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great place overall, enjoyed the puzzles and defiantly got the a ha moment on levels 4-6.  One thing with game being both a puzzle and platform/speed game that could lend useful in future.  For example say a levels initial impression leads you to believe it can be solved with problem/puzzle aspect when it actually requires more precision or speed.  I had a bit of this on the 4 or 5 level.  there were times the mix was confusing but if you can make it clear when what your doing isn't the correct way I'd argue it adds a lot to the game both puzzle wise and precision platform.  Sometimes great ideas will constantly be in conflict with one another, but when blended correctly mix so well it becomes the stable of the game


Couple other ideas I had for mechanics that I thought of while playing that might be helpful

- A recall option to pull the magnet in whatever direction you are, not necessarily through walls but towards you until it hits a wall.  could be something where magnet isn't in range but you can pull it/ reverse polarity a few times to get it to reach you.   this you'd pry want to make a separate power up only available on certain levels

- a lateral magnetic field type with weaker pull then when polarity is right would either speed up your move or slow you down, allowing for some interesting puzzle ideas.  You could also use this same type of field to be used to slingshot magnet

- not necessarily for these missions, but i could see if your going to speed-run/precision game  allowing user to reverse polarity much quicker so they could say bounce from one electrical field to the next and avoid death rays or something


Coming from another programmer of 4 years (not video games, but more PLC and Controls) i think your doing a great job and well on your way towards a great game.  Lots of great and helpful improvements over last iteration.

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Hi Mark,

For me, the main issue is getting stuck in a level for a mistake I made and having to reset it via the reset button. Levels that are impossible to get stuck to seem more polished and taught out.

Another thing that kinda bugs me is the color of the magnets although I’m not color blind, my first thought is always to match the colors, like throw a blue magnet on blue stuff and a red magnet on the red stuff, although I know that is not how magnets work. So I thought that maybe changing the color of the magnetic field to the opposite color would be easier to catch what will interact with what.

The good stuff: I didn’t find any bugs so far Play movement feels good Magnet snapping on things feels amazing

I tested all levels and got succeeded in all but the last one, it felt much more difficult than the ones before but im also pretty dumb so that might be on me, i dont like the HUD, it takes away the flow of the game and feels like it stops you too often, maybe multiple puzzles in a row behind every door could help, the idea of throwing away the magnet for every door is interesting  but i dont think its very intuitive that throwing a magnet in a pipe would open a door, the background and design quickly gets repetetive which is only worsened by the HUD, reloading the levels feels a bit clunky and slow, maybe assign each object a default state that it returns when you hit reset and just respawn the character (if thats possible in Unity), when you aim you can trigger buttons with the magnet because of how the character moves the magnet up and down while aiming, maybe deactivate the magnets hitbox while aiming, on the last level i got the magnet stuck between the big - crate and the + magnet while it was active and then when i turned the magnet to -, it started weirdly virbrating, not a big issue right now but that could maybe lead to bugs in other puzzles

overall very positiive experience, i hope i could help

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Overall, the movement and mechanics here are solid (especially with configurable controls), but I found myself noticing problems with the levels themselves. As a puzzle designer myself, I hope to be able to communicate how I think about progression in puzzle games and why something felt a bit off about the levels. 

First of all, quality of life is something that can and should be baked into the levels themselves. That means making it easy to execute not just the solution, but also any experimentation that takes place first. Most of these levels do this well, but I still feel like it's important to remember going forward. Level 3 in particular I wish was a little smaller, and had a "catch" in the ceiling so that the rising block wouldn't squish you. 

Also, being able to replay previous levels is more important for puzzle games than other genres, because you might want to process what just happened and learn from it. I would say that, in this demo, backtracking is possible but discouraged. The levels are indistinguishable from the hub, and a completed level will be missing its key entirely. These have easy fixes though, like making the (strangely hidden) level names visible from the hub, and leaving a grayed-out or dotted-line key in finished levels. 

