Time Kufc

Could you please not have the name of this game displayed on the main page? Kids use this site too, and the suggestion of an obscenity is extremely inappropriate.

It was alright, but it is basically just portal in 2d while also copying shift... I fail to see anything new in this game.

What is next they do not like the games involving any sort of violence even mild?

This game is not rated for kids, maybe they should only look at the kid rated games.

If they are that paranoid they should preview and approve everything for their kids and turn them into mindless zombies.

The site is not all for kids there are many games on it there are kid friendly. This is a game review site not a happy bunny kids games site.

Jayisgames should cater to whoever they want to. If they want to cater to children, or conservative adults, then it is not at all okay. If they are catering to more liberal, adults (and adults only), then it is okay. Jay, help us out, if you see this comment. Are you trying to cater to children on this site?

Since the letters in the title can be in any order (according to the author), why make it so close to an offensive spelling? Time Ukfc, Time Cukf, Time Kfcu, and more are all up for grabs.

one word: Amazing!

This is by far, one of the best platformers I have ever played. I love the concept of it as well as the story and art.

If you don't want your children seeing swear words don't let them use the internet unsupervised.

And if your kid was able to figure out that Time Fcuk suggests a swear word, then he probably is already familiar with the swear word in question.

Uhh, who cares about that nonsense? Drop it, folks.

Onward! I was playing this sweet, sweet game, but I ran into a problem. I came to what I believed to be the last level, but then, out of curiosity, clicked those little Z's in the loop on the right of the screen. Well, those turned out to be the two levels I "slept" through. No problem. I solved one, still couldn't get to the other. But now I can't get back to that level I was on before. That "last one". The levels don't seem to be in order. And I wouldn't even know where the first level began, seeing as how they are arranged in a continuous loop. What the..? Any idea on how to get back to it?

Even if I never get back to it, thumbs up from me. Two of 'em, in fact.

They cannot complain now *thumbs up*

Dang it! I got to the last level, messed around a bit until i figured it out, then messed it all up.

DO NOT

I made that mistake myself.

Instead,

Interesting game though.

...Actually, this name does not suggest a swear word. In fact, YOU are the one suggesting the swearword. This name is a random jumble of letters, and your brain is reading them as.....I wont say it. Anyway, the new spelling should fix it.

Am I the only one who was consistently reminded of Cactus's games while playing this one?

That was a pretty good game, but GEEZ that guy's feet are slippery! I lost track of how many times I went sliding off a tiny platform into some spikes because the little dude sliding or rolling off with his ninja moves.

Also, I think it's interesting how the original spelling of the title has sparked this discussion about the offensiveness of the word, when in fact the entire point of the title is that it ISN'T a word, merely our perception of those letters.

But since that actual word is immediately what most people (or at least English-speakers) see, I completely understand changing the letter order for the sake of JIG :)

This is, without a doubt, one of the most clever flash games I have ever played. Great implementation. Fun, though cliche, "time paradox" premise. Solid puzzles.

I love this game so hard! One of the better flash games out there, with a great atmosphere and story and basic idea, well-executed.

Unfortunately, the community-created levels are awful. I didn't find any I could rate above a 3 for difficulty and the same goes for enjoyment.

P.S.

Is it just me?

The game is looping and flickering the cut scenes continueously and regular intervals, I can't play the game

Help please

However, how many kufcing levels are there in the regular loop?

I'll have to admit that the trailer for this game was better than the game itself.

This game wasn't very difficult at all. Most of the levels were straightforward, and there was about two to three levels that was more complicated. Needless to say, I didn't feel that the final level was even remotely close to the most difficult level of the set.

I felt the style of the game did not add to the immersion that the game seems to promise with its effects. It definitely does not deliver what the Newgrounds description of the "game" offers.

I also agree with Crab that the community levels are indeed awful. With the game mechanics, it seems like there should be some creative ways to create levels, but at the moment it hasn't been accomplished yet.

Hmm...

Okay, I challenge one of you psychics out there to explain how STASIS isn't impossible in some way?

