No Time To Explain
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No Time To Explain is a platform game
Platform game
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 developed by tinyBuildGames and designed by Tom Brien and Alex Nichiporchik, and is the successor to Brien's flash game
Browser game
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, No Time to Explain, originally released on January 6, 2011. No Time To Explain has been released on Linux
Linux
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, Windows
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 and on Mac
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. Versions for Xbox Live Arcade
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, PlayStation 3
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, Sony
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's PlayStation Vita, and iOS are planned for future release. No Time To Explain is a platformer game
Platform game
A platform game is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles . It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps...

 about time travel, big jetpack guns, giant enemy crabs and ribs in people's eyes.

Plot

The game follows an unnamed male protagonist as he chases his future self, who has been captured, through time for an unknown reason. The plot will contain elements of time travel
Time travel
Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space. Time travel could hypothetically involve moving backward in time to a moment earlier than the starting point, or forward to the future of that point without the...

, the time paradox effect, and alternate time-lines.

Development

No Time to Explain was a Flash game
Browser game
A browser game is a computer game that is played over the Internet using a web browser. Browser games can be created and run using standard web technologies or browser plug-ins. Browser games include all video game genres and can be single-player or multiplayer...

 created by Tom Brien and released on Newgrounds
Newgrounds
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 on January 6, 2011. It has currently garnered over 405,000 views at Newgrounds
Newgrounds
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. After the success of No Time to Explain, Brien teamed up with Alex Nichiporchik to start work on a full version of the game.

Development on No Time To Explain began in February 2011. The game was initially announced for PC and Mac, and is set to be released in Q2 of 2011. The team also plans to bring the game to Xbox Live Arcade
Xbox Live Arcade
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, PS3, Sony
Sony
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's PlayStation Vita, Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

, iOS. The game will differ from the original Flash game
Browser game
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 in that instead of being drawn, the levels are built out of blocks much like Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros.
is a 1985 platform video game developed by Nintendo, published for the Nintendo Entertainment System as a sequel to the 1983 game Mario Bros. In Super Mario Bros., the player controls Mario as he travels through the Mushroom Kingdom in order to rescue Princess Toadstool from the antagonist...

 and Super Meat Boy
Super Meat Boy
Super Meat Boy is an independent video game designed by Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes and developed by Team Meat. It is the successor to McMillen and Jonathan McEntee's October 2008 flash game Meat Boy. Super Meat Boy was released on the Xbox 360 through Xbox Live Arcade in October 2010, on...

. On April 11, 2011 tinyBuildGames announced that they opened a Kickstarter
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 account to collect funds to help support the project. In less than 24 hours, the $7,000 goal was met. The Kickstarter
Kickstarter
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 page has helped raised over $26,000 for the project with a notable contribution of $2,000 from Minecraft
Minecraft
Minecraft is a sandbox-building independent video game written in Java originally by Swedish creator Markus "Notch" Persson and now by his company, Mojang, formed from the proceeds of the game. It was released as an alpha on May 17, 2009, with a beta version on December 20, 2010...

 creator Markus Persson
Markus Persson
Markus Alexej Persson is a Swedish indie game developer and founder of Mojang AB. He is best known for creating the sandbox building game Minecraft.- Biography :...

.

Soundtrack

The No Time To Explain original soundtrack was created by MrFuby. It will be released on iTunes
ITunes
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.
No Time To Explain tracklist

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