Being able to learn brings me to my last point; while the levels have a progression of difficulty, they don't have a clean progression of knowledge. Having unique eurekas is fine, but when none of the ideas are built upon and everything is different, there is no sense of learning how to solve the game's puzzles. This leaves them feeling disconnected, and effectively, having the same difficulty for a new player, who goes in knowing none of the ideas used for solutions. Going further, when you reach a puzzle that requires you to consider the consequences of a fundamental mechanic, such as solid objects being stopped by other solid objects, the player should already be familiar with that mechanic. However, I found myself discovering and applying a mechanic in the same level, to the point where the puzzles could be considered "unfair." Don't get me wrong, figuring out new mechanics is enjoyable, but most levels turned into poking and prodding, trial and error, instead of logical thinking and planning ahead. 

On the other hand, I feel that a few of the levels just aren't good teachers. Level 2 can be solved accidentally, risking a player missing the finer points (the magnet dropping from the rotating door, and the magnet being able to fall through platforms). Level 4 is simply unclear; I found two different solutions, and I'm not sure if either of them are intended, nor did they teach me useful techniques or ways of reasoning about the game elements. "Cheese," as unintended solutions are known, are fine when they are much harder to find than the "real" solution (making for some interesting speedruns), but cheese can undermine a puzzle and its lessons when it is a lower mental hurdle than the intended solution. 

While I have pointed out a lot of design decisions that you might consider changing, there is still a lot to like, and I would encourage you to keep building on what you've learned about game design. Level 5 was probably my favorite, being a pure puzzle with a non-obvious solution, and the movement feels great, making a great environment for poking around the puzzles (although throwing the magnet might need a touch-up, I didn't realize that the mouse controlled throw direction at all). Still, I encourage you to find a way of thinking about how players approach puzzles, even if it doesn't match my own puzzle design philosophy outlined above, because player knowledge becomes more important as you add more complex levels. 

If you hold down 'F', it seems to register both down and release as valid. So the polarity changes back.

At least, it does for me.

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Hey, can you please add a Linux export as well? I would love to try it out but I can't... Thanks :)

You can also make a windows virtual machine

Yes, we could do that, but on weak/old computers it would lag a lot

Yeah that would be nice

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overall great demo! it was fun, and definitely provided a few of those "aha" moments that are so necessary for a puzzle game to work. a few comments, firstly on mechanics, and secondly on the controls themselves.

let's start with a positive: the base player movement felt really nice. moving around and jumping was responsive and snappy. it wasn't hard to put the little robot where I wanted it to be.

now, a negative: the green switches. not the buttons, specifically the switches, were a little annoying. it seemed kind of weird that they would switch as soon as you were near the middle, instead of waiting for you to be on the high side. another issue I had with the switches is that after switching it, you had to go completely off the switch and back on it again to get it to switch a second time, hence the picture below.

this felt rather unintuitive

speaking of unintuitive: magnet aiming. not being able to move while aiming was, in a word- frustrating. it felt like it added some unnecessary clunkiness to the game. if the movement is being locked specifically because of the fact that controllers are supported, I'd suggest binding jumping and holding the magnet to the triggers up top, while allowing for movement with the left joystick as regular, and allowing for aiming on the right joystick by default.

and now that we're on the topic of controllers, I tried out an Xbox 360 controller with the game and aiming was impossible. however, this seems more like a hardware issue than something that can be dealt with in the programming as far as I can tell.

every game has its bugs. the reoccurring one for me was the physics system causing the player/magnet to get stuck in weird ways, like one time I got stuck below a platform because the magnet got wedged up top while I was holding it. I got out easily by dropping the magnet, but a measure being in place to prevent that may be nice.  one time the magnet got wedged between a moving platform and a regular one after throwing it, causing the player to be stuck on one side of the moving platform.

overall, I liked it. I don't mean to come off sounding very negative as I understand that programming is difficult work, I simply wanted to point out the things that made the experience less enjoyable for me personally.  I've really been enjoying following the progress of this game on YouTube. it's given me motivation to work on some projects of my own.

to anyone who is developing a game: keep up the good work! you got this.

