Video Editor Turns Timeline Editing Into a Puzzle Game
The game turns video editing software into the puzzle itself, with limited film and clip alignment as the core mechanics, shown at BIC 2026.
Reporting from 1 source: 4Gamer.net.
At Busan Indie Connect Festival 2026, developer r2turntrue showed Video Editor: Record, Edit, Upload!, a puzzle platformer for PC where players record protagonist movements as clips on a timeline, edit them, and upload the result to gain subscribers. Limited film forces efficient recording, and later stages add an assistant whose clip must be aligned with the protagonist's. A demo is on Steam.
The game's screen is split between a preview at the top and a timeline at the bottom. Pressing record captures the protagonist's movements as a clip on the track, and the total duration of all clips is capped by a film limit. Delete a clip and that film returns, so the puzzle is about recording only what is necessary.
Later stages introduce an assistant who removes obstacles. The assistant's movements are recorded as a separate clip, and the two clips must be overlapped and aligned on the timeline so the protagonist reaches the flag. Since the assistant's clip also consumes film, players must trim waiting time and sync the two characters' actions.
Other stages add subtitle tracks that become platforms and background tracks that change collision detection. A Japanese-compatible demo is available on Steam.
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