{"author_link":"\/author\/jago\/","author_name":"Jago","author_uid":"4020","comments":[{"author_name":"whiteknife","author_uid":"30189","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 7:15pm","epoch":1387221000,"text":"Cool concept (I'm actually working on a game with the same "hearing only" premise myself!) but it's not working for me in Firefox."},{"author_name":"Masadow","author_uid":"22572","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 7:21pm","epoch":1387221360,"text":"I don't hear anything under chrome :("},{"author_name":"postmodestie","author_uid":"8113","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 7:24pm","epoch":1387221540,"text":"no sound on Firefox\/Windows"},{"author_name":"ThatGuy","author_uid":"17563","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 7:25pm","epoch":1387221600,"text":"Interesting concept to play with, though I quickly got lost. For those having problems, it worked for me, just press the arrow keys to walk around."},{"author_name":"LukeR","author_uid":"31872","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 7:36pm","epoch":1387222260,"text":"Doesnt Work"},{"author_name":"xgeovanni","author_uid":"11296","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 7:36pm","epoch":1387222260,"text":"In Chrome on Ubuntu nothing happens. In the console I get "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'NaN' of undefined map.js:2"."},{"author_name":"Kane","author_uid":"8722","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 7:38pm","epoch":1387222380,"text":"Really fun idea and fun to play too ! I like it :)\rbut sometime the sound was just totally missing, I think a possibility of switching between "visual" sound (like shockwave or something like that) and audio can be interesting! Great job !"},{"author_name":"Jago","author_uid":"4020","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 7:47pm","epoch":1387222920,"text":"Forgot to mention that due to the use of Web Audio API only latest Chrome and Firefox nightlies are supported. The "Uncaught TypeError" shouldn't matter. At least for me it didn't. I only had time to test on Chrome."},{"author_name":"timtipgames","author_uid":"15341","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 7:52pm","epoch":1387223220,"text":"Nice idea. I think I hita dead end(?) several times."},{"author_name":"Tsumei","author_uid":"31720","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 7:58pm","epoch":1387223580,"text":"Not loading for me at all sadly :( But I was trying to load it in Opera, so may be the reason."},{"author_name":"CaptainKraft","author_uid":"7617","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:44pm","epoch":1387226340,"text":"I've got a black screen in Chrome on Linux. No sound or visuals."},{"author_name":"Jago","author_uid":"4020","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:50pm","epoch":1387226700,"text":"Well, there shouldn't be any visuals. You don't have vision after all. Use arrow keys to walk around. You should hear footsteps."},{"author_name":"zconnelly13","author_uid":"3372","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:50pm","epoch":1387226700,"text":"Wow, what a cool game! So hard though, haha. What was that hissing supposed to be?"},{"author_name":"Jago","author_uid":"4020","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:52pm","epoch":1387226820,"text":"Don't ask me! ;) I'll leave everything to your own interpretation."},{"author_name":"WojWorks","author_uid":"18921","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:57pm","epoch":1387227120,"text":"Really inventive and interesting to play. I've always wanted to see a "hearing only" game."},{"author_name":"arrogant.gamer","author_uid":"22995","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 9:11pm","epoch":1387227960,"text":"Same, nothing in either browser. Ubuntu."},{"author_name":"ParaPup","author_uid":"18322","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 9:49pm","epoch":1387230240,"text":"Nothing :V I want to hear but it's got no go :V"},{"author_name":"Jago","author_uid":"4020","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 4:53am","epoch":1387255680,"text":"Check the developer console. Do you get error saying AudioContext is not supported? If so, your browser doesn't support Web Audio API. It seems like Ubuntu version of Chrome has problems with this. =("},{"author_name":"darwinpek","author_uid":"15471","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 7:39pm","epoch":1387308840,"text":"I couldn't find the person :( Pretty hard game, but a very interesting concept.\r\rI heard him say "Thank god you're here, I don't know how long I've been stuck down here", or something along those lines."},{"author_name":"Jago","author_uid":"4020","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 7:45pm","epoch":1387309200,"text":"That is actually quite early in the game. =D The logic of this other person is quite fuzzy. Lack of time makes great plots, haha."},{"author_name":"StMatn","author_uid":"18894","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 7:56pm","epoch":1387309860,"text":"Wow, awesome experience!\rThis is best player with closed eyes. This kind of lets me think about, how blind people are experiencing the world.\rReally great work!"