{"author_link":"\/author\/thomasbowker\/","author_name":"Thomas Bowker","author_uid":"11991","comments":[{"author_name":"LrdKzrth","author_uid":"22257","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 9:00am","epoch":1367225700,"text":"Good idea and implementation. Gets more challenging as time goes on. I like it!"},{"author_name":"Winterblood","author_uid":"4051","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 9:05am","epoch":1367226000,"text":"Solid design, nicely polished, good sound! It's REALLY hard from the start though - partly because the physical layout of the shapes is a red herring. I'd have preferred a gentle build-up with shapes that are conveniently arranged in sequence to get the player used to the mechanic before shuffling them randomly."},{"author_name":"mrspeaker","author_uid":"9199","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 9:05am","epoch":1367226000,"text":"Arrrgh! I don't get it! How do I play?"},{"author_name":"Thomas Bowker","author_uid":"11991","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 10:06am","epoch":1367229660,"text":"Ah! Yes I was worried if teaching would be an issue. Should have found someone to playtest. Basically press the left and right keys and match the colour of the projectile coming down toward your shape, and once it is inside the hexagon hit the correct key. I'll try and add some more informative text."},{"author_name":"ataxkt","author_uid":"14547","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 2:15pm","epoch":1367244600,"text":"I wish I knew how to get past the title menu :( Screenshots look nice though!"},{"author_name":"Nambew","author_uid":"20366","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 3:53pm","epoch":1367250480,"text":"The first a press enter my name and press Enter, the game don't start, after reloading the page it's working.\r\rThe idea is great and the game is fun. The game is really simple to play, only two buttons, but become more tricky with time. Good work."},{"author_name":"Farfin","author_uid":"4268","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:41pm","epoch":1367260560,"text":"I like that it sounds like close encounters of the third kind. It's like high stakes close encounters."},{"author_name":"evilseanbot","author_uid":"7902","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 3:04am","epoch":1367290740,"text":"Extremely elegant design."},{"author_name":"BlennosoftGames","author_uid":"8308","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 5:09am","epoch":1367298240,"text":"Very challenging take on an established mechanic. Minimalistic, but challenging. But perhaps too challenging."},{"author_name":"Zillix","author_uid":"2460","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 7:53am","epoch":1367308080,"text":"oh man I love this. great aesthetic and ambiance. the simon-says gameplay is awesome."},{"author_name":"kunzbe","author_uid":"20508","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 9:53pm","epoch":1367358480,"text":"really good concept, I like it a lot."},{"author_name":"itsZN","author_uid":"11627","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 2:49pm","epoch":1367505840,"text":"Fun, but hard to stop multiple things that happen around the same time"},{"author_name":"Arcana","author_uid":"22457","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 2:57pm","epoch":1367506320,"text":"Oh wow, this is difficult. I was playing the web version and I don't know if there was some latency or something. It took me about seven tries to figure out what the basic mechanic was, and then I was only able to pass the first level. The second level I played had like seven shapes, and then they'd all fire, but the last two delayed for like a second.\r\rThe tolerance for error is also really, really tight - if the shape isn't right on the barrier, you'd miss (the game says, "In the zone" but it's more like "activating the shield" to deflect them).\r\rThe fact that the notes didn't correspond to left\/right, and how the shapes randomly appeared gave this game a really, really hard learning curve.\r\rWIth some tuning, and more gradual ramping up in difficulty I can see this being really cool though. I really did give this game a shot, played like 10 or 15 times to try to get it but my mind can't wrap around it :("},{"author_name":"Ithildin","author_uid":"15664","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 8:14pm","epoch":1367525340,"text":"Really clever game, and it fits the theme perfectly. Great job!! :)"},{"author_name":"peaveyj","author_uid":"3547","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 6:41am","epoch":1367562960,"text":"This is so cool! At first, I thought, "This is a bit hard to start off." And then I got it through my head, that I just needed to match the rythm (duh). This is the best Simon Says implementation ever."},{"author_name":"dremelofdeath","author_uid":"17159","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 6:43am","epoch":1367563080,"text":"the sound and animations in this are super satisfying, really well done"},{"author_name":"ceMelusine","author_uid":"21522","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 6:51am","epoch":1367563560,"text":"Awesome. One of my favourite games in Ludum Dare so far. Love the mechanics and aesthetic. Wonderful."