From here, it looks like justification for the Sleep feature, since that's the only way you're ever getting past it... For the record, I hate worthless hints. Worse than no hints at all, really.

Hey guys. I'm the one who wrote the first review and would like to say that I'm happy it got published. =)

In the second review, however, he stated that [space] was your only option to jump. [D] is the secondary one, as stated in both my review and in the game's instructions.

nonononononononononono,
not newgrounds,
for some reason it never works,
just a white screen. :(

on Stasis:

I am having trouble with in-n-out

This is quite a fun and challenging little game!
It's taken quite a few goes and A LOT of dying to figure out some levels but you kinda get the hang of it.

I love the comments of 'Future You' but they do get kinda repetitive...

Oh, also I just wanted to note, that you can actually mute the music AND the voices by pressing the mute button a second time. :)

power of posting, nevermind

Does this really constitute "controversy" in the indie gaming world? We must be pretty tame for being so cutting edge and avant-garde. Sure, we'll toy with conventions and push the boundaries, but the biggest statement we can make is mixing the letters of a four-letter curse word?

The most offensive thing about this game to me is how it plays fast and loose with grammar, spelling and punctuation. It's terribly lazy to spend such an obvious amount of time on an otherwise splendid game and neglect to spend any real time reading over your script.

I think more reviewers need to take this into account when reviewing a game (I'm not saying that the review is poor, just that this happens a lot). Game developers need to know that leaving grammatical errors in the game is very much like leaving glitches in the game; it's only natural that some will occur, but the more you have, the more obvious it is that you didn't do your developer's homework!

Keep.One.Step.Ahead: Regarding the game's poor English, the impression that I got was that it was intentional. The developers are doing the same to the rules of English as they are with the rules of time. I also found it contributed nicely to the atmosphere of insanity and paranoia. Especially so during

I might be wrong here, but that's the way I saw it.

Thanks, Mystify; that one was just forcing me to think in ways that obscured the critical observation that

Now somebody needs to tell me about TOAST. Now I REALLY can't see any actions whatsoever that take even one step towards finishing.

[Edit: Fixed spoiler tags. Use all lowercase, not "<Spoiler>". One of these days I'll make a validation script that auto-fixes those mistakes. Sorry about the inconvenience in the meantime. -Jay]

Okay, to compound my inexplicable loss of spoiler tags, I DID find the key to TOAST. I'm not even going to post it, for fear of more missing spoiler tags, unless someone asks.

Now its LOADED. There's just no way. None at all...

Okay, my final apology.

I got LOADED (the level, not the condition, although after this game I'm pretty sure I could stand to be in that condition right about now).

That level was extraordinarily picayune for such an open-ended puzzle game (you don't usually have to follow a pixel-for-pixel specific path through a level to complete it, but that one was pretty darned close. Even after I knew what to do, it took way, WAY too many tries).

But BAAL? Come on. That's just depraved. You can keep the rest of the game, Mr. Developer; that kind of player abuse is not for me, thanks.

I'm totally stuck on in-n-out.
Any hints?

Gobsmacked,

As it turns out, regarding in-n-out

I love JIG. I have to say though on the swearing debate that surely now it's even more misleading (and confusing!), because the link still takes you through to the fcuk version.

French Connection did a series of t-shirts in the UK (French Connection UK - get it?) with FCUK emblazoned on them for all to see. I just don't think people are that bothered - except Cornbread Muffins maybe.

I'm with Keep.One.Step.Ahead on the grammar issue. I did find it annoying that there were several errors during the opening scene and this immediately put me off. Rather snobbish of me I admit, and unfair too because the game is both interesting and innovative.

Actually, I'm going to respectfully disagree with Keep.One.Step.Ahead and blubley to a degree.

Yes, I think good editing and grammar are important but are also not above being manipulated for creative license. One thing that interests me is that as time progresses we seem more willing to strike out in new and interesting grammatical avenues to explore language and how the way we use that language can evoke different attitudes and feelings. That's to say, one can hardly imagine a novelist of the 19th century intentionally using poor grammar other than perhaps in an attempt to emulate a particularly distinctive dialect. Compare that with works like House of Leaves, or Flowers for Algernon, or any of countless literary works that alter the use of language in new and interesting ways.

