Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD27 → 10 Sec Hero
By stabalarash
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 1 | 100 | ||
| Graphics | 148 | 3.69 | ||
| Innovation | 265 | 3.39 | ||
| Theme | 306 | 3.43 | ||
| Fun | 336 | 3.20 | ||
| Overall | 383 | 3.23 | ||
| Humor | 458 | 2.41 | ||
| Mood | 479 | 2.82 | ||
| Audio | 930 | 1.47 |
I'm attracted by the graphics and theme but can't get anything to really happen. Arrow keys take me up a couple of stuffs, then red negative numbers start popping out and then the game is over. Is it a bug or a lack of instructions?
Took a little while to get my head around exactly what I was doing, but it's a cool little mini-rpg with some really charming character graphics. The pace makes it feel a little relentless, but that's par for the course with 10 second games. Good stuff.
Awesome! I loved it!
I like the concept, but don't really like the time constraint. I guess if the drops were more frequent you would be able to get further, but at the moment I can only kill two slimes and then the time is over and I never get any loot.
Oh and btw, the graphics were nice, good job!
Yes! Defeated the dragon, retook the castle and saved the princess. At least I think that's what happened. Fun game! :)
Very fun game mechanic, but lacking in some areas. Small tutorial quips, as well as sound effects would be nice to get some sort of feedback as to what exactly the buttons do. It was very confusing at first, but after I knew what was going on it was a lot of fun. If this game were expanded and polished, I would totally buy it for my mobile device! :D
Absolutely loved this game. Perfectly fits the theme and is great fun.
I really like the graphics :)
Even though I suck at it, the gameplay is very good and takes a nice spin on the "ten seconds to get somewhere" theme! 10 seconds feels a little too short to me, but that's probably because I suck at it :P
A fun little puzzle game that takes a bit to figure out but once you get the concept you get a small but rewarding experience.
Great idea and awesome graphics! I like it :D It took me some time to understand what to do, but finally I won :D
Wonderful theme and graphics. And a nice use of the theme, I enjoyed playing it
A really nice little game. The pace of the gentle puzzling mechanic is just right. Very enjoyable!
I kinda like the concept but because I had to stop for each battle I didn't really have time to do anything else but get the wooden sword. Maybe I'm missing something. I think it might work better if you didn't have time auto-advance but instead make it advance when you moved / attacked, keeping with the turn-based nature of the turn-based RPGs that inspire this game.
Loved it, man, highest grade. Very fun and addictive :)
But how can you use the spell, if you always have zero mana?
Neat game! Addictive!
I liked the graphics a lot, and I could definitely see this being a mobile game or something like that.
Great game! I like the art a lot. I couldn't get the chest after the first locked door though.
Very nice game, though the 10 second constraint feels kinda tacked on. Though, the biggest thing lacking is more levels and more loot :)
That was awesome, huge amounts of fun had, post-compo build? you should.
Beautiful, but I'm not sure if I get it. I can kill the first, maybe the second enemy, but then my time is already over, and I'm not sure if I did something wrong or just am not fast enough.
loved the concept, didn't get it at first but once i did it was very enjoyable!
I won! Pretty Fun stuff! Can be easily extended to something more.
Nice work!!
Nice graphics and a nice concept. The time limit is pretty annoying, but that's probably kind of the point of having the time limit I guess...
Some music would be nice (or maybe that's just Firefox again :P)
It's really awesome! No clue how to actually beat the dragon, though.
Great art style. The game reminds me of a simple version of Dokapon Kingdom
Nice idea and execution, really liked it! Nice graphics too. Sounds and music would make this even better. If you get rid of the 10s restriction afterwards, this could very well transform into a good puzzle-rpg.
Funny idea. Could use some better informative layer
Nice idea, props for the RPG aspect!
I win! Very much liked the art, took me a while to get the mechanics but once I had it was very enjoyable even to die knowing I had just got to that chest I was aiming for.
