Fixing the Future

Please play in fullscreen, and with audio / headphones on! 🗣🗣🗣

 🙋‍♂️CREDITS 🙋‍♂️

Programmer - Roultitude😊
Game / Level Designer - Roultitude 😊
Voice Actor - Roultitude 😊
Music - Roultitude 😊

List of assets and references used included as a downloadable .txt file.

🔧FIXING THE FUTURE 🔧

A narrative-driven adventure tale with physics-based action gameplay. Play as a cute little robot on its quest to repair a time machine and save humanity with the help of an advanced artificial intelligence (fully voiced!). Discover the state of our planet in the far future,  and work to save it from that fate! Recycle and collect various materials to repair the time machine!

Created with love for Just Play Jam 2024! ❤️

🖱️CONTROLS (WINDOWS)⌨️

WASD - Move around
Mouse - Look around
Left Mouse Button - Interact, Pickup, Throw

🌎THEME🌎

SPOILERS, please play the game first!

The theme of the Just Play Jam 2024 was Climate Futures, and I immediately knew I wanted to create something with a mechanic that tied directly into the theme (as opposed to a visual novel or interactive fiction style game). 

Eventually I went with a physics based mechanic distilling the action of tossing a recyclable item into the appropriate recycling bin. This mechanic was then nestled into a overarching narrative including a fully voice-acted AI narrator / antagonist.

Fixing the Future takes place 50 years in the future, where the runaway climate change has indirectly led to the extinction of the human race, and devastation of the world's natural ecosystems and environments. This is represented in the various biomes and sceneries the player experiences through each level of the game, and ties into the gameplay through various unique hazards:

• Desert level - high heat leads to the denaturing of plastics, unrecyclable
• Beach level - strong winds and violent storms buffet the player and the recyclables
• City level - flooding causes player movement to become erratic
• Forest fire level - time limit (not actually in the final build, ended up too punishing)

Each hazard represents a facet of the dangers posed by climate change, and hopes to serve as a diagetic yet memorable way of conveying this to the player. 

Hope you had fun, I sure did making this! ❤️