Overall, I really liked it; a very odd and unique movement mechanic. I think the core skeletal of the game is strong, it just needs some tightening up, especially in terms of teaching the player. I feel with explanatory mechanics like the signs from the first level (which should be improved to be re-readable and optional and not halt your progress against your will), and with improved level design, the player can be taught each new mechanic more slowly and deliberately. Signs like that are a crutch, but crutches are not inherently bad, sometimes necessary.

Puzzles games are tough and I commend your effort. The ideal with a puzzle game is to make the game not too difficult so as to be frustrating, but still make the player feel smart. I would recommend breaking down the level design for Portal Portal 2, Braid, and Baba Is You; see how they slowly introduce new mechanics bit-by-bit so the player can follow along. Portal is 70% tutorial but it doesn't feel that way. Baba Is You (I think) is a bit harder than the previous three, but there's a lot to learned there. I actually think Transilio has a lot more in common with a sokoban puzzle game than with a more typical puzzle-platformer. The clunky, chunky, grid-based movement and resultant level design is much more reminiscent of a sokoban puzzle game to me. It's like a sidescroller sokoban game to me, and I think that's really cool and interesting. There are great lessons to be learned and copied from previous sokoban games, such as the inclusion of an undo/redo system, which I think this game is screaming for.

Conveyance needs improvement all-around, which is a totally normal problem, especially for puzzle games. As game creators, we know exactly how the mechanics work and how to play the games, but that isn't true for our players. It's difficult to impossible to get in the mindset of a player totally new to our games and see their perceptions; that's why playtesting is so important. Online playtesting is great, but I encourage you to do some in-person playtesting as much as you can with friends, family, and strangers if you can wrangle them. The trick with playtesting is just to hand them the game and say nothing. Don't explain anything about the game, particularly the controls and mechanics, as the game should be teaching those by itself intrinsically. When you have a doe-eyed player seeing it for the first time, those fail points of conveyance become obvious. Again, I'm not disparaging y'all, this is a completely uber-common and normal part of development, we all have to do it, especially for puzzle games.

The presentation was pretty good, I liked the art and music just fine, though they didn't blow me away if I'm frank. I really liked the neat little low-tone background pattern with the square dots and boxes. That was rather lovely. The rest of the art is fine; could use some more juice, a bit more energy and bounce with animation perhaps, or some procedural spice with particle effects. The art for the mechanics might be changed to become a bit more clear to the player what's happening, explain the mechanics better intrinsically as I discuss in the video.

You did a wonderful job with the itch page here; great use of color, background image, semi-transparent background 2, explanatory text, logo, and screenshots. This is a pretty 100% itch page with everything included, which is a big deal! Your game pages are really important and you did a lovely job. The only additions I could say would be: marking everyone as a contributor as the game so you all show up as authors for the project, which Bricks already did after we discussed this in Discord; listing the credits on the itch page text itself, not just in-game; and setting a video for the game, but that's low-priority. The fact the game is playable in-browser is hugely important; that lowers the barrier-to-play tremendously, so everything else marketing the game matters much less. If this was a downloadable game-only, then I would say that a video is much more necessary, but here you're all good.

Awesome job to everyone who worked on the project; I look forward to seeing your progress on this game and future projects! Cheers!

-Sincerely, Gunnar Clovis

The puzzles were tricky, but my pro gamer brain solved them eventually. 10/10, would jump again.

Made it a ways further. Some good challenges in there. Gave up on the breast level.

Finally figured out how to set jump height to make progress. Pretty tough. I got stuck on this level. No idea.
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i really like this puzzle platformer and would like to ask if you want get a bigger team to continue it?

It was a very good puzzle. I had a hard time getting used to the rules.

I remember playing this game a week back and testing it out. The retinal was a very great idea. Loved this games idea and also the challenge was very fun too. Got a little stuck here and there but luckily with a hint or two was able to make it all the way though the game! Well done :) Here is my video of your game!

Watch Transilio By DrakeAutery & Team from Carbs on www.twitch.tv

I played this on stream a few days ago, and honestly, it was really challenging! the game was really polished, and i was excited to hear the developers wanted to build out on it further! Awesome job to the team, for making transilio!

My one critique is that I wish I knew what level I was on while I was playing it, Lol.

This is pretty good, wish I had the creativity to come up with something like this. Two little things:

- I'd like to see the level somewhere I am at (I was playing from the browser)

- I stuck at the level starting at the bottom and needed to jump 10 step high, but cannot because the mark is only 2 steps above. Maybe there is a trick but it doesn't seem connected to the physics learned from the previous levels. Maybe I am just not clever enough, but I think people give up a game something like this within 60 seconds if they cannot progress or don't see more options to trying with (at least I do), so maybe a hint or more granularity would help there.  (that is the level: