There will be good graphics for story mode and at some point in the freeplay mode as well.

Thanks for the report! Can you provide your specs? Windows? What version/cpu/SP/Gfx Card?

I actually took a look at cortex command for thinking about the jetpack robot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWnWHVeC-qU side-thrusters might be the way to go to make the bot more forgiving.

When I jump on the platforms I feel like their little eyes are about to go ‘-_-’, that would be so so so cute :3.

Those push-down buttons are very fun to simply interact with. Usually games simply have two states for a button and a simple boolean collision check to determine when to move it into the down/activated state. Even games with physics engines usually constrain the button to the vertical access and do not allow it to move around in any other way. Here though, the button is very fun to simply screw with, at least for a few seconds when new to the game. It is little bits of polish like this that make great games stand out from the rest. I was very glad to see it wasn’t the normal access-constrained button ‘physics’ I am used to.

The background and tile graphics were terrible, I assume this is totally placeholder though.

I encountered some lag that simply should not be possible while playing the game. I have a modern machine but your game took up an entire core (I’d recommend considering multi-threading the physics or something, but really, this game has absolutely no excuse for taking up so much CPU time in the first place!). It is likely you just have the fps uncapped though, so simple solution.

Robots are a lot of fun to control, maybe for the rotation you could add two smaller thrusters on the side of the robot to make it clear how that works and add more polish? Check out the rockets in the game ‘Cortex Command’ for an amazing similar control scheme and feel.