Cool idea. I think the execution could be a little better -- it's generally a bit wonky and I don't understand why R restarts the entire level and not just the room. Had to give up on level 3 unfortunately because time is running out (how fitting!). With some more QoL-features, this could be a cool game, though!
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Sand Of Time's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Audio | #1586 | 3.409 | 3.409 |
| Creativity | #1896 | 3.818 | 3.818 |
| Artwork | #2160 | 3.659 | 3.659 |
| Enjoyment | #3756 | 3.114 | 3.114 |
| Narrative | #5806 | 2.205 | 2.205 |
Ranked from 44 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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The game has timer countdown to control objects to clear levels
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thank you for your feedback, I know the game is hard for new players, but like stopping at level 3 is not even scratching the surface of the game mechanic, the is some interesting puzzle on this game that use the count down as a part of it, and also there is another object "Sand Timer" you will see it on level 6, and has different mechanics than the "Broken Sand Timer" which is the swapping between the remaining time and the wasted time (to gain what you waste, or loose what you remain to complete the puzzle), btw thank you for enjoying my game! really appreciate that :)
Hey, amazing game. Concept wise, probably the best I’ve played this jam. Here is some unasked feedback:
- I love a puzzle game where you can’t just do random stuff until the puzzle is solved by accident. You did a GREAT job on this. Nice level design. The following feedback is just nitpicking to try to help you make it better :)
- The platforming in general and jumping in particular feels odd and unresponsive. I understand this was pushed back in favor of dedicating time to the puzzles, that’s perfectly fine. In fact our game suffers from the same issue.
- Because of that, the “speed platforming” parts felt unnecessarily frustrating.
- Also because of that, needing to jump to hit the hourglasses make the experience less fun, specially because of the fact that the character bounces on them.
- An extra second on many timers would have helped the fun. I don’t need a puzzle game to require sub-second precision.
- I don’t quite understand when a timer will freeze, unfreeze or activate something. There is visual clues or do I need to try?
I played until I reached this in the last level
Needing to restart the whole level to retry this was too much for me. Is it good to punish mistakes as it makes the player more engaged. But too much, and players won’t bother redoing the same thing again and again.
I see this becoming a great complete game. Congratulations on your work!
Also, I would love to have your feedback in our game :3
Really thank you some much for this honest feedback, I really appreciate that, I will for sure take notes of the user experience to help me get better at gameplay design, the issue is that I'm not a designer I just made up this by experience of making games a lot and not by user experience and also made up the difficulty depending on me the developer which is a huge mistake for new players!, but I will be more aware about this next time, btw thank you so much!
thank you so much for your feedback and your advice! and yeah the think is that I made levels up to me not to new players, and thinking its easy! and didn't have testers to know (that's why all my games are harder, every game I publish people suffer, my bad), but glad you enjoyed even though its hard!
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