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The game looks great: good luck in the contest!
A few suggestions:
-It was not immediately clear to me that I was supposed to put barriers on the map to force the subject to hit the power core. It would have helped me to even just say that you have two objects to place, pick the right spot to get the subject to hit the core and then out the door.
-Add the "R to restart" to the instructions (they are given in game, but in the first level, I had no idea what I was supposed to do with the barriers, and kept looking for a way to move them after placing them in the wrong location, and had no idea how to start over without reloading the game).
-It would be nice to be able to skip the opening sequence
-I didn't quite get the point of the transition mode, and found the A/D controls to be a bit too sensitive (I kept running off the track after brief presses of the keys, or hitting a barrier).
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Very nice game, the Transition parts seem a big laggy, could be fixed with tweaks, only issue, when I hit jump it will go further or shorter seemingly at random, when it does go longer there's that annoying stop-landing clunk that really breaks flow and at times has caused a fail (you can jump while not moving and it will start moving forward 1/2 way through jump which will cause you to miss if 2 obstacles are one after the other) on occasion camera would hide a trip that would only appear as was right on it.
Transition could use some polish but still enjoyable if frustrating and last transition bugged so couldn't finish
Puzzles were very enjoyable, could perhaps use adding some variety to the block types as will usually know what to do just based upon blocks. Was really fun and unique. Puzzles with electric sometimes felt less about timing and more about luck as electric seems to be a little out of sync with character, still really well done.
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In transition mode, you don't move right/left, you turn right/left. So after pressing right you should immediately press left to keep running in the good direction.
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From what I've been able to see so far (got up to Transition 13), here are my thoughts:
Pros:
-Interesting concept
-Good graphics
-Nice ambient music
Cons:
-The chambers seem pretty trivial. Usually there are so few options that the solution is immediately obvious.
-The transitions seem incredibly difficult, comparatively speaking. The controls are both oversensitive and laggy, a horrible combination that makes it incredibly easy to over-correct and run off the edges.
-You might have a memory leak somewhere in the code. The lag and the memory requirements get worse the longer you play the game. There's no reason that the plugin container for Firefox should take five times the memory of Firefox itself. My intuition says it has to do with the particle effects during the transition.
-There are also a few bugs; occasionally I would respawn underneath the platform when restarting a transition level, and other times the camera would start underneath, even if I didn't.
Overall, 3/5.
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Is there a quit or restart button?
I like mystery games where you need to explore, but this is a million miles away from Portal...
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If you reset a transition level as the character lands on a downward slope, the stop that occurs carries over continually into the refreshed maps. You'll just run in place.
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Fun game, and it looks great. I found the controls in the transistion levels annoying though, they felt a bit sluggish. Maybe there should be more indication of exactly what direction he is heading, right now you only find out from secondary feedback when he moves. Perhaps the camera could be more responsive, with it's direction fixed in the direction you are going.
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The levels themselves are a lot of fun, but the transitions remind me too much of the awful mach-speed zones from Sonic 2006.