},{"author_name":"angelk","author_uid":"12262","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 6:57am","epoch":1367563920,"text":"The timing is brutal! It took me a while to figure out i really wanted to press the arrows when the shapes hit the edge of the outer box, not when they're inside. The graphic design is very nice and it looks like it would work well on a phone. Definitely enjoyable!"},{"author_name":"alts","author_uid":"18267","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 7:36am","epoch":1367566260,"text":"This is fantastic. Well done. I was confused at first about how to play, but a couple of attempts and I figured it out. The audio cues are spectacular. The only thing I'd change is that once the screen starts to fill up, it becomes hard to see the projectiles, since they're obscured. The audio cues let you know the spacing between projectiles, but not the moment that the first on will arrive, and often the speed paired with the small clearing makes it really easy to miss that first one. Otherwise excellent entry. Good luck!"},{"author_name":"Fritzendugan","author_uid":"14538","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 7:39am","epoch":1367566440,"text":"Overall pretty fun, online features made it competitive and interesting. Managed to get in the top 10, guess I can live with that for now ;)\r\rSome criticisms: the sounds didn't always intuitively match up with the arrow keys. I would almost prefer it was something like if the pitch goes down, press left, if it went up, press right, not sure if that would make the game too easy. Or maybe in higher difficulties use all four arrow keys. Sometimes the screen would become really clustered and it would be hard to predict when the shapes were going to be in the zone to press the keys. Maybe some different sounds other than the current ones to switch it up sometimes.\r\rInteresting take on the theme, I think it worked out pretty well. And you even mentioned to get a leaderboard up and running, all in 48 hours. Well done."},{"author_name":"baldwinthree","author_uid":"11948","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 7:40am","epoch":1367566500,"text":"Loved it! I'm pretty terrible - only got to the 9th or so level - but it's very clean, looks great, and plays great."},{"author_name":"Aceria","author_uid":"15100","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 7:44am","epoch":1367566740,"text":"I know you said you wanted it to be hard, but this is like driving up a cliff.\r\rAt first I didn't notice the corresponding colours on the arrows so I didn't have a clue why I was missing the objects, but when I worked out that I got through to the third level. \r\rInteresting... It's got potential, but better tutorial information or earlier levels would make this much easier. For example, a first level where you only have to repel triangles and then a level with only squares would get across the idea in ten seconds, saving on a longer period of frustration.\r\rGood implementation and it fits the theme well, and good audio too."},{"author_name":"aquilicoco","author_uid":"22746","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 2:50pm","epoch":1367592300,"text":"Good job, but i think that is very difficult."},{"author_name":"BrothersT","author_uid":"12722","time":"May 5, 2013 @ 12:34pm","epoch":1367756940,"text":"Oh man, that's so much fun. Simple, original and satisfying to ping those shapes :P"},{"author_name":"Sebastian","author_uid":"20818","time":"May 11, 2013 @ 12:05pm","epoch":1368273600,"text":"Very nice, managed to get 530 after a bit of trying. I would like it if your score was displayed on the game over screen though (maybe replace the game title with the score after the initial load)"},{"author_name":"Catman","author_uid":"11589","time":"May 14, 2013 @ 10:09am","epoch":1368525840,"text":"Good mechanics and well designed. A bit too hard, tho!"}],"images":["ld26\/11991-11f6a68fa7e5ea3682f397a2a6ffbd9f.jpg","ld26\/11991-a429f762bd877cb85945c274bd90c4ff.jpg","ld26\/11991-338a1ae92abf1a5362905821b1619368.jpg","ld26\/11991-69987c13662f8ad6d3d92260e4a89c34.jpg","ld26\/11991-694f816d4cb7de169fa5834b96fde926.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/thomasbowker.com\/tenspace\/","text":"Web (Unity)"},{"url":"http:\/\/thomasbowker.com\/tenspace\/downloads\/tenspace_source.zip","text":"Source"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-R13F13PP6g","text":"Time-lapse"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"25943","g_author":"11991","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"25973","g_title":"Ten Space","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"283","g_commentcount":"26","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\/\/233892\/11991-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/11991-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/11991-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/11991-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/11991-shot4.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Ten Space is a simple but stylised action rhythm game.\r\n\r\nListen to the geometry and match their patterns to survive.\r\n\r\nI had some time to implement some online features so be sure to check them out as well!\r\n\r\nThe game is very hard, and I wanted to keep it this way. Ludum Dare games are usually given a very short attention time and didn't want to waste anyones :).\r\n\r\nControls:\r\nLeft and Right arrow keys to deflect incoming geometry, but only when it's _close_ to you and inside the hexagon zone. You also will have to match the _colour_ of the incoming projectile to deflect it correctly.<\/p>","title":"Ten Space"}