{"author_link":"\/author\/j\/","author_name":"J","author_uid":"5483","comments":[{"author_name":"ambi","author_uid":"31451","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 11:55pm","epoch":1387237800,"text":"I don't have another player, so can't rate this."},{"author_name":"ParaPup","author_uid":"18322","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 11:56pm","epoch":1387237860,"text":"Wouldn't run cause it was corrupt."},{"author_name":"ajfischer","author_uid":"3851","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 11:57pm","epoch":1387237920,"text":"This is really hard for people to rate due to the multiplayer nature of the game. However, I played vs myself using keyboard and a controller. I really liked the concept. It'd be pretty cool on a console with couch multiplayer or network multiplayer on computer. You should add more and polish it up!"},{"author_name":"hnjslater","author_uid":"16286","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 11:59pm","epoch":1387238040,"text":"Once I'd installed the deps I could get it to run but not anything to happen. Can it be played with a keyboard?"},{"author_name":"jsjwooowooo","author_uid":"7245","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 12:01am","epoch":1387238160,"text":"I got an extraction error, couldn't copy some libogg.dll file."},{"author_name":"abeing","author_uid":"30693","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 1:05am","epoch":1387242000,"text":"extraction error on my side, too"},{"author_name":"sudorossy","author_uid":"7905","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 2:13am","epoch":1387246080,"text":"Quite simple, but I found the player a bit hard to control."},{"author_name":"J","author_uid":"5483","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 8:17am","epoch":1387267920,"text":"Hmm, never had these sorts of errors before.  Anyone having problems, it'd be nice if you posted your OS, exact error messages\/behaviour, etc.."},{"author_name":"J","author_uid":"5483","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 8:21am","epoch":1387268160,"text":"Oh, wait, never mind - the actual archive is broken?  I was thinking extraction of things in the exe.  Seems I accidentally used LZMA, which some ZIP decompressors don't support.  I'll try to get that fixed.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@hnjslater: since you're trying to install dependencies, I'm assuming you're not on Windows, so details would still be nice.  Thanks."},{"author_name":"J","author_uid":"5483","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 8:25am","epoch":1387268400,"text":"There we go, using DEFLATE now.  Sorry for the issues."},{"author_name":"Moist","author_uid":"16352","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 11:08am","epoch":1387278180,"text":"The player movement is a bit weird (I mean jumping). A very interesting take on the theme though."},{"author_name":"ShellfishGames","author_uid":"23164","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 6:00pm","epoch":1387302900,"text":"Quite original and one of the best interpretations of the theme I've seen so far. The only thing I'm not too happy about are the controls (keyboard controls at least) and that there's only that one (even asymmetrical! :O) map. Other than that - very well done!"},{"author_name":"J","author_uid":"5483","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 8:07pm","epoch":1387310520,"text":"Yep, hence the encouragement to use a controller.  If you can think of a better keyboard-only layout, please let me know.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The map was the last thing I did - I would've like to have included more."},{"author_name":"Joror","author_uid":"15925","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 8:52pm","epoch":1387313220,"text":"Basic multiplayer, but I can see the concept. Tried playing both at once and kinda failed. ;)"},{"author_name":"tiffi_gaming","author_uid":"29484","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 9:49pm","epoch":1387316640,"text":"Jumping seems a bit off, but i enjoyed laying mines"},{"author_name":"multikorv","author_uid":"8028","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 10:03pm","epoch":1387317480,"text":"I like the thought, didn't have anyone to play against though. But it looks like it has some potential."},{"author_name":"Random Abductions","author_uid":"29549","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 11:17pm","epoch":1387321920,"text":"We liked the idea. Seems a bit buggy though (but you already know that :P). The area feels a little small for the mechanic."},{"author_name":"rincewind_cz","author_uid":"25122","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 12:55am","epoch":1387327800,"text":"Nicely done audio.. even it's like somebody trying to play drums totally drunk :-D. Also liked how mines could be sticked to the walls..."},{"author_name":"dsoft20","author_uid":"8795","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 5:02pm","epoch":1387385820,"text":"Nice entry, played with a friends.\r<br\/>The movement is a bit imprecise :&amp;"},{"author_name":"Tomski","author_uid":"30523","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 4:51am","epoch":1387514760,"text":"Nice take on the theme, pretty hilarious to play with a friend, would like to see a bigger map to play around on, and maybe coloured mines? Good job anyway!"},{"author_name":"RodRoy1","author_uid":"31418","time":"Dec 25, 2013 @ 1:36pm","epoch":1387978260,"text":"It looks nice but its a bit difficult to play. Deffinatly an interesting idea though. Maybe with a bit more time you could develop it more."},{"author_name":"Moosefly","author_uid":"25343","time":"Dec 26, 2013 @ 1:44pm","epoch":1388065140,"text":"It was an interesting concept, but the gameplay could use some polish though as others have mentioned :P. The keyboard layout took some getting used to, but it worked pretty well in the end."},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"27744","time":"Jan 4, 2014 @ 4:00pm","epoch":1388850900,"text":"Nice game, bit hard to play but cool. Sadly it wont record with fraps so I as unable to include it in my LD28 compilation video series :("}],"images":["ld28\/5483-a0dd611e106aec9ebaae661e301e849f.jpg","ld28\/5483-6086a3d9c745e52b8cd8d599070725b9.jpg","ld28\/5483-52848efd1670d13c553c945ffacd7538.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/ikn.org.uk\/files\/games\/boom\/boom-win-ld.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/ikn.org.uk\/files\/games\/boom\/boom-ld.tar.gz","text":"Linux \/ other Unix-like \/ source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"21271","g_author":"5483","g_event":"LD28","g_eventkey":"20","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"21300","g_title":"boom","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"881","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\/\/308734\/5483-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/5483-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/5483-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"A 2-player battle with mines, where each player can throw any number of dummy mines and only one real one.  However, one player's 'real' mine is a dud, and neither player knows which.  I'm not sure how well this works...\r\n\r\nA player can detonate all of his mines at any time, and can use lasers 3 times to destroy (without detonating) every placed mine.\r\n\r\nThe game ends once the real mine has been detonated or destroyed, and the winner is the player left alive, if any.  If both players are alive, the player who had the real mine loses.\r\n\r\nYou probably want to use a controller for this.\r\n\r\nKnown bugs:\r\n - mines don't orient themselves immediately when landing on the ground\r\n - players can jump in the air after walking off a platform\r\n - after falling off the bottom of a wall, players continue to fall slowly, and can wall jump, until they move away from the wall\r\n - there seems to be a fairly bad memory leak","title":"boom"}