Given that game creation is, at least in my opinion, one of the freest forms of artistic expression, I should think it is also natural that we would see language being bent in even more ways, distorting it for effect like never before. Case in point (outside of this game here), go play Cactus' Mondo Medicals or Mondo Agency (I'm glad Lavos mentioned Cactus early in the thread). In all honosty, the first time I played one of those games, I thought the developer HAD to have not even a passing understanding of English. Turns out Cactus can communicate fine in English, he just chose to intentionally make the language nigh unintelligible. The effect is really amazing and helps contribute to what is sometimes a very disturbing set of games.

Anyway, that's my two cents and change on the topic. There are times when you can tell a typo is just a typo, but I'm more than fine when a typo is something more.

Although the name's been changed, I do want to make a quick comment regarding the spelling controversy:

Most parents I know are pretty responsible. If they don't want their kids seeing swear words, they block any sites that have swear words. End of story. That means that JiG loses any players whose parents might be as creative as I am and put in "FCUK, FCUR, FUTK, etc."

JiG also loses any players who are parents who think, "Don't put curse words where kids can see them. I don't like your site and will go play Orisinal.com instead."

AND JiG risks being nailed by idiots who think the internet is a babysitter and who say, "If JiG doesn't want kids on the website, why link to kid-friendly games at all? So they're responsible for showing my kids something I don't want them to see."

Not to put too fine a point on it, there was a Gundam Wing yaoi fanfic website out there that no longer exists because some parent thought that the warnings ("Warning, this website has adult content and male x male sexual situations in the fiction") weren't enough, since the show the fics were about were "cartoons" (and nevermind that the Japanese have about as many pornographic cartoons as Americans do regular porn) and were *obviously* directed at children (nevermind that the majority of American viewers of Gundam Wing were adults) and the website was pulled by the host for violating the TOS.

No, it's not JiG's fault that people are like that, but JiG has to be responsible in order to protect itself from people who don't think it's proper for such language to be on the main page of a game website. AND JiG *does* have a lot of younger visitors. There's nothing wrong with taking precautions. If I don't want my nephews to see foul language, I don't allow them access to those websites, and in the long run, JiG is hurt by the lack of visitors, even if it's just a small lack.

It doesn't bother me personally, but I'm an adult. If the language doesn't bother you, well and good, but again, you are adults. Adults who are responsible for children have different considerations. I think it was a kindness that JiG changed the name. They were within their rights to keep it, but I'm glad they didn't.

I don't condemn them for having the original spelling they did. I just think they took a wiser course. It was considerate toward people with children. That's all.

Oh man. I'm seeing hints of a skillfully woven epic of a story - once I saw a thing with some numbers, I think maybe it was telling me to look at those level numbers in order - but I'm just too lazy to try to piece this monstrosity together, and I can hardly finish even the easiest of levels in any case.

I'm stuck the the level 'Ursa Minor". That block thingie is in my way and there doesn't seem to be any instructions. Like what the Kufc do have to I do?

Dylan:

Can anyone help with HANDSHAKES? I seem to be Kufced no matter what I do...

I was pleasantly surprised to find out that the levels in the main story appear to be randomly chosen from a set of main levels. I erased a save game to start anew and find levels I did not remember playing. Hm.

I wish, however that there was more to the good ending than the

I couldn't help but compare this game to "Shift Meets Eversion". This is a game where you play as a rat in a maze in a sad gray world where you can't even be sure of your own sanity. It feels like it re-uses Aldous Huxley's metaphor for the range of human experiences, using a box instead of a bottle, to justify the uses of multiple planes, gravity and rotation directions, for sort of four-dimensional block-and-lock&key puzzles.

