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Out of Time

By madhed

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall9483.3921
Fun10973.0721
Innovation4073.6821
Theme3813.9721
Graphics8723.4721
Audio10052.6521
Humor8542.6218
Mood11223.0820

Comments

meowitzer 2020-10-05 22:33

fun concept, would be good as a multiplayer or puzzle game if you wanted to develop it more

madhed 2020-10-06 09:48

@meowitzer Thank you. Yeah I thought about multiplayer as well, could become a bit messy with physics synchronization etc.

malashik 2020-10-06 20:05

Looking cool and really interesting! Sad that I can't run it on my Mac :(

nickzouk 2020-10-06 20:18

the concept is great i could not finish the first "puzzle" but great idea

giordas 2020-10-06 20:21

Nice little game you made here it really sets a good mood :)))

wahooney 2020-10-06 20:33

Took me a while to realize I could pick the tiles up. But after that I got the gist of it. Pretty cool.

grommel 2020-10-06 20:36

Really interesting concept ! I had some troubles to understand it at first but it came easy to my mind afterwards. That would have been easier if you could jump on the plates you lift. ^^

just-dante 2020-10-06 20:43

Really interesting concept. You can build really good game around it.

madhed 2020-10-06 20:58

Thanks all for playing. I guess I should have added some clues but alas, I was out of time lol. I don't want to spoil it though.

@malashik I'll try to build a mac version tomorrow, maybe linux even. @nickzouk What did you have trouble with? @giordas @wahooney @just-dante Thanks! @grommel You just got to keep trying ;) There are some known bugs, I mean features, left in the game...

vphyre 2020-10-06 21:51

Very interesting experiment. I can imagine a good game with the mechanics. Congratulations.

mvasko2 2020-10-07 19:11

Nice little experiment.

I had been trying (and failed) to go through the roof by lifting the plates and then walking on them, but they were too small and too slippery, to the point where I wondered if I was even meant to go through the roof in the first place :smile:.

The jumping didn't work well for me, sometimes I could jump and sometimes I couldn't.

From what I saw, the concept seems very promising, it just needs a bit of work to make it less hard (e.g. by making the plates bigger and making them less slippery) and extend it with more content and interesting levels.

Good job overall!

madhed 2020-10-07 20:42

@mvasko2 Thanks for giving it a try and for the encouraging words! Yeah jumping doesn't feel great. I should have gone with a ready made FPS controller instead of rolling my own.

Also Unity's built in physics engine really doesn't lend itself well for this kind of scenario, not deterministic enough. Either that, or I did something wrong.

I'm already imagining dome puzzles that involve time travel but no physics... we'll see =)

frogravity 2020-10-10 13:05

Nice game! I really liked the graphics and sound effects. I managed to reach the Power button after a couple of tries, but all it did was turn off the time machine. Is that the goal, or did I miss something? Also, it would have been nice seeing ghosts of your previous attempts. Other than that, good entry!

arktas 2020-10-10 13:23

Concept is here but need more information about what to do ^^ it's fun to try and discover but I was really lost for a while before noticing that thing move the way I did in the past and I have to push this power button to stop the loop. A little "success" message can be good too. Maybe you didn't have time for other levels. The jump command is a little messy. Anyway keep jamming it's a good entry!

patrick-sweeney 2020-10-10 16:22

Nice use of the theme! Really enjoyed building steps up to the power button.

kuviman 2020-10-11 10:48

The idea in this game is really great, unfortunately it is pretty buggy :)

masaru 2020-10-26 18:08

One more review for you before you're out of time ! Graphics are good, the time travel thing works, physics are a bit weird, but overall, well done. There's just two big negatives :

1 - I think when it comes to this kind of games, a button to go back is a necessity. What I mean is : I've waited a bit, taken a slab, moved it up, now I'm done, I would like to go back in time to jump on it and not have to wait for the 30s timer to end

2 - I don't really understand what you're supposed to do. Was hitting the power button the ending ? If yes, I did it, but It felt like there might be more and if it is, I missed it, cause I had no clue what to do.