From the start of the design for this game, I knew 1 thing for sure: the core mechanic would be jumping. With this in mind, I started brainstorming how the jump itself would work. I decided to go with a charge jump in order to add a little bit of complexity since it was going to be the only thing you did in the game. Once I established this, I started thinking about how I could best inform the player how far they would jump and I thought "Most games with grenades show the player the trajectory of where it is they are going to throw. I could use something like this to show where the players are going to jump!". And so, I started researching, implementing, testing, debugging, researching some more, then testing again and again till I got something that worked how I wanted. And after days of research and work, I finally managed to create a trajectory of where the players were going to jump based on how long they charged their jump, it was great! . . . Except for one thing: it made the game too easy. Even though the platforms would still make things somewhat more challenging with time, the trajectory made it way easier to overcome since it showed exactly where you were going to go. So I had to face facts and scrap it, even though I had invested a lot of time into it. It was a huge bummer, but it made sense, and it was probably the biggest design choice I had to make during development. But I'm glad I did because instead, I ended up creating a charge bar that fills up the longer you press. This not only showed how much force your jump was going to have but gave you an approximation of where it is you were going to land. I felt this fit much better, making the jumps easy to understand but challenging to master.