Разработчик: Defrost Games
Описание
Experience the mind bending power of single player cooperation.
Project Temporality is a third person action/puzzle game built around the concept of allowing the player to play with time. Thanks to our proprietary engine Sparta 3D we make the fourth dimension as available as the other three. Just as with a VCR you can rewind time or fast-forward through it seamlessly.
Combining this and our time line concept you will solve mind-bending puzzles, by giving yourself a helping hand. Any time you need a friend, you can be that friend. Create a new timeline at any time/any place there are no restrictions. This game is all about giving you full freedom in four dimensions.
Solve puzzles involving lasers, mirrors, force fields, trap doors, platforms, keys etc. Exploit time to do the impossible. Explore the world and see into the mind of its people. We hope that you will enjoy the result of our years of evenings and weekends.
Contains 6-14 hours of gameplay.
Key Features
- 4D Gameplay
The fourth dimension Time is as accessible to you as the other three since at any time you can rewind to any earlier point in time, to find that perfect moment for you. No more frustrating replays performing the same sequence over and over again. Just rewind and fix. - Single Player Cooperation
This is the key part of the game. You can exist in many parallel timelines using time clones. It means that every time you need a friend's help in the game, you can be that friend. You can spawn a new time clone at any position and time in the game, and once you create a new one it’s there forever. - Multiple true timelines
Time clones will continue to perform the actions you recorded. They are, however, still a part of the game world, and if you change the game world the end result will also change. - Temporality fielded objects
A temporality fielded object is an object that won’t be affected by your time manipulations, because it is inside a field that cancels out all timelines except the original one. - The Paradox Effect
Combining the true timelines with the temporality fielding allows us to create paradox based puzzles where one single timelines performs multiple different actions depending from where in time it is viewed. Mathematically every temporality fielded object increases the number of dimensions with one which is what allows the paradox effect.
Поддерживаемые языки: english, spanish - spain
Системные требования
Windows
- OS: XP
- Processor: Intel Pentium Dual-Core [email protected] GHz or AMD Athlon64 X2 3800 + @ 2.0 GHz
- Memory: 2048 MB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD3000
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 600 MB available space
- Additional Notes: Requires windows media player for music. The graphichs card needs to be DX10 Compatible but can run using DX9.
- OS: XP
- Processor: Intel Pentium Dual-Core [email protected] GHz or AMD Athlon64 X2 3800 + @ 2.0 GHz
- Memory: 2048 MB RAM
- Graphics: Geforce 460gtx
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 600 MB available space
- Additional Notes: The graphichs card needs to be DX10 Compatible but can run using DX9.
Отзывы пользователей
this game is really good, i cant believe that such a small team was capable of making their own engine and the game.
the game is not perfect tho, what really makes it shine is the level design and game mechanics!
8/10 its worth the buck.
I thought it was decent
the puzzles were actually pretty good
the music was decent
I thought the generals ending dialog was funny
there were a few bugs and some annoying things such as
-if you went by both a laser and a wall you would get stuck in the wall and have to rewind back out
-often when restarting an area your power bar would show that you have less power than you should (a fix for this is putting down a clone and rewinding to before you put it down and it recalibrates how much power you should have)
-pressing esc. brought up the menu but pressing esc. while the menu was open doesn't close it
-the in game running sound effects are super quiet, basically you can only hear them when a new song is being selected
-sometimes there was a minor camera getting stuck in the ground/wall for a second
Advantages:
+good graphics
+good gameplay
+interesting enough story
Disadvantage:
-some bags (for example your clone fly in ceiling, you stuck in different things, etc.)
Like conclusion good enough puzzle game with scientific atmosphere.
7/10
A very interesting concept for a puzzle.
This is an exceptional, slow-paced puzzle/platformer for gamers of all skill levels.
The gameplay is solid, the story is simple, and the music is excellent.
If you like to challenge your puzzle-solving skills, give this game a go.
