🎮 Save Yourself — Brackeys Game Jam 2025.1 Submission
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✨ Save Yourself is a 2D atmospheric platformer where you create your own save points to undo mistakes.
With a calm, melancholic soundtrack and cool-color aesthetic, it creates a world that feels safe—maybe too safe.
🏆 Game Jam Highlights
- 🕹 Developed solo in just 7 days for Brackeys Game Jam 2025.1.
- ⭐ Ranked 35th out of ~2,200 games (Top 1.6%)
- 👍 Overall rating of 4/5 (80+ reviews).
- 🌍 Played 400+ times across Web, Windows, and Linux.
- 📰 Featured in a PlaytestCloud case study on player feedback (kirbylife.co.uk).
💡 What Players Are Saying
This is such a great concept, I honestly think it's on the same level as Braid for its time. This is a real treasure, I'm so glad I actually didn't miss your game.
The concept is brilliant, the visuals are really cute and engaging. Really impressed that a single person could make a game like this in just one week!
📸 Gallery
Screenshots from the Brackeys Game Jam build
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🛠️ Development
Built with:
- 🎮 Unity for the gameplay in C#
- 🎧 FL Studio for the music
- 🎨 Krita for the artwork
- 🔊 Audacity for sound editing All assets were created from scratch (except a few sound effects from freesound.org).
🙏 Acknowledgements
Thank you to Max Kirby for generously running a full player evaluation and case study
(including the article on kirbylife.co.uk) free of charge and in close collaboration with me. Your insights were invaluable in understanding how players experienced Save Yourself. 💡💚
Huge thanks as well to everyone who played, rated, and shared feedback during the jam. Your support turned a one-week solo project into a community favorite. 💪