{"author_link":"\/author\/thatwhichis\/","author_name":"thatwhichis","author_uid":"23194","comments":[{"author_name":"davidjsushil","author_uid":"4965","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 1:30am","epoch":1387157100,"text":"Yup. This is the entry to beat, right here. Gosh darn you, ThatWhichIs, how come you such great games make?!1"},{"author_name":"thatwhichis","author_uid":"23194","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 1:41am","epoch":1387157760,"text":"is the way. *serious FACE.* :-D"},{"author_name":"Somfunambulist","author_uid":"19074","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 3:49am","epoch":1387165440,"text":"Loved this game! At first the controls were unintuitive but then they became very satisfying."},{"author_name":"zconnelly13","author_uid":"3372","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 3:51am","epoch":1387165560,"text":"Bahaha, funny! Also the sound was great."},{"author_name":"JoeProgram","author_uid":"19367","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 3:56am","epoch":1387165860,"text":"The controls were great! I liked the way you could shoot the food directly down the duck's gullet - sort of a foie gras simulator. I didn't like it when I ran out of white ducks - I ended up having to feed an asshole duck. Maybe it was because two good ducks ate the same food."},{"author_name":"y2bd","author_uid":"31403","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 4:07am","epoch":1387166520,"text":"I have to say, this is the best game featuring asshole ducks that I've ever played."},{"author_name":"thatwhichis","author_uid":"23194","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 4:07am","epoch":1387166520,"text":"Thanks, dawgs, glad you liked it!"},{"author_name":"thatwhichis","author_uid":"23194","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 4:09am","epoch":1387166640,"text":"JoeProgram: It was an issue of which I was aware, so I added some extra white ducks. They do wander, though! I sometimes spend a minute or two waiting for a white duck to make his way back to me, all, "yo, I want food." I try to use to time for to reach enlightenment. :-D"},{"author_name":"Zolmeister","author_uid":"29241","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 5:34am","epoch":1387171740,"text":"Ducks! Quite a hilarious game. Why are they not in a pond?"},{"author_name":"thatwhichis","author_uid":"23194","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 5:54am","epoch":1387172940,"text":"Because they don't deserve a pond. >:-O \r\rLET THEM GLIDE GRACEFULLY ACROSS THE GRASS, THEIR WADDLES FORGOTTEN IN THE WINDS OF TIME I SAY! \r\rZolmeister: passing out for the night but I'll check your entry out tomorry!"},{"author_name":"leafo","author_uid":"4321","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:04am","epoch":1387180740,"text":"those ducks are nuts"},{"author_name":"Linus Lindberg","author_uid":"20066","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 12:42pm","epoch":1387197420,"text":"Haha that was surprisingly fun XD"},{"author_name":"Tanner","author_uid":"26780","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 5:06pm","epoch":1387213260,"text":"Nice music ;)"},{"author_name":"Broxxar","author_uid":"22132","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:46pm","epoch":1387226460,"text":"Hilarious all around."},{"author_name":"01010111","author_uid":"11474","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 10:30pm","epoch":1387232700,"text":"Really epic OST to this game"},{"author_name":"thatwhichis","author_uid":"23194","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 10:54pm","epoch":1387234140,"text":"Do you guys want the song? I guess I could make it available for DL somewhere..."},{"author_name":"thatwhichis","author_uid":"23194","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 12:12am","epoch":1387238820,"text":"Song location added to notes, if'n anybody wants. :-)"},{"author_name":"GagaPete","author_uid":"16147","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 11:33am","epoch":1387279680,"text":"Nice music, very simple graphics but a fun as hell gameplay. And the most creative take on the theme I've seen yet. Well done, sir!"},{"author_name":"finefin","author_uid":"16498","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 7:33pm","epoch":1387308480,"text":"hehehe that was fun. not really sticking to the theme, but who cares?"},{"author_name":"thatwhichis","author_uid":"23194","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 8:25pm","epoch":1387311600,"text":"Whaaaaaat? But the ducks they only gets one! I say to them, "You only get one, ducks!" Like IRL! \r\rlol, thanks for playing everybody! I am immensely enjoying all of your games."},{"author_name":"DaanVanYperen","author_uid":"22396","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 9:04pm","epoch":1387313940,"text":"I could've used this launch mechanic in my game. Why didn't you tell me!"},{"author_name":"BrothersT","author_uid":"12722","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 12:16am","epoch":1387325460,"text":"That wasn't relaxing in the slightest... Great game!!"},{"author_name":"chardish","author_uid":"3946","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 8:37am","epoch":1387355520,"text":"I love subtle interpretations of the theme like this."},{"author_name":"Daniel X. Moore","author_uid":"2816","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 6:23pm","epoch":1387390680,"text":"The controls seemed a little hard for me to get\r\rThe music was intense.