that's all for me! :D

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this seems relatively bug free..... other than the screen size issue(which is more lacking a feature than having a bug)(just in case - my monitor is not big enough to have however large the game screen is fit. it is not resizable. I am using a 2016 macbook air. It resizes in fullscreen but doesn't resize in window form)

also the puzzles can be harder

also The last thank you tunnel was such a troll!!!!!! I watched the video before playing and I was expecting a super hard level instead of a thank you screen. you know the boss monster of puzzles.(ps you can ramp up the difficulty a bit)(don't consider the ramping up part too seriously, I dont game a lot and I spend a lot of time solving algorithmic problems so my view is a lot biased)

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Hi, I really like both the game and the devlog and would like to give feedback.

I was wondering if you could add a setting for the player to manually change the controller button promts (as in change "a" for xbox/switch to "X" for playstation) like in Outer Wilds. I have a playstation controller that acts as an xbox controller to work on pc (I read that alot of people have similar controllers) and when there's a game that automatically detects  controller type, I get xbox button promps. Not necessary, but a nice quality of life feature to add.

Other than that i really like the game and cant wait for v3.

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I don't think this is how you're supposed to do it but you can throw the magnet through the little hole when the big block in the middle is up



As for feedback on the game, the general concept and feel of the game is great, the puzzles have a lot of potential and are generally executed well. 

However there are multiple levels where it is easy to get stuck, in the level above alone I've had moments where I've fallen of while the door is as you see in the picture which means a reset, I fell in the hole the box is in, a reset, I've lost my magnet next to the switch and fallen down, another reset.

A possible solution to this is making the player able to call the magnet to them, though this might not work well or require to much redesigning. 

Another solution is to simply make it harder to get to areas without the magnet if you're supposed to have it with you, though I'm not sure on how you'd implement that. 
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The character feels snappy and the puzzles are super good, i especially like the use of the doors and i got that "eureka" feeling on basically every level. I start by doing the expected thing (money brain) and then when it doesnt work i manage to came up with a solution. 10/10 puzzle design.


I also found a super cool bug that im calling a "super jump", basically if you have the magnet near your feet (wheel?) and catch it and throw it really fast (im spamming the mouse click) you can get a lot of height by pressing the space bar. I managed to clip through the otherwise-unreachable platform.

Pretty cool glitch im gonna esperiment a bit with it and see if there is some possible speedrun skip or its just fun. :)


Edit: it appears to give also a small chunk of diagonal velocity so the level 3 can be complitely cheesed

Edit2: level i lost count can also be skipped, it might be possible to do a high jump at the start and complete it FAST but i couldn't do it. I did a super jump trying to carry the magnet up the second platform (which is super hard to also carry the magnet) and the magnet is required for a second super jump to go higher than the iron block and reach the key.

I will try to provvide more information about this bug as time goes on. And im gonna make a full glitched walkthrou.

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Nice! You can do it while moving with the magnet too!

Super Jump is executed by dropping the magnet downwards and instantly jumping (hold the jump).

To do it while moving you just want to quickly do:
(Down-forward + Throw) -> Jump

Here's it in action:

Just loved it, II can''t believe how fluid it feels in my Macbook Pro running Windows. The great performance allows a great control using my game pad. I look forward for the harder puzzles and the music. I sense that solving puzzles has a lot of intrinsic value which is cool so no need for extrinsic rewards, wouldn't mind if there are some in the future though XD

I would love to see a bit more of variety in the future if the game gets to be very long but as a short aesthetic experience it's absolutely amazing. Can't wait for the full final version and would also love to see how you did such great optimisation and implementation.

It was fun playing this demo, but the last level i solved the whole level without even pressing the green button under the "+" cube

And There was some glitches like :

 if you hold down the restart key at the hub level, the restart arrow thing will get bigger and bigger forever.

And in the fourth level "lift up", the thing that kill the magnet, if you jumped at the very side of it while holding the throw key pointing at the left side, it won't kill the magnet and you can throw the magnet to the other side.

