Makeshift
[ABOUT]
Makeshift is a short, fast-paced pressing game about pressing arrows on the screen before the timer runs out. That's about it! Each level is very short (<= 20 seconds), and you should complete everything in under 15 minutes.
This game was created for the 20 Second Game Jam 2025. Made in one week, with caffeine-driven development.
Music by Abstraction. Check out the soundtrack I compiled on YouTube.
Use arrow keys or WASD (or both, both is good).
First browser initial and level load might be lag, but it should be good later on!
[SOCIALS]
itch.io ▒ X ▒ mintram.id.vn
Thanks for playing, I hope you enjoy it, don't smash the keys too hard though:)
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Development log
- v1.4 New update for Makeshift!32 days ago
- Makeshift's Tiny Update48 days ago
- Makeshift's Tiny First Patch53 days ago
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Love everything about this, the concept is both engaging and challenging, the music fits perfectly and the visuals and UI are really stylish ! Even your itch page is so beautiful ! The game ending was unexpected and really nice.
Congrats on making such a cool game !
thanks for playing and the kind words! :D
What a wonderful little game! it was super satisfying, challenging, and definitely showed me my brain does NOT work under pressure. This game’s tough, but I loved it. I love the sound design too, added to the satisfaction so much! I love all of the little mechanics and different prompts, makes the act of just pressing keys a lot more fun then you’d think! One thing that doesn’t really affect my enjoyment but is worth pointing out… when you combined the “don’t press” prompts with the “reverse” ones, I could just hit the button it was telling you not to press, since I knew that it would be reversed anyways, so I kinda just didn’t have to think about that one. Oh well, I’m sure when paired with some other prompts it’d be fine! Point is, great game! I really enjoyed it, might come back to see if I can do any better sometime!
thanks for the deailed review and playing!:) yeah i think the don't press prompt is a bit flawed when combined with other rules, it only needs thinking if there are 2+ extra rules, probably a weird trick haha
Nice gameplay and vibes 😎
Good job!
thanks for playing! <3
I will def keep playing in the future but im happy for now
oh my god that's so insane!!! congrats and thanks for playing! there's definitely a lot more to the competition now haha
now i feel pressurized to add more content and secrets to the game lol
I would love it if there are more levels but the game is good as it is right now aswell. If you add something new an endless mode would be cool tho
Okay, im #1 on the leaderboard, im so happy :D
"why are you reading this get yourself a life" - No, i dont think i will :3
150 will be achieved soon
This game has no right being this addicting. Great game
thank you for playing! <3
This is really good! the graphics are amazing!
thanks for the kind words & playing!:)
Great game! Was really fun to play :p
thank you for playing! <3
of course!
steam when?
thanks for playing! i whipped up this game in like a few days so i didn't have any plans for it haha, but who knows if there's more people interested in it
its good man, i ve seen lesser games make it. not big since overcrowding but you know every dollar counts! you got a very good formula for it here, and it seems easy to expand. perhaps a little story, some achievements and why not?
P.S maybe consider adding a slider for the vfx. some like it this heavy but it can be a bit jarring to look at after a while
nice game but the shaders almost feel a bit to mush
thanks for playing:) im sorry you didn't like the effects
didnt like is an overstatement they where still realy cool
THIS IS SO SICK
thanks for playing!
Absolutely awesome game, didn't stop playing until I beat all the levels. I will say though, a lot of times when I fail, I accidentally hit a key that leads me to either retry or go to main menu. Like, I'm hitting a key to try and press the right button, but then the timer runs out, and I accidentally hit retry or the menu instead. You should probably make the retry and menu buttons binded to something else rather than WASD or the arrow keys.
Thank you for playing & the feedback:) I made a small patch about that, hope you'd like it!
nice, spacebar for retry is a good choice