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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall | #3 | 4.254 | 4.254 |
| Audio | #4 | 4.398 | 4.398 |
| Innovation | #4 | 4.336 | 4.336 |
| Game Design | #14 | 4.281 | 4.281 |
| Theme | #19 | 4.359 | 4.359 |
| Graphics | #61 | 4.297 | 4.297 |
| Fun | #94 | 3.852 | 3.852 |
Ranked from 128 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?
Charlie, our deviant detective, rewinds recorded alibis to reconstruct them into confessions.
Did you write most of the code yourself and made all the assets from scratch?
We wrote all of the code ourselves. Many textures, models, and soundtracks were pre-made, but the rest was made during the jam.
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Very evil! I especially liked that after the manipulation you hear the new audio. Nice background graphics, not distracting but calming
Great game, very entertaining
Great game. I liked the idea. Fun to play!
This game is really cool.Presentation is increadible it makes you feel like you are really a detective.Overall great game :)
Thanks so much!
Wow! This is super polished. I like everything I've seen - the only problem was that I was confused about how to get passed the how to play section as I thought I was correctly recording the guy's name. I was using the Web Gl version so I'm not sure if it's my mistake or the web gl versions, but either way this is still great.
It honestly might have just been an audio bug in the WebGL version. Unity really fought us at the end there with the Web implementations.
Yeah I hear that, developing for web can be so finicky.
I enjoyed the puzzle aspect especially on the two and three star entries. The aesthetic was also great and consistent throughout. Great job
Thanks! We weren't sure how many people would attempt the hardest difficulty level, but I'm glad to see you got it!
Very nice concept and engaging gameplay! The theme rewind shows very much throughout the game. It would've been great to be able to select the words you want with the audio part playing through, or be able to switch already recorded with the word next to it. Then again, that's not how tape recorders work, and stuck with the theme :)
Awesome job!
Thank you!
This is probably the best game jam game I've ever played. I absolutely love the idea, the voice acting, everything. My only problem is that at times the visual for the words rewinding can be a little buggy, and it feels like you're fighting the controls somewhat a lot of the time. It would be nice if you mapped the rewind/record/play buttons to keyboard inputs instead of (or in addition to) the clickable UI buttons in the game right now. I feel like it's much more satisfying when the challenge comes from figuring out how to frame the person rather than wrestling with the currently kinda awkward and imprecise button controls. Still though, this game is genuinely amazing. I also really appreciate cat mode.
Hey, thanks for playing the game! The buttons are mapped to the WASD and Space, but you had to click on settings to see that and we probably should have made it clearer. *meow*
Ah, I was wondering if I was missing something. Great job.
Great audio and interesting gameplay, really like it (and cat).
Awesome game! I really enjoyed the atmosphere you set up, it felt really unique compared to a lot of games submitted. On critique is that the rewind sound itself can be really grating on the ears sometimes, I think because of how high pitched it is!
Good critique. I'll make sure to keep that in mind next time!
Neat.
Really neat ideas here. Very nicely put together. Cool atmosphere.
Thanks for playing! We enjoyed watching your stream. You were very close to solving the hardest level.
An amazing game. I love the effort put into it. I must say I was going to do a similar one, but I couldn't. This is one of the best games I played so far. Great work to the team.
Thanks!
Really nice game! I love the idea! Well done!
Thanks!
That's awesome! Thank you!
The hmtl version is a bit buggy, but the standalone was perfect, I really love the climate and aesthetic of this game, aswell as the writing and the gameplay. Overall an excellent entry
Yeah... WebGL fought us pretty hard at the end there. Thanks for checking out the EXE when it didn't work! I'm glad you enjoyed the experience, but have you tried CAT MODE????
Yes it was amazing
Amazing artstyle, super catchy!
if you'd like, try mine one too! Remember that in the third level due to a bug it doesn't show up the "press shift to rewind" text.
I'll give it a try. Thanks for playing!
I loved the feel and audio. Strong application of the theme. A suggestion would to be have a UI element that visually tracks the sentence as the audio is playing, a few times I struggled to line up the clicks I needed to make, when I knew what I was trying to splice together. Great game, a fun playthrough!
We tried to line the UI text as best as we could to the audio, but Unity is hard *sigh*. I'm glad you liked the game! Now play it again, but in CAT MODE!
Man I think your game has a LOT of potential. Its a interstign new kind of puzzle in a way, I just wanted the controls to be better, for me the fun was in finding what phrase is the solution not trying to record, so if it was easier to record what I want it would be better imo.
Fair enough! The controls certainly could use tweaking here and there. I'm glad you liked the game overall!
Really cool game mate loved it
Thanks!