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A jam submission

Time Drives ByView game page

Try to avoid cars by placing time bombs. For Game Dev Community Jam.
Submitted by Happy Alien Games — 1 hour, 46 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Audio#463.5003.500
Overall#553.5083.508
Mood#623.5333.533
Visuals#633.6673.667
Gameplay#663.3333.333

Ranked from 30 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Engine

Unity

Source
https://github.com/AndrejPetelin/TimeDrivesBy

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(+1)

Couldnt really figure it out, but I'll give it points for creativity!

Developer

Thank you! Sorry the tutorial didn't help :(

Submitted(+1)

Loved the rewind effect! Good job!

Developer(+1)

thank you very much!

Submitted(+1)

I finally beat the game hahaha, had  a hard time trying to understand how to properly play it but once I did it was such a nice experience! I love puzzles  and loved the concept of this one. Had a great time  with it! 

Hope you keep working and polishing it. Keep me updated if you do!

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

Thank you so much, that means a lot coming from you, we talked amongst our team about how much we liked your game :) Will definitely let you know! Also congrats on winning :))

Submitted(+1)

Ohh that makes me so happy! It's so gratifying to know that there are some people that reallly liked it *-*

Thank you! hahah \o/

I definetivly want to know what you and your team will be working on, do you all have Twitter? (if you do add me: guiiraimondi)

Congratz to you and  your team for making it! ;)

Developer

Yay! We do (individual ones) we'll add you and let you know of all our future games :D And please let us know when you make changes on Like Them (I want to finish it! ) and make a new game!

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Wow this game is so simple and fun. The models are amazing and I loved the puzzles. Maybe add some car crash sounds and beeping when they are crashing

Developer

Thank you very much for your lovely comment and suggestion! We have crash sounds for the trucks but we are now looking into adding crash sounds for the player car as well :)

Submitted(+2)

cool game idea, I had some trouble with the controls even having done the tutorial. I wonder if the buttons should have words on them or really super clear and simple first level to give the player more confidence in their abilities.  loved the music- would love to see more of this game being developed into the future.

Developer

Thank you  very much for the compliment and for the feedback :) We are discussing how to make the gameplay clearer amongst our team!

Submitted(+1)

This was a great time-related idea! The time rewind is very cool, love that. Initially it took a while to understand how it all works. The tutorial helps, but maybe it could be even more guided? Anyway, once I understood the mechanics, it was fun!

I seemed to run into some glitches, but it's hard to be precise:

  • Every now and then time rewinds briefly on its own? Or am I missing something? 
  • Sometimes trying to click on the next destination doesn't work. I think moving time and trying again sometimes worked. Not sure, sorry I can't be more specific.
  • Once my car disappeared from view (I think I rewinded the time a lot), and I could not keep going, not seeing where I was. Here's a screenshot:

I'd try to smooth these things out, because the game is fun and very original! Btw, the music: not my cup of tea, and gets a bit boring quickly (personal opinion).

Well done!

Developer

Hi! Thank you very much for your feedback and going to the extra trouble of taking a screenshot, very helpful! The first thing you mentioned is a feature- the time rewinds if you haven't set a destination yet or the destination can be reached with time to spare. We tried to explain this in the tutorial but will try to reword it!

We are working on fixing the other 2 bugs.

The music was pointed out to us by someone else as well and we found a new one! Will upload the new version shortly- hope you like the new music!

Submitted(+1)
The first thing you mentioned is a feature- the time rewinds if you haven't set a destination yet or the destination can be reached with time to spare

Ah ok, now that you say it, it makes perfect sense. From my own game and many others here, I see more and more the importance on guiding the player at the beginning. We know exactly how it all works as developers, but new players can get disoriented, or worse, stuck, in places that we'd never think of... I'm going to put extra care into the tutorial aspect of future games.

Developer

You definitely have a point, we know where everything goes so it's easy for us to play! We added a How to Play screen that can be accessed from the Pause Menu to help the player, and we changed the music, thanks for your comment on it! We found a new track we really like. Cheers :)

Submitted(+1)

Nice concept.
Something unique.
I thought a pause menu would have been nice to check the controls again.
Do rate our game as well.
Thank You

Developer(+1)

Thank you very much :)  Good idea about the pause menu! Will check your game shortly :) 

Submitted

Looking forward to it.

Developer

We added a How to Play screen on the pause menu, thanks for your great suggestion!

Submitted(+1)

Nice Work
I played and updated my ratings.

Developer(+1)

Thank you very much! We really appreciate that :)

Submitted(+1)

i really liked the concept of the game, the theme is really well executed and the tutorial level made really well and help the player understand the game without just writing the instructions, the music was a bit annoying after some time because its really short and repaeating itself really quickly

Developer

Glad you liked it and thanks for the feedback! We will look into finding another background track :) 

Developer

We changed the music :) Hope you like the new one! Thanks for the suggestion :)

Submitted(+1)

Liked the concept and aesthetics. I ran into the same glitch mentioned below where the car seems to head off to a previously selected point instead of the current point. A little work on the UI, also mentioned below, would be nice. Good job overall.

Developer

Thanks a lot for the feedback!! Just to confirm one thing: We are aware that there's still a bug with the trucks, that sometimes after rewinding past a timebomb they end up teleporting. But our latest submission (from early yesterday) did address the issue with the car, at least as far as we managed to test.  If you can confirm this happened while playing the current submission, would you happen to remember, roughly, in which level this happened? Thanks  again!! 

