Ten Seconds of LASER

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.54
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.35
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.35
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.20
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.85
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.21
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.16
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.20
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★48%
Source is included with all downloads!

It is a simple maze game. You are dropped from a helicopter which sticks around for ten seconds and reveals the maze to you, but after that you are on your own.

You can also fire a LASER for ten whole seconds. It doesn't really do anything but it is still super cool!

You win by reaching the green glowing spot towards the bottom.

Controls: Left/Right arrow keys move left and right. Hold up for a whole second to open nearby doors. Hold down to slip down narrow passages. Esc will quit the game.

Press any key to start, or respawn if you die from touching a red thing. If you are still alive, pressing any other key will fire your LASER for as long as you hold it down.

Written in ANSI C, using Allegro 5. Graphics were done in Photoshop and audio done in Audacity, recorded with those white apple headphone/microphones that come with iphones.

License: MIT

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I hope you like it, but I anticipate that you will find it lacking. Collision is kind of buggy and a few other things aren't quite how I wanted them to be, but it can't be helped. At least it is in right?

screenshot

Comments20

MegaMasterX
MegaMasterX26 Aug 2013, 03:59
OSX Only? Shame. I'd love to give this a shot.
Dark Acre Jack26 Aug 2013, 04:22
Okay so really nice little tiny retro-ish pixels but not sure where the 10 seconds comes in? I win in just 37.442 seconds.
megashroom26 Aug 2013, 04:58
What are the flags that you compiled with?
I'm really close to getting a linux executable of this for you.
HeroesGrave26 Aug 2013, 05:12
More people would use Linux here than OSX.
Just saying...

Looks nice. Shame I can't play it.
AGDG_REJECTauthor26 Aug 2013, 05:41
OS X build instructions (kind of):
allegro 5 was installed in /usr

gcc -Wall -I/usr/include/ -framework AudioToolbox -framework IOKit -framework OpenAL -framework OpenGL -framework Cocoa -lallegro-static -lallegro_main-static -lallegro_image-static -lallegro_audio-static -lallegro_acodec-static -L/usr/lib -o bin/agdg_reject_ld27 src/*.c
matthias_zarzecki26 Aug 2013, 12:56
Ahh, the rare mac-only-game. Hope it gets found!
Latency26 Aug 2013, 13:06
Damn the screen makes this look so cool if only it wasn't OS/X only! NOOOOOO!
Omar_q826 Aug 2013, 22:59
its fun for a maze game but not sure where the theme fits in:)
sam137326 Aug 2013, 23:01
Aw, I can't shoot the LASER because I'm on Windows..
megashroom27 Aug 2013, 03:44
Sorry man, I tried to compile it but it was waay to crazy.
It looks pretty amazing though. :(
AGDG_REJECTauthor28 Aug 2013, 05:01
Porting to Linux is complete... I hope. I'm still working on a Windows port.
Crazi45628 Aug 2013, 07:49
Lasers! Was pretty amusing!
Alex Shestakov28 Aug 2013, 07:50
I won in 41 seconds? In a 10 second timer?

Lasers increased the fun by a factor of 10. :D
codifeye28 Aug 2013, 07:54
Looks great, I love the art. Maybe if there was more of an urgency to getting to the goal, like if instead of the laser you had a flare which lit up the maze but could only be lit for 10 seconds or something. Nice job doing a ludum dare in C by the way! :)
Xatulu
Xatulu29 Aug 2013, 05:58
Kinda disconnected from the theme but still good :)
withoutpillow
withoutpillow29 Aug 2013, 15:48
nice graphics, but as you said yourself, it's kinda buggy so it's hard to walk up or down up in the maze.
Arrow-x30 Aug 2013, 14:51
good art yet need some more cleaning up u know but the gameplay is fun
HeroesGrave6 Sep 2013, 22:41
The Linux build isn't working :(

I'm on Arch Linux 64-bit.
foumart13 Sep 2013, 23:22
The character moved only half a step with 1 keypress, so I spared my keybooard for awhile and finished in 72 sec.. (ok, shooted with the laser for at least half a minute :D
Jacob12316 Sep 2013, 22:29
Really easy game. Would've been a lot better if harder.

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