Time Clickers is Now Available on Steam

Time Clickers is now available on Steam!

Leave a review letting us know what you think of the game.

Time Clickers on Steam Greenlight!

Time Clickers is now on Steam Greenlight!

Vote for it at:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/448574767

Demo Now Available!

Our new demo lets you play 4 lives, destroy as many enemies as possible, collect gold & upgrade your weapons, as you play through one of our full game arenas.

To celebrate, Time Rifters will be 50% off until Monday February 16.

Based on player feedback, we've also adjusted the Scatter Pistol to make it more balanced. Give it a try & let us know what you think.

Over 500 Items in Time Rifters Steam Workshop!

 
Between Let's Replays & user created rooms, we have over 500 items in our Time Rifters Steam Workshop!

~ Jackie

Steam Trading Cards Now Available

We're happy to announce that Steam trading cards are now available.

Play Time Rifters to start collecting the 6 trading cards, 6 badges, 5 emoticons and 5 backgrounds that we've created.

You can turn newly acquired items into gems for the Steam Holiday auction, which we're participating in:
http://steamcommunity.com/auction/item/1703-Time-Rifters 

Just a reminder, all the enemies in our Daily Challenge mode are gift wrapped until December 31.

~ Jackie

Time Rifters Challenge Update is now live!

The Challenge Update is now live! Compete for a highscore in the Daily Challenge, or if you're feeling more creative, design, build and share your own rooms and arenas.

This is a free update for all Time Rifters owners.

Check out our new Time Rifters: Challenge Update trailer for a preview of the new features, or just exit & restart Steam to check them out for yourself.

Join us on our Steam forums and let us know what you think.

Release Notes:

Gameplay Changes:

• New 'Daily Challenge'. Team up with yourself in randomly created arenas of user created rooms.
• New 'Custom Arenas'. Play arenas created by other players via Steam Workshop.
• New 'Room Editor'. Create enemy configurations, platforms, buildings, forcefields, jump pads, triggers & wires. Your room may appear in a Daily Challenge.
• New 'Arena Editor'. Point and click to create a configuration of rooms, then share that arena on the Steam Workshop.
• Added 6 new Steam Achievements (Room Creator, Arena Creator, Arena Player, Daily Challenge x3)
• Added 'Show/Hide Body' toggle.

Virtual Reality Changes:

• Updated Oculus SDK to 0.4.3.1 Beta
• Added ability to toggle Vignette

Performance Changes:

• Reduced overdraw on explosions
• Gold now uses simpler physics
• Each enemy is 2 draw call instead of 2
• All red/white/yellow blocks draw call batch together now
• Better batching of bullet holes and weapon effects
• Occlusion culling for Daily Challenge
• Optimized performance of blocks on acid

~ Jackie

Time Rifters Daily Challenge Concept

Feedback and reviews have been great! The top 2 requests are for more arenas and a level editor. After a lot of brainstorming, we've created a concept that combines those 2 requests into a Daily Challenge.

Each day a new randomly generated maze of user created rooms will be available. Once again you'll team-up with yourself to get a highscore, but this time that's done by collecting the most gold.

If there's enough support for this game mode, we'll continue development, and it'll be released as a free Time Rifters update.

We made a short video to give you more details and a closer look at our prototype arena:

We want to know what you think of the new concept. Please leave your comments/feedback here or in our Daily Challenge Steam Discussion thread.

~ Jackie

Time Rifters Now Available on Steam!

Time Rifters is now officially released on Steam!

Check us out and leave a review letting us know what you think of the game.

~ Jackie

New Let's Replay Features

Time Rifters is filling up with awesome Let's Replays, so we've just updated the Let's Replay menu so you can easily see which ones you've already played and your highscore.

The Steam avatars used for the Let's Replays looked so cool we wanted to show them off more. The avatars & custom Steam Workshop item descriptions are now showcased in the clone room before each arena.

~ Jackie

Time Rifters Release Date Announcement

Time Rifters will be available on Steam on Tuesday October 21 for $9.99 USD.

Be notified when the game goes on sale by adding Time Rifters to your Steam Wishlist through our store page.

And we've got a brand new launch trailer:

~ Jackie

Time Rifters Scatter Pistol

This dark little spot in the Caveworm arena was perfect for comparing the base and upgraded Scatter Pistol. Scatter Pistol upgrades include bullets spread on hit, increased damage, faster shooting, acid, and make bullets bounce.

BASE

UPGRADED

With Steam's new Discovery update you can now Wishlist (be notified when game goes on sale) and Follow (receive updates/announcements) Time Rifters, all from our Steam store page.

~ Jackie

Steam 'Coming Soon' Page Now Live!

Our 'Coming Soon' page is now live on Steam.

For updates & announcements join our Official Steam Group.

~ Jackie

Time Rifters DK2 Update & Steam Store Page Images

For those that might be wondering, we're still waiting for our Oculus Rift DK2 to arrive. Our order was placed at 2:53 pm PDT on day 1 (March 19), so hopefully it'll be in the next shipment.

