SKY ROBOT QUANTUM ECHO

by bosco
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.61
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.32
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.66
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.06
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.88
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.36
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.26
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.46
Z, X, Space to perform actions, and Arrow Keys to move!
Every 10 seconds, you dematerialize. But a part of you lives on? There's more parts of you?!? What's going on?!!??!?!?!

A game about quantum echos, sky islands and narcisexual robots.

(The game is quite hard, walkthrough available here: https://pastebin.com/kB33t9CS)

Comments46

d00kl1
d00kl13 Oct 2022, 01:53
Top marks for moodiness–The quadruped robots, their eerily smooth movement, the focus on their objective, the glyphs that are interspersed in their communications. All very well done. The game mechanic has been implemented well, and the levels are challenging. Nothing to complain about :-)
smilewood
smilewood3 Oct 2022, 01:59
Looks great and is an interesting interpretation of the "double of your previous self" game mechanic. I liked the enforced timeout/lifespan of the doubles, it was a good way to work in the theme of the game jam. I found the collision to be a bit inconsistent, sometimes I caught on ledges that I thought that I cleared, but overall the movement worked well. I especially liked that firing your gun moves you, it was fun to try and use that mechanic to shortcut things. Well done!
LDJam user 2789183 Oct 2022, 02:11
Challenging and a really interesting concept! I was definitely surprised when I first fired my gun and just yeeted myself right into the abyss. It took a bit of getting used to. Great job!
Iguanana3 Oct 2022, 02:11
Challenging and a really interesting concept! I was definitely surprised when I first fired my gun and just yeeted myself right into the abyss. It took a bit of getting used to. Great job!
LDJam user 299757
LDJam user 2997573 Oct 2022, 02:59
Really fun good job liked the concept and had a cool song
Triangle Point
Triangle Point3 Oct 2022, 02:59
Really fun good job liked the concept and had a cool song
Xorel
Xorel3 Oct 2022, 03:18
Really really love this concept of your past selves helping you. The music is great with it too, just enough but fits the aesthetic perfectly. Awesome work, would definitely play more!
wildmusketeer
wildmusketeer3 Oct 2022, 04:08
Great concept 😃 Loved the quirky robot dialogues! Also here I was thinking this was the hardest physics game ever, before realizing you could move the robot with normal movement. But still had a lot of fun just trying to do timeloop rocket-jump/boost only platforming (maybe as a hardcore mode 😄 )
LDJam user 2374133 Oct 2022, 04:40
I like the loop every 10 seconds and the choices you made in the last loop effect this one.

Really well presented, but as you stated fairly difficult. Great submission
Haydads3 Oct 2022, 04:40
I like the loop every 10 seconds and the choices you made in the last loop effect this one.
Really well presented, but as you stated fairly difficult. Great submission
acdimalev
acdimalev3 Oct 2022, 04:55
Solid concept. I'm not convinced that this game is running as intended on my machine. The echos move very slow, and firing is not synchronized / they fire well before they reach the location where I originally fired.
chitoyuu
chitoyuu3 Oct 2022, 05:24
Very solid concept that's instantly graspable. I like the dialogue a lot! These bots are very cute. Also floating islands hype hype hype HYPE
OlivierYC3 Oct 2022, 06:47
Great art, the robots are really cool looking!
m11
m113 Oct 2022, 08:13
Absolutely brilliant concept - instantly understandably, very fun and clever!
🎤 LDJam user 2788273 Oct 2022, 09:00
Thanks everyone for the kind words!! <3 I particularly agree with @chitoyuu floating islands are hype as hell

@acdimalev yeah that is not intended, i would love if you sent a message to me on discord maybe, and help me sort out whats happening Bosco#3509
Bosco
Boscoauthor3 Oct 2022, 09:00
Thanks everyone for the kind words!!
LDJam user 258850
LDJam user 2588503 Oct 2022, 09:06
Very cute! ^^ I love the two characters, very funny. I think I beat the Jam content?

A few of those were really tricky, having just 1 echo helped not make things too complicated. A good challenge, really well made! :) enjoyed playing.
rickylee
rickylee3 Oct 2022, 09:06
Very cute! ^^ I love the two characters, very funny. I think I beat the Jam content?

A few of those were really tricky, having just 1 echo helped not make things too complicated. A good challenge, really well made! :) enjoyed playing.
LDJam user 2364163 Oct 2022, 09:35
It&#039;s hard. I barely succeeded to pass the first level.
Xpycm3 Oct 2022, 09:35
It's hard. I barely succeeded to pass the first level.
thegamearchitect3 Oct 2022, 10:27
Some physics breaking and fairly unrepsonsive controls.
LDJam user 2260273 Oct 2022, 11:30
I found it a tad too hard. I do like the mechanic and it seems to work well. Also the atmosphere is nice. 👍
grilladroid3 Oct 2022, 11:30
I found it a tad too hard. I do like the mechanic and it seems to work well. Also the atmosphere is nice. 👍
MoebiusMeow
MoebiusMeow3 Oct 2022, 11:46
I beat all the levels without the walkthrough hints =w= yay!

