One Hot Potato by Tomski

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made by Tomski for LD28 (JAM)
Here is our 4 way platformer/brawler "One Hot Potato".

The goal is to kill the other players before they get you. There is only one weapon, the potato.

If you hold onto it, it will deal more damage when you throw it, but it will start to get hot and damage you if you hold it for too long.

We have a full Client and server for network play, however the simulations running on server and client got out of sync far too quickly, so even though we got it to a functioning state, we most likely wont be putting up servers as the gameplay over the net is not up to scratch.

Select Local play, and then choose the player count, then you can alter between input and or if you want players to be controlled by the CPU

I cant wait to play this as a drinking game, local multiplayer really is great. If you dont have anyone round, you can always try battling against the cpu, not too smart but fun anyway.

We had a lot of fun making this, shame about the multiplayer over the net, but all in all we are pretty happy with the result :)

360 Controller support and probably other similar controllers that we dont have to test!

Controls:

A - Move Left
D - Move Right
Space - Jump
Mouse click and move, aim and fire the potato
Hold onto the potato for longer to heat it up for extra damage

Bindings for 360 controller:
Left thumbstick - movement
Right Trigger - fire potato
Right thumbstick - aim

Note: This is a multiplayer game!

Contributors:

Steve Maxim
Tom Wojciechowski
Oscar Stretton
Justin Shapcott

Coded in Java xD
Libraries used:
Libgdx
Spine
Kryonet
Kryo
Tiled
Universal Tween Engine


Attributes:
Font http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/alfa-slab
Music "River Valley Breakdown" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Ratings

Coolness 82% 2
Overall(Jam) 3.67 68
Audio(Jam) 3.81 35
Fun(Jam) 3.72 38
Graphics(Jam) 3.82 130
Humor(Jam) 3.46 60
Innovation(Jam) 3.10 184
Mood(Jam) 3.36 124
Theme(Jam) 3.69 37

Feedback

GuginoGaming
17. Dec 2013 路 02:44 UTC
Where's the download?
@TeddyNashor
17. Dec 2013 路 02:47 UTC
haha, yea you need a way to play :)
馃帳 Tomski
17. Dec 2013 路 02:47 UTC
Where has it gone!?
馃帳 Tomski
17. Dec 2013 路 02:49 UTC
Should be fixed now, sorry about that :)
TFJO
17. Dec 2013 路 02:50 UTC
Maybe a last-minute bugfix?
TFJO
17. Dec 2013 路 02:50 UTC
Yep, it's here now!
glovecat
17. Dec 2013 路 03:01 UTC
Excellent and fun haha, and the song is amazing
馃帳 Tomski
17. Dec 2013 路 03:04 UTC
Thanks glovecat!
lekochen
17. Dec 2013 路 03:08 UTC
TowerFall with potato!
MagnesiumNinja
17. Dec 2013 路 03:19 UTC
Hehe, despite the lag, that was pretty fun. Well done guys!
angela
17. Dec 2013 路 03:24 UTC
Cute and fun game with a unique take on the theme. I enjoyed the trail left behind by speeding potato.
Toby Simone
17. Dec 2013 路 03:25 UTC
How you got this done in 72 hours, I'll never know!
馃帳 Tomski
17. Dec 2013 路 03:39 UTC
Haha! Multiplayer is actually a lot more functional than we first thought, might extend this after LD.

People need to stop holding onto the potato when they are dead though :P
TaleLore
17. Dec 2013 路 04:03 UTC
Pretty cool.
WojWorks
17. Dec 2013 路 04:05 UTC
The game does indeed look like it would be quite the fun multiplayer game, but there is no mention of the controls anywhere, not in your post and not in the README. I spent about a half hour figuring out you aim and click with the mouse to throw the potato.

Aside from this, the potato doesn't do enough damage in my opinion, kinda hard to get to the computer and throw in time to make it worth it really

Also, in one of my game the potato got stuck in the wall.

That all aside, great game though, high quality, especially if you were worrying about multiplayer as well, even if it didn't work that way in the end.
馃帳 Tomski
17. Dec 2013 路 04:15 UTC
Ill add controls to the description, just one of those things that slips on little sleep, sorry!

