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[Manuel Magalhães]

http://www.stencyl.com/game/play/23153
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-28/?action=preview&uid=2490

intervalo is a game where you move your character in a sole period of time. after that, the character will move with the timing of your presses.

controls:
-enter to set direction/change texture
-r to reset
(you can change volume with '/+, although i don't know if flixel hotkeys change depending on the keyboard scheme)

[Manuel Magalhães]

Just wrote a postmortem on what worked and on what didn't in my game. http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2013/12/21/intervalo-postmortem/

[pglinker]

Nice work.  Surprisingly engaging, given the simplicity of the mechanic (once I realized how it worked).

[pladmi]

I got a negative impression, actually. I just didn't like the challenge of predicting the movement of the triangle and trying to time it right.

[PeteHuf]

I also didn't have a great time with it. I think my main issue was the combination of the exacting nature of the required input, the lack of immediate feedback of success/fail (the nature of the mechanic, but still) and the long period to retry. I like the idea of setup then execute, but more-so in the context of something like Frozen Synapse.

[Manuel Magalhães]

@pglinker Thanks.

@pladmi & @Ubrasaur Thanks for the feedback, I'm sorry to hear you didn't like it. If I ever do a pos-compo version I'll try to brush the annoyances. The game will still be delay-based, but I'll add some things that will make it more pleasing to play. (like a trajectory line,  maybe a fast forward/skip key, etc.)

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This is the game's LD rating. I need to improve on some categories for the next compo, but I'm still happy with the #9 place on Innovation. I think this was my best LD entry and I'll hopefully participate on it next time.

[KevinNolan]

Simple, interesting, original and hard as nails

I wouldn't call it fun though. I think it's because there's too much room for error so it doesn't feel fair. Possibly if the game worked on a grid or the rotations were in 15 degree increments I'd feel that a mistake was more my fault than an arbitrary imprecision. Same with the time bar on the bottom of the screen - if it went up in segments, timing the colour changes would feel more reliable.

Also, being able to modify the previous attempt rather than redo it from scratch each time would be a good service.

Also consider removing the abstraction and making it work on a real objective that would feel much more satisfying to the player. Eg. it's a linebacker who charges towards a goal - set the direction then his avoidances (duck, dodge, barge etc.)