(I also made a 2D-platformer puzzle game, which shares common ideas in some level)

Great concept and solid puzzles! The dialogues are also cute. Nice entry!
LDJam user 2670953 Oct 2022, 13:57
What an experience. This felt like a game you would find on an old school console.

The feedback from colliding with the purple triangle was a little slow, not sure if it triggers as soon as you collide or if it checks if you collided with it after 10 seconds, and the text formatting is messed up in some places.

The "record" mechanic was pretty cool. Made for some fun puzzles. Movement felt fine as well. Fun game.
reevest23 Oct 2022, 13:57
What an experience. This felt like a game you would find on an old school console.

The feedback from colliding with the purple triangle was a little slow, not sure if it triggers as soon as you collide or if it checks if you collided with it after 10 seconds, and the text formatting is messed up in some places.

The "record" mechanic was pretty cool. Made for some fun puzzles. Movement felt fine as well. Fun game.
LDJam user 3029873 Oct 2022, 15:17
I had quite a lot of fun with this. At first I struggled quite a lot thinking you could only move my shooting and jumping, could be worth making it a bit clearer that you can move with arrows.

The animation, dialog and level design is especially impressive!
Chetthonctus3 Oct 2022, 15:17
I had quite a lot of fun with this. At first I struggled quite a lot thinking you could only move my shooting and jumping, could be worth making it a bit clearer that you can move with arrows.

The animation, dialog and level design is especially impressive!
Flamus
Flamus3 Oct 2022, 15:18
Intresting and fun game to play, nice use of the theme:)!
acdimalev
acdimalev3 Oct 2022, 18:08
@bosco sent. Please do me a favor and mention Ludum Dare when you first message me. I'm not great at keeping track of contacts.
nyxkn
nyxkn3 Oct 2022, 20:04
Yo very cool game! I loved the dialogues! I got stuck where you have to dodge the bullets. Music is really fitting and mysterious. Mechanics feel solid, though a little frustrating at times. Really well polished entry and really nice art!
luqas114 Oct 2022, 04:04
Great concept!

I found it really fun and addictive. It's difficult at some point, but doesn't feels unfair or physically inconsistent.
The music is also nice, just a bit repetitive after some time.
And nice visuals and animations!
LDJam user 263763
LDJam user 2637634 Oct 2022, 08:14
Original concept and mechanics, get hard to pass the levels, good increase of difficulty, nice mood and graphics, good work!
Dreamerflow
Dreamerflow4 Oct 2022, 08:14
Original concept and mechanics, get hard to pass the levels, good increase of difficulty, nice mood and graphics, good work!
busisen
busisen5 Oct 2022, 23:05
I agree with most people here; great concept, nice art and everything packaged together beautifully. Really solid entry!
LDJam user 233659
LDJam user 2336596 Oct 2022, 00:33
The art in this game is really nice. Plays a bit like a game called "Timeslip", but with a very different take on how the clones work. The length of the levels never felt daunting and I think the challenges strike a pretty good balance. I admit, I had a little more fun than anyone should with how the bullets work, lol. This is a rad game! 👍
Mavvy
Mavvy6 Oct 2022, 00:33
The art in this game is really nice. Plays a bit like a game called "Timeslip", but with a very different take on how the clones work. The length of the levels never felt daunting and I think the challenges strike a pretty good balance. I admit, I had a little more fun than anyone should with how the bullets work, lol. This is a rad game! 👍
BigMaMosa6 Oct 2022, 08:35
Enjoyed the game, had a great time. I believe in you
Notan Lemon
Notan Lemon9 Oct 2022, 07:28
I like the idea that shots are used only for movement and not for violence. The mechanics itself about using recoil is good too. If the level design were tighter I would have enjoyed the game more.

The dialogue is pretty funny! I love this character "ai".
Fenrei
Fenrei10 Oct 2022, 01:31
Very cool! The levels all felt interesting, the mechanics tied together well in a way i hadn't really seen before and you made really good use of the theme. Hope you can find a competent writer for next time, though i think what you had was good enough to make things somewhat interesting narratively. Good stuff.
LDJam user 268934
LDJam user 26893411 Oct 2022, 05:10
Smart game lovely voices and a nice color pallet.

Good game !
Senso
Senso11 Oct 2022, 05:10
Smart game lovely voices and a nice color pallet.
Good game !
LDJam user 234567
LDJam user 23456711 Oct 2022, 16:23
As you said, the game is quite hard! 😮 To hard for me 😄

Sometimes I wanted to go left and pressed the left key like others game 😅 and damn it, it&#039;s reverse
Fifut
Fifut11 Oct 2022, 16:23
As you said, the game is quite hard! 😮 To hard for me 😄

Sometimes I wanted to go left and pressed the left key like others game 😅 and damn it, it's reverse
PoshDan
PoshDan17 Oct 2022, 05:13
I found this to be a very creative application of the theme and a fairly unique twist on platformers!

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