Really enjoyed managing all of the VHS tapes. It took me a whole day in game to figure out that I was supposed to rewind the tapes but loved going around and putting all the VHS's tapes back on their shelves and the ninja's were awesome. Really liked the voices too! :)
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KING of TAPES's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun | #41 | 4.045 | 4.045 |
| Innovation | #43 | 4.045 | 4.045 |
| Game Design | #58 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Overall | #84 | 3.833 | 3.833 |
| Audio | #165 | 3.636 | 3.636 |
| Graphics | #363 | 3.682 | 3.682 |
| Theme | #391 | 3.591 | 3.591 |
Ranked from 22 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?
Rewinding returned tapes is a part of the game, and it's set into the golden age of cassette based media ("rewind into a different time")
Did you write most of the code yourself and made all the assets from scratch?
100% of the code in the game is written by us for the game. No 3rd party code was used beyond what's built into UE4. A large part of the 3D and sound assets was created by us. All other assets have suitable licenses to use or are in the public domain.
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3 years ago(+1)
Thanks! For the rewind, we realized we should have put it into the call you receive in the start of the game, but the phonecall was one of the last features we added to the game and we didn't want to risk breaking anything :D Definitely something we want to address in a future version though.
3 years ago(+1)
Thanks for the review! There does indeed seem to be a relatively rare bug where the AI will stop returning tapes, which we're investigating at the moment. Furthermore, if there will be enough interest in the game, we're considering expanding on the game.
3 years ago(+1)
Thanks! We are considering giving the player a debuff, such as making you move slower, instead of just killing you off . That might make the status effects a little bit less "oh oops I died"
Thanks for the detailed feedback :) We've been tweaking the game pacing a lot, and hopefully we can work on adding some more relevant tasks and make the whole "managing the store" experience a little bit less hectic. There is a system in place whereby customers look for the tape they want in its category, and if you haven't sorted them, they are likely to not find it - but it's not really explained anywhere, so that's another thing we'll have to improve on.
3 years ago(+1)
Oh dear, yeah that's gotta be a problem with Wine and UE4 :\ It looks like none of the static lighting is working. It did not occur at all that we could have uploaded a Linux build of the game... I'm going to see if we can make a native build for you and any other Linux users. I don't know if they'll let us upload it though since the jam deadline passed, so we'll see.
I think I’ve seen people do updates after the submission deadline (since technically an update is not a submission, I guess?..) here. I’m not sure how many Linux players are here, so it might not be worth it (though I personally would highly appreciate it, of course :D).
3 years ago(+1)
I discussed with staff and sadly it looks like it's not possible to add a Linux build. Oh well, I guess I'll add a linux version in two weeks since it's just a matter of pressing the "build for linux" button in UE :) (although I have no way of testing the resulting build)
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