We've recently finished creating the images for our Steam store page. After trying out a few different concepts that didn't work, we created a dark futuristic image that we really liked but decided it was missing the brightness that our current branding has.

We took the futuristic and cinematic feeling from the dark picture and combined it with the brightness of our current branding, and created the new Time Rifters image:

~ Jackie

Time Rifters Microsite & Completed Clone Room

It's definitely been a busy couple of weeks.

We recently launched a Time Rifters microsite at TimeRifters.net. The new site combines the latest game information, screenshots, trailers, demo links and press articles into one place.

The driving factor for the clone-room redesign was making the weapon selection and shop more intuitive. The new weapon selection area and upgrades shop have been added, finishing the clone room re-design.

 
With the clone room complete, our focus has turned to integrating Time Rifters with Steam Leaderboards.

~ Jackie

Time Rifters Greenlit! And Let's Re-Play?

Really excited to announce that Time Rifters was Greenlit today, thanks for all the support!

Let's Re-Play?

We have recently come up with the idea of turning a Let's Play into in-game asynchronous multi-player, giving you the ability to play the game with replays of other people (friends, YouTubers, podcasters, etc). We have just started exploring this idea, but based on our current vision it would work like this:

Recording Let's Plays:

• JesseCox (for example) would walk to the 'Record Let's Play' area on the title screen
• He would choose Episode 1
• He would play through the entire episode only using the first 2 time clones, his voice would be recorded.
• After his play through, he could choose to upload it to the Steam Workshop/Marketplace and either give away or sell his Let's Play (so he could give away episode 1 for free and then charge for episode 2 & 3). All the profits from let's play sales would go to the recorder.

Playback Let's Plays:

• You walk into the 'Let's Play' area on the title screen, look through a list of available Let's Plays and choose 'JesseCox Fan Friday - Episode 1'
• You now start playing as the 3rd player, the 1st player controlled and voiced by JesseCox starts walking around and talking (positional voice audio of course). The 2nd and 4th time clones are idle.
• At the end of the first round, you start controlling the 4th clone, the 3rd clone is the replay you just did, the 2nd clone is now active as JesseCox (with voice), the 1st clone is also JesseCox (without voice).
• After you finish the episode, it shows how well you did together (percent complete).

Hopefully we explained it well, we've just been exploring this concept over the past few days. What do you think?

TrackIR & Greenlight Update

All of the pieces of our TrackIR finally arrived and we have been able to test it in Time Rifters. We plan on posting a video with our experience so look for that in the near future.

Greenlight is still going great, we have received close to 16,000 yes votes and are sitting at #7.

It is great to see all the Time Rifters play through videos that are being uploaded to YouTube including videos by JSmithOTI, TheSocomMr, The Indie Game Promoter, JaR Dev and MrJTDekker.

Lastly, here are a couple more places you can read up on Time Rifters:

Destructoid's article Play with yourself in first person shooter Time Rifters

Control Multiple Characters By Yourself in Time Rifters article on TwoDashStash

#4 on Greenlight & SteamOS News

Time Rifters is now ranked #4 on Greenlight with almost 13,000 Yes votes!

SteamOS is now installed and Time Rifters is up and running on our homemade Steam Box. We just released a new Linux build (0.5.1) which fixed a gamepad compatibility problem.

#60 on Greenlight!

The Time Rifters Greenlight campaign is going great, we are currently 60 out of 1,499 games!

We have also received a lot of great mentions lately. We had a great time chatting about Time Rifters, game development and VR with Reverend Kyle on his RevVR Podcast.

Time Rifters was voted #6 in Cymatic Bruce's Top 20 Oculus Rift VR Experiences of 2013.

Lastly thanks for all the great game play videos on YouTube, we've been enjoying watching them all.

Farewell 2013, Hello 2014!

Hard to believe that in just a few hours we will be starting 2014. 2013 has been a great for us, especially with the exciting launch of our Steam Greenlight campaign.

We have been on Greenlight for a week and so far the campaign is going really well. The gif below shows you the progress of the cumulative Yes votes Time Rifters has received over the past week, and as you can see we have been tracking along the top games on Greenlight.

Thank you to everyone for your support so far. The latest screenshot of our campaign shows we have received over 6,700 yes votes which puts us 77% of the way into the top 100 on Greenlight. The next 5,000 votes are going to be the hardest to get, but we are really looking forward to being able to post that we have broken through the top 50.

Happy New Year eveyone, see you in 2014!

Time Rifters in the Media!

Time Rifters has been receiving some great mentions in the past couple of days.

We are featured on Kotaku in the article Colorful Indie Shooter Lets You Play with Yourself.

We were discussed on Sunday nights The Bobby Blackwolf Show (podcast should be posted in a few days).

Cymatic Bruce, played Time Rifters on his Sunday Stream. Video should be posted on his YouTube Channel soon.

Doug (Proton) was also interviewed and quoted in the Verge article All jacked in and nothing to play: Chasing the perfect VR game.