Best of the Net: 10 Seconds
March 31st, 2010
10 Seconds proved to be more than enough time in March. With a whopping 30 34 entries, this has been the most productive theme so far.
Check ‘em out:
A really well made shooter-strategy game. Control multiple units, 10 seconds at a time to beat each level. Tons of units, weapon types, and enemies.
A simple, but awesome game. Use the mouse to draw lines to either divide, separate, or avoid shapes.
Minima Time, by Graduate Games
A limited time platformer where the player can slow or freeze time. Extend the amount of time you have to live by collecting clocks.
An intriguing audio-only game! Try to use sound to locate a target space in 10 seconds, then watch the replay.
Collect time, while avoiding swirling boxes in this soothing, ambient avoid-’em-up.
I Can Hold My Breath Forever, by Jake Elliott
An atmospheric exploration game. Your character can only hold his breath for 10 seconds (despite the title), so get to safe areas fast!
Navigate a dark cave with only 10 seconds worth of battery for each level. Reminds me of the invisible platform puzzles in old Zelda games.
Kill Birds with Rockets, by Kyle Rodgers
A herding/shooting game. Fire rockets to destroy the target number of birds. The action pauses every second to allow you to position and fire a new rocket.
10 Seconds to Save Claire, by Robson
An interesting puzzle game. Cut the right fuses to prevent the explosives from detonating. Each fuse costs a certain amount of time, so make sure you don’t go over 10 seconds.
Earth is a 3D Planet, by Manuel Van Dyck
An Asteroids-style game. Gain extra time by destroying things and flying dangerously.
Blow through 5 bosses in 10 seconds. A pretty simplistic shooter, though slightly confusing.
Longer than most of the works here, use the arrows keys to navigate. More of a short narrative than a game.
Ye Olde Faulty Battle Projections, by Matthew Elvey Price
An RTS style game. Order your troops in 10 seconds, then watch them do battle for 10 seconds. Repeat for victory!
A grab-and-dodge style game. Touch green circles to get more time, while avoiding red circles.
10 Seconds of Awesome, by Aaron Styles
A more appropriate name would be “10 Seconds of Gameplay Preceded by a Minute of Dialog”. Not sure if it’s a text experiment or not, but the main puzzle portion is hard to reach.
Why do I feel like I’ve been punked? Wait for the bus to show up, then press a button to jump on. Cute presentation – and quite possibly a comment on casual games, not sure.
Let’s Get This Over With, by Perrin
A really tough avoid-’em-up. I could only last for 6.5 seconds.
A 2-player rocket launching game. The delay between the button push and the rocket is 1-second, so it’s hard to play.
How Long is 10 Seconds?, by Maciej Czekala
A time estimation challenge more than a game. Press ENTER to start the clock, and space to stop it. Try to get as close to 10 seconds as possible.
Time Sensitive Materials, by Adam Durand
You only have 10 seconds to get an alien chemical to a safe container! A series of different platforming challenges.
Ration power to destroy all incoming missiles.
A puzzle-platformer where you control a colony of aliens looking for a new home. Each only has 10 seconds to live before becoming a statue.
A shooter where enemies and the player alternate moves/attacks in a 10 second period.
Falling Space House, by Joaquim
Arrows to move, up arrow to rescue others. One of the few games that you actually play in only 10 seconds.
Knock enemies off a platform with your paincube in this mouse-driven 3D game.
Ultra simple tower defense game. Defend your cake from disgusting slugs.
Map Maker, by Super Sausage Dog
A platformer where you can modify platformable areas with the mouse. Stay outside of a safe zone and you only have 10 seconds to live.
A text adventure in 20 seconds. Read fast, type faster.
Quick multiplication slows down time, while wrong answers speed it up. How long can you last?
Turn Out the Lights, by Anthony
A puzzle game where clicking one tile changes the colors of all of the surrounding tiles. You only have 10 seconds per puzzle, but can click for a time extension (at a penalty).
*UPDATE*
Some additional entries:
A puzzle-timing order game. Move tiles to the appropriate place with the time limit, but be careful in how & when you place them!
Word Hunt, by Zink Interactive
Click on the object that matches the target word (ignore the “spell”, it’s slightly confusing).
SurViral, by Darth Mike
Corrupt parts of the computer and spread your virus around. New decoys buy you additional time as you attempt to destroy critical parts. I just wish there were more levels!
Click on shapes to walk down a simple path.
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32 Comments, Comment or Ping
But.. but where is my game? = (
March 31st, 2010
After playing quite a lot of these over the month, my personal favorites were 10 seconds to save claire, because the puzzles were great and the rate new stuff was introudced worked out well (The hint system couldv’ve been slightly less useful though).
