{"author_link":"\/author\/purefloat\/","author_name":"mobyvb","author_uid":"10171","comments":[{"author_name":"h_double","author_uid":"2948","time":"Aug 25, 2013 @ 11:20pm","epoch":1377472500,"text":"I don't have a clue how to beat the harder levels, but this is a great theme and window dressing for a simple game idea."},{"author_name":"mobyvb","author_uid":"10171","time":"Aug 25, 2013 @ 11:25pm","epoch":1377472800,"text":"Thanks! The last couple require some tricky wall jumps, and I can only beat them like 10% of the time. I didn't want to make it too easy."},{"author_name":"Roan Contreras","author_uid":"2043","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 6:43am","epoch":1377499080,"text":"Simple game yet very hard (The one with a very long file name is nearly impossible for me xD). Good execution with the theme though."},{"author_name":"xhunterko","author_uid":"1960","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 7:00am","epoch":1377500100,"text":"Much too jumpy on the controls for me to find enjoyable. Plus, hitting space caused the page view to jump to the bottome of the page. And then you die. Also, maybe name the files different? They had me worried."},{"author_name":"mobyvb","author_uid":"10171","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 10:21am","epoch":1377512160,"text":"Haha, sorry about that. There's a minor bug where pressing the spacebar will cause the screen to scroll. For now, W can be used instead. Today I'll be fixing it so spacebar scrolling on the page is disabled."},{"author_name":"mobyvb","author_uid":"10171","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 10:34am","epoch":1377512940,"text":"Spacebar doesn't scroll any more. Sorry about that :)"},{"author_name":"matthias_zarzecki","author_uid":"3880","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 2:10pm","epoch":1377525900,"text":"Oh god the insane movement made this fun\r<br\/>\r<br\/>It's not just &quot;oh go over there&quot; it's &quot;Control this out-of-control piece!&quot;"},{"author_name":"gamepopper","author_uid":"21252","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 2:23pm","epoch":1377526680,"text":"Found the premise really funny. Controls are a bit slippery though."},{"author_name":"davidwparker","author_uid":"7737","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 7:02pm","epoch":1377543420,"text":"Holy crap the wall jumps are hard. Well done."},{"author_name":"UntitledQ","author_uid":"12291","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 11:48pm","epoch":1377560580,"text":"Felt a lot like playing Super Meat Boy -- great!\r<br\/>At least the long wall jumps seem a little flatter than in SMB and it took me a few tries to consciously override my habits to hit that goal in the last level, hehe..."},{"author_name":"reostra","author_uid":"27162","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 3:25am","epoch":1377573600,"text":"Love the theme, but extremely floaty controls!  Maybe that's standard for this kind of platformer and I'm just bad at it, though :)"},{"author_name":"funkbob","author_uid":"16980","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 7:56pm","epoch":1377633060,"text":"Nice SMBish platformer, fun, last level was fantastic, nice 10 second theme."},{"author_name":"vvolis","author_uid":"27570","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 1:58pm","epoch":1377697980,"text":"Very neat idea! :) Controls are crazy though and even after finishing SMB this seems really hard."},{"author_name":"dekart","author_uid":"14826","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 5:35pm","epoch":1377711000,"text":"Never thought of file downloading that way :)"},{"author_name":"Endurion","author_uid":"103","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 3:59pm","epoch":1377791640,"text":"Also works fine in IE.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Really tough controls."},{"author_name":"MrBlade","author_uid":"23232","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 7:16pm","epoch":1377803460,"text":"Pretty nice work. I really like the concept, it could have been executed better. Would have liked some sounds. Collision detection seems a bit off. And I could never get to the goal! (I made it to the goal, fell through the floor. -,-) Keep on working."},{"author_name":"zatyka","author_uid":"14357","time":"Aug 31, 2013 @ 4:00am","epoch":1377921300,"text":"That was fun.  Very difficult, but my super meat boy experience prepared me.   It would be very nice with a bit more polish and graphics."},{"author_name":"Delca","author_uid":"24934","time":"Sep 4, 2013 @ 7:46pm","epoch":1378323660,"text":"I liked it! But I will have to retry those harder levels with a better keyboard."},{"author_name":"manuq","author_uid":"26318","time":"Sep 6, 2013 @ 4:49pm","epoch":1378485840,"text":"HAHA! Great humorous and fast-paced platformer!"},{"author_name":"RHY3756547","author_uid":"7339","time":"Sep 6, 2013 @ 5:10pm","epoch":1378487100,"text":"Nice work! A few times the game lagged out (garbage collection?) and I went through a wall, but other than that it was pretty well constructed! My only gripe is that the first jump on the last level seems to be chance (or i'm just not very good at this :P) then the second part... I haven't got there but it doesn't look possible. