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Description

Chrono Crusader is a fast-paced platformer game that is punishing in nature, and combines the classic elements of platformers such as Jump King with the satcheling mechanics of Valorant. You, the hero, are tasked with navigating your way up a building to defuse the bomb set at the top. Too slow, and the building falls, bringing you down with it. Too fast, and you risk losing your progress and falling back down to the bottom.

You have two tools at your disposal: a pulse booster, and the power to travel through time. Boosters, when thrown, will explode after a short delay or at your call. The explosion will repel the player and can be used to jump up platforms. Platforms, however, may be missing, and players are required to explore the time dimensions to discover the path to the top.

The Lore

The hero, Chrono Crusader, comes from a distant future where time travel is introduced. They were chosen to become the guardian of the temporal order, and tasked with preventing time-related disasters, ensuring the stability of the timelines. Trained in the art of time manipulation, Chrono Crusader must now navigate through the past, present, and future to stop the evil villain Chronomancer Xeross, who is an evil doctor obsessed with the idea of taking over the world. He discovered a technology and found his own way of forcefully biomedically implanting a time-travelling quantum hourglass into his head allowing him to travel across different dimensions of time to wreak havoc. With this newfound power, he now plans to disrupt and cause chaos to all time periods.

The time travelling crusader is captured during his pursuit of the villain, and gets trapped in the basement of the criminal’s layer. The villain then announces that he has set up a time bomb to destroy all the time periods. The Chrono Crusader must use his time travelling abilities and move using his pulse boosters to reach the top of the tower in order to stop the villain, restoring peace to the three time periods.

Controls

The controls of this game are very straightforward: left click to throw a pulse booster at the location of your mouse and left click again to detonate it. Leaving it for 3 seconds will also allow it to explode automatically. To switch between different time dimensions, press keys 1,2, and 3 to enter the past, present, and future respectively. Even though the controls may seem simple, the gameplay and mechanics required to conquer this game are not for the weak-minded. Only gamers with a steel-like mentality can truly beat this game.

How it was Built

This game was created over a span of 4 days for the Holiday Game Jam hosted by MCPT at William Lyon Mackenzie C.I. It was created on the Unity game engine and all pixel art was created and edited with Aseprite. Music and audio files were gathered online and the song was edited and adjusted in Audacity to fit the themes of future and past, separating them apart from present.

Accomplishments