And the tutorial, idk if you did it on purpose but the key you take at the tutorial will stay with you the after you finish the tutorial, cuz of that key you don't have to play all level, you olny need to play 5 levels and and you will have 6 keys.

Also if you pressed the "Esc" at the tutorial level, you can skip the tutorial by pressing "return to Hub", you can also "restart" idk who would you restart the level in the tutorial

But it was a great experience, i hoped that the thing that kills the magnet was used more, and also the demo is very short i finish it in like 10-20 mins

i would like to walk while aiming 

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Hi!

  • The character overall feels good to control.
  • The puzzles are good too, I quite like how the 90 degree doors are used with the magnet.
  • Especially loved the solution in the final level. Felt quite clever when I noticed the final step of the puzzle.
  • I like the art and the attractor effects
  • The aiming dotted line goes behind some objects, such as the doors and the key screens in the hub area.
  • When using a mouse to aim, the aiming line arch ends up feeling a bit too low when dragging the cursor farther away. Not a big deal though.
  • You can re-enter the levels you've beaten, but the only way out ends up being the menu button. I suggest adding some sort of an outline/silhouette of the key when you re-enter a stage.
  • In the 3rd hub level, you can crush yourself with the rightmost platform after collecting the key. It will still count as if you've beaten the level, but the death will seemingly occur after you spawn in the hub, causing it to reload.

Good work so far! The graphics are wonderful. However, on 16:10 aspect ratio, specifically 1680:1050 resolution, I can see the button prompts even when they are supposed to be offscreen and the loading swipe doesn't cover the whole screen.

If there was one change I think needs to happen it would be to allow for player movement while aiming, it made trying to line up certain throws a little more cumbersome that it needed to be

Hey Mark! If you happen to read this, it'd be quite the opportunity for me, since it seems you need some audio! My degree as a game programmer is underway, but the best way I've been able to help my teams in college has been creating music and some sound effects. I've had my hands on Ableton Live for nearly three years now. If this is a project you want to work solo, I understand, but if it interests you, please reach out to me at afoulks2002@gmail.com

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Enjoyed using the new character controller, The little guy feels more fun to use. The new throwing animation also complements this new fun and faster feeling the game has. On PC,  I personally preferred changing the magnet's polarity using the RMB button as it felt weird to control both the character and the magnet using keys very close to each other. After a level is complete, you get spawned to the very beginning of the hub world. I feel that as the game gets bigger, it will be a very long distance to travel in order to get to the next level, it would be better to spawn outside the entrance of the level you just won.

When it comes to the levels, I like the newer rapid approach to solving puzzles as the 1.0 version felt quite sluggish. You would spend most of your time moving to get into position rather than testing multiple strategies. The difficulty was not easy but also not hard, it was right inbetween.

The tutorial section made me think that the level structure would  involve collecting a key and then getting your magnet buddy back to the door but in the levels you just get the key and the level ends. I almost feel like it would tie the theme together if you had to exit the level with your magnet, otherwise it feels like letting Yoshi fall in a pit while you jump to the end of the level.

theres a way to throw the magnet to stop the cube on the last level

isn't that the intended solution?

This was a really good little demo! I loved playing it and was very enjoyable to mess around with for a few minutes. Of course, here's a few pieces of critique:

