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Time is Money (GMTK Game Jam 2026)'s itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Artwork | #6985 | 2.500 | 2.500 |
| Enjoyment | #6997 | 2.429 | 2.429 |
| Audio | #7430 | 2.143 | 2.143 |
| Narrative | #7959 | 1.857 | 1.857 |
| Creativity | #8430 | 2.357 | 2.357 |
Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
The game revolves around using a ticking countdown timer as both health and money.
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
BG Tilesheet:
Craftpix.net
Player attack sound:
“Skip SFX” by freesound_community on pixabay
Enemy tilesheet:
Craftpix.net
Spell explosion:
BDragon1727 on itch
Enemy hurt, attack, player hurt sfx:
jsfxr 8 bit sound maker
Enemy charge:
“boom 8 bit” by freesound_community on pixabay
Clock tick:
“Clock Ticking Sound Effect” on Pixabay (uncredited)
Other SFX:
“Arcade Sound Effects” by ChequeredInk on itch
Flowers:
enerix on itch
All assets not listed above made by me
(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
Pseudonym
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Comments
Fun little game, Time as the currency is interesting! I liked the sound effects and visuals and it felt quite nice to control! I think it would benefit from there being a bit more player feedback, eg a hurt noise or visual effect when hit by an attack, a noise when an item is puchased etc, rather than just the time changing. Overall though, good job!
Glad you enjoyed! Working on a post-jam version with improvements based on feedback from these comments, and having indicators for important changes is definitely something I'm trying to work on.
Interesting little game! I like how the time is also the economy of the game (mechanic similar to my entry). I miss having different enemies, but it has a nice direction to go to!
Took me a while to realize I didn't have to kill anyone and just run towards the exit lol...
Thanks for playing! Different enemy types was indeed something I had planned but ironically enough, had to cut for time... oh well. This was my first game jam, hopefully I'll improve as I go!
Pretty good...game becomes more and more satisfying as you progress through..good work with the level design too..With some more enemies,power ups..game can really flesh out... I can see you are planning to release a post jam version..I will surely check it out..Great work!!
Thanks for playing, hope to see you soon! ( ´◡` )
Interesting game loop, I did enjoy slowly becoming a speedy killing machine. If there was more levels and enemy variety, I can see myself getting accidentally addicted haha
Hehe... just a few more levels and enemies away from a mission success.
I wish I had time to put in a little more variety for the jam as well... If you're interested, though, I plan to release a post-game-jam version of this project made with player feedback in mind. So glad to hear that you had fun with my project! (≧∇≦)
A bit hard to tell if you were going to be hit or not. Other than that, great work :D
Thanks for playing! I'm planning on making a non-game-jam version with the feedback from the jam, so thanks for your input, as well! \^o^/
I enjoyed this one and played through a few times. I liked the balance of spending time on upgrades, learning which ones were worth the cost, and finding goo deals in the shop.
Is there a win condition? I thought I had a bunch of time left and got a time expired screen.
Thanks for playing! There is indeed a win condition but... I may have accidentally left in the game over sprite instead of the win screen (ᵕ—ᗜ—)
If you'd like to give it another proper try, I did make another, non-game-jam version available on my page, created with bug fixes and player feedback in mind! (But even if you don't, thank you for just giving it a shot (´▽`ʃ♡ƪ)
I enjoyed it, I really liked the art.
Thank you! I may have spent a little more time on the art than I should have... 😅
I enjoyed it :D
Thank you so much for playing!