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10 seconds barrier by Lo-X

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made by Lo-X for LD27 (COMPO)
You're an athlete who wants to get under the 10 seconds barrier in a 100m race. Can you ?

To accelerate, press your keyboard keys while your character is running over the corresponding letter on the stadium track. But don't miss if you don't want to slow down !

The difficulty and the speed increase after every race you win !

You can play with friend in network (prefer local) or solo ! Instructions in "readme.txt" file.

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This was my first LD48, I'm happy I've a result =)

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Game made in C++ with SFML 2.0
Gimp for graphcs
sfxr for sounds
autotracker and audacity for music
Windows http://loicboutter.fr/dl/10secbarrier_windows_v1.zip
Linux (x64) http://loicboutter.fr/dl/10secbarrier_linux64_v1.tar.gz
Source http://loicboutter.fr/dl/10secbarrier_sources_v1.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=24781

Ratings

Coolness 45% 1281
Overall 2.85 771
Audio 2.96 318
Fun 2.74 708
Graphics 3.00 480
Humor 2.65 339
Innovation 2.41 940
Mood 2.50 726
Theme 2.33 1092

Feedback

stepvhen
26. Aug 2013 路 07:14 UTC
I happened to be watching Futurama when I finished and saw the names of the other people. Also, I did the C++/SMFL route as well (though not with as good results). Good job.
馃帳 Lo-X
26. Aug 2013 路 15:12 UTC
Thanks for the feedback =) Yeah, when I needed some names Futurama was the first thing I could think about so... :D I haven't teste your game yet, I'm gonna do that this evening !
Side note for anyone : local networking works fine, global (internet) one still has some bugs, sometimes.
jordans
26. Aug 2013 路 16:43 UTC
Really great art style.
tombsar
26. Aug 2013 路 19:07 UTC
A very fun, if slightly repetitive game. The difficulty increased quickly from easy to challenging, and it is a good test of reaction times and typing ability. Very well done!
5outh
27. Aug 2013 路 00:58 UTC
This is pretty awesome! I like how the difficulty scales. One thing I would change if I could is the visibility of the letters you need to type, it's a little hard to see when the screen gets faster with the stars popping out.

Great game though!
馃帳 Lo-X
27. Aug 2013 路 05:54 UTC
South, stars were intended to hide letters a little, but indeed when the game gets faster it's much more harder to see them. Well, it adds a layer of difficulty does't it :p ?

I thank all of you for your feedback, it's very appreciated !
Endurion
29. Aug 2013 路 05:41 UTC
Nifty!

The 10 second barrier doesn't seem to matter, I've run below.
Solifuge
29. Aug 2013 路 06:42 UTC
Cute racing game. Wasn't able to try out LAN mode, but I had fun. Back in elementary school, I would have preferred competing against my classmates with this, instead of doing that "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing" stuff.
gritfish
31. Aug 2013 路 12:25 UTC
Couldn't connect to the server, but the solo race was fun.
senseidav
31. Aug 2013 路 12:35 UTC
Good exposition of game, I love mashing buttons games and you have risked in make a LAN and Online mode... althougt its difficult to see more than 2 people here playing in the same moment at one moment, you have scored high.


I think the most important thing in a "track & field" game its to preserve score and names, so that you can beat yourself or a pal麓s mark in future. If you add that possibility to your game, game could improve enough.

10 second theme also its not too much implicated here, but good entry.
馃帳 Lo-X
31. Aug 2013 路 13:23 UTC
@gritfish : there is no permanent server, you need a friend. The LAN works fine, but there's still glitches with internet mode. Thanks anyway =)
@senseidav : Yeah the score thing is missing. I could have added an online top scores ! I think 10 seconds is implicated becausethe whole game is ispired from 10 sec barrier, I didn't wanted to do levels that you have to do in less than 10 seconds because I knew everyone would do that.

Thanks everyone for the feedback !
Brejlounek
31. Aug 2013 路 16:12 UTC
Quite fun, I would maybe decrease the distance between letters, letters could be unreadable on bad notebook displays like this. Couldn't finish hard :D
Jupiter_Hadley
05. Sep 2013 路 19:01 UTC
Simply a fun little game. Loved it. I featured it in my LD27 compilation video series, if you would like to check it out, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZbxb_2pbIE
馃帳 Lo-X
05. Sep 2013 路 21:01 UTC
thanks a lot to you =)
jwolf
16. Sep 2013 路 00:43 UTC
The gameplay may be fairly simple, but it's very well put-together. I didn't get a chance to play this over a LAN, but I could see it being a pretty good short party-type game (esp. if you add more players).