Goobi Movement (DEMO)

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i found 2 bugs first bug when you get all coins whiles you are in the cavern the camera resets and you can move it around. Second bug is when you go under the big ball whit goobi the camera bugs and you see like inside goobi

you should use .zip in the future. the itch app doesn't like .rar files it seems :)

stop writing -R1GBY all the time

-Good K

I love the character style and animations, it's very appealing! And really liked the mario-style platforms and obstacles. I think the movement feels very nice. Personally, I think the character walking speed could be a little faster, and I would prefer if the gliding was triggered only by holding the jump button down (or pressing it again in mid-air and holding it), instead of having a separate button that toggles the gliding on/off. I would also increase the air control. Of course, all these things are subjective and depend on personal taste.

I found a bug in the cave camera mechanics: when you enter the cave, the camera goes to the fixed position, which is great, but if then you move the mouse, the controls will get out of whack (the mouse is probably still affecting the controller rotation, so even though the camera is still, the controller direction is rotating, so the direction of the movement input also rotates).

Overall I really liked it. Looking forward to see how the game develops.

Also I would really appreciate if you could check out my game prototype and give some feedback!
https://alemarcati.itch.io/jetman-game-prototype

Played the demo. it was good. double is confusing at first. but everything was smooth. Also how you compress a 400mb file to 99 mb LOL

This game looks really good for an indie game

Hello all well?

I really enjoyed the test, the game is very nice and clean, but my computer is a little bad the game is constantly dropping fps but I don't know if it's my computer's fault.I didn't finish it because of the problem I had with the frames.

Just an information, but I really liked the idea and the movement, I hope you succeed in finishing the project, thank you!!😋

By and large I enjoyed the movement! Here are some of the thoughts I had as I played--both things I liked and things I would've liked to see:

• Chaining Goobi's spin attack to cancel a dive for some extra speed is very satisfying and creates a good way to both clear distance fast and get across longer (but not necessarily higher) gaps--I'd love to see that kept!
• Goobi's jump animation can sometimes make his movement hard to track--in particular it's not quite responsive enough for me to always have the best grasp on his jump height. I'd like to see a separate animation for while he's going up in particular, to more easily learn his jump timing.
• Wall attach triggers are very sticky! I'd like it if shorter walls couldn't trigger them at all, personally, as I kept having issues where I'd jump off a wall while platforming up steps.
  • I want to be able to cancel the wall grab state using Goobi's spin attack--it'd serve two functions, both allowing a break out of a wall attach state and a way to quickly hop up once you make it near the top of a wall. In fact, I think this could be a novel way to solve a large part of the wall attach stickiness issue, turning it into a feature wherein you can use the spin attack to clear the rest of the distance if your jump is a little too low and you end up attaching to the wall!
• Lastly, some footstep sounds would be a nice extra touch that'll make Goobi feel more present in the environment.

Overall, I really liked the demo! All the movement felt like it had great potential to be used in a variety of ways across levels! All I'd suggest is..

1.)Adding a short roll that can be done on the ground by using the dive button and increasing Goobi's acceleration speed a little bit. I have no major problems with the movement speed, I'd just like to be able to get to that speed a little bit quicker.

2.)Possibly making the glide button the same as the jump button while midair (and maybe setting both triggers to be dive buttons?) I think these might help the controls be easier to grasp and use for beginners.

These are just some ideas I thought I'd suggest, I by no means have any major background in game design, but I do think they could help the movement feel better.

Keep doing what you're doing though, I love the game so far and I look forward to seeing what's next for this robo-mailman!

Every Piece of movement is clean and appealingly playable. Really really nice piece of work. As a Unity Game Developer I will suggest you two things.

1- When you enter cavern you can disable rotation of player with respect to camera, its feels weird when you rotate the camera, your rotation changed and player might don't know where the player is facing now. And the movement keys are now randomly face the player.

2- You can also disable the wall detection from player front side for wall running. Its becomes annoying when you are jumping small stairs like platform. bcz it sticks to the wall if you are close to it. Or you can define only some wall to be wall runnable.

