Nicely done, man! I liked the aesthetic of it and your application of the theme. One trouble spot I ran into though was that reloading becomes difficult if you can't rewind in time far enough to recover your spent shots. That may just be part of the strategy (in which case that could be very interesting) but in my case it just kinda became annoying when I couldn't get my ammo back. Overall though, real cool!
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Thank you very much for the feedback! I ran into that problem myself when testing and the solution I implemented was the time orbs that drop when you kill an enemy and give you additional time to rewind when collected. Maybe I should have increased the amount they give ... Will update after submission period
To be frank man, I didn't notice on my first attempt that those time orbs were dropping at all. I didn't know the enemies dropped anything until I saw your reply. Now that I know that I gave it another go, and I didn't really have that issue anymore. Maybe the root issue is that the presence of those time orbs weren't really communicated to the player. That's an issue that could be solved in lots of fun ways!
For example, pickups in other games use things like motion, sounds, and other aspects to tell the player where they are and that they should pick them up. They spin around, bounce or hover up and down in some cases. Sometimes they'll emit particles or sounds to grab the player's attention. Another important thing is feedback. Making sounds and effects when pickups are collected can inform the player that it was collected and what the pickup does.
Of course alot of those solutions are polishey things that often don't have time to get implemented in jam games, and I understand that. You did quite a lot with your limited time, and that's something to be respected.
Thanks for making a great game! (Also sorry for the text wall, I'm pretty sure you didn't ask for this ._, )
I appreciate the feedback and the text wall, it's always encouraging to see this much enthusiasm for your game. I didn't really think about the drops grabbing attention really the only thing i did was make them float up and down and also a particle effect when collected but i should probably add some better indicators.