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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Audio | #1 | 4.558 | 4.558 |
| Fun | #14 | 4.174 | 4.174 |
| Graphics | #24 | 4.442 | 4.442 |
| Overall | #36 | 4.004 | 4.004 |
| Game Design | #69 | 3.977 | 3.977 |
| Theme | #381 | 3.616 | 3.616 |
| Innovation | #484 | 3.256 | 3.256 |
Ranked from 86 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?
Our game fits the theme in two ways: 1. We went with a retro GameBoy aesthetic to "rewind time." 2. Being a rhythm game, our core gameplay mechanic is to rewind through a track multiple times, allowing the player to try different instruments as the difficulty increases.
Did you write most of the code yourself and made all the assets from scratch?
Yes 99% of the code was written by us during this jam. All art, music, and most sfx were also created by us during the jam from scratch.
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Wow that was an amazing game! Literally couldn't blink and the most streak I got was 2x... The difficult was way too hard for me from the get go but the graphics, music, and mechanic was great! Not being ambidextrous was also a challenge for me personally. It makes me wonder how difficult it actually gets later in the game. At least I got a lot of points to help make me feel less bad if anything. To me, you guys succeeded in getting the GameBoy feel to it right but the game felt more like one of those arcade dance machine lol. Congrats on the jam and great job!
I love the simple color palette and detailed pixel art, very cool! The game is fun once you get in a rhythm and start getting in a streak, but it opens up a bit hard, and got into the double (and triple!?) notes really early on. I think the opening of the song should be slower, with no double notes, and escalate in difficulty over time so players can adjust and find a flow to the rhythm. Solid entry overall though, very nice work!
Thanks for playing our game! I think the idea of the difficulty increasing over time didn't really cross our minds as we wanted to chart this song normally, but we'll definitely consider that in the future!
oh my god, why didn't I try this game out sooner. I've always liked these types of games on flash sites, this brings back so many memories I love it.
Thank you so much for playing! Keep an eye out for it after the jam, we're gonna tweak it and make it even better!
Nice, I hope you add more songs too.
This game's cover image got my attention, and the game got me hooked.
I really like rhythm games, I didn't expect a rhythm game to show up in this game jam, but you guys pulled it off amazingly. I'm still trying to get a perfect score :D
Thanks for playing! I think the highest score I've seen so far is 170k, so beat that!
Wow, then I'm close, my highest thus far is 169k. I'll try it!
Great game! Im terrible at these games but this one truly caught my eye!
don't worry, I'm bad at it too! thanks for playing :)
Wow this game is really fun and I like to concept. It would be also cool if we can pause the game or we can back to the main menu but overall the game is really awesome.
It would be cool if you try out my game!
Been years since I've played Guitar hero which is one of my all time favorite games to play and this just feels right. The score system really made me want to keep playing and beat my high score every time. I kind of wishhed there were more song selections and difficulty levels but overall, the music style ya'll went for was awesome. Great work and awesome game!
Hey, thanks for playing our game! Honestly if we had more time we would have put in one more song, but we wanted to polish up our gameplay. Glad to see you enjoy the game!
This game has so much style, i love it. great job.
thank you so much, we worked really hard getting that part right.
Fun game and cool concept. Usage of different instruments each time did bring out the game. I think adding simple sound effects for the notes declaring if I press correctly or wrong would help.
Thank you for playing, and we appreciate the feedback!
Super cool game, nice idea, the game runs smoothly but sometimes there are no game feedbracks!
Anyways good job!
Thank you so much for playing! I wish we could have gotten a little more feedback on the button presses but couldn't in time! Will definitely be updated after the jam :)
Like the theme and the graphics are awesome! I missed some kind of feedback when the player press the correct key, or maybe i'm not so good hahahaha Rythm games are though for me
Thanks for the playing! And don't worry it's not just you, we are lacking that little bit of feedback unfortunately. Definitely will be updated after the jam!
omg this was so much fun i love rhythm games! i wish there were more songs! also love the funkiness option :D
Thank you so much for playing!