  • The player character feels a little too sluggish for me. It feels like I should be able to traverse through .the levels and the hub a little bit faster than the set speed
  • The options menu feels like it should have a back button for returning to the main menu for people who predominantly use the mouse for menus
  • It feels strange to be immediately kicked out of a level as soon as you get the key. It reminds me of super mario 64 when collecting stars, but I understand the reason for the mechanic when looking at puzzle games like baba is you. Unfortunately, it feels like theres always an extra puzzle thats missing in each level in trying to get the key to an exit rather than just go to the key and you win. This feeling also links to the fact that entering a level feels like it should be an interactable option rather than get sent into the level as soon as the door opens. It's as if the game is forcing you through it rather than letting you take your time and backtrack to a different choice. It might just be me understanding the levels as "rooms" rather than areas of play.
  • In level 5 and 6, it's realy easy to find yourself being stuck in an area that you (seemingly) can't leave (i.e. the block pit). I know that you are able to resart the level on a whim, but it feels like im losing progress on a silly mistake. Theres also the fact that one of the level's solutions means dropping through a gap between platforms which I wasn't clear to me due to the gap being so small that I didn't realise you were able to move through in the first place until i accidently fell through and solved the puzzle.
  • The majority of puzzles were not very clear in showing how the puzzle worked, perhaps through their visibility as it's hard to see or register dark-on-dark colours.
  • When throwing the magnet, it feels like it should bounce off the walls more than it does as I was trying to use angles and tragectory to throw the magnet off a wall, only to have it fall almost exactly where it landed.
  • There was a small error when I first entered the hub area where I wasn't able to see the throwing tragectory. It didn't appear the rest of the times I was in the hub however.
  • When I was inside of the hub, it felt weird that I wasn't able to know what was inside each of the levels or tell them apart just by being in the hub. Maybe there could be some sinage or some themes for that, mostly so that it doesn't feel like I'm choosing a level at random (even still I ended up selecting them from left to right anyway because it feels like the "right" way)

Some positives too:

  • Both level 4 and 6 are really fun puzzles to solve and I thouroughly enjoyed my time problem solving with these! Level 6 especially felt hard but fair, and I felt really good when I reached that "Aha!" moment!
  • The animation feels really nice, I love the little pop of the character's jump and if you can get it dangling from a magnet and move it about, it angles to the direction you would be moving and its so cute!
  • I love te fact that you are always able to see the restart and changing polaroty buttons when playing as I always struggle with forgetting controls when playing a game. It's a really nice touch.

Although a lot of these are my personal preferences, I really like this game so far and I love what you have been able to create for it! Good work Mark!!

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First off, fantastic game! 

  • I love the creative mechanics and the way they slowly get introduced and build on one another (angled door to magnetized angled door, magnetized platforms to magnetized platforms that push buttons, etc.)
  • Puzzle design was on point in that it was challenging enough to make me want to keep playing but not so challenging it was irritating to figure out the solution
  • The character feels fun and flowy to control. I found myself just jumping around and seeing if I could catch the magnet mid-air. (I played with controller so my input here really only applies to that)
  • The art. Oh my god the art. So pretty and consistent. Both the character and the magnet have such vibrant personalities just from their designs.


I did notice a few things, however

  • Being able to move while aiming would be a nice QoL feature. There were a few times I wasn't quite lined up where I needed to be and it was a touch annoying to have to realign myself.
  •  I know this is a very small sample size of levels and (based off your video, at least) it sounds like they were made in quick succession to one another but a few of them did feel very samey. I.E. use magnet to hold open door, go through door without magnet, and then change polarity to drop the magnet onto something else.

Not complaints or bugs or anything, just some stuff I personally think would be cool

  • I think this set of mechanics that you currently have could really lend itself to a few levels that are a bit more fast paced and "parkour" oriented. For example: The magnet starts stuck to the ceiling, you have to change polarity, catch it mid-air, then change back, and you keep jumping from one beam to another, making sure to change polarity in between jumps. Stuff like that. Obviously that wouldn't be the whole level as this is a puzzle game but it would be a VERY fun mode of transport in between parts of the same level. This could also benefit from a sprint mode or increased player speed in general.
  • I'm not sure what your plans are in regards to level variation in terms of foreground/background design but I personally would love to see these cutesy friends explore different places especially with your wonderful eye for pixel art. It would be a good opportunity to introduce zone-specific mechanics too. But, as always, more does not necessarily equal better with mechanics.


All in all, wonderful game/demo. I'm extremely excited to see where this goes and this demo placed Untitled Magnet Game IMMEDIATELY into my watchlist.