These are just from a dumb guy so don't lose you creativity on my suggestion. Maybe you have better approach than this in your mind.

Just Consider this as suggestion.

Love the game and Good Luck.

Really good demo, it feels like this game is inspired by Mario 64 or Battle For Bikini Bottom Spongebob character could just be me.

I feel like it could be more optimized because my pc is pretty decent, I have never seen it overheat with 3 fans, it was HOT.

Overall, I had fun trying to speed run and I cannot wait for the future of this game.

Small improvements: Make the spin attack a double jump(change button to jump) its a small thing but it will improve the flow. Play with the wallslide speed a bit i think it should be a bit faster, right now it kills the movement momentum. Great project, keep up the good work. Wish you the best.

Hey, any chance for Linux (and Mac) exports? Thanks!

looking so clean, came from youtube and cant wait to see where you take this project!

So, I really like this but there are some bugs/issues.

Bugs-

• Smoke effect still plays during emote even though player isn't moving
• Player silhouette shows through smoke, which is kind of pointless.
• Cavern movement is not relative to cavern camera - if you entered in at an angle the movement will be slightly off.

Issues-

• Movement controls are too many buttons, the spin jump and regular jump should be incorporated into a double jump (regular jump first, spin jump next). The glide mechanic should just be the current spin button. The current glide would be good later down the line having a "toggle glide option". Not really an issue just feel like that would be a nice QOL feature
• You should be able to exit emote if you press any movement button.
• Wall climbing camera should be similar to the cavern camera. I find the collision system zooming into the player while I'm wall climbing and it messes me up. 
• Silhouette is pointless if the camera zooms into the player.
• Camera zoom is quite instant, maybe consider adding some smooth? 

Other than that I have really high hopes for this, it feels fun to play in. Keep up the good work :)!

Demo is good, that being said I would love if you would make it that Gobbi would pick up speed as he ran and also if Gobbi would glide if you double tapped jump or hold the spacebar smth like that would be great.

Anyways good demo and looks like it could be a great game too.

Time is 2:54

i found a strange glitch

a video of the glitch:

liked the demo. played with keyboard and mouse. Don't know what it is but jumping feels a bit off to me. for me it feels a bit that i dont jump high enough. but maybe thats my pref. Also would be nice if the glider can open with the same button as jumping would make it way easier and you have another button open. 

Nice job i watch your devlogs! 

I felt like the dive felt a little sharp going down. The dive spin combo was incredibly fun and satisfying. Nothing really that negative to say about this move set.  Looking forwards to what's next in store for this project.

If you can make the glide happen if you hold jump or press jump midair instead of using a separate button (RMB) to glide. This makes it so you can use RMB for something else and makes the jumping and gliding more fluid.

Whenever I see another youtuber making a platform game (Whether 2d or 3d), I always go "WHYYY? There are so many out there and it's so hard to make it actually good", but yours caught my attention particularly well!

The character is cute, the animations are really well polished, and the mechanics work flawlessly.

As some feedback, I feel like the character is a bit floaty as the animation is faster than his actual movement, and when you turn it also feels like he's sliding a bit. I always refer back to Super Mario Oddysey but the character really feels grounded in that game, and I think you can learn a lot from how they handled the animation / turning.

One last pain point is that it would be nice to also have a system in place where if you run for long enough your character picks up speed. I know the actual levels will be more compact than the test level but with the amount of open space here, traversing from one end of the level to the other can be a bit boring.

Otherwise, I think you're off to a really good start here with the game. Can't wait to see where it goes!

You’re game looks amazing dude, I loved the spin attack/dive roll combination (I don't know if it's intentional, but it was very funny), the animations were very cool and also the 3D models were very cool.

I'm very bad at platforming but your game (I have to accept that I didn't pass it on the first try) but it wasn't so difficult that I would have to keep trying the level for many days.