Every jump needs to be precise, if the tread of your boot contacts the side of a ledge, you may as well have jumped at a wall because you will lose all momentum and fall strait down. Second level has a jumping puzzel and the third requires a PERFECT jump at the begining. I was unable to make it past here.
2/10 might be a good game if the jumping was tolerable.
This is not simply a mind bender. This game will take your brain, squish it flat, roll it up, twist it into a pretzel, and then use it to play a game of Twister.
But yeah, it's fantastic. I've been following Project Temporality since before it got on Steam, through IndieDB. I finally got around to buying and playing it after the winter sale. What makes this game different from, say, Thinking With Time Machines? The idea behind Project Temporality is this - what if you could wind time back and forth like an old VCR? And what if you could, somehow, split off from that VCR - so as to have two movies playing at once?
This really is more intuitive than it sounds. The devs are to be commended for how they gradually introduce the concept to you, then steadily make the puzzles more complex until they reach the aforementioned mind-pretzel-bending levels.
The soundtrack is good. It's techy and synthesized, but doesn't call much attention to itself. It doesn't get in the way when you're furrowing your brows as you analyze the puzzle in front of you.
One thing I was kindof disappointed about was the lack of voice acting. I thought there would be voice acting in the actual game (the Admiral says a few lines in the trailers) but the actual game has no voice acting. Make no mistake, it's still a good game, just something to be aware of.
That being said. The story is told through the running commentary of Admiral Melville and the journals you find around the facility. I think on my second playthrough, I'm going to copy said journals and try to piece them together... I was deliberately hunting for the journals. I wanted to know more, about what happened on the space station, the development of time travel tech, and why on earth were there so many bloodstains on the testing track? It's intriguing, but the answers might be hard to find.
One final thought. Does anyone else think Admiral Melville could be based on Captain Ahab, the mariner penned by Herman Melville..?
Very much recommended.
An awesome concept turned into a fun puzzle game. Project Temporality puts the player on a futuristic space station and has you go through 14 chapters, each with its own set of puzzles that require you to use time clones to be solved. It might seem like a confusing mechanic at first, but don't let your first impressions deceive you. You perform a route that you'd want a clone to take, then you rewind back and create an alternate timeline. At this point, the action you've done already will be performed by a clone, whilst you can go on to perform another action.
The game lets you create up to 10 clones per chapter, and hence 11 timelines in total. Many of the puzzles require you to use more than 1 clone, creating a very smart and dynamic gameplay, which encourages you to think several moves in advance. It really reminded me of The Swapper (another good puzzle game), except in 3D rather than 2D and with more control over your clones. The puzzles themselves involve security doors, timers, keys, buttons, lasers, and moving platforms - things you'd expect in many puzzle games except executed with a lot of originality.
Some of the latter puzzles start involving more complex mechanics such as temporality fields, which cause a door or a platform to remain where it was even if you reversed time. Regardless of complexity, solving each and every puzzle felt very rewarding. There was not a single puzzle in the game that frustrated me or made me turn to a walkthrough.
The game also gives you a star rating out of 3 for how well you did the chapter. Creating each timeline causes you to use up some energy, so the less energy you use overall, the higher your rating will be. This is pretty good for perfectionist type players, though from what I noticed, it is pretty hard to earn the perfect 3 stars on a level, or even 2 stars for that matter.
The visuals are very colourful and shiny, and do a good job showing a futuristic setting. The music is also really great and relaxing, perfect for when you need to concentrate on solving a puzzle. The game's story is mostly told by reading various data pads around each level as well as two characters communicating with you from time to time. The story is on the background mostly, so don't expect something akin to Portal 2 here. I think a lot of reviews, both critic and user alike, are very unfair for judging a puzzle game based on its story, when the main focus is on solving puzzles via time manipulation.
