By Welcome back to the Time Rivals Weekly Devlog! This week at Studio 316, the dust has settled from Transfuzer but we’re continuing on development with new ideas and new directions for Time Rivals! We’re overhauling systems, creating new ways to play and refocusing Time Rivals to be truly unique, so lets start talking about what we’re up to!
Time Rivals v2
New Ways To Play
We’re approaching Time Rivals with a totally fresh perspective. This means totally new ways to play in and interact with the Arenas of Time Rivals and new strategies for Clone Pod throwing and placement. Our first big thought was to build special interactable areas only accessible by Clone Pod – encouraging players to ‘spend’ a death in order to change the flow of the map and change the terrain. Currently we’re throwing out all manner of ideas, but below you can see an example in our dev build. Goobert uses a clone pod to get into a secret room, allowing him to activate flame jets on the walls that close off both entrances to a choke point. You can already see the kind of potential that these Clone Pods are offering us for new map designs and we’re excited to explore our options.
Another new way to play with Clone Pods is via moving platforms – we’re still in the ideas phase, but we plan to have interactable elements like this all across the Arenas of Time Rivals to provide players with interesting new opportunities they’ve never had in an FPS before. We think that by doubling down on these elements we can really create something new and exciting for FPS fans, and we’ll be sure to keep showing you our developments as we redefine what Time Rivals is and how you’ll play it in future builds.
You may have also noticed that Goobert is now ragdolling properly when he dies – a small touch but one that’s amused us a lot while continuing to test things out. It also looks admittedly pretty hilarious to see the mighty mech flop over!
Between U and I…
Yet again we’re updating Time Rivals’ UI to become even more readable. Jamie has been working on new ideas for the first-person view of the game, and while we’re still iterating and making changes we’ll share a few ideas we already have! Jamie’s ideas have progressed far already with the few concepts we have: we also had the idea to make health ‘tick’ downward like a clock, playing into ‘Time’ Rivals and hopefully alerting you quickly to damage over time sources like Goobert’s goo or Nova’s trap.
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Nova-Haul
We may have neglected Nova a little during the Tranzfuser period but now she’s getting her fair share of attention from our 3D artist Khris! Nova’s getting a fancy new model that we can share the work-in-progress of below.
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Highlight Reel
On the Last Episode…
We’ll leave you on some highlights from the Time Rivals playtest – it was a great time and we already look forward to sharing more playtest sessions with our growing community!
Thank you to everyone that joined us testing tonight! 🤟
— Time Rivals (@TimeRivalsGame) September 25, 2021
Big thanks again to @pantherarron for streaming the game too! 🤝🙌
We had loads of fun seeing everyone enjoy the game and we look forward to going again tomorrow!#indiedev #indiegames #screenshotsaturday #IndieGameDev pic.twitter.com/5ghZdSzmsM
Oh hello! 😂
— Time Rivals (@TimeRivalsGame) September 26, 2021
Our servers open for playtesting again today at 3pm till 6pm BST!! Come join us for some Time Rivals shenanigans!!
Download the game on Itch here: https://t.co/DEDyhQKxVf#indiegame #indiedev #IndieGameDev pic.twitter.com/qTF3bLTpO0
We’re going to continue working on the vision of Time Rivals and changing it from top to bottom. We hope you’ll follow along as we make changes and improvements to the Arena, the Rivals, and everything in between!
See you next week!
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