Goblin and Coins II - celebrating a year since the release

Thanks for the giveaway! Will your game run natively on Linux too?

Eh, so many things out there to kill you when you're a solo-developer, can't even name them all. Thanks!

Hmmm, interesting question. It's easy to notice graphics change, but there's so many things that changed behind what you see first.

First one - linear, no replaying levels, rudimentary UI, basic mechanics (run and jump, pull levers), not optimized for multiple language support, hard to add new levels, ...
This one - choose level from the map, replay levels, advanced UI, extended mechanics (run, jump, double jump, look down, move up/down slopes, use different keys, upgrade skills, ...), optimized to support many languages, optimized to easily add new levels later, ...

Will these chasing enemies be able to jump down a ledge?

I hope enemies are vulnerable to icicles too.

The camera felt uncomfortable. Have you read Scroll Back - The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-Scrollers? If you don't feel like reading, you could watch the GDC talk linked at the top of the article.

Have you implemented ghost jumping? It really is a must for most platformers.

The clock format could be zero padded (i.e., MM:SS). The leading zeros could be drawn in a dim color (e.g., gray).

A simple snow weather particle system would be nice.

It would be nice if the coins were animated (i.e., spinning).

In the final product, I hope there will be a victory pose before showing the score panel and also have said panel animated in some way.

The new game mechanics look fun, although it'd be cool if crabs would sometime rest, allowing the player to pick it up and throw it, like in Super Mario World. I hope you'll fix the camera snapping at 0:18. But more importantly, is the duck face intentional? (And sorry, I didn't see the reply above.)

Sadly I don't expect that to happen anytime soon.

Unlike for example Linux, where I can run a vbox with Ubuntu LTS, install dependencies and tools, then compile through a virtual network to create a Linux build directly from my Windows machine...without even restarting, switching computers, paying anything... for Mac I'd need not just own a genuine Mac hardware (and recent at that), but also a developer account that has a yearly price and I hear they made it even more complicated recently on top of all that... with some verification for the files by Apple, not really sure how it works... It's just something I can't even think about at this point.

Maybe one day in the future I have the funds and access and I just use the existing source to compile all my games for Mac too, but for now default is "Windows and Linux only".

That said, maybe there is a way to run Windows/Linux games on Mac, not sure... Or maybe some streaming service that lets you play owned games on another device? Sorry.

There's something in the wind for you mac gamers: https://youtu.be/jTsc_UvlT3E (for all games)

You haven't collected all the coins! How could you! 💰

Nice to see you making progress :D

I'm not 100% sure about benefits to the developer. There should be some, and are rumored to be, because the more "interactions" game has (wishlists, followers, wishlist conversions) the better it should be "ranked", shown to more people... but no one knows exactly anymore.

I know that day1 of release is important because the more it sells, the more people will it be shown to on the frontpage of the store and so on... and the more wishlists game has, more chance some of those people will buy it on day1... or at least get a notification that the game has been released. But not even all the people who wislist the game get these notifications.

Steam has been very confusing lately, with all the changes they've been making. For example, when there was playtest for gnc2 in May, I made a "cross-promotion post" on gnc1 store page (because that's the only type of post you should use for this now)... which you don't see on the store page. Weird, right? Looking at the stats, out of 2500+ game owners, only 34 got the banner shown in the game hub. 0 people got it in the news, email, whatever... What's the point of that type of post then if no one will see it? God knows... and that's just one example.

tl,dr; more wishlist should be beneficial but I'm not sure what exactly does it do and what changes might yet come in the future.

GameMaker Studio 1.4
GnC2 is being built from scratch in GMS2.2

Of course.