It only need a little bit of polish on the inputs (and sounds!) to have it be a solid little game.
The 10-second limit is perfect for having time as a resource. I think you should keep it.
Nice graphics very fun to play
BOO-YA, Beat it. I think this game was purposefully designed to give people carpal tunnel.
Sound effects would be super useful for a game as fast paced as this as people are able to process sound slightly faster than visuals.
Also I think a lot of the initial confusion is due to people not realizing that items carry over despite "death", this is counterintuitive. One way you could make this more clear is by changing it thematically to the dungeon teleports you out after 10 seconds instead.
I think I hit a bug with the potion. Sometimes I would hit the button to drink it, and no health would be refilled, but the potion would get used up. I believe it happened when I drank too soon after attacking, but I can't be sure.
That aside, I had fun scrambling around the world and discovering the correct path. It would be cool if monsters also had random loot drops, to provide a bit more variety each run.
Stucked in a start screen. Browser : Chrome.
Pretty neat! Also very frustrating :P
Great work!! And a bit difficult! Nice!!
Very cool game! Got me hooked! Great idea!
Love the character designs, it's a neat concept but the 10 second constraint doesn't work so well in my opinion. Not sure how the inheriting of loot is supposed to work, since I can't imagine getting further than the first couple of fights. Maybe if there were a way to extend time?
For some reason, the potion didn't work for me when I had it in the third slot, but when I moved it to the middle slot, it worked fine. Great idea, and pretty entertaining and fast-paced. Well done!
I really liked it after I figured out the controls. It was kind of rough at first because I wasn't certain about fighting the slime or whatever. Also if you could push up the margin on the page, that'd help people like me with tiny resolutions.
Nice, I especially enjoyed the combat, which was pretty minimal but self explanatory.
It was really difficult to get the first piece of loot though.
same comment as Baburo
The game-play is frantic--I like it.
Great game, I'd play the shit out of it if it would be longer ;)
A really cute mini-rpg! The graphics are really fun and simple. I kind of feel the heroes need to be rebalanced a bit, but that might just be because I fumble inputs a lot.
<3 this is a wonderful game!
Really nice style and graphics! Fun once i caught on :D
Really innovative art style, the mechanic it's quite interesting.
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i dont know how to play!!!
i just can kill 2 enemies
I like it. Lack of sounds was a bit dissappointing but a solid game still. Really fastpaced and requires a lot of dexterity. Nice job :)
This was fun. Fits the theme, and you can feel the rush.
Very good concept ! Too bad there's no audio. I also found a bug, the healing potion seems to disappear (after use?), you need to re-equip it after each play.
Wow, awesome, great grafix, great game play, enjoyed it a lot, couldn't stop until i won (took me quite a few attempts, hehe)
Good work!
Not sure limiting time to 10s makes this game any better, but otherwise - nicely done!
Great job, fun fast paced game, though honestly it seems like the wizard is practically useless at the beginning, I couldn't find a reason to use anybody other than the warrior. A little bit of music would have helped a lot I think. But other than that the timing in the game seemed pretty well thought out. Nice job! It's a very well rounded game. Once I found that I could hold down the attack button, the time limit didn't seem so bad either.
I didn't quite understand the instructions and so when I tried killing the guys by smashing buttons I died at the 2nd fight, maybe a bug?
Really cool concept, i could see this working well on mobile devices with some tweaking.
Adorable graphics, and a unique take on the brief. I loved this concept that you could get loot and then re-use it for later battles. And it's a webapp to boot! However, there's a huge affordance problem with the "battle icons. You needed to overlay an enemy onto them or something. I also found the mage a bit useless. If you could get a spawn point on the map, that would be pretty handy.
A bit confusing at first, but a neat game.
It's a shame... I am playing a lot of games with potential but broke due to the time constraint.
didn't get the game at first
the concept is great and the graphical style is very solid
well done :)
Wow, that game is great! I'd buy it if it had full version on android.
