ALLOT TIME!

About bugs: Please don't press W if you're not prompted to, it skips the level -_-

Made in 96 hours, by one person,
 for the GMTK Game Jam 2026, "COUNT DOWN"

Controls:

A, D ( left arrow, right arrow)	Space	Numberkeys (1, 2, 3, 4)
Walk left/right	Jump	Activate tools (if given)

In this 2D-Puzzle-Platformer you will have to :

• Plan ahead: Take a look (or maybe quite a bit more looks) at the level layout and allocate part of your lifetime to the tools at your disposal. Keep in mind that tools disappear 
• Act fast: Once the countdown is running, you should be too! Press the given number keys to activate your tools at the right moment

The underlying idea

While trying to complete a level, you're accompanied by a countdown that kills you if it runs out. That is your lifetime. To complete levels, you need to use given tools: a jetpack, a floating platform and a shield. To use them, you have to give up part of your lifetime and allocate it to your tools. The time that was deducted from your lifetime is now the duration of your tool. For example: by allocating 5 seconds to a floating platform, your countdown now ends 5 seconds sooner, but the platform stays for 5 seconds until it disappears. Once a tool is activated, its countdown starts and can't be stopped. 

Thanks for reading, by the way! 

"Your heartbeat is bound to a clock. The time is ticking away, counting down to your inevitable doom. But perhaps escaping those weird rooms might help? Channel your lifetime into tools, which will now face your fate for you. Will you manage to get out?"

Assets

All code, music and cover art made by me 

Some of the sprites and sfx, as well as the font, come from free assets which may have modified by me (Creative Commons Licenses and others):

sprites

https://craftpix.net/freebies/free-pixel-art-tiny-hero-sprites/
https://craftpix.net/freebies/free-prototype-2d-platformer-32x32-pixel-tileset/
https://kenney.nl/assets/ui-pack-pixel-adventure
https://craftpix.net/freebies/free-scrolling-city-backgrounds-pixel-art/

sfx
https://freesound.org/people/atleastrelatively/sounds/816413/
https://www.weloveindies.com/en/sounds-for-games
https://freesound.org/people/Mrthenoronha/sounds/506826/
https://freesound.org/people/musicvision31/sounds/431780/
https://freesound.org/people/bolkmar/sounds/420363/
https://freesound.org/people/spookymodem/sounds/249818/
https://sfxr.me/

font
https://www.1001fonts.com/pixelzone-font.html#license