Beff Jezos: Time Shift Manager

by sine-nomine

co-authored: @cam-moore, @pixeltech

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.48

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.44

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.96

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.46

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.11

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.06

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.92

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.32

Welcome to the Nozama warehouse. Billionaires have "improved" the efficiency of employee shifts by forcing them to use time travel. Use arrow keys to move. Space to restart level. Push boxes into the box doors. Go through a time portal to go back in time. Once you get both packages in the package holes, exit through the golden portal. But beware, you are working with an unstable timeline. Get back to the portal before time runs out!

Block pushing automation puzzle with time travel

Controls:

Move - Arrow Keys

Restart Level - Spacebar

Exit - Esc

(We really fixed the bug this time where the voice kept looping and changed the host to itch.io - Thank you!)

Comments35

grimmpaperman5 Oct 2021, 01:37

Unfortunately this is triggering Windows Security because of wacatac.b!ml.

John Luke Lusty5 Oct 2021, 01:50

Absolutely hilarious - the audio is stuck in a loop though. Great mechanics on this game, I love this idea!

Karsinis5 Oct 2021, 01:50

Omg this game was so funny. The game mechanic was also super cool and fit the game's theme very well! Overall, I thought the game was very good! The constant talking audio was a bit much though haha.

Cam Moore5 Oct 2021, 02:55

@grimmpaperman - Ya I noticed that as well, I apologize you didn't get to play!

Cam Moore5 Oct 2021, 02:55

@john-luke-lusty Thank you!

Cam Moore5 Oct 2021, 02:56

@karsinis Thank you very much. Good point to keep in mind.

teenythanos5 Oct 2021, 03:24

Echoing @grimmpaperman, I also didn't get to enjoy the game but I just LOVE the premise. IF you do an itch.io page/submission, could you ping this thread??

Cam Moore5 Oct 2021, 03:36

@teenythanos Sure maybe we can give that a try tomorrow! Thanks for the suggestion.

Kwiper5 Oct 2021, 03:37

The voiceover is the greatest part of this game. The time mechanic was inspired, and made for some pretty good puzzles. I do wish after the initial voice over, the game just switched to a music loop because I don't think I would enjoy my boss saying the same speech over and over again while I'm trying to package my boxes.

Cam Moore5 Oct 2021, 04:37

@kwiper Thanks for the kind words. We will be sure to tell upper management your concerns and maybe they will stop talking so much!

Cam Moore6 Oct 2021, 04:35

@teenythanos & @grimmpaperman - We have resubmitted the game under itch.io! Let me know if this works better for you.

Unbansheee6 Oct 2021, 06:09

The mechanic is really cool and original, but yeah the voiceover did get stuck in a loop. Well done though, this was a great submission!

Flatgub6 Oct 2021, 07:37

Fun little puzzle game! The voiceover being in a loop was a little much but otherwise a very enjoyable! Well done!

cppchriscpp6 Oct 2021, 07:47

Hi, this is your boss, Beef Jezos!

Interesting concept, it got really interesting when another portal got introduced. Unfortunately I also ran into the voiceover loop issue, which was slightly annoying. (Nothing show-stopping of course!) Thanks for a fun entry

Donatello6 Oct 2021, 13:30

Nice one guys! Really inspired puzzles and I just love Beff Jezos using time manipulation to improve efficiency of his employees, I really love intelligent satire and you definetely nailed it! Big Up!!

Edit: I think the voiceover constantly repeating you what to do, well simbolizes the annoying boss exploiting you, so in the end it might be seen as an enrichment of the experience rather than an audio bug

g5-leonardo6 Oct 2021, 14:10

Really cool! From the beginning the name makes me laugh a lot :smile:

The puzzles are well done and are interesting to solve.
Not to difficult, not to hard: the "Ah-Ah!" effect is always there.
The mechanics, the graphics and the audio are all cleverly wrapped togheter.

God Job Guys!

Raffaello6 Oct 2021, 18:29

Good game! I wasted some time! the chief beef jezos is a stroke of genius. The puzzles are very beautiful. Very interesting game. The beef voice repeats itself a little too much Good job!

Cam Moore7 Oct 2021, 02:48

@unbansheee Thank you. I have updated to where it should no longer loop at all. Even when restarting levels.

Cam Moore7 Oct 2021, 02:48

@flatgub Thank you! =)

Cam Moore7 Oct 2021, 02:49

@cppchriscpp Wow the boss himself! Audio should now be fixed. Thank you.

Cam Moore7 Oct 2021, 02:50

@donatello That was kind of our excuse for the loop to be left but it got so annoying and the people have spoken! It should be fixed now. Thank you!

Cam Moore7 Oct 2021, 02:51

@g5-leonardo We appreciate those kind words! Grazie!

Cam Moore7 Oct 2021, 02:52

@raffaello Always good to hear we created something that wasted someone's time in a good way ;) Thank you. Voice should be fixed now.

Kapricorn Media7 Oct 2021, 04:35

Amazing work on the puzzles! Voiceover is super funny, but came in a bit unexpectedly and got mixed with the music, making it a bit confusing what he was saying. The idea and concept are very well thought out.

Michelangelo7 Oct 2021, 11:20

Beside the voice looping, you can try to insert subtitles or to raise the voice volume (or lower the music volume). I had a hard time to figure out what Jezos was saying, so I just learned mechanics by myself.

Beside this problem, puzzles are innovative and well built. They have a good difficulty progression (once I undestand mechanics), never simple but players can say for sure that they can find the solution.

I definitely would play this game after some improvement (and a better structured tutorial, with more levels to really understand mechanics).

rjhelms9 Oct 2021, 03:52

Really cool puzzle game!

It wasn't obvious to me that spacebar reset the level - I agree that a structured tutorial like @michelangelo suggested would go a long way to add some polish.

Chairshot Games9 Oct 2021, 04:47

Cool game! Really fun puzzle mechanics and I liked how they got more complex as the game went on. They were a good difficulty (I could complete them but had to try multiple times). I would definitely recommend adding that the space key resets the level to your description, because I spent a good while having to restart the whole game if I made a mistake. Overall, really funny and well executed idea. Great job!

Eva Knight10 Oct 2021, 15:45

A fun puzzle game, would love to see this expanded with more levels and mechanics!

Joshua Allen10 Oct 2021, 16:05

Great job! I really enjoyed your core game loop and found your puzzles provided the right amount of complexity.

TheInkSkeleton10 Oct 2021, 21:50

Really liked it! The concept was fun, although I must admit it took me a while to figure out what was happening and how to play properly, once I understood it, I appreciated it even more! The art was effective, and the sounds were on point (And I loved the voice clips, btw). So, apart from that, pretty nice game!

Iacopo13 Oct 2021, 22:59

The game mechanics is really fun, I hope you expand on it and make more levels post-jam! I bookmarked it, I'll stick around, great job :)

kythehuman17 Oct 2021, 19:17

Figuring out the dynamic of the last stage was a cool moment. There's some nice depth with the gameplay here!

Shea Kelly21 Oct 2021, 07:04

very good game, i really like your concept

LDJam user 23870021 Oct 2021, 07:12

A nice short and sweet game! I loved the goofy narration at the start, though it took me a while to wrap my head around the concept and to start progressing! I would love to see more levels - it feels like it ended just as I was getting a grasp on things!

LDJam user 23949321 Oct 2021, 07:27

Fun puzzle, and the last level was a good amount of difficulty. The music was too loud at the beginning to hear hear the instructions, but at least the music is good.