Timeworks (Jam Version)
Timeworks is a silly puzzle game about getting along with yourself.
Versions of yourself from the past, that is.
Play through 6 levels of time-traveling industrial mayhem to meet your strict quota.
If the web version is laggy, please download the game below.
TIMEWORKS ASSEMBLER MACHINE™ USER MANUAL
1. Insert pattern card and ingredients
2. Push button
3. Watch your head
---Controls------------
- WASD - Move
- Left-Click - Interact (Pick-up, throw, slap, insert)
- Right-Click - Rewind to the start of the current loop
- Right-Click again to re-do the previous loop!
This game was made in 8 days for a game jam around the theme "Industrial".
~Copyright Colin Page 2020~
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Install instructions
Unzip the downloaded Timeworks file and run the executable inside.
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Done... Dang the last two are difficult!
Stuck on second level :|
Sorry to hear that. The jump in difficulty between levels is way too high, so I wish I could have made more levels for the early-game.
As some hints for Level Two, try climbing on the head of your past clone and then throwing things down to them.
It's also important to know that clones will always click in the same place. If you click on a white window with nothing in hand, a future clone can throw something to you to insert inside.
I hope that helps. Thanks for playing!
ok well, this looks like it could maybe possibly be a fun game except I didn't play it for more than a minute because the mouse sensitivity is so unresponsive. So hard to get it to move in any direction where it does feel like it takes a million years and thousand swipes of the mouse on the mouse pad to do anything.
how do i beat the first level?!?!
First, I want to say that this game was made super fast, so I'm sorry that there's no clear tutorial. It's also a crazy complicated game. I hope to make it better and clearer in the future.
Basically, the goal of each level is to get all items in your quota (top-left) to the delivery slot by using past versions of yourself.
To beat level one, you must insert one orange pattern card into the machine along with two orange balls. Once you press the red button, iron ingots will pop out of the machine onto the red X on the floor. But you won't be able to catch them yet!
That's why in the second Time Loop, you need to stand on the red X so you can catch the ingots before they land on the ground and get destroyed. You need to catch them one at a time and then bring them to the Delivery window.
Also, you can right-click to rewind to the beginning of your current Time Loop, and right-click again to re-do your previous Time Loop.
I'm sorry for the long explanation, but I hope that helps a little bit!
oh i thought you were supposed to click lmb to pick up the ingot not stand on the red x in the time loop and then i noticed that the blue guys with numbers above there head are me from the first loop and second loop