Temponaut

You are the Temponaut, a time-traveling space guy / gal stuck in an apparently untenable situation involving locked doors and killer robots. Luckily, through the power of time-travel, you can give yourself a hand.

Temponaut is a turn-based puzzle game in which you must go back in time to the beginning of the levels, duplicating yourself in the process. Your past selves will act however you did when you were them. Exploit this fact to reach the level exits!

Controls:

• UP / DOWN / LEFT / RIGHT arrows: Move your time-traveler.
• LEFT or RIGHT SHIFT: Wait for one turn.
• SPACE BAR: Loop time.
• TAB: Toggle level grid display.
• ESCAPE: Restart level.
• ESCAPE + SHIFT: Restart from level 1.
• 1 / 2 / 3 number keys: Change window size.

READ THESE HINTS:

• The bottom left number is the current time loop. The bottom right is the current turn within the current loop. Your past selves disappear on the turn they go back in time.
• If a door closes on you, it will crush you! Might want to wait at least one turn on a door switch before going back in time.
• Robots have a limited visual range.
• Once a robot is programmed to kill, it absolutely will not stop until its target is dead, or that target disappears back to the past.

Written for the October 2018 LibGDX jam.

Theme: "Time".

Concept, code, and graphics by John Hiner