The Barrier

The game seems to be bugged out.. I ran less then 10 seconds but it said I didn't.

The time used is alien time, thus the difference.

I like this a lot more than trying to do it in under 10 secs.

At first, I tought "Is this even possible?". Now I'm addicted to beating my high score.

An alien is running... wow.. :O

9.8" 10.2" Just not close enough. It reminds me of QWOP re: absurd athleticism. Good job!

ARGH. So hard. After many tries, my best is 9.8 seconds. I really want to see that little alien succeed in his weird objective.
Nice original twist on an otherwise old mechanic!

Wait so are you supposed to land on the 10 second timer? I'm confused.

Got the 10 seconds on my fourth or fith try. Nice and simple game, interesting interpertation of a running game.

@Sheep: Yes, less than 10 seconds is really easy to do for the aliens. And more than 10 seconds, well, they could walk!. So they came to the conclusion that the only option left was to get there on exactly 10 secs.

this game needs an old-fashioned joystick to wiggle until it breaks ;)

Fun, new take on an old concept :)
Best I could do was 10.2 though :P

Great game! At first I was confused, but once I actually read the text it all made sense. Very interesting way to use the 10 second rule, reminds me of lot of old NES games. Well done!

Haha, nice, reminded me of the first games for the c64, like the visuals too, complete with parallax scrolling :)

Nice take on the theme, more interesting than doing something in under 10 seconds, good job

10.0 I did it!

Haha, beating the world record in more than 4 seconds is always fun, although that's not the target :)

Doing exactly 10 seconds is more luck than skill but that was pretty fun.

Suprisingly fun game, consider such a simple gameplay. 10.4 is my record

Nice little game, i liked it :)

9s in second try :)

Very hard oO My best was 10"3

This game is soooo infuriating. I've got 9.9secs eight times, but can't get exactly 10secs. Aargh! Good stuff.

Ha, interesting idea. Thought it was broken at first, but cool.

wow! after severak tries I haven't done it yet!
it's a frustrating one xD
Good job!

Nice work.

At first I thought this game would be easy, because I thought myself to be an excellent fast-clicker. Both of those thoughts were proven wrong, and now all I have after about 15 attempts is two hurting index fingers.

Challenging! My best is 10.2"

I did it in exactly 10 second :D

Hard frustrating game, and no real reward at the end (also no real explanation why exactly 10 seconds)... I eventually got it by doing nothing until 6 seconds have passed and then mashing A+S for the remaining 4 seconds.

@Yoni: no real reward? You become a champion athlete for the other aliens!
As for the explanation for why exactly 10 seconds, in a previous comment I said:

"...less than 10 seconds is really easy to do for the aliens. And more than 10 seconds, well, they could walk!. So they came to the conclusion that the only option left was to get there on exactly 10 secs."

I might also be related to the theme of this LD, but it's just a coincidence :D

I like the concept to keep sync the distance with the time, it makes the game fun. I think the idea could be used to create something bigger. Great idea!

Good use of the theme and graphics. I think it would be more interesting if instead of it being pass/fail you got scored on how close you were to it. Then my 10.1 seconds would count for something. Add a scoring system and some more challenges (not necessarily time based but all exact targets) and you've got the making of a fun quirky game.

Thanks for the comments!
@nthird: That's a good idea. The score you get already does this (the closer you get to 10 seconds, the more points you get). Maybe normalizing that to a range 1-10 would do the trick. Thanks!

I did it! Just a casual jog for an alien.