{"author_link":"\/author\/bufbot\/","author_name":"bufbot","author_uid":"26088","comments":[{"author_name":"CogentInvalid","author_uid":"22583","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 2:19am","epoch":1377483240,"text":"The sound when the race ends is a little too loud, but overall a good game."},{"author_name":"Rabbits...","author_uid":"11321","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 2:32am","epoch":1377484020,"text":"I didn't have a second player, but it was entertaining to play myself."},{"author_name":"OldPeculier","author_uid":"25979","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 2:51am","epoch":1377485160,"text":"Totally great concept and theme. Not much fun for one player though."},{"author_name":"Waave","author_uid":"21500","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 2:52am","epoch":1377485220,"text":"The runners' graphics are neat."},{"author_name":"dmastergames","author_uid":"27437","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 2:53am","epoch":1377485280,"text":"Good Game"},{"author_name":"Snail_Man","author_uid":"11050","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 2:54am","epoch":1377485340,"text":"Not bad, although I'm not entirely sure I understood it. \r<br\/>Still, a fun party game."},{"author_name":"flamecow","author_uid":"27477","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 2:55am","epoch":1377485400,"text":"There's not much to dislike with this game. Simple and enjoyable. The one thing that I do dislike is that loud sound at the end. Kinda spooked me!"},{"author_name":"Angrycrow","author_uid":"5288","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 2:56am","epoch":1377485460,"text":"I didn't have another person to play with! Aww."},{"author_name":"Beerman","author_uid":"5206","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 3:06am","epoch":1377486060,"text":"Single player experience is a bit limited, but I can see it being a fun game to play with a group of friends."},{"author_name":"Steve","author_uid":"26369","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 3:32am","epoch":1377487620,"text":"Needs AI runners! Cool though. &quot;Loser&quot; sound is a little grating."},{"author_name":"L0gicaL1nsanity","author_uid":"25199","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 3:58am","epoch":1377489180,"text":"Interesting...was a lot more fun multiplayer than single player. I feel it would be good to add bots or something"},{"author_name":"Ramon Imbao","author_uid":"25180","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 3:59am","epoch":1377489240,"text":"Fun!"},{"author_name":"isharacomix","author_uid":"23902","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:15am","epoch":1377490200,"text":"It would probably be more fun if I was playing with others, but it's still an awesome game! The background details are a nice touch, too. :)"},{"author_name":"Tetha","author_uid":"4995","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:20am","epoch":1377490500,"text":"The single player experience is indeed rather limited, and I'm a bit confused why there is such a slowdown (for me) in the middle of the race. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>But overall, well done."},{"author_name":"Empyrealhell","author_uid":"26650","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:31am","epoch":1377491160,"text":"This is about as simple as it gets. Not a lot going on here, so not much to rate, really. The graphics lacked cohesion, there were sprites of different resolutions which really broke up the feel. I would have liked to see more from it, maybe power ups or lane changing, anything to make it more than just a button tapper."},{"author_name":"Jishenaz","author_uid":"26581","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:46am","epoch":1377492060,"text":"I played single-player, but I can tell that the multiplayer would be great. This game exercises my hand!"},{"author_name":"Tork","author_uid":"24727","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 5:02am","epoch":1377493020,"text":"Like the others say, its not so fun playing solo but the idea is good."},{"author_name":"SteveSalmond","author_uid":"24965","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 5:35am","epoch":1377495000,"text":"Pretty cool - I think I would need to play with a friend or two to get the full experience though. Nice one! :)"},{"author_name":"Reaperguy","author_uid":"25597","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 8:15am","epoch":1377504600,"text":"Well, alone it's boring, but with more players it's quite good"},{"author_name":"bufbot","author_uid":"26088","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 11:12am","epoch":1377515220,"text":"I corrected the sound, hope it'll be good for you guys, thanks for commenting as it was our first game ever we are glad that some of you liked it !"},{"author_name":"Kaldrick","author_uid":"25225","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 11:19am","epoch":1377515640,"text":"Fun little idea, reminds me of old NES games ;)"},{"author_name":"matthias_zarzecki","author_uid":"3880","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 12:49pm","epoch":1377521040,"text":"Nice faux 3d-models!"