\r\rThe scoring mechanic was pretty cool.\r\rPretty good!"},{"author_name":"GingerMess","author_uid":"6526","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 6:38pm","epoch":1387391580,"text":"GOD DAMNIT ASSHOLE DUCKS, STOP EATING IT ALL"},{"author_name":"thatwhichis","author_uid":"23194","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 8:27pm","epoch":1387398120,"text":"IS WHAT I'M SAYING, RIGHT??!"},{"author_name":"JohnnySix","author_uid":"20903","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 10:09pm","epoch":1387404240,"text":"Asshole ducks should move a bit slower for every piece of ill gotten bread they consume, the bastards."},{"author_name":"JohnnySix","author_uid":"20903","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 10:10pm","epoch":1387404300,"text":"Liked the organ music, represented the general mood and sentiment of duck feeding."},{"author_name":"Idovoodoo","author_uid":"18162","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 9:52pm","epoch":1387489620,"text":"Haha, awesome! :)"},{"author_name":"Reverend Speed","author_uid":"27066","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 11:13pm","epoch":1387494480,"text":"Awesome instructions are awesome. Those ducks are clearly assholes."},{"author_name":"deathray","author_uid":"17861","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 3:38am","epoch":1387510380,"text":"Ha! High points for humor and the game works well. Only thing: I wish i could throw the food underhand so it's slower, rather than firing it out like a bullet.\r(BTW: My game should be playable now.)"},{"author_name":"thatwhichis","author_uid":"23194","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 4:13am","epoch":1387512480,"text":"Right, talking at people! \r\rJohhnySix: A friend of mine recommended the same thing! He also suggested the assholes gain weight over time, which also seems interesting, but he suggested that while I was in the middle of working on the leaderboard integration and I was all like, "eh, whatevskies, I'll fix it in post." Conversely, I thought about making the unfed ducks get slower and lose weight from round to round. As of right now, the asshole ducks get a.... +20? ish? Modifier to their speed randomization with every successive round, and even that is working okay but not 'xactly as I wanted it to so, y'know, ::shrugs::!\r\rdeathray: You can throw a little slower but you gotsta get closer to yourself (uhh...) than I would like; is tweakable, but don't want to mess with anything while voting goes on. :-)\r\rTHANK YOU ALL FOR PLAYING AND FOR FEEDBACK(NO PUN INTENDED). LD is bestust!"},{"author_name":"csanyk","author_uid":"10473","time":"Dec 21, 2013 @ 5:56am","epoch":1387605060,"text":"Great entry."},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"27744","time":"Dec 26, 2013 @ 6:31pm","epoch":1388082360,"text":"Simple, fun, great entry. I included it in my Ludum Dare Compilation video series, if you'd like to take a look http:\/\/youtu.be\/mLdQN8xdVMY"},{"author_name":"thatwhichis","author_uid":"23194","time":"Dec 27, 2013 @ 1:53am","epoch":1388108880,"text":"Hey thanks, both! \r\rJupiter_Hadley: You played my team's submission last LD; keep rockin'!"},{"author_name":"atombrot","author_uid":"7738","time":"Dec 28, 2013 @ 10:18pm","epoch":1388268780,"text":"Took a while 'til I got how to use the controls. Was short but funny :)"},{"author_name":"Piat","author_uid":"25677","time":"Dec 29, 2013 @ 8:29am","epoch":1388305440,"text":"interesting to say the least, asshole ducks keep getting at my food, assholes."}],"images":["ld28\/23194-dafd755e3b2b749bdd826086211799ee.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.thatwhichismedia.com\/games\/assholeducks\/","text":"Web (HTML5)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.thatwhichismedia.com\/games\/assholeducks\/assholeducks.capx","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"20887","g_author":"23194","g_event":"LD28","g_eventkey":"20","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"20916","g_title":"Asshole Ducks","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"766","g_commentcount":"37","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\/\/308734\/23194-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"A soothing game about feeding ducks except you hate some of them arbitrarily and if they take more than one food while there are still starving ducks out there you probably hate them too maybe. YOU ONLY GET ONE, DUCKS. Also there's a scoreboard. \r\n\r\nChrome recommended! Mother approved. (NSFW language.) Actually plays pretty decently in Safari on an iPhone 5S (but not on my desktop? loool), so take it with you to the terlet and play while you poop! Or don't. Or do, but please don't tell us about it. (Or DO. o_O) (Don't.)\r\n\r\n-thatwhichis\r\n\r\n\"Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they've had a hard life, or have been mistreated; but, like people, some of them are just jerks.\" \r\n\r\nIOMPORTANT Edit: Added post-compo version with slightly reworked launch numbers; should be easier to launch shorter ranges. Still recommend compo version! :-D\r\n\r\nEdit: Now with more blog post! \r\nhttp:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2013\/12\/15\/a-hole-ducks\/\r\n\r\nEdit: Now with MORE more blog post! \r\nhttp:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2013\/12\/16\/faq-and-post-mortem\/ \r\n\r\nAlso, if you like the song and would like a copy, you could download un .wav version here: \r\nhttp:\/\/www.thatwhichismedia.com\/LD28\/media\/assholeducks.wav","title":"Asshole Ducks"}