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>Could use some audio as well! The Web Audio API is the best candidate, but it's only working in chrome right now. Using &lt;audio&gt; elements would also work, though I only use it as a fallback because you can only play one of a sound at a time with it..."},{"author_name":"mobyvb","author_uid":"10171","time":"Sep 6, 2013 @ 5:37pm","epoch":1378488720,"text":"@RHY3756547 Thanks for the advice! The going-through-walls thing has more to do with background applications you're running reducing the framerate. I need to incorporate better collision detection to get around this. At the moment, it's checking for collisions every frame, which is bad for the reasons you already know of. I agree about the first jump on the last level (and the second part requires a bit of trial and error as well), but the end is the easiest part."},{"author_name":"ChrisGaudino","author_uid":"21246","time":"Sep 6, 2013 @ 5:56pm","epoch":1378489860,"text":"Cool idea.  Pretty hard, but I had fun with it."},{"author_name":"bitowl","author_uid":"25615","time":"Sep 6, 2013 @ 6:32pm","epoch":1378492020,"text":"Pretty hard game, but I really love the &quot;backstory&quot;.\r<br\/>I finally got an idea of how to get through the last one, but it's impossible to me :D"},{"author_name":"Frozen Fractal","author_uid":"7882","time":"Sep 6, 2013 @ 7:55pm","epoch":1378497000,"text":"Blitzplatformer! Well done :D"},{"author_name":"archaeometrician","author_uid":"27214","time":"Sep 6, 2013 @ 8:14pm","epoch":1378498140,"text":"Oh my, it's so hard !! I have completed the 4 first level but that last one, impossible ;) Very hard, really fun game ! Good job!"},{"author_name":"loxo","author_uid":"23206","time":"Sep 8, 2013 @ 5:58pm","epoch":1378662780,"text":"Nice story and game concept. It's rather hard, but fun to play. Some audio and fixed collision detection would be nice."},{"author_name":"Morusque","author_uid":"13744","time":"Sep 9, 2013 @ 10:40pm","epoch":1378766100,"text":"Fun idea, challenging levels, smooth controls (people seem to complain about it but they seem ok to me). spotted the xkcd reference."},{"author_name":"wbobeirne","author_uid":"5193","time":"Sep 16, 2013 @ 1:40am","epoch":1379295300,"text":"Cute little platformer, the difficulty curve was kind of frustrating though."},{"author_name":"motty","author_uid":"25335","time":"Sep 16, 2013 @ 2:08am","epoch":1379296980,"text":"Hilarious take on the theme. Manages to mix being great fun with being impossibly hard, which is not an easy trick. Impressive stuff."},{"author_name":"JonathanG","author_uid":"11515","time":"Sep 16, 2013 @ 5:24pm","epoch":1379351940,"text":"It's good, it's just really hard. Maybe that's the point :P"}],"images":["ld27\/10171-2afebe2bf555f56a3881d50fc687ca27.jpg","ld27\/10171-e17dfb0ddb108c63898beb4932c1867d.jpg","ld27\/10171-02bf2cdfd05df7e1c8fc9be66d61bcff.jpg","ld27\/10171-c2796fccaf97df442bc0aef9ed92af47.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/wakapachow.com\/ludum-dare-27\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/mobyvb\/ludum-dare-27\/","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"23887","g_author":"10171","g_event":"LD27","g_eventkey":"18","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"23917","g_title":"Download Simulator 2013","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"784","g_commentcount":"30","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\/\/273708\/10171-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/10171-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/10171-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/10171-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"(pretend to) Download five ~amazing~ files with Download Simulator 2013! Have you ever wondered why sometimes downloads stop partway through? It doesn't matter, because you will after playing this game. It's based 100% on fact, and I should know, being a professional download-person-guy.\r\n\r\n<seriously>\r\nThis is a simple platformer kind of like Super Meat Boy where the goal is to get across the level before the loading bar catches up to you.\r\n\r\n***I've been told by several different people that the download names are a bit suspicious. To clarify: this game does NOT actually download anything to your computer. The filenames are jokes.\r\n\r\nIt uses the HTML5 Canvas, so no download is necessary. Just go to the link and play. If for some reason the website isn't working or you want a local copy, download the source from the git repository linked. Here's the direct link to the zip file for the lazy: https:\/\/github.com\/mobyvb\/ludum-dare-27\/archive\/master.zip\r\n<\/seriously>\r\n\r\nBUGFIXES\/PORTS AFTER DATE:\r\nPrevent spacebar from scrolling page (if page is scrollable): \r\nhttps:\/\/github.com\/mobyvb\/ludum-dare-27\/commit\/ae50f8800539377720848486dbeda6a8c07eac2e\r\nPort game to other browsers, including earlier versions of Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari:\r\nhttps:\/\/github.com\/mobyvb\/ludum-dare-27\/commit\/4c86d40723ac2b9f5bc80cbc6c58b3ab4f0a1f48","title":"Download Simulator 2013"}