Time Warp Boost: An idle game time skip as a seamless loop: a gold clock whose hands whirl while cyan arcs race round it, streaks spiral in and speed lines burst off the rim.

Time Warp Boost

An idle game time skip as a seamless loop: a gold clock whose hands whirl while cyan arcs race round it, streaks spiral in and speed lines burst off the rim. For time warps, skips and speed-up boosts.

Time Warp Boost is an HD effect that loops seamlessly every 1.6 seconds, drawn on a 512 by 512 canvas. It is built from 2 particle emitters and 3 glowing strokes. Most layers blend additively, so it glows on dark backgrounds.

Colour

Recolours the preview and the free downloads.

Free download with a transparent background, cropped to the effect, 48 frames at 30 fps. Use it in commercial games, no credit needed.

Licence: use it in any project, including paid commercial games such as a game sold on Steam. There is no per-project licence to buy and no credit needed. Terms.

Roblox: the download is a flipbook for a ParticleEmitter. Set FlipbookLayout to Grid8x8, FlipbookMode to OneShot and Lifetime to 1.6, then emit one particle per cycle. Roblox setup.

REMIX WITH AI

Try:

Left empty, it just opens in the agent, free. Each change is one AI build, and you start with free builds.

Engine data for Unity, Godot, GameMaker and Aseprite comes with a plan: open it in the studio.

OPEN IN THE STUDIO

Change the colours, timing or size, or export for Unity, Godot 4, GameMaker, Phaser, PixiJS and Aseprite.

Try variations: new colours, motion and shapes of this effect, free in the studio.

FRAME BY FRAME

8 evenly spaced moments across the 1.6 s loop.

Time Warp Boost at 8 moments, from 0 s to 1.4 s

HOW IT'S MADE

Time Warp Boost is drawn with 3 glowing strokes, lines with a hot core and a soft glow traced along their shapes, plus 2 particle emitters. Techniques worth a look: a vortex, magnets, sprite modules, particles stretched along their motion and post filters (bloom).

Every layer emits continuously and the 1.6 s loop closes seamlessly, so it can run for as long as you need. To recolour the line, select "Warp Arc" and change Core and Glow; Start and End set how much of it is drawn. The colour swatches by the downloads recolour every layer at once.

Layers, in draw order

  1. Halosprite / additiveA placed glow. Extras: keyframed motion.
  2. Swirl Streaksparticles / additiveA steady stream of streaks from a ring. They spiral into a vortex, are swallowed by a magnet at its centre and slow down with drag. Colour runs from cyan to white over each life.
  3. Warp Arc, Warp Arc, Warp Arcstroke / additiveA glowing line traced along a circle. A lit stretch of it travels round the shape.
  4. ClockspriteA placed image. Extras: glow.
  5. Hour Hand, Minute HandspriteA placed image. Extras: spin.
  6. Hand PinspriteA placed shape.
  7. Speed Linesparticles / additiveA steady stream of streaks from a ring. Colours range between white and pale cyan.

DETAILS

Length
1.6 seconds, seamless loop
Canvas
512 x 512, HD
Layers
2 emitters and 3 glowing strokes
Blend
Mostly additive (glows)
Colours
whitecyanpale cyanblue
Sprites
Built-in shapes only
Tags
time warp, time skip, clock, boost, idle, speed up, skip, loop

USING IT IN YOUR GAME

Phaser, PixiJS
The PNG sheet is a plain grid of frames that both can slice. A TexturePacker JSON atlas comes with a plan, from the studio.
Unity
Import the PNG sheet as a Sprite with Mode set to Multiple and slice it, or open the effect in the studio for a ready-made grid.
Godot 4, GameMaker, Aseprite
Open it in the studio and pick your engine in Export: with a plan, it writes the files that engine imports.
Web and chat
The GIF plays anywhere; the APNG keeps soft edges on any background.
Blend mode
This effect is made of light. For the same glow in your game, draw the sprite with additive blending, or export it on black from the studio for additive shaders.

Step by step: Unity, Godot 4, Roblox, GameMaker, Phaser and PixiJS, Aseprite, Web games (live runtime). Drawn with additive blending: see glow effects without a black box.

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