NOTE: This is a demo of a game currently in development.

Time Foray is a puzzle platformer where you control Macky Bürg in a mission to infiltrate into a mysterious complex by using her ability to travel back in time. With it, she's capable of creating time paradoxes that allow her to cooperate with her future selves in order to advance through the complex. Each time she comes from the future, her colors are different, which helps telling her apart from other versions of herself. She also leaves a time crack open behind, which must be closed by using it to travel the past and closing the cycle by doing do. There are some hazards in the levels that can kill Macky, but you can retry any level as many times as you need.

Her ability has some limitations though, only 5 versions of herself can coexist at any point in time, and she can't travel to the past if that would cause inconsistencies in the timeline.

You can finish each level traveling in time as many times as you need, but they have a defined par (just like in golf) which is the minimum needed. Try to beat them on par for an extra challenge.

Keyboard and gamepad are supported (tested with XBox controller).

Controls (Keyboard):
Arrow keys: Move character/time crosshair
D: Jump
W: Stop/resume time
S (when controlling Macky): Enter into time crack tot ravel back in time
S (when time stopped): Bring Macky from the future where the time crosshair is pointing
Q/E: Switch between the coexisting Mackys which one to control.
Enter: Pause
F4: Toggle resolution

Avalibale languages: English, Spanish

This demo contains 8 levels and a tutorial.

Credits:
Design/programming/graphics/music: Plunskas
Some sound effects taken from Pixabay and Mixkit.

Download

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Time_Foray_v0.1_Win.zip 36 MB

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cool idea! and well designed. it messed me up though 😵‍💫

Thanks! Did you find it confusing?

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on the first level, yes. But the tutorial explained it pretty good.

First, owie-owie my brain hurts.
Second, getting electrocuted literally makes me jump every time since the sound of it is very loud and then I got flash banged after. Needs some adjusting.

I see, I'll try to soften that stuff for the next release!

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Found this through SAGExpo, awesome game, it's a really clever way of implementing the time travel idea! I had a lot of fun!

One question: is it really possible to get par on "escape to the roof"? It doesn't seem possible. Hopefully these newlines will hide the spoilers:








It seems to me you need to use at least three characters to make it to the goal? you need a timegate for the turnaround and a second timegate for the button, which creates three instances.

Thank you very much!

It is indeed possible, to answer your question, you don't really need to bring another one for the button :)

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This rules! The fist-pump I enjoyed when I figured out "Electric Hazards"! 

Plus I love the variety of deaths!

Thanks! Glad you liked it!