I think there should have been more focus on the jump controls, I have no idea if it was a byproduct of adding forces or a design decision but the double jump seems like its dependent on 'thrust' so you go much higher if you quickly double press than you go trying to time it for the top of your jump. I also did the second jump of the tutorial level first time and now I just can't seem to clear the distance anymore.

The tutorials 'send back to start' mechanic is brutal, especially when you purposely make the player fall in when introducing the rewind mechanic. A bug I found is if you exit the game then go back in (I promise I didn't RQ :P) and try to avoid falling in the first time by using Q, the dialogue popup bugs you out and makes the rewind mechanic mess up before you can reach the collectable, at least it did for me.

Sorry if I seem negative, I just couldn't experience much of the game because of the above. I just kept dying and getting sent back to the start and I got frustrated seeing that I was making no progress.

That was tough, from level 5 it was so chaotic haha, you have to be sadistic to create an opening the size of the player then put TWO collectables in there! 

I really liked this take on the theme. I wish time limits had been slightly longer on later levels as you're competing against your former self, and my former self kept making mistakes and holding me up :P sound and art were good and everything went together nicely, good job!

One thing I didn't understand, if you're going to make me use the mouse to press retry then why not let me do the portal with the mouse as well? having to keep moving my right hand is probably my one negative thing to say on the game

Really liked the game, I've seen one other game so far that uses the rewind to kill enemies mechanic but you are the first person I've seen use the finite tape length as part of the game.

I wish I could offer more feedback but I think you've executed this idea well and I really can't think of anything, good job!

This game has reminded me of why I never play bullethells, I am so bad at tracking things on the screen...

Really well made though even if its a genre I don't usually play. Sound effects are good, art style is perfect for the game and I really like how you've decided to implement the rewind.

For me, I would have preferred a lower res so I could see everything better as I'm getting blind in my older years but that's about the only negatives words I have to say.

I really liked the art despite it not being what I'd consider 'beautiful artwork', it reminded me of when I was a kid playing flash games during Computer class.

The weapons need more work, like someone said before, I didn't really have much reason to use 1 and 2 as it was lower DPS and they didn't offer an interesting 'fun factor' to compensate for that.

the colliders seemed inconsistent, I could move through some things I didn't think I'd be able to and get stuck on others which made planning my path really confusing. I also think that collidable terrain in these types of games should be placed in such a way that allows the player to still travel around it 360 degrees as I got stuck a couple of times in a 'tunnel' area with enemies on top of my only way out.

It was a fun little game that's rough around the edges, just needs some polish and small improvements.

Firstly, congrats on getting your first game done and completing it within a game jam deadline! 

There isn't anything revolutionary here but what you have done, you have done pretty well. The gameplay was smooth and bug free, the game goals were clear with easy instructions and I enjoyed the fact that I could 'constrict' enemies like a snake to make them destroy each other which isn't something I see implemented very often.

There is room for further implementation to deepen the gameplay but you can be proud with what you've achieved in a short time.

Man this game is frustrating, when you have no choice but to use up your bar then you may as well just restart because there's no way you're not getting hit 2-3 times while locked in one position. 

If it were me then I wouldn't penalise the player for using the games mechanics by running the bar out because they wanted to aim when the punishment is so damning. 

You've made a game that requires hypermobility but made that very difficult to manage, I'm not sure if this was a design decision or not as I know some people like games that cause you to tear your hair out and mald.

I am not a fan of punishing games like that but just because I don't like it doesn't mean its bad. 

The pickups are cool, graphics are as good as they need to be for the type of game, the mechanics themselves are well implemented and the game feels completely bug free. 

Its a solid game that I'm sure most sadists will enjoy.

Not bad but something about the controls felt 'off', I was flying off of ledges when I feel like I should not have been. Level 2 was incredibly frustrating because the enemy on the ramp would constantly shoot me the moment I reached his platform and there didn't seem to be anything I could do about it apart from pray that RNG lets me kill them before they shoot a projectile.

Alas I persevered and saw the word rotted. 

I think my two main recommendations would be adjusting the players controls a bit and using a cinemachine camera and tweak the settings for some look ahead etc

Art was good, music fit the game and overall a solid effort.

The procedural generation could use a bit of work, I got a couple of levels that I just couldn't seem to reach the portal .

The range weapon has such a long visual cast but basically required me to stand on top of enemies which was a bit strange.

Also, I couldn't figure out why on some runs I would get 200 on my blue bar and others I would get 100 even though it was the same level, what was the deciding factor for that?

Fair decent game with good artwork that just needs some fine tuning to make the overall experience more enjoyable.

The hitboxes on the enemies definitely need to be made bigger. Between my shuriken/knife having drop off, the enemies hitboxes being so tiny and the tiny enemy type being irritably fast moving, I couldn't hit a damn thing! 

