Never seen a game like this, Just a bit too heavy
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Hands Of Time's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #17 | 4.067 | 4.067 |
| Sound | #43 | 3.567 | 3.567 |
| Fun | #45 | 3.700 | 3.700 |
| Visuals | #49 | 3.867 | 3.867 |
| WOWIE! (Overall) | #51 | 3.567 | 3.567 |
| Topic | #184 | 2.667 | 2.667 |
| Simplicity | #207 | 3.033 | 3.033 |
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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4 years ago (+1)
Thanks a lot!
Massive spoiler, beware:You have to get in between the balls and swap with the enemy that shoots upwardsIt's the hardest and the last puzzle.
4 years ago(+1)
Sorry, we don't have macs in our team, so it would be hard to fix.
We kind of just dropped it in there, hoping it would work.
Thanks so much!
You are on the level where the game introduces the first enemy type(level 3) or the second enemy type(level 5 I think)?
A lot of people have a hard time understanding the levels 3 and 4, and I can't say it's their fault. We didn't really explain that you can use cards to reflect projectiles by changing direction, nor that enemies can deal friendly damage and self-damage.
We even had to give a hint on the game's page. But that's not a good solution and makes me realize that it is of the big flaws of the game.
Thanks so much for both the thought-provoking criticism and positive feedback!
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I finished the game today. I was stucked on level 5 for pretty long. The reason why I think i did is that you introduced two new things at once: new type of enemy and position swap cards. It was clear that you needed to use new card on the new type of enemy. But the execution was not clear. You needed to time the swap perfectly so the enemy killed itself. You should introduce the new mechanics in preceding level where is absolutely clear what the new card do.
Thanks for the explanation. At first we wanted to put a normal (1st type) enemy and make the player swap to go forward and accidentally kill the enemy, but we had an issue with swap and movement mixing up when using them on enemies.
So we decided to make one type of enemy only be affected by movement, and the other by swapping.
That made that introductory level quite harder though, and so we decided to swap it with level 6 (which is now level 5).
But now that you mention it, we could definitely have found a work around and still make a simple level that uses 2nd-type enemies. Thanks for the feedback!
Also, if you comment again, we have a little meta terminology for the enemy types. Sentry is the first one and Turret is the second.
But I guess the lead dev didn't really like the name sentry: he renamed every instance of "Sentry" I wrote in the code to "Enemy" lol.
So you can also call sentries "normal enemies" I guess.
You have to use the card on the projectile itself, not the enemy, so the projectile can bounce back towards the enemy.
If you were on level 3 (the level where the first type of enemy gets introduced), that's why you didn't see more of the slow down. The next levels heavily use the slow down/stop time - you can easily handle incoming bullets.
If I would change something in the level design, it would be to directly show the players that the enemies can kill themselves with their own bullets. Thanks a lot for thought-provoking feedback.
Thanks so much!
Receiving feedback for the music really warms my heart.
Also, I understand, the 4th level introduces a new mechanic that's really not obvious, and it's a mistake on our part that we didn't make it more obvious (you have to stop time and put it back on, so while you wait on the same spot, the enemies accidentally shoots one another. Yeah, really not obvious/intuitive).
4 years ago(+1)
Sorry, I don't own a Mac.
I just made a game build for Mac hoping there wasn't going to be any issues.
Yeah, sorry, new concepts aren't really explained.
Stage 3 is about using cards on projectiles and stage 4 is about using the "restarting time makes you stand still" mechanic to your advantage.
Thanks, and haha lol, fun fact, there was also a concept art that unintentionally looked like Doctor Aldonuts from Earthbound.
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