Second Base by BeardoGames

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made by BeardoGames for LD27 (JAM)
Hey all! Here at Beardo Games we've got all kinds of weird ideas that we try and wrangle into game form. "Second Base" is one that we've had a ton of fun working on, from late Friday brainstorming over plenty of beer to a backache-inducing Saturday through Monday spent in front of our respective laptops to bring this game from our brains to your computer. We're Miles (artist/musician) and Chris (programmer), and this was our first Ludum Dare. We hope you like our game!

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Your goal is to get to 10 Second Bases with the women you meet at the ten locations of the game. To get to second base you first have to succeed at first base, so let the kissing begin!

Controls:
Click to select a photo, then click on it again to start the level.

Press Left arrow (or A) to extend your tongue. If your tongue's not out, you're not kissing, and if you're not kissing you're losing point each second.

Press Up or Down arrows (or W and S) to move your tongue up or down, or just leave it be to match how she's kissing (HINT: the more you match what she does, the better you're doing in the game).

Press Space to do a SUPER TONGUE KISS, but beware: do it too long and she'll get sick of it.

Succeed at kissing for long enough and you make it to SECOND BASE!!!

Can't quite get the hang of it? That's too bad, cause if too much time passes, she'll get tired of your lousy kissing skills and you'll get dumped back out to the level select screen.

(DEVELOPER'S NOTES: there's still a bit left that we wanted to include but NO TIME. For instance, you can play levels over and over, there's no real fail screen, no nasty tongue and mouth sound effects, and so on. All of that's coming in the future though!)

UPDATE: New download links! Our hosting for the old location was having some major sketchiness that should now be fixed. Enjoy!

Ratings

Coolness 61% 3
Overall(Jam) 2.94 369
Audio(Jam) 2.76 313
Fun(Jam) 2.68 386
Graphics(Jam) 3.29 283
Humor(Jam) 3.82 34
Innovation(Jam) 3.71 48
Mood(Jam) 3.06 242
Theme(Jam) 3.00 319

Feedback

BenWhi
27. Aug 2013 路 02:58 UTC
Haha! Really liked this one! Some of the girls has tongues that moved all over the place, but I got Neil Young to seduce most of 'em!
馃帳 BeardoGames
27. Aug 2013 路 03:53 UTC
Har har, really glad you liked it!
Travis Irby
27. Aug 2013 路 04:11 UTC
Hilarious! I feel more confident in my kissin skills now. Nice work :D
kebabskal
27. Aug 2013 路 21:18 UTC
Haha! Great idea. Love that it's not a time based thingie :)
gene-z
27. Aug 2013 路 21:20 UTC
Crazy
infinitedog
27. Aug 2013 路 21:44 UTC
Your game is kinda weird XD. I love how you interpreted the theme haha
Danex317
27. Aug 2013 路 21:45 UTC
Did this bring your website down? I am getting a server not found error.
Reverend Speed
27. Aug 2013 路 21:54 UTC
LOVED the look of this, thought the idea was brilliant but... very little feedback, on performance, that I could see. Now, hey, sometime's that's a challenge in real life, but games could do with a more obvious difficulty curve. =)

Man. That drool. The writhing. It's hilarious and repugnant and strangely arousing. Great work!
馃帳 BeardoGames
27. Aug 2013 路 22:17 UTC
Hey everybody! Looks like the site is down at the moment and I'm away from my computer. I should be able to get it reported elsewhere in just a bit!
馃帳 BeardoGames
27. Aug 2013 路 23:53 UTC
Aha, looks like it's back up now!
馃帳 BeardoGames
28. Aug 2013 路 00:54 UTC
Aaaaand the download is fixed. Moved it to more reliable location. Have fun!
Just_delete_it
28. Aug 2013 路 02:32 UTC
I couldn't stop laughing. Amazing job! Can we be best friends?
馃帳 BeardoGames
28. Aug 2013 路 03:33 UTC
Kindred spirits! Your game is first on my list for tomorrow morning!
TammiLion
28. Aug 2013 路 19:11 UTC
You've got guts in a positive way ^^
PaperBlurt
28. Aug 2013 路 19:12 UTC
Real awesome take on the theme, and idea too.. you sir have done good.
Lightmare Studio
28. Aug 2013 路 19:13 UTC
I matched her tongue for like 1 mn and nothing happened. The premice is fun but the lack of feedback makes the game pretty frustrating. I think I'm missing something here, but I can't seem to grasp the point. Sorry!
TailyILoveYou
28. Aug 2013 路 19:16 UTC
haaa that was great, I was laughing the whole time. I feel dirty now :(
dook
28. Aug 2013 路 19:18 UTC
Just awesome. Everything. Only thing I could have used was some more feedback. I gave the thrift stop lady the helicopter tongue, but apparently that wasn't what she wanted. Typical.
Gabriel
28. Aug 2013 路 21:54 UTC
This is SO MUCH FUN! Really got me laughing! hahaha
And the graveyard level is really freaking scary (for me at least). hahaha

It really could use a little more feedback so you know if you're doing well or not. It also took a little too long for me (I wonder if I was moving back and forth through an invisible 'success meter' until I finally reached one of the extremes and either succeeded or failed).

Anyway, this is just hilarious, had to show it to other people! You really managed to create something visceral here. hahaha

Congratulations!
Tanser
28. Aug 2013 路 22:35 UTC
Interesting game for sure! Great job for first entry!
The thing I saw a bit off was that you have written WASD as controls together with arrow keys but they seem to not work.
loxo
29. Aug 2013 路 18:47 UTC
That's a truly unique and funny game!
kibertoad
29. Aug 2013 路 21:27 UTC
Ahahaha, that was... something.
LegacyCrono
04. Sep 2013 路 23:26 UTC
Haha, spendid! It's missing some goal though, it doesn't seems to track which levels I've already completed (but to be honest I haven't finished all 10 of them to see if something would happen). Good job!