Dr. Sauce by dos
The crazy scientist from the future went back in time!
But his time machine broke!
He found some pieces of ancient technology to fix his time machine!
But he needs to keep them all running together!
Put coal to Atari, blow on the Pegasus cartridge, switch the floppy disks around and watch out for the time machine being ready!
Made solo with Compo rules aside of being late and ending up in Jam instead!
HOW TO PLAY:
Use arrow buttons for switching screens and mouse for everything else! Also, you can use dot button to skip the dialog!
The machine charges when everything is working correctly (little indicators are all green)! Otherwise it discharges!
When the machine is fuly charged, click on it and go back to the future!
But his time machine broke!
He found some pieces of ancient technology to fix his time machine!
But he needs to keep them all running together!
Put coal to Atari, blow on the Pegasus cartridge, switch the floppy disks around and watch out for the time machine being ready!
Made solo with Compo rules aside of being late and ending up in Jam instead!
HOW TO PLAY:
Use arrow buttons for switching screens and mouse for everything else! Also, you can use dot button to skip the dialog!
The machine charges when everything is working correctly (little indicators are all green)! Otherwise it discharges!
When the machine is fuly charged, click on it and go back to the future!
| Windows 64-bit | https://dosowisko.net/ld36/drsauce-win64.zip |
| Windows 32-bit | https://dosowisko.net/ld36/drsauce-win32.zip |
| GNU/Linux | https://dosowisko.net/ld36/drsauce-linux.tar.gz |
| Mac OS X (experimental) | https://dosowisko.net/ld36/drsauce-osx.zip |
| Source | https://github.com/dos1/DrSauce/ |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-36/?action=preview&uid=52499 |
Fun little game. Just enough going on to keep engaged. It took me a little while to realize how the disk inserting one worked - at first thought I just keep clicking randomly, then finally noticed that it changes if I stop on the requested disk, which makes total sense now. I love the console powered by blowing into the cartridge.
Didn't understand what to do in the beginning, but quickly catched up. Very fun (and funny title), wonderful Polish-ish voice acting! I only wish it was longer!
Also, the music and the art style reminded me of Sosowski's games so much I had to double check if I'm not playing his game. A moze to po prostu taki polski vibe... Pozdrawiam :D
It's simple but addicting. The silly voice acting adds to the charm of it all. Only complaint would be that it's a little confusing to realize why you can't get the time machine working even though all parts are functional.
However I struggled to charge the time machine and once I got what I had to do there was no challenge to it, it was just tedious. But the story really makes this game stand out, I should look at your previous entries, maybe there is more gold hidden there :)
but seriously. this was a cool game. I loved the art style and while the mechanic was somewhat difficult at first, it was easy to figure out in the end, which was a nice little reward in itself.
Btw, what's the point with Atari and coal? Is it some joke from the 70s?
I used to blow into my gameboy and Dendy (NES clone popular in CIS countries) cartridges too...
However one word of warning - the Mac build of this game isn't great. It produced a heavily flickering border which even persisted after I closed the game (!!!). In the end I had to re-install OS X to get rid of it.
My record was 384 seconds, it took me a while to understand what to do, and more importantly how everything was related to the time machine (the time machine leds weren't clear enough). Fun game! Too bad I don't have a time machine now lol
As for the Mac build, it's bad like @Tinj says, but for me, closing the game ends the flickering borders, so it's more an annoyance than a real problem. (Seriously? Reinstall the OS???)
Anyway, cool game! :)