Epoch by Fictions

"It took ages... - Finally it will be done... - Just a button push away..." Follow the final steps of a scientist to fulfill his lifes work.
Epoch is a platformer where you have to build the stage up by yourself. Try to master all 10 stages and see how the story ends.
Keybindings: Build Mode => Mouse (Drag/Drop/Click) Play Mode => W/Arrow Left: Left, D/Arrow Right: Right, Space: Jump
We challenged ourself to make the game within 48 hours and we are very proud of the result.
Features: - Time Reverse - Build Mode/Stage Editor - Voiceover - Music Reverse with time - Music written by Karlheinz Follner - Character Platorm Controlls - Cutscenes
Created by:
Tobias Kiehnlein: Code, Art, Design https://github.com/TobiasKiehnlein/
Raphael Kölz: Code, Art, Design https://raphael-koelz.de/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTb9nI3Ic95v8pMkslX9Yiw
Karlheinz Follner: Sound, Music https://www.follner-music.de/
Build Mode:

| Youtube | https://github.com/TobiasKiehnlein/LudumDare-2020-10-02 |
| Youtube | https://fictions.itch.io/epoch |
| Youtube | https://fictions.itch.io/epoch |
| Youtube | https://fictions.itch.io/epoch |
| Youtube | https://fictions.itch.io/epoch |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/epoch |
Ratings
| Overall | 357th | 3.833⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 445th | 3.639⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 370th | 3.722⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 788th | 3.639⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 283th | 4.139⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 168th | 3.944⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 201th | 3.722⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 532th | 3.639⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 9🗳️ | 8🗨️ |
personally I think it'd be better if the loop keeps going; it'd be a bit tighter with the theme, and I did want to go back and start again to make harder versions of the levels!
@sriram070 I agree - we need to tinker a bit with the controlls. But I also love the cartoony and snappy fall of the character.
@listonos Hotkeys...! We haven't thout about them - Thanks :D That would make the game flow much better.
To be honest, I did only 8 levels on 10, because at the end it became very tricky and I hadn't that much time) But very cute and cool game :ok_hand:
(take a cookie :cookie:)
For some reason when I first played it I didn't realise there was a jump key so I spent quite a while trying to do the first level. The fact that you couldn't rearrange the objects without completely resetting the level was in that case quite annoying because it meant that despite having a "solution" much of the problem was guessing in what had to go where instead of being able to fix any slight errors.
(TLDR I'm an idiot but rearranging the room without resetting would be useful if you're going to continue the game).
Once I did realise you could jump, because of the floaty-ness of the jump it perhaps made the levels too easy, you could get across by using a small number of the most useful objects and stacking the rest next to the start location. Although the jump does offset the difficulties mentioned with not being able to edit the level.
Obviously its a jam game so its not expected to be super complete and polished, and you do a really good job of what you did make and it was a lot of fun, so good job.
Following that, I don't know if I'm amused or disappointed with the ending :sweat_smile:
Besides the jump feeling a bit off to me and the points other have mentioned regarding the difficulty and needing to reset every time, I think this is a really cool premise, great executions, and it fits the theme very well!