},{"author_name":"Yaffare","author_uid":"27546","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 1:49pm","epoch":1377524640,"text":"Thanks for your feedback, it's really nice. We probably are going to get back on it to finish and add some features, like powers up."},{"author_name":"superfoonly","author_uid":"26743","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 2:37pm","epoch":1377527520,"text":"it felt like hitting the buttons was not influencing the game, the sprites were just slowly moving across the screen on their own"},{"author_name":"BradleySmith","author_uid":"14944","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 3:16pm","epoch":1377529860,"text":"Very enjoyable. :)"},{"author_name":"ratalaika","author_uid":"25607","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:22pm","epoch":1377533820,"text":"good job"},{"author_name":"SpiralCodeStudio","author_uid":"27454","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 5:08pm","epoch":1377536580,"text":"Haha, fun!"},{"author_name":"zedutchgandalf","author_uid":"18216","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 7:22pm","epoch":1377544620,"text":"The concept and graphics are nice, but this could really do with some kind of AI so that there are always 4 runners :) (even a very basic one would be nice)"},{"author_name":"gikdew","author_uid":"18806","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 7:36pm","epoch":1377545460,"text":"Go runners, Go! REally enjoy it!"},{"author_name":"tripleVisionGames","author_uid":"12495","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 7:54pm","epoch":1377546540,"text":"I used to love games like this on my Spectrum. Aaaah those were the days. Anyway, well executed and nice graphics too"},{"author_name":"aquilicoco","author_uid":"22746","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 9:01pm","epoch":1377550560,"text":"nice game"},{"author_name":"Diogo Muller","author_uid":"23705","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 11:37pm","epoch":1377559920,"text":"It's certanly a multiplayer-only game. Pretty fun to play with someone else, needs AI players for single player."},{"author_name":"davisan","author_uid":"10464","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 2:49am","epoch":1377571440,"text":"Good game! I miss those old sport games! :D An IA would be great too!"},{"author_name":"megashroom","author_uid":"24770","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 4:14am","epoch":1377576540,"text":"Heh, nice game.\r<br\/>It would be cool to have some AI racing with you to illustrate the concept, but it was overall fun and visually appealing."},{"author_name":"patrickgh3","author_uid":"14266","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 4:37am","epoch":1377577920,"text":"I bet this would be a lot of fun with a large group!"},{"author_name":"Anachron","author_uid":"27481","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 6:51am","epoch":1377585960,"text":"Nice sense of humour, it would great to see some AI!"},{"author_name":"Lightmare Studio","author_uid":"24728","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 7:59am","epoch":1377590040,"text":"A decent game! :D"},{"author_name":"FireZenk","author_uid":"27429","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 8:33am","epoch":1377592080,"text":"The multiplayer on 1 keyboard is nice"},{"author_name":"udo","author_uid":"6821","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 9:06am","epoch":1377594060,"text":"I played three people at once - I won! :-D\r<br\/>That was a fun retro experience, reminds me of the Olympics games for C64"},{"author_name":"infernet89","author_uid":"14271","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 9:29am","epoch":1377595440,"text":"Really nice addition to racing game, i loved the graphics of background!"},{"author_name":"Nerlin","author_uid":"26281","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 11:09am","epoch":1377601440,"text":"Interesting concept. But i don't understand controls, what should i press?\r<br\/>Still cool game."},{"author_name":"bufbot","author_uid":"26088","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 11:35am","epoch":1377603000,"text":"@Nerlin it depends on the numbers of players, you have to press one touch then the second one, by default it's : arrow left + arrow right for player 1, A + B for player 2, Y + U for player 3, F + G for player 4. We didn't had time to include possibility to change the controls :("},{"author_name":"RetroEpic","author_uid":"20879","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 1:41pm","epoch":1377610560,"text":"not very fun single player, I think it would be better if there were different rhythms you had to tap instead of just left right the whole time. maybe the first 10 meters it's lr then it's llrr, then llrllrr something like that could be more interesting"},{"author_name":"bufbot","author_uid":"26088","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 1:44pm","epoch":1377610740,"text":"@RetroEpic yeah that's true that we could have done better on that side, and even add AI, but the good thing is that we learned a lot for our very first game from scratch and we plan to maybe finish it to just learn even more. Thanks for the feebacks !"},{"author_name":"Xgor","author_uid":"18652","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 6:55pm","epoch":1377629400,"text":"Really needs a more thought out single player. Could be fun with a group probably."