In the end I did the opposite of what the game intended and sprinted past every enemy and went straight to the dimensional portal. The potential is there and I liked the superhot mechanic but I need to be able to hit things to properly enjoy it lol

I liked the overall 2020 theme you've gone for but the game was a bit confusing for me. The game had me bouncing my head off bad things and the whole time I was wondering 'am I winning?' lol.

Then on the next stage I'm running into people without a power-up and it looks like blood is spraying as they are destroyed so I have no idea if im the hero or the villain here!

The bad balls travel wayyyy too fast and seem to collide much earlier than the camera view would suggest, I've not managed to dodge one yet which is a bit disheartening.

The good collectables are also very unpredictable, I was just about to collect 'Hope' and then it immediately jumped to the other side of the screen leaving me no time to redirect my player and still get it.

I'd like to see faster gameplay, more 'predictable' behaviour patterns from the good collectables and either a better camera angle or smaller hitbox from the bad collectables.

Cool game man, it was a little tricky trying to remember all the rooms the first time around but after that it starts to become second nature and you can just focus on the ones you keep forgetting.

I don't really have a lot of feedback, nothing jumped out that I think could be improved on and it was fun to play.

I think something might be wrong with the upload? it rewinds really slowly and doesn't allow me to move anymore after I die the first time

Sorry man but I can't really give you proper feedback.  There's 3 problems with the jump that's making it so I cant even clear the first jump:

• It instant teleports me up and I've fallen below the platform again before I have time to react with strafing
• sometimes it instantly teleports me further away from where I initially jumped
• 90% of the time that I press the jump button, it won't actually jump so I can't hold up and left to get up either as ill strafe under on all those times where it doesn't actually jump

Pretty cool game, I got a little annoyed at the shrink ray as I kept accidentally picking it up and couldn't figure out how to drop it except using it on the object I had already shrunk. I accidentally went into the game rather than tutorial and had to alt f4 as there was no return to menu screen.

I like the interpretation of rewind being applied to rewinding the city to its previous state, would have loved to have a sourcefort style rebuild system but that's a lot to ask for a 1 week jam.

I had a lot of fun bugging out the game, if you stand on a rock while picking it up then you can fly around on it like silversurfer haha

I think I did everything the game had to offer as there was an invisible hitbox stopping me from crossing here?

I tried not to drag and drop during a cutscene but there are no markings of when I'm about to load a new area so that's easier said than done.

A couple of things jumped out at me...

• You have a y layering problem, this is something that you don't have to actually program to fit as you can combine two functions that are built into unity to combat this:
  In edit > project settings > graphics you can use transparency sort axis, if you put y to 1 then the things with a lower y will show under the the things above.
  now you might say: but Strodo, that means my player will show under things!
  if you go to the inspector for objects with a Sprite Renderer, you can increase the order in layer and it'll show above anything with a lower number, this means you can have one object show below another using its y position but still have it show above any objects on the layers below!

• You are making the players sprite face the direction of the mouse, if you use a blend tree then it makes animating based on direction really easy! this tutorial isn't perfect as it doesn't helps with idle animation facing the way you were last running or an input buffer so if a diagonal direction was pressed, it'll face whichever directional key was released last however I overcame both of these with a second 'idle' blend tree and an input buffer looking at the previous input 3 frames ago

I hope this makes sense.

The game is a really good take on the theme and the graphics are brilliant, took me a few tries before I cleared my first level as I got used to things but after that it was smooth sailing. 

You should probably mention somewhere that the colors can actually be mixed and matched to create the shape.

Nothing jumped out at me that needs improvement, its just a really good game that I wouldn't have guessed was made in a week long game jam. You're clearing a very talented person.

Making me replay my 4 deaths in a row is a bit strange as it just retracts from people actually engaging with your game, I don't know if this was a bug or intentionally designed that way. I'm guessing lives not going below 1 is also a bug?

Although I can see you tried to differentiate between the two character sprites, they are still way too similar and it kept taking a second or two to realise which one I am, a change of colour/saturation would have definitely helped.

Graphics are simple but pleasant, music does it's job but would have liked an option to adjust the volume of it and the game fits the theme well.

There honestly needs to be more information or something, I have absolutely no idea what to do with the dog that chases the agent, I've looked around and can't find anything to deal with the dog, there's no interact option on it and I have no weapons as far as I can tell.  

You need to have visual clues to help the player understand the developers ideas and motives. Remember that people are playing a lot of games in a game jam and most people will only repeat a game from the very beginning 4 or 5 times max before they move onto the next game.

I really like the graphics that you created, everything is clean, fits together well. I think the perspective of the sidewall starting area sidewalk is too long though compared to the rest of the level.

want to play this short platformer https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-4/rate/724639

I actually played this before the voting period and have already voted, loved the game and the weapon drops were definitely needed even if I'm not sure about their inclusion lol

This was actually harder than I thought it would be when I first looked, I liked the melancholy music combined with the visuals. The controls felt nice to use and the puzzles were a good level of difficulty.

