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Speed of love

By bobylito

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Humor2192.96
Theme2603.48
Innovation5153.02
Mood9172.22
Audio9601.32
Overall10382.49
Fun10732.16
Graphics11041.88
Coolness122946

Comments

jayjay122 2013-08-26 04:57

Aside from the up/down arrows moving too the options too quickly, it's a pretty cool take on the 10s theme =]

mrspeaker 2013-08-26 09:35

Ha ha! 10 second dating sim. That's classic... I think you've started a new sub-genre. I think I'd do better with the ladies if real-life worked under these conditions.

levsha128 2013-08-26 11:51

Very interesting

raggy 2013-08-26 11:54

I had real trouble trying to select the option I wanted with the arrow keys, but neat concept!

greenyuk 2013-08-26 13:35

Good take on the theme. Same issues as others, touch picking right option and had trouble reading that fast!

alwaysinbeta 2013-08-26 13:36

Good theme fit and the writing is really funny. Fun to play.

taylorlunt 2013-08-26 13:37

Very odd.

gaspard_ 2013-08-26 13:41

Indeed it's odd.

rejome 2013-08-26 18:18

Didn't catch the point... :'(
Nice shot around the ten seconds theme though.

erkberg 2013-08-27 01:34

It's really hard to read and choose that fast.

matthewvermaak 2013-08-27 01:47

That is some fast speed dating :0) Highest rank was C for me.

larb 2013-08-27 01:52

Brilliant idea. The arrows and spacebar scrolled my browser down, making it hard to see the game, for some reason. I zoomed out to fix it, but the text was tinu. (I guess my screen resolution is low?) Great entry.

sebastian 2013-08-27 05:21

Hah, interesting!

szedouu 2013-08-27 07:11

interesting game, but text is too fast to read.Anyway good entry!

beardbotnik 2013-08-27 10:33

Interesting game, the controls were pretty hard to work with. Not sure if it was on purpose or not, I didn't have any trouble reading the text for the most part. Very interesting take on the theme. I feel like a little bit of context could have been added using imagery or sound though. I didn't realize that it was a phone conversation the first few tries.

sense 2013-08-27 13:33

Text is going really too fast. I would like to have much more than 1 ^^. Interesting theme however !

jellyman64 2013-08-27 13:41

Nice 10 second theme, but some of that text went way too fast to read. Good game anyway!

g_o 2013-08-27 14:30

The problem with this is that I finished the game in 10 secs : O

arcturusdeluxe 2013-08-27 17:19

Funny idea, although not sure what was being said/what I was saying most of the time. It all goes a bit quick.

triplevisiongames 2013-08-27 18:04

Good use of theme and funny too :)

raoz 2013-08-27 19:04

ervion: Really interesting concept, hits the mood of the theme very well, everything moving so fast. Controls are a bit slippery thought.

paveldlouhy 2013-08-27 19:20

Cool idea! Trying to make comment in 10 seconds. ;-)

esayitch 2013-08-27 19:39

Megaspeed dating :P Liked this, short and sweet.

muciojadpl 2013-08-27 20:18

Cool idea, these quickly conversations... ;) But when I lost I had rank screen and probably sometime something is wrong with it ;) Check it ttp://www.iv.pl/images/94546400354541488361.png :) However nice work.

muciojadpl 2013-08-27 20:20

*http at line two in link, my mistake ;)

christina-nordlander 2013-08-27 22:02

Great idea, and I like what you've done with the text (it took a few tries to get used to, but that's part of the challenge). Unfortunately, there wasn't a whole lot to it. It would have worked a lot better with more meaningful conversation topics, I think.

A couple of weird words: "unfornately" (unless that was intentionally slurred), "glooming".

shockedfrog 2013-08-28 00:02

Not much to the gameplay but I love the idea. :)

nickw 2013-08-28 07:47

Cool idea, is there only one valid option?

bobylito 2013-08-28 09:57

Thanks for all the comments so far. I'm taking notes for all of them. Generally speaking I was way too full of myself before starting to write anything "it'll be something simple" (yeah that's right) and I struggled with my tech (which is not the point of LD right? ;) ). Here are some answers :

- I couldn't figure out how to make a good menu with keyboard selection so that's why it is totally weird and hard to play. If you have any resources about how to do that properly, share the love ;)

- it definitely lack some context. I didn't have time to make more artwork nor i though about about adding some descriptive text (well, retrospectively I had the idea at some point but then I rushed).

- The points calculation is indeed buggy, I can fix that. (it is in the rule to be able to patch for bugs right?)

- SPOILER ALERT : yes there is only one valid option :P

Thanks so much for taking the time to figure out the idea behind this game. I'll write a more in depth post mortem about the ideas I wanted to implement and how I could have improved everything.

bobylito 2013-08-28 10:01

One more thing about the text speed : time continues to clock while text is displaying so I tried to balance this side effect over the points. It doesn't work out well after all :P

gre 2013-08-28 15:56

fun but tough!

ddionisio 2013-08-29 01:28

Damn, it happens so fast. Is this a statement about a stereotypical guy's attention span? :P

Selecting a response is a little slippery, I sometimes skip one item.

This is a pretty neat game, I feel like there could be a sequel to this :P

tigerj 2013-08-29 01:45

speed dating (sim) lol kinda awesome. I like the name choice to as a closet Evengellion fan

lekochen 2013-08-29 06:45

Rank: A. LOL I love it.

fferro234 2013-09-05 03:54

Interesting game. Needs a bit more everything though.