Really liked it! Had a lot of fun playing and would like to retry beating it once I get home from work.
I would have liked multiple levels, it seemed a bit short overall. However, nice idea and quite fun, I enjoyed it. Graphics were beautiful and the game felt polished.
Sweet game, am I missing out on audio? (Didn't rate it)
The game was effective and fun !
It would be cool if the instructions didn't appear during 3 seconds only, though ^^
I just loved the face of the warrior.
Very fun game!
goood grapics - bad instructions -
This good but it's too short ... :D
Really like the style, but a bit confusing.
Was quite hard. I liked the art.
sound? movement around and effects during battle could be improved
I enjoyed the graphics.
It was hard, but not impossible - I like it. The visual presentation is pleasing. I'm wondering why the text is blurred though? Sound feedback would've helped a lot with those battles, and music could've improved the mood - might I suggest some generator like http://abundant-music.com? All in all, good job!
Didn`t know exactly what to do in the game, the lack of sound fx and music also made the immersion pretty difficult
When a monster is slained it should give more time because i can't get past more than 2 slimes. Or do i missing something?
Nice job! Loved the concept! you need to go further on this. Add music and sounds to begin ^^
Funny game & addictive, great job.
Nice game, it makes me smash my keyboard a couple of times. great graphics also.
Where is the link to your source code?
Nice pixel art. :)
Cool, fun game. Bit tough, but was able to beat it.
- tough to see how much life remaining without looking closely, which you don't really have time for
- didn't figure out how to get MP until after beating it
Liked graphics but didn't get what to do at all..
I like the art, and the way you introduced choice in the adventure.
Awesome start but I can't even fight three times because of time limit. Still great game.
Reminded me of Half minute hero. ^^
With some reworking, more levels, more equips and sfx, this could become an awesome game! :D
Nonetheless, nice job! :)
really cool idea for the theme. its so hard! i thought that potion would give me 10 more seconds but i was wrong
Made my best of LD27 list! I really like the board game like playstyle.It was also kind of a puzzle game. Great stuff.
I absolutely loved the art/overall look of this. :) Very fun implementation of a great idea. Nice work!
I think this one is really funny and pretty well balanced to be doable but hard. It took me some tries to kill the final boss with the warrior, couse with the low hp of the wizard and the rogue looked imposible.
Its a great concept, even without the time limitation. It can be easily expanded into a full funny game. Nice one!
Very very fun!
I got lost in the beginning, mainly due to the UI, but this is fantastic!
Top marks for fun
I love this settings and also cool idea. Cool small game
Liked it, stylish and pretty ^^
Nice game! Very interesting indeed. Just a few pointers:
The potion is a bit buggy since it doesn't reappear once I restart the quest. If you are making that a one-time use only, have it invisible when I used it. Although, it's more ideal to have the potion back when you are restarting the quest.
For controls, I should be able to hold down a key so I can continuously attack instead of rapidly pressing the attack key. Considering this is a turn-based battle, this idea would work.
Good job on the game!
Super cool, had a very candy-box like feel to it. My favorite game so far!
Nice graphism ! The evolution is also cool idea but how can we pass after the wizzard :( ?
Nice graphism ! I will like it even more if all was keyboard and don t switch keyboard / mouse. The evolution is also cool idea but how can we pass after the wizzard is selected :( ?
Really neat idea, great artwork. I had trouble however exploring the area after the first locked door. I was trying to use the potion but it wasn't activating, I assume time is HP? Great work though!
Very cool idea! Some sound and music and this would be the best!
It took me 5 tries to understand the concept. Then I was able to make it up to the dragon, but since the controls is not optimized for german keyboards it was impossible to win.
Nice idea and good graphics. Too fast for me. Some good instructions would make it clearer what to do.
I loved the idea! Too bad it's only 10 seconds (curse of the theme hehe), but you can change that after. Beautiful art. Kinda confusing and hard at the beginning. Awesome entry!
