Ludum Dare #27compo

Team Seconds

by adriczero

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.70

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.13

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.09

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.18

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.13

Audio★★★★★★★★★★1.76

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.29

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.00

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★44%

Intro
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The guys always sent in first have gone missing during their latest secret mission.

The second team, who everyone thinks is inferior to the First's, has volunteered to rescue the First's. Help show the world all 10 Seconds are just as good as the First's.

How to Play
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Each character moving around with the green head is one of your Second's.

Click them with the mouse and they will stop moving.

Click them again and they will start moving.

Stop them over a door and they will search and clear the room. If there are any First's in there, they will be rescued.

After you have searched all the rooms, move all 10 Second's over the egress holes in the floor.

When they are all placed over one of these points, they will fall to the lower level.

Continue this on each level until you have found all 10 First's, then proceed directly to the first floor.

Comments19

Dark Acre Jack26 Aug 2013, 17:48

I get the "hazardous download" warning in Chrome, sorry.

AdricZeroauthor26 Aug 2013, 17:52

Any EXE downloaded that is not signed will show this warning.

I understand your concern. My future entries will all be web based.

EmptyFlash26 Aug 2013, 17:57

I got this error when trying to run it: http://imgur.com/oDrSCtB
I really wanted to play. :(

zanzindorf26 Aug 2013, 18:03

I liked your interpretation of the theme. It reminded me of Lemmings just a bit. The transitions on the opening were also pretty sweet. The only thing is that it got kind of repetitive rather quickly.

Spencer Alves26 Aug 2013, 18:14

Neat re-interpretation! A little tedious, though.

AdricZeroauthor26 Aug 2013, 18:14

@EmptyFlash I would just verify if the avbin.dll got extracted to the same directory as the game.exe file and you are running it from that directory.

proc26 Aug 2013, 18:15

Reminds me of hotel mario but I wont hold that against you. It didn't twig at first but the theme is nicely used here.

AdricZeroauthor26 Aug 2013, 18:16

@zanzindorf I agree about the repetiveness. The Lemmings reference is a good one. I did not consciously realize this until when the game was almost complete. Even the green heads was coincidental. I was going to have red heads to denote the First's but had to cut that feature.

handCraftedRadio26 Aug 2013, 18:40

Haha clever use of the theme. It's an interesting concept for sure.

madk26 Aug 2013, 18:47

Interesting concept! I like your interpretation of the theme. The controls could really be improved, and when I played I got a terribly low frame rate.

wally206928 Aug 2013, 16:01

Quirky idea but needed a bit less repetitiveness

Croze28 Aug 2013, 22:09

Pretty good idea, but hard to play, whenever I clicked on 1 dude that slightly overlapped the other it almost always chose the other, may be a coincidence but it made the game near to impossible. Maybe bind keys to each player or select them and manually move them to a specific location.

Tainted_Code28 Aug 2013, 23:58

Seemed pretty hard and alittle confusing, never finished it. No audio and graphics a bit plain for me good try!

Xatulu29 Aug 2013, 05:57

Somewhat reptetitive, but still a fun game!

almightyzentaco30 Aug 2013, 00:17

It no run.

mamoniem4 Sep 2013, 10:21

very strange game :D but nice explanation first !

Jupiter_Hadley5 Sep 2013, 02:57

This game would run on my computer. I got it to start but then it would freeze up if I clicked anywhere. Due to this, I could not record it for my LD27 compilation video. Sorry :/

koe4155 Sep 2013, 03:50

Lol the simple story adds a lot of character to this game. It has a nice old school arcade style to it. Reminds me partly of lemmings. Nice job!