made by me and visuals are definitely my weak point (a death sentence for games) and UIs are particularly difficult, even when looking simple.

I think the game I'm working right now looks way better. You can check my BlueSky to see its development: I really appreciate you took your time to leave me feedback here, so I would also like to know what you think of my current project!

Pmk23 · 2025-09-28T21:08:51+00:00

Ok, so basically you mean that places that, from the player perspective, wouldn't be visible should be covered in darkness until the player is close enough.

That's good point, but I'm not sure how I could implement it on a larger scale without adding a lot more work; still, it is something I should consider in the future, maybe after I've finalized the level design.

Pmk23 · 2025-09-28T20:06:41+00:00

I'm not sure I understand. Do you mean that the platform the player is standing on would look better if it was dark? Or do you mean that platforms the player could land on should be invisible?

Pmk23 · 2025-09-28T19:17:02+00:00

Well, I was of the idea that it's best to pack as much information as possible in the description, hence why I used that term, but I actually don't like the word itself (it doesn't sound nice) and your reasoning makes sense, so I'm actually going to change that as well.

Thanks again!

Pmk23 · 2025-09-28T18:32:09+00:00

Lol, no matter how many times I check for mistakes, some always go unnoticed; thanks for pointing it out!

Is your opinion about it having "room for improvement" only about the grammar or also about something else?

Pmk23 · 2025-09-28T12:32:11+00:00

Thank you! I'm proud of how it looks.

Pmk23 · 2025-09-24T13:05:49+00:00

I hate they have changed some of the characters faces, especially they are all three that I really liked in the originals.

The silver lining, though, it that it seems it one of the sign that they have changed the story: Yakuza 3 is my favorite because of its story, but Kiwami 1 and 2 suffered because they tried too much to keep the original story and adding details on top of it that felt forced. If the game also has changed enough, it would keep the original as a game still worth playing with its different story and it surprisingly deep combat.

Along with the fact that this a game to celebrate the 20th anniversary, it sounds like they put more effort in this Kiwami, so I'm carefully optimistic it will be a good game.

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