{"author_link":"\/author\/lessmilk\/","author_name":"lessmilk","author_uid":"34091","comments":[{"author_name":"Pierrec","author_uid":"1874","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 1:17am","epoch":1398647520,"text":"The game is quickly boring (The difficulty doesn't seem to increase) but the pun made me laugh! Thanks for making this game!"},{"author_name":"StrykerKKD","author_uid":"35257","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 9:23am","epoch":1398676680,"text":"As expected a really nice game, although it's too easy."},{"author_name":"miwuc","author_uid":"6177","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 10:28am","epoch":1398680580,"text":"OMG I'm dying of cuteness."},{"author_name":"Jase","author_uid":"5737","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 10:32am","epoch":1398680820,"text":"I liked this, very nice indeed :) If you wanted to make it a bit more challenging you could of limited the duck time so that you can't get by a streak of 3 flying things just by holding down the button."},{"author_name":"borrismoose","author_uid":"25730","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 10:40am","epoch":1398681300,"text":"Nice way of using the theme. I liked the consistency in the art (apart from the score fonts) and could have done with some more difficulty. Nice little package for 5 hours work!"},{"author_name":"GagaPete","author_uid":"16147","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 10:41am","epoch":1398681360,"text":"Pretty solid game, lovely animations and a nice background music. As the others have said, a little bit to easy.\rIt would be nice if every now and then a boat or a island would pass by.\rIf you want to continue work on it you could create unlockable accessoires and clothes. :)"},{"author_name":"eldog","author_uid":"34252","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 10:51am","epoch":1398681960,"text":"Great animation with the wavy surfer dude arms."},{"author_name":"gikdew","author_uid":"18806","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 10:51am","epoch":1398681960,"text":"Love that game, and the music is really nice ;), you are a good player! You should increase the difficulty of the game by time and make it more challenging though.\r\rYou did a great work with the water particles and the surfer sprite. One advice when using phaser, leave 1 pixel or margin in the sprites, because sometimes the bird has a white line on the left side.\r\rGood luck with the ratings!"},{"author_name":"rubna","author_uid":"14711","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 10:53am","epoch":1398682080,"text":"omg I love those gfx aah uke aah so cool! GJ!"},{"author_name":"j_peeba","author_uid":"5503","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 10:54am","epoch":1398682140,"text":"Super simple but it made me smile. I love how the music stops abruptly when you hit an obstacle."},{"author_name":"Greg Power","author_uid":"21691","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 10:55am","epoch":1398682200,"text":"It is very easy, but the combination of the music and art made me super relaxed and content. I had peaceful fun. I guess that's the point of surfing!"},{"author_name":"tiffi_gaming","author_uid":"29484","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 11:04am","epoch":1398682740,"text":"Are you THE lessmilk? You sir are awesome and your tutorials helped me a lot during this ludum dare. Thank you very much and keep up the good work!"},{"author_name":"Katamori","author_uid":"25228","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 11:04am","epoch":1398682740,"text":"In 5 hours, it's a pretty amazing stuff! Not so much, but also doesn't make me disappointed.\r\rNot a big deal, but definitely 5 for the humor-factor."},{"author_name":"zebi24","author_uid":"28347","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 11:09am","epoch":1398683040,"text":"A theme winner! :) Very cool graphics and music! \rBtw: if you have down button pressed while you jump into a flying fish it won't kill you. ;)"},{"author_name":"Foofur","author_uid":"37074","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 11:15am","epoch":1398683400,"text":"Man this is so cool! Could play for hours!"},{"author_name":"madflame991","author_uid":"5035","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 11:21am","epoch":1398683760,"text":"That's quite the pun you've got there. liked the graphics and the soothing ukulele song. I never imagined flying fish would be such a big surfing hazard.. what you could improve is the difficulty and maybe some more obstacles\/events so that it doesn't get so repetitive."},{"author_name":"lantto","author_uid":"31056","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 11:27am","epoch":1398684120,"text":"Oh, took a while before I realized you're the 12 games in 12 weeks guy I've seen a couple of times on Hacker News. Your work is very inspiring. :)\r\rAnyway, I like it. The graphics and audio are very fitting but it would be funnier if the difficulty continued to increase. I got to 341 before giving up."},{"author_name":"fserb","author_uid":"6308","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 11:34am","epoch":1398684540,"text":"It doesn't change much. But I was really happy with the concept and the graphics. Still wondering why the fishes fly.. :P"},{"author_name":"goerp","author_uid":"14225","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 12:10pm","epoch":1398686700,"text":"It was fun to play and did get more difficult later in the game. I also liked the details like the seagull and the splashing.\rMusic fits the game well.\r\rI saw your post of this game a few hours before finishing my own game. 'Damn' I thought, 'he has the same idea'.\rAnd you have surf music as well.\r\rI used more than 5 hours, but I had a lot more pixels (vectors actually). I think your choice is better if you're time constrained, like in a LD. my graphics took forever!"},{"author_name":"Jonathan Whiting","author_uid":"527","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 12:25pm","epoch":1398687600,"text":"The delightful animation and music really sold this."},{"author_name":"rnlf","author_uid":"30930","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 1:05pm","epoch":1398690000,"text":"I don't agree. There is a slight progression in difficulty in the game. The distance between sharks and Piranhas (?) is getting smaller and smaller.\r\rSuper cute animations (I especially like the seagull) and the sounds are so authentically retro. Almost feels like playing an Atari 2600 again :-)\r\rGreat job!"