Great game feel, excited to see where this is going. A few comments:

1. The robot can't climb the switch without some runup, so if you try from right next to it, you just sputter out. Probably just a speed tuning thing

2. I don't like how the magnet can push you while you are aiming. This makes throwing the magnet while up against a wall difficult. Maybe the magnet could lose its collider while aiming?

3. I don't like having the pick up the magnet in the hub world. It doesn't really serve a purpose, and it's easy to forget, making it tedious to have to go back and get it.

4. Parallax scrolling in the hub world doesn't make sense, since it looks like an indoors space. It isn't in the final 'Thank You' room, but there is another graphical bug when moving in the right half of that room where lines appear between the tiles

5. Aiming with a mouse is fine, but I was having trouble using my built-in trackpad. It wasn't nearly as smooth

All in all though it's a pretty tight experience. Very fun to move around and interact with all the different components. Great work!

First of all thanks for the demo. As I mentioned in other comments there's still a few issues with the screen and dimensions but you're getting there.  

The puzzles had some good ideas and there is a good uses of the assets you created to weave different scenarios so far.

If I can bring some criticism, I'd say dying in the game felt unexpected. It was for the 3rd door in the hub, being suddenly crushed just felt like a cheat. I didn't expect it, and so I had no reason to try and avoid it.

It's a bit annoying by the way when you die or have to reset the whole room and having to redo steps. I know theses are short but still. Especially since some room ask you to do stuff in a very specific order so it's easy to soft be locked out of the solution with the only option to reset. I feel like it should be easier to get back on a mistake and retrace your steps.

I also feel like there's a problem with distinguishing levels. First, in the hub, if you decide to do a room later, I feel like with a more complete game it would be good to know which room is which. Otherwise you just see a bunch of doors and would nor remember which one leads to what. I think on that note the game would benefit from being more visually distinct. Having visual elements that distinguish levels, make them more themed and stuff would be good. And while I know it's just a short demo, having a basic kind of narration, you know just having an idea of who your character is, where they are, why they are collecting stuff, having like a structure with long and short term objectives would be good. Or make it part of a mystery you would solve as the game progress. It gives the player a motivation to continue and makes them want to see more, something to look forward for, create a sense of progression, etc etc. It would also probably drive you to make creative levels that can tell a bit of story while also being fun to play.

I found a glitch: on the hub try to restart😉😉😉

ty kind stranger you made me smile

ur welcome ")

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great game with interesting mechanics, really liked how the first few levels of the hub were sorta like a silent tutorial. 

the last puzzle  was a massive spike in difficulty though

two nitpicks: the level ending on picking up a key felt a bit strange -- in most other games they are used to unlock something in the current level so maybe the item that ends each room could be changed, or you need to the walk the key back to an exit door?


having to pick up the magnet at the start of each room is a little annoying, maybe spawn in holding a magnet if its a room where you want to give the player the magnet immediately?

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I really liked it, the puzzles were fairly easy but the later ones definitely took some trial and error to figure out the trick. It felt really good to get a few "Aha!" moments where I suddenly noticed a detail I had previously overlooked that made the solution click into place. It was however repetitive to have to keep picking up the magnet at the start of every level and in the hub. I think if you are just going to give the magnet to the character you may as well just spawn the robot in holding it.

Feedback:
In level 2 It wasn't clear that you could drop the magnet though the one way platform onto the button
In level 7 I solved the puzzle by wedging the magnet under the large box without touching the button, if this was the intended solution the controls and physics made doing this quite fiddly requiring a number of restarts and felt like I was brute forcing the game, if this wasn't the intended solution then my bad
 

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Unfortunately I can't play the demo. It opens in a tiny window and when popped into full screen, the resolution doesn't change, which makes everything look far too fuzzy, and the text in game illegible.


For information: I'm on windows 11, my monitor is 1080p, and I have a GTX 1070ti graphics card.

I really hope this is fixed soon. I tried playing it, but couldn't make sense of the tutorial text.

