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I LOVE THIS GAME!! As a huge fan of neon white and other speedrunning 3D FPS platformers, this game scratched an itch in my brain that no other game in the jam has. The cute cat teleportation mechanic is really stand out, and I found myself just messing around with the movement so much due to how smooth it felt. Especially with the added feature of being able to shoot and teleport in mid air. After a few tries, I was doing so many skips and flying through the level.  Despite little texturing, the visuals are really pretty, with the blue yellow gradient colouring being really nice, and the collidable surfaces were clear and lit well. I can tell that you are a fan of this genre as well, with all of the implemented skips and cool mechanics. The level design is truly peak. The little blue shooty things are so satisfying to use, and the orange trigger platforms add nice variety. 

There is so much potential in this movement system, and I'd love to see this idea expanded into multiple levels. I think this system would serve well with multiple shorter speedrunable levels like neon white (if you haven't played it you should check it out), which would allow the mechanics to be introduced at a different rate, and would give more opportunity for unique use of the level design flipping.

One final thing is that I'd prefer the controls to be taught early on, and then for the UI to reduced, just to have more gameplay focus in the screen (the timer, sand bar, and reticle are good, the cat could be shrunk a little). I totally understand if you didn't have time for some of this though, and just needed to put it somewhere.

Overall, this is a really well made game, and I really enjoyed it!! The level design and tight movement really stand out, as well as many other good things. Great work making a cool and fun game!

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Man, thank you so much! It really means a lot! I'm glad I've finally found someone who understands and likes the gameplay and can zoom through the level! While I may have not played what people consider games of this genre I definitely have played fast paced platforming games and love them! I'm glad my level layout was fun to exploit, even I stuck to the main path quite hard so I do wonder how insane skips can get. While visuals did get rushed I feel as though of all the games to be untextured this vibe somewhat works and I'm glad I picked the right colors with post processing and ambient lighting!

This is certainly a game I can picture getting a proper game version, the hourglass/sand vibe is cool and is why the game is named "Time Flies" but I certainly want other levels that have their own design style, my point being the hourglass made sense to flip when you reach the very top but maybe making level flipping something more common and can happen multiple times throughout one level (without looping back on yourself) sounds really cool.  I really like the move set myself (I didn't even add nearly as much game juice as I wanted and it still feels good) so I do want to make the most of it one day! I agree that some shorter levels could really help create dense but well thought out levels that could be done in seconds with cool skips!

Yeah, you're spot on with the UI and lack of a tutorial, next jam I'll have a much better understanding of pacing and should hopefully have more time to do far better UI to go along with better explanations of the game within the game and not just the itch page.

I'm so glad you enjoyed it and got to experience the game the way I intended it to be played, I was losing hope in the game but you saved that, so thank you so much! (of course everyone's feedback is very well deserved and includes things I'll take into account later).

THANK YOU!!!

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No problem at all, I was just saying the truth. Now that I think about it, the name “Time Flies” is literally perfect, it’s just so good.
I definitely hope that you release a solid post jam update/expansion, as that would be SO FUN!! Anyhow, good luck with whatever you decide to develop next, you’re awesome!

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Thank you! I really can't guarantee an update but I do think it'd be cool, I need to learn quite a bit for the brackeys jam so I don't know how much time I have but maybe I can do a bare minimum small update and have a still small but bigger update later, good luck to you in your future projects as well!