The game's use of the theme wasn't entirely evident at first. It certainly makes up for it in sheer fun. Nice!

Pulling off a a double jump and then slicing though a bunch of enemies was very satisfying. Great work. I'm not as good at it as you are in your video.

Thanks!
I tried my best to spread the 10 second theme though the game, but it's mostly in how the player begins with 10 seconds on his death clock and tries to outrun the 10 second countdown by killing enemies on the way... If he stands still he'll die in 10 exactly seconds.

I tried to balance it so that casual play would keep the timer close to a slow countdown from 10 seconds.
But of course if you are good you can get the timer to 20 or 40 like I was doing in the video. I decided not to make the game's difficulty based on skilled play because I think it would distract any player from enjoying the process if the pressure was too high.

That was really fun. It could use a restart button though.

Very enjoyable and satisfying game. Played a few times, only got to 66 kills. I kinda suck at it. Good job!

Severely needs a restart button. Quite fun, even if not that varied. I like the little sprites. Also, the fact that you can't go back in to the last room through the hole that's right there is very misleading.

nice effects 3:

EXCELLENT, but I think the lack of a restart key made me get tired of playing it really fat. I would've stayed a whole lot longer.
Please add it, I really want to continue playing. :)

Thanks for your comments! I really regret not adding the restart key now. I'll be sure to add it in a post-compo version and upload it!
I guess it's a good sign that you guys aren't finding the game too easy, I was kind of worried about that :]

Cool game with a really nice visual style to it, and a lot of fun to play. Really like the teensy little sprites :)

Love the pixel art and all the visuals, particularly the blood.. really fun too! I rated this one highly, good work! :D

Bit worried how much fun I found this :)

Just one small thing - personally I found it really awkward using the up arrow key for jump - would have been nice to have it on space or x or something.

Awesome!!! Could play this for hours! Haha

But for the love of GOD put in a restart button or something. Had to restart your game by closing the window -_-

Fast killing for high score with speed platform gamplay. Dig it ! Really cool use of the theme and nice gameplay.

Having the timer [ accidentally? ] display behind platform needs to be fixed

@wally2069
Haha yeah.. It would have been pretty easy to have stopped platforms from generating in the area but at the time I felt if I did that the random generated levels will feel less spontaneous..
I loved your game by the way, I was almost going to give up until I realized the ghost follows my exact same path :]

Definitely playing in Windows, this looks like a must-play. Wish it worked in WINE.

Good carnage. I enjoyed this one.

Funny, kill biil style. :)

So simple yet so fun to mess around with

Wow! The controls and the few graphics that are present are really amazing! If you continue to develop this into something more after the Ludum Dare is over you'll have a crazy fun game on your hands. As others said, a restart button would be nice... and I'd love to see more types of enemies or more room configurations that let you really make use of the awesome ninja controls you've programmed in, like the wall climbing!

nice one!

Very fun game with tight controls (important for this kind of gameplay), and it feels very good slicing your way through your enemies :)

This game makes you feel like a badass, haha. But more time could of gone into making the levels look nicer.

I find myself going back to play this game in between my constant rating of the other games, so I'm pretty confident this is the most fun I've had playing a game in here.
But please, for the love of god, add a restart button.
I would love to see you further develop this, as it is already whole tons of fun.

(also, the lack of increasing difficulty is awesome. If you want my vote, I vote do not change that, but instead add powerups and temporary stuff. If you really wanna go crazy, make the actual game with increasing difficulty and stuff, but make a survival play mode like this, just killing people and getting powerups and stuff. Just my 2 cents.)

Super fun and loved the use of the theme. I thought it was kind of easy/simple, but would love to see something like this expanded beyond the 48 hours. :)

Excellent job this is really fun! Well executed nice work.

great game :)

-ENDESGA

I have a lot of fun with this game! :)
It needs a restart key!!

