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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #97 | 4.111 | 4.111 |
| Fun | #173 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
| Overall | #186 | 3.654 | 3.654 |
| Audio | #278 | 3.444 | 3.444 |
| Innovation | #295 | 3.481 | 3.481 |
| Graphics | #316 | 3.741 | 3.741 |
| Game Design | #362 | 3.481 | 3.481 |
Ranked from 27 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?
The character can completely rewind all the game at his command with precision, this includes: sound, objects, enemies(individually or globally) . He can cheat death if he has power left to rewind.
(IMPORTANT: YOU CAN REWIND TIME WHILE YOU'RE DEAD)
Did you write most of the code yourself and made all the assets from scratch?
All the code and assets except audio & font were made by myself using Unity c# + blender.
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It looks great! love the music, partial effects and the main character looks nice! I do think the game is way to hard! But that can also be me :P
I love the multiple rewind options and that there is a difference so i can pick what i need! also rewinding death is very cool! I would have loved to play this game more but after dyeing for the 1000th time i got a bit discouraged i’m afraid! Also i would place the character a bit more to the bottom, feels weird that its so far to the middle/top of the screen. And the first enemies look like pickups. The roundness combined with the bloom effect makes them look way to friendly. Maybe using a cube or combination of other simple shapes and colors so it looks less “cute” would do wonders! I did really like shooting at them after getting killed by these pickup items ;) the partial effect, and shooting and movement all was a lot of fun! So very nice game and entree, its a shame it was a bit to hard for me to explore it further! But testing and things can be hard while in a game-jam hurry. Hope you will have time after the jam to make things more easy :)
Thank you for investing your time and giving some feedback.
About the yellow enemies, yes, good point, I should at least change its color or shape to something more aggresive.
I don't know exactly about the character position, right now he has more vision up, if I move him to the bottom, he would practically not see anything from bot. (Perhaps you encountered a bug?)
I'm sorry to hear about the difficulty :P, I've tried to make the game somewhat harder to force the use of rewind/resurrection, some friends of mine play it and had no problems, so I was afraid of doing it very easy. In particular where were you stuck? It would help me learn what should I balance if I decide to continue.
Thank you again for your feedback
maybe the placing was a bug, the character was slightly above the middle of the screen. And for me everything was hard :P maybe an introduction with room to escape or fail right in the beginning so i know how things work but it does not immediately kill me? I know i can rewind in game but i also use it so not much left to save my ass ;) i did love the idea of having a limited amount of rewind :)
But there is a chance i am just bad at the game. I never play games anymore on my computer completely hooked on my switch/ps4 it feels a bit weird to be honest using a keyboard (first world problems i guess).
:D it's ok, thank you for taking your time giving your thoughts about the game
Great game! I loved the gameplay, it was a bit tough though. Also I liked the particle effects and the whole feel of the game.
Good job!
Great game! Really love the sound effects, the gameplay is smooth & the rewind effect is awesome :) Great work on this game, really liked the feeling & concept
Would appreciate if you could rate our game as well! https://hadilepanda.itch.io/corewind
That's a really fun game! The mechanics are simple yet this is challenging and super entertaining. Keep up the good work!
I thought the game was way too hard at first glance, but when i came back here and read the important note, i tried again and was able to finish. The mechanics are really interesting and the game has a lot of good surprises. Also, the game is really well polished!
Congrats! :D
Good game ! It's cool to rewind our death to make a good dodge or a good shot ! I had a great time.
However, I think you could improve the jump. Movements are too rigid in the air and it's hard to see the jump height (this may be due to the camera angle).
Good job !
Yes, good point, It's one of the things I wanted to improve. Thank you for playing and giving feedback.
First of all. Great art music and effects! That's particals looks just amazing! Game feels hard(but i suck at action games). But when I understand that - IMPORTANT: YOU CAN REWIND TIME WHILE YOU'RE DEAD,things become much easier(but still i can loose which is good). I had a feel like in movies (maybe not in movies), that feel when i can die, rewind a little , correct my mistake, make some steps forward, make mistake again, and rewind it. It will be super cool i think, when after the complete lvl or something like this, game will show me passing level without Global rewind . And i will be like , omg i'm super cool. Hope you understand what i was trying to say! Great great work!
