| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Enjoyment | #215 | 4.163 | 4.163 |
| Creativity | #298 | 4.302 | 4.302 |
| Audio | #665 | 3.698 | 3.698 |
| Narrative | #851 | 3.535 | 3.535 |
| Artwork | #2114 | 3.674 | 3.674 |
Ranked from 43 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?
The core mechanic relies on the 10 second countdown.
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
All assets except the sounds and fonts are all made by me (Spwil). See description for full credits.
(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
Spwil / William
Such a creative mechanic and interpretation of the theme! I made it to level 10, but it's definitely a really cool game! The artstyle is charming as well, and the music fits pretty well too!
Only thing that held me back a bit, which might just be a personal preference, is that you have to die a lot of times on purpose to progress through the levels which makes it a sort of puzzle game of sorts. It's a cool mechanic, though!
Thank you for giving it a go! I'm glad you really liked the interpretation and I highly appreciate your kind words!
I definitely agree, that's what I discovered after seeing people playtest it which can be a pain point. I already have some potential solutions that I could implement in the future (like a gun to kill past memories, etc) which I will explore more if I decide to work on it more!
Oh lord! Your game is my favourite at this GMTK! Amazing feature with ghost memory walkthoughs!
This is a very nice game! I always like games where your failures spawn alongside you. Great job!
This is a very fun puzzle game. Though you could brute-force the levels in the beginning, the later ones stop that. Great game!
Got to 14, will be back to finish this off later.
Unique game, probably one of the best "Youve been here before" games I have played with really goood execution. The first time I got things lined up perfectly only for a ghost to knock a key throw out of the way was rage-inducing lol.
Countdown mechanic is just a timer, which is fine, the game itself makes up for that aspect of it. Art and audio tie well together, really enjoyed this game and the puzzles/levels
So many great puzzles! the concept is very unique and I'm a big fan, I think a direction indicator would help a bit for when throwing the keys, and i'm very curious how many timmies can exist before it all collapses haha, great work!
The concept is interesting, but I think there's something missing to it. Ignoring the obvious exploits - pressure plates being trivialized by just getting a bunch of Timmies on it, allowing you to completely disregard boxes, or keys going through spikes, making level 15 possible in just a single Timmy. I think it would be interesting to explore possibility of limited or minimal amount of Timmies to use. I would totally try to complete every level with the least amount of Timmies for the golden star 👀
Bonus points for narrative (poor Timmy and his diabetes) and ability to speed up the game (although I think it can cause some desyncs with how ghosts behave, and I find it weird that it's just slowly accelerating instead of being faster right away).
Thank you so much for your thorough feedback! There were a lot of ideas in regards to the game but I had to scope down due to the time! The design are all intentional (the pressure plate exploit and level 15) though it does need a bit more tweaking! I will continue to iterate and I definitely agree on a Timmy Count system which would be nice to be added!
I'm glad you gave bonus points for narrative! The speed up mechanic needed a bit more feedback to make it more impactful I think. I will definitely look into it!
Again, thank you so much for the feedback and thanks for playing!
Amazing game!! I will remember Timmy's sacrifices foverever!! I love this game!
Good stuff. So many levels, so many Timmys sacrificed. We will remember you Timmy.
Very nice game! We both actually have a similar idea where your previous plays gets cloned into your current one, so that's cool. I like the premise where the Child (Timmy) will explode without his candy. The key throwing mechanic is really fun! Especially since I can throw the keys to the locks just before I die and it feels super satisfying if I got it right. I think the keys are a highlight of the game since you can actually be really strategic with how you throw them! The puzzle designs are also pretty good too, each game mechanic has a suitable introduction before actually using it in a puzzle.
One issue though (and one that I understand since I personally went through it) is the physics interaction desync. The pressure pads are quite meaningless yes since you can clone infinitely many times, but even trying to use the boxes is worse because the physics are different each time! It's also an issue that bothered me while making my game when trying to make the physics consistent but it never was, so I completely understand why this happened. I prevented this issue altogether by just cutting all physics interaction in my game which sucked but was necessary
Hey there! Thank you for trying my game! Thank you for your thorough feedback as well!
The physics interaction desync is definitely taken into account! The pressure pad can be used by the Timmies but for some of the levels, the boxes are meant to be there as a blocker as well (which may make levels a bit harder!). I didn't want to remove physics all together since I figured the interactions are pretty good fun but its definitely something I will look into in the future!
Thanks for the comment!
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