Remember, as fascinating as everyone's own world of experience and perceptions is (and, thanks to interpretive media, each other), it's still important to interact with the real world at large. Now that I've finished this game, I feel like leaving my room and going outside; it's a beautiful day right now.

Jayce,

I wasn't referring to timing so much as how easy it is to make one misstep and phase at the wrong time and die, fall down while carrying a block before you're finished with it, or get trapped at the top, always forcing a restart. Seems like I had to slow down to one move per second or slower to avoid all of those. But thanks for trying to help.

Although the rest of the game was pretty easy (great similarities to shift) I can't figure out the good ending. Any help?

@wildflower12:

This game was a lot of fun. I tend to give up on a game if it's harder than the gameplay is worth, but I thought this was a nice balance.

My only complaint is that I wish you could map your own controls. At least half of my deaths were due to me hitting "phase" instead of "grab." I can't blame the developer for that, but it was annoying nonetheless.

And for what it's worth on the grammar debate, I don't think the writing errors were intentional. No one mixes up "then" and "than" as an artistic device. And if they did, it didn't work, as it just made me feel the developers got sloppy with details.

Looking back on JIG's track record, they do post some pretty wonderful games geared towards children. But games like Karoshi, Monster Basement, Hotel 626, Reincarnation: A Demon's Day Out, or Alan Probe: Amateur Surgeon (to name a few that I obsessive compulsively pulled from their archives) are obviously not for children. They contain graphic violence often inflicted by the protagonist, suicide, and pretty gruesome or disturbing images. None of them were commented on by people concerned about young internet goers.
I'm interested in the disconnect shown when a conversation of the acceptability of cuss words is undertaken in earnest when not a week ago Alice Is Dead was featured on the main page and

Ultimately, I was simply surprised to see that someone was under the impression that this was a safety scissor website. I realize the issue was that it was posted on the main page, but an unsupervised kid could easily play Seppukuties and end up a lot worse for wear.
Mostly I'm just sorry I couldn't help myself and just had to post my two cents.

I need help on the level called 'Quick Flips'

Does anyone know how to complete in-n-out?

This game is amazing. I don't like puzzle games, I find them frustrating and not worth it almost always. But I played this through to the end, and it was amazing the whole way. The music and robot-voice were really immersive somehow, and the gameplay and story were both really compelling.

How do you do the toast level?

Hint for In 'n Out and gameplay in general. You can push blocks without picking them up.

i'm stuck in "The Harvest" level...any hint?

Any tips on how to do the level Ruiner

Some people feel offended by the name of this game but not of "killing chainsaw massacre" I wonder what their children will be like.

Awesome game. does anyone knows how many levels are on it? I've been playing for a whil and I wonder when the final stage is coming.

There is a bug in the game that started a few levels before Time Decay, but I can see it 'working' on the Time Decay level. The blocks are not flashing. At the start of the level, sometimes one flashes, sometimes neither of them.

please help i cant beat "reverb"

ANYONE HELP ME!! I need to know how to complete "THE HEART"
PLZ :(

I can't beat sleepless

Beat it, but now I can't beat Plush! Someone please make a walkthrough!

To Cornbread Muffin: The whole point of this game (and the title) is that we are too concentrated on what something appears to be and not what it actually is. For instance I could say the phrase ab itch, what do you see you see an obscene comment hidden in-between the lines and not for what it actually is. Most people think that the actual statement ab itch is the simple form, however we have become so corrupted by mainstream society and the thought that everyone has something to hide that we refuse to see things for what they are. That is simply his own made up word in this instance, not a referance to language that has been deemed inappropriate because some kids long ago used the words as codewords for feelings they had about people they disliked (which in reality is the spawn of all so called "cursewords"). The whole purpose of the game is to challenge your perspective of reality and to capture gamers/websurfers attention, he used a made up word that our minds put together to make an inappropriate word.

When I first saw it, I read it as time cafe.. I guess I have a really innocent mind!

Finally figured out plush! so bovious when you think about it :p

Does anyone know how many levels there are until the end? Perhaps in name order so we know how far along we are?

