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A jam submission

Who Killed John??View game page

Submitted by AR Borno — 2 hours, 21 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Theme#4403.5143.514
Innovation#5843.1143.114
Overall#8172.8862.886
Fun#8602.7432.743
Audio#8862.5712.571
Game Design#8892.7712.771
Graphics#10122.6002.600

Ranked from 35 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?
The story and gameplay...

Did you write most of the code yourself and made all the assets from scratch?
Yes... All of it.

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Submitted

I like the concept behind the game, but it is way too heavyhanded in my opinion. Also, the screen are a bit too explicit when explaining what and how you have to carry out things, considering that you can just spam E walking around the levels to get things done the right way, without actually the need to remeber the correct sequences nor the risk of losing something.

It surely needs to be polished more, but I really liked the story-driven approach that you had, good job!  

Submitted

Cool story and cutscenes.

Feel free to check out my short and sweet puzzle game with record/rewind mechanics (Backtrack): https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-4/rate/723990

Submitted

Nice. But it drives me crazy that sometimes you use e sometimes f and sometimes space.
Chose one of them it isn't that hard!

Submitted

Dude, you're breaking the enitre atmosphere with the "choice" screen . That's not how you're supposed to break the 4'th wall :/

Submitted

Really cool idea, and I liked the way you made it!

Submitted

The game is pretty cute, and I love the mechanics of living your life backwards, its acutally pretty amazing and a good idea. Good job!

Submitted

I somehow am unable to load the game... 😅 even though i was using the itch app. The game looks interesting from the pictures tho. You should probably fix it. :)

Developer (1 edit)

Try using a web browser like chrome or Firefox. It will work for sure. Also there is a downloadable version for Windows, you can check that too.

Submitted

Interesting take and game design :)

Submitted

Fun little game :D
Good job!

Submitted

Great story and cut scenes! I kept running out of time after the funeral scene XD I'll try again later for sure.  Congrats on successfully submitting a game to the jam and I hope you learned a lot of new gamedev skills.  Please check out my game when you have free time :D

Submitted

Interesting game. Both endings were fantastic. 

Hey, cool game. Moreover the endings were both satisfying and fun.

Cool game. Enjoyed playing both of the endings. And the music is cool too. Great job with this entry.

Submitted

Really impressed by the interpretation of the theme. I loved the reversed incidents and reversed speech. Very clever of you to create a feeling of 'REWINDING', through them.

When I saw you answer the question "How does the game fit the theme?" with "The story and the gameplay...", I thought that you must have been more clear. But after playing the game, I understood.

I really enjoyed the game. The graphics is awesome, mainly because all of it was of same style and not some random low poly. Would be happy to see some work being done on the GUI though. (Text size for dialogues are small, some are large).

Once its 'E' to continue, once its 'space'. It would be great if a common key was decided.

I also think if the game had more branches, it would be awesome and I didn't like the idea of telling me which choice will decide the ending.

Also that player can just press 'E' and roam around and all the actions will be done. I think it destroys the interest of the game.

As my speakers are not okay, so I played your game without sound, can't really say anything about it. Sorry!

(SPOILER ALERT, for those who have still not played the game)

One thing bugged me a bit. That is when John was killing 4 guys that part, there the second task was "went home", and he had to go home after killing the 4 guys. Shouldn't it be the other way round?

By the way, Shouldn't the game have multiple beginnings rather than endings? LOL!

(Please! I need help!)

It would be very kind of you, if you could spare some time and play my game and rate it. I would be really grateful. Thanks!

Submitted

I really enjoyed playing through both endings! The story reminded me of the movie Memento. This is a cool take on the theme, and I always like the games with a story.

Compete the game in less than 10 minit. It is short but very potential. Good job.

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