Time-to-Live

Description

You are a cursor.

Cooperate with your previous lives to progress to the final floor and beat the game. Once you've solved how to reach the final floor, try optimizing your run while collecting points to get a high score.

History

This game was heavily inspired by  the 2008 flash game Cursor10 by NekoGames Yoshio Ishii which I greatly enjoyed in high school. When I saw the theme for the jam, Cursor10 naturally came to mind. This is my attempt to make the best modernized clone of it I could.

I had initially planned several additional mechanics and a narrative design to the game loop, but as the time limit came closer, these features didn't make the cut. Ideally I would set the lifespan time something closer to around 12-15 seconds for difficulty tuning. However I really wanted to keep with the theme.

I originally made this game for GDTV2022 a few months back. When I saw the theme "Every 10 seconds" for LD51 I rebuilt the game from the ground up during the weekend with a new replay system and new guts in general. After someone pointed out this may be against the rules, I contacted mike and moved the game to the Extra category.

Credits

Music by Paul E. Messier

Game Code, and Art by Astrydax

Original 2008 Cursor10 by Yoshio Ishii

Tools Used: Unity, FL Studio, BFXR, Affinity Designer