{"author_link":"\/author\/tomski\/","author_name":"Tomski","author_uid":"30523","comments":[{"author_name":"GuginoGaming","author_uid":"30084","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 2:49am","epoch":1387248240,"text":"Where's the download?"},{"author_name":"@TeddyNashor","author_uid":"24963","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 2:52am","epoch":1387248420,"text":"haha, yea you need a way to play :)"},{"author_name":"Tomski","author_uid":"30523","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 2:52am","epoch":1387248420,"text":"Where has it gone!?"},{"author_name":"Tomski","author_uid":"30523","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 2:54am","epoch":1387248540,"text":"Should be fixed now, sorry about that :)"},{"author_name":"TFJO","author_uid":"30574","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 2:55am","epoch":1387248600,"text":"Maybe a last-minute bugfix?"},{"author_name":"TFJO","author_uid":"30574","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 2:55am","epoch":1387248600,"text":"Yep, it's here now!"},{"author_name":"glovecat","author_uid":"28794","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 3:06am","epoch":1387249260,"text":"Excellent and fun haha, and the song is amazing"},{"author_name":"Tomski","author_uid":"30523","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 3:09am","epoch":1387249440,"text":"Thanks glovecat!"},{"author_name":"lekochen","author_uid":"12928","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 3:13am","epoch":1387249680,"text":"TowerFall with potato!"},{"author_name":"MagnesiumNinja","author_uid":"3595","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 3:24am","epoch":1387250340,"text":"Hehe, despite the lag, that was pretty fun. Well done guys!"},{"author_name":"angela","author_uid":"17857","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 3:29am","epoch":1387250640,"text":"Cute and fun game with a unique take on the theme. I enjoyed the trail left behind by speeding potato."},{"author_name":"Toby Simone","author_uid":"29035","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 3:30am","epoch":1387250700,"text":"How you got this done in 72 hours, I'll never know!"},{"author_name":"Tomski","author_uid":"30523","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 3:44am","epoch":1387251540,"text":"Haha! Multiplayer is actually a lot more functional than we first thought, might extend this after LD.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>People need to stop holding onto the potato when they are dead though :P"},{"author_name":"TaleLore","author_uid":"21654","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 4:08am","epoch":1387252980,"text":"Pretty cool."},{"author_name":"WojWorks","author_uid":"18921","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 4:10am","epoch":1387253100,"text":"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.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>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\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Also, in one of my game the potato got stuck in the wall.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>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."},{"author_name":"Tomski","author_uid":"30523","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 4:20am","epoch":1387253700,"text":"Ill add controls to the description, just one of those things that slips on little sleep, sorry!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>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.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Thanks for the feedback!"},{"author_name":"Scipio Xaos","author_uid":"7742","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 4:31am","epoch":1387254360,"text":"&quot;OH NO!&quot;\r<br\/>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"},{"author_name":"Tomski","author_uid":"30523","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 4:32am","epoch":1387254420,"text":"Ah, our bad. Hopefully it didn't ruin it too much!"},{"author_name":"nevint","author_uid":"32273","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 1:56pm","epoch":1387288260,"text":"Really fun! Best of luck with the voting Tom &lt;3"},{"author_name":"reecpj","author_uid":"31762","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 11:15pm","epoch":1387321800,"text":"This game is too good! Genuinely, it's suspiciously good.."},{"author_name":"delmadan","author_uid":"32345","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 4:34am","epoch":1387340940,"text":"Love it! great game guys!"},{"author_name":"TomboFry","author_uid":"20850","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 8:21pm","epoch":1387397760,"text":"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 :\/\r<br\/>Mine too is local multiplayer ;)"},{"author_name":"zkenshin","author_uid":"12839","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 8:54pm","epoch":1387399740,"text":"Neat idea, good job (:"},{"author_name":"Christian S.","author_uid":"12945","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 9:26pm","epoch":1387401660,"text":"Did not start for me (OS X Mavericks). The screenshots look beautiful, though!"},{"author_name":"Denis Chakarov","author_uid":"26461","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 9:29pm","epoch":1387401840,"text":"Nice idea. Towerfall fans aren't we? :D\r<br\/>Great game done in no time!"