{"author_link":"\/author\/namuol\/","author_name":"namuol","author_uid":"12236","comments":[{"author_name":"Elforama","author_uid":"23982","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:43am","epoch":1398656280,"text":"For some reason the boat animation made me laugh. Good job with this game."},{"author_name":"wespaugh","author_uid":"26579","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 6:50pm","epoch":1398710700,"text":"Difficult game, but incredibly intuitive and the controls feel great."},{"author_name":"TomBoogaart","author_uid":"36150","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 8:11pm","epoch":1398801960,"text":"ha this game felt pretty smooth, i enjoyed throwing my spear at these sharksss"},{"author_name":"bazld","author_uid":"36950","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 8:13pm","epoch":1398802080,"text":"Very nice game. Theres more to it than meets the eye, the control of the boat and spear are not the simple approach you might expect."},{"author_name":"Osteoblast Labs","author_uid":"25848","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 8:38pm","epoch":1398803580,"text":"this game is really hard! its done well though. nice work!"},{"author_name":"matt_j","author_uid":"35819","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 8:49pm","epoch":1398804240,"text":"Simple and polished, well done. Love the punchy sound effects!"},{"author_name":"Jason Lay","author_uid":"18254","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 12:04am","epoch":1398815940,"text":"This game feels great.  It was a joy to play!  I speared three sharks at once!"},{"author_name":"MetanoKid","author_uid":"34016","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 12:07am","epoch":1398816120,"text":"It's got some nice graphics and sounds! The aiming mechanic gives it an awesome gameplay, and the spear gives it some extra points on humor!"},{"author_name":"LandoSystems","author_uid":"18212","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 12:07am","epoch":1398816120,"text":"19150.  Super simple concept that was surprisingly addicting.  Spearing 4 sharks at once was one of the most rewarding things I've done all night.  Thanks!"},{"author_name":"Switchbreak","author_uid":"2645","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 12:43am","epoch":1398818280,"text":"Nice work! I got 4250. I love the way the boat moves clumsily, like a boat would."},{"author_name":"josefnpat","author_uid":"11249","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 1:47am","epoch":1398822120,"text":"Nice job! Perhaps another spear or two! While the waves are nice, I don't know if they really can be use in lou (get it?) of music. Great job!"},{"author_name":"ix","author_uid":"18837","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 2:14am","epoch":1398823740,"text":"18700, thanks to a lucky spear of a stack of sharks. Great mechanics in here. The slosh-y aiming feels just about right."},{"author_name":"Marcos Rodrigues","author_uid":"16988","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 4:50am","epoch":1398833100,"text":"Nice entry! The gameplay is solid, I really liked the way the crosshair wobble when you move, nice way to enforce strategy. It's addictive, though I'm not very good (my highscore for now is 8000).\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Did you use any game engine?"},{"author_name":"namuol","author_uid":"12236","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 5:26am","epoch":1398835260,"text":"@Marcos Rodrigues: I used my own JS\/HTML5 game framework called Combo. It's not released yet, and I plan on selling it.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>If you're into JS gamedev, send me your email and I'll hook you up with a key for free when a beta is ready. :)"},{"author_name":"tomvert","author_uid":"18469","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 11:11am","epoch":1398855960,"text":"Good gameplay, making combo was really rewarding, I managed to make a shark\/fish combo (wich could be rewarded differantly bu the way). Anyway keep it up :)"},{"author_name":"Aaants","author_uid":"16061","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 11:43am","epoch":1398857880,"text":"Simple, effective and fun! I liked the aiming\/movement link up."},{"author_name":"01010111","author_uid":"11474","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 6:26pm","epoch":1398968460,"text":"Love this entry - the movement was really smooth, and the animation was goofy. Wish I could aim and shoot through fish though."},{"author_name":"namuol","author_uid":"12236","time":"May 2, 2014 @ 2:54am","epoch":1398998940,"text":"@01010111 -- Not sure what you mean; you _can_ aim and shoot through fish. Do you mean hit all the ones in the line the spear follows?"},{"author_name":"namuol","author_uid":"12236","time":"May 3, 2014 @ 5:47am","epoch":1399095720,"text":"Just scored 300,000+ points. The secret was landing 2 10xShark spear combos, and another 9xShark combo... heh. The game's a little too &quot;easy&quot; to play indefinitely, actually. No real difficulty ramp-up. Maybe I'll do that for the post-compo version.."},{"author_name":"mrbungle","author_uid":"4895","time":"May 8, 2014 @ 12:26pm","epoch":1399551660,"text":"Digging the simplistic graphical style and the animations are cool.  The sense of everything wobbling about is a really nice touch."},{"author_name":"littleball","author_uid":"14756","time":"May 8, 2014 @ 12:26pm","epoch":1399551660,"text":"Sweet little game! Getting a double catch is so satisfying. I love the simple graphics too."},{"author_name":"SimianLogic","author_uid":"15570","time":"May 11, 2014 @ 9:39pm","epoch":1399844040,"text":"Feels very polished for such a short time. Love that your aim gets more and more erratic the further out from the boat you throw. Floating feels relaxing."},{"author_name":"Jacic","author_uid":"5267","time":"May 17, 2014 @ 7:06pm","epoch":1400353260,"text":"I loved how movement made my aim wobble across the whole screen. :p Great work."}],"images":["ld29\/12236-3608da71aedaad6980cc5009b0452907.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/ld48nopaddle.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/namuol\/spear","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"18438","g_author":"12236","g_event":"LD29","g_eventkey":"22","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"18467","g_title":"Without a Paddle","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"147","g_commentcount":"23","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/12236-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Who needs a paddle when you have a spear?\r\n\r\nWASD\/Arrow Keys to move.\r\nMouse to aim\/shoot.\r\n\r\nHold still to aim steady.\r\n\r\nPOST YOUR BEST SCORE (if you want)","title":"Without a Paddle"}