Time Wizard by zzForrest

made by zzForrest for LD27 (COMPO)

In Time Wizard, you play as the Time Wizard. He has 10 seconds to retrieve the Golden Scepter from his foe, the Green Wizard. How should he complete this task in 10 seconds? By reversing time, of course! The Time Wizard has the ability to reverse time without reversing his actions, and can therefore flip a lever, reverse time, and the lever will still be flipped!
Control him with WASD or Arrow Keys, flip levers with X or Down, and jump with W, Z, or Up!
*Edit*
As pointed out by one of the players, this game can in fact play on Linux.
*Edit*
Works on mac too.
*NOTICE* if you get any errors, most likely you don't have the most recent JRE. Update your java and it'll work.

Windows - Linux - Mac (JAR)	http://zzforrestgames.weebly.com/ludum-dare-27.html
Source (Same page)	http://zzforrestgames.weebly.com/ludum-dare-27.html
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=6412

Ratings

Coolness	73%	3
Overall	3.43	224

Audio	2.43	622
Fun	3.50	144
Graphics	3.05	455
Humor	2.67	324
Innovation	2.95	563
Mood	2.88	432
Theme	3.73	115

Feedback

SuperPokeunicorn

25. Aug 2013 · 23:05 UTC

I really liked it. the time warp was a very interesting mechanic, especially when you added in the sand.

TheBlueRage

26. Aug 2013 · 02:57 UTC

A well done game. Not very innovative, but fun and clearly thought out. Cheers!

jwolf

26. Aug 2013 · 03:04 UTC

Pretty solid entry! I was a bit confused at first, thinking that you had to always just use 'R' (which resets the level), but when I saw the 'X' in the timeout screen, things made more sense.

I like how the difficulty ramps up.

MegaMasterX

26. Aug 2013 · 04:19 UTC

Certainly fun in its own special way. Time warp was the most interesting part, for sure. Nicely done!

archaeometrician

26. Aug 2013 · 04:40 UTC

Interesting gameplay, needed to be quick to built those houses ;)

sirtetris

26. Aug 2013 · 14:24 UTC

Why "Windows (JAR)"? This runs perfectly fine on Linux, too. ;)
Anyway: nice game, lovely ending screen. :)

eckcz

27. Aug 2013 · 15:14 UTC

I liked the sand. But if i jump on the sand repeatly it doesn't break. I used this glitch to pass the levels :D

Brejlounek

27. Aug 2013 · 15:16 UTC

Great! This is true, finished game, which is tricky, fun to play and with bossfight :)

grozamorei

27. Aug 2013 · 15:56 UTC

i cannot launch the game. the error is:

Could not find the main class: net.zzforrest.ludumdare27.Main. Program will exit.

Gremlin

27. Aug 2013 · 17:41 UTC

The time-warp puzzles are clever. The controls are a bit floaty, though. I think if the handling was just a bit more solid, the game would feel better.

EncryptedCow

27. Aug 2013 · 20:23 UTC

Very fun game. The levels were nicely designed and were a good challenge. I think the controls could have used some work though. Sometimes I would try to jump over 1 tile and jump 3 high straight into a death spike. Maybe change the jump height depending on how long the player holds down the jump key? Nice job.

dcolgan

27. Aug 2013 · 23:32 UTC

This game is really going somewhere. You should keep making it. Very complete for 48 hours!

Niavlys

28. Aug 2013 · 00:19 UTC

Nice game, good level design and concept :)

Latcarf

28. Aug 2013 · 00:19 UTC

Good game! I liked the fact that there are many levels.

oxysoft

28. Aug 2013 · 03:31 UTC

Very interesting entry, I like it.

Thermite

29. Aug 2013 · 23:24 UTC

Fun, especially time warp! Good job.

Endurion

30. Aug 2013 · 16:01 UTC

Sorry, no Java here.

KunoNoOni

30. Aug 2013 · 16:08 UTC

HAHA! What an awesome mechanic! Great puzzle game :)

cyanpelican

30. Aug 2013 · 16:28 UTC

The hitboxes on the red triangles seemed a bit big and the boss was a bit under documented, but it was still fun

m110

30. Aug 2013 · 17:03 UTC

Fun to play and challenging, although jumping felt a bit weird, I kept on hitting the platforms with my head. :)

timothyolt

01. Sep 2013 · 12:55 UTC

Did not work on Linux. D: I got a Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: net/zzforrest/ludumdare27/Main : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0

ZeppelinCaptain

01. Sep 2013 · 13:00 UTC

Finished with 14400 points, and only 12 warps :D

It was fun, and had some good level design, teaching you the workings of the time staff.

Diptoman

01. Sep 2013 · 13:44 UTC

A good entry for 48 hours. The first few levels were fun, but they got increasingly difficult. At first I found dying very annoying, because restarting turned back all the levers as opposed to warping(I was pretty used to warping at that point) xD
Nice graphics and sounds, too!

urth

07. Sep 2013 · 03:09 UTC

Great Game!
The jar file worked on a Mac.

Sink

14. Sep 2013 · 20:02 UTC

Really fun and cute. I like the warping mechanic, really neat.