There were a few minor problems I came across, but they did not detract much from the overall experience. Like at times you could get stuck, mostly if a door closes the moment you walk through it, but all you need to do is to rewind time back a couple of seconds and you become unstuck. I did notice some big frame drops in some areas (with a lot of sunbeams), but this might not be the case for people with more powerful computers. I also found myself unable to complete chapter 13 the first time round, since I used up all the clones by the time I got to the very final puzzle in it and it was too late to rewind it. So the only way was to restart the chapter from the beginning. Gladly, once you know the solutions, you can blitz through the puzzles much faster. The devs were also kind enough to provide chapter selection, so you can play any chapter at any time, even if you haven't reached it yet.
Overall, I greatly enjoyed this game and would highly recommend it to anyone who likes puzzle games or the concept of time manipulation. I've had a very fun and rewarding experience playing this game. No doubt it's now one of my favourite puzzle games.
A really nice and good looking puzzle game, not unlike Portal.
It play's out on a space station orbiting what once was Jupiter (still is, just not the way we know it. The developers must really like 2001: A Space Odyssey and 2010: The Year We Made Contact and its sequel); A scientific testing facility where you are the 80-something test subject.
What are you testing? Well, you have a brain implant that allows you to move forward and backward in time, as well as create temporal clones of yourself doing whatever it was you did before. It basically is a record-and-playback function for you as a person. And therein lies the kicker. The puzzles you are presented with require you to create not one but several of these clones of yourself in order to solve them.
It looks and plays really smooth and beautiful, except that a lot of rooms and corridors look very much alike and resources are obviously being re-used a bit too much. But every now and then you get to watch out the window and see...well, just watch the forementioned movies or play the game and you'll get it. The musical score and sound effect round the artwork off quite nicely.
The physics and modelling have proven a tad temperamental though. Buttons you're supposed to step on sometimes don't trigger because of the odd shape and the character(s) collision detection and lasers, which push you away, may push you into a wall and all sorts of freaky things start happening.
Then there are certain puzzles that involve objects that are shielded from temporal tampering, and that's where the real gamebreak lies. These puzzles come with a checkpoint so you can still reset the puzzle and try again. The problem is that not all objects are properly reset when using these, resulting in bugged puzzles that simply cannot be solved, you cannot proceed and therefor have to play the entire level again, and again...and again...
But overall this really is a great addition for people that enjoy puzzles set in an FPS game with a SciFi undertone.
Awesome idea, great execution.
In a world full of ordinary platformers, be that great ones such as Portal series or Antichamber, or mindboggling vastness of cheap imitations and boring repetitions, there comes a game that stands out with fresh approach and opening an entire dimension of time for puzzling challenges in a brilliant and innovative way. I only wish there was more of it.
Which is the biggest problem: the story is very short. You barely manage to get the hang of time manipulation and it ends. The general game setting also could use a lot more narration, many topics sketched throughout story progression beg for details and the whole mystery-stuffed campaign leaves one craving answers. Or at least hints as to what may have happened.. to story characters, their mission, the universe.
Other than that I found the game fairly easy - once somewhat accustomed to time-branching, a certainly unintuitive way of solving problems. I absolutely love the music - especially how it befits the mysterious deep-space environment, but find it highly repetitive. Same goes for the graphical setting, with the same models repeating dozens of times across subsequent rooms - but I suppose it is acceptable for an indie game.
All in all, I only wish I knew about this game sooner and definitely won't hesitate a single second to buy the sequel, if and when there is any.
Use Time Paradox duplicates of yourself to help solve puzzles and circumvent test chambers. Be careful not to approximate any of your previous selfs.
Main "cloning" concept is very fresh and enjoyable, however a little confusing at the beginning. But once you figure it out in your head, most puzzles will provide a lot of fun! The game could do a better job at teaching you some "tricks" which you need to know to solve some puzzles, but with a bit of perseverance and "trial and error" tactics you can discover it yourself.
The music, story and the way story is told could be more polished, but these do not overshadow general fun of playing the game. I hope more games with similar concept will be made in the future, as it has a potential to be even better.
Overall, a positive experience!
The game is amazing! A puzzle game in the vein of Portal. The controls are spot-on and the story is intriguing. This NEEDS to be in your collection.
