The decasecond by Shakedimus
AKA 10 seconds... a perfect amount of time to be wielded by a professional bullshitter. Long enough to remain believable but short enough to be impressive. It can be used for good: Eat your plate , every 10 seconds somebody dies of hunger.
It can be used for bad: Why would I eat my plate, every 10 seconds 1000 tons of food is thrown away anyway.
But YOU can wield it for your own purposes! Come up with "Decasecond Facts" to bend the non-googling population to your will... mostly by making them laugh!
Vote how funny other professional bullshitters are and climb to the top of the leaderboard!
If you need some (f)actual inspiration
https://www.omnicalculator.com/everyday-life/every-second

---CONTROLS---
ANSWERING:
press ENTER to submit your answer
press ESC to submit answer and go to the leaderboard straight after this question
RATING:
select an answer with the left mouse button
move it around to rank them with the arrow keys
The points given are on the left
| Link | https://shakedimus.itch.io/the-decasecond |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/the-decasecond |
Ratings
| Overall | 970th | 3.109⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 759th | 3.188⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 178th | 3.828⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 481th | 3.766⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 1105th | 1.891⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 144th | 3.781⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 1145th | 2.483⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 7🗳️ | 10🗨️ |
There are a lot of funny sentences in there haha!
I guess UI could be reworked to look better, but it works as is!
A confirmation prompt would be nice. The apostrophe key is right next to the enter key and it's really easy to accidentally send your response before you
Did you know that every 10 seconds someone enjoys your game?
Some tip for better UX: Pick an input method and be consistent with it. Is this game meant to be controlled using keyboard only or navigated with mouse and using keyboard for input? In some places you use buttons for mouse and in others you expect us to type Enter. This is quite confusing and lead me to wonder what I'm supposed to do at times. Likewise for the ordering a mouse dragging with hamburger icon would have been more intuitive than using the arrow keys. If what you wanted instead are arrow keys, small arrows on top and bottom of the options would have helped to indicate that those boxes are meant to be moved.
That being said those are just small UX details. The concept is cool and good job programming this server capable of managing those quotes with votes and all, very impressive!
My main piece of feedback is that the prompts weren't super clear. Prompts like "You're talking to someone who's afraid of spiders, and you want to scare them" were very straightforward & easy to understand. But prompts like "You have to do one thing for the rest of your life." weren't as clear; if the entire goal is to come up with fake facts, then this prompt doesn't actually invite me to do that. One person's answer to this question was "Every 10 seconds, I make a million dollars." That's not a fact but there was really no other way to answer that prompt. Not sure if I'm making sense, haha.
In any case, I understand the concept, and I think that this would be a really cool idea for a party game :) I would totally play something like this with friends. Great entry!
UI and UX I thought were quite good. Everything was clear, well explained.
I thought the prompts were variable in quality - some of them lent themselves more toward pure comedy, and other lent themselves more to "QI" style bullshit facts, which is the intention. I think crowdsourcing prompts as part of the game might be a neat idea.
Overall, really neat. Feels like something out of a Jackbox Party Pack!
excited to see what the leaderboards look like towards the end of the jam :)
Good job thinking out of the box.
i can play this all day if it werent for sleeping and farting ofcourse
I agree with some of the UX suggestions, just making mouse-based buttons or keyboard only (or both but either can be used in isolation) would work best.
It would be nice to have additional voting options for prompts too - sometimes a prompt is not a good idea but it makes me laugh regardless so it would be nice to reward those players for making me giggle with a reaction you can give out
Gameplay wise obviously there's not much but it's definitely cool to do a game based entirely around community leaderboards and see what craziness people end up submitting, or what ends up reaching #1. Cause it's gonna be something you wouldn't have of. Which at least it seems to be, but it's definitely interesting.
The UI definitely isn't the best though for sure, I'd say it needs a little work especially since it seems like you can't look through the whole hall of fame, since it doesn't allow switching between prompts all the time. Which is quite unfortunate. I wanna see all the craziness people came up with but IU can't manage to get it to let me see more than 1 or 2 prompts in the hall of fame. Possibly just 1.
Overall though definitely a kinda funny one to read and try and come up with random stuff to submit for sure.
Thanks for making and sharing this!