This is a really neat puzzle game with a really great visual style and some cool mechanics. My only problem is that the tutorial hits you with a lot of information that can be a bit confusing to take in. But otherwise, great job!
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Ball Escape's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Game Design | #272 | 3.615 | 3.615 |
| Innovation | #328 | 3.441 | 3.441 |
| Graphics | #390 | 3.641 | 3.641 |
| Fun | #525 | 3.195 | 3.195 |
| Overall | #544 | 3.221 | 3.221 |
| Audio | #768 | 2.764 | 2.764 |
| Theme | #996 | 2.672 | 2.672 |
Ranked from 195 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
In what way does your game fit the theme?
Puzzle solving with various mechanics one of which is a rewind mechanic. And it’s controlled by pressing the right mouse click :D
Did you write most of the code yourself and made all the assets from scratch?
Yes, credits are displayed for some sounds and icons.
Comments
Really love the visual style! Player movement was a little confusing until I realized I could just click where I wanted the ball to go rather than guide it there, the pathfinding is actually really good. Can't think of anything I'd change, just would like to play more of the game!
The idea for the game was really cool and quite original however the ball's movement was not very intuative and I didn't really notice the theme being incorpirated into the game. There was also a problem with level 3 where I won the level but then it said I ran out of time after it told me I had won. Nonetheless, the game was very fun and I hope you continue working on it!
Thanks for this awesome feedback!, regarding the theme implementation, I designed a rewind controller to controller the "purple'" colored objects and make them redo their actions to your advantage. Regarding the strange bug in stage 3, that's a really rare bug, came across it while play testing only couple of times. Hope the experience was worth your time :D.
Really nice puzzle game. It is very fun to play, hard, but fun. Good work! :)
Let me just say, I love the visuals on this and puzzles themselves are pretty interesting, but I got some issues where the blocks overlapped and I couldn't move them like i wanted to.
Really nice puzzle, enjoyed playing! The bug with block going through the walls confused me at first, but everything else is good
The wall of text style tutorial never really works for me. I forgot pretty much everything by the end of the first level. Also, the block movement is really buggy and sometimes they move through walls. The rewind mechanic was super confusing and I wasn't able to understand it, but the first few puzzles were pretty fun!
Great game all around, loved the 4 puzzles! I will keep an eye out for the full release, if the story mode is meaty enough this is something that I would spend my money on. I believe that highlighting the square that the ball will move into would improve the game by a bit though.
uhm, never start a game with a wall of text! if the screenshots wouldn't have captured me, i would have closed it. Really good aestethic anyway! lovely
Check my entry if you want!
Remember that in the third level due to a bug it doesn't show up the "press shift to rewind" text
its really nice,
the graphics are really nice
the concept is also well made.
overall nice game






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