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a jam about time.

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A jam submission

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A speedrun game where you bend time to your advantage.
Submitted by Sucrosie, AmbientArtstyles (@AmbientArtstyls) — 2 hours, 16 minutes before the deadline
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CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Overall#103.7763.776
Technicality#103.6473.647
Gameplay#103.7653.765
Visuals#124.0004.000
Creativity#133.8823.882
Audio#153.5883.588

Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Theme

Yes

This game follows the theme "Escaping fate".

Message from the creator(s):
*SPOILER ALERT* The story of the game revolves around Hayley, the intern of FutureCorp. As the player progresses through the levels, Hayley starts to notice a huge lack in her memory thats not involved with FutureCorp and starts to lose it.

At the last chamber, she figures out that they're both in a time loop and tries to stop it by messing with all the time abilities the player used throughout the experiments.
But unfortunately thats the cause of the time loop.

Original Art

Yes

Created the vast majority of the art during the jam.

Original Audio

Yes

Created the vast majority of the audio during the jam.

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VykriSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

Hey, played your game on stream. Check out my thoughts here https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1086568950?t=00h53m07s

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PROJECT LAZ
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SucrosieDeveloper3 years ago(+1)

Hey, i've seen the stream and im so sorry about making the game so hard xD

Thank you for streaming your gameplay, its really helpful to see what new players will try and where they most struggle.

It hurt most of the time to see you fail cause it was 80% the game's fault which isnt ideal for a speedrun game.
I took alot of notes from your feedback and wont let those to waste.

Most playtesters liked the level with the crushers cause it let them use their full speed.
I see that in the future, levels should be more like that one and not handicap the player with small platforms.

Even you suggesting about having no timer at all was mind opening for me, i didnt even think of that possibility.
Looks like i'll need to sit down and see into what direction i'll take this game forward.

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AmbientArtstylesDeveloper3 years ago(+2)

Music & Sound lead here - Thanks for the review Vykri! Robyn aka the voice of Hayley also appreciated your feedback a lot! It was helpful. Cheers, mate.

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okAiSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

Cool game! Having a speedrun game involve time manipulation mechanics is a very cool idea! 

Having to slow down to make sure a cube is placed correctly seemed against the core of the game, which is to go fast. When the levels flowed nicely, it was really fun to blaze through a level, but having to slow down kills the momentum.

The level that introduces the time stop mechanic is brutally hard, unless I was doing it wrong, I had to do it many times before I made it to the door before the time stop ended, especially for a first introduction to the mechanic. 

The green boost pads felt a little bit weird, some of which didn't feel like they flowed together and required some weird mouse movements to pull off. I couldn't do the one level with all of them around the large room, just because of how off they felt when jumping on and off of, especially when the first jump felt a bit awkwardly placed.

Lots of potential here for a new take on speedrunning games, having to go down one path, and then rewind to have another path open was super fun! Since it kept the speed and flow of the level going. 

Visuals are great, having a weird modernistic feel. Music fits it well too.

Nicely done!

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Temporal Temple
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SucrosieDeveloper3 years ago

I appreciate the feedback!
I couldnt agree more with everything you said, hopefully i can fix it after the jam xD

Thanks!

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MAX CAMPBELLSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

Super cool game I love the narration and story.

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Perplexed Cassete
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SucrosieDeveloper3 years ago

Thanks!

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LooseDevGooseSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

Yuval, you were a great sport during the development phase of this time Jam. Your game honestly came out really good, the mechanics work well and clearly you put effort in makeing everything look nice. There is plenty of levels and the gameplay is rather challenging (but in a fair way).

Well done!

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Teemo
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IBricchiSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

This game was great, I suck at it, but it's definitely fun. Especially the UI with the cubes, it looks absolutely amazing.

I will say I kept getting stuck when I slid too early or too late, and then I just had to wait for the time timer to reset.

Overall really nice game, and definitely leaves me wanting to scrape off just one more second each time!

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Oligopoly
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SucrosieDeveloper3 years ago(+1)

I should've probably mentioned somewhere that pressing R will do a quick restart! 

Thanks for the feedback!

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