Couldnt really figure it out, but I'll give it points for creativity!
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Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Audio | #46 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
Overall | #55 | 3.508 | 3.508 |
Mood | #62 | 3.533 | 3.533 |
Visuals | #63 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
Gameplay | #66 | 3.333 | 3.333 |
Ranked from 30 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Ohh that makes me so happy! It's so gratifying to know that there are some people that reallly liked it *-*
Thank you! hahah \o/
I definetivly want to know what you and your team will be working on, do you all have Twitter? (if you do add me: guiiraimondi)
Congratz to you and your team for making it! ;)
Wow this game is so simple and fun. The models are amazing and I loved the puzzles. Maybe add some car crash sounds and beeping when they are crashing
cool game idea, I had some trouble with the controls even having done the tutorial. I wonder if the buttons should have words on them or really super clear and simple first level to give the player more confidence in their abilities. loved the music- would love to see more of this game being developed into the future.
This was a great time-related idea! The time rewind is very cool, love that. Initially it took a while to understand how it all works. The tutorial helps, but maybe it could be even more guided? Anyway, once I understood the mechanics, it was fun!
I seemed to run into some glitches, but it's hard to be precise:
- Every now and then time rewinds briefly on its own? Or am I missing something?
- Sometimes trying to click on the next destination doesn't work. I think moving time and trying again sometimes worked. Not sure, sorry I can't be more specific.
- Once my car disappeared from view (I think I rewinded the time a lot), and I could not keep going, not seeing where I was. Here's a screenshot:
I'd try to smooth these things out, because the game is fun and very original! Btw, the music: not my cup of tea, and gets a bit boring quickly (personal opinion).
Well done!
Hi! Thank you very much for your feedback and going to the extra trouble of taking a screenshot, very helpful! The first thing you mentioned is a feature- the time rewinds if you haven't set a destination yet or the destination can be reached with time to spare. We tried to explain this in the tutorial but will try to reword it!
We are working on fixing the other 2 bugs.
The music was pointed out to us by someone else as well and we found a new one! Will upload the new version shortly- hope you like the new music!
The first thing you mentioned is a feature- the time rewinds if you haven't set a destination yet or the destination can be reached with time to spare
Ah ok, now that you say it, it makes perfect sense. From my own game and many others here, I see more and more the importance on guiding the player at the beginning. We know exactly how it all works as developers, but new players can get disoriented, or worse, stuck, in places that we'd never think of... I'm going to put extra care into the tutorial aspect of future games.
Nice concept.
Something unique.
I thought a pause menu would have been nice to check the controls again.
Do rate our game as well.
Thank You
i really liked the concept of the game, the theme is really well executed and the tutorial level made really well and help the player understand the game without just writing the instructions, the music was a bit annoying after some time because its really short and repaeating itself really quickly
Liked the concept and aesthetics. I ran into the same glitch mentioned below where the car seems to head off to a previously selected point instead of the current point. A little work on the UI, also mentioned below, would be nice. Good job overall.
Thanks a lot for the feedback!! Just to confirm one thing: We are aware that there's still a bug with the trucks, that sometimes after rewinding past a timebomb they end up teleporting. But our latest submission (from early yesterday) did address the issue with the car, at least as far as we managed to test. If you can confirm this happened while playing the current submission, would you happen to remember, roughly, in which level this happened? Thanks again!!
Very cool concept! It felt a bit buggy at times, like one car I was trying to speed up constantly teleported back to its starting position or the rewind happening randomly, but despite that it was still a fun puzzle game. Love using the rewind mechanic in this one too great job!
Took a while to get the hang of things. To be honest, I was very close to giving up and moving on the next game, but I'm glad I stuck through it and figured things out because it was fun after that. The biggest obstacle in the game was trying to get other cars moving as I intended. Unexpected behavior in a game can sometimes be frustrating, especially if you know what to do but the execution fails. I might have done something wrong, but I had to click on the blue and green icons every time I wanted to place a "time bubble". I would prefer to click the icon once and place all the bubbles of that color in one go, maybe even mouse-scroll to cycle through blue / green. Other than that, great idea for a game. Just gotta fix a few bugs and quality of life issues.
I encountered some bugs, but the game is fun when you understand it. In my first 3 attempts I misunderstood the game completely, so I just thought it was a lot of bugs I encountered and got annoyed, even after seeing the tutorial :-)
I had a bug though: it was, the car wouldn't go where I pointed it to, after changing the direction after a rewind. I had to restart the level.
So my first 3 play attempts didn't go well. In my 4th attempt, I began to understand how the game worked a bit more (like if you don't move, the time you didn't move will be rewinded. I might have missed that from the tutorial though, not sure. I initially thought it was a bug). So I managed to finish a few levels :-)
Well done on the game, I like the concept of the game :-)
Really awesome time rewind mechanic, I see how ours are similar and I'd definitely love to learn from yours to improve the feel of my mechanic! Well done!
As a fan of games you've mentioned in the description, the way you used the rewind mechanics seems really interesting, although challenging (in a positive way). Initially, it was quite hard to understand what's going on, but once I've grasped the idea, it was really fun to play! I think the problem is that your tutorial was automatically changing instructions before I could fully understand the meaning of each feature. Maybe you can consider allowing the player to change the tutorial instructions.
Apart from that, I found the game satisfyingly interesting, I'll try to play again tomorrow and update the comment if I find something new. Great game!
Great gameplay! Only improvement in my eyes is the control scheme, it wasn't always easy to make it do what I wanted. Sometimes it would reverse and I wasn't sure why. Even still, it was fun!
Quite a fun idea, took me a while to understand the controls and sometimes got a bit annoyed that the speedups and slowdowns went to places I didn't mean to, but after I got hang of it, it was quite good :)
I liked how the theme of time was proposed in the game. After I learned to play, I went to the last stage. Congratulations, very well done!
Well done i really enjoyed your game and great concept great look and feel, I took a little while understand the game-play but once i got it very enjoyable. Well done
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