| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #358 | 3.654 | 3.654 |
| Fun | #527 | 3.192 | 3.192 |
| Graphics | #542 | 3.423 | 3.423 |
| Overall | #547 | 3.218 | 3.218 |
| Innovation | #608 | 3.077 | 3.077 |
| Game Design | #663 | 3.115 | 3.115 |
| Audio | #714 | 2.846 | 2.846 |
Ranked from 26 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
In what way does your game fit the theme?
You can rewind the time to solve puzzles and fight enemies
(Press "R")
Did you write most of the code yourself and made all the assets from scratch?
Some code learned via tutorials, used Chronos Time Control.
art, music from scratch, sfx were made using sfxr
cool game cool art cool music cool dynamics but some problems
-hard to see main menu texts and player text
-levels/rooms feel too empty
-there is no much to do just entering rooms breaking class and going to next room to do same thing
-bugs i got stuck because rewind system isn't very effective
-no story or objective or finish (correct me if i'm wrong)
Thank you for your feedback!
I see most of your points, but the game indeed has an ending. You fight a boss on floor three.
I hid a small "story" in the game over and the winning screen.
Getting stuck is ment to be part of the game. Thats why the player has the "o" button to kill himself (explained in the tutorial) but I see why it is frustrating
The mac version (at my OS at leased) shows only an mouse arow and blue screen :(
I am really impressed with the sheer amount of content here!
First of all, it was really fun! I liked the puzzles and found them relatively challenging. I'm also impressed with how many there were for such a short amount of game dev time. I thought that the mechanic and narrative fit the theme very well.
I also really loved the art - the animation was really fun and quirky. I do think that if you continued to work on it, some polish could be really nice. I noticed someone else mention how it would be nice to see some kind of effect where the enemy/item being rewound through time would be highlighted - I second that!
Overall, I really enjoyed it and could see a really nice product coming out of it if you just spent even another week or so on it! Really great job! :D
Nice game. Glad i get a chance to try out a dungeon crawler. The box puzzles had me baffled. Surprised how much you got done in one week ^^
Oh yeah, and opening the game with a zoom-in penguin like that. Brilliant stuff :)
Please try my game out too.
A fun little game, surprised by the amount of maps there were!
For improvements:
-You could work a little on the volumes of certain sound effects, for example the portal sound was very loud and high pitched compared to everything else.
-You could experiment a little with the ghosts spawning only when you enter the room as currently you could snipe them from across the map and they wouldn't react (you can see the ghost and magic on the map so it's a matter of lining it up).
-Add some kind of filter or effect when rewinding time. The sound effect is alright, however, something to show which things are being affected, like a highlight on the objects that it's currently rewinding.
-Keeping the R button pressed is pretty overpowered since you can keep the ghosts in place forever. Perhaps adding special time enemies that are not affected by time or there's only a X amount of time ghosts can be rewinded.
Nice job on the game jam, seems you got quite a bit done in a week!
Fun dungeon crawler! I have to agree with some others here that rewinding is a bit overly powerful, but the music and visuals are nice, and I spent a lot more time than I expected just exploring from room to room.
I think rewinding the time makes the game a little easier e.e but it's a cool game, I recommend to make the enemies follow you if you are in the same room, it's weird when they follow you when you are in other room, but great game :)
I notice the binding of isaac inspiration and I love binding of isaac, but I think you should work more on that idea.
The rewinding mechanic is really fun to play with and you can easily exploit enemies to return to their original location so that they never get to you, it is really fun! I enjoyed the game, but try to add it content in a future update just like binding of isaac!
Now what do you think of playing my game?Actually the mechanic is very similar to yours. give it a try and a rating maybe!
Great dungeon crawler! Haven't seen any of them during the jam. Some recommendations would be to have the rewind be a meter to power up as you could just endlessly push the enemies back, have the ghosts be able to path find, and create more enemies. Good job on creating this in a week!
The dungeons do give some variations with some rooms containing puzzles and some enemies. But the enemies got out of the rooms real quick and didn't seem to be bound to it. A border for them would fix that problem. The rewind ability which reverses the enemies moves is a bit unbalanced. If you spam "r" while chased by enemies you can keep them easily at distance and have enough time for shooting. A cooldown for the ability would make it more interesting to play against them. The tutorial you provided right at the beginning was pretty good and explained the game mechanics very quick and easy. Keep it up!
Hey! THAT'S A NICE PENGUIN IN THE START!
I liked the movements and the characters design! The ghosts are really cool and the shooting was also polished.
My only point is the sound effects are sometimes loud and realy pitchy.
Congratulations for your work! Check our game too, if possible~
Entertaining game!
The music in some parts was very loud,, but everything else was good!
The game has potential, I think it has a future. I hope you can rate my game that would make me very happy ^^.
Overall pretty fun! Loved the rewind enemy mechanic. I think there should be a bit more incentive to fight enemies and maybe some more enemy variety but you had some very good ideas with the tile puzzles.
Very cool, the theme was on point and the block puzzles were fun! I wish there was a bit more enemy variety but the bones of the game were well done.
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