A simple idea with many great levels that kept me playing for a long while. The art is amazing and you really managed to get a lot of good gameplay out of a few simple features
First of all, it should be illegal for a game jam game to look this good.
Second, the idea is very creative and was quite fun - although it felt like the gameplay could use some more features. Still i enjoyed it a lot, although it took me a while to remember how a rotary phone works lol
Amazing how such a simple idea can create so much fun. This is just a playground where you get to add in anything you want and have fun with it, and it gets more and more chaotic as you go. My only suggestion is to remove being "killed" (for example by sharks) entirely - it cuts the fun short. if getting hit by a shrk just launched me in the air instead, it would be much more exciting and on theme for the game
Thank you! If there is one thing i leaned from this jam it's that no matter how easy you try to make it - as the developer you'll always struggle to understand what comes naturally and what doesnt to someone who's playing for the first time. I definitely could have spent more time teaching the mechanincs
Creative idea, and the tutorial had me laughing multiple times ("Thats your toolkit, fam" is now forever ingraved into my mind). Sadly I got stuck at the door with the button and couldn't figure out what to do.
Still your game is cool and the controls feel really nice!
Through the first loop i was thinking to myself "wouldn't it be funny if they force me to remeber which cabinet I put each file in" and 5 seconds later I discover Thats exactly the point of the game. This is original, funny, looks and sound really good and most importantly - just plain fun!
(Not to brag, but I finished the game on my first try)
I'll start with the good, because there is a LOT of it:
Your game had me fully on board from the tutorial. The visuals are incredible (I stared at the main menu screen for a couple minutes lol) and the story really got me excited. Its a creative twist on the "stuck in a timeloop" idea, and the notes from your past iterations reminded me of my favorite games like Outer Wilds and Tunic. The pressure I felt going into this really had me excited to start deciphering. The line in the tutorial that said "if you know why you're here you know you should skip this message" (or something like that) especially made an impact.
I was a little dissappointed though to find I can just spam through the buttons to get the code right and I didn't actually need to do any puzzle solving.
There is definitely a good basis here for a time-loop puzzle game where it takes hundreds of iterations to get the right solution - its just missing the complex puzzle.
The character controls a bit sluggishly - you could add more gravity when falling to make the jumps feel less floaty (I'll link a video I really like about that below if you're interested - it can be applied to godot as well)
The game looks and sounds amazing! The idea is creative and had me very excited to try it out. My only complaint is that the game is a bit too difficult and there is a lot of downtime and waiting while the train is going around the loop. Good work!
