{"id":2183,"edition":12,"categories":1,"features":0,"size":13164,"name":"13 Seconds To Midnight","authors":[{"name":"Hogia","login":"Hogia","gh":2686337}],"description":"

Escape the dark forest before time runs out!

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Collect green cubes to add time, red spheres for speed boosts.\nAvoid the red enemies hunting you.

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Controls

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13x Green cubes, 13x Red Spheres, 13x Enemies!

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You have 13 seconds. Can you survive until midnight?

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I get a very choppy 13 fps. I have a Ryzen 9 5900x 12 core processor and a RTX3090. Something is extremely wrong. The time countdown still runs fast even though the rendering is really slow, so pretty unplayable.

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Edit: I actually did check out your code to see if I could figure out what was wrong, but I’m not sure. I think perhaps if you merged your trees into one geometry that would help? It would also help to fix the framerate, as my 120hz monitor tries to run the render more often of course, which makes the performance even worse.

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Also, if this is your first ever game, that is awesome! A little more testing and performance improvement next time and I think you’ll have a great entry!

\n","games":["13th Floor"]},{"typ":1,"at":378854559,"re":378827611,"author":"Hogia","login":"Hogia","gh":2686337,"text":"

Hey, thanks for the feedback! This was my first time developing a game, and participating in js13kGames was a real challenge. I developed the game on a MacBook Pro M3 and didn’t encounter any lag or performance issues. My mistake was not testing it on other machines, so I assumed there were no performance problems. Unfortunately, I noticed the issues after I had already submitted the game, and it was too late to fix them. I’ve learned a lot from this experience, but there’s still much more to learn. I’ll be better prepared next year!

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I love horror games and your game is the first game i wanted to try just because of the graphic design.\nUnfortunately, i couldn’t progress much. The fps drop is kinda brutal and you end up teleported against the trees without really a way to avoid it.

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It could have been a great competitor without this problem.

\n","games":["13C Gauntlet"]},{"typ":1,"at":379135461,"re":378930215,"author":"Hogia","login":"Hogia","gh":2686337,"text":"

Ouch I am very sorry you couldn’t play it my mistake I didn’t check how it’s working on other devies. I have a pull request with a minor fix that will help a bit with the performance if it works, please give it another chance! ty

\n"},{"at":378955954,"author":"Steven Lambert","login":"straker","gh":2433219,"url":"https://stevenklambert.com/","twitter":"StevenKLambert","text":"

The atmosphere of the game is good. Really gives off a creepy dark forest vibe. I only ever came across a single enemy though, so it didn’t feel too difficult. The cubes seem random though which makes the game difficult to know how to escape. I could see a cube or sphere through the trees and head to it, but a lot of times I wouldn’t have enough time to make it between cubes. Hard to know if I picked the wrong direction or maybe had missed some along the way I should have picked up.

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The game would lag a lot, typically before I was able to pick up a cube or sphere. Also the colors on the cubes didn’t come out very green on my machine so I didn’t know if it was a red enemy or not at first.

\n","games":["The Encroaching Darkness"]},{"typ":1,"at":379135695,"re":378955954,"author":"Hogia","login":"Hogia","gh":2686337,"text":"

Thanks for the feedback! Yes you re right, and the thing with red enemy is just to trick the players, there are no red enemies just black spiders :)) this way is more surprizing for a horror theme. I did a PR to fix the performance it may not lag now but still is not a 100% fix.

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The forest and fog look really creepy, great atmosphere, sadly I only ever saw a single red collectable after 5 attempts. I saw a few spiders and they look cool also.

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The positives are; great potential, graphics look great, enemies look good. With some performance tweaks and more balanced gameplay would be onto something.

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When you limit a game to 13 seconds you need fast paced gameplay, your game looks creepy and would be better slower paced with enemies coming out to scare you / fight.

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Hope you come back next year or join the JS gamdev gamejam if they add a 13k challenge again!

\n","games":["The Fear Factory"]},{"typ":1,"at":379135829,"re":378982358,"author":"Hogia","login":"Hogia","gh":2686337,"text":"

Thanks for the feedback really appreciate it. Definitely I’ll keep making games and you’ll see me next year, this is just the beginning and already love it!

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Has that instant hook to it wanting you to keep playing. Couldnt work it out at first but realised you could pick up the powerups to give extra time etc. On my last attempt I found a route that where the pick ups where quite linear so you could follow the path where I eventually escaped. Didnt notice the lag until I saw it mentioned. Love the blair witch style ending ;)

\n","games":["Get the Flock Outta Here"]},{"typ":1,"at":379222053,"re":379214675,"author":"Hogia","login":"Hogia","gh":2686337,"text":"

Thank you for your feedback! I am glad you didn’t encounter any lag.

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The game was really atmospheric and spooky - just right with Halloween around the corner.

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I had several fun tries with the game but ended up going round in circles or getting lost.

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It played really slowly for me, the movements were glacial.

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I found one sphere on my 4th attempt at the game, but it wasn’t green or red, and I couldn’t work out how to collect it, walking over it didn’t do anything. Perhaps make them glow or something would make them easier to find.

