Time Ghosts

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.90
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.74
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.63
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.05
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.05
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.47
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.53
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.03
You have a limited time to collect the next part for the Machine, when 12 seconds have passed time rewinds and you have to start over. But don't worry, your past self is still around to repeat your past actions.

Made in Rust.

How to play:

Pick up the lightbulbs and bring them back to The Machine.

Controls:

WASD - move your time ghost

Space - wait in place for the rest of the duration

R - clear out existing ghosts. Does not reset The Machine.

Genres: puzzle

Comments14

rex64
rex645 Oct 2020, 03:43
Ghosts trying to collect vacuum tubes. It's super cute!
Flopo5 Oct 2020, 11:02
The sprites look very cool. The concept is fun, interesting and new. I really like this game!
Dominium115 Oct 2020, 11:15
Beat the whole thing, had great fun during it. It sticks with the theme and is original, graphics looks nice, gameplay is rather smooth, great game!
Kazatan
Kazatan5 Oct 2020, 11:19
Very nice puzzle game. I think it gets hard pretty quick but that could be fixed in the future by splitting up the levels a bit. It's quite overwhelming to start with!

The graphics are good, the gameplay is excellent.

I get 'caught' on the edges of doors sometimes although it looks like I shouldn't. That's a very minor issue.

Loved playing the game although I didn't manage to complete it! 👍
CosmicPickle5 Oct 2020, 12:30
I loved it. The core mechanic is very well implemented and the puzzles are very engaging. The final two lamps were tricky to get. Also I will probably experiment later with trying to change the path of my past selves by activating teleporter pads with my present self. I thought it was so cool when I did that by acciden. Graphics were very cute. The theme was very well executed. If there was one thing I liked less was that the sounds were too loud and getting a bit annoying after a while. But I did play it for 20 minutes :D. Great game!
healthire
healthireauthor5 Oct 2020, 14:34
I've lowered the sound volume in the web builds, I didn't realize it was so ear splittingly loud.
Tomssuli
Tomssuli6 Oct 2020, 21:17
Wow this was fun and innovative! I liked the graphics and it was spot on the theme :slight_smile:
Couldn't stop playing until I was finished!
Derek Volker
Derek Volker17 Oct 2020, 20:58
I predicted that this ghost player kind of game would be popping a lot on this jam due to the theme, but i didn't exepct an actual ghost as player! Nice mechanics and graphics. The puzzles have a clever way to work and i find it cool, even being bad at puzzle games i managed to get through. Good job!
SvartTand26 Oct 2020, 21:20
Really cool game! quite unique mechanics so well done!
frosty
frosty27 Oct 2020, 07:00
A nice take on the "simultaneous ghost" mechanic, and overall polished pixel art -- I especially like the ghost sprites :) Overall great entry!
slammer27 Oct 2020, 09:59
Such a neat idea, I love the having to rely on past selves to help future self. Nice job!
Tygrak
Tygrak27 Oct 2020, 10:16
From the multiple games with this ghosts in a loop mechanic I played this one is my favorite. Finishing the long sixth puzzle felt really good! The graphics are really nice, it's all polished and without bugs. You've done a really good job making this :)!

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