Egg Time Rewind is a retro pixel arcade shooter with a clever time-rewind mechanic. Fight endless enemies, improve after death, and chase high scores.
Introduction to Egg Time Rewind
- Genre: Arcade, Shooter, Pixel Art
- Platform: HTML5 - playable directly in your browser
- Author: Frank Force Games (Killed By A Pixel)
Time travel in a pixel shooter
This is a simple yet addictive pixel arcade shooter, a popular jam game with a size limit of only 13 kilobytes.
Unique time mechanism
- Time Rewind: Every time your character dies, the game returns to a previous point in time, but your "ghosts" from previous plays remain and provide support.
- Score and Objectives: The game has no fixed ending but increases in difficulty over time, requiring you to survive and achieve the highest score.
- Flexible controls: Supports mouse, keyboard (WASD, movement keys), or gamepad controls; two firing modes: automatic and high-powered burst fire.
This mechanism creates a challenging yet engaging experience, as each death isn't a complete failure but an opportunity to learn and progress.
Game highlights
- Game Jam and ultra-small file size: The game was developed in 4 days for the Nokia 3310 Jam 2 with extremely low graphics limits (84x48 pixels, 2 colors).
- Ghost support mechanism: Dead players don't lose their abilities; clones from previous playthroughs still appear to help you fight enemies, creating a very interesting sense of time continuity.
- Retro graphics with minimalist sound: Classic pixel graphics reminiscent of the 8-bit/16-bit gaming era, along with sound created by the ZzFX engine, resulting in a compact and efficient sound generator.
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