Clever concept! There are some of the puzzle where I am not sure if I used the intended solution (mostly the moving platforms), but it's generally fun to mess around. I very much like the idea of seeing the ending right at the start, it's an elegant level-design. Great job also on the art, the lighting and atmosphere is impeccable. Although as a colorblind, I had a difficult time differentiating the two kind of "time bubble". But you eventually figure it out when you see (or hear) their effect, so it wasn't that much troublesome. It's a really impressive entry, well done!
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Not This Time's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Style | #9 | 4.750 | 4.750 |
| Overall | #50 | 4.313 | 4.313 |
| Creativity | #126 | 4.313 | 4.313 |
| Enjoyment | #345 | 3.875 | 3.875 |
Ranked from 16 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
Exploring time scale relativity
Development Time
96 hours
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
SFX & Music by Soundly
Font by Patrick Wagesreiter
Kenney particles pack
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Uh? Damn that's impressive, the atmosphere, the dressing, the VFX and sound design woa it's insanely polished.
It's a great idea to use the scale theme as a timescale, I wasn't expecting to play with it, and the relativity of timescale depending of where the objects/player are placed with the spheres was very clever.
I love that the presentation also serves the gameplay here, like how the particles are a feedback about your own timescale compared to the world. Ending was also a great surprise, I wish it had more gameplay but it's a cool reveal.
Congratulations, it's a really cool concept and even though it was quite difficult to get to the end at first (controls tend to be a bit slippery, air control is also not as generous as I think I would have enjoyed it), i ended up playing it for the score, looking for shortcuts. My best time is 1:48:57
Fantastic concept with gorgeous visuals! But it did suck having to restart every time I fall and the time bubbles were a bit confusing to figure out. I think you should consider polishing it up more after the jam. This is a very unique idea for a platformer.
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Doodle To ScaleGreat idea but it's really cumbersome to play through, more checkpoints and it'd been a 5 stars in enjoyment tbh
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Scaling Through TimeThe visuals, sound effects and music is all really good. The gameplay seem fun, but for me it's too much punishment to restart every time I fails, and in platform games I fails a lot. But overall is this still an interesting and fun jam game. Well done.
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Blow The BalloonTo pass this, you need to understand that time goes faster when you go through the purple spheres.
The door in front of you will open as soon as you step on the pressure plate, but when you leave it to reach the door, a countdown starts.
Going through the purple sphere makes the time go too fast and you can't reach the door in time, but you actually have another route on the side, that appears to be longer but stays at normal timescale so it takes less time to traverse it.
It's worth giving it another try in my opinion, the game has several surprises after that are creative and cool.
ah, thanks! I had suspected that going the longer route was the way to do it, but I hadn't realized that the door timer starts when you step on the button, not when you step off. Makes sense.
I assume the blue and purple spheres at the beginning are to demonstrate how they affect time, but that didn't click for me (because I never stopped and looked). The section after the door, with the pusher gun things, worked a lot better at demonstrating that for me (probably because they force you to stop and look at how the sphere is affecting time). Maybe having that be the first challenge in the game could help people understand how the game works a bit earlier.
Anyway, agreed with the other commenters about checkpoints being necessary, especially with the moving platform being so finicky. Much better game once you get to the time mechanic though, it's a super neat idea and makes for really interesting puzzles.
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