I am glad you enjoyed it Yeah I didn't get the full 7 days so didnt get my usual level of polish on tutorials .. plus I built a level editor for it .. I don't know why .. lol
The Last Clockwinder was a mechanic I was playing with here and I am glad about the comparisons .. I would have liked more time to get into the cycles and nail the sweet spot but time wasn't my friend in this jam and I got cut short.
Not my usual level of polish around the controls .. the recording cycle could definitely use some tweaking, a few more passes and I think I would nail it, but time was not my friend on this jam and I got cut short.
I really wanted reproduce and play with the Last Clockwinder mechanic in this game so might have shoehorned it in a little .. lol
Not my usual level of polish as my time was cut a little bit short on the jam, I agree a note on the number of robots and also a little more indication on when your recording.
I might revisit this recording mechanic in future as it certainly had potential
At first I totally missed that I needed to put orders in boxes so was filling up the tubes with the order. But once I found that button it was satisfying to shoot them off into the void. One other small bug with the buttons glitching when pressing them.
Outside of those small bits it was fun with a good use of the theme
Very nice aesthetic to the game with lots of area to expand it you took it further
The tutorial was a point of friction having to return to it to find out a next step or clarify as aspect of a mechanic. Though I can see you moving this to an interaction tutorial in stages if this was more than a jam entry.
Well that was super cute and with a few tweaks you could be looking at a fun title.
The stop and start mechanic was trigger a few times by accident especially when trying to move the ducklings onto a platform quickly and a few little physics issues. Other than that solid jam.
All good suggestions .. originally I was gonna make it longer but I only got a limited time as a good section of this game jam was taken up with life stuff.
Congrats on fitting so much in within such a short amount of time
Only comment is popping in a teleport option .. though if this had been the first game in my jam play session the movement wouldnt have affected me so much.
I actually missed unlocking the legs, thought the last key would be used up above.
As mentioned by a few others the floor was a little problematic, so I went and recalibrated .. could just fake the floor being a little higher to get round this issue as I find most people don't have accurate floors (people be lazy).
Water was nice .. tried to catch it in the bucket at one point, but thats more down to the water mechanics looking good.
Good tutorial .. glad to see that added its often missed.
A few notes:
- Hands were a little jittery in place .. I would lock the root and then the wrist and only motion the other joints to give the impression of being locked in place.
- A little more indication on the legs .. mixed in with the other bones they get a little lost.
- I would add a button to skip the intro (black screen) after the first playthrough. Though I like to mess with mechanics so I can give feedback so maybe I play a little more than others.
Glad you enjoyed it .. I really made this too hard to work out
If you do end up replaying there are some hints on the menu and maybe this might help "Some questions repeat and a certain answer tells you something about an item in the room"
Ok got it to work .. for some reason when I took the new fuse over and then tried to remove the old fuse it wouldn't let me .. but making two trips did the job and I was able to change the fuse
Not sure if the paintings puzzle was broken but the text appeared to the side of the paintings and the second number was missing so I just done all combinations with the other three to make it through.
A teleport option might have helped me on the stairs but then I played this after some other games so was already had a little of the VR stomach.
VR within VR .. nice concept .. game within a game within a game .. inception level achievement unlocked
Completed the game and its a clever mechanic for the safe code .. good job
So for improvement feedback
- The jump of the 2D character is a little floaty
- The 2D characters hit box is a little unforgiving
- The crouch is a little harsh, height adjustment in VR is a motion trigger for people
- Hand interaction could use a little work
- I would change the button symbol .. as for a moment I was pressing the X on my physical controller until I realized its the big button on the virtual controller .. could make the controller a VR controller and pressing the physical X on the controller in your hand pressed the X on the virtual controller .. so meta .. lol
- Fire clips the fire place so could be a little rotated backwards
But those are minor things .. the main point is your design and game mechanic and that is good
Zombie in the garage was a nice touch, when you dont realize he is gonna be there .. lol
One point for me is to make the interactable items a little more noticeable or contrasting against other elements, I dropped the key at one point and for the life of me couldnt find it again.
I made it too hard .. lol .. I had a limited time and no one here to play test before I put it out (wife wont play my games because they are too "dark"). The menu does have some hints that might give you a push should you want them
A little tip for the UI there are some shaders for Unity that allow you to render the UI on top of everything else that's rendered so they wont clip into the wall but will always be shown.
One bug while I was moving about I pressed a button and lost my way to move about , a booming sound came on repeat.
Played on the Quest 2 I like this concept and had fun exploring the nodes
I couldn't seem to pull the fuse out .. I tried grabbing it with the grip buttons and pressing the others (break buttons) separately and at the same time .. am I doing something wrong? .. let me know and I will play again.
Only suggestion at this point is for the buttons, I seem to be able to grab them and pull them away .. instead you could write a class that limits the motion of the button by separating the visual element from the physics element and only moving the visual element within two points.
I will try it some more once I know how to get that fuse out.
So here is some feedback to improve on for your next title or next version on this - Some of the models have inverted normals on them like the key handle so they look inverted. - The ground texture appears to blur very close to the player, which is possibly a problem with the import settings, its resolution or repeating the pattern - I dont think the guns are parenting correct as movement effects their position in relation to the hand position. Look at reparenting or where your updating the position to fix this - The guns dont appear to reload so if you run out of bullets you cannot progress - Get into the animator in Unity it will help you with visual flourish early on while your leveling up your dev skills. For instance I could see your doors and buttons come alive
Keep the games going you have a good starting block here
Didn't get a lot of time on this one unfortunately as life got in the way .. Without giving too much away there is a way to escape the room and the questions, what they say, their order etc are key to this. Post external testing I would consider making a few of the questions a little more obvious with an earlier 'good' reaction that helps you escape and on reflection give people the idea that they can escape the room.
I love the dice mechanic .. just did it myself in a strategy game recently. Could use a few flow changes on moving around and using the dice, but the throwing dice mechanic is a good one to explore.