Let’s get this over with, I really liked the misleading-ness of the 10 seconds here, and it was addictive enough for me to win it eventually.
10 second war was the most interesting concept I think, although the battles do become fairly large scale faster than I’d like (but thats probably personal preference).
March 31st, 2010
Paul, the moment I unzipped your game my virus detection threw an error about a worm. Could you resubmit another version with a small description?
March 31st, 2010
Ok. I’m sorry for what..
March 31st, 2010
Yeah. Here it is.
http://gamejolt.com/dashboard/developer/games/view/1848/
March 31st, 2010
rather here:
http://gamejolt.com/freeware/games/other/ten-lives/1848/
Oh. Moscow has already half-hour am..
March 31st, 2010
Hmm – not sure why, but this is what I get when I unzip your game:
Detection name: W32/Induc (Virus)
File: …\Ten Lives\TenLives.exe
March 31st, 2010
hrr.. I will fight whith it all night
March 31st, 2010
When’s the April Theme gun be announced? Today or ‘Moro?
March 31st, 2010
It’s Delphi Virus, it join to .pas files.
That’s last v. of my exe: http://gamejolt.com/freeware/games/other/ten-lives/1848/
March 31st, 2010
10 seconds war is the first game I played so far and I like it a lot…. More thoughts later
March 31st, 2010
Is it too late to submit? Do you happen to have a developer account on FlashGameLicense.com? I want to polish off and finish the game, so I’d rather not release an unprotected prototype to the world :)
If yes, the url’s: http://www.flashgamelicense.com/view_game.php?game_id=10481
tks,
Damian
March 31st, 2010
Hello!
Sorry, once again we are late. (but only 74 minutes, swedish time :)
Here is our entry, Word Hunt: A 3D rendered spelling and memory game.
http://zink-interactive.se/blog/2010/4/1/word-hunt.aspx
Hope it works!
Thanks!
/Hannes and Alfred
March 31st, 2010
Ha, didn’t realize there was another Anthony! Guess I’ll have to remedy that on any future submissions.
This has been a wonderful way for me to finally get involved with game development. I can’t wait to keep learning. Bring on the next challenge!
Signed,
Turn-Out-the-Lights Anthony
March 31st, 2010
I’m sorry to post the entry late, I hope someone likes it. I gave it some work, albeit it is quite unfinished and more a short short prototype. I give you… Surviral! (Game Inside Release folder when you download)
SurViral – DarthMike
It only features 2 levels…
March 31st, 2010
Ack! End of the month post already? Guess we can’t count on “midnight on the 31st” any more. XD
Here is my submission again, technically finished on time. :P :)
http://vazor222.livejournal.com/21810.html
March 31st, 2010
Oh, you have a screenshot from mine but not a link!
March 31st, 2010
Blue missiles. Oh, how I wish there were blue missiles in 10 second war.
April 1st, 2010
Emperorben: The Colony was a great game! My applause to you. :) I was thoroughly engaged the entire time (great fun factor) and felt it was a well-thought out and well done proof-of-concept of the ideas. It does feel a lot like lemmings but it is its own unique beast really and that’s what I like about it. :) Bravo!
April 1st, 2010
For those interested, I am still working on a more complete version of 10 Second War that has, among other things, blue missiles.
April 1st, 2010
I’ve updated Blind! added an unlimited version too :)
April 2nd, 2010
Don’t you want to see my creature?
anyway my voise, if I have it, is for The Colony. It’s great.
April 2nd, 2010
I was finally getting the hang of “from afar” (10 seconds war), i even had a plan and all, but this jumped out:
http://i358.photobucket.com/albums/oo24/SplinterAFG/Fromafar.jpg
Anyway this is a great site, some of my friends and I are tiring to make games (actually we are on our second game right now) nothing experimental (or really creative for that matter) and the games here really open you mind to the possibilities.
April 2nd, 2010
Ok, there is now a newer version of 10 Second War available, which fixes bugs and has a lot of additional content and shiny new features. For it, and future updates, see http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=11746.0
April 4th, 2010
I’m late. I thought the time is still march.
here is my entry. “accident rewider”
http://imwillgames.blogspot.com/2010/04/accident-rewinder-march-experimental.html
April 5th, 2010
Ok I am completely out of the time-frame, but better late than never (was it?).
Here is Secondario – Mushroom Overdose, a simple twist on your traditional platform game.
Hope you’ll like it.
http://imposs.ible.jp/2010/04/secondario—mushroom-overdose.html
April 15th, 2010
Awesome site however you should really get rid of all this spam.
November 27th, 2010
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