10 Second Army

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.37
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.58
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.16
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.77
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.61
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.52
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.79
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.11
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★71%
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

screenshot

Comments34

Alexander
Alexander27 Aug 2013, 01:57
Really cool game. Would love a fastforward option for when you know you've won. Song is cool too.
LD_LAN_Party27 Aug 2013, 02:00
I love the sound effects. Each unit has a unique look and feel. Overall very nice.
GFM
GFM27 Aug 2013, 02:21
I got stuck on the last level... but nice game! :)
REIN127 Aug 2013, 02:44
Very cool game,Archer is omni~
Tanser27 Aug 2013, 08:40
The graphics and sounds are great, as well as the idea. The theme though doesn't really fit.
KeithE.27 Aug 2013, 19:38
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.
SecondDimension
SecondDimension27 Aug 2013, 20:48
Such a cool idea, I love it. Be great to see a finished version
zatyka
zatyka28 Aug 2013, 01:22
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!
SnoringFrog
SnoringFrog28 Aug 2013, 01:43
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.
jwolf28 Aug 2013, 04:17
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.
Literal Gamesauthor28 Aug 2013, 10:36
@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.
Lokarunith
Lokarunith28 Aug 2013, 12:12
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.
Diptoman
Diptoman30 Aug 2013, 09:26
Great idea! Had fun playing, plus great graphics and audio. Has some bugs though, where the sprites sometimes disappear(on chrome)
gmaker30 Aug 2013, 14:43
great idea! sounds and artwork are best! overall so cute!
ashdnazg30 Aug 2013, 14:53
I really liked the graphic style!
Mago31 Aug 2013, 11:35
This game is very fun to play. Character animations are great and sounds they make makes me smile all the time (especially archers).
Darien
Darien31 Aug 2013, 11:36
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.
tripleVisionGames31 Aug 2013, 11:55
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.
murilo31 Aug 2013, 16:18
The sound effects are catchy! And the pixel art is pretty good too! I played a few levels and it was pretty fun overall.
The Evil Cult31 Aug 2013, 16:23
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.
loxo31 Aug 2013, 16:25
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.
BrothersT
BrothersT31 Aug 2013, 16:41
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.
Literal Gamesauthor31 Aug 2013, 18:38
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!
Dan31 Aug 2013, 19:03
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.
fferro23431 Aug 2013, 19:19
Cool game, but a fastforward option is very much needed though
Arcana31 Aug 2013, 19:26
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.
Antidote
Antidote31 Aug 2013, 21:48
Fastforward option would be a really good call XD at least for the parts the character is just walking and not really battling anyone
Volute
Volute31 Aug 2013, 22:26
Very cool idea and great implementation
DreamTeam
DreamTeam1 Sep 2013, 15:51
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.
Jellycakes1 Sep 2013, 16:03
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.
Drabiter
Drabiter10 Sep 2013, 05:26
Do you have any other source? The web flash always goes timeout.
wilbefast10 Sep 2013, 12:12
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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