stigant
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Chronotron - control a robot with a time machine. Its a platform puzzle type game in which you can slowly build a solution involving multiple copies of yourself. Each of the previous copies does whatever they did the last time through the loop, while you control the most recent one.

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Jatopian
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Neat. I felt terribly proud of completing level 12, especially using a trick I wasn't supposed to learn until a later level. The crumbling floor level (18?) seems to be buggy, though, and I'm having trouble with bonus levels 4 and 5.

I've seen the concept before, but this is the best implementation so far.

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stigant
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There are some non-deterministic type errors that seem to creep in. Probably the implementation is non-discrete (or not-discrete-enough) with respect to time, so playing the same script twice in a row doesn't always yeild the same results.

While I remember making some adjustments to deal with the nondeterminism (ex: waiting at the top of the lift for a couple of seconds to ensure that the lift would always be at the top before I started moving again, which I usually do anyway), I didn't do anything out of the ordinary on the crumbly floor level. One thing I did eventually notice though:

I've seen the concept before, but this is the best implementation so far.

Oh, yeah not totally original, but fun nonetheless. I think that the levels are more innovative than the other games I've seen with this theme. Also the pause button is quite cool. But I think some of the non-determinism gets in the way from time to time. I think that a DROD-like (ie turn-based stepping or whatever) would be the ideal setting for this idea since it would eliminate these problems. Personally, I'd like to see it in DROD, but I think its been shot down a couple of times in the feature request forum.

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AtkinsSJ
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I must admit I gave-up at level 7 or 8. My brain just can't handle so many things at once. I really like the game, but couldn't play it to save my life, unless I spent all day on each level.

Radiant
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Awesome concept.


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