The End of Time Diner

by lexxio

co-authored: @caplucky

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.35

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.20

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.48

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.40

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.92

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.60

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.40

Welcome to the End-of-Time Diner!

You are playing as a Diner owner in a futuristic space arcade game. Your main goal is to harvest and refine something, everyone desires, to sell it in your Diner: Time.
To do so you pack your time-gun and travel into a black hole which leads you on a hostile space isle. There you have to collect your harvesters,
look for time cracks around the island, harvest time from these and bring the harvested time to your refinery. Doing so needs to be done "just in time"
or your harvested time might collapse. While doing all of this you also have to avoid incoming comets and hostile time-keepers, inhabitating the isle.
Luckily you brought your time-gun, which can be refilled by collecting crystals lying around the isle.
If you think you have harvested enough time or its getting too dangerous around the isle you can always leave with your trusty rocket that you arrived with.

Controls:

Move: W A S D

Look around: Mouse

Interact: E

Jump: Space

Sprint: Left Shift

Screenshots:

Tags: #3d, #endless, #retro

Genres: shooter

Comments8

Aznz9 Jan 2023, 20:58

Visual art is well-done, even though its not complete I can imagine it and know where you heading to. But the gameplay was lagging (felt unplayable because its html) but ignore the lag and tried it anyways. The movement and shooting felt natural. planet was going to be destroy and need to harvest material quickly before that happen which pretty cool concept for the theme. hope I can play it again without lag, lets us download the game. it would be good experience for others.

Efilheim10 Jan 2023, 15:41

Cool concept ! Didn't experienced any lag while playing on web.
The graphics are really cool !

Steffo11 Jan 2023, 06:30

Hmm. It's time to leave some feedback. :hourglass:

My score

I survived a long time, but I didn't manage to score anything. I think I misunderstood how to harvest time, and only made it collapse...

Feedback

Game

The mood of the game is great! It really seems like an apocalypse in space!

The mechanics and platforming are fun and enjoyable!

The graphics are consistent everywhere, which is not something you always see in Ludum Dare games!

Something weird is going on with the music: it started playing halfway both of my play sessions...

Distribution

Thanks for providing a HTML5 build!
Since I am playing on Linux, I appreciated it!

Extra

Was the name inspired by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, by chance? :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

Jujus12 Jan 2023, 14:05

Nice graphics :)

Iskra12 Jan 2023, 22:54

Cool game atmosphere. Great job :smile:

ImmanentDeath17 Jan 2023, 06:26

I love this game, it feels really fun to play and the visual styles work really well with each other and with the gameplay. The mechanics are great for making the player learn the map so they can navigate it quickly and avoid time keepers before their harvested time collapses.

Ynis17 Jan 2023, 18:00

Great game! I will give it a score of 42. Cheers!

quadtree23 Jan 2023, 08:46

Pretty fun, very nice graphics. Running the time back to the refinery was appropriately hectic. There were a few confusing things though, like when the time is ready to harvest the message it shows makes it sounds like you can't pick it up, but it's actually the only time you _can_ pick it up. Still, once I figured that out it was pretty clear. Nice job!

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