Echo most people's comments. Nice art, confusing gameplay, hard. I'd develop it further. Could have a really fun game here. Nice job for 48hrs.
I love rpgs, even ones I have to play in 10 second spurts :)Please develop this further! I'd love to see a post compo version. You have a great thing going on here, would be a shame not to finish it :)
Such a weird kinky game. Was fun for abit. It's more of a button mashing than anything though
stuck at first but realised why. on first glance, the image of the warrior is the most prominent and I was wondering how to get him onto the track. on retry I realised he was hud! :)
glad I stuck with it as there is a lot of fun to be had here. great stuff!
a great little game with a nice solid concept.
clean graphics and innovative game, but I can only kill one monster before dying :(
I won.. eventually :P Really like the art but don't think the 10 second theme really worked for this game. I had to read the comments before I learned I could actually equip items and that they carry over from death. I think the game could do well with a lot more feedback from the interface and perhaps some added sound too. Still, had a bit of fun playing and it's a pretty good effort for the 48 hours!
Great game and nice graphics!
Nice game, although a bit short. It took me some time to figure out how to use the wooden sword I got, but once I found how to equip item, the game was a blast!
I would love to see it extended with more levels/items.
Quite a nice game! Very much enjoyed it, but it does take some time to figure out that you keep items between games. You might want to add that as a note somewhere.
Really nice graphics. Gameplay wise it's hard to notice what's happening :) But anyhow, managed to kill some blobish thingies!
Neat turn based battle game. At first I didn't realize that I was controlling the yellow square around the spaces. Once I got the hang of it, I was able to make it through the locked door. However, I wish the doors I unlocked would stay unlocked for the next playthrough. Same goes for the enemies; Would be nice if you only had to defeat them once, and then they stay dead during the following playthroughs. I really liked the different classes that you can choose to be your character.
Woahhh this was tricky, was cool but I couldn't get it fast enough, died once I unlocked the first bit
I like the concept, kinda reminds me of Half-Minute Hero! Nice job!
It took me a while to understand the navigation of the map and the character selection page (like clicking on the name to change characters, and clicking on an empty box to equip an item). Once I got around those roadblocks, I had a LOT of fun with the game. The fast-paced button mashing was really exciting and allowed for a lot of replayability. I finally beat it after nearly a dozen tries :D Only wish it had music!
That was fun, but I couldnt get very far past the first key, not sure if there was a way of extending the time in order to get further other than being able to kill stuff faster
Fun to play, nice graphics, though I sucked at it. I featured it in my Ludum Dare compilation series, if you'd like to take a look :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6xfnRK2Anw
I really liked this! The pace is very quick which makes it quite difficult, but is looks great and plays well. Sound effects would bring in a lot of character!
This is pretty cute, board game vibes. Too fast to get anything really done though. The resolution is a bit awkward, you really didn't need that much scaling.
Interesting take on the theme. The time limit felt a bit limiting though. A bit more tutorial would have been nice, but I know it was only 48 hours!
Cool graphics! UI and feedback for actions/combat needs some work, but nice compo entry.
Nice graphics. Would love to play it post-jam.
I was wondering when someone would make a game like "Half Minute Hero" for this compo. It took me a while to get used to the gameplay, and at first I was wondering whether it was even winnable. Then I found out that items carried over after you died, and you could get time extensions, and... what can I say? This is an overall good game with an excellent concept and great use of the theme. I'll be happy if you win the competition.
Forgot to mention, the character graphics are lovely.
Needs some balancing I guess. I never got past the first few blocks.
Really fun game! Definitely would like to see this more fleshed out into a full game. :)
Super unintuitive, but fun regardless.
Also, there are people with laptops at 1280x800 resolution; you might not want to make your games so tall in the future ;P
Looking at the comments, I was expecting quite much. And I got what I hoped for. Great game!
Very playable one! Although I find it impossible to play wizard or rogue, I see a lot of potential here. We want more levels! :D
Was funny and challenging :D