Untitled Magnet Game

I have the version 4.1 and i have some feedback

The restart button turns blue forever after you restart any level once

You could add a indicator that the orange switch can be used to throw objects

You could add a indicator at the menu that shows your extra collectables and to person now that there IS a secret collectable

You could add a new cutscene at the level where you find the other magnet

Awesome gameeee a lot of Aha moments

Sorry by the english

hi, when i ran the game (UMG 4.1 (GDC Build) - Mac Version) in my mac os catalina (i dont have metal,i have opengl)  i got segmentation fault error in terminal and game not run.

Great game, took note of 3 suggestions for you (v4.1)

• The restart button turns blue forever after you restart any level once. Seems like a bug.
• When my character dies, there is no sound at all. Seems like you missed adding an audio source for it.
• In the second-to last level, there is no indication that the propeller can be used to throw objects . It's a good puzzle but maybe you can add an intermediate level where the player is forced to discover this interaction by accident.

Honestly, I've never felt smarter playing a puzzle game, I took some notes to give you but I didn't find many issues.

The biggest one I had was that certain mechanics weren't fully explained and a couple levels felt like they were even throwing multiple at you at once.

Also, theres one thing i took note of and its that the speed the arrows for the magnets all travel at the same speed despite the speed being different.

And personally, I feel like theres a lot of opportunity for fun parkour with the magnet if you expanded the movement a little bit.

Some the puzzles were a little confusing and sometime I wasn't entirely sure if I was doing the solution right, but I always felt a rush of dopamine when I finished your levels they were all really made well.

I feel like I'd love to see this magnent society or why there's so many of them or who they are or why our robots running.

If this was a fully fleshed out title I could imagine some antagonist creature chasing you as you use parkour and puzzles to run away.

Overall, this game was really smart and fun and struck a great balance of being a brain teaser without much a headache. I can't wait to see how the rest of the game develops because at the end of the game when I saw the thanks for playing I sat there just wanting for more.

Played it, finished it,  liked it. When robot talks to magnet his avatar could change to same smiles as shows in dialog.

Cool game but it froze while I was talking to the magnet guy

Jumping doesn't work

A very good demo! Please if you could add a level editor.

call it Magnorbius 2

Bug report in newest demo : You can break the game entirely by spamming both left click and E in the dialog section. The game will stop taking any input and I could´nt restart, main menu or anything other than altf4 

Just finished the latest version and had a great time playing it ^^!
Can't wait to see your progress! 

I really enjoyed the latest version. I will say that it didn't run super well on my laptop (which isn't very high-end). Having settings to reduce visual quality and increase performance would be great

I like the demo as a whole, but here's my general thoughts/ideas:

• Remove (or mostly remove) the need to reset the whole level on player error
  • Gets very annoying very fast when just trying to get a good idea of what to do by screwing around with stuff
• Increase the speed of lifts
  • Also gets very annoying when paired with the resetting issue as it takes a lot longer to get back to where you were. Even just adjusting the acceleration of the lift would be nice.
• Increase jump height
  • I know this could screw up some stuff, but honestly, the jumping just feels really unsatisfying to me. Not that it's a big deal, just a nitpick I guess.
• Add the ability to move while throwing
  • Also could screw up some stuff, but this one feels like a more important thing to feel good than jumping, as having to cancel, move, cancel, and move again to line something up can be annoying
• Increase the magnets' friction on the ground when thrown
• On the magnet flinging level, it might be a good idea to make it more obvious that you aren't supposed to throw the magnet from the top platform by hand
• I don't see why throwing the magnet is locked to certain angles? It feels really clunky and hard to aim.
• I think increasing the vertical throwing height might help a little bit in terms of controlling the magnet, as it feels really heavy right now and just doesn't feel right to me.
• Not a game-breaking issue, but I generally like to keep my controller plugged in when I play other games, but when I booted this demo, it wouldn't let me select anything via kbm and was really jittery until I unplugged it. 
  • To fix this, you should just be able to set an option for kbm, controller, or maybe even auto-swapping in the settings. Auto-swapping could be done by just checking which one input something last and then using the methods for that scheme. Adding onto the first point, though, it might be a good idea to auto-assign it to kbm if you don't add auto-swapping.
• And this is my last one, but I hope whenever this does come out that you go a lot more in-depth into applications of the mechanics. Some games don't do that very well, but these have a lot of potential and could be really cool when put together.

