Laces and Loops by fc85057
In the year 3030, Tim Timebow is about to throw the game-winning pass, but due to cyberbionic enhancements he throws a spiral so hard he rips a hole in the fabric of space-time! Timmy is tossed back a few thousands years, but with the help of the ghost of Billy Bullichungus (and a few performance enhancing drugs) he's gonna battle the hordes of timefighters and warp his way back to the big game just in time for the final whistle.



| Youtube | https://fc85057.itch.io/laces-and-loops |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/laces-and-loops |
Ratings
| Overall | 1358th | 3.068⭐ | 46🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1254th | 2.932⭐ | 46🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1502th | 2.535⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1184th | 3.216⭐ | 46🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 1289th | 2.955⭐ | 46🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 973th | 2.767⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 163th | 3.798⭐ | 44🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 969th | 3.232⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 40🗳️ | 61🗨️ |
Nevermind the not that much content part.... I just didn't get to the other parts it seems :rofl:
:purple_heart: :dart: :frog:
I liked the How to play and the story introduction. The variety of sounds and images is great!
The gameplay felt a bit repetitive, I wanted to see more environments without having to kill so many enemies.
Thanks for the game!
It's fun to play, and quick.
The intro text was just skipping to fast sometimes, I could not read it all. And the difficulty seemed to have increased a lot when guns arrived.
Music was cool and in the theme as well
Otherwise as far as game design I think it is a good entry. Liked your Idea/Story. You could try aim at mouse direction.
On the flip-side, I found myself only using the regular attack.. the range attack seems like it should do more power as it take time to draw back. I'd also say when particularly difficult enemies come about Timmy should get either a more powerful attack/football upgrade or perhaps a checkpoint system. Nonetheless, I really enjoyed your game overall, great job :)
I struggled with the bullet enemies and kept dying but still had fun time travelling. The future's too strong! haha
A pretty fun entry, though the gameplay itself got a little stale eventually, but with four visually distinct levels and a ramp up in difficulty in 2020 with the gunfire I was still engaged by the end. (Which I didn't manage to pass, by the way. Guns are mean.)
I had some issues jumping when I Was up against an enemy a few times. And the range attack seemed to do very little damage - especially given that ol' Tim Timebow here can throw a ball that tears throguh time, it seemed odd that those did less damage than a melee smack.
All in all, I was entertained!

Loved the premise of the game. It's hilariously goofy and over-the-top. The game itself is very basic, but it still shows some quality in its presentation, like the camera moving around when going through the portal and the comments from... well... the commentator.
There's some areas of improvement, for sure, but odds are that you can figure those out by what has been said already about the game. But hey! This is still very memorable thanks to its absurdity, which is even enhanced by the visuals. There's a lot of good here!
Not bad, not bad at all! Here's hoping you get to do more games, so keep participating in these jams! :whale: