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Keep It Ticking! by auxC

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made by auxC for Ludum Dare 46 (JAM)

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Alright, here's the mission briefing:

  1. Infiltrate the Evil Hideout.
  2. Steal all the gadgets.
  3. Collect 5 secret codes to defuse the bomb.
  4. Which explodes in 10 seconds???
  5. Time travel!

We made a platformer where you go back in time over and over to save yourself from being exploded. It went about as well as you could expect. Let's hope we managed to pack some good fun in it, on top of all the bugs!

  1. WASD to move.
  2. LMB to shoot (but you need to find a gun first).
  3. RMB to jump back in time (and space, cause reasons).
  4. Space to jump.

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Disclaimer: The official recommended way to play this game is to clone yourself at least a 100 times and jump around like a monkey.

(Edit) Fixed the desync bug a lot of you mentioned in the comments. Should happen a lot less frequently now! 🤞

Youtube https://auxiliarycarry.itch.io/keepitticking
Youtube https://auxiliarycarry.itch.io/keepitticking
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/keep-it-ticking

Ratings

Overall 70th 4.189⭐ 47🧑‍⚖️
Fun 40th 4.211⭐ 47🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 9th 4.478⭐ 47🧑‍⚖️
Theme 501th 4.011⭐ 47🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 576th 4.056⭐ 47🧑‍⚖️
Humor 394th 3.616⭐ 45🧑‍⚖️
Mood 771th 3.64⭐ 45🧑‍⚖️
Given 89🗳️ 30🗨️

Feedback

marcusnystrand
21. Apr 2020 · 00:31 UTC
Very creative concept!!
RiccaStudio
21. Apr 2020 · 00:40 UTC
Very nice game i dont like the Graphics tho (im more of a 2d guy). One Tipp i could give u is build for MacOs and Linux to upper your numbers. Keep up the work!
BenBonk
21. Apr 2020 · 00:41 UTC
Amazing game. It's so satisfying how you make just a tiny bit of progress each run and restart to build upon that progress. Visuals are great and so is the overall gameplay. Could have used some music, but overall an awesome game.
marccspro
21. Apr 2020 · 00:42 UTC
Absolutely magnificent, very nice concept, the graphics are beautiful, the sound is awesome, the game play is very creative. Very polished game well done !
Topolino
21. Apr 2020 · 00:42 UTC
Very cool idea!
nickw22
21. Apr 2020 · 00:49 UTC
Love the idea and the graphics
Whismirk
21. Apr 2020 · 00:54 UTC
Pretty good ! Really liking the idea of having to cleverly exploit your clones to go through each challenge. Also enjoying the cartoony art style and the overall design of the hideout. Just noticed that sometimes the clones don't go exactly to where I was before even if nothing interacts with them, don't know if it's a bug or not.
Reid Willis
21. Apr 2020 · 00:55 UTC
Very fun! Quite a unique concept as well. ​I couldn't get past the 3rd secret because of compounding errors caused my mirrors to only get to the later areas very inconsistently, but it that's to be expected from so much time travel...
Chez3
21. Apr 2020 · 01:01 UTC
It was a bit glitchy at times, but that's very understandable seeing as how there can be TONS of afterimages. It was chaotic and fun and good job.
cjgammon
21. Apr 2020 · 02:02 UTC
this is great. such a fun idea and it works pretty well. i did get stuck at one point but it was still fun trying to figure out how to get to the next spot. good job.
tomd1013
21. Apr 2020 · 14:59 UTC
Awesome work!
Statt
22. Apr 2020 · 15:49 UTC
Really liked the idea of this game and also how you build those sequences of actions to do your perfect run!
sledzik
22. Apr 2020 · 15:57 UTC
Great game
Chocolat-Endive
22. Apr 2020 · 16:19 UTC
Nice one. The concept is really great, and the game is very easy to play and super fun. Sometimes, I have "clones" that are quite glitchy, they can shoot but they don't appear so they don't push plates. It makes the game quite difficult at the end.

Overall, it's really nice. Good job with this entry.
herniewise
22. Apr 2020 · 16:56 UTC
This is the best concept i've seen so far. You did an amazing job overall.
EntropyMaximizer
22. Apr 2020 · 22:16 UTC
Clever concept, super chaotic! I noticed that past selves seem to interfere with each other or with my current self, requiring me to repeat past actions several times. Whether or not this is intentional, it challenges the player to try to complete the game with as few time-traveling trips as possible to minimize interference.
I really enjoyed this one! Just needs some music
Pietro Ferrantelli
22. Apr 2020 · 22:40 UTC
Super concept with nice execution, that's the kind of jam games I love and one of the best idea I've seen so far ! It's really fun to play :) Congrats
MrChippy
23. Apr 2020 · 00:18 UTC
That was really fun and chaotic. I couldn't get past page 3 because the clones started to be really buggy (some just didn't spawn at all some times) but I had a lot of fun with the concept. I especially liked when they all bounced on top of each other and you would bounce around everywhere.
PROJECTaroid
24. Apr 2020 · 00:18 UTC
Fun game. Really nice art style and presentation. I like the concept and enjoyed the gameplay. Nice work.
JMad
26. Apr 2020 · 17:04 UTC
This game is the best. I love everything in it. The idea, the art, the execution, the level design... perfectly on point. It feels great to control, and works well.

I don't know if it's a bug, or me not understanding everything that is happening, but some of myselves kept disappearing when they were supposed to be at key positions, so I had to record the same movements several times (especially for the 2 codes on the middle upper floor), but it was not too much of a hassle, because it was still a lot of fun to just jump around trying.

Totally flabbergasted. Amazing piece of work. Congrats on your entry!
Maus3rSR
26. Apr 2020 · 17:29 UTC
Dude, you must win this. Really. The amount of fun is over 9000. I love the idea of time paradox to solve puzzles like this.
amkingTRP
28. Apr 2020 · 09:30 UTC
Fantastic mechanics with the time reversal and cloning. Took me a while to realise that people disappear at the point you reversed time (I'd assumed they'd just stand there) so it's a case of standing still until the very last second and then reverse time. This led to me blowing up a few times because I lot track of time.
chaosbrick
29. Apr 2020 · 14:48 UTC
Cool idea, and it has a nice polished feel to it thanks to good graphics and audio.
However, the "desyncing" seems to be a bit of a problem still, and it made it hard to plan your next move when previous runs would sometimes "randomly" not work. I think it would make sense to not actually let your clones interact with the world and just record their positions and interactions instead.
Molpe
30. Apr 2020 · 20:28 UTC
Great game! Maybe, if there is too many copies, they start to disappear..? I was disappointed that I couldn't have played it to the end, but it is AMAZING!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra264TkDuI4
Mike Cullingham
04. May 2020 · 20:30 UTC
Very clever idea. This is one I'll come back to and try to finish later, but I really like the concept.
lectvs
05. May 2020 · 18:34 UTC
Cool idea, great execution! Graphics and sound complement the gameplay well.
yxmx_rsx
07. May 2020 · 03:24 UTC
Nice graphics. tough game and nice concept
randomhuman
07. May 2020 · 16:28 UTC
Great concept and the graphics are really gorgeous. Quite tough, but fun, and very satisfying when you coordinate a sequence really well. The "desyncing" is definitely not fixed unfortunately, and when you get to the part above the starting area it becomes a big problem as the clones rarely make it to where they are needed.
Falzock
09. May 2020 · 08:20 UTC
Great game! It is a cool concept and the 3D creation is very impressive for the time. I like it a lot!