Love all your comments! Thanks for the encouragements, they mean a lot to me :]

I definitely intend to continue making this game into something bigger. The setting will be an onion-like tower where the difficulty increase with the layer. The player can advance the layers by going through boss rooms by entering optional doors after stocking up enough time!
Oh and yes there will be a restart button.
It will be lots of fun! But for now I am still trying to rate and comment everyone else's games until Ludum ends :]

cool

This is awesome. Needed a restart button. Super fast paced and fluid movement. I would have liked jump to be something other than 'up' personally but that's pretty minor.

Great use of the theme, great decision "tradeoff" about whether to stick around and kill more stuff or dash for the exit.

Could use music! But this is LD, music's always a bonus. :)

Highest score so far is 144.

good job

Flows so smoothly, great job on making it nice and snappy. Immensely satisfying just cutting through swaths of enemies.

Neat game, wasn't sure if there was a restart button.

Ace game very fun :)

Good entry, fun, quite satistying to slice people. The audio loop starts to be quite annoying after a while tho, and the game could use some variety and increased challenges (I stopped playing after getting bored around 22s remaining and 680+ kills because it was repetitive :) ).

I love the gore when you die, nice little touch.

Wah, that was very fun! The feeling of running through walls and slicing up enemies was thrilling!
I know many people have told you about the restart thing already, so I'm not going to bother you about it. :P

Yes! Pixel blood!

Bwahaha I leave my enemies bleeding in agony while I jump around towards my next victim. They never had a chance. And then I've disappeared!

Very very cool ,theholychicken!!! What's your kill count?

Cool graphics and awesome blood effects! Really satisfying to slash all those ninja and wall jump around the rooms. As everyone else has already said it does need a restart key though. Great job!

@Christina Antoinette Neofotistou
The game I played last night was 2305 Kills :3

@EggDestroyer
Haha my thoughts exactly! I was hoping everyone would have had their volumes low enough that they didn't notice my crappy loopy music XD
I thought a lot about how I can make the game more challenging over time for my post-compo release, and it is this:
The player will *choose* to increment the challenge *mid-game* by entering optional boss-levels which lead to a more difficult layer of the game after the boss is defeated.
Each layer can feature different map generation algorithms and enemy varieties.
The player will keep advancing the difficulty layers by going through optional boss rooms until the final boss fight where he can beat the game.
This way everyone can play at their own pace without being pushed out of the game unwillingly.

Thanks again for all your feedback! Another day of Ludum rating ahead!

Great game, amazing controls, nice pixel art and animations! Loved it!

Tight control and rad pixel art!

Very cool. The music was repetitive, but the platforming ws tight and the idea was interesting.

So much fun! So much horrifying, blood-haemorrhaging fun! I really enjoyed this - an awesome mechanic with great intuitive controls and a lively pace. Just really entertaining.

I'd love to see an extended version with more interesting backdrops (although the current minimalist style works just fine too) and a less repetitive soundtrack. Perhaps more variety of enemies too. But those aren't criticisms, just suggestions in case you plan to take this further. I hope you do!

Love it, specially the gore approach. Pixel art is great and it's super fun to play. Awesome work!

What I love about this game are the smooth controls - even though (as others pointed out) a restart button is pretty much essential (how did you even test it without one? :x).

Perhaps more variety in the levels? There's not much I can find to say about it. Anyway I enjoyed playing it, keep them coming!

No reboot button, but I liked it all the same. Blood sound effect was perfect. Miniature massacre!

Very fun to play. And so satisfying to slay a entire line of enemies. I missed a song to set the slaughtering mood. hehe The control were pretty easy to learn, making the gameplay very smooth. Very nice job!

Suuuuuuuuch lot of meat and shit there! I like it, very dynamic!

I could swear I've already rated and commented this game, but apparently not? Anyway, I really enjoy the gameplay and graphics! Its a simple game but its really quite fun and definitly a good time-killer! Good job!

It gets hectic, and as people have told you, it will need a restart button.
This is simple but pure fun, the music is a little monotonous, next time try a longer tune.

There's always something great about killing some ninjas and sprinkle the ground with their blood! In a game, of course :D

Very good! A restart key would be nice. I'd love to see a post-compo version, with more ninja-ish things to do (shuriken throwing?), different enemies and maybe different layouts.