If you don't have Portal 2 get that. If you do have Portal 2 then get the free mod "Thinking with Time Machine". This game isn't bad per se. It just that the story and characters....well their aren't any really. Comparing it to Portal may not seem fair but really that's the standard now. And the story and characters that had help you not get so fustrated at the game for those times the 'ah ha' moment hasn't quite hit.
In the long run though if you have Portal 2 played it plus "Thinking with Time Machine" mod and are looking for something to scratch that itch this might hit the puzzling spot but completely miss the character portion. Quantum Conundrum comes closer but it too falls short IMHO. [Portal why did you spoil me so]
The idea of this game (creating time clones) is interesting, and that's what made me buy it. However, the implementation is so poor that I couldn't enjoy the game and gave up after forcing myself into a few play sessions.
The controls are clumsy. This game would probably play easier if the camera were just looking from inside the eyes of the character, not from behind. In the first few minutes of the game the camera is even locked at fixed angle, you can't look around the room.
The constant interruptions by the tutorial text which freeze the game are very annoying. Also, it's the mouse click which closes them, but you don't see the cursor itself, which also feels strange. I'd expect clicking "Next" button or "Close". No voice-overs btw, which is, well, ok for a game which you get for a few euros. The text which appears word by word is annoying as well, it should appear just all at once.
The graphics are pretty good, but you very soon notice that there is just a very limited set of models for environmental objects which they constantly re-use in every room. All rooms look the same because of that. In the end it feels more like a tech demo than a finished game, as if they bought some stub assets on the Internet. And the whole game feels generic and anonymous.
No environmental sound whatsoever! You walk around levels in complete silence. There are no footsteps, no buzz from the electronics around you etc. It feels like your sound card is broken or something - yet the music is playing. The music is good btw. The only sound I heard was the jump sound which is much like the Game Boy's Mario jump sound from the early 90s. Completely out of place.
The story is badly written. The very first message you get by pressing E on something in the first room is unintelligeble, and the rest even more, so I stopped reading them after the 3rd one.
Like in most puzzle games, the actual puzzles are more a chore than fun to solve, with some rare exceptions. It's just that the set of actions the player can do is so small that not much interesting could be built around it, and the time-rewinding mechanics doesn't really save it. You step on buttons, run, jump, and carry keys. Then more of the same, and then some more, without any sense of progress or direction. They make a clumsy attempt to get you interested in solving the puzzles in a "perfect" way to earn stars (as if this were some casual game on iOS) but frankly I didn't bother at all. Stars feel too cheap for a 3D game where you control a character. At least in Portal it felt like a mix of FPS and puzzle, not just a puzzle.
Apparently there are some bugs with collisions, I got them every 15-20 minutes. Sometimes the character can collide into some object of the environment and get completely stuck (can't move/jump anymore). Once I got the character smashing into the edge of a cliff, stuck in the animation of running. If you jump on a rising platform, the feet sink in it. Camera frequently gets inside objects, including the character himself.
Honestly, this product looks like a prototype for a game, not a real game on sale. It may be ok for the game's low price but cmon, the idea of time rewinds around which this game is designed deserves so much more!
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A nice game which can be described as a cousin to Braid and Portal. The aspects of manipulating time to create several different timelines has been the bread and butter of Science Fiction stories for decades, but apart from Braid this is the first game I've ever seen that explores the possibilities. Since this is a 3D plattform game, the aspects of timetravel that are most explored are of course the purely spatial and temporal, having to go through ways of getting past obstacles by manipulating the timelines. While they overall have done a good job creating puzzles that you have to think through in order to solve, while still remaining enjoyable, some puzzles just feel like variations of previous puzzles. At first I found the story unengaging but at level 8, I felt it took a turn for the better. All in all, if you enjoyed Braid and Portal, odds are you'll like Project Temporality.
