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Time Surge

By solifuge

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall173.96
Theme64.12
Audio213.92
Coolness1100
Innovation453.75
Fun503.62
Graphics574.23
Mood573.67
Humor873.37

Comments

archaeometrician 2013-08-27 06:04

Great graphics, nice music ! Love the puzzling gameplay. Good job !

nerlin 2013-08-27 06:25

Very cool pixel art graphics and interesting idea integrated with contest theme. But game since too hard for me, some hints could help.

solifuge 2013-08-27 07:05

There are some hints in the Computer Consoles, and others in the Gameplay Guide section of the above post too. Hopefully that helps!

kevinzuhn 2013-08-27 18:02

I really enjoyed this!
I like the mix of more straightforward pipe dream puzzles and silly adventure game puzzles. The final puzzle was quite tricky once I realized I needed to open the door (wasted a few runs confused when routing power to the time device didn't work)

Traveling between rooms got pretty tedious as the game went on. I wish I could've just jumped instantly to the room I wanted (time is stopped, no need to be realistic). Watching the guy run while time was moving was fine, but given how much backtracking I had to do during puzzle time, waiting for room transitions became irritating.

Still, an excellent and very complete game! Super good looking and sounding, and funny, too!

zlowrance 2013-08-27 22:43

Great game! Loved the graphics, gameplay and well...everything.

fdevant 2013-08-28 00:20

Nice!
Too hard for me too! It was hard to understand what tiles were available at every point and so very hard to plan ahead, but fun!

hitchh1k3r 2013-08-28 03:11

Okay the applet is done. I forgot what all I had to do to get it to work last time, but I finally remembered... Link should point here: http://hitchh1k3rsguide.com/projects/ld27/

awesomesauce 2013-08-28 03:29

Best game with a hugging robot so far! Great mood, took me awhile to figure it out.

vile-smile 2013-08-28 03:48

My only complaint is backtracking was annoyingly slow. But everything else was perfect! I'm still trying to get through these, puzzles and I have to say I'm quite impressed. A solid, complete feeling game. Amazing job!

raroadkill 2013-08-28 03:52

The best game I've played so far. Great work

dalbinblue 2013-08-28 04:25

Absolutely fantastic! As a question, is there more than one ending, as it seems there could have been one more thing I could have done in the last room.

yngar 2013-08-28 04:29

Aagh the ending!! This was wonderful, by far it was the most time I have spent playing a jam game. The puzzle design was very well done. Being able to instantly jump between rooms would help a lot, it was frustrating to run all the way back, activate the sequence and realize I had forgotten one thing and had to do it all over again. Also it would be nice to be able to swap an item in the hand with one on the shelf instead of having to go to another room to find a place to set something down.
Still this game was incredible, I am very impressed and had a lot of fun with it.

phocker 2013-08-28 13:29

great game -- adding it to my ld27 favorites

brainless-games 2013-08-28 15:15

Took a minute or two to realize what I had to do and could do but after that I really enjoyed it and the puzzle where a nice challenge to keep you going.

futuristteletex 2013-08-29 03:34

enjoyed this! really liked the art too =)

finnegan2100 2013-08-29 05:05

Really unique game. I like that you made a puzzler/point & click for your entry. Graphics and music A+

zathalos 2013-08-29 05:21

Awesome game. It had great art and music. It was also pretty challenging. Good job.

angrycrow 2013-08-29 05:25

I'm really glad that I downloaded this. Real great game! I need to bookmark you.

snoringfrog 2013-08-29 06:06

Nice. It crashed on me a couple times (thankfully near the beginning) on Mac, and the piece of chicken entirely disappeared (thankfully, it was only that), but otherwise it played fine, was challenging, and quite enjoyable. I liked it.

mklee 2013-08-29 07:23

Wow! This is definitely one of the most impressive games I've seen from this LD. I really like the way the rooms build on top of each other and there's some super clever moments. Great job with the puzzle design, I can't imagine doing all of this in 72 hours!

koe415 2013-08-29 07:49

Haha this game is great. I'm loving the atmosphere and exploring the ship's cast of characters. The detail in the logs is awesome. Music was top notch and all the art was extremely polished. This is one of my favorite LD games! Thanks for the experience! My favorite bit: Hugging robot just wants something to hug..

My only nitpicking grip is that the puzzles were kind of hit and miss. As I tried different combinations for some of the puzzles when my first guess didn't work, I had to watch the janitor run slow (walk fast?) through the rooms multiple times. If anything, I would say to speed up his travels up after the initial try.

