The Time Intern
A bite-sized incremental game about time.
What is it?
Join the Singularity Corporation as an Intern with a simple task:
Measure 13.787 billion years with one or more hourglasses.
Earn coins, buy hourglasses and upgrades to reach the goal as fast as you can!
At its core, the game is a simple incremental game with a roguelite structure on top of it. This first release feature:
- 13 Hourglass upgrades
- 17 Pins (passive upgrades)
- 5 Sand Type (Replace the sand in the hourglass)
If you encounter lag in the browser version, feel free to download the Desktop build. There is no way to transfer a save file currently but runs are short and self contained so it should not be a huge issue right now.
I'll add a way to transfer the progression once unlocks and achivements are in.
How long is it to play?
A run should be 20 to 30 minutes long.
Want to know more?
Feel free to read the launch blog post!
Credits
- Music: Ambient Love by Komiku / LoyaltyFreakMusic - https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com -- License: Creative Commons 0
- Cursor Pack, Game Icons, Input Prompts, Interface Sounds, UI Audio by kenney / www.kenney.nl -- License: Creative Commons 0
- Jupiteroid Font by GGBotNet / https://ggbot.itch.io/jupiteroid-font -- License: Creative Commons 0
- SFX from Freesound: Ding.wav by LanooskiProductions -- https://freesound.org/s/394795/, Select by TiesWijnen -- https://freesound.org/s/413310/, Item_Hover by BaggoNotes -- https://freesound.org/s/720217/, Taça Eb4 1.wav by caiogracco -- https://freesound.org/s/150455/, coin 1.wav by robbeman -- https://freesound.org/s/495643/, Vibrations 01.wav by MATRIXXX_ -- https://freesound.org/s/445244/, SFX_MASSIVELYINCORREKT_06.wav by MrFossy -- https://freesound.org/s/590039/, rainstick.wav by renarttt -- https://freesound.org/s/431858/, GASP_UI_Reject.wav by Rob_Marion -- https://freesound.org/s/542040/, FX - Wheel mechanism by bolkmar -- https://freesound.org/s/459613/, Win Spacey by GameAudio -- https://freesound.org/s/220184/ -- All under License: Creative Commons 0
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Development log
- A small update - Collection screen50 days ago
- Browser build is now available51 days ago
- Initial Release52 days ago
Comments
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I'd love to see this fleshed out and expanded some more. Not to a "years long quest" like a lot of idle clicker games that scale literally to infinity, but something more like, mm... 4 hours?
Dived in without reading the expected duration and was kinda surprised it was only a half hour.
Bug: Goals and Goal-hints dosn't match up.
Says 100x upgrades at 1Ga, but I already have that upgrade.
Good game with an interesting concept, though I would like to see an endless mode at some point
Very nice! Just one thing: there seem to be too much “when clicked” upgrades which then incentivize you to place them all on the same hourglass (as you can at most be clicking one at a time), making other hourglasses much less relevant.
There’s an Autoclicker Upgrade you can pick, Cursor, there’s also a number of upgrades that incentivize NOT clicking, most notably Right Eye, which grants scaling mult as long as you don’t click or Turn the hourglass(Anti-Grav Sand works great with this, and Left and Right Eye both crank up Base Time)
There’s also a Pin, Remote Control, which makes all clicks propagate to Hourglasses horizontal of them
Remote Control still "clicks" the other timers, popping "on click" effects.
Yes, which was the point of mentioning it
Thank you. I decided to restart the game from anew; It was a lot easier to get my first soulstone than my first playthrough. You've given me wonderful memories, please continue to make this game even better. Thank you again.
Great game! Managed to use all the upgrades and pins and got 7 min with just one clock.
My best is 8:22 (decided that that was good enough), and yeah, one timer is the best. There are two pin upgrades that incentivize only a single timer: one that gives 2400 multi minus 300 per timer (so, 2100) and Jupiter (?) that gives 2000 multi to the sand timer with the highest base time (if you only have one...).
Aaaand just broke 5 minutes.
help i can’t play because this thing keeps showing up
Thanks for letting me know. Can I ask if you are playing on the deskop or browser version, and if you're playing on a browser which OS/browser?
browser (safari)