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The Final Countdown by AbelLemmens

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made by AbelLemmens for LD27 (COMPO)
Well, that's it, my first Ludum Dare game. I must say I am quite happy with my game. It may look like the art was made by someone who has no experience at all with computer graphics (which was indeed the case), but at least it's a bit of fun.

The game is one of those 'typing games', where you have to type all the words on screen as quickly as possible. I modified it a bit of course so it fit the '10 Seconds' theme.

The jetpack system at your local space center has gone crazy and all the astronauts are soaring through the air! It's your job to help them! Disable the jetpacks of the astronauts by typing the names of the corresponding astronauts. If you have typed in a correct name the computer will automatically disable the corresponding jetpack. Beware of typo's though! Luckily you can reset the console field by pressing BACKSPACE.
Web https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/79172213/The%20Final%20Countdown%20-%20LD27/index.html
Source https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/79172213/The%20Final%20Countdown%20-%20LD%20%28SOURCECODE%29.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=27094

Ratings

Coolness 32% 1563
Overall 2.86 758
Audio 2.21 734
Fun 2.59 832
Graphics 2.71 664
Humor 2.76 286
Innovation 2.52 878
Mood 2.33 848
Theme 2.81 861

Feedback

okmmjyygv
26. Aug 2013 · 09:37 UTC
Well, good concept. Smooth graphics :)
Urfoex
28. Aug 2013 · 14:34 UTC
Sound overlaps on continuing runs.
BeardoGames
28. Aug 2013 · 22:42 UTC
Quite a bit of fun, and as always it's nice to see a different kind of genre represented from the usual ones. I loved the graphics and the sense of humor in particular!
Anachron
29. Aug 2013 · 02:19 UTC
This would be a great game for learning to type faster! It would have longer appeal if there were more names/words.
Christina Nordlander
01. Sep 2013 · 22:37 UTC
Very simple, but pretty fun. The graphics aren't bad: they fulfil their purpose.

My record: 9.
Ossi
01. Sep 2013 · 22:59 UTC
Good concept with a funny little story. I like the setup for the UI, using the environment pieces to keep track of the typed words and score. I wish there were more stages with harder words though. Fun game, good job!
h_double
02. Sep 2013 · 00:14 UTC
I like the concept and the art style! I found the ten second aspect of it more frustrating than fun, especially since there were periods where no new astronauts would show up for a couple of seconds. Also the overlapping rocket roar between games gets pretty annoying :-)
jomomomo
02. Sep 2013 · 00:26 UTC
Very polished and fun game. My only complaint is the two or three seconds it takes for the cosmonauts to show up.
Tegu
02. Sep 2013 · 16:36 UTC
An interesting idea and fast typing games are often pretty fun especially if you know touch typing. Somehow the astronaut spawn rate was very varying as sometimes there was only one guy during the whole 10 second period and sometimes a bunch of them. My maximum score was 10 which is pretty low, but retries didn't often give the opportunity to breach it. Also the overlapping sounds seemed were a bit annoying and probably made the whole game run slowly on my machine (making the window smaller helped though). I had to refresh/reopen it after every round to prevent excessive sound overlapping.
Sheep
02. Sep 2013 · 19:01 UTC
Fun and short. I got till 6. The sound effects were a bit ear-piercing though.
sP0CkEr2
02. Sep 2013 · 20:37 UTC
nice effort but would be nice if there was more to it
Raiyumi
03. Sep 2013 · 22:15 UTC
A nice typing game. The typing sound could've been different, though.