Welcome to the A.C.E. Testing Environment! Due to an unforseeable technical malfunction, your AI core has been reset. It's time for you to re-learn your problem-solving skills. In this simulation you will practice solving challenges by controlling a swarm of robots *(note: not yet a swarm of robots)*. We have given you the ability to record and re-record paths for each robot, and freely skip around time to ease the strain on your computation cores. Good luck!
IMPORTANT: The controls for the game can be found in the pause menu triggered by pressing Esc in game
Bugfixes: Fixed a bug where boxes would behave unpredictably on playback.
The graphics look great and once I got to the glitchy blocks the game made a lot more sense and became really cool!
In the beginning though, I had no idea how the controls worked and only eventually stumbled upon pressing ESC to display the controls. I think it would have helped to force display them at the beginning of the game.
I tried to open the macOS application but all I got was "The Application A.C.E - Mac OSX.app can't be opened." Then if I try really hard I get "... because the developer cannot be verified." Let me know if you publish a newer version that world on the latest macOS. Cheers.
Strong portal vibes! Loved the idea and the puzzles, the graphics and sound effects are great. Not sure if I used the correct controls though, I found out that 'R' makes my cursor visible so I can click on things. A hotkey would be nice (unless there is one and I missed it.
Hey, this looks like a solid entry, graphics definitely had some love, sound is interesting but repetitive, UX need further thoughts.
UX felt a bit off, some key bindings could be further thought and reused on smarter ways, like the mouse interaction, usually you activate the mouse when press ESC, and if you second press ESC you go to the pause.
The play and rewind mechanic felt a bit hard to manage/understand (need to record, play, rewind, record again, play, rewind, record) I believe that most of this mouse interactions could be automated based on user behavior like it makes a path, if the user go back on it it is already rewinding or undoing it for example.
Took me a while to understand how to move/use the character, the tutorial panel on the same wall as me was strange, so I did not saw it right away, what felt a bit awkward.
I encountered a bug on level 7 (I think it was 7, the first level with three robots). I recorded a sequence for the guy who was at the top in a little room on his own, but when I tried the solution he didn't do what I had recorded at all. I had him pick up a box and run against the door until his buddy could let him out, then he was supposed to let the other guy into the room and drop off his box before going to the charging pad. I spent a lot of time recording the actions of the two others before I tried the solution, so when it didn't work I gave up.
The guy by himself was recorded running into the door with his box in his hand so when the door was opened he'd run through it. It worked when I was setting up everything but when I played the solution, he glitched through the door early, which may have messed up the rest of his playback. He then went over to the charging pad still holding his box. I hope you're able to replicate and fix this game-breaking bug because I really wanted to finish the game, but I'm not going to count this against you in terms of rating.
This is more or less a perfect jam game! The graphics are gorgeous, I liked the audio, the mood is good, and the gameplay matches the theme. The controls are a little bit overwhelming at first, and I don't think using the RMB to switch characters is mentioned anywhere.
Your game idea is really innovative and well-executed, and I'm super-jealous of your puzzle-design skills. Awesome job!!
Wow actually really good Game. Nice graphics, nice mechanics, really good idea! I like it. One bug I've found is that the timer and recordings sometimes don't get resettet if you hit the reset button. Sometimes if you don't stop the recording and reset the timer simply keeps running after the reset. But anyways really nice Game!
Great Graphics and shaders ... I Would Really want to get in touch with you guys....controls caught me up for a bit but then I figured that out.......Really a Great Game man....Really Enjoyed..
Wow this is such a polished entry! The visuals and audio are fantastic, and there is so much juice squeezed into these little robots. The mechanics were also fun and satisfying to get right, although I did wish that the playback was sped up a bit (and maybe repositions your camera so you can see the whole thing?). But otherwise, fantastic
The game has an amazing character design! Actually, all in-game assets are really cool, but the robot hand down is super cute! There are some small rocks in tutorial/controls section, but these are minor issues. Overall, awesome entry!
It took me a while to get the hang on the controls (reminds me of the camera controls of Unity or UE4), but eventually I was able to progress in the game. The glitchy blocks create great puzzles, the like of Braid now that I think about it. The cell shading robots are also very adorable. Great job!
In the beginning though, I had no idea how the controls worked and only eventually stumbled upon pressing ESC to display the controls. I think it would have helped to force display them at the beginning of the game.