Cheers, 
Sam

Same issue here :/

Really liked the demo! Three things stuck out for me:
1. When I switched off +/- markers in the menu, it only switched them off of the magnet and pipes; they stayed on for the magnetic fields.
2. I eventually got used to picking up the key ending the level, but it was jarring the first time for me, if only because I'm used to picking up keys partway through a level. It's not a big deal, but it was a bit jarring the first time I picked up a key and the level switch happened.
3. Like with most folks, the last level was a bit of a struggle for me. Largely because the first level involved using  a magnetic field to throw the magnet, I unsuccessfully struggled with the first two methods Erakos mentioned before finally figuring out the intended solution. I really like the final solution, but there was a period of time where I was frustrated not knowing if I had run across the intended solution or a wokaround.

Besides that, I thought it was a lot of fun! I really like that you included being able to click the left mouse to throw the magnet - it made picking up and throwing things much easier from me than aiming with the mouse and pressing a keyboard button. I had no difficulty with the mouse/keyboard setup, but I'm used to using WASD for computer games, rather than the arrow keys.

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Pretty good, one minor annoyance is that the non polarized switch doors have a "cooldown" which means if I try to go through one and then immediately turn back I get stuck running against them and have to turn back and then push against them again. Noticed that immediately with the first door.

Puzzles felt honestly a bit easy and most of the time there isn't even really a way to do things that don't progress towards solving the puzzle so you could solve it accidentaly.

Last puzzle on the other hand was super frustrating. I kept messing up the throw and the timing and angle to change the polarity is relatively precise considering you have to then run quickly otherwise the block squishes you, I had the solution and kept failing for a while because I didn't succeed to apply it and that was really annoying. Another major annoyance was that the button was too far from the wall so even when the throw was successful the magnet sometimes got stuck behind the button without actually pressing it. The jump is also super tight and I had to reset multiple times because I got my magnet stuck on the other side and failed the jump. Overall a very unfun level for me and I was disappointed that it was the final level too since I expected a last more intricate level once I unlocked the final door. I get this is a demo but getting a thanks for playing when you prepare for a final challenge is a bit of a letdown especially when you come out of a very frustrating level =p

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My Feedback as I play, I enjoyed the game but for efficiency I'll focus on what went wrong with me :

- this angled button felt weird to throw a magnet at.

- we can't navigate through the 1st option menu with the controller.

- "Enter Aim Mode" entry seems useless. Only the "Carry/Cancel Aim" entry is used for both.

- Some elements appear in front of the aiming dots, that feels wrong to me.

- In the 1st hub, I can choose a room to enter but they all have the same look and no name so why would I pick one over another ?

- I get that redundancy is bad but I was surprised to get teleported after getting a key. Planning a shortcut back or making the route back as part of the puzzle would feel more right to me.

- Got stuck in the 2nd room for a while because I couldn't imagine that the magnet would fall through the platforme given that we can't even do that by pressing down.

- I have no idea how to finish level 6.

minor thing, but it would be a lot nicer to change the settings if you could click on the words, and not just the checkbox

another little nitpick, the magnet come out of the pipe off center in lift up, and it physically pains me and my OCD

otherwise, amazing puzzles, and fun to play game. I look forward to the official release!

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I think like it would feel better if you could move while in magnet throwing mode. It seems clunky to get locked in place every time I throw a magnet. I was playing with mouse and keyboard, with a controller it might seem more natural to be stopped.

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What your doing is really, REALLY cool, but "the robot guy" (that should be his official name) was a bit to slow for my liking, the game felt more like a platformer with lots of puzzle elements in it than just a puzzle game and the control scheme should be simplified. Otherwise then GREAT game!

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Played on Windows 10 with a keyboard and a mouse.