I spent 7.49 Euro on Project Temporality, and I'd honestly say it was worth it. The game is short, though. The game runs about as long as the original portal and has more than enough puzzles to be interesting, with some of them requiring very abstract thinking. It looks pretty good technically, though it's very samey, and I wouldn't with the story if I were you. But should you get it? Well...
If you like puzzle games, DEFINITELY buy this. It's one of the better puzzle games I've played in a while and - unlike the others - it doesn't look awful. The controls are loose and wobbly, but with essentially infinite-use time reversal, you can account for that. It's clever, it's creative and it gives you mechanics which seem familiar, but are fairly unique on their own. This will challenge your brain, but in a good way.
However, Temporality is also a very slow-paced game. While you may beat most levels in under three minutes on the clock, keep in mind that the clock counts back when you reverse time. So while it may be an absolute 3 minutes, you'll actually be spending 15-20 minutes per level. The character jogs slowly, jumps awkwardly and the game requires a lot of repetition, minor adjustments to positioning and timing and a lot of staring at a puzzle to figure out what you to do. If you need action, this isn't the right game. And it also goes without saying that if you're awful at puzzle games, Temporality will frustrate you.
For me, though, it was a worthwhile buy at 7.49 Euro. I'm not entirely sure if I can recommend it at its full price of 15 Euro, though. I mean, it's cool and creative, but also VERY short. If you're a huge puzzle game fan I can kind of see paying full price, but for my pocket I don't know that I could go much higher than 10 Euro. Then again, I'm stingy :)
Play time ~9 hours
(Originally recommend No, so that developers see this).
I am very grateful that the developers have put out a game with the intention to raise awareness of the injustices in today's human society. The game portrays that injustice very well, but I believe more effort could have been placed in condemning the injustices and fixing it also, rather than simply placing the protagonist (and others) in the shoes' of a victim. Moreover, there are some references to animal experimentation which I feel is inappropriate - another injustice that yet again is not condemned.
From a game mechanics / gameplay, perspective, the game is very good. It puts together multiple puzzle mechanics to bring a complex new type of gameplay not found in any other game I've played. Although the mechanics are fixed, there are new twists being thrown in consistently, and this provides a variety of gameplay. I thoroughly enjoyed the puzzle aspects.
Regarding visuals and audio: superb. The game is beautiful in both regards.
The game is also good at storytelling. The reward system for beating challenges means users are fed bits and pieces of the story and I believe this works very well.
RECOMMENDED.
This is some kind of mix between The Swapper and Thinking with Time Machine (which is free).
From The Swapper, it takes the idea of cloning yourself to achieve the goals of each level.
From Thinking with Time Machine, the time roll-out concept.
Graphics are a tad odd, better than in The Swapper and not so charming as in TWTM (which, in fact, uses Portal 2's toolbox).
I would try both mentioned ones first to this one but, once you are done with those, this is a curious blend.
If you liked those, you will probably like this one, also
Seeing this game while browsing the store did not impress me much but after I took the time and had a second look at it I really liked it and gave it a shot and I have to say that this is one of the best puzzle games I've ever played.
The premise is simple. You are a person with the power of time manipulation (due to a prototype device) which you can use to turn back time and make a clone that does what you did before in order to solve puzzles and go to the next level. That means you can do two or things at the same time. Normally that would make things easier but not in this game. The complexity the numbber of time clones give to the puzzle only makes it harder.
From what I played I can say with confidence that the execution of the premise is very good! Complex puzzles that require you to set your mind to ultra super problem solving mode while providing an aesthetically beautiful environment. This is one game that will put yout thinking skills to the test and provide you a fun experience!
Graphics are very good for an indie game as well as generally for a game and truly for what this game is you don't need better.
This game is not for those who lack patience at puzzle solving but for those who really want a challenging puzzle solving experience or those who want to try a puzzle game (provided they have enough patience) this game is a must have (at least imo)! Project Temporality will give the puzzle game lovers hours of fun and a great (well earned) sence of accomplishment when completing the levels! This game is overall an experience that no one sould miss!
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Defrost Games |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 18.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 85% положительных (20) |