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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun | #218 | 3.600 | 3.600 |
| Audio | #299 | 3.400 | 3.400 |
| Theme | #344 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
| Overall | #349 | 3.456 | 3.456 |
| Innovation | #403 | 3.333 | 3.333 |
| Game Design | #480 | 3.333 | 3.333 |
| Graphics | #559 | 3.400 | 3.400 |
Ranked from 15 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?
Death has finally found our main character. He must now try to survive by rewinding time to stay young as Death sends swarms of time at him!
Did you write most of the code yourself and made all the assets from scratch?
We wrote all of the code ourselves and created all sprites, animations and title art. We used pre-existing assets for backgrounds and also for music (all artists have been credited in game).
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Cool game! The sprites are cool and the animation and artstyle are nice. The music fits the game and story. Nice Job!
Thanks a lot for the feedback! Glad you liked the game.
Got to baby! I had to play a couple of times first. Really enjoyed the concept, the graphics and the music. I think having an idea of how many pills it takes you to level up would give you a goal to work to. Having a number of lives and showing how the swarm are affecting your pill intake would be a nice motivator and help you keep track of health.
Fun game!
Thanks for the feedback and great job getting to the youngest form! The idea was to be as minimal as possible when indicating to the player where they were in terms of age (visual representation and death's laughter), to increase the sense of fear and impending doom.
Maybe we could have inserted another subtle way of showing the player where they are in the lifecycle.
Glad you liked the game!
The game really lacks some kind of indicator for where the enemies are about to spawn. Otherwise very interesting concept and nice graphics!
Thanks a lot for playing and for giving us feedback! We wanted to go for something more chaotic and unpredictable (the first iterations had even more enemies and they were spawning randomly), but your idea is definitely worth being tested!
I dont have much to say here, cause the last comment did an awesome job, and I agree with everything. But just to add some more, the thing that I missed the most was UI information during the gameplay. I dint had any feedbacks about what was really happening, if what I was doing was right or not, about the time, or how much pills I would need and how many lifes I had left.
I really liked your project. Its a good idea with a fun gameplay. The scene at the end was beautiful, I loved! Keep going with the hard work, guys! You did great!
Thanks so much!!! And thanks for the feedback! This is something we'll definitely consider! :)
I really enjoyed your game! I managed to finish it while being in the adult phase.
Here are my thoughts:
Great:
Could be improved:
Well done on the game, I hope to see more from you!
This is great feedback, thanks a lot! The idea behind it was to be as minimal as possible in terms of indicating to the player where they were in terms of age - other than the visual representation of course. Just that time is ticking so keep moving and keep looking for the pills. The laughter itself was the only indication we gave (i.e. you better start taking those pills!). However, maybe an additional means of indicating to the player where in their “life cycle” they were would have been better!
I really like the end boss idea and it’s definitely something that would have added to the tension!
Thanks again for the feedback. It really helps us improve! :)
Fun short little game! The style is great and I enjoyed playing. It would be nice to have a bar or something that indicates when you are going back to being old, but otherwise nice job!
Thanks a lot for the feedback! Originally we wanted to be as minimalistic as possible (just that time was ticking) but this is something that has been mentioned a few times and definitely something we could add. Thanks again for the comments!
LOVED THE NAME! The visuals worked so well to me! I had a great time in this game. The laugh is a really nice touch!
Thanks so much! Glad to hear you enjoyed the game (especially as it was our first!). Thanks for checking it out, and congrats on making a great game! :)
Think this is the only scary submission I have run into and I have rated quite a bit of games in this game. Good job. Was fun, scary and the aesthetics were spot on!
Could you please play and rate my game as well?
https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-4/rate/723414
Thanks a lot! Apparently we made a horror game ahah. I just played yours and rated it, good job!
Thank you so much! I hope you liked it.
I did actually! Btw, it looks like your rate on our game didn't go through, according to the numbers. Would you mind resubmitting?
Sure.... let me go back to it.
Thanks a lot!!
Baaam! Check your stats out now. Sorry about that!
No problem and thanks :)
Just like other people mention on comments. The idea was terrifying and the music made the atsmoshpere felt creepier. Really fun game :D
Glad you liked it! I thought the music we chose was a bit too intense but happy to hear it worked quite well :)
I'm going to play your game soon, it looks very interesting!
Hope you enjoy my game cause there's a lot of problems in that game.
hehe :P i could not wait after seeing my self turn into a adult what would come next :P the surprise really kept me going and really wanting to find out. it was a very short but funny game. But short for this idea is the best. after seeing the baby i would not want to do it all over again ;) but still had a ton of fun really. But the enemy movement is super unpredictable what made the game a bit frustrating at times. would maybe be fun to know what the enemy does and maybe have difrent types or something. and thank you for not letting me die so to fast ;) the idea of pils to get younger and getting hit to get old is nice. it was a bit of a guess if getting hit made me older or that it was more of a time thing? If time i would chance it to getting hit makes you older, and pills make you younger. but overal was a fun little game! I would love to make like a super short game at some point :) but alwas get into making a puzzle game or starting a project thats way to big :P
Thanks so much for the feedback! We wanted to make a short, but fun game and I'm glad there were bits you enjoyed! In the game time is constantly working against you and the enemies definitely make it worse! Thanks again for the feedback and congrats on making a very good game (I played yours - it's really good!). :)
glad to help :) i understand its just a fun project for a gamejam no need to make the next doom or something ;) i had fun with yours so thats the most important right!
Definitely, and we’re really glad you had fun! :) Same with your game!
Ahah! Thanks for the feedback! Will check and rate your game soon :)
A really simple dodging game. Nice.
Only criticism I can give, is that the time spiders occasionally telefrags you, dealing unfair damage.
Anyway, good work on the game!
Thanks a lot!! Great job on your game too and thanks for the feedback! We're already looking into it for out next project. :)
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Pretty evil laugh you have there! Nice game, i like the graphics and the sounds (especially the laugh...)
Hahaha thanks a lot!!!!
Pretty cool concept! Congrats on the jam! Rated. Please consider checking out mine as well :)
Cool game! Great concept
Nice one