I hope to see more devlogs in which you make levels and enemies, you are a very good video game developer

Great game! Just a couple things though (I'm sorry I know how tiring bug fixing is). On the cheese shaped platforms, there's a bug where if you position the camera in a certain way while standing in the corner part, goobi will go comepletely inside it. Also, the sound effects do need a little bit of tweaking, but that's it!

Hi there, I just gave a shot to a demo version of your game and found some annoying animation, it's when you glide with your hat you just playing the default jump loop animation hope you change it somehow cuz it's really not perfect with gliding.
keep doing great things : 

Great demo! I see a lot of potential here and I'm already fond of little Goobie. I actually didn't come across any bugs in my run (6:30 to finish) but I've got some feedback below that I hope will help!

- Turning feels great, you've got a good amount of leaning with the model.

 - I'm not sure if this is a bug or an intentional combo, but if you do a roll and then a spin attack you get this really like boosted roll combo. Once I found that I was doing it non-stop and it was a lot of fun. If this is an intentional, I'd recommend making the combo a bit harder to do so that it's more rewarding when you land it.

- The wall jumps feel really good, but I think there definitely needs to be a ledge grab. I thought I saw that in your devlog before but maybe I'm mistaken.

- Part of me likes how swift the roll is, but the other part of me feels like it's a bit too swift and makes the controls feel kind of jarring. I can see that it's a quick action to give the player full control of it, but it definitely loses some game feel because of it imo. Maybe you could add a quick force to goobie when you perform a roll so there is more impact to the action. Almost like goobie is pressing off a wall of air right before performing the roll? The force could vary depending on when you perform the roll since I noticed the roll can be performed regardless of how high you jump.

These are all just ideas though and things I noted while playing, but regardless I think the demo was awesome so far and I'm excited to see the game progress. I hope some of my feedback was helpful man and feel free to dm me on discord if you ever want me to discuss more about my thoughts on everything! :)

I wonder if my pc can run this

Great demo but may I ask I know its dumb but how do you make the platform tilt from where goobi is? Cant wait for release

very nice game

This game saved my life

The movement is really good and feels like it could have been made by AAA developers. 

I like it a lot, don't stop working on your game, it has a lot of potential.

The bug I noticed the most was that in the cave test, Goobi keeps moving in the direction the camera was facing before entering the cave.

But the rest is pretty cool, Goobi looks really cute (your friend LERPish did amazing animations by the way), and the gameplay feels really good.

By the way, I love your devlogs. :)

theres a lot of potential, 

a few things i would personally like to see changed (i played with a gamepad):

1. when hitting the ground from a jump or jump roll the controller vibrating felt too much, from small heights like that i personally wouldnt want any feedback
2. there is no jump buffer so when i hit jump a few frames too early before landing i dont jump and it feels punishing for not being frame accurate
3. when jump rollling i wish the momentum of the roll would finish on the ground instead of it instantly slowing down
4. also jumps might feel a little better if you hovered at the peak of it for a couple frames when holding the jump button

but the visuals of goobi is charming and i look forward to seeing where this goes

I love your devlogs! Great job with Goobi however, because I'm so annoying I use mac and that's why I can't test the demo :((

It's okay tho I'm fine with watching the progress of Goobi! Good luck on future updates!

Everything feels really nice here. The new model is adorable and animations are smooth, many points to LERPish. Here are a couple of minor things I noticed:

The interaction icon is always Y, not sure if that's meant to be dynamic yet.

Also it needlessly opens SteamVR which seems to be very common for Unreal demos I've noticed.

Very solid demo. <3

Feels great! I think you've got the right balance between weighty and floaty on the jump. To me when I used the hat attack it felt a little inconsistent because if I press it after a jump I gain height but if I press it during a jump I couldn't tell if I gained additional height or not. The wall jumping feels nice. A nitpick about it is that I would prefer to only initiate wall jumping if I move into the wall in the air. If I stand next to the wall and tap jump I don't necessarily want to automatically stick to the wall. That could be frustrating if there were little Goomba enemies or something I was trying to stomp on that were near a wall but then again I guess it's a lot easier to teach players to wall jump if they do it automatically. Love the new animations too. Can't wait to see more!