Time Wasteful
🕒 Time Wasteful
Your life is a countdown. Every second matters.
Time Wasteful is a cute-looking but deadly top-down shooter.
Here, health and ammo aren’t separate — they both drain from the same timer.
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Moving drains the timer.
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Shooting drains the timer.
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Even waiting drains the timer.
When it hits zero, it’s game over.
Killing enemies earns you two kinds of biscuits:
⏳ Time Biscuits → Extend your countdown, keeping you alive a bit longer.
⭐ Score Biscuits → Boost your score and push you toward a new high record.
Every enemy feeds both your survival and your score — but the countdown never stops.
How long can you last, and how many biscuits can you grab?
🎯 Theme Connection
The jam theme is “Risk it for the biscuit.”
In Time Wasteful, a “biscuit” means both:
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Time to live a little longer
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Score to prove your risk was worth it
Every second you play is a gamble with your own lifespan.
🎮 Controls
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Move: WASD or Arrow Keys
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Shoot: Left Mouse Button
👥 Credits
- Game Programmer & Designer: Yasin Öztürk
- 2D Artist: Ayşegül Nur Öztürk
Comments
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Has anyone beaten my record?
This is cool but i dont understand how is this related to the game jam, maybe like add some oven you gotta stay alive for some time and wait till its ready and baked and these biscuits can give you powerups or something
Thank you for playing and providing feedback.
I’ll consider your suggestions.
I interpreted the theme as follows: taking a high risk for something of high value.
Can any greater gain be imagined than an increase in lifespan?
And I adapted it to the game mechanics like this:
risking the rest of one's life to live a few seconds longer.
cool, also funne federal message