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The little spider things are brutal.

\n","games":["rollermaze"]},{"typ":1,"at":379568038,"re":379385904,"author":"Hogia","login":"Hogia","gh":2686337,"text":"

I am glad you had fun :D Yes, and I was afraid the spiders were not big enough :))

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The game has a beautiful look to it. My machine also struggled to keep up with a playable frame rate, which is unfortunate, because it looks like it would be fun. Congrats on submitting for the first time, that is an achievement all by itself!

\n","games":["Phantomicus"]},{"typ":1,"at":379567888,"re":379510681,"author":"Hogia","login":"Hogia","gh":2686337,"text":"

Thank you! Next year I will do better :D

\n"},{"typ":2,"at":379931423,"author":"Björn Ritzl","login":"britzl","gh":1300688,"url":"www.defold.com","twitter":"bjornritzl","text":"

Wow, this was hard! I struggled to make any decent progress and usually ran out of time quickly. The dark and eerie forest is really nicely made and there’s a real feeling of impending doom. Modest use of sounds, but what’s there really works!

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Thank you! Yes, it is supposed to be hard, and never exit the forest but in the same time doable :)) About the sounds I choose not to complicate things as I am not good at it.

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The forest looks and feels really scary! And the spiders make good on this promise! Maybe it’s a bit hard, but maybe I’m just not good enough to escape ;) Well done!

\n","games":["Lost City Of S"]},{"typ":1,"at":380482723,"re":380089422,"author":"Hogia","login":"Hogia","gh":2686337,"text":"

Thank you! yes it’s a bit hard but after a few tries it’s doable

\n"},{"at":380242533,"author":"Almar Suarez","login":"wololoa","gh":10622012,"twitter":"repunkgame","text":"

It looks awesome, very atmospheric! Unfortunately, on my machine it freezes every few seconds (not just a performance drop, but it just stops completely). Despite this, what I managed to play felt really good :)

\n","games":["DECK 13"]},{"at":380274045,"author":"Christoph Schansky","login":"DerBenniBanni","gh":5499976,"text":"

The trees and the fog look great. Very spooky atmosphere!

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I didn’t make it to midnight. Found some cubes, but never enough to outrun the clock.

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The framerate is on the lower end of “ok” ( i7-12700H with an Nvidia RTX4060, so… a not too slow machine)

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But it’s playable. And i tried to beat it quite often. :-)

\n","games":["Aargh! Triskaideka attacks!"]},{"typ":2,"at":380344565,"author":"Emanuele Feronato","login":"triqui","gh":389551,"text":"

Really hard game, but a lot of kudos for building a FPS engine in less than 13KB.

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13 seconds maybe are too few to start with, but this is the theme of the competition, so there’s nothing I can say but “good job”

\n"},{"typ":1,"at":380481421,"re":380344565,"author":"Hogia","login":"Hogia","gh":2686337,"text":"

Thank you I am glad you like it!

\n"},{"at":380368535,"author":"Lewis Nakao","login":"lewdev","gh":1469960,"url":"https://lewdev.github.io","twitter":"lewdev","text":"

Very good sound effects and visual atmosphere which makes for a good horror-type of game. Unfortunately, the game performed very poorly on my PC with a 1070, which isn’t the greatest setup, but it was generally unplayable on Firefox and Chrome.

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I hope you could work on some optimizations so that I could really enjoy the game. I did grab red spheres and green cubes, but before I could take advantage of it, the game would freeze up and time would run out.

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A great game with a lot of potential!

\n","games":["13attle TanKs"]},{"typ":2,"at":380377566,"author":"Matt Hackett","login":"richtaur","gh":24601,"url":"https://valadria.com","twitter":"richtaur","text":"

Impressive visuals for just 13k! Enjoyed the text animations on the title screen (and the in-game instructions are appreciated).

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Theme is integrated perfectly, and it’s extremely clear what you should be doing in the game. Great job.

\n"},{"typ":1,"at":380481586,"re":380377566,"author":"Hogia","login":"Hogia","gh":2686337,"text":"

Thanks for the feedback! I focused a lot on visuals for this one.

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I like the wavery font and the visuals of the game.\nHowever, the game is running poorly in performance and the input lag is too bad…

\n","games":["Wands of Triskaidekai"]},{"typ":1,"at":380489262,"re":380381506,"author":"Hogia","login":"Hogia","gh":2686337,"text":"

Yes I know next time I will take my time for proper testing, thank you!

\n"},{"at":380473308,"author":"Tom Copeland","login":"thcopeland","gh":31262113,"url":"thcopeland.com","text":"

Looks very cool! Performance is low, even on my pretty high powered desktop, but playable.

\n","games":["King LongLegs"]},{"typ":1,"at":380481712,"re":380473308,"author":"Hogia","login":"Hogia","gh":2686337,"text":"

I am glad to hear that you managed to play it, about the performance indeed I couldn’t made it better in the given time a lot to learn here!

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