Very well done guys! Keep up the awesome games!

folmerkelly 2013-08-29 08:58

yo I'm too dumb to be good at this but I love the presentation; pixels and music and setting all work really well together.

garethiw 2013-08-29 09:16

Good stuff indeed, some ingenious puzzles and mechanics. A lot can happen in ten seconds!

capro 2013-08-29 09:42

This kept me playing till the end. Awesome.

darien 2013-08-29 09:58

Excellent overall, though I agree that the constant running back and forth gets tedious. Also, I don't know if you intended it, but I found an alternate (and much easier) solution to the final Pipe Dream: (spoilers, obviously) http://www.perfectlydarien.com/personal/altsolution.png

solifuge 2013-08-29 10:01

I was falling asleep by the time I got to designing the Fuse Puzzle. That was unintentional as heck, but good work!

grooveman 2013-08-29 10:15

Excellent! My only criticism is having to run through each room to solve some of the puzzles and reactivate the core. But you knew that already, I guess~

ossi 2013-08-30 00:02

Amazing graphics great mechanic and fitting music! It was a pretty tough game, but very satisfying to finally make it to the next room. Great use of the theme!

bassarisse 2013-08-30 00:17

I got bored from going back and forth, but the rest is awesome!

ramoncb 2013-08-30 01:35

incredible game!
well polished and very complex and fun, congratulations! =)

neo-blue 2013-08-30 04:42

Amazing project. Really enjoyed the puzzles and music.

ratalaika 2013-08-30 16:32

good job

tigerj 2013-08-31 04:35

that music is epic and the puzzles were fun.

teejay5 2013-08-31 05:37

That is some expert music! awesome game, just got a bit annoyed with having to run to each room after clearing one, not too big a deal.
The hugging robot tho!

reheated 2013-08-31 09:41

Spectacular. Excellent puzzles, adventure game aspect, music and art. Couldn't stop playing.

vaelzan 2013-08-31 20:52

Amazing game. Like others have said the backtracking is a bit of a pain but pretty much every other element of the game (graphics, sounds, story, puzzles) is really well done. Very polished and very good work!

naali 2013-09-01 03:05

I was trying to push for a Jefferies tube mechanic so that you could move between rooms but we ran out of time.

bneutral 2013-09-01 07:33

I generally don't like puzzle games, but this one was quite nice. The walking around got a bit boring though.

vrld 2013-09-01 11:49

Interesting and fun concept. Combining the two layers of puzzles adds a lot to either "sub"-gerne. The only complaint is that it takes too long to try out if a solution works (i.e. doing something, going back to the reactor, seeing that it didn't work, go to the room again, ...). Especially in later rooms (mess hall, sciency room), a shortcut would have been nice. Nonetheless, great game!

pol 2013-09-01 11:55

I tried to have the chef eating the cobaye's eye, but she wouldn't :(
Neat game btw.

psychomonster 2013-09-01 14:52

5/4/5/5/5/4/4/4 Great!

manuq 2013-09-01 20:05

Congrats to the whole team, you came with a very solid game!

iiechapman 2013-09-02 18:27

One of the best executions of the theme so far. The puzzles were pretty tough, walking back and forth and walking back to the beginning could have been made a bit faster/easier. The music is the best and best suited I have heard in LD27. The time reversal mechanic is a pleasure every time even though it means you "failed" the puzzle. Extremely high marks for this game!

gamepopper 2013-09-04 21:08

Brilliant puzzle game, if I didn't have to sleep for work, I'd play this to the end!

urth 2013-09-05 14:03

Solid game!

lokarunith 2013-09-05 14:10

The puzzles were icredibly fun but following the main character was really boring.

hyperbox 2013-09-11 01:17

Solid entry. I enjoyed the point and click puzzles. The narratives text is very interesting but the closeness of the lines makes it difficult to read.

infernet89 2013-09-14 15:36

Very nice game! The audio was fantastic, too bad the puzzles were so damn hard and clueless (like the hugger in second room, for example), and you need to wait for the characters slowly walk to the room before actually have the possibility to solve it.
But, for 72 hours it's an amazing work! You'll be in top places for sure.

terrabyte 2013-09-15 15:17

Fantastic game! I hope that you make a post-compo version with even more levels!

paperblurt 2013-09-15 16:33

Supafine design! Love the pixels. Got kinda blinded by them!