Timehop by Lord bobyness

made by Lord bobyness for LD30 (COMPO)

My second Ludum Dare. It's a puzzle game where the central mechanic is the ability to travel between two points in time (the connected worlds). Actions taken in the past will affect the future state of objects but not vice versa.

Escape ends the game, everything else is shown in game

I got a bit pressured for time and had to make an ending and go to debugging a bit earlier then I would have liked. The resulting game is a tad short and a tad easy.

Anyways, hope you enjoy it.

Have fun!

BTW if you have anything constructive to say please do leave a comment. Ratings aren't unappreciated but comments are what help me improve.

Windows	https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17732600/Timehop.zip
Source	https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17732600/Ludum%20dare/launcher.gmk
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=20383

Ratings

Coolness	56%	3
Overall	3.38	379

Audio	2.81	482
Fun	3.03	575
Graphics	2.86	723
Humor	2.22	630
Innovation	3.33	422
Mood	3.25	340
Theme	3.43	417

Feedback

BrainSlugs83

26. Aug 2014 · 02:58 UTC

Download link does not work.

🎤 Lord bobyness

26. Aug 2014 · 03:20 UTC

Thanks for informing me! It's fixed now.

stink123456

26. Aug 2014 · 03:26 UTC

Fun game, nice graphics, sad that its so epileptic, all those flashes, such loud noise...

Chris Maire

26. Aug 2014 · 05:03 UTC

I found opening doors to be kinda frustrating since you can't explicitly target them, and it took me a while to figure out what things were doors since everything was the same color.

That said, the mechanics were really neat and there is a lot of potential here.

Jaloko

26. Aug 2014 · 05:16 UTC

Pretty fun game. The only issue I had was closing the game. I had to end the process in task manager.

🎤 Lord bobyness

26. Aug 2014 · 05:25 UTC

Escape closes it. I guess I did forget to mention that at, well. At any point in time or space really. If you guessed escape and it still didn't close then that's an issue I'll have to look into.

Thanks for letting me know.

Shivur

26. Aug 2014 · 12:06 UTC

Very good concept exploit with the different mechanics. Maybe having a different aesthetic between the two time periods so we can tell which is the present and which is the past. The collisions with the walls aren't precise so we often get semi stuck. But overall that's very fun. I liked the ending.

abeing

26. Aug 2014 · 23:04 UTC

i liked it very much :) cool door mechanics

ChuiGum

27. Aug 2014 · 00:07 UTC

Like the graphics, and innovation!

ShadowStryker

27. Aug 2014 · 01:43 UTC

Fun game and a cool concept, I thoroughly enjoyed playing it. The music and audio all-together was very nice as well.

JavadocMD

27. Aug 2014 · 19:24 UTC

Well done! I'm really glad to see these dual-world puzzle games and this one is pretty good. Easy, as you mentioned, but still enjoyable.

DeathPidgeon

28. Aug 2014 · 03:55 UTC

I like the concept, it was a creative way to meet the theme and it made for some good gameplay.

whilefun

28. Aug 2014 · 04:05 UTC

Pretty interesting game. I liked the use of time travel as a tie-in to the theme. I got pretty far, but then got stuck by the detector, and couldn't figure a way out of it. Nice work :)

radmars

30. Aug 2014 · 03:13 UTC

Wow, this is an awesome concept. I like how the level design wraps around itself in spots. I felt like it was pretty solvable by trial and error rather than fully understanding what I was doing though.

kirbytails7

31. Aug 2014 · 04:51 UTC

Pretty nice. There are a couple of bits with adjacent opposite time locks that can cause some quick flashing, which is a bit bothersome.

jprogman

31. Aug 2014 · 05:36 UTC

The logic of the past and future took some getting used to, but I was able to finish the game with little effort. So there's a slight learning curve, but the game itself was well put!