You have ten seconds to escape... by SbstnC

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made by SbstnC for LD27 (COMPO)
You have 10 seconds to escape... the 10 levels !

Hi,
this is my firs entry ever, for a Ludum Dare event, and actually it's the very first game I managed to complete.

Since it was one of my first game I spend 90% of my time fighting with the code, so there is a minimalist art, and no sound.


So what you'll have is a very quick (quick ? like 10 seconds ?), ten level, minimalist and colorful puzzle/platformer.

I still like the concept of the game, and I hope it will be fun to beat.


There is nothing to install, just a simple executable.


*** I made a slight change by moving the exit of the first level, 2 tiles down, because it caused people to think there was a glitch where in fact there wasn't. It's not really a glitch correction, it's kinda "not glitch correction" so I hope it's ok. It's a very small modification.

Link to the previous version (with the not glitch) is here :
http://www.mediafire.com/download/87r8nniab31tg8g/You_have_ten_seconds.zip ***


REMEMBER : The Keyword is PUZZLE, there are traps, and short cuts. Overall, wits > skill

Ratings

Coolness 61% 3
Overall 3.23 383
Fun 3.46 172
Graphics 2.43 832
Humor 2.48 429
Innovation 2.74 735
Mood 2.48 748
Theme 3.75 104

Feedback

Loerden
26. Aug 2013 路 14:48 UTC
Makes fun,
But its really hard :)
I麓ll try to beat it!
madk
26. Aug 2013 路 14:53 UTC
Holy shit I won. I hate you for how absurdly little room for error there is.
ModestArcade
26. Aug 2013 路 15:10 UTC
Wow, this gets intense. Nice work.
馃帳 SbstnC
26. Aug 2013 路 17:23 UTC
Wo Cool ! People played my game ! I'm happy.

The game was really easy at the begginig, I just changed the order of the rooms, and the difficulty has gone crazy.

I hope it's not too hard, I beat it at every try, but I made it, so maybe it's just that I know it too much.

@madk
Iknow there is no room for error, but basically I had no room to make room for error, it's only one second per level. I'm pleased someone beat it.

I'm considering going for a 60 seconds/60 levels version, it could distribute the difficulty more smoothly during the levels, and I could try the levels designs ideas that I could'nt add here.
Nights57
26. Aug 2013 路 21:39 UTC
Deceptively addictive. Falling through the hole in the first level takes you to the second one. I dunno if that's a glitch or a secret but either way it's awesome. Nice game!
Conry
26. Aug 2013 路 21:43 UTC
This one is really neat! I love how it forces you to think slightly out of the box :)
Sink
26. Aug 2013 路 21:47 UTC
Really engaging! I enjoyed it a lot and I like how you had to take the unclear path, creative.
馃帳 SbstnC
26. Aug 2013 路 23:17 UTC
Thanks :) I'm glad that it please some people.

@Nights57
It's not a glitch, when you fall you spawn from above (pacman like), it's the way to do it. It looks like a glitch because you don't have time to see the character coming from the top.
馃帳 SbstnC
26. Aug 2013 路 23:21 UTC
I might do something to make it more clear.
Tainted_Code
27. Aug 2013 路 12:28 UTC
I won! The last level was mean >:D You got me hooked, so well done! Great game :D
olafurw
28. Aug 2013 路 00:18 UTC
wow this is crazy, it has a very very small room for error. nice work though on your first game!
Joxno
28. Aug 2013 路 00:25 UTC
Pretty fast-paced but quite enjoyable, kept getting killed by the 'troll, lol' levels >.<
kacperski1
28. Aug 2013 路 10:09 UTC
Good game!
Looks like "Adventure" for Atari :D
almightyzentaco
28. Aug 2013 路 10:33 UTC
Very difficult, but fun.
Entity2D
29. Aug 2013 路 19:20 UTC
Not bad at all for a first game, in fact, it's really fun!
Pierrec
30. Aug 2013 路 11:35 UTC
This is the greatest surprise!
Not the game itself (which is pretty clever and really fun [until it gets intensely frustrating ^^) but the fact that you made a game! I didn't know you were a programmer!
Now I will harass you until you make a game using your own drawing graphics, because minimalist pixel-art it cool, but you can do so much better than that!
馃帳 SbstnC
30. Aug 2013 路 13:37 UTC
@ Pierrec: Thanks :) That's the point, I'm NOT a programmer, in the past I've tried to learn C++, java, as3, but circonstances always kept me away from my computer for some times and I had to start all over again.
So I thought I could try to use GM's drag and drop system, but it was glitchy, so I had to code aniway for a big part. So my 48h were : 10 hours to sleep and get an idea, almost 30h to fix the engine while reading tutorials,documentations and hitting myself with the keyboard. 6 hours for level design, graphics and sounds (yeah the sounds that I could never get to work) and hitting myself with the keyboard again... oh and also getting that countdown to work trough the different levels... that almost made me quit.
KunoNoOni
30. Aug 2013 路 14:30 UTC
Congrats on your first game and LD! I really liked it!
dook
02. Sep 2013 路 16:45 UTC
Really simple and really good :) I couldn't beat it, but I think I'll give it another try later on.
schnerble
02. Sep 2013 路 17:07 UTC
Quite tough, but nice idea. It does mean players can only really win by learning the levels, but still, for a ten-second-total game, that's kind of necessary :)
haxpor
16. Sep 2013 路 19:36 UTC
Simplistic enough! The whole level needs to be cleared in 10!!!