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The Spacetime Contraption

By remco and craig-king

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall5593.5329
Fun7353.2229
Innovation2503.7229
Theme1644.1329
Graphics6493.5329
Audio1
Humor7712.4725
Mood6063.4228

Comments

riphitter 2022-10-03 23:59

Cool use of the Theme! I liked how the setting is 10s but how you play stretches it out . I wasn't always sure what to do next but I had fun trying to figure it out!

nardandas 2022-10-04 02:58

I escaped! Very escape-room-y. Took me 17 tries. I think it was pretty appropriate on difficulty.

anatintti 2022-10-04 05:42

7 tries. Very nice twist on the 10s theme. Liked the escape room style!

generalflunder 2022-10-04 10:54

Very nice concept! I really liked the mood. I noticed myself leaning into the screen more and more, haha. Took me 5 tries to complete.

thatzniko 2022-10-04 13:14

I cannot play :( "Failed to read the 'serviceWorker' property from 'Navigator': Service worker is disabled because the context is sandboxed and lacks the 'allow-same-origin' flag."

oleksandra 2022-10-04 14:34

I escaped from a ship in the last 10 seconds of its destruction!:smile: Cool game!

remco 2022-10-04 15:15

@thatzniko That's unfortunate. Is it failing on the LDJam site only, or also on itch.io? -- See the link in the write-up, or [**here**](https://craig-king.itch.io/the-spacetime-contraption).

thorpalsson 2022-10-04 17:59

Really fun and game and unique take on the 10 seconds theme, fantastic job!

capitals 2022-10-04 18:48

That was a really fun take on the theme. I really liked the time mechanic and the puzzles were challenging but not impossible. Some of the controls were a bit finicky, I spent a lot of time wondering if I could interact with something. That's minor though, Good job!

eugenik 2022-10-04 18:51

This game is fun I liked it a lot :D.

defrag 2022-10-05 00:07

Escape room, but with only 10seconds :). This actually reminded a little bit of an old flash game called Hapland. I found myself just clicking on everything trying to get something to happen. I noticed later that the console in the middle would give me feedback, but it wasn't always fully visible depending on where I was in the room. Good job. One note: the audio was coming through heavily distorted on my old Acer tower running Chrome on Windows 10. Probably just my machine, but wanted you to know.

glacian 2022-10-05 01:11

Absolutely brilliant! Great gameplay (initially frustrating but also a great hook) and lovely graphics. Well done :)

remco 2022-10-05 05:49

@defrag Audio (and color) distortion may or may not be part of the game, depending on precisely what you're hearing (and seeing), and how much you'd slowed down time. (The slider on the bottom visible from the second loop onwards.)

adriczero 2022-10-05 11:31

Intense music fit the game well.

zoarfy 2022-10-05 17:31

Wow I really liked this! I got 30 runs deep but couldn't figure out the last 2 digits of the password :( Really, nice take on the theme and just a wonderfully designed game! It took me 8 runs before I figured out how to charge the console and audibly said "Wow that was brilliant" when I finally figured it out!

The only piece of feedback I have, is that it would be nice to have the cursor change over clickable objects as that was pretty unclear to me.

Wonderful job, and congrats on submitting!

justaroom 2022-10-05 18:01

Cool concept, I was a bit stuck on getting power for the console, but I eventually figured it out. Good stuff

tankou 2022-10-05 18:52

Nice game! I liked the mood and how you used the 10 seconds topic. It took me some time to find out which objects I can interact with.

chase-of-bass 2022-10-06 09:22

Really, really amazing job on this. Once I realized I could slow down time it was soooo cool! Such a cool idea for an escape room style game -really good use of the theme! Awesome vfx too!! Excellent job on this!! :D

joror 2022-10-08 13:53

Very fun 'puzzle' game! I had to be really observant to see what was interactable when - after a couple of runs where I missed that the elevator flying past, I got all the things together afterwards!

The physics actually slowing down but still progressing, even if very slowly was pretty neat.

For some improvements, I would add some 'interaction' highlighting, or maybe even textual descriptions of some of the non-interactive bits - to guide people towards what is interactable!

Nice job!

nardandas 2022-10-10 05:41

Hey - I saw this in the classic queue and wanted to leave a bit more of a review than my first comment, especially after playing several more escape rooms. I really like the sequencing in this, there's not a lot of hand-holding and there are a lot of things you can miss, and the ability to slow down time makes it all work at a break-neck pace. Very very cool! Having some indication of what's interactable and what isn't would be nice, as other have pointed out. I also think a little more indication of unlocks might be nice, though might be a little hand-holdey. I don't know! Very cool game!

axelrinaldo 2022-10-11 19:17

I really like the concept of having to go through a few rounds to see what happens at which moment, being able to slow down time for this felt great. Took me 12 rounds which I'm quite happy with :D

flying-dog-fish 2022-10-14 19:51

Nice game but pretty hard. After many disasters I managed to power the console but had no idea what code to input.

remco 2022-10-17 20:59

@nardandas Thanks for coming back, appreciate it!

tess 2022-10-17 21:17

This was pretty damn hard game. I've spent so much time just trying to figure it out. The possibility to slow down the time was really handy. I've almost rage quited but did it eventually.

yetanother 2022-10-19 02:49

Slowing down time is a nice idea that fits the theme while being unexpected!