Sixio

I really liked the puzzles in this one. It felt good when you managed to solve them but it did take multiple tries and became a bit tedious having to redo the same puzzles over and over. I think it would've benefitted from gaining some time back from each puzzle solve or even just having 60 seconds per puzzle. I still feel as though the difficulty would be there but would also remove some of the tedium. However it was enjoyable and I feel like the music and art style set the atmosphere well. Good work.

I think this takes multiple times to understand because the puzzle isn't immediatley obvious but then that is the idea of a puzzle game so I understand it, it's an interesting game though and I hope you expand on it more :)

It was neat little puzzle game and I liked the idea. Though it quickly became appearent you had to memorize puzzles as time ended, and redoing them became little bit of chore. Well expect top-left which you could brute-force like Singleshot said.

The idea is pretty neat, making every puzzle a two step problem by first making them solve it and then working out the minimum movement needed to do it as quickly as possible is a novel idea.

For the first puzzle this works great, for some of the other puzzles not so much. The sixty second timer is as much of a boon to this game as it is a hindrance. As for the other puzzles, having less time makes it harder to solve the following puzzles. And seeing how the top right puzzle you just have to brute force your way though, due to it being impossible to see the path without trying every option. It's not a puzzle at that point, just a time waster on a time limit.

The top left you can just brute force your way though, though having a puzzle about waiting in a game on a time limit is a little silly.

The bottom left is just memorization and that is not too hard, It works fine for the game.

The bottom right is a good puzzle, my favorite in the game. (love ice puzzles in games) but it's kinda muddied by the mono color scheme making it a mess of white pixels.

I think this idea is neat, but the loop of starting over trying to solve the top right puzzle left a really bad taste in my mouth, and I didn’t finish because of it.

Cool idea! Obviously minit vibes, but done well. I wish (for the jam version anyway) there was 60 seconds per puzzle or something, as it felt quite frustrating redoing the first puzzle over and over just to get the next 30 seconds to try and solve a different one. Then once that is solved, same thing for a different one etc. I always try and go a bit easier on the difficulty for jam games so that people can experience all the content (can be hard to balance though!).

Visuals are great and the music is great too. All in all, very nice entry!

I love how the music ended at exactly 1 minute both of the times I played through. I don't know if that was intentional but it was a nice touch if it was. I wish there was a way to play through without the timer (goes against the theem, yeah I know) because I wanted a chance to see all of it in one go and complete it. Well done though!

Neat game! I included it in my GM48: Sixty Seconds compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/KFZGXZMxHA8

Immersive and enjoyable game. Puzzles were creative and fun. The music was very nice as well

This is a really cool idea for a puzzle game, the first puzzle got me thinking and as it had no instruction, it was very satisfying when I figured it out.

However even when I know how to compete it, it barely leaves me with any time to even start the other challenges.

I would have much preferred 60 seconds for each task, as I don’t have the energy to repeatedly solve that first puzzle just for 20 seconds to attempt the next.

I encountered an issue at some point after the mushroom(top left) puzzle where my character was misaligned. from the grid. I liked the concept of each puzzle respectively, but to get them all done in the 60 sec period can be really frustrating especially with the nature of some of the puzzles like the teleportation or the invisible once you go inside mechanics. I can see frustration being a theme in the feeling and atmosphere of the game, but it directly combats any want to be further immersed in this world and to understand more of the character or simply the investment with the game in general.

Neat game. Having all your progress reset when time runs out is frustrating, but there is a certain satisfaction in getting good enough at the puzzles to do it all in one go. The non-linear nature helps to alleviate the frustration since you only really need to focus on the puzzles you haven't solved yet.

The 1 bit style is simple but effective. The music is beautiful too. I did feel the game was lacking some sound effects though.

my opinion of this game is bittersweet. first off, I think you did wonderfully with the puzzles. the begining puzzle was a great way to get used to the movement and the basic mechanics, and each of the four pieces of the map were interestng and creative puzzles.

however, there was more to it then just mind puzzles. The game play was immersive; it communicated emotion as well, something we see only rarely. the forest was as strange as it was confusing, the man living in a society where nothing seems to make sense anymore. The ice was slick and disorienting, the man seemed off-balanced and grieving. The maze was painful, a representation of the frustration of something being taken from you that you know should be there. and finally, the teleportation cove seemed like a representation of being forced to tamp down emotion, of consistently giving "the right" answer.

throughout the game, and the simple, moody music, I felt a connection, I felt immersed in this beautiful, simple, elegant world.

however, all that was effaced by the sheer repetitivness of it. the puzzle's meaning began to be lost when I felt the need to speed through them, or quickly work my way around them.

the beauty of the game became lost in the need to just get it done. And I get that it had to fit theme. I understand that. But I still feel something was lost when the idea of the theme was tacked on so haphazardly.

And perhaps this wasn't what you created the game to be, but for the briefest of moments, this game meant something to me. Perhaps it was the music, perhaps it was the simple art, but for the first time in my life I felt I had experienced loss. At least, the first sixty seconds of loss.

Thank you for reading.

I loved the music, and the theme was certainly used well! Any chance you've played Chip's Challenge?

The is the first game I've played from this jam and it gave me really strong minit vibes, in a good way. That's probably to be expected for the theme, but it was well executed and each cycle felt like I had learned something new to get through the next part.