The damage is up to 60% depending on how long you hold it for, networking took a big chunk of time to sort out, so there are a bunch of bugs that probably would have been ironed out if we hadn't gone for it.

Thanks for the feedback!
Scipio Xaos
17. Dec 2013 路 04:26 UTC
"OH NO!"
Pretty cool, though the window was too big to display on my screen all at once, but I managed to play it, still. Pretty cool. :3
馃帳 Tomski
17. Dec 2013 路 04:27 UTC
Ah, our bad. Hopefully it didn't ruin it too much!
nevint
17. Dec 2013 路 13:51 UTC
Really fun! Best of luck with the voting Tom <3
reecpj
17. Dec 2013 路 23:10 UTC
This game is too good! Genuinely, it's suspiciously good..
delmadan
18. Dec 2013 路 04:29 UTC
Love it! great game guys!
TomboFry
18. Dec 2013 路 20:16 UTC
Yet another multiplayer game I've found this Ludum Dare, which is awesome! Surprisingly a lot of fun to play, even if there are a couple of bugs. Shame you couldn't get network MP working to a standard you were happy with :/
Mine too is local multiplayer ;)
zkenshin
18. Dec 2013 路 20:49 UTC
Neat idea, good job (:
Christian S.
18. Dec 2013 路 21:21 UTC
Did not start for me (OS X Mavericks). The screenshots look beautiful, though!
Denis Chakarov
18. Dec 2013 路 21:24 UTC
Nice idea. Towerfall fans aren't we? :D
Great game done in no time!
javifugitivo
19. Dec 2013 路 01:07 UTC
The song is very cool! Thats funny!
porglezomp
19. Dec 2013 路 01:09 UTC
Launches to a black screen and then quits with no error messages here on OS X Lion.
馃帳 Tomski
19. Dec 2013 路 02:41 UTC
Ok, uploaded a new jar, we haven't got anything running OS X that we can test on :(
AMSmirnov
19. Dec 2013 路 06:35 UTC
Good game. I like this graphic, and sound is wonderful, and so much fun. Thank you.
PaperBlurt
19. Dec 2013 路 09:12 UTC
Fun and simple!
nice going..

woop!
BadPaul34
19. Dec 2013 路 20:10 UTC
Cute game, graphics are amazing. We enjoyed sound too !

There is however a lack of feedback, we didn't understand what we had to do, and didn't seen the "hot potato" mechanic. Maybe a lack of time, too bad, the overall is still nice.
angelk
20. Dec 2013 路 04:51 UTC
Very cute, I was surprised at how much you got done in that amount of time! I played vs CPU, I'll have to play again vs 4 friends; I've got 4 controllers.
Hyde Wyvern
20. Dec 2013 路 05:03 UTC
WOAAAAA I Love bluegrass music and the main theme amazed me ^^ perfect perfect! And the multi-player and all of that is so much fun :D I would love playing this with a group of friends :D
馃帳 Tomski
20. Dec 2013 路 05:03 UTC
Please do! Let us know how it goes :)
NiceAlexanderAS
21. Dec 2013 路 01:57 UTC
hahahahah cute game here very funny and fun, i couldn't play with anybody but as far as i can see the game looks fun if you play with others. I love the animation and how the game looks! Also the happy music was nice! Excellent work! :D
Dry Tree
21. Dec 2013 路 13:15 UTC
Very nice game. A lot of fun, great graphics & audio and good use of the theme too. Well polished overall :)
Xanjos
22. Dec 2013 路 16:41 UTC
Really fun take on the theme (a multiplayer deathmatch game where only one player actually has the weapon) and I loved how holding onto a literally hot potato burns down your health but makes your throw do extra damage. I did find a small bug where after finishing a game and starting a new one, the fading to red transition still occurs though.
MrBlade
24. Dec 2013 路 20:31 UTC
The handling on the player is a bit slow. Nice sounds, great graphics.
Jezzamon
02. Jan 2014 路 22:32 UTC
This game was fun to play! Although this happened: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2963538/glitch.jpg