Very great artwork, i don't know, how it is even possible to make great pixel-Art and you guys make a perfect Background. Adding to that, all the Levels are looking great and the Music is just perfect for this Game. Great puzzle and a big variety of levels for a jam Game. But for me, the Jump felt a bit strange. It felt a little bit to fast and to short. But in conclusion a very great and interresting Jam Game. Keep making great games like that!
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Innovation | #87 | 3.881 | 3.881 |
| Audio | #158 | 3.644 | 3.644 |
| Overall | #198 | 3.636 | 3.636 |
| Game Design | #247 | 3.661 | 3.661 |
| Theme | #325 | 3.712 | 3.712 |
| Graphics | #381 | 3.661 | 3.661 |
| Fun | #480 | 3.254 | 3.254 |
Ranked from 59 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?
The core mechanic of the game is the ability for the player to create at any given moment a rewind point that stores location and momentum, and being able to rewind to that in certain situations.
Moreover, the way you solve the puzzles is, in a way, thinking in reverse, since you have to picture in your head the way you are going to go about the problem and rewind that possible solution, from end to start
Did you write most of the code yourself and made all the assets from scratch?
Yes, all the assets we used, from code, to sprites, to music, are made by the credited people of the team, except for fonts and sound effect, which are also credited in the description
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3 years ago (+1)
The difficulty is meant to be a bit hard, but it's true that the curve can be too steep and frustrating. I think adding some more level to ease this passage letting the player familiarize better with the controls could go a long way
The trajectory is surely one of the weakest part of the game, and it's one of the main things the updated version improves.
As for the second suggestion, it may be an option for an easier difficulty, but the way it behaves now is definitely intended: it adds to the difficulty, makes you very conscious of your moves and gives you another way to clean up some rewind points that may be hard to reach
The game is meat to be a bit on the harder side difficulty wise, but I think most of it it's artificial and frustrating, and it comes from the trajectory, that I'd say it's the weakest point of the game, and that is something we already changed in an update version (see the replies below to know the reasons).
Then the fact that the moon travels slowly is just so that you can more easily catch it midair: I did tried not to slow it at all, but it was way too hard to catch. With a working trajectory, you would know from the start if the moon would reach it's target or not.
If you are willing to try just for the first levels of the updated version , i would love to hear your feedback, but of course you must not change your rating, since the improvements were made after the submission period and thanks to feedback like yours
I don't know if this is the right place to post this, it being regarding the updated version and all, but the changes to the trajectory and jumping weight made things feel a lot better. I'm not sure if you adjusted gap sizes, but things felt a lot more doable. My only complaint that still remains is the difficulty curve seems a bit off. Most of the levels are doable, but "wind flows only when time does" (hard to set up with the wind's super-fast acceleration) and "not every wall is meant to stop you" (lost of daisy-chaining rewinds). In the case of the wind level, it is extra weird because "to rise, you have to fall first", which is right after it, it much easier.
Ahaha, I don't know what to say: the two wind-based levels you mentioned are inverted in the game jam version, but after showing the game to some friends, they all told me that the first was more difficult, so I decided to invert them in the updated version. Difficulty in a puzzle game can be subjective, so I think I'll leave them as they are in the last version.
As for the difficulty curve in general, I admit it can be pretty rough, but it is sorta of intended. Maybe I could add some more levels to ease up the transition a bit, but I generally satisfied about the tough gameplay.
Anyhow, I'm really grateful for the time you took just to give me your feedback again. Thank you, I really mean it
I really appreciate your feedback, but I think i didn't get something: the "fake walls" are present in only 2 levels. Do you refer to them (the first in particular) when you say "perhaps there could be some sort of curvature to indicate where to go" , so to make it easier to distinguish fake from real walls?
3 years ago(+1)
It is surely an option, but i like the way you can't really distinguish them until you throw the moon or, even easier, check the trajectory or the light. Anyhow, thank for the time you dedicated to this post
3 years ago (+1)
I guess that level is particularly tough because the trajectory shown isn't well made. You can skip the levels with k, if you want to see the others. And i'll release an updated version as soon as the jam ends
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