Hey man, this was pretty cool. What are your plans for it? I can see it going in the explorational platformer direction. Also, do you have anyone doing music for it? If you don't, I could definitely do it if you want.
I'm not really going for any X-ploration kinda thing, I know I'll never finish it if I put too high standards or workloads into it.
Basically you beat 1 from 4 stages in any order you like, rince and repeat until all of them are done and then go to the final stage. In each stage you have to travel either left or right until you reach the goal of that stage, then travel back either left or right to fight the boss.
There's gonna be shops and secrets sprinkled here and there and they are optional but can help you a lot, especially the shops if you have enough gold to get something like restore health, keys, weapon upgrades and the like.
As for the music I think Phlogiston / Din is up to the challenge but I don't think he'll start doing music until I prove there's something to do music for, as in a full game. Not a bad policy given my track record for not finishing projects.
I'll try and have the whole stage done for the next update. Which will be today or tomorrow.