},{"author_name":"dancingflame","author_uid":"24718","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 7:28pm","epoch":1377631380,"text":"Single player mode needs more polish, but overall a nicely crafted game :)"},{"author_name":"fgielow","author_uid":"26275","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 8:50pm","epoch":1377636300,"text":"The idea it self needed more work. The concept is good, but i think you should work more in the game experience. but congratulations for ending the game."},{"author_name":"flod","author_uid":"15946","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 9:39pm","epoch":1377639240,"text":"reminds me on california games! ohhh the good old times! +1 for the multiplayer feature!"},{"author_name":"panurge","author_uid":"21166","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 11:01pm","epoch":1377644160,"text":"Cute nostalgic style and fun simple gameplay. Just needs some computer controlled runners. Good work!"},{"author_name":"namrog84","author_uid":"4313","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 11:26pm","epoch":1377645660,"text":"Was it just the 1 sport?  not really the Olympics if just a sprinting game?"},{"author_name":"Ailin","author_uid":"25767","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 10:09am","epoch":1377684240,"text":"Fun game, very &quot;retro&quot;."},{"author_name":"xrm0","author_uid":"25867","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 11:21am","epoch":1377688560,"text":"In single player it's not much fun and I (maybe it's me) find that in certain point in the race, the runner slows down."},{"author_name":"Sebastian","author_uid":"20818","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 3:13pm","epoch":1377702480,"text":"This looks like it would be a lot of fun with a bunch of friends!"},{"author_name":"Xatulu","author_uid":"21938","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 6:08am","epoch":1377756180,"text":"What is there to say about that, didn't dislike anything, was fun and good!"},{"author_name":"kristof","author_uid":"11354","time":"Aug 30, 2013 @ 10:55pm","epoch":1377903000,"text":"Simple, but nice little game. Was fun to play with two hands. My right hand won :D"},{"author_name":"TobiasW","author_uid":"2587","time":"Aug 31, 2013 @ 3:10pm","epoch":1377961500,"text":"Interesting take on the theme! You might've implemented some computer enemies - like most people here, I play and rate the games alone."},{"author_name":"Diptoman","author_uid":"25325","time":"Aug 31, 2013 @ 5:36pm","epoch":1377970260,"text":"I like the graphics for the game. I tried out 4 player mode just to check if there were different sprites for all of them and was pleasantly surprised. :)\r<br\/>This is not as fun in single player though, but I can imagine this being one of the mini games in a party game collection.\r<br\/>Good job!"},{"author_name":"Pinktreeleaf","author_uid":"27800","time":"Aug 31, 2013 @ 5:54pm","epoch":1377971340,"text":"simple, but congrats on making a multiplayer game in a jam, also the graphics emulate nes graphics beautifully."},{"author_name":"GeorgeBroussard","author_uid":"8631","time":"Aug 31, 2013 @ 9:51pm","epoch":1377985560,"text":"Nice effort. Not fun playing solo, really."},{"author_name":"jprogman","author_uid":"15225","time":"Sep 9, 2013 @ 11:08pm","epoch":1378767780,"text":"The controls seems to become unresponsive as I continue to play the game. I'm not sure if that's just me. Nice little concept you got."},{"author_name":"Yaffare","author_uid":"27546","time":"Sep 13, 2013 @ 10:16pm","epoch":1379110260,"text":"@Jprogman No I thing you are right. We missed something about the resetting of the variables."},{"author_name":"Ossi","author_uid":"26674","time":"Sep 16, 2013 @ 4:52am","epoch":1379306820,"text":"Simple and neat retro art style. Good job!"},{"author_name":"porglezomp","author_uid":"21051","time":"Sep 16, 2013 @ 11:50pm","epoch":1379375100,"text":"The single player version is practically pointless, but playing against myself was a bit more interesting, I don't really like button spammers though."}],"images":["ld27\/26088-48cc3a3f687741d08aeb73d7019d66c7.jpg","ld27\/26088-3cd545b1b206b2e7abe200ae8a536122.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/vtv57xt02gjltfb\/BL_rq4_Lmo","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/fyyp3zuinxfdgev\/wxZ8CXPKU3","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/y5hvv5n480nznze\/8MLzSWVUKJ","text":"Linux"},{"url":"http:\/\/bufbot.fr\/Ludum_dare_27\/","text":"Web"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"24477","g_author":"26088","g_event":"LD27","g_eventkey":"18","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"24507","g_title":"Summer Death Olympics","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"506","g_commentcount":"63","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\/26088-shot0.JPG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/26088-shot1.JPG-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"10 seconds before you die !\r\n\r\nMultiplayer game with keyboard but you can of course use any key mapper you want.\r\n\r\nEach 10 seconds the last sprinter explode !\r\n\r\nOur twitter account: @Bufbot @Yaffare","title":"Summer Death Olympics"}