One improvement I would make is that of the fireball shooting. Since it shoots right where the camera is facing, you have to turn the camera to see the projectiles travel. Perhaps attaching a lingering burning area when a fireball hits would also help improve the “destructive” feel. Something else I noticed is occasional artifacting when the camera moves around.

I thought the boss fight farce was hilarious. When I went up there the first time I thought it was a 3D dragon at first glance but having it fall over like one of the old western movie props was great.

“what are some things you LIKED about what they did, and why do you like them?”

The control for the ball seems dead-on. It responds how I would want I would expect it to respond, but also is, of course, since it is a momentous ball, sort of hard to control. Just having fine control of the ball itself is a skill, a task – just like they suggest in the Game Feel book.

“what are some specific things that could be improved, and how might they be accomplished?”

I thought the fireball mechanic could be improved. Maybe I was just doing something wrong, but, for me, it spurt a stream of fire some distance ahead of me. When I hear “Fireball” I think more of a far-traveling projectile that a stream. Maybe call it “flamethrower” if you want the current mechanic (or maybe I am misunderstanding the mechanic).

You could also emphasize the destructiveness more by setting up the objects differently. If the “walls” on the ground floor were composed of 100ish little bricks instead of a single board, and then we crash into the wall and the wall crumbles brick-by-brick – that would be badass. We’d feel destructive -like a wrecking ball.

“do the two motions feel like they meet the assigned “feel”?”

It was my understand that two motions aren’t really necessary for the assignment. It’s more abstract than that, really. The wrecking ball feels destructive and powerful – I’d say it feels good.

“do the interaction aspects help create game feel (controls, avatar movement and how it interacts with the world, polish effects used directly to emphasize these interactions)”

Things fall/collapse when I hit them! Yes, the interactions epmphasize the game feel. In my sort of “criticisms” question earlier on, though, I mentioned ow you could emphasize it MORE by making objects in the world more… combustable.

“are the other parts of the prototype (textures, sounds, etc) helping or hurting?”

The sound is appropriate. The smiley face ball texture is interesting/good. I would say that the textures altogether give me sort of a “desert” motif. I wonder if a different setting (like… maybe an urban setting) would be more fun. Depends how you do it , really, I guess, hah. In any case, I definitely wouldn’t say they are “hurting” – they are pretty good, could maybe be improved upon if you wanted (like all of our games can be, really)!