{"author_link":"\/author\/rhaasken\/","author_name":"rhaasken","author_uid":"12716","comments":[{"author_name":"bigbadwofl","author_uid":"8326","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 5:50am","epoch":1335246300,"text":"I enjoyed the guitar track immensely. Nothing takes the stress out of nuking dustbunnies like a soothing acoustic guitar.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Congratulations on finishing LD23!"},{"author_name":"TSJ666","author_uid":"10565","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 3:49pm","epoch":1335282240,"text":"When I try to accelerate, vacuuman simply vanishes."},{"author_name":"chinchang","author_uid":"4201","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 5:44pm","epoch":1335289140,"text":"Controls are a bit wierd but i liked the background music :)"},{"author_name":"Rex Peppers","author_uid":"4914","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 9:23pm","epoch":1335302280,"text":"Nice job, though I didn't get any background music in chrome :-("},{"author_name":"greg20man","author_uid":"11425","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 8:49pm","epoch":1335386640,"text":"I'm on a windows machine and the game doesn't work for me, I hit windows or web and I get to the same location where it looks as if the screen has split across the page and when I hit a control vac-man disappears :("},{"author_name":"sudorossy","author_uid":"7905","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 10:01pm","epoch":1335390960,"text":"Really fun. I could play this game for hours"},{"author_name":"Alink","author_uid":"11244","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 3:03am","epoch":1335409080,"text":"Weird controls but fun concept. Sprites could be a bit more easy to differentiate. Thanks for using this good guitar music instead of vacuum sound :)"},{"author_name":"rhaasken","author_uid":"12716","time":"May 1, 2012 @ 7:41pm","epoch":1335900960,"text":"Thanks for your comments everybody!  Please use chrome to play it.  I don't think it works in other browsers, and I don't really know why."},{"author_name":"Diventurer","author_uid":"7567","time":"May 4, 2012 @ 9:30am","epoch":1336123500,"text":"The controls are a bit annoying, and the game gets boring a bit too fast (for me anyway)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The music is good though, and I don't think anyone can argue about the fact the game is original, lolol. XD"},{"author_name":"kirbytails7","author_uid":"4767","time":"May 10, 2012 @ 8:11pm","epoch":1336680360,"text":"Surprisingly fun. The imprecise controls definitely help."},{"author_name":"tacograveyard","author_uid":"8423","time":"May 13, 2012 @ 11:59pm","epoch":1336953240,"text":"I always wanted to my a game out of my roomba!"}],"images":["ld23\/12716-6fbd910853c8d3799616047ef5b4f36f.jpg","ld23\/12716-4f92355d46e9bc2c29ae224d96a27be3.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/vgdevclub.org\/LD23\/VM\/vacuum.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/vgdevclub.org\/LD23\/VM\/VacMan.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"30157","g_author":"12716","g_event":"LD23","g_eventkey":"10","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"30187","g_title":"Vac-Man","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"798","g_commentcount":"11","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\/\/123793\/12716-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/123793\/12716-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Play as Vac-Man, a miniature robotic vacuum cleaner, as you attempt to protect the house from the dust bunny invasion!\r\n\r\nControls:\r\nz - accelerate towards the mouse position\r\nx - brake\r\nc - vacuum up dust piles (avoid overheating)\r\n\r\nGoal:\r\nShoot the bunnies with the popcorn that you pick up.  Then vacuum up the dust piles they leave behind. Get consecutive hits to increase your score multiplier up to 8x.  If there are too many dust piles on the screen, you lose!\r\n\r\n*** Only tested in Chrome, so please use Chrome ***<\/p>","title":"Vac-Man"}