Time Cfuk is a game about stasis

September 18, 2009 11:03 AM

Time Fcuk is a new game by Edmund McMillen and friends, its a "puzzle platformer" about perspective, its a community experience about communication with people who you dont like.

When naming Time Fcku any combination of f, u, c, and k will do. (previously: 1, 2, 3)

posted by The Devil Tesla (19 comments total)

I played this for about an hour last night. Nice, clean design, but I gave up after I started feeling like the story was going in circles despite early signs that it might develop into something more interesting.

Fun puzzles, and worth trying out, but unlikely to change your life.
posted by GameDesignerBen at 11:19 AM on September 18

I saw this and thought about posting it, but it gets really tough. Or maybe I'm just not clever enough.
posted by juv3nal at 11:19 AM on September 18

I played this for a while last night and found it hard to stop even when I'd reached the point where I was fruitlessly hacking at the same level over and over again, trying to get through. McMillen's got a talent for off-kilter, dark-humored platformers.
posted by ardgedee at 11:20 AM on September 18

any combination of f, u, c, and k will do.

MeFi Tuck?

I tried this for a few minutes last night and could forsee it getting hard in a finger-twitch way that I hate. I guess I didn't last long enough to detect a "story".
posted by DU at 11:22 AM on September 18

Thanks anyway, but my life is already a community experience about communication with people I don't like.
posted by Joe Beese at 11:22 AM on September 18 [15 favorites]

sigh... obligitory...

Metafilter: a community experience about communication with people I don't like.
posted by Nanukthedog at 11:25 AM on September 18 [7 favorites]

I guess I didn't last long enough to detect a "story".

There is less a story and more of an atmosphere, what with the foreboding music and grammatically inconsistent messages from future and past yous. That's more than enough for me.

That, along with way the game does level sharing, appears to me to have some interesting things to say about being alone on the internet surrounded by weirdos. I enjoyed it a lot.
posted by The Devil Tesla at 11:33 AM on September 18

Time FCUK
posted by hermitosis at 11:45 AM on September 18 [1 favorite]

I can't play this without an icky feeling in my stomach. I can't get past being surprised/shocked. I keep seeing the little guys as running around in black-face and waiting to discover I've been playing some racial propaganda viral game. The intro music doesn't help me with this.

Note: Too much of the worst of the web may keep you from enjoying the best of the web.
posted by Avelwood at 12:14 PM on September 18 [1 favorite]

I can't get past being surprised/shocked.

Haha, that's okay. Just never play Cunt.
posted by The Devil Tesla at 12:22 PM on September 18

Actually, that link is probably worth explaining. It's another game by Edmund McMillen and friends that, far more than Time Cfku, is about making you feel icky. To say the least.
posted by The Devil Tesla at 12:26 PM on September 18

Fun game. Only one level seemed to be about precision timing, otherwise easy puzzles.
posted by a robot made out of meat at 12:38 PM on September 18

The atmosphere alone is worth it. I've never had a game so thoroughly dislike me.
posted by The Whelk at 1:22 PM on September 18

I like this game. It's like an evil, unfriendly version of Mother/Earthbound or Kirby or some other cute Nintendo game.
posted by Nelson at 2:07 PM on September 18

Reminds me a lot of Portal, at least at the initial levels of this game.
posted by exogenous at 3:10 PM on September 18

this is you from the past and I can't figure out 'the fragile' help or you'll die. unless you want to. that's probably for the best.
posted by empath at 5:09 PM on September 18

Okay the game just threw an "I AM ERROR" reference at me. Now I love it.
posted by The Whelk at 6:34 PM on September 18

Made me feel ill after a while...intentional?
posted by Jimmy Havok at 11:29 PM on September 18

This game reminds me of Eversion, another creepy platformer.
posted by Stove at 12:37 AM on September 19