Zeit² is an arcade style shoot'em up game for XBOX 360 and brings real innovation to the genre. Its awesome time travel feature has yet to be seen in this genre after decades of brilliant games. Get the side scrolling arcade action and discover how you can assist yourself in many exciting ways just by traveling back in time! Blast away a variety of enemies like you never could before!

The simple two button controls make it easy for casual players to get started and get hooked on zeit², while its game play spoils hardcore players by giving them so many possibilities to improve their high score.

you can watch the video on zeit2.bedenk.de

or download the ccgame file and give it a try ^{thanks for the support}

looking forward to some feedback...

Good Luck

Winterhell:

Out of curiosity-is this a single player and are there any other levels :)

Yes it is a single player game. There are 10 chapters with different enemies. It takes quite a while to play through it. Actually I only made it through the whole game once. But you can start over at any level/chapter you reached before. And really its about the high score ;-)

Time travel is the new 3D.

Doom came out, and suddenly everything was 3D shooters.

Braid comes out, and suddenly everything has time travel.

I can't be too critical of that, since Railgun itself has time warp. I think it's one of those ideas that everybody has been thinking about and playing with for a while, and now we've crested the bell curve where everybody's going to stick it into everything - so in a couple years we'll find it odd if a game doesn't have time travel.

-Stefan

 BTW: Woher seid ihr? I wanted to contact you via pm, but there aren't pms on this page...

I was going to put a video up on Vimeo too, but after I created an account I noticed the "no gaming videos" rule.  It's a shame, because their quality is way above Soapbox or Youtube.  Are you worried about them pulling yours down?

CDarklock:

Braid comes out, and suddenly everything has time travel.

Before Braid, there were many others.

Prince of Persia might have been the first to use time traveling in an unscripted way, but after it many small and large games took advantage of that before Braid.

Heck, even my DBP warm-up entry last year had time warping features in it... not that it mattered :) Oh, and one of the DBP 2007 finalists, Shuggy.

 It's not a new mechanic. It's been here for years.

But the final milestone in my opinion is a RPG with full time-travel. Like having a period of 500 years where you can move back and forth freely to any location in time and the universe behaves correctly :)

Catalin Zima:

Before Braid, there were many others.

There were also 3D games before Doom, but they were rare before it and near-ubiquitous afterward.

Thanks for all the positive feedback. Its awesome after putting so much effort into it :-)

CDarklock:

Catalin Zima:

Before Braid, there were many others.

There were also 3D games before Doom, but they were rare before it and near-ubiquitous afterward.

Others said it already, that Braid was not the first game to have a time travel feature.But thats not the point. More important is how brilliant Braid is and how it made a great game out of it. Its not so much the mechanic but what you make out of it. I had the idea before I even saw braid, now I played it and love it, but nevertheless its a very differnt game to zeit². Personally I don't know of any shooter that had a rewind. But even if there were others its more about does this specific game concept work or not. Its the same with 3D. Some games need 3D to work and develop features around it and for some games like lemmings or worms its just a burdon that makes them complicated.

treething:

This looks awesome. Any chance of a demo? :)

TCT:

Others said it already, that Braid was not the first game to have a time travel feature.

If anyone's getting the idea that I'm somehow criticising this game for having time travel, that's not it at all. Time travel is one of those mechanics that's been floating around for years, but since Braid came out it's been higher-profile and more common. It's only been a short time, though, so most of the games implementing time-based features had to be planning them before Braid came out.

Back in the 1980s, we had - in rapid succession - a half-dozen movies about adults and children switching bodies. We had 18 Again, Vice-Versa, a remake of Freaky Friday, the list went on. It was an idea that simultaneously occurred to many people who thought "that would make a good movie". I think the whole time travel thing is similar. It's what the Germans call... oh, come on, you must know the word zeitgeist. Human action but not human intent.

TCT:

More important is how brilliant Braid is

Okay, we're never going to agree on that subject, so we should probably avoid it before I get another thread locked. ;)

CDarklock:

It was an idea that simultaneously occurred to many people who thought "that would make a good movie". I think the whole time travel thing is similar. It's what the Germans call... oh, come on, you must know the word zeitgeist. Human action but not human intent.

I agree :-)

Stefan Toller:

BTW: Woher seid ihr? I wanted to contact you via pm, but there aren't pms on this page...

I tried emailing you. Found the address on your website, but it returned with an error. You can contact me through my website http://bedenk.de/sign

TCT:

treething:

This looks awesome. Any chance of a demo? :)

We didn't decide yet if we make a demo or even the full game public as a ccgame file. If we decide so I will annouce it on the website and let you know. I would really like others to enjoy playing it so there is a good chance :-)

AWESOME GAME !!!

Now it's my duty to make Anothe Puzzle - Time Travel version (Tetris Attack + Braid) .... ;-D

TCT:

Stefan Toller:

BTW: Woher seid ihr? I wanted to contact you via pm, but there aren't pms on this page...

I tried emailing you. Found the address on your website, but it returned with an error. You can contact me through my website http://bedenk.de/sign

Now it has worked and I have got your mail! I have played the game, it is great and makes a lot of fun. I have written you more feedback(in german =) ) in the mail :) see you!

Silvermax:

Now it's my duty to make Anothe Puzzle - Time Travel version (Tetris Attack + Braid) .... ;-D

Yeah I love your game Anothe Puzzle. Would be great to see how you include time travel especially with multi player hahaha

 - Took longer to load than most games I've tried, I figured it was a good thing as it means there must be a lot of content :)

- Tried a quick test game and it was fantastic.  Even better than I'd imagined from the video.  I can't wait to try it again tonight.

- Went to the help screen to find out what all the different things in the game were/did but unfortunately I can't read the help screen on my TV.  The font is too small to make out, it's a older SD ~50 inch rear projection TV so it's not small but the low res and small fonts make it too hard to read (it's all fuzzy).

- Was going to check out the credits but the menus reacted faster than I expected and I acidently hit 'quit', since the load time was so long I decided I'd check it out again later rather than start it up again.  Maybe a 'do you want to quit' screen would be good?

JamesH:

- Took longer to load than most games I've tried, I figured it was a good thing as it means there must be a lot of content :)

We already optimised loading time but I know it takes to long. I read texture sheets might help since we are using a lot of single sprites in the game.

JamesH:

I can't read the help screen on my TV.  The font is too small to make out, it's a older SD ~50 inch rear projection TV

You are right I should have thought of SD screens, somehow I thougt XBOX = HD

JamesH:

Maybe a 'do you want to quit' screen would be good?

We have the "do you want to quit" leaving the gameplay screen but you are right maybe we should have implemented it for the manu screen as well.

JamesH:

- Tried a quick test game and it was fantastic.  Even better than I'd imagined from the video.  I can't wait to try it again tonight.