Casualty of Time

This game was created for the Summer 2023 My First Game Jam, hosted by ludowoods, lysander, Adrienne Lombardo.

Jimmy the scientist is stuck in a fantasy past and must return back to the future through rifts in space-time! These portals, however, are unstable and must be traveled through multiple times to break out of a time loop. All the while, Jimmy's presence breaks parts of the environment, never to be used again in the next loop!

Can you beat the loop?

Overall,  my team and I achieved a lot of which we wanted despite having scheduling issues and it being our first Game Jam ever! We took the theme of "cycles" and applied that to a 2D platformer. Each level has to be beaten in several consecutive cycles with each cycle changing the environment, making it harder. However, we wanted the way the cycles get harder to be in the player's hands, and thus parts of the level deteriorate as the player jumps and uses them.

There were a couple of different enemies and more levels I wanted to add along with sound effects, but the time crunch got to us before we got to them. Enjoy!

Credits:

Lead Designer/Programmer -- Luka Hettenkofer

Artist -- Ian Foran

Composer -- Desdenova (http://desdenova.bandcamp.com/)

Designer -- Ian Boskin

Playtester -- Giancarlo Succi