PyWeek - Apex - feedback

This is cool! My fingers were a little awkwardly positioned for controls, and I wasn't really able to do the mantling thing, but it feels satisfying to jump from building to building. I particularly like how chill the game feels with the song and visual effects, it really captures that night city atmosphere. Great work!

Good fit for the theme. Quite simple mechanics. It was hard to judge distances, like how far away the next skyscraper was and whether I needed to jump or sprint or such.

The controls felt a bit clunky (I seemed to teleport around a bit if I held down arrow keys while mantling). Also there might have been some draw order issues (or no z-buffer?).

nice little game, then only annoyance I had was a crash sometimes when falling down:

pygame-ce 2.5.5 (SDL 2.32.6, Python 3.13.7)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "...\apex-runner\game.py", line 2100, in <module>
Game().run()
~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "...\apex-runner\game.py", line 2076, in run
self.draw()
~~~~~~~~~^^
File "...\apex-runner\game.py", line 1739, in draw
pygame.draw.rect(s, (220,200,60), (rx, ry, 56, 22), border_radius=4)

Cool concept! I liked the use of 3D in pygame, great work. The artwork and vector-drawn backgrounds were great. I liked the game concept too: sometimes I found it hard to control the mouse and arrow keys and space and e/g all at the same time! Maybe some sort of auto-camera could be cool? Great work!

This game is so peaceful, the graphics and music really help emulate that isolated quiet atmosphere. The controls are pretty good, although some jumps were a bit iffy, I like how 3d it looks though.

This is a great atmospheric game, and I do really love the music.

Unusual graphics, very good gameplay

The game was very interesting, and until I figured out you could change the camera, it was challenging to determine where exactly my person was. There was an issue when you fell off and dropped too far the game would exit. Aside from that it was a fun game with a neat concept. I do wish there was some music or sound effects involved, that would have improved the game experience a little bit. Great job though!

Pretty cool aesthetic. I thought it was a good challenge level, lining up each jump and knowing when to use the sprint and mantle mechanics. For the most part it was pretty clear what was going on, but sometimes when the building overlapped I would get confused. The ending was a good reward.

It's nice, especially the 3D graphics. Soothing music.

I thought it was some normal parkour at first. It was cool that it was 3d and the level design was good. Controls took some getting used to though. But then the ending animation was so funny because I didn’t know you could rotate the camera and the buildings just all suddenly rotated. A complex game well done…..

Looks and sounds nice. Hard to see where you're going without fiddling with the viewpoint a lot. Programme crashed when I fell off.