Another time

Important: This game is still in the early phases of development.

Another Time is a video game where you play as its creator, balancing game development with constant procrastination.

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Tag line:

You find yourself stuck in one of your older projects, left unfinished and forgotten like many others. As you explore, you find fragments of old ideas and it’s up to you to piece them back together.

Genre:

Adventure, Exploration, Puzzle, 2.5 D top-down angled

Technologies:

Platform: PC   |  Engine: Unity 6

Features:

• original art made by a talented and good looking human (me)
• a narrative that feels like a conversation between you and the game itself
• interactive puzzles where you solve challenges tied to the state of the broken world
•  themes of creation, avoidance, and completion revealed over time
• lots of pigeons

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Additional Info:

This is a project I’m working on for my dissertation. Getting a passing grade is definitely one of my main motivations, but it’s also become something more personal. I’m using it as a kind of self-therapy to better understand why I procrastinate and why it’s so hard for me to work on things, even when I actually enjoy them. While developing it, I’ve had a lot of fun coming up with puzzle ideas and mechanics that reflect things like avoidance and the guilt that comes with wasting time. At the same time, it’s helped me notice some of the coping habits I rely on that might actually be holding me back. In the end, this project is meant to help me make sense of my own struggles, but also to give players a feel for what that experience is like and maybe even help someone else along the way.

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Controls:

Move: W, A, S, D (up, left, down, right)

Interact: E

Inventory: I

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Credits:

Game Creator | Giosan Ana-Maria

Professor Coordinator | Diana Dragomir,  Maria Mandea

Created in the Art of Game Design Master’s Degree at Universitatea Națională de Artă Teatrală și Cinematografică "I.L. Caragiale" (UNATC), Bucharest.