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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Design | #873 | 3.200 | 3.200 |
| Adherence to the Theme | #1041 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Overall | #1062 | 3.300 | 3.300 |
| Originality | #1185 | 3.200 | 3.200 |
Ranked from 10 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Nice graphics, fun game. I included it in my GMTK Game Jam 2019 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :)
This was really neat and cool! Gotta love an unconventional use of an engine like RPG Maker. The game's blend of platforming/flight with one minute/hour time limits is something really interesting - a thought I had would be, could you make battles have to be completed in 1 minute or else you start taking more damage or something (as well as making battles factor into the 1 hour time limit overall)? That could be cool.
I really like the art and your black/white with hints of colour, it's really good and super stylistic.
I do have a couple bits that I think could be improved:
Sound design - more ambience/sounds outside the beeps and boops of UI buttons would be nice and would further sell the theming of your game. Perhaps calming/elevator music in the bits where you have infinite air to signal that you can relax a bit, whereas it could be more tense ambience in 1 minute air segments. But yeah, this game would benefit from a lot more sounds, chiptune and synthesized audio bytes and tracks would work spectacularly :)
Clarity - making it more clear where I can fly and where I can't, it was a bit confusing and having a 1 minute time limit added to the stress a bit.
More dialogue - I'm interested by this story! Please don't limit yourself in telling an interesting story by the 1 minute and 1 hour limits, as you can only show so much to the player in those times - perhaps dialogue could pause time, taking place in some kind of codec that all happens in a single second? That way you can really expand the story and what you can do in it - however you'll need to consider how cutscenes with moving characters would work.
More content - PLEASE FINISH THIS GAME! I REALLY WANT TO PLAY THE WHOLE THING. PLEASE FINISH IT, IS THERE ANY PLACE I CAN FOLLOW YOUR PROGRESS ON FINISHING IT? (Or if you need help with anything in the course of development, I hope that I could help out in any way?)
Good entry!
I think there is promise here. I saw some of it with the Dr. Terri encounter. Add some foreboding audio and more difficult combat encounters and this could be pretty great.
This was neat! I like the idea of blending a platformer with an RPG. I feel like there could be a bit more direction given in the level design; keep working on it!
Cool idea! with some more polish could be great. I liked the pokemon like effects during the fight encounters! Good job~ please check out my game if you have time.
Nice job making a kind of platformer out from RPG Maker! It was pretty unique, and I'm sure you could have achieved a really creepy-lonely-stressful ambience just by adding the right sound track.
Good job: you should defintely continue this if you have enough time and motivation.
I enjoyed what I played and would be happy to see a completed version of. The main thing stopping me from getting completely into the game was that I was confused. I wasn't really sure when I could fly and when I was grounded, I wasn't really sure where to go, and I wasn't really sure what the controls where. The latter could be fixed right now by adding a paragraph to your game's page! As for the former two, I think changing the backgrounds where you can fly to be more obvious or having a visual cue on the player would help. I'm sure when you work on this more, there'll be NPCs to talk to (and maybe a map?) that'll give some more direction.
Please keep working on this! As I said above, I would love to see a complete version!
Thanks! Backgrounds for flight is an excellent idea, and I'll edit the page to show the controls.
Also I do intend to finish this game.
Really liked the art! Remind me of OFF!
This RPG has POTENCH!! Really loved the 1 minute system. Maybe it doesn't have to reset the timing at all, that way the suspense will be more powerful. If you make a full game out of this (which you should, in case you haven't considered) I am willing to spend a few bucks to play it to the end
Very interesting story! The one minute/hour timer plays well with the theme!