In response to the people who feel that JiG has crossed a line by posting the same letters that exist in the ominously kid-unfriendly f-bomb, your argument is quite frankly similar to asking someone to keep the word "carp" from their website because it contains the same letters as

. (Don't fret, it's hidden from prying eyes.) Quite simply, a carp is a fish and has no relation to its profane counterpart. Could not the same be said for this game's many titles, as the actual word is never said, merely imagined in the mind of someone who has already been exposed to the word. Put simply, my rebuttal is that banning anagrams of a word, no matter how profane the word is, should not need to be banned from young eyes if their parents are doing their jobs correctly.

Anybody ever heard of the company "FCUK" who brandishes their logo on T-shirts and other articles of clothing, *because of* the shock value that their name generates? When walking down the street, looking up to see "FCUK London" makes many people do a double-take, which then imprints the company's name (or at least a vague curiosity) on the subconscious of viewers.

I'm sure the company's taken its share of flak for such "outrageous" and "risque" branding, but let's face it: it works, and it's not /really/ hurting anybody. It's perversion within our subconscious mind that associates "FCUK" or "FKUC" or whatever else with the mother-of-all-profanities that's being discussed here. Is it a play on words? Certainly. Is it wrong? Eh, I don't really believe so.

It seems that people need to learn that this is the INTERNET. Last I checked, we aren't nannies, and this isn't PBS or Disney.

It's like the whole violence on television situation, except it's the internet, which, guess what overly sensitive people, you have even less control over.

TL;DR: Grow a sense of humor, toughen that hide of yours, and know the proper precautions if you're really concerned about your child instead of blaming someone else.

Seriously its says Kufc and its CLOSE to an obsenity but it isnt and seriously its just another word.

P.S How do i do plush?

Kinda creepy...

The Stasis level tip, is actually more useful then it seems. See if there's anything else you can do. It might explain what he means by "time is put on hold until you get back".

By the way, this game might join some of those familiar games. Spewer, Tri-achnid. Those games...

P.S. When I read the title, I see it as time Flux. (Aka, time failure/error/lol)

Guys, do not smack the site in the face with your little qualms. If it is displayed on the site that way, then they have every right to display the name as it appears on the site. Sorry, but that's the way the world works. Freedom of speech right #1 on the Bill Of Rights, just be glad that the letters were transposed as a play on the words themselves. Sorry, but you really need to be considerate to the people who put these works of digital art up! If the artist came here and started giving you flak for complaining about the name he gave to the game itself, would you have the brass to tell him/her that it is wrong? OF COURSE NOT! So DON'T POST ANYTHING you WOULDN'T say to the author's face

hey,
I remember playing this when it first came out in Newgrounds as Time Fcuk, and it had different levels !!
interesting. it took me a while but i managed to get through all levels eventually :p
great puzzle platformer.

This game is original, has very well-thought levels, an intriguing atmosphere, good music and graphics (I love the animations and the "disturb" effect).
On top of that, the controls are perfect, it is fun to play and has a level editor!
Instantly one of my favourites.

oll Cornbread Muffin thus het kufc pu

stuck on mulldrifter? maybe just 'cause it's 5 in the morning, and this game has sucked my brains out (and probably stuck them in a box).

Walkthrough up to level 24: (though apparently, there is some randomness to it as well)

I would do more, but I got bored and distracted, so I'll just post this.

I need help on Plush!!! Also please Post a FULL walkthrough!!! (in Order!In the 24 level walkthrough I Can't Even Find half the levels I've done!

Beat it! Probably my third try over about four years! I got frustrated a lot... I beat it on Newgrounds - somebody said that's a different version. I'll try the new one then!

Here are some levels that Phoenyx didn't list. This is a combination of JIG and NG site's game levels.

I'll post more levels as I get through them. Note: The levels after the first instructional ones seem to be random, so there's not way to list them in order. Your order is going to be different from mine.

I probably should have put all those under their own Spoiler tag to avoid the TLDR syndrome. If any moderators could edit and do that, it would be appreciated.