Fixed an obscure softlock




There was a rather unusual softlock I observed as being technically possible in the level design (but extremely unlikely for a first time player to run into, or any player for that matter). I decided to fix it. The old version is still available in case this change somehow broke something, but it should be fine.
To explain slightly, there was an attempt at one point in development to make a certain portion of the game possible to play with fewer items than the player likely expects, allowing some potential sequence breaking... but a few areas weren't designed to account for that right, causing a few potential problems if the player could progress too far that way. To account for this, I locked the player from being able to get a necessary item to even get that far to begin with to prevent potential issues. Especially since the area you unlocked that ability was in of itself a softlock area you couldn't get past it without further changes anyway... changes that have a chance of breaking aspects of the rest of the level design too much.
Adding the ability to do that all more viably after the jam is something I might consider though, it could be neat... and as is you can still get a thing or two out of sequence by doing all that.
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| Status | Released |
| Author | Happy Frog Games |
| Genre | Platformer |
| Tags | 2D, Atmospheric, Creepy, Fantasy, Metroidvania, Minimalist, Narrative, Side Scroller, Singleplayer, Story Rich |
| Languages | English |