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Chrono Escape

By snail_man

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness277
Innovation513.93
Overall983.66
Theme1043.75
Mood1223.44
Fun1833.43
Audio2693.05
Graphics3183.30
Humor3522.63

Comments

hbocao 2013-08-26 00:22

Wow. Great concept!
PS: Fu**ing guards!

thebluerage 2013-08-26 03:15

Very cool game! I agree with hbocao... Fu**ing guards!

sparkleswirl 2013-08-26 03:27

Great concept/mechanic! It's reminiscent of a few Flash stealth games but the way you combined all the mechanics made it very novel.

hbocao 2013-08-26 03:30

I really enjoyed your game. Good luck!

twilightflandre 2013-08-26 04:53

Another game that revolves around light! The graphics look great and its such a fun stealth game.

farfromsleep 2013-08-26 04:56

For a 15 hour job this is a really slick piece of work. Some clever mechanics and really nicely implemented to go with it. Excellent job.

empyrealhell 2013-08-26 04:59

The time paradox was a neat idea, and it was executed well. I had trouble with it because of the key bindings (non-qwerty keyboard), but customization is a bit much to ask in 48 hours I suppose. For what I did play, it was solid. Cohesive graphics, appropriate sounds, actual thought put into the theme. I was a bit worried when I saw the small view area in the screenshot, but it worked pretty well. Good show.

feysoura 2013-08-26 05:02

WOW.
Loved it.

infernal 2013-08-26 05:16

Very great concept!

fferro234 2013-08-26 05:18

I loved the time paradox aspect. Maybe it was my computer lagging, but the timer definitely was more than 10 seconds which seemed odd, but otherwise really cool game.

snail_man 2013-08-26 05:36

@fferro It was probably your computer lagging.
On some levels with lots of entities, the game can drag to a quarter of the FPS cap on my computer. It's a result of me not actually optimizing anything.
@everyone else:
Thanks a bunch for your positive feedback! :3
It's really nice to hear so many good things. It feels like when you're making a game, you either become blind to its flaws, or they get magnified 100x.

archaeometrician 2013-08-26 06:39

So many guards ! Very interesting concept ! Nice game. Ph by the way, the guards are definitively cheating. Headshot all the time, they use aimbot for sure ;)

gamepopper 2013-08-26 10:11

The time travel mechanic is very clever, and the platforming is very well put together. I like the gameplay graphics, but the limited field of view made it very obstructing.

nightshadow0 2013-08-26 15:48

Wow, this is really impressive!
If i had to nitpick something it'd be that your "sphere of sight" is a bit too small, especially when it comes to evading lasers, but amazing job!

tombsar 2013-08-26 18:04

An interesting game concept, and executed very well. I had severe performance problems on my computer, and the game ran at less than half the intended speed (judging by the 10s countdown).
The graphics are nice, and the gameplay mechanics are very clever. I disliked the laser obstacles, as I think they sometimes 'saw' me outside of their detection radius.

boodog 2013-08-26 19:57

Cool game!

mrblade 2013-08-26 20:20

Hey Man, I was the guy who gave you some support when you were having frame rate issues; I am so glad to see that you finished- I do see what you were talking about though. With more than two or three guards on the screen, my framerate would go down below ten. :c But when this game works, it works well. You executed the mechanics perfect! I love the line of sight. Took me a minute to figure out that by moving my mouse I could see more. Keep it up man. Nice work.

doonay21 2013-08-27 17:06

Excellent game! And interesting innovation! Thanks for this game!!

mikegbrown 2013-08-27 17:11

This was great. Those guards are dicks. Well done.

handcraftedradio 2013-08-28 16:35

Wow! This is awesome! Great concept and very good use of the theme! I'd love to see this idea expanded upon into a bigger game.

almightyzentaco 2013-08-28 16:57

Nice job. I liked the lighting system.

nathanhoffer 2013-08-29 03:47

FREAKING AWESOME!! I love the look of the characters. This was one of my favorite entries so far.

theholychicken 2013-08-29 10:18

Brilliant concept! The time travel self duplication is just too epic.
Terrific pixel art style.
Very awesome!

ellipticaldoor 2013-08-29 16:55

Good initial story :D

sanguinethesecond 2013-08-30 17:22

The game felt a bit execution-based even after you've already solved the puzzle in your mind, I think that could be improved. The concept was cool.

gfm 2013-08-31 15:11

Nice game! The walking animation was great!! :D

But a little too heavy for my pc. :(
(I played until the second stage with detectors, then it got too laggy...)

literal_games 2013-08-31 17:16

Gets very difficult to see what's going on out of view, but really good fun and a great concept! Well done!

shard123 2013-09-01 17:42

Really impressive! I hope to get this good with Game Maker some day!

arrow-x 2013-09-01 18:00

very good use of the theme ... fun game

vile-smile 2013-09-12 23:45

Really liked the concept. Flashlight visual was very cool. Nicely done!