(+1)

Hey. Nice game. At first I had a hard time figuring it out. The bubble I do believe you should just click on it and it should allow you to place has many as you want instead of just 1. 

Developer

Thanks for playing! So glad you enjoyed it! Yup, that's a cool idea, we'll look into it!

Submitted(+1)

Very cool concept! It felt a bit buggy at times, like one car I was trying to speed up constantly teleported back to its starting position or the rewind happening randomly, but despite that it was still a fun puzzle game. Love using the rewind mechanic in this one too great job!

Developer

Thank you so much! We are working on fixing bugs :D Btw your nickname is awesome :)

Developer

We fixed some bugs, thanks for letting us know! :) Will work on fixing more bugs now :) 

Submitted(+1)

Took a while to get the hang of things. To be honest, I was very close to giving up and moving on the next game, but I'm glad I stuck through it and figured things out because it was fun after that. The biggest obstacle in the game was trying to get other cars moving as I intended. Unexpected behavior in a game can sometimes be frustrating, especially if you know what to do but the execution fails. I might have done something wrong, but I had to click on the blue and green icons every time I wanted to place a "time bubble". I would prefer to click the icon once and place all the bubbles of that color in one go, maybe even mouse-scroll to cycle through blue / green. Other than that, great idea for a game. Just gotta fix a few bugs and quality of life issues. 

Developer

Thank you very much for the suggestion, so glad you stuck through and enjoyed it :)  We are  definitely working on fixing bugs (and a tutorial level) and will consider the mouse-scroll to cycle through blue/green !

Submitted(+1)

Haha i like it, very unique for sure :) I love the little Unity Poster in level 2 :)

Great work!

Didn't encounter any bugs but did manage to die a lot! :)

Developer(+1)

Thank you so much, glad you liked it!! The Unity Poster came with the asset package but I love it too :D 

Submitted(+1)

I encountered some bugs, but the game is fun when you understand it. In my first 3 attempts I misunderstood the game completely, so I just thought it was a lot of bugs I encountered and got annoyed, even after seeing the tutorial :-)

I had a bug though: it was, the car wouldn't go where I pointed it to, after changing the direction after a rewind. I had to restart the level.

So my first 3 play attempts didn't go well. In my 4th attempt, I began to understand how the game worked a bit more (like if you don't move, the time you didn't move will be rewinded. I might have missed that from the tutorial though, not sure. I initially thought it was a bug). So I managed to finish a few levels :-)

Well done on the game, I like the concept of the game :-)

Developer

Glad you enjoyed it!! Yeah, we are working on fixing the bugs but thank you very much for informing us! :))

Developer

We extended the tutorial and fixed some bugs , thank you for pointing it out! 

Submitted(+1)

Really awesome time rewind mechanic, I see how ours are similar and I'd definitely love to learn from yours to improve the feel of my mechanic! Well done!

Developer

Glad you enjoyed it! There's still some bugs and issues, we'll hopefully clean it up a bit in the coming days. Thanks for playing!

Submitted(+1)

Hi,

Congratulations on the idea of rewinding time.
Maybe the tutorial isn't very clear on how to play. However, once understood it is fun.
Nice music and graphics.
Thank you for reporting a flaw in my game.

Developer

Thank you!! And yes, it's amazing how when you've designed it and played it a lot take it for granted that the tutorial is much clearer than it really is.  Thanks a lot for the feedback!! 

Developer

We added an extended tutorial, thank you very much for pointing it out!

Submitted(+1)

Hi,

Great. I noticed this playing this morning. Now it is much better.
I have updated my game. I fixed the score flaw and added backward movement.
Let the game be with us.

Developer

Just left a reply on your game. Again, thanks for the changes to your game, for the feedback here, and for mentioning us. Real kind of you!! 

Submitted(+1)

As a fan of games you've mentioned in the description, the way you used the rewind mechanics seems really interesting, although challenging (in a positive way). Initially, it was quite hard to understand what's going on, but once I've grasped the idea, it was really fun to play! I think the problem is that your tutorial was automatically changing instructions before I could fully understand the meaning of each feature. Maybe you can consider allowing the player to change the tutorial instructions. 

Apart from that, I found the game satisfyingly interesting, I'll try to play again tomorrow and update the comment if I find something new. Great game!

Developer(+1)

Thanks so much for your kind words and awesome suggestion! It could definitely work!!

Developer(+1)

We extended the tutorial! Thank you very much for your suggestion!

Submitted(+1)

Great gameplay! Only improvement in my eyes is the control scheme, it wasn't always easy to make it do what I wanted. Sometimes it would reverse and I wasn't sure why. Even still, it was fun!

Developer(+1)

Thanks so much for your nice comment! We are working on fixing bugs :D

Developer(+1)

We extended the tutorial to make everything clearer and fixed some bugs, thank you for pointing it out!

Submitted(+1)

Quite a fun idea, took me a while to understand the controls and sometimes got a bit annoyed that the speedups and slowdowns went to places I didn't mean to, but after I got hang of it, it was quite good :) 

Developer

Thank you very much! We are working on fixing some bugs :)

Submitted(+2)

I liked how the theme of time was proposed in the game. After I learned to play, I went to the last stage. Congratulations, very well done!

Developer

Thank you so much! I love the way your game looks!

Submitted(+2)

Well done i really enjoyed your game and great concept  great look and feel, I took a little while understand the game-play but once i got it very enjoyable. Well done

Developer

Thanks a lot! So glad you enjoyed it!