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A jam submission

Power out.View game page

Why cant this game have save files :(
Submitted by Mr_Bun — 7 hours, 58 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Graphics#3343.7243.724
Audio#4083.2593.259
Game Design#5433.2593.259
Overall#6063.1523.152
Innovation#6563.0173.017
Fun#8202.7932.793
Theme#8652.8622.862

Ranked from 58 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?
Rewind as in back in time. you are playing retro.

Mechanic for the game requires you to restart if your power goes out, causing a rewind.

Did you write most of the code yourself and made all the assets from scratch?
Yes, only the sound is not made by me or my teamate. we used free assets for that, credited in the files.

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Submitted(+1)

Really cool game! The simple art-style was perfect, and movement felt also very smooth. The map was also huge, which is good thing. Sometimes it was boring to wonder around and look for things, but when I got familiar with the map, it got a little easier (so maybe just stressful for beginners?). I also didn't hear any background music, just coin sounds and thunder sometimes. But a really nice game overall!

Developer(+1)

There is rain and wind sounds along with the hum of the TV , I wanted to get a volume knob on the TV also but I didnt have time for it. Thank you for the Critique! 

Submitted(+1)

Liked the art, gameplay and atmosphere a lot, it was a bit too quiet except the thunder every now and then. It's really impressive how large the world is considering you only had a week to make the game. The rewinding part is seen mostly in the theme as it's not a game mechanic. You have some really small and quickly fixable issues in the game such as the player not moving slower diagonally and the lines in sprites, in case you don't know how to fix it, you simply have to add your sprites or tilesheet into a sprite atlas with your preferred import settings and it's fixed.

Developer(+1)

Thanks for the critique! I appreciate you letting me know the fix for that sprite stuff too , really cool. it was a bit time consuming to make it that big but I did get too ambitious for not being able to put in more intractable elements, along with balancing items so the world wouldn't get cluttered also. Thanks a bunch.

Submitted(+1)

Nice retro graphics and atmosphere. Kept me on the edge while playing. Good job!

Submitted(+1)

I was expecting a jump scare...but there isn't any, phew, lol.

The creepy atmosphere is really well done! I was very tense throughout the playthough. The map is really huge, although there isn't much to do (other than collecting coins & stars and reading signs). Graphics and sound is well done.

The rewind mechanic...honestly feels a bit shallow (it just kicks you back to the beginning of the game), but I can see potential in having like a "timed" saving mechanism combined with a changing map/situation.

All in all, good work on the game!

Developer

The rewind mechanic isn't really about just going back to the beginning again and restarting, it was more of an aesthetic choice running off old games that you cant save and if they turn off  had to start over. realistically I wanted the inner game to have more to interact with and to be able to learn from the playthroughs if you didn't get through on the first try but I didn't have time to make any more sadly.

Submitted(+1)

The audio was really well executate great job for that  !

Developer

thank you!

Submitted(+1)

Played through your game in this video here at 00:49:15.

Developer

Really appreciate the Critique,  We wanted to add more intractable to make things more fun and interest keeping just didn't have the time to get them in with bug testing and everything. I was thinking of a map like a pause button that would zoom out the map so you could see everything or some sort of not on the TV but I was too worried about clutter on the TV at that point and yet again time. 


Also you have a great voice :)

Submitted(+1)

Amazing concept! I can see that you've focused a lot on the gameplay and the art of the game, but some music/melody-loop would've been nice.

Developer

Thank you! I was a bit worried about putting music in since I would have to find something free that fit perfect for aesthetics sake so for this Jam I left it out :)

Submitted(+1)

Cool concept and really nice artstyle.

My only sugestion would be to give a player some sort of way to not lose all the progress if the power goes out. I had 3 stars and they were pretty difficult to find and then power out. I didnt really want to play again from the very begining.

Play my game if you have the time. 

Rem

Developer

I was thinking about making it so it was a random chance what got rolled back during an outage but I didn't have the time to impliment it like that, thank you for the critique!

Submitted(+1)

So much nostalgic vibes! I like how every sound of thunder raises the tension. Cool concept, great game!

Developer

thank you!

Submitted

It was a very unique and fun aesthetic. But the game play does get a bit repetitive and boring after some time. If you added some interactive elements and some variety, it would be much better.

Could you please check my game too? It is not much good but I would really appreciate if you checked the game out.

Developer

Hey was just wondering what got repetitive when playing the game? With more time I could have made more intractable like NPCs and environmental stuff just out of scope for this.

Submitted

I know the concept you were going from but due the lack of NPCs or other intractable items, the game was getting boring as I was just wandering around aimlessly which was repetitive.

Developer

Did you read the signs at all? they should have game some direction .

Submitted(+1)

I must have missed the signs. I will see at it again. Thanks for clarifying it.

Submitted(+1)

I loved this, it was really cool!

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted(+2)

I liked the concept. It would have been cool to have 8bit sound effects in the game to contrast the realistic thunder and rain outside. the green color palette made it a little difficult to tell what was and wasn't a wall but I know the look you were going for. It was a all in all a good game, good job!

Developer

Thank you very much!

Submitted

Good play on the theme. Art was unique and I liked the game play.

Please play and rate my game too if you get some free time

https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-4/rate/723414

Submitted(+1)

Countless times I lost the progress before due to a blackout, someone pulling the plug (by accident of course), running out of batteries, etc etc...

Seriously though, the game is really good despite the lack of music! Kept the tension up by constantly making me think: "Oh no, the power can go out any minute now, I have to hurry and get the other X stars, oh no, the screen just got darker, I'm going to lose all progress now, hurry, hurry, hurry!!!"

Developer(+1)

I really appreciate the comment and critique. I didn't want to be rushed to pick out some music (since I can't write my own)  that might kill the feel of the game I only barley got the object pickup sounds in before submitting sadly ill remember that for next time I make something though. Thank you again!

Submitted(+1)

That was a good choice, no music actually gives it a unique feeling.

Submitted(+1)

this is a piece of art! great job, this is very nostalgic! i just miss some music. 

Developer(+1)

I didn't wanna use any free music but I haven't practiced making any either so I had to do without for this jam :C

Submitted(+1)

I love the aesthetics. The electricity went off in real life so the inmersion was real.

Developer

That was planned I swear, thank you!

Submitted(+1)

A good take on the theme and i really like the retro aesthetics and TV screen!

Check out our game and let us know what you think!

Submitted(+1)

Really cool graphics, and just overall well done! I really liked how "power goes out, causing a rewind" is introduced.

Developer

Thank you! I had to think hard about that, rather than just suddenly the power goes out 10 minutes later.

Submitted(+1)

Love the aesthetics and gameplay, and having a tv in a game, why i never thought of this 😂, really liked that one

Submitted(+1)

I really enjoyed the retro TV vibe and the graphics on this game. The silhouette of the player on the screen is a great touch! I collected a couple stars and a few coins, but I have to admit I didn't know what to do next/what my main objective was. I liked the post-it note style information panels, so just a bit more direction than the signs would help me out. Nice work on the game!

Developer

I tried to get the end goal of the game through with the sticky notes, the one with the controls had collect 5 Stars. I was thinking of it like actually being an old game and you've heard rumors to win you need to get  5 stars but you had never beat it before.  thank you for the feedback!

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