August 23rd-26th 2013 :: Theme: 10 Seconds
Ludum Dare 27 — August 23rd-26th, 2013
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Ten Second Samurai is by Andrew Yoder and Barnaby Smith
Eliminate waves of attacking samurai as quickly as possible to achieve a high score.
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Ratings
 | Coolness | 71% |
| #47 | Fun(Jam) | 3.63 |
| #94 | Mood(Jam) | 3.50 |
| #123 | Audio(Jam) | 3.36 |
| #137 | Overall(Jam) | 3.46 |
| #179 | Graphics(Jam) | 3.68 |
| #196 | Innovation(Jam) | 3.20 |
| #208 | Theme(Jam) | 3.30 |
| #285 | Humor(Jam) | 2.42 |
Comments
That was tough! I didn't like how quickly I died, no room for error there. But otherwise a neat little game.
Nice. Learning curve, as the other guy said. Got WAY too difficult WAY too fast.
Fun as heck! Almost as crazy as dragging baddies in Diablo 3 :)
Really fun game, but those other guys weren't kidding about the difficulty curve :p
Controls feel nice to me. The blood slowly pooling was very nice. Love the colors. Wish that there was a death animation; losing felt very perfunctory. Did pretty well just by slashing madly.
I think that this concept could work quite well, but there's just not enough to it right now. You can basically spam the mouse button and take everyone out.
Okay, this is freakin' SWEET! I absolutely love the theme you went width (besides "10 seconds" obviously :P) and the gameplay is a ton of fun. The mood on this is great; everything fits!
Now if only you'd introduce a more steady wave of enemies... They all come at you at once now so you get a big challenge for a moment and then some time to spare.
Took me a second to get a hang of the controls, but once I did this was really fun. I got really excited when I killed 3 dudes with one swing.
It has a sort of hotline miami feel with how death works, but the graphics would be perfect if the blood was chunky pixels too instead of circles.
Stylish, nice execution. Especially liked the way the sword swiped side to side. Special credit on the sound and way you hit your Japanese theme.
My best score was 44 points.
I think the graphics and sound on this game are fantastic. The colour palette is very pleasant to look at and consistant.
So what I noticed is that a few strategy elements gradually start to show themselves. Firstly you can turn quickly by following the character around with the mouse, or if you plan to face in one direction you can put the mouse near the border of the window.
Good game, but get's boring quickly.
I love the smoothness of animation here c:
Zen gardening with a katana. Very well executed, great atmosphere, one of the best entries I've seen so far!
Really nice graphics, and the game made me feel like a bit of a badass. A little bit of polish wouldn't of hurt though, like after you die the game just instantly switches. Other than that very good and enjoyable.
A nice simple game, with good art and fun gameplay. However, as others have said, the difficulty ramped up way too fast.
great job love the style and controls are great. definitely tough but well done.
Wooow. This looks, sounds, plays amazing. It's criminal there's not better death animations (opponent blood should be pixel-y!)/anything. Like to see the hit detection being more satisfying too.
Great execution on the game though, well done.
tough cookies! enjoyed it.. like the simple art and direction it headed in.
Haha this is good fun.
The player death can be more detailed though. I want to see the sword cutting me down... An abrupt game over is not as satisfying!
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Nice! But very difficult. The learning curve is very high on the controls. Enemies often just get stuck on rocks, but eventually...I got to them.