},{"author_name":"Jeremias","author_uid":"7211","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 1:23pm","epoch":1398691080,"text":"Funny take on the theme. Sad that you hadn't more time to elaborate on this :("},{"author_name":"Ludusamo","author_uid":"28874","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 1:42pm","epoch":1398692220,"text":"Scattered a bit in my ratings. I love the idea, but it gets boring pretty quickly. But I love what you did with the theme and it definitely made me laugh."},{"author_name":"hexagore","author_uid":"34027","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 2:47pm","epoch":1398696120,"text":"89! Killed off by chain sharks :) Enjoyed."},{"author_name":"ezombort","author_uid":"30521","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 8:08pm","epoch":1398715380,"text":"Haha, I love the jumping animation :)"},{"author_name":"pancakecity","author_uid":"28537","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 8:50pm","epoch":1398717900,"text":"Fun, simple game! Nice uke song!"},{"author_name":"markusfisch","author_uid":"19466","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 9:23pm","epoch":1398719880,"text":"I very much like the look and the simplicity of the idea. Nice."},{"author_name":"xhunterko","author_uid":"1960","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 1:22am","epoch":1398734220,"text":"Much better then the first 'Ben' game I played. Nice guitar sound track!"},{"author_name":"hbocao","author_uid":"25980","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 1:34am","epoch":1398734940,"text":"Little fun game you have there! I loved the arms swinging haha"},{"author_name":"valid4life","author_uid":"31730","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 5:04am","epoch":1398747540,"text":"Definitely a good little game! Although could ahve used some harder difficulty, i had a fun little play through! Loved the music!"},{"author_name":"GertJohnny","author_uid":"22774","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 6:44am","epoch":1398753540,"text":"107! It would be nice if there were more obstacles, but still pretty solid all around."},{"author_name":"littleball","author_uid":"14756","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 1:00pm","epoch":1398776100,"text":"I love the artwork!"},{"author_name":"xerohuang","author_uid":"34311","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 7:11pm","epoch":1398798360,"text":"Like the swinging arms. :)"},{"author_name":"Linus Lindberg","author_uid":"20066","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 8:03pm","epoch":1398801480,"text":"Very simple game as you said but nicely executed, I love the graphics!"},{"author_name":"dejant","author_uid":"34568","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 9:05pm","epoch":1398805200,"text":"A bit too easy, but fun!"},{"author_name":"FatJoe","author_uid":"15166","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 10:00pm","epoch":1398808500,"text":"Hehe, A game with the same word play as us, good job :D\r\rI like the animation on Ben, feels good somehow, but the game is a tiny bit too simple. Too quick to master. Good job though :)"},{"author_name":"namuol","author_uid":"12236","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 12:20am","epoch":1398816900,"text":"Relaxing, until I die. Sorta like my game, I suppose. Also, 5 hours?! Nice work!!"},{"author_name":"cavf88","author_uid":"37133","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 2:04am","epoch":1398823140,"text":"Nice game. I wish it was more challenging but for a 5 hours game is pretty damn good."},{"author_name":"BlazingFanfish","author_uid":"29162","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 11:17am","epoch":1398856320,"text":"This is good for 5 hours. Keep polishing your skill. :)"},{"author_name":"ovenchips","author_uid":"19236","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 4:13pm","epoch":1398874080,"text":"Great job for 5 hours! Cutesy art and a superb game name. I'm intrigued what the game would have been like if you'd used the full 48 hours. The mind boggles. :)"},{"author_name":"mrhill","author_uid":"15148","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 11:19pm","epoch":1398899640,"text":"I'm sorry but it wasn't really enjoyable at all. Good pun though."},{"author_name":"ArthurMaker","author_uid":"17385","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 8:50am","epoch":1398933900,"text":"I raged on this game because i suck att this kind of games but the game was really good, Well done.."},{"author_name":"gettothechapel","author_uid":"37464","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 9:13am","epoch":1398935280,"text":"the game is fairly easy but i gotta give you props for the pun"},{"author_name":"Oddly Shaped Pixels","author_uid":"33840","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 9:35am","epoch":1398936600,"text":"Nice little game! Too easy for sure but 5hours only??? Great work!!"},{"author_name":"ActionRemix","author_uid":"31866","time":"May 3, 2014 @ 3:08am","epoch":1399086180,"text":"Animations are too cute!"},{"author_name":"SecondDimension","author_uid":"14838","time":"May 5, 2014 @ 11:46am","epoch":1399290060,"text":"Nice visuals and music, wish it was a bit harder though."},{"author_name":"Thorig","author_uid":"14618","time":"May 6, 2014 @ 6:18pm","epoch":1399399980,"text":"Wait what? Why are those fish flying?"},{"author_name":"Adrian","author_uid":"20592","time":"May 7, 2014 @ 10:58am","epoch":1399459980,"text":"Love the game's name. Well done for that.\rLike this game as all other games you made.\r\rSimple but very addictive.\r\rJust a little glitch on the shark animation, little line of blue at the top."},{"author_name":"end3r","author_uid":"19938","time":"May 18, 2014 @ 11:58am","epoch":1400413980,"text":"Great idea with fiddling with the main theme. The game is simple but enjoyable and playable."},{"author_name":"wschorn","author_uid":"36225","time":"May 19, 2014 @ 3:50am","epoch":1400471100,"text":"small, cute, fun"}],"images":["ld29\/34091-b0197350c3362385e40ee70dec5a8f48.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.lessmilk.com\/games\/14\/","text":"Play (web)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"18874","g_author":"34091","g_event":"LD29","g_eventkey":"22","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"18903","g_title":"Ben is the Surf Ace","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"544","g_commentcount":"50","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\/34091-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"I twisted the theme into \"Ben is the surf ace\". So in my game you play Ben, who is a very good surfer.\r\n\r\nThe game is really basic. It took me less than 5 hours to make it. It's made in HTML5 with the Phaser framework.","title":"Ben is the Surf Ace"}