10seconds

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Overview

Defuse the bomb in 10 seconds! Click the plug that connects the red explosives.

Ethan Kennerly made 10seconds as a two-day game for Ludum Dare (August 23 to 25, 2013) at themade.org, with sounds from the examples in LabChirp.

His design notes start from the theme, ten seconds before a bomb explodes, and sketch a bomb cutter: observe tiles of wires and cut the wire that connects to a bomb. The notes go on to list the ways a board could get harder: more cells, longer detours, wires running close together in parallel, more corners and more crossings.

Made by: Ethan Kennerly
Released: 2013

Controls guide

Playing

Key	Action
Click	Pull a plug; pick the one where the red explosives' wire is plugged in

Cheatsheet

Rules

Timer: 10 seconds per bomb
Right plug, 9 s or more left: Level up by 3
Right plug, 6 to 9 s left: Level up by 2
Right plug, 3 to 6 s left: Level up by 1
Right plug, under 3 s left: No level gain
Points: New level x milliseconds left
Wrong plug or time out: Level down by 5, and the run's score resets
Higher levels: One more node every 20 levels (2 to 5) and one more bend every 10 (up to 8)
Top level: 100

Tips

Speed pays twice: a fast answer raises your level more, and points are your level times the milliseconds left, so the quicker answers at a higher level are worth far more.
At level 0 a slow answer is worth nothing, so make your first few picks quickly to get the level climbing.
Trace the wire from the red explosive rather than from the plugs; the decoy plugs sit on the other nodes and on the wrong sides.
Your level is not reset when a run ends, only cut by 5, so the next run starts on harder boards but with bigger points.