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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Audio | #747 | 2.806 | 2.806 |
| Fun | #847 | 2.761 | 2.761 |
| Game Design | #1006 | 2.597 | 2.597 |
| Overall | #1047 | 2.532 | 2.532 |
| Graphics | #1131 | 2.403 | 2.403 |
| Innovation | #1141 | 2.313 | 2.313 |
| Theme | #1218 | 2.313 | 2.313 |
Ranked from 67 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 man is stuck in a level and the level keeps on rewinding itself till eternity.
Did you write most of the code yourself and made all the assets from scratch?
Yes. Some of them I found online and the code I wrote myself with the help of Brackeys tutuorials.
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Beat the game in around 15 minutes (i bet that's a WR 😎). It doesn't look or function the best but it's good enough for a rage game and definitely nice for your first game jam game. I expected it to be just a platformer that you beat when you get to the end but i was surprised when i had to beat the game backwards, the rewind effect made it very difficult to get back, i think it was a bit too much. Also PLEASE dont use the text effect you did in the menu, it looks awful.
Thank you for taking the time to play and rate my game. I really appreciate it. I rated your game too.
Fun game, and great music! I won't mention anything about the hitboxes (as other commenters already have pointed it out), but one suggestion is to stop the music from restarting at death. It's a hard game, so I'd prefer to continue listening to the music even if I die!
Thank you for your constructive feedback. I really appreciate it that you took the tame to rate my game.
Amazing game, love the music, I think the hitbox of player is bit big which makes the game hard sometime, usually it should be smaller than actual sprite
Thank you so much for taking the time to rate my game. I really appreciate it.
Overall the game was fun but quite difficult. I also felt that some of the obstacles didn't match the area they affected meaning dying sometimes felt unfair.
Yes. I understand that the game was way too difficult. I will change the positions and colliders of the obstacles. Thank you for taking the time to rate my game and giving this constructive feedback.
The game was super fun
Thank you so much for taking the time to play my game.
Hey first of all let me give you some critique. The fonts in the menu become more pleasant on the eyes if they are one solid color, also the pixelsize of your art should be identical to make the image on the screen look more conform. Aside from that also some animations would have been cool for the walking sprites or so. I liked the music and the mechanic, even though some jumps even in the beginning were really hard! The art itself was also nice! Keep it up :)
Thank you so much for your constructive feedback. I really appreciate it.
not a bad game, but its incredibly hard, you really need to lower the difficulty, however i loved the music and art, well done!
Thank you so much for taking the time to rate my game. I will certainly lower the difficulty of the game. Again, thank you very much.
Very awesome music. I think that the length of different parts of the saw being different makes the chances of hitting it rely on luck. I think that it would be a good idea to make them all the same length but still look different. I just love the music tho
The problem was that the colliders did not match the saw size sometimes. This caused it to be very difficult. But thank you for your feedback.
Nice game. Very difficult at the beginning. Perhaps reduce the number of hazards at first and make the levels more challenging as the player progresses. Keep on coding!
Thank you for taking the time to rate my game. I will lower the difficulty so that its more accessible to everyone.
really nice game, and the music sounds really good, but the hitbox of the player is a bit to big.
Thank you for taking the time to rate my game. I will certainly change the hitbox of the player. It means a lot to me that you who created such a nice game, rated this shitty game of mine.
Nice work! Despite the lack of polish and design (I think other people have mentioned this), I still managed to have fun playing your game!
Congrats on submiting your game !
Since you have the main mechanics working I would say you could do some improvements to the level design since some areas are quite hard. The first pit that has a saw midheight is pretty difficult and feels a bit unatural if we consider the character jump trayectory.
Great work none the less, keep up the good work.
Play my game if you have some time.
Thank you a lot for rating checking out my game. I will certainly change the level design to ease the player into the controls and make overall improvements to the game. Thank you once again.
Rated :)
Great job, needs more work and you can improve a lot of things, hope you had fun in the jam
Thank you and you are 100% right right. I had a lot of fun in the jam.
For a first game Jame this is great! Obviously there are things you can work on here like animations and a little better hit detection but it feels almost like a super meat boy type game, with the fast respawn and the funky music to go with it. As for some things that would be good to think about next time, the music didn't seem to fit the setting but there wan;t much backstory either so maybe it could have. When going in the rewind section the player is still on the left side of the screen making it very difficult to see incoming obstacles, a bit of a readjustment of the camera would have been nice. great job keep it up!
I completely forgot about repositioning the camera. Thanks for taking the time to play the game.
The sprites look good, although it would be even better if they were animated, The obstacles are a little unforgiving sending you back to the beginning on a single touch with no warning, two or three extra lives would have helped out or at least a slight pause so the player could see how they died. it could also use a few sound effects.
Reading that this is your first game jam, I hope you had fun and I'm sure you learned a lot from it, next time I'm sure you'll make a good one!
Thank you for your feed back and I will certainly change all these things and add the animations.
This is a good start. I had fun and liked it. It was done in a week, so not going to criticize. It has a lot of potential if followed up with some of the issues noted by other reviewers.
Please play and rate my game too!
https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-4/rate/723414
Thank you soooooo much for rating my game. And I will most certainly check out our game too.
Please do! Thank you!
Rated :)
Being completely honest I didn't enjoy it. I'm sorry, however below is my feedback if you're game below and what I think needs to be improved:
Unfortunately a lot of the art is very clashing and it's difficult to tell what's in the foreground and background. I also believe that the might be an error on the difficulty as collisions seem to happen when the player is very far away from the object that kills them. The coins also go up by 100 was that intentional? It is very jarring to see you immediately die, re spawn and music reset all in the same scene.
I do think it can be improved with time, work and as you grow as a developer!
Thank yous o much for taking your time to play me shitty game. It was only my 3rd game so it was bound to be pretty shitty. I know the sprites were pretty glitched out but I had done everything alone and I'm not that good at creating art. So thank you for your honest opinion.
No problem, game making gets better over time so keep it up!
It's a good start! There are some issues like collision and the lack of animation but I'm sure you already know! Anyway, keep going :D
Great job on the game! As state from some comments the collision seem to be a little to big, music was great but it would be cool if you could implement some singleton so it wont repeat itself when i die. A little more polish and this could be a great platformer! congrats! :D
Thank you so much for taking the time to rate this game. (It is pretty shitty)
Hey never call your game shitty man. Its a start! nobody succeed on their first try :)
Great game to play.Colliders seem a bit bigger than those traps but it can be fixed.Great music btw.
Thank you soooooo much