In Project Timeloop, you will play as a ship, while you play your inputs will be recorded and when you die, your previous inputs will be replayed as another player. But that "replay" isn't a simple ghost, it is an actual player that interacts with the world, the bullets they got hit by will still be destroyed, their shots will still deal damage. If they use a heal and you're close to them, you also will get healed by your past self. It is a game that allows you to team up with yourself.

That is the basic explanation for this game, the rest of this article is how the game came to be

I think about ideas for games a lot, especially ones similar to games I like and at the time I was playing a lot of Ultrakill, if you know the game you would know the Marksman, a gun that allows you to throw a coin and shoot it mid-air to basically shoot multiple targets with tracking. The Terraria mod Calamity had a weapon that mimicked the Marksman mechanic but I kinda thought that the weapon was a lot less cool in a 2D environment. It kinda put this bug in my head about how one could make Ultrakill-style weapon interactions cool in a 2D.

Around 2 years ago I was asked to judge at a Game Jam at my university, before the actual event I had the chance to have a pretty fun talk with the people that organized the jam. I don't remember exactly what led the conversation to be about this but it made me talk about Gradius and specifically think about Gradius 5, where in the player teams up with their past self from an earlier stage to beat an enemy and the idea for this game kinda clicked in my head. Later that year I got my friend Berke and Kübra to join me as we developed the initial version of this project as our Grad Project.

But we realized as this project went on that there was something to this idea, and we decided to keep developing even after we were done presenting the project in the Graduation Project Fair, this is still fairly a small scale project for me, but I do want to do the idea justice. In the later months I want to keep working on this game to make something proper out of it. With every other project of mine being at least multi-year responsibilities something with a clear end goal feels really refreshing.

So yeah! I hope you guys can help me and my friends make this vision a reality.