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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Originality | #47 | 3.706 | 3.846 |
| Controls | #55 | 3.113 | 3.231 |
| Theme | #68 | 3.336 | 3.462 |
| Fun | #80 | 2.743 | 2.846 |
| Overall | #85 | 2.891 | 3.000 |
| Audio | #91 | 2.520 | 2.615 |
| Accessibility | #96 | 2.446 | 2.538 |
| Graphics | #114 | 2.372 | 2.462 |
Ranked from 13 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Godot Version
4.7.2
Theme Interpretation
Themes of imminent destruction, both grand and small
Wildcards Used
Middle Wildcard
Perspective Shift - Combine 2D and 3D elements in the same game
Discord Username(s)
SaadTheGlad
GWJ Participation Level
6
Team Size
1
Generative AI Disclosure
I confirm that this jam entry does not contain any AI-generated content
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Hi ! I didn't find the solution to your puzzle (yet) so I think I'm missing something. I just can't figure a way to put the robot in the machine or accelerate the coffee machine. I have seen I can carry all those (and the teleporters) and put them somewhere else but I think more guidance as to how the puzzles work would help.
Apart from that I like your game, the teleporters / moving / carrying mechanics are nice, the movement is smooth, you made your own visuals and I can see you're learning (you're more advanced than I am) but despite that they look nice and cute :)
Maybe I would have added a music loop but I understand the tic-tac is important to understand that "time is relative" so players must hear it. So I'm not sure about my advice.
On the whole, clean and sweet game ! I'm just disappointed at me for not being able to find a solution to the puzzle hahah.
ps: COFFEEEEEEE <3
Hey! Thanks a lot for the feedback! A little tip for the solution is to think of time relativity/time dilation. Have you seen interstellar? "1 hour here is 7 years on earth"? This is basically it. If you try the game again I hope that'll be enough to solve it haha.
I would've loved to add more polish like you said but I just didn't have the time. I wanted to add a 3rd puzzle but the time to implement got the better of me.
i won! like the puzzle a lot i think it would be nice if it had some timer to make it look more polished. great job!
Thank you! I deliberately didn't put a timer cuz I wanted people to intuit that from the ticking noises in the bg :)
Cool concept, not bad!
Cool concept although It was kind of confusing, the portals didn't speed up the coffee machine or slow down the robot's timer, I could also just be missing something
The portals don't speed up the objects within them, but if you place an object inside a world while you're in another, then it becomes clear.
Super cute. I'd like more feedback on some things, like a timer bar on the robot or a fill bar on the student so I know that what I'm doing is having an affect. Took me a minute to realize the chime noise was telling me I succeeded in a task lol
Great job!
Really enjoyed having to think through this puzzle. The time difference in the portals was a neat concept. I'm not quite sure if the green portal was meant to be used? I managed to complete it with only using the red one. Great job with this submission
Thank you! I intended for the green portal to be used for solving the coffee puzzle but I guess since time doubles in the main world while in the red world that still works. Multiple solutions I guess haha
Cool puzzles, really like that you can interact with the portals like any other object. It took me a while to understand that each portal had a different passage of time.
Thank you! Yeah I intended for you to sit down and figure it out slowly :)
very nice thing with the portals i figured how to insert the robot but after that i just dont know what to do and also you can stuck forever in a dimension if you take the green portal in the red portal but overall game felt nice would be perfect to have some more animations and sfx
Interesting idea, but I can't figure out if the web build was bugged for me. No matter what I tried I was also a bit too slow to save the robot... I could also just be dumb 😁
It's not bugged, you're just supposed to go into the portals near you with the robot to slow down time for it, Interstellar style :)
I really like this game! It was short but the game in general was well made. It makes me wonder what kind of story/scenarios or puzzles you could've made if you had more time to develop the game.
I think I missed the wildcard part, i didn't see any 3D objects in the game
Thank you so much! Yeah I spent most of my time figuring out the systems and implementing them that by the time I was done I only had time for two puzzles lol.
The 3D objects are the coffee machine and the terminal. I modelled them in blender and turned them to sprites lol (I guess it's not true 3D haha)