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cookiesriot4 years ago

Effective use of the premade sounds. The art style is really nice as well. As far as the core gameplay loop, a more direct implication of how your character can move would help - like flashing the keys up with the movement icons before you start playing. The overall experience is really great once you get an idea of what to do, and the delay mechanism is really tense!

I'm not sure if there's a way out of the death-spiral, though; once you lose enough moves, the game can become impossible and the fail state seems to be awkwardly staring at a motionless character. More to come in future updates, I guess?

Anyway, fun concept, and I enjoy that the mechanic that represents the Game Jam theme actually ties into the game's overall vibe, when so many games in this jam just include control manipulation as a gimmick.

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TyrantNomad4 years ago

Even with the parts I didn't manage to implement, the death spiral was always the intended end.

The only part it's missing that I'd planned for was being able to reach your sister's grave if you get past all the challenges - this would then put you back at the start, but without recovering any moves or time. The idea was that you're visiting your dead sister once per year, and it's the same journey - but each time it gets harder and harder. When I didn't manage to make the cemetery screen + restart in time, I just shoved 5 extremely hard and maybe not passable challenges at the end.

The awkward staring at the motionless character is intended... but maybe should be shorter - you're watching her last moments before death, and then the game closes. It's certainly meant to be uncomfortable.

And yeah, after the first comments came back - it became very clear that the indirect tutorialization was not even close to being enough... which is sad as I still had enough time to fix that before submitting, had I playtested a little bit.

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cookiesriot4 years ago (1 edit)

I certainly like where you're going with it. Obviously the 48-hour constraint left everybody wanting for more features to finish off a game. If you keep running with this idea I'd say it's important to cue the player a bit more.

The awkward staring was actually really interesting -- and I felt like it was intentional for the effect of parading around the fact that I sucked and also lost -- but at some point in attempting to reset, I managed to get to a close-up of the locket looping on character death [and making more grunting noises than my entire jam submission]. It just felt unclear whether I was supposed to do something else or I was supposed to be unable to do anything.

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