Hello everyone!
I added a new level to the game!
A "factory" one!
Have fun!
Thank you again for the feedback!
Play game
ReTime's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall | #35 | 3.700 | 3.700 |
| Mood | #39 | 3.800 | 3.800 |
| Gameplay | #40 | 3.600 | 3.600 |
| Visuals | #43 | 3.867 | 3.867 |
| Audio | #45 | 3.533 | 3.533 |
Ranked from 15 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Engine
Unity
Comments
3 years ago(+1)
Hello!
Thank you for the feedback!
The player sliding from platforms is really a problem. Initially I thought it would be a good feature (some difficulty), but I'll have to change that, because that annoyed pretty much everyone lol
The crystals' explosions are really tricky. The small shards actually don't detect collisions until they hit a "ground" surface, and sometimes (all the time) they end up inside other world objects or outside the play area... I'll try to implement a new system to prevent theses behaviors!
Thank you again for playing!
Cheers!
3 years ago(+1)
Hmm, actually, I think the "snapyness", if that word even exists kkkk, is related to the WASD keys.
I think I should've normalized the Input (GetAxisRaw, if I'm not mistaken) instead of just the GetAxis Input... than it would've been smoother, but I'm actually just wondering, don't know it.
I had a colleague play with a controller and he said it was way better than the keyboard... I imagine that's because the controller has more, well, control, on how much strength you put in the Axis... I obviously must study movement handling lol
Thank you for the feedback!
Cheers!
3 years ago(+1)
Hello!
I'll try to make a MAC build. The PC, MAC, Linux Standalone doesn't actually create a cross platform build lol
Apparently I'm blind, because I've never paid attention to the "target platform" option kkkk
Thank you for the interest!
Cheers!
Just finished playing both levels, very enjoyable relaxing game! Good atmosphere setup in the beginning and I like the music choices in the levels.
I found the jumping to control mostly fine for me; it was a little difficult keep a steady jump/landing on the floating platforms that were very lined in a row. The character did clip slightly on the edges of some platforms, specifically when it was slightly hidden from view and I was trying to jump up/around. I like the character; some sound effects or something extra to make it a little more lively would be cool.
I'm using a dual monitor setup and noticed my cursor was going to the second monitor. I also noticed that on the edges the camera seems to jitter a little bit. I think both of these could potentially be fixed by locking the cursor to an (invisible) crosshair during gameplay?
On the optics side: I think your video would benefit from showing one or both of the secondary levels instead of the tutorial first. I was a little hesitant initially when I saw the tutorial level but then saw the grass level! I'd also recommend skipping the intro or audibly reading it over some gameplay for the video - it's great in game but most people will probably turn off the video before they get to the gameplay.
Screenshots would definitely help, here's two 1440p ones if you want to use them. Overall nice submission, enjoyed it!
3 years ago(+1)
Hello!
Thank you very much for the feedback!
I agree, there are tons of touches that would make the game play, feel and advertise better lol
I'll have to improve the camera, I think it's one of the most problematic "features" of the game.
Regarding sounds for the character, I think in my mind I always heard the Mario jump sound lol For me, these sound effects are one of the most challenging thing to get right in a game and having zero musical talent, I really just looked the other way... but, I'll have to challenge myself in that too if I wanna get somewhere with my games, right!?
In my mind I had captured the mouse, but that really doesn't seems to work as I expected... I'll have to go back and take a look at the code and better study how to get this lock done, it was the intention...
Did you get to play the lava level? There are three levels (grass/ice/fire), the tutorial and a "credits" level!
One thing I observed from the screenshots (thx for providing them!) is that the skyboxes are not rendered... The Grass level has the "standard" unity skybox and the Ice level has a darker skybox, but similar... I came back to the project and for some reason I had changed the cameras from skybox to solid color in these levels lol
I'll have to add a lot of things to the TODO list to polish the game!
Thank you for the comments!
3 years ago(+1)
Oh, well... that's some weird behavior... once there's no way to "die" in the ice level and you only get out through the portal, the next level should be made available... I'll look at the code and configs, there may be a flaw in the logic that made the ice level only unlock the lava level after two tries...
Thank you again for the feedback and taking the time to test the game!
Cheers!
3 years ago (+1)
I think I know what happened! The unlocking of the level only occurs after the counting is done and the "Click hereto continue" button should be disabled until that. But the button was active in all levels and you probably clicked "next" before the count was over! lol
I disabled the button and now it should always unlock correctly!
I'll add the new build soon, I'll add some other fixes and upload proper MAC and Linux builds!
Thank you very much!
Cheers!
Hello!
I made the build with the "universal" option in Unity... I thought that would work in all three systems that were listed under that option (PC, MAC and Linux)...
It isn't, right? I'll try to make other builds and upload them!
Thank you for the warning!
#trolledByUnity? lol
EDIT: Actually, I'm blind! I didn't pay attention to the "target platform" option lol
Hello!
Thank you for the feedback!
My line of thought was that by forcing the player trough Tutorial this "time is always running" would be addressed early and be taken as an underlying rule (it is explained that time spent during the level is removed). Moreover, as time is really always running, I had the idea that although you are jumping and avoiding lava, you should also be unconsciously thinking (if that is possible) "am I taking to long"?
Adding a timer would make it too clear and not every level accounts the time passed in the same scale (which is actually the "difficulty configuration" hidden for the designer to play with). but I admit, that may be a bad idea. I have heard from other people who played the game this same argument about lack of information regarding how long the level is running.
I'll have to think about how to better implement this informational feedback to the player DURING the level and not only when it's over!
About how to judge jumps, that also hit me as a "not very good feature". It's really very hard to judge and I don't really know how to address this viewpoint problem. I would be glad if any tip/advice could be given! Although you can achieve a certain level of proficiency, I feel the learning curve is too steep and never really get to a point where you can judge a jump in the fraction of a second, what would make the gameplay more dynamic... :(
Thank you again for the feedback! I'll try to make the game better and update it after the rating period for the jam is over!
Hello!
Thank you for the feedback!
There are three things that may be causing this movement behavior, that I agree is not the best!
1. the materials... some platforms in the ice level are meant to be slippery, so those should make you fall a lot (I should give a clue about that!);
2. the format of colliders. The player is actually rounded, so it slides in the corners... that should be addressed with a change in the type of collider of the Player;
3. the input I'm taking to the movement is based on the virtual axis ("horizontal" and "vertical") and they have a small decay, which is configurable and I can better polish those figures to end up with a better overall behavior...
At least I think those are the things I could look upon to try and make it better! lol
Again, thank you very much for the feedback! I'll work more on the game after the ratings are over, don't think it's fair to change the game now...
Have fun!
Hello!
Thank you for the feedback!
The rotate bug was unknown to me, because I had no controller to test it with! I imagine that's happening because I'm checking to stop this constant rotation regarding the mouse, but I also added the controller input and the check is, obviously, not working for the controller... lol
I'll try to figure out how to rotate without this mess of "constant movement" that I created!
Thank you again!
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