Time Prison

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overall: 3.08

fun: 2.78

innovation: 3.50

theme: 4.06

humor: 2.69

mood: 2.81

Source Windows

You were locked in the infamous Time Prison for a crime you did not commit!

Try to escape the Time Prison, and discover why it is considered inescapable; its time loop! Everything within it gets reset to a previous point in time every 27 seconds. Can you make it out in such a short time? Or perhaps you can cheat...

Controls

A and D - movement

E - interact, advance text

Q - exit menus/interactions

Disclaimer

Expect to have to restart the game a couple times.

There is a mechanic which I won't spoil that has to be used precisely to advance through the levels. Looking back, I had a cool idea that didn't turn out very well in practice in such a short jam format. I tried to mitigate its frustratingness a lot, but I'm sorry if it was still annoying for you. On the other hand, if you find the game fun, please let me know, I will be surprised and overjoyed!

I tried my hand at writing a postmortem, which you can check out here: https://github.com/tadeaspaule/ld47-prison-of-time/blob/master/README.md