INATIME by Artylo

made by Artylo for LD27 (JAM)

You appear randomly in some strange timeline and you notice that you are not in 30XX. Your time machine broke whilst traveling to the supermarket, so now you must find the scattered time cores and continue to the next time period to find the rest, so that you may return to 30XX and continue shopping! But, since your machine is broken you have only 10 seconds to return to it, otherwise you will be stranded in the period you are visiting!
The time cores also lost some of their power and created TIME GLITCHES!
If you touch any of them, you instantly turn into a singularity and will never take form again!
But you also have luck!
Your machine has a MATTER GUN, included in the first aid kit! When hit by the ball of matter, any glitches disappear. The downside is that , when you use the matter gun it drains some of the time you have left, so use it wisely!

Windows	http://www.mediafire.com/download/q62i687gwpibcf2/INATIME_by_Artylo.zip
Source	http://www.mediafire.com/download/f96c54qtw6o5i73/INATIME_Source.zip
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=24959

Ratings

Coolness	52%	3
Overall(Jam)	2.67	484

Audio(Jam)	2.59	361
Fun(Jam)	2.67	393
Graphics(Jam)	3.26	294
Humor(Jam)	2.33	315
Innovation(Jam)	2.61	427
Mood(Jam)	2.41	464
Theme(Jam)	3.09	283

Feedback

mtrc

26. Aug 2013 · 19:29 UTC

Liked it a bunch! The art was nice, the idea is fun. The ladders could do with being a bit wider I think, they were a bit hard to grab onto sometimes. But a nice game overall!

gikdew

26. Aug 2013 · 19:40 UTC

I've love the pixel art! So awesome!

SasoriDama

26. Aug 2013 · 19:45 UTC

The music is pretty catchy and the color choices are nice. The game idea seems pretty cool but I can't figure out how to beat a level and when I ran out of time nothing happened. Still though with some more polish it seems like a cool time travel game.

kunzbe

26. Aug 2013 · 19:49 UTC

+ Good graphics
+ end screen with waving guy, charming
- no challenge, because when the time was at 0, nothing happened ...

Meep

26. Aug 2013 · 19:50 UTC

Had some cute graphics and music, but I felt the controls were very slippery (especially when climbing the ladder). It's a nice concept, and has potential. :)

🎤 Artylo

26. Aug 2013 · 19:51 UTC

"no challenge, because when the time was at 0, nothing happened"
Apparently a bug in later levels. *fixing engaged*

thetheodor98

26. Aug 2013 · 19:52 UTC

Great art!
For some reason I could not lose!?! Bug?
The time was at zero but I could still win.
Great game otherwise!

Rabbits...

26. Aug 2013 · 19:56 UTC

Great music, i turned on sticky keys a lot trying to shoot, but it was worth it

🎤 Artylo

26. Aug 2013 · 19:57 UTC

Thanks for the feedback. Fixing ladders and "the bug".

Dir3kt

26. Aug 2013 · 20:02 UTC

Nice little platformer. Had some difficulties with the control at first, too many keys for stupid me :) Why not use W for ladders and jump instead of having two separated keys.

Second level bugged for me. Impossible to leave and time was stuck at 0 seconds :/ Restarted the game and it was fine.

Asar Dhandala

26. Aug 2013 · 20:32 UTC

Love the Pixel artwork!

daOyster

26. Aug 2013 · 20:33 UTC

Good pixel are and a neat concept. It let me skip a level and the ladders were a bit funky but no the less a cool game.

Daisuke909

26. Aug 2013 · 20:39 UTC

The artwork is awesome, and the use of your time for all of the different functions is fantastic in its simplicity. The biggest problem would probably be that the platforming is kinda broken, although it doesn't get in the way too badly.

markengley

26. Aug 2013 · 20:39 UTC

Nice art and I liked the premise. Found the goal a little confusing - ended up stranded in levels when I think I had failed. Also the control scheme was a bit awkward to use. Nice light mood to it though.

senseidav

26. Aug 2013 · 20:39 UTC

Nice prupose. The art was fine, and the music looping buy correct. THere are already some bugs you have to solve (if you jump over the traffic sign you get into infinite), and when you do it a good game it be done.

Nice idea, congratulations.

🎤 Artylo

26. Aug 2013 · 20:41 UTC

IMPORTANT:
All the ladders are now 48x48 pixels, so now you have more space to work with. The staying alive while being at 0 seconds is fixed (it was an animation causing some problems.).
The game should be stable now.

shohs

26. Aug 2013 · 20:45 UTC

Am I missing something, or are the first two levels unbeatable? I was able to complete all the rest of the levels, but not those two.

Besides that, pretty nice game. I thought it was a little bit too easy. I liked the audio and the graphics, though.

osthekake

26. Aug 2013 · 20:46 UTC

I jumped on top of the stop sign and fell off the world. And then time got stuck on 0. I broke time itself!
The music is kind of cool and really fits the theme.

Joxno

27. Aug 2013 · 22:51 UTC

Enjoyable platformer, movement is a bit difficult to control though, it's like the character is on ice

lordjosephdeburg

28. Aug 2013 · 00:58 UTC

This game has a strange charm to it and has a good use of theme. I like it!

UnixXNova

28. Aug 2013 · 07:59 UTC

So hard to grab ladders but still not a bad game

MatrixBai

28. Aug 2013 · 10:54 UTC

The art is really good. In first level, I walk out of the right end and disappear.

Diptoman

28. Aug 2013 · 17:50 UTC

Not bad, pixel art was nice!
The controls were awkward though. X_X
Also, the climbing part was a bit off. You had the climbing image even when nowhere near the ladder. :S
Otherwise, good entry!

kirbytails7

03. Sep 2013 · 04:21 UTC

Interesting idea. The controls are a bit awkward.