Gears Of Time

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Hi from the USA, I played your game and I thought it had a lot of good ideas, the HUD is nice and simple and like the art used for the health, dash and time gauges. Your overall level design is nice. There's enough camera distance for the player to see whether they can or should or attempt a jump at a gap and still enough to tell where the player is. A couple of things to note: You may want to make where the player is in the air a little more pronounced. In the room near the throne room where the 3 platforms are rotating in a circle where the gears are moving up and down it was really tough to see when I should time my jumps to move to the next platform. Maybe you can put a cursor where the player is on the plane relative to where they are in the air or make their landing area more clear. The same with the spinning gear platforms. You may want to speed up the opening and closing of the gates when a player enters an enemy room. The final boss' AI script seems to break. When I enter the room if I try to attack it or it attacks me it stops functioning so I had to throw myself off the edge to restart and try again. Let me know if that's helpful. Good Luck!

Gears Of Time is one of literally thousands of student projects infesting Steam. It's from Creanavarra Superior Design Center in Spain. While student projects tend to be better quality than most "amateur" made games, we must still question what value such projects have for gamers. As with all student projects, this isn't really a fully fleshed out game, it's just the result of an academic exercise, and as such it has much more limited value as a game than a professionally developed game would have. Educational institutions should not be using Steam as a dumping ground for homework assignments (especially if the students didn't even pass the course). Sure, it helps their marketing and helps the students feel good about themselves, but this is another case of a business putting themselves before the needs of gamers. This time the students made a simple console-esque 3D top down platformer/brawler... this is not a genre I particularly enjoy to begin with, and given it's in the form of a short and shallow student project, there's nothing to override the initial handicap of being a glorified console game on the wrong platform. The graphics in this game are passable, but could be …

This is a really cute, fun game that's obviously a bit rough around the edges but conceptually interesting. I liked the platforming and the combat was pretty solid. The final boss was bugged for me, so that was a bummer, but otherwise still enjoyed it.