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A jam submission

Project_EchoView game page

Haunt Your Past: Use Echos to Solve Puzzles—Every Echo a Tool, Every Echo a Step Toward the Solution!
Submitted by Rahul Kaushik (@gamedevkaushik), RedOre — 5 hours, 43 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Artwork#36103.1183.118
Narrative#46552.1762.176
Creativity#47783.0593.059
Enjoyment#49222.6472.647
Audio#60322.2352.235

Ranked from 17 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?
Every time you die you live again but with your past, looping of player and echos in same level

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
UI Assets : Kenny
Game Assets : o_lobster
Character Animation Assets : Mucho Pixels
Background Music : "That Zen Moment" - Kevin MacLeod
Footsteps Sound : qubodup

(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
GameDevKaushik and RedOre

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Comments

Submitted(+2)

I love input-based replays, and I think this is a good use of it. This is really good for 4 days!

Submitted(+2)

Well-made puzzle platformer. Sometimes there are unnatural behaviors, such as being unable to move when a box is on top of you or falling when the echo jumps while you are standing on it. Still, I enjoyed playing and solving the puzzles.

(+2)

You should make the font more readable on your itch.io page. because you have the most important part of your game on the pageand not inside your game, players will need to read your page more often and the font is not accessible.

It's nice to have a stylized font, but you have a lot of content on it and it is best if it's easier to read.

Game ui

On the left you have what seems to be a control panel / keybinds. It's not clear why the collectible echo is there for and should be removed as it does not have anything to do with the controls.

Instead of having 'press these to open', use a mouse icon that has the right click down. 

instead of having 'to pull' just put pull. It is easier to describe actions if you have no way to show it graphically. Also this is something that should be on a separate window. Have a button that says controls and put it there.

In-game

It feels a bit empty without music. The jumping height is not very good. Would be good to have a tutorial to play, not necessarily to explain the controls, but moreso explaining what the echo mechanic is since it is the most important part of your gameplay.

I can see that this platformer relies on using the echoes to get further into the game, but it seems like it was designed intuitively and not with player experience in mind. You need to explain especially what you mean by input based. I think the second area needs the echo to have more time to get across.

The player is hidden on the game screen when it goes too far left. You should be adding a collision or boundary there. I think it takes too long to finish areas and not in a fun challenging way.  Overall, the game mechanic as a concept for echos is very interesting, but not utilized well in your game. Player experience can be increased by the changes above. I think the most useful feedback you can get is from new people playing this and sharing their opinion on your mechanic.

Developer(+1)

thanks for your feedback, will definitely look into making the changes you mentioned and more in future versions of the game.

Submitted(+2)

Found myself not being able to actually use my echo the way it was probability intended, and I couldn't figure out for the life of me how to jump on myself. Great art and animations though, love the work with the shaders. Great job! :D
 

Submitted(+2)

The game is cool ; ) I found myself playing it for one hour, the concept is really well done even if its not so original, its one of the best one seen :)
Well played

Submitted(+2)

Fun! Loved the hair on the character. Jumping wasn't as responsive as I would like. Puzzles were good! Not sure the music was the right choice for a game where you are spiking yourself, but it was pleasant enough. 

Submitted(+2)

Great game and idea. I found the jumping to be kind of buggy, and the echoes don't exist if you hit the reset button. other than that though great job.  Also, the art was really good