{"author_link":"\/author\/arcana\/","author_name":"Arcana","author_uid":"22457","comments":[{"author_name":"Endurion","author_uid":"103","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 1:15pm","epoch":1377522600,"text":"Not particularly on topic :)\r\rNice little game. I would've preferred fire on the mouse button instead of shift."},{"author_name":"GaTechGrad","author_uid":"19778","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 12:42am","epoch":1377650220,"text":"Really like the unique art style in the opening story. I agree, it would have been nice to have gun 1 on left mouse button and gun 2 on right mouse button. I think my high score was 158."},{"author_name":"Arcana","author_uid":"22457","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 4:44pm","epoch":1377707940,"text":"I do apologize for the mouse button thing. I didn't test with a mouse and was using the laptop trackpad, so it didn't even occur to me (as it's impossible to hold and move with the trackpad!)"},{"author_name":"lopiky1","author_uid":"27280","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 3:46am","epoch":1377747660,"text":"simple yet very fun :D"},{"author_name":"ramoncb","author_uid":"14743","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 3:55am","epoch":1377748200,"text":"I like the game!\r\rmaybe a option to shoot with the mouse would give the game a more fast pace\r(sorry my bad english xD)"},{"author_name":"Malactus","author_uid":"7440","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 4:33am","epoch":1377750480,"text":"Gets pretty challenging after 15 seconds. Quick yes,\rUnfortunately I do not see it particularly on theme, except at the start, which feels a bit restrictive as you do cant really do anything in those 10 seconds :P\r\rI like the style of the watercolor styled background, and the music and sounds are decent"},{"author_name":"theholychicken","author_uid":"25095","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 4:41am","epoch":1377750960,"text":"Awesome concept to use combat for for music! \rThe enemies are spawning very close to me even in the center of the map, though. I am afraid of moving around because an enemy would spawn right next to me and instantly kill me. \rThe cutscene system looks great, and the main game's art style is very very good.\rDefinitely top marks for audio! Great job!"},{"author_name":"namrog84","author_uid":"4313","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 5:02am","epoch":1377752220,"text":"I liked the handrawn unique art a lot. But was a little disappointed in the gameplay :\/"},{"author_name":"koe415","author_uid":"25319","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 5:48am","epoch":1377754980,"text":"The sound design is awesome on this game. From the small things like the keyboard strokes when you hit an insect to that great main menu theme, it's very solid all around. The game itself is pretty difficult after the first few seconds. I think removing the random spawning right next to the player would help ease the difficulty. Otherwise, very impressive what was accomplished in only a few hours!"},{"author_name":"Kragnir","author_uid":"26709","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 8:00am","epoch":1377762900,"text":"I am guessing the use of the theme is the rocket launch in the intro. Game is kind of interesting but enemies spawning very close to you make it difficult to play for long. Like the music."},{"author_name":"Diptoman","author_uid":"25325","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 5:16pm","epoch":1377796260,"text":"Its simplistic, but great fun!\rI totally love the doodly art style to it.\r\rGreat job!"},{"author_name":"Arcana","author_uid":"22457","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 5:54pm","epoch":1377798540,"text":"Yeah I would have liked to put more "theme" into it. Initially I wanted to make your shots and the music fit into a 10-second loop, but I wasn't able to figure out how to make the timings tight enough so that they would synchronize properly.\r\rSorry about the enemies spawning. I was aware of this on submission but didn't have time to fix it."},{"author_name":"loxo","author_uid":"23206","time":"Aug 31, 2013 @ 6:30pm","epoch":1377973500,"text":"I like the art style, the music and the sound effects. But the game fits the theme only vaguely."},{"author_name":"berkano","author_uid":"11027","time":"Aug 31, 2013 @ 7:34pm","epoch":1377977340,"text":"Refreshing to see some hand-drawn (painted?) gfx and nice music!"},{"author_name":"Kharza","author_uid":"5649","time":"Aug 31, 2013 @ 8:44pm","epoch":1377981540,"text":"Love the cute intro!"},{"author_name":"Empyrealhell","author_uid":"26650","time":"Sep 1, 2013 @ 6:48am","epoch":1378017780,"text":"Fun and easy to get into, and the art style is good, but as others have said, your usage of theme was cursory at best."},{"author_name":"AidanAK47","author_uid":"27777","time":"Sep 2, 2013 @ 8:44pm","epoch":1378154340,"text":"The random spawning in the middle of the screen really killed it for me. It makes the game more about luck than anything else. Also having the enemies disappear when you hit them is pretty unsatisfying. It would be preferable if there was a small explosion or something. It makes it look better and feels better."},{"author_name":"PIXEL^3","author_uid":"10948","time":"Sep 14, 2013 @ 2:37am","epoch":1379125920,"text":"Cute little game with good audio too it, the sound effects mix with the music rather well. Though the enemies usually spawn too close to the center usually resulting in them ramming me with no time to react. Best I got was about 530 points or so.\r\r-AlucardX60"}],"images":["ld27\/22457-91d6b1a938f3f60dc48ab63f60d01257.jpg","ld27\/22457-c66db8fc0a0732c656f60d122512a7f4.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ld27_tsts_mac","text":"Mac OS X"},{"url":"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ld27_tsts_windows","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/IrwinKwan\/ld27_tsts","text":"Github"},{"url":"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/emeraldarcana\/sets\/ten-seconds-to-space-original","text":"Soundtrack"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"23950","g_author":"22457","g_event":"LD27","g_eventkey":"18","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"23980","g_title":"Ten Seconds To Space","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"943","g_commentcount":"18","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/22457-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/22457-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Game description: The Insects have found Earth again. This time, earth's prepared for the invasion and has the ability to launch a ship with their top Captain to space in ten seconds.\r\n\r\nMove with WSAD, aim with the mouse, shoot with Left Shift or Space (and quite possibly the Mouse Button works now too since it was a minor fix). Select your weapon type with 1 or 2. (Oddly enough, you'll notice that your shots go faster the farther away the mouse is from the player). (There's a secret weapon 3 but I didn't really test it so effects are random!)\r\n\r\nYes, the game ends (it's not unlimited waves) but I haven't actually succeeded at it so it's kind of untested. Hope it works.\r\n\r\nBackground:\r\n\r\nThis is my second Ludum Dare entry!\r\n\r\nI, again, decided to compete last minute and said, \"I'm going to devote three hours to this because I'm really busy.\" So it turns out that about 15 or so hours later I'm submitting what I have, in its immature, unpolished glory, because I was travelling and couldn't put the full 48 hours to this.\r\n\r\nAs much as I would have wanted to make the gameplay more interesting, I was unfortunately very time-limited, so it's unfortunately rather sparse gameplay wise. I spent most of my time on assets this time around (made all of the artwork and all of the music and sound effects). However, I learned a lot about assets and style and about what things need to be done for game-making in the future.\r\n\r\nI uploaded a Mac OS X app bundle here and a Windows bundle, but I really haven't tested anything as much as I would have liked so there might be problems. Please let me know if there are any issues!\r\n\r\nStealth update: I found out that enemy spawning wasn't working properly (I had my greater and less-than signs messed up!) so I fixed that up. There was also a problem with the game's \"Retry? (Y\/N)\" prompt so I fixed that up too.\r\n\r\nAfter a few days report: I think I'm probably most proud of the music (I like the game loop the best). I'm also reasonably happy with the artwork (quantity, not quality!). I'm not an artist and doing so many pictures in such a tiny amount of time for me is a pretty big thing. I spent a lot of time on the assets.","title":"Ten Seconds To Space"}