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A jam submission

Lost In TimeView game page

Restore the timeline to save the future.
Submitted by ksznorbi, melloxa — 2 hours, 33 minutes before the deadline
Rated by 12 people so far
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Submitted

I couldn't find which one was the blue one haha! Very nice entry!

Submitted

took me a bit to get used to the controls but it was very good once I got it!

Submitted

rotating clock

Submitted(+1)

Took me some time to getting used to the controls, but when I did it was quite fun. I just really don’t like that jumping height is very inconsistent. Sometimes I could jump easily to a platform and other times the jumps were too short. I thought maybe holding space for longer would help, but it didn’t.

Developer

Hey, thanks for trying out the game! Yes, the controls were left half baked as the priority was to have the story and the calendar progression in check. It's inconsistent because it uses Unity physics movement instead of kinematic, so some of the horizontal movement gets translated into vertical when you jump. 

I'll probably prepare some reusable platformer movement we can use in future projects as they can make or break 2d sidescrolling platformers.

Submitted(+1)

Like the music and goofy vibes, but I don't understand how you supposed to find the order, as there are no clues to day of the week in the dialogues (only a vague indication of when event might've happened relative to other events) , and the fact that you need to find a correct day for killing of each enemy makes it quadruple times worse. Maybe I'm not understanding something, but it feels like a time wasting memory game (which is not fun when you have bad memory)

Developer

Hey, thanks for the feedback! I'm sorry if you didn't find it fun. 

I was the guinea pig for testing the dialogues, I found it a bit hard as well, but I was able to finish it the first time. It was adjusted for fairness by my feedback, but once you finish it once, it's not easy to know what else needs fixing, so we would have needed more testers for the dialogue for sure.

By "time wasting" do you mean you didn't like the game, or that you were frustrated when your progress was reset because you didn't have enough info to progress?

It's fine if you didn't like it, I'm just collecting some actionable feedback to improve on the idea.

Submitted

Just the thought that I would need to remember and try so many possibilities threw me off, but yeah reset with lack of any progress is also frustrating.

Developer

Got your point. Probably more anchors would be needed, where the day is exactly stated by one of the allies and the other ally says something that can be referred back on another day. 

On the other hand the reset is intended by design, we'll need to see if it's generally frustrating, or if it depends on the player. Probably some meta progression could help there.

Thanks for the feedback on the frustrating points, we'll think about them!

Submitted(+1)

I like that I can push my comrades off ledges. Shooting rockets is fun! I wish I could jump on enemies heads. Enjoyable story and fun jokes/puns.

 

Good game!

Developer

Glad you enjoyed the game. A few hours before submission you could send the UFOs into space as well if you bumped into them. It was fun and you would have liked it, but it could break the player's progress if the enemy they had to kill was not in the playable area so we had to fix it.