10 Seconds to Clear by Foxtacy

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made by Foxtacy for LD27 (COMPO)
Hi everyone

This is my entry for LD27, 10 Seconds to Clear

You must clear the screen in every stage in 10 seconds by clicking, and typing.

Feedbacks and comments are very welcome! :)

Big Thanks to Palada-san (from CogMonkeys) for the help with the art! :D

Ratings

Coolness 97% 2
Overall 3.09 518
Audio 2.89 362
Fun 3.20 336
Graphics 2.17 965
Humor 2.65 339
Innovation 3.18 397
Mood 2.90 417
Theme 3.47 274

Feedback

馃帳 Foxtacy
25. Aug 2013 路 17:18 UTC
Known issues are:

- Web version seems "laggy"


Improvements that will be made:

- Countdown or pause before starting
馃帳 Foxtacy
25. Aug 2013 路 17:19 UTC
Improvement that will be made:

- Improve graphics.
pvwradtke
26. Aug 2013 路 03:38 UTC
Challenging game, even if a little too hard sometimes. Polished presentation. Only change I'd do is to use a different music style, maybe more of a lounge music style to relive the game's pressure.
zedutchgandalf
26. Aug 2013 路 14:26 UTC
It's a shame you have to start over from the beginning if you lose...
Nice game though!
I once managed to win and lose at the same time. That seemed kinda buggy...
GreenyUk
26. Aug 2013 路 14:40 UTC
I agree with @pvwradtke I found it pretty damn difficult, and restarting form the beginning each time is a bit annoying. Implemented the theme well though and is :)
Tipyx
26. Aug 2013 路 14:41 UTC
Very amusing !
Dream Of Sleeping
26. Aug 2013 路 14:44 UTC
I won the whole game! I'm a regular on typeracer so I'm your target audience. I at first thought starting from the beginning again was a bad idea, but as there are so few levels it's probably for the best.

If you add more levels though you can change it so you just keep track of how many times they failed, and completing the game with the lowest amount of failures is the goal. That way we wouldn'thave to restart. Or maybe just have check points. Another thing is, you can't actually type when the sign says go. You have to wait until it disappears. I also came across the won and lost at the same time bug.
馃帳 Foxtacy
26. Aug 2013 路 14:50 UTC
^ that's the idea, Dream of Sleeping^ Since i want to work a little more on this game, i'll be adding A LOT more levels, and a LOT more challanges each stage! ^_^

And of course, i won't >Punish< the player so much on this new version :)

Thanks for your review! i'm going to take time to review your submission now :)

Thanks for your review
馃帳 Foxtacy
26. Aug 2013 路 14:52 UTC
@Pvwradtke

Well, seems like i failed. I wanted to keep the player psyched, not pressured :C oh bummer.

@zedutchgandalf

You were not the first to notice this. Thanks for pointing that out :) i'll try to fix that.
sgehlich
26. Aug 2013 路 16:11 UTC
Nice idea, the graphics are bad but I think if you improve them and add more levels it will be a cool game overall :)
lightsoda
26. Aug 2013 路 16:12 UTC
Dang, not my usual cup o tea, but that was pretty fun. Good job on this.
nihilocrat
26. Aug 2013 路 16:13 UTC
A unique approach to the typing genre.
Paraknight
26. Aug 2013 路 16:13 UTC
Really fun although having to start from the beginning again every time you mess up can get a little frustrating for a slow typer like me. :P
馃帳 Foxtacy
26. Aug 2013 路 16:38 UTC
@Paranight Fixed this

Also tried to correct the win/lose screen showing at the same time. Can someone try to replicate this bug? Thanks!
infernet89
26. Aug 2013 路 17:38 UTC
Nice idea, but.. Why you used small-resoulution images for big sized buttons? And why you didn't write the characters with a font, instead drawing? The graphic could be improved a lot!
馃帳 Foxtacy
26. Aug 2013 路 17:57 UTC
@infernet89

Yeah i'm aware of that, actually i'm not much of a 2d artist myself but anyways, yep i should have made the buttons on a higher resolution.

And yes, the characters are being drawn by font! what made you think that they weren't? =o

Thanks by the review!
kristof
26. Aug 2013 路 19:40 UTC
Oh my typing skills are so bad :D Sadly its impossible for me to play on a laptop as I am not fast enough with the trackpad... But still a good idea!
馃帳 Foxtacy
26. Aug 2013 路 20:34 UTC
@kristof Hey thanks ^_^

Yes, a mouse is recommended to play this :)

Thanks for your review :)
Cryovat
27. Aug 2013 路 00:13 UTC
That was awesome, I was laughing and screaming "Nuuuuuu!" throughout the whole thing.