I can't tell you how much I suck at rhythm games but it looked great and sounded great and the controls were responsive ^^
Thank you so much for playing!
This was epic. So well done! I loved how you worked in the theme in a way that just totally makes sense for a rhythm game! Layering tracks on top of eachother, brilliant. 10/10 from me :)
Thank you so much for playing! We had a blast making it
This game is insane! The music is awesome, it looks great and it's really fun. Honestly the only thing I can think of that I dislike about this game except the the low number of reviews it has is the difficulty, it does seem a bit hard but idk I might just be terrible. Honestly, it's the best game I've seen so far and I doubt I'll see better! Huge props to everyone in your team especially the music guy for including the lick at the end!
Thank you so much! And yes you noticed THE LICK
At the begging the mechanics are a bit complicated, but once you get used you to it is great. The music is great also, I had a amazing experience with this game.
I'm glad you liked it! Thanks for playing :)
as a huge rhythm game buff, i’m completely biased, but it’s really difficult for me to find a single category i would give lower than five stars. i think this game fits really well into the theme while having a twist to the familiar rhythm game formula that i haven’t seen before. the concept of playing and getting to hear each layer of a song get built onto itself is really appealing to me and you guys executed it perfectly. especially since i’ve spent a lot of time putting together stepmania charts that have tried to balance between instruments, i was immediately hit with a “why didn’t i think of this before” playing this game.
i ran about a dozen times until i finally managed to get a bad and miss-less run (got a perfect + 5 goods). the song is really nice, introducing drums and then bass works super well. the visuals are very consistent and other ambient audio like bitcrushed voice clips and sound effects pulls everything together. i love the record scratch-like reverse noise, it’s exactly what i was hoping to hear. for what can be accomplished in a week, i’m super impressed! also, nice itch page design.
all of my criticisms are minor. i didn’t find a way to leave a run and exit to the main menu, so when aiming for perfects i had to close the entire game to start over. i also didn’t see any visual for when i got a good or a bad, so it was tough for me to tell where i was off in a song. a few sections of notes definitely felt placed off time with the tune, but only ever by a fraction of a second. also, maybe i’ve just gotten used to a certain visual format, but the distance between the F and J tracks actually took some adjusting to, i might suggest keeping the distances between each vertical line the same if possible? personally, i thought the difficulty scaled really well, but i can definitely see this particular song being difficult for a new player.
okay i’ve definitely spent too much time crafting this review but i thoroughly enjoyed rhythm rewind so i had to write more than usual. you guys definitely deserve to place well in this jam, but i sincerely hope you see good reason to pursue a fully-fledged game following the results!
and… maybe even make user-created tracks possible? haha, just an idea!
Wow! thanks so much for the thoughtful response! I agree with all of your criticisms, most of which I'll just blame on it being a jam haha. I've worked with my group of friends on multiple games, but this one we scoped just right to make something were super proud of. Glad you enjoyed it! (as for user generated tracks, its possible because all of our tracks are just read in csv's that we can write in google sheets, however you would need a song that is separated into the different layers you want. worth looking into if we work on this game post jam)
Super fun and polished game! I love how you get to slowly build up the music by playing each instrument, and at the end you've created a masterpiece.
Only feedback I can think of is adding hit sounds when you hit/miss a note. Other than that, I had a blast playing it, and I hope more songs are added in the future!
Thanks! I think the one thing we really missed was having sound feedback for note hits. Initially we had some different colored particles that stuck out a lot, but we wanted to stay true to the GameBoy colors. If we end up working on this after the jam, well definitely be adding some new songs!
That first sound of the title gave me a straight up nostalgia pang, really well done! I wish this was on a controller though!
Thanks! If we add controller support, what buttons would you want the notes to line up to? I honestly hadn't thought about using a controller for this game, but it might feel ok. Because of the split notes its hard for me to see what buttons it would use.
The art style its amazing and the musics are fantastic! I really like it!
Great job! :D
Thanks!