Hi! Thank you for your feedback and playing the game. It's a nice idea, would be cool, The only problem I see is from a technical perspective, recording all the actions of the complete level would consume a lot of memory, so they can be showed to the player when he completes it. But I could try it, good idea.
i like it, overall the control is fine and the level seems balance enough
I simply loved it <3 I played it over and over again aha, I almost beat that second rewind turret !!
It was a veryyy cool experience, and my stars are here !
Cool game! It looks good and I had some fun playing it. It was hard to tell that the yellow balls were enemies. It was too hard not to die. But I really like it anyway, the rewind system is so cool, and the bullet hit effect looks amazing. Good job!
This is really neat! I had a fun time playing it but I didn't get very far on my track pad. The overall aesthetic is really nice and I could definitely see how the game could be expanded upon by adding other enemies with projectile types that can also be altered with the rewind gun. Nice submission!
Awesome game, awesome graphics and fitting music / soundeffects.
Just a bit too much going on with all the moving cubes and spheres coming for me... maybe add a lower difficulty that has not as many of those cubes?
BTW: the phrasing with "cheating death" and the character design has some very nice Dalek-ish theme ;)
Really cool game. I enjoyed playing it, Nice smooth graphics and suitable sound. Keep it up!
At first I was convinced it was too hard, but after checking the controls I realized i could reverse time globally, it was a gamechanger. This game is a whole lot of fun, the graphics and sound design are great! Good job!
Thank you for the feedback!. You're not the only one, some people are having problems discovering the rewind mechanic, more specifically that can be used after dying. I'll look into some tutorial level or hints to explain it, right now is not obvious and can be difficult to discover it .
That's amazing. A demonstration that you don't need complex objects to make an enjoyable game. A few shiny spheres, squares and polygons will suffice.
Rewind feature works like a charm, I liked the idea to be able to choose to rewind objects or whole scene, that should be hard as hell to develop! I can't imagine how could I code that in 1 week.
This one will definitely turn to a gem if you make the starting sections easier to let player get used to pace.
Thank you for your feedback. You could do it in one week too, but I don't recommend it , I'd rather not say how many hours of sleep I missed :P.
Love these types of games. Lots of effort to get the smooth game mechanics. Good job!
Please play and rate my game too!
https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-4/rate/723414
Thank you for playing the game. I already rated and posted a comment to your game,
Anytime and likewise!
Great game, and cool implementation of the rewind mechanic. At first I didn't know you could rewind when after dying (discovered it here when coming back to rate). Would have been nice to add some kind of hint or tutorial so the player knows from the start, cause once I knew that I had way more fun than before!! :)
Thank you for the feedback. Yes, adding some kind of hint could be nice, I'll think about it!
the game is great and the mechanics too. just the parallax made me dizzy
There's no parallax in the game. Perhaps are you speaking about the 'liquid'/'water' effect that kills you?
Agree with others, everything is just perfect: the name, the visuals, music & sound, theme interpretation, even the name. I found the game quite challenging - didn’t manage to pass the fourth platform (the one with many small cubes moving here and there), but that’s actually very good. Awesome job!
(btw, have a look at mine - some say it is a bit challenging as well)
Thank you very much for playing. Of course I'll play and rate your game, I'll give you my honest feedback.
Really great game! It looks awesome and I really like the rewind laser. The particles look really cool as well. Great job!
"However, the 5th platform with the bunch of cubes is really difficult. I tried like 10 times, but I can't get past it. I think the purple cubes should either move slower, not insta-kill you or there should be less cubes on that platform. It's unfortunate, because I would have loved to experience the rest of your game." I wrote this, before I figured out you could rewind your own death. I actually managed to finish it now! Really awesome game, well done! Would have loved to see more levels!
I'd really appreciate it if you would have a look at my game as well, and be sure to download the smaller version :D
I'm really glad you finally completed. About rewinding death you're not the first one haha, perhaps I should make it more explicit, but I like to give the player the surprise to discover it. Of course I'll play your game!