So there's just monthly professional animation releases on Newgrounds, huh

I never know what to think about your videos (they're stylish visuals but I feel like I need closed captioning to understand you sometimes), but man I think I'm gonna have to reference some of your poses next time I do gesture practicing. You are a master of being shapes.

More like this, please.

The intro made me expect a quirky animatic but once that ended, I was pleasantly surprised.

Fun! I agree with the other person that the tunnel's pretty unintuitive (I expected it to control closer to some Sonic tunnel levels where holding right/left spins counter/clockwise) but other than that this is quite a little blast of a game.

Also I can't believe how many of these cars and other toys I recognize.

Text is REALLY small on the steamdeck but the little bit I played was really good!! I'll probably be playing this in bed for a while, haha.

Edit: I only managed to get past the first boss and a little into a second area before I died, but it started natively with no additional setup/fighting to get it to start. I had to set the controls (since Steam doesn't "know" the game yet) to be the default Gamepad Template in-deck. The only issue so far was a big drop in frames while it was loading the very first upgrade set, but all the ones after, and the boss trigger, were fine.

Got an almost 40 minute run, 64 powerups, 6 bosses beat, little hiccups. Runs the massive waves pretty solidly!

Has good game feel. Got pretty far without realizing the Space dive was different from the Down dive I was using. I'm gonna come back once my fingers are less cramped, haha. I'd love an arrow key control option (with Z/X/C or X/C/Space for air controls); I'm pretty bad with WASD.

Edit: Nice! Arrow Controls. I ended up doing that as a binding and tried it out on my steamdeck. Still can't speedrun the car stage but I think I got everything else. Looottsss of secrets on the ceilings haha.

Interstellar has been my earworm for days

havin' a nice bop
(also I like the Dr Mario drums)

Feels like Gold/Silver meets Harvest Moon and it couldn't get much better than that

I love collabs, Charlie!

Are you making stickers of these? Because they would be amazing stickers.

Oh man all the little details!! Which makes me a little sad you didn't add the spiral tower that goes from from Sky Sanctuary to Death Egg, as it's always been a pretty big setpiece to me.

Edit: Oh I see! I imagined it as a big centerpiece, larger than the islands, so I guess I didn't realize it so teeny there, heh.