August 23rd-26th 2013 :: Theme: 10 Seconds
Ludum Dare 27 — August 23rd-26th, 2013
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10 second army - you only have ten seconds to design your army after a brief reconnisance. Can you siege all the towers?
Controls:
WASD or Arrow Keys to move camera
Numbers or Mouse to select units
M to mute (but why would you want to?)
R to reset the level
Space to skip the scrolling at the start of each level
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 71% |
| #61 | Fun(Jam) | 3.58 |
| #88 | Audio(Jam) | 3.52 |
| #180 | Overall(Jam) | 3.37 |
| #199 | Humor(Jam) | 2.79 |
| #200 | Graphics(Jam) | 3.61 |
| #211 | Innovation(Jam) | 3.16 |
| #223 | Mood(Jam) | 3.11 |
| #445 | Theme(Jam) | 2.77 |
Comments
I love the sound effects. Each unit has a unique look and feel. Overall very nice.
The graphics and sounds are great, as well as the idea. The theme though doesn't really fit.
Cool little game. Played the first few levels and then skipped to the end because I was overconfident. :) I was quickly defeated. Good use of the theme.
Such a cool idea, I love it. Be great to see a finished version
Very nice. One of the most fun games I've played today. I liked the art style tool. The scrolling at the beginning of each level got a bit tiresome, it would be nice if you could skip it. I also wish there were more levels. Overall, very nice!
Loved that the sound effects were all "mouthmade", great touch. Game made you think some, but could have been improved with a bit more difficulty (or maybe just more levels, that'd've been good too). Regardless, great stuff.
Pretty cool and well put-together game. Some of the puzzles towards the end were pretty difficult. Could use a reset button (okay, browser refresh, but still...), if you're thinking of continuing with this one.
@zatyka You can skip the scrolling! Just press space. I said something about it in one of the tutorial messages... I think.
@jwolf - there's a reset button too - R. That one I didn't explain, so that's on me.
Very solid and fun gamplay, although you only have 10 sec. to build your army it is still a pretty easy game, I feel it could be harder as only the last levels were somewhat challenging.
Great idea! Had fun playing, plus great graphics and audio. Has some bugs though, where the sprites sometimes disappear(on chrome)
Character design is *very* interesting. Good job! I liked stage 2-4 the best
This game is very fun to play. Character animations are great and sounds they make makes me smile all the time (especially archers).
Pretty fun little game; there's a King Arthur game on the SNES this reminds me of somewhat. I love the mouth wind effect!
I don't understand why sometimes all my units except the one in the front stop advancing, though.
This looks great and the sound is awesome. I'd like it if it was possible to switch the order somehow during the run through so you can keep builders safe at the back or pull people forward when you need them. Could turn this into a REALLY cool game that I think I could play forever.
The sound effects are catchy! And the pixel art is pretty good too! I played a few levels and it was pretty fun overall.
Great concept and pretty fun to play. Graphics were pretty good and I liked the animations. I felt the 10 second theme was a little forced for this type of game, in the earlier levels I was waiting too long and in the later ones I had to keep just pressing reset until I got a feel of what was in the level. I would also have liked to have seen a way to exit back to the main menu because I accidently selected one level twice and didn't want to have to play through it again. Other than that though a pretty nice game! Good work.
Great game, I like the nice graphics and the awesome sound effects very much! Automatic scrolling and switching to the next level would be nice.
cool game! my only comment is that sometimes doing the same thing twice doesn't always get you the same result, which it seems like it should. But cool graphics, I really like the dying animations. nice sound effects, usually making sounds with your mouth can be quite tacky but here it definitely works. The music was a little bit too jolly I think. Something a bit more ambient and fantastical could have been really nice :) I can imagine if you added the ability to swap positions of characters, but only if they're next to each other (and it would take time to do so) you could come up with some amazing gauntlets for people to solve.
Yeah, there are some bugs that need sorting out, and it should give consistent results and we were planning on adding abilities such as changing the positions of units while they march but didn't have time and we weren't sure how to implement it. Thanks for the reviews and ideas everyone!
Loved the art style, and the sounds were great! A very well made game! An option to skip the 10 seconds and also a shorter time between completion and the end of the level would be a good update though.
Cool game, but a fastforward option is very much needed though
This was quite fun, though I feel that it would have been more fun if you didn't have a 10 second limit. I felt that the game was trying to tax my memory more than my strategic thinking skills.
Great graphics! Sound effects were nice as well. I think more levels would have been fun.
As mentioned, sometimes doing the same thing twice doesn't always result in the same outcome, sometimes you'd have enemies defeat each other and have different amounts of health than when you were doing it one attempt before.
Fastforward option would be a really good call XD at least for the parts the character is just walking and not really battling anyone
Lots of content packed into this little game! The implementation of theme is a bit weak, but it's a fun game with solid graphics and a nice sense of progression.
Really nicely made, really liked how you almost forced the player to subconsciously make decisions rather than thought out strategies with the short amount of time to pick your units. The last level was a little difficult to figure out though, the 10 seconds didn't really give you that much time. Was still really enjoyable to play though, well done.
Sweet little game with awesome graphics. Very fun and addictive. Good job!! I featured it in my Ludum Dare compilation series, if you'd like to take a look :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6xfnRK2Anw
Do you have any other source? The web flash always goes timeout.
Did you make the wind with you mouth ? Lol ^_^
This is really my sort of game :) indeed, we made a very similar game ourselves. I really like seeing little men running around fighting each-other. Warcraft 1 has left me a ruined man.
Anyway I did manage to break it: got my wizard killed just as my ladder-man was dropping his ladder. The result was that I didn't lose the level!
It seems to not be completely deterministic: I get the feeling that with the same placement I don't always have the same result.
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Really cool game. Would love a fastforward option for when you know you've won. Song is cool too.