Opinion:
The game is way better than before, the feel of the movement of the character is good.
I didn't liked that entering the aim mode is delayed but maybe it is neceserry for the game and I can live with it.
All in all the basics are there and they work well.
I can see potential in this game so keep up the good work with the game and the videos :)


Suggestions:

1; In the menu a back button would be nice
2; In the control options menu a button that resets every control would be nice
3; It would be nice to move the fullscreen button to the options so you can change it from the options menu during a level
4; It would be nice if when you open the options from ingame and press ESC it would drop you back to the "paused" menu instead of closing it and bring you back to game level.
5; On level three ("+" charged L platform on the middle bottom and "+" charged regtangle on the right bottom of the map) you can stuck if you carry the magnet with you and jump down to the rectange platform(maybe give a hint when you do that that you can restart the level with button x...)
6; The 5th map is giving you that eureka moment when you finally do it but very frustrating how many ways can you screw it up in a way that your only option is a restart becasue you get stuck

Bugs:

1; If you press Alt+Enter to make the game fullscreen then the button stays "full screen" instead of changing to "windowed" and because the buttons toggle the fullscreen it will make windowed when you press "fullscreen" and vice versa.
2;  On the magnet color options window if you click on a color and keep holding the mouse button and move it away from the color, then the clicked color will become a circle but the "-" and "+" signs won't move from the previous color(and you also can't switch back to the previous color, you have to press on a third color first with a short click to be able to choose the first color again)
3; If you click on any of the "Defaults" button in the options and keep the mouse button down and move the mouse off the button it will stay colored.
4;  I don't know if it is a bug or a feature but you can set the same button for different controls (it is actually cool that i can use "D" to move and jump at the same time)
5; If you change a control key in the options during gameplay than you can't close the pause menu with the ESC button(after control key modification it will bring you back to the pause menu, and then the ESC button won't do anything).
6; Maybe it is not a bug IDK but If you hold down the magnet polarity changing key the magnet will change color twice(when you press the button it will change to the other polarity and when you release the button it will change back )
7; On the last "Thank you" level when you throw your magnet into the pipe the polarity sign will be shown outside while the magnet is inside the pipe
8; When you move to the left with full speed but the mouse is on the right side and you press the thow button it will throw the magnet with bigger force than the animation would suggest be possible based on the other throwings but it is just nitpicking really :)
9; When you finished the level, you can't play it again(actually you can, you can't just finish it again) because the "key" won't be there :(
10; On the first Level you can get stuck under the first platform(more about it on the picture)

I second you on the hidden collision box.

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Demo was super fun, I think everyone agrees last puzzle was probably the biggest stumper at least for a bit. Something I thought was unintuitive about the magnet was like charges not repelling, the first thing I thought for the final puzzle's solution was repelling with a like charge, but I was frustrated when that didn't work. 

The throwing mechanic still feels a little weird, not quite sure where to put my finger on it though, sorry. Getting into levels by throwing the magnets just breaks the pace even if it's just for a second. I hope sound design is in the next demo, the quiet felt weird the whole time. 

I can't remember which room it was, but the puzzle with the two drill bits felt weird because it was hard to tell where the magnetic field ended. If it had been more definite, I would have been able to tell my first "assumption" (as you say) wasn't the solution to the puzzle.

Overall a good demo and I'm glad controller mapping works out of the box

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It is great, but the fullscreen option should be in the in-game settings as I wanted to add my own music due to the lack of one, and I had to quit the game and lose my progress due to it. Thankfully it was only the first level. Everything else was great.

These puzzles were pretty good. The movement system is just right, and all the general mechanics feel really nice to use. My main critique with the game would be that the levels are too easy, which is fine, but I think the game doesn't have much potential with only one magnet. The problem is, when there's only one magnet, you know exactly where you need to use it right away. In a game like Portal, there are many portal surfaces that make the user really think more than how to solve a puzzle but what the puzzle is in the first place, which I would love to see for a game like this. Otherwise, I really like the final puzzle. I feel like there are people who are going to complain about it, but you are introduced to its length right from the start (which was really clever to make the player go through, by the way), so missing that it exists is sort of the own player's fault. What I liked about this level is that it isn't apparently clear how the player needs to progress. At first, the button on the right looks like the solution, which is really nice design. Overall, the final puzzle was really good, and the other ones could have benefited from some red herrings or something along those lines. I'm especially hoping we see puzzles in the future with multiple magnets. I hope this helps!

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