},{"author_name":"javifugitivo","author_uid":"25708","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 1:12am","epoch":1387415220,"text":"The song is very cool! Thats funny!"},{"author_name":"porglezomp","author_uid":"21051","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 1:14am","epoch":1387415340,"text":"Launches to a black screen and then quits with no error messages here on OS X Lion."},{"author_name":"Tomski","author_uid":"30523","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 2:46am","epoch":1387420860,"text":"Ok, uploaded a new jar, we haven't got anything running OS X that we can test on :("},{"author_name":"AMSmirnov","author_uid":"11028","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 6:40am","epoch":1387434900,"text":"Good game. I like this graphic, and sound is wonderful, and so much fun. Thank you."},{"author_name":"PaperBlurt","author_uid":"26530","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 9:17am","epoch":1387444320,"text":"Fun and simple!\r<br\/>nice going..\r<br\/>\r<br\/>woop!"},{"author_name":"BadPaul34","author_uid":"22166","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 8:15pm","epoch":1387483800,"text":"Cute game, graphics are amazing. We enjoyed sound too !\r<br\/>\r<br\/>There is however a lack of feedback, we didn't understand what we had to do, and didn't seen the &quot;hot potato&quot; mechanic. Maybe a lack of time, too bad, the overall is still nice."},{"author_name":"angelk","author_uid":"12262","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 4:56am","epoch":1387515060,"text":"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."},{"author_name":"Hyde Wyvern","author_uid":"17690","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 5:08am","epoch":1387515780,"text":"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"},{"author_name":"Tomski","author_uid":"30523","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 5:08am","epoch":1387515780,"text":"Please do! Let us know how it goes :)"},{"author_name":"NiceAlexanderAS","author_uid":"7045","time":"Dec 21, 2013 @ 2:02am","epoch":1387591020,"text":"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"},{"author_name":"Dry Tree","author_uid":"5357","time":"Dec 21, 2013 @ 1:20pm","epoch":1387631700,"text":"Very nice game. A lot of fun, great graphics &amp; audio and good use of the theme too. Well polished overall :)"},{"author_name":"Xanjos","author_uid":"21201","time":"Dec 22, 2013 @ 4:46pm","epoch":1387730460,"text":"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."},{"author_name":"MrBlade","author_uid":"23232","time":"Dec 24, 2013 @ 8:36pm","epoch":1387917060,"text":"The handling on the player is a bit slow. Nice sounds, great graphics."},{"author_name":"Jezzamon","author_uid":"10217","time":"Jan 2, 2014 @ 10:37pm","epoch":1388701920,"text":"This game was fun to play! Although this happened: https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/2963538\/glitch.jpg"}],"images":["ld28\/30523-497a7779ffbee34fa6aa82aee72a84bd.jpg","ld28\/30523-a58892dde402318e20ab980289bddb8c.jpg","ld28\/30523-9251d9c51e0d16314029806651710021.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/mobidevelop.com\/uploads\/potato.jar","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/mobidevelop.com\/uploads\/potato.jar","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"http:\/\/mobidevelop.com\/uploads\/potato.jar","text":"Linux"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"22384","g_author":"30523","g_event":"LD28","g_eventkey":"20","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"22414","g_title":"One Hot Potato","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"68","g_commentcount":"39","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\/30523-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/30523-shot1.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/30523-shot2.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Here is our 4 way platformer\/brawler \"One Hot Potato\".\r\n\r\nThe goal is to kill the other players before they get you. There is only one weapon, the potato.\r\n\r\nIf 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.\r\n\r\nWe 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.\r\n\r\nSelect 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\r\n\r\nI 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.\r\n\r\nWe 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 :)\r\n\r\n360 Controller support and probably other similar controllers that we dont have to test!\r\n\r\nControls:\r\n\r\nA - Move Left\r\nD - Move Right\r\nSpace - Jump\r\nMouse click and move, aim and fire the potato\r\nHold onto the potato for longer to heat it up for extra damage\r\n\r\nBindings for 360 controller:\r\nLeft thumbstick - movement\r\nRight Trigger - fire potato\r\nRight thumbstick - aim\r\n\r\nNote: This is a multiplayer game!\r\n\r\nContributors: \r\n\r\nSteve Maxim\r\nTom Wojciechowski\r\nOscar Stretton\r\nJustin Shapcott\r\n\r\nCoded in Java xD\r\nLibraries used:\r\nLibgdx\r\nSpine\r\nKryonet\r\nKryo\r\nTiled\r\nUniversal Tween Engine\r\n\r\n\r\nAttributes:\r\nFont http:\/\/www.fontsquirrel.com\/fonts\/alfa-slab\r\nMusic \"River Valley Breakdown\" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)\r\nLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0\r\nhttp:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\/\r\n","title":"One Hot Potato"}