},{"author_name":"lilinx","author_uid":"28339","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 8:04pm","epoch":1387310340,"text":"Simple but effective, not knowing what the sounds mean adds a lot to the atmosphere! You can't help wondering what must have happened. I couldn't beat it (and I can't really identify the direction of the sound, but my earphones are very bad). Somehow similar to my own game!"},{"author_name":"Jerre","author_uid":"13020","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 8:06pm","epoch":1387310460,"text":"sadly cannot get it to work, was very curious"},{"author_name":"Jago","author_uid":"4020","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 8:28pm","epoch":1387311780,"text":"@StMatn\rYes, playing eyes closed is my favourite too!\r\r@lilinx\rIt is quite hard to identify the directions. Had no time to tweak the panning system. I think it would be easier with a surround system so that you could hear the front\/back difference. Your game seems great! Definitely going to check it out when I get a chance.\r\r@Jerre\rAny error messages in the console? What browser?"},{"author_name":"oskardevelopment","author_uid":"21518","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 8:51pm","epoch":1387313160,"text":"Game isn't loading for me sadly - I've tried in Chrome, Explorer and Mozilla.\r\rIn regard of my game "You only get one Earth", thanks for playing - I've added control tutorial at the top of my entry, hope it will work!"},{"author_name":"Jago","author_uid":"4020","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 10:05pm","epoch":1387317600,"text":"Any error messages in the console? Thanks, I'll check it out again when I have time. =)"},{"author_name":"NightShadow0","author_uid":"20302","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 5:48am","epoch":1387345380,"text":"Couldn't finish it, stumbled into a dead end. Interesting experience. Maybe you could consider having some noise right at the beginning just so people know it loaded."},{"author_name":"Tanser","author_uid":"27381","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 4:57pm","epoch":1387385520,"text":"Interesting for sure. Good job. :)"},{"author_name":"local minimum","author_uid":"24765","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 8:07pm","epoch":1387396920,"text":"Nice idea, but after exploring the world a bit, being quite systematic, I got the feeling that it was quite the big place. Such that more auditory queues would have been needed to help (e.g. maybe a resonating sound effect depending on the size of the current room)."},{"author_name":"Jago","author_uid":"4020","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 8:39pm","epoch":1387398840,"text":"The map is mostly just corridors, only one or two rooms. But you're right, there should've been more sounds and marker but I didn't have time to do them, unfortunately. =("},{"author_name":"Shigor","author_uid":"5242","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 9:24pm","epoch":1387574340,"text":"No, I can't hear anything (chrome, windows)"},{"author_name":"van noctar","author_uid":"21196","time":"Dec 27, 2013 @ 7:21pm","epoch":1388171760,"text":"Good concept! But it's very hard!"},{"author_name":"Dry Tree","author_uid":"5357","time":"Dec 29, 2013 @ 1:58am","epoch":1388281980,"text":"Nice idea, but I found there were not enough clues to make sense of it so I was just 'guessing in the dark' and although I tried for quite a long time I didn't feel I'd progressed at all so I just became bored and stopped playing. Sorry :\/\r\rGood work though for your first LD especially when you used a lot less than 48 hours!"},{"author_name":"jimmypaulin","author_uid":"6965","time":"Jan 1, 2014 @ 7:28pm","epoch":1388604180,"text":"Love the idea, the sounds were superbly immersive, but it was too hard - felt very lost and not obviously able to locate to sounds \/ when I did nothing happened that helped me feel I was on the right track. Love the concept though!"}],"images":["ld28\/4020-15283a43342b13ab6327fef5401c21d0.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/slyjack0.github.io\/can-you-hear-me\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/SlyJack0\/can-you-hear-me","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"21489","g_author":"4020","g_event":"LD28","g_eventkey":"20","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"21518","g_title":"Can you hear me?","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"846","g_commentcount":"34","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\/4020-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Can you hear me? is a game where get only one of your senses: hearing. You are in a place and there's another person speaking to you. Find that person.\r\n\r\nThe game is just a black screen. Use arrow keys to move around. You hear footsteps when you are moving so that when you don't you know you've hit a wall. TO CLARIFY: When the game starts there is no sound or visuals. Just start walking with arrow keys and you should hear something.\r\n\r\nThe game is best played with headphones on or with surround speakers. I've only tested with crappy headphones.\r\n\r\nThere is a bug in the end that causes one sound to keep playing after the game has finished.\r\n\r\nProbably only works on latest version of Chrome and on Firefox nightly builds! This due to the use of experimental Web Audio API.\r\n\r\nThis is my first time attending LudumDare and it was kind of unplanned. That's why I got started in the evening of day one, went to sleep and finished of today. Nowhere near 48 hours used.","title":"Can you hear me?"}