Added these little water droplets today; I think it'll really help make the next area a bit more atmospheric, but we'll see I suppose!
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This is probably weird, but I really loved what you did with Elephantasy and Elephantasy: Flipside. I usually refer to them as metroidvanias, but genre is broken, and I literally don't know of any other games like them. I'm really curious what inspired your approach to ability progression in your games. I've had my own point of reference for your design in mind, but after quite a while I realized even that was largely superficial. Thank you for making them!
Thank you for the question!!! I tend to think of the Elephantasy games as puzzle games first, more than metroidvanias (though I think Flipside in particular has some of that DNA). Honestly, I think they have a bit more in common with Zelda games (which are a long-time hyperfixation/interest of mine), hence the item-swapping in Flipside being more Zelda-like, rather than having more static powerups like in more traditional metroidvanias. Maybe they're a different branch on the tree! Who knows!
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