Immensely fun and satisfying, love it!

ARRRGH
The first Post-Compo(v1.033) is uploaded!
Featuring:
-Awesome royalty-free music by Kevin MacLeod(incompetech.com)
-RESTART BUTTON
-Minor minor touchups

I will keep working on the game, and there will be more releases with new features.
I got the flu so don't want to explain too much more... Have fun with this for now D:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wx4n9e2ybueyggy/Chrono%20Blood%20Ninja_1_0_3_3%28Post%20Compo%29.zip

Really good fast paced hack 'n slash platformer. Liked the idea of "more you kill, longer you last" sort of aspect to it. Shame the graphics sometimes covered the score and timer, it got irritating not knowing how long I had left. :/

Really enjoyed the Game Dude!Im just missing a restart Button.Can you possible ad one at some point?
Oh and a little question are the rooms randomly generated or is there a amount of preset rooms?

Nice (from a gory point of view ;D) entry!

The compo version badly needs some restart hotkey or button. Other than that, controls are precise and gameplay is simple and fun. Well done! :)

Restart key is in the post compo!!! :c

I like the style and graphics a lot, and the controls are broad and leave a nice amount of room for mastery. I'll definitely be checking out the updates. Great work!

Lots of fun ! also, double jump is the greatest thing invented in videogames since the fireball. gratz !

Is there something better than pixel blood ?
The game is really dynamic, and controls are smooth.
I liked the graphics, but maybe scale them up a bit.

Nice, a little more work or background art would be great :D

Cool game! Simplistic graphics always please me, and the small characters are really charming! Sound effects are very well placed, but music could be less repetitive.
I had a lot of fun and manage 330 kills before dying by the hands of an enemy. =(
The rooms are infinite??

Good work! =D

Good fun, and I like the art and animations! Game would definitely look better even at 2x scale, like this it was almost too small.

Really fun with the free-form movement. Good job!

omg there is blood everywhere. nice!

Really amazing and polished, loved the fluid controls and blood! Found a funny bug where if you die wall jumping you keep climbing to the top of the screen!

Funny idea! Could have used some audio, but I did enjoy playing regardless, loved the blood explosion when you die.

Really really fun, simply put.
Great Job!

Really love this one! One of the most fun games of the whole compo. Really good controls too, some of the best that i've used in all the games i've played (and something that I can't do) :(

Really love this one! One of the most fun games of the whole compo. Really good controls too, some of the best that i've used in all the games i've played (and something that I can't do) :( I also really liked the graphics style, as simpe as it is, it was awesome (especioally the blood). Really good job!

Pretty intense stuff you got there!

For a while I thought "well this game feels pretty impossible to lose" and then suddenly everything fell apart and I died. xD Awesome game; it'd make a great mobile app for killing time.

Looks good, unfortunately I'm on Linux :-S Perhaps you could port this to Monogame some day?

NOOO!! I died at 1059 kills and still had 35 seconds left ]:
Really fun game though[: wasn't complete, but still really fun and satisfying. controls and reset button should be included in the original build. Without that I can't really consider it complete /:

Splat! heh heh heh

The bloo particle effect was very fun! Even the game is a little bit repetitive, see the blood shattering everywhere make me have fun while playing it! And i see you added most of the missing features i noted in post-compo version, so, nice work!

Finally a game more bloody than mine. Very nice design and smooth controls, nice one holy chicken this is good

The controls were perfect, and I loved the blood effects. It got a bit repetitive after I passed 400 kills, but the core gameplay mechanic works very, very well.

My only criticism is that it's a bit easy to get stuck and lose precious time, but that got better with practice.

You're going in the right direction with the post-compo version. Add some upgrades and larger enemies, and it will be a great title. Excellent job, hats off! :)

Awesome!! Very addictive and super entertaining, my best score was 1109. The music in the original wasn't bad I enjoyed it but the music in the post compo version is jus superb!