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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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Toggle cat FTW! Love it. Major style. I only hope you guys take this and run with it. Would like to see a 3D style game in the vain of The Stanley Parable one day. Keep up the great work!
Toggle cat is life. Thank you for checking out the game! The discord community was so important to keeping us sane as the hours wound down. lol.
I like your game, its challenging and intriguing at the same time, i like the over all look and feel it's consistent, looks like made by a real pro
Thanks! We tried to polish it up as much as possible.
Pretty good game, I like a lot the atmosphere of the game and the way you applied the rewind. It looks like a very professional game.
Thanks!
Cheeky and fun! Made me laugh quite a bit... I was a bit stuck at the start about what I was supposed to be doing, I guess I didn't totally understand the slang at the start...
I wish I could play the rest of the puzzles before getting the ending though!
we wanted to make sure people saw the ending before giving up. We know many people will only play a game for about 5-10 minutes max. You can always go back and play the rest after the credits; or better yet, play them in CAT MODE!!!
what a creative twist on thte theme! great work
Thanks!
The 4 of you made a pretty good team. I didn't know i'd end up playing the whole game
We're glad to hear you played the whole way through! If you have any specific feedback about the controls or puzzles/cases, please let us know.
Honestly the only thing is that the coffee cup model seemed to stand out from the rest of the theme. Not the fact that there was a coffee cup, but just the one that was there
We made it bright red intentionally to add a bit of color to the scene, but maybe it was too much?
Wow, i was not expecting this theme for this jam! You made such a great work with the detail of rewinding! Simple and precisely. This is a amazing job!
Thanks! We took a few hours during the first day to bounce around ideas before starting dev work.
Super Super Detailed game, Idk how you did that you such a awesome! the game is quite difficult,
good job mate!
Thank you so much!
I absolutely loved this game! The vibe, the music, the mysterious feeling about it. Plus you did a great job incorporating the rewind theme into it. Great job!! Best of luck!
Thank you!
Amazing Game! The amazing voice over and the dark theme, I like it so much! Also the grapich is cool. I should leave it on the main page butwhat i want to say is that the display has some bug, especially when you use ALT + TAB in game.
Hmm... Thanks for letting us know! I'll take a look.
The game is beautiful, it took a long time to load here, but I believe it is because of the quality of the textures. The quality is visible, it looks like a game developed in months! Congratulations on the work, it was really good.
Thank you so much.
This was an awesome concept. Voice overs are great. Great way to embrace the theme. I did get frustrated with the girl and the necklace. It says 4 phrases recorded by help says 3. Couldn't think of any other way to order it
Woops! That's embarrassing. it was pointed out to me early in development too and I completely forgot to change it!
Edit - do you mind deleting the pictures or cropping them? I don't want them to spoil others and I don't want to remove your comment. Thanks in advance!
Very well executed game! The gameplay was fun and the voice acting was phenomenal. This is a very cool concept for the theme Rewind. I downloaded it instead of playing on WebGL because the WebGL version was a little buggy.
Yeah, WebGL doesn't like spotlights too much. It messes with a bunch of other things. Thanks for playing!
Great job! I loved the aesthetic of the game. It felt a tad finickity, but doing something like this would, and you gave just enough leeway to make it feel enjoyable, but still realistic. The voiceovers are really well done, and you did a good job of showing what words had been recorded.
Thank you! Matching up the words on screen and in the audio was a hassle, but well worth it.
I just cringed reading that sentence realizing how much work that would be. You should get way more credit for that. I thought doing solutions took a long time.
We actually programmed the phrases to be broken up via a json file resource and then used a stopwatch to time each word by hard, adjusting to make it possible to play. It only took a few hours.
That's very impressive.
You really did a good job with the mood! Really immersed me into the game, felt like I was playing a thought out indie game that wasn't made in one week. It was truly an experience, one of the best games in terms of originality and mood. I'm looking forward to seeing you make more of this!
Thank you so much! We worked really hard on this, though I think we could have polished it up just a bit more and made something really special. It's something to think about for next time.
Wonderful game, I really loved its noir aesthetic and your unique take on the theme!
I had some issues with the build but I don't know if they are related to my hardware or to the game itself: after the necklace case the game broke a bit. A chair and a table remained on scene over the main menu to disappear in the level selection screen, then when I finished the knife case the newspaper was stil about the necklace.
Great work anyway, really! The voice acting was amazing.
Whoa. That's not supposed to happen. lol. Thanks for letting us know!
Happy to help! Keep up the good work!
I can't put into words how brilliant i found this idea , really great game , overall the best one i've played hands down ! good job!
Thanks for the awesome praise! It's so great hearing that people like our work.
omg its so funny. I had a little bit of difficulty playing. its so hard for me xD
omg its so funny. I had a little bit of difficulty playing. its so hard for me xD
What a fantastic game! You nailed every aspect of this jam, such a clever take on the theme, really phenomenal work.