I am not sure what I was meant to learn at the end though, was it that when he says about getting more screwed to learn about himself, It's implying that hes stuck in an endless loop?

Not bad, it could do with a bit more variation in all area though. 

Sometimes there wouldn't be anything new in the scene and it actually looked like you are standing still which kept messing with me. The music was quite plain and repetitive, I think you could have found a much better track suited to your game with a little looking in the right places as well as a sound effect for your character. 

The programming itself was pretty solid, I didnt get any whacky physics going on when being tipped over by ramps etc

Great game, its like INK except its my blood instead :L

I kinda get why you have the character do the first run blind but I think it would help rather than hinder the gameplay if you flashed it on screen and then let people do their first run otherwise it feels like I'm having my time wasted for the hell of it, I could plan a pretty good path just based on the level layout but that's not a perfect system.

Also, if you're going to make the player chain jump combos like this then you should be using an input buffer on controls imo. Otherwise players end up pressing the jump button at what looks like the right time to them and then fall down... this is what people actually mean when they complain about games having 'imprecise controls' even though code is actually TOO precise. The game can still be made hard by having a very short input buffer like 2 frames and feel so much better to control. Its only prominent on wallhopping from left to right and vice versa though so it was manageable.

Visuals are great, the music fits well but can get a bit repetitive after a while and I love the weird little character creature, the blood stains to serve as a visual aid was a really good idea as well

Overall really good job, I had fun playing this (apart from the level above)

P.S if you want to see a working example of input buffering then let me know, I use it in my game to solve a completely different problem with blend tree animation

The game is quite difficult if you plan to use your S key with the ice skating physics, pretty much requires you to either rewind afterwards or use the accelerate key in the other direction if you don't want to be ran over but I'm guessing that's intentional.

One problem to me is that you decrease player velocity while they rewind so if you don't keep pressing your direction keys then you will have to accelerate all over again and will probably get ran over. I would have personally made their speed carry over in this state or even stored their speed during those rewound frames.

I have no idea where Jams stand on copyright and trademark infringement but this game is definitely pushing its luck haha

The environment art is good but the character could use some work, can't say a lot about the music because its the actual BttF music as far as I can tell.

It's a good idea but it needs more on the execution. At the moment you're missing any music, sound effects and doesn't offer much in changes of environment. I like the gameboy like aesthetics but it definitely needs more player actions, more sprites and some sound as I felt like I was just spending 1-2 minutes pressing a direction key every time.

It's a solid start for what could be a good game.

oof, that was a tough one to play... my fingers couldn't handle playing that for long. 

The players movement is very limited and there were often times an enemy would spawn to my right and two next to each other on my left so even dashing couldn't get me to safety. I'd definitely consider giving the player a bit more movement or a simpler control scheme.

The environment and player art was great, the enemies not so much :P

All the game needs is some nice enemy sprites and a control scheme that are more accessible.

Same, just slept 12 hours straight : ]

Haha very nice game, I actually played with the idea of reversing the ageing process or devolution to get around as well but didn't think of a good execution for it, you definitely found a good execution.

The pixel art was great although the nurses could do with having limbs as they look like they are all wrapped up in blankets. I liked the music but the volume should have definitely been adjustable as this is a 2 minute implementation.

The gameplay needed a bit more to do as its almost a walking simulator at the moment, I managed to get locked out of the game here as well:

I tried shifting into baby form and holding right to no prevail.

Already done and commented in passing!

You already posted before, my feedback was:

Sorry man but I can't really give you proper feedback.  There's 3 problems with the jump that's making it so I cant even clear the first jump:

• It instant teleports me up and I've fallen below the platform again before I have time to react with strafing
• sometimes it instantly teleports me further away from where I initially jumped
• 90% of the time that I press the jump button, it won't actually jump so I can't hold up and left to get up either as ill strafe under on all those times where it doesn't actually jump

Just completed, you posted twice.

Sorry but I'm not really in a position to rate this, I barely understand what pattern I'm expected to pick up on. instinct told me to go 4 and 1 on the first 2 levels but I have no idea why they were correct. the sequence on the 3rd level I was fine with understanding up until it went 8 1 etc then I had no idea what I was looking at.

Holy... I could have really done with a rotational sensitivity option or a closer view as I could not aim for shit! haha 

As I started to play I thought to myself 'it would be pretty awesome if terrain was destructible so I could make my own shortcuts and then 1 minute later I was like 'wait, I can do that!' so I really like that feature

The instructions said to press 'R' for rewind but this didn't actually do anything for me, was I meant to collect something in order to use it or 'charge up' in some way? everytime I pressed it I just got a little 'twitch' and that was it whether I pressed or held.

There was no sound so can't really comment on that.

I can't say for certain without testing but I think with a bit of sound, lower rotation sensitivity & speed and a more zoomed in view, this game would be even better. I think the controls let it down as it felt really uncontrollable but that's just my personal preference and maybe others disagree.

I rated yours ;)