I think that's my main gripes about this, although I'm sure I've missed a few lol. Mainly just controls and tactility which (to be fair) I am generally more picky about than other people. But it's probably better for me to say all of that now before this game gets a lot bigger level-wise and harder to change when it comes to controls due to 'cheesability'. 

But yeah! Cool game and cool concepts, and I look forward to playing it when it comes out!

Edit: I watched literally the next two seconds of the video after I paused it and you said you weren't taking more feedback. But I guess if you ever change your mind on it, then I guess here it is? Sorry lol

Dear Mark,

I just tried both 4.0 and 4.1. The game is turning out great.

I wanted to give you some feedback about the new puzzles in 4.1. They are much better than the previous ones.

The puzzles in 4.0 were indeed harder, but because of how close and how mechanically precise they were made, there were many times in the demo where I felt that I had "barely made it", almost as if I was cheating the system instead of simply getting that "aha!" moment you talked about in the video.

I suppose what I'm trying to say is that I believe you should keep going in this direction of focusing more on the puzzle mechanics and less on the platforming/execution part of the game. Making the right moves and leaving the way permanently open results in a much stronger "aha" moment in my humble opinion, it feels more like you did something right and less like you were just lucky.

Finally, here are a few specific suggestions and observations i have:

• The retry icon seems to be bugged. It doesn't reset to white after you restart for the first time.
• Maybe the bow should be a fixed third color? I've seen at least one user here on itch.io getting confused by the fact that it also changes colors.
• Mapping the Polarity Swap to F feels a little weird. Maybe it should be S/Down since that button isnt used for movement anyways? That's how I mapped it and it felt smoother.

Much love and excited to play the next version!

Is there a save/load system or no?

A game that inspired me as a game developer

great game! although, still after nearly half an hour i still don't know how to beat over and above.

I loved the 4.1 version's puzzles a lot (except maybe Elevator Action but I was just taking too long to figure it out). They all were challenging but eventually you can figure it out. So cool

Mark, it's time to add some juice.

Very cool! Crashed on mac after restarting, but other than that it was really fun and worked flawlessly!

Itìs a really good game!! I love the graphic style and the puzzles are so clever!

I like the unique mechanic. I don't know if anyone has pointed that out yet but if the player throws their magnet upwards and jumps at the same time, they get an extra height boost, allowing them to skip the puzzle in level 7 for example

This was a lot of fun, but I can't solve level 6 which makes me angry

I found a small bug. When you are in the level select area and hold ctrl for a couple seconds the reset button grows in the screen. It seems that you have hidden the restart button above the screen and becose you press the ctrl key the grow animation start. But becose you can not reset the level selection level it grows so big that it comes in your screen. Not a very big isue but a little bug. 

I liked the puzzels.

Medals for everyone!!

This game puzzles are good but after completing a puzzle I have to go to the hub again and that is very frustrating.

I don't know if now is the time to think about that, but I felt poorly rewarded, I do understand that I should have felt great about passing each puzzle, but I felt like the struggle to solve them was not meaningful enough, all that was waiting for me was another of those puzzles.

(Don't take me wrong the puzzles are great and I know that this game is a puzzle game)

But maybe we could receive something more to direct our conquests, like powers that we can buy with the keys or something else. which can give me another objective than just going over puzzles.

I really liked the game, but I didn't feel like I could keep playing a lot more of those puzzles one after the other just because I want to challenge myself (maybe I should consider that its not really my type of game)

Hello, I just got into indie game development and so I started watching your channel. First of all, thanks for the helpful content! I am quite new to all of this, but I saw, that I can test your game and so I did. And I just discovered this one minor bug and it is that if you use the fullscreen shortcut on windows (alt + enter), the button allowing you to enter fullscreen doesn't detect the change and if you click it is then saying the reverse of what it should. Hope that this was helpful! :)