10-Second Shadow Block-Dude!

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.17
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.18
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.88
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.59
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.06
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.32
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.11
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.44
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★50%
HTML5/JS Puzzle/action game! 10 levels of increasing difficulty! My first LD! Let me know what you think :)

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Comments17

TheBlueRage
TheBlueRage26 Aug 2013, 03:34
Fun stuff! Gotta admit though... it's been done before :/
MrBlade
MrBlade26 Aug 2013, 04:12
Such a great game! I LOVE this kind of thing, you executed the theme perfectly, cut the idea down to it's basics, and added small bits until it was very nice. Keep it up.
Budda26 Aug 2013, 04:15
Very cool game once I realised what was going on. cool stuff.
ix
ix26 Aug 2013, 04:22
I feel like this is a mechanic I've seen (approximately) before, but this version feels pretty good to play and the level design is solid. I also like the trailing blocks getting sicker as a way of limiting the amount trails you are storing. Nicely done.
fferro23426 Aug 2013, 04:26
Cool idea, but a little slow. I feel like the theme hurts the game a bit since you either have to wait for you previous self to do go through there path before you can do the next part of the puzzle, or wait at a switch for the rest of the seconds.
noom26 Aug 2013, 04:28
Hahaha loved it, these types of games are my favourite. Nice touch on having the "clones" appear dumber with each iteration. I ran into some game breaking bugs though which seemed to the clones recorded actions bug out.
scriptorum
scriptorum26 Aug 2013, 04:32
Nice! Gave up on level 10 after twenty or so tries. Maybe my brain tomorrow can handle it.
bhopkinsauthor26 Aug 2013, 04:54
Thanks for the comments everyone!

Yes, I'm sure this isn't a new concept, but it seemed to suit the theme and I had fun implementing it and making the puzzles.

I agree that sometimes waiting on the buttons in the earlier levels can be a drag, if I could edit it I would probably add a button to jump the timer to zero. It's only a few seconds though :)

Level 10 is indeed super-tough, I wanted it to be the ultimate challenge. It still takes me a couple of tries to execute it correctly even though I know what to do :)
davidwparker26 Aug 2013, 15:13
Fun little puzzler. It was a little hard, but that's cool.
GagaPete
GagaPete26 Aug 2013, 19:21
As many others already said: This game is fun to play and the levels are well design. It's most impressive that failing doesn't frustrate at all but is actually fun.
dekart26 Aug 2013, 19:32
I really like it! The first level is a bit hard for the beginning, but it's definitely a good concept.
Jupiter_Hadley
Jupiter_Hadley27 Aug 2013, 20:47
I like the idea this game, needed to make sure the previous versions of yourself are doing what you need them to be doing and when. Its pretty smart and a great use of theme. I featured it in my comilation video of Ludum Dare 27 Games, if you wanna check it out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1UJ96l2scE
mrspeaker
mrspeaker2 Sep 2013, 12:17
Yeah, very nice! I felt like there should be a "ok, I'm done" key - instead of having to wait for 10 seconds to expire every time. 10 seconds is a realllly long time sometimes ;)
bitowl
bitowl9 Sep 2013, 08:20
cool concept, but it needs more variety
manuq
manuq13 Sep 2013, 02:06
Love it.

Great to know that you had fun doing this! Surely it has to be a lot of fun and as a developer it tempts me to try.
tigerj
tigerj17 Sep 2013, 00:48
Really creative. nice work. This was a real fun concept please continue to work on it post LD!

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