Some of the mouse bits were really evil. Thank you for making this. :)
LordHellMaX
27. Aug 2013 路 00:22 UTC
The fact that you mix keyboard typing and mouse clicking makes it quite challenging. Did you compose the music? It's pretty nice :)
feyleaf
27. Aug 2013 路 00:39 UTC
Wow, this was surprisingly immersive. I found myself getting frustrated but in a good way. Thanks
馃帳 Foxtacy
27. Aug 2013 路 02:02 UTC
@LordHellMaX
Yep, it's my original composition! You can get it here:
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/530330

@Feyleaf

My day, is done! THANK YOU good sir! THANK YOU! ^_^
Koga SilverDragon
27. Aug 2013 路 02:07 UTC
Pretty cool and fun, also challenging!
The music intensifies the tension and pressure vibe =)

I think that a graphic improvement would be great! (I know how sucks do 2D on Unity, pretty hard keep the sprites quality/scale).
馃帳 Foxtacy
27. Aug 2013 路 02:49 UTC
^ AND I CAN'T DRAW PROPPERLY T^T ^

Need skillz.
evilentity
27. Aug 2013 路 12:49 UTC
Interesting concept. Quite hard.
HardScore
27. Aug 2013 路 16:24 UTC
A very challenging game, good job!
Zerkruemler
27. Aug 2013 路 18:06 UTC
Quite funny and quite challenging, but not too hard to finish. I liked it
gamepopper
27. Aug 2013 路 20:15 UTC
Not very good at typing games, but this one I had the most fun with.
Endurion
28. Aug 2013 路 17:29 UTC
Nice game, nasty clickies in between :)
bigbadwofl
28. Aug 2013 路 17:29 UTC
Very cool idea. I'm impressed.
davisan
30. Aug 2013 路 01:30 UTC
Good game! A bit short, but liked the music and the idea. Maybe if you integrate somehow the music with the buttons or letters, will be pretty cool.
ratalaika
01. Sep 2013 路 11:06 UTC
good job
fgielow
02. Sep 2013 路 22:23 UTC
Nice concept. A kind difficult for my skills, trading mouse for keyboard, but well made for a ludum dare.
Like the sounds to.
馃帳 Foxtacy
03. Sep 2013 路 17:59 UTC
Thank you everyone~ this motivates me to keep working on this :3
ConflictiveLabs
04. Sep 2013 路 00:11 UTC
I like it! It's simple, challenging, fun. Perhaps some auditive feedback when you press something wrong would be good. Alternating between mouse and keyboard is a bit of a flow-breaker but I guess it adds to the challenge. Totally enjoyed it though!
Raiyumi
04. Sep 2013 路 00:12 UTC
Pretty fun game , and nice music too.
kirbytails7
04. Sep 2013 路 01:19 UTC
Short but pretty well done. The pace of the levels is quite good.
馃帳 Foxtacy
04. Sep 2013 路 01:24 UTC
@ConflictiveLabs Thanks for pointing that out, did it give you any problems?

@Raiyumi Thanks :)

@kirbytails7 Thank you, and i thought i hadn't thought well about that. hahaha :)
ConflictiveLabs
05. Sep 2013 路 00:44 UTC
Problems? not at all. I managed to beat the game with ease (only failed a couple of times) so it's not like the issue broke the game for me.

But when a game requires you to use both hands on the keyboard and then asks you to click on something on screen it certainly breaks the experience a bit. It takes you out of the immersion as it forces you to take one hand out of the keyboard to reach the mouse, locate the cursor on screen and perform the required action and then back to the keyboard.

That's a mistake I've seen an AWFUL lot in LD entries over the years.

If a game mixes keyboard and mouse input it should be done in such a way that both devices can be comfortably operated with one hand each.

Since your game requires the player to do some fast typing it hardly can be played with just one hand on the keyboard. You would be "wasting" the other hand on the mouse waiting for the occasional mouse input.

Having said that... in your game at least it helps to increase the tension. It doesn't feel broken but you should be careful when designing the control scheme for your games so it doesn't require to swap devices or reach for other things in the middle of the game ;)
theholychicken
05. Sep 2013 路 05:50 UTC
Oh god.. typing game with mouse clicks!
Very very challenging!
Awesome job but I'm really terrible at this :c
rzfmzn
05. Sep 2013 路 12:11 UTC
hahaha loved it
rodrigomotta
10. Sep 2013 路 17:41 UTC
Great idea. I think you must evolve the concept. Congrats.
Brejlounek
11. Sep 2013 路 16:40 UTC
Lool, thats funny. Thought this would be some normal typing game. But it's not, it's funny. :D I just didn't like pixelated graphics, would be much better with better.
Jupiter_Hadley
16. Sep 2013 路 14:51 UTC
Nice short little game, I found it really fun. Great Job!
I featured this game in my LD27 compilation video series, if you'd like to check it out :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvnhwc_j5Mo
馃帳 Foxtacy
23. Sep 2013 路 02:11 UTC
@Jupiter_Hadley WHOA.

Thank you VERY much! :)

I mean, whoa. i never thought i'd end up on a youtube show like this! :'D