Glad you liked it! My first priority was making the controls simple and intuitive and making gameplay feel smooth and satisfying. The enemies definitely need some work, though, like you said. A lot of people have said that the enemies kill you too abruptly/unexpectedly.
I assume you're referring to the slithering effect, right? The head constantly tweens between its current angle and the target angle each tick. The target angle is the angle towards the mouse sin(time)*n
When moving, the snake accelerates in the direction the head is pointing.
Visually, the game looks great. I'm not quite sure what the advantage of the movement system is, though. It would feel less clunky if you could just move freely with the mouse or WASD or something.
The puzzles, music, and SFX were all really well done. My only real complaint is that the respawn animation is too long.
In Godot, when you're using pixel art, disable the "filter" in the image's import settings to prevent them from being blurred when you zoom in or scale them up.
I had to remove the SFX for the browser version because it was having some audio glitches and stuttering that I couldn't quite seem to fix, but they're still there if you download the desktop version
The map is procedurally generated using simplex noise and a few other shenanigans. In order to get the organic feel while also dividing the regions into square-ish sections, I have a second noise layer that I sample at a low resolution and apply on top of the first layer
You played the browser version, right? I just uploaded a new version that should make it run more smoothly. Unfortunately, I couldn't seem to fix the choppy audio issues, so I just muted the sound for the embedded game.
I suppose it may not have been clearly communicated, but the player only dies when the skull is hit by a projectile, so you probably just got hit by an enemy really close to you or something.
Pretty slick and fun to play. My only real gripe is that the barricades are a bit hard to see when they're moving so quickly. It might also be good to add some situations that make you feel more inclined to use the pause.
The game is fun, but it might help to give a clearer indication as to whether or not the player can boost. Without that, it feels a tad unresponsive. The visuals looks quite nice
