{"author_name":"Will Edwards","cat":"LD #27","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"August 27, 2013 5:08 am","epoch":1377598080,"text":"10 Fast Beef – tru story!!)","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Alexander Ponomariov","time":"August 27, 2013 5:15 am","epoch":1377598500,"text":"Thank you for this post and glad you’ve enjoyed 10 sec. FastBeef!!) \\m\/","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1377597000,"likes":3,"metadata":{"p_key":"38305","p_author":"Will Edwards","p_authorkey":"10313","p_urlkey":"73923","p_title":"Speed Dating Gaming","p_cat":"LD #27","p_event":"LD27","p_time":"1377597000","p_likes":"3","p_comments":"2","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"10313","us_name":"Will Edwards","us_username":"william_edwards","event_start":"1377216000","event_key":"18","event_name":"LD27"},"text":"

Well I’ve charged through a few games in quick succession! \u00a0If there’s a pattern, its that most games use the “10 seconds” theme to limit the gameplay to, eh, 10 seconds. \u00a0There aren’t many platformers this time, and I think the theme has really limited people; there’s not much innovative slants on it all from my quick sampling.<\/p>\n

Its difficult for me as I’m not a Windows user. I can run Unity Web these days, which is a saving. I wish more people made web-playable games; I really don’t like downloading your untrustworthy binaries and neither should you!<\/p>\n

This is not all a bad thing; there are buckets of really good<\/em> games that I’ve found already:<\/p>\n

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\u2191 10 sec. Fast Beef<\/strong><\/a> is as addictive as Angry-Birds! \u00a0You’ve been warned! \u00a0Definitely no just playing for 10 seconds to be had here!<\/p>\n

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\u2191 Notiempo<\/a> is a multi-player FPS that looks gorgeous. \u00a0I’m dead keen to know how the multi-player bit works, since I’ve had no luck with it myself<\/a> in pass LD contests.<\/p>\n

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\u2191 The Value of Time<\/a> is a pleasing little puzzler where you help yourself out in a weird and wonderful way.<\/p>\n

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\u2191 10 Seconds Before the World Ends<\/a> is a nice use of a physics engine.<\/p>\n

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With over 2200 games, I’ve obviously only scraped the surface and not found the truly great games! \u00a0In most LDs, I haven’t even played the winning games and am completely surprised – in a good way – when the results are announced and there’s a whole bunch more recommendations to work through!<\/p>\n

My own entry was a bit of a miss this time, because the beauty is in the code and not the gameplay:<\/p>\n

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\u2191 The NSA’s Where’s Snowden?<\/a> Game. \u00a0Please appreciate the Windows-ME-style interface and full SQL parser written in Javascript! \u00a0\ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go play lots more games! \":)\"<\/p>","time":"August 27th, 2013 4:50 am","title":"Speed Dating Gaming"}