This is great :D

Nice! I think the UI could be improved though, and a tutorial would be nice.

I love this game so much! It's hilarious and very fun. I feels so simple, but it's very challenging. I've only gotten a high score of 19 which still puts me in last. Lol.

great music and graphics and characters!!! but I could only figure out how to drink water - couldn't figure out how to eat a hot dog.

One of the best games I've played so far!!!!
I loved the ducks, I loved the art, I loved everything!
I got 29 dogs in the end.
Nice game!!!

I was a little confused about the controls at first, but once I realized who I was controlling and that I had to use the arrow keys to eat the hot dogs it made a bit more sense.

I couldn't figure out how to prevent my guy from throwing up, though. I saw that the little modifiers popped up, but I wasn't sure what they meant and what I was supposed to do to prevent anything bad from happening -- even if I stopped eating, my guy would still throw up for some reason.

Looks sooo goooood!
It's quite challenging but it's definitely something you can play mindlessly for a while and git gud at.
Pretty damn good overall :blush:

Was at 29 then just puked it all up 10/10 would puke again

Great game with a great interpretation of the theme

I was immediately impressed by the menu screen with the duck and it's tutorial that taught a complex
game simply.

The eating noises were spot on, the woman yelling "Go Go Go" and the small and skinny guy having the high record were enough for me to score so highly on humour.

Very Innovative, Great Fun!

One idea I would suggest is carrying the humour throughout even the tutorial, e.g have a grandpa next to your character while you're trying to learn the controls and where it's said "eat 5 hotdogs" add on "oh don't worry about him he'll never finish" haha

AWESOME game! art, music, sound, gameplay all really well put together. glad you added a leaderboard too :)

Nice design and animation, really like it !

Incredible! The trick I see is to hold the glass at all times, and just keep chowing 'dogs!

Wow this is amazing, great work! Aside from the beautiful graphics and the intuitive controls, this game is incredibly fun to play. I must have played at least 10 times. The one thing that seemed like it might need a bit tweaking was that you could complete the sweat wiping so fast by spamming, and also if you have a dizzy challenge right after a sweat one there was a good chance you lose it because you would be holding a or d, a buffer there might of helped. Never the lest amazing job!!! My Highscore is 55 and im pretty happy with that right now, ill come back later so see if anyone passed me up :)

Love the game, but you are supposed to opt-out of audio since you used music that wasn't made for the competition.

Love the game! well suited to the theme and actually fun to play. Well Done!!!

Really fun game! I played around 6 or 7 times, and it really felt like I was improving each run through. In the end I managed to get 50. I have a feeling this would be really easy coop though, so I might come back later and try and break the leader board through that :)
Overall, really well done, had a great time.

Really great execution. I think the controls were a bit much...or maybe flash up the controls/steps they need to do when they need to do it.

The controls are absolutely fantastic, I was grinning during the tutorial :D Loved it.

Edit: I played around with the game a little more and now I'm #1 with 285 ;)

Hey guys! Wow! thanks for all the responses already! So nice to see in my weary sleep deprived state. @ihateyouse @jay2645 @dancolman @surprisinglyshockedcat For those confused about the controls, there is a tutorial in the start menu :) Cheers!

@cymansap Ah gotcha! Will do.

@infraxion Thanks v. much! Well done on finding the pause glitch (I'm assuming that's what happened), haha! Make the most of it, I think we'll fix the bug and then start a new leaderboard tomorrow ;)

@BrothersT Actually, I just used a macro :P But now I'm curious about that pause glitch...

@infraxion oh man! Can’t even prevent you doing that! :D kudos, but do you mind if I delete your score to make the leaderboard more competitive for a while?

I had a lot of fun with this one! Even the tutorials were fun! I love how you used the theme and it went great with the controls scheme. I got on the leaderboards so maybe I'll come back too see if I can do better.

Man that was awesome, 20... Some people on the high score are nuts! Unless they are using macros heh
Had a weird play-though where i couldn't t pick up the glass, happened only in one play-though not sure if bug :P

@BrothersT yeah haha go ahead ;)

this very genius,no matter the mechanic or the animation,they all wonderful enough and vivid to touch the player.
espically the design for the effect of failed-operation，impressive main-menu,friendly tutorial.
and there is also a great atmosphere.also i think,maybe,if there are more sound-effect from the crowd when the match running,the experience may more awesome!
cheers

Weird but hilarious. Way harder than it seemed at first. Simple enough to get a good rhythm going, but hard enough that you can't just play mindlessly. Great job!

That was fun, I would like to give you 6 stars on fun :D My only note is that I dont see a reason why I get more than one drink UI bar. All I did befor that was drinking ... feels wrong. Anyway, best game so far on my list!

Nice game and a great idea.

Was really fun to play it. The Music is really fancy and catchy and the game mechanics are soo complex. Its really hard to coordinate all together.

All in all, a great Game. Well Done

So goooooddd. Great idea ! I love this kind of graphics too. This is a good game, congratz for the work !

So goooood ! Loved it from the start. The animations are hella nice, the art is really eye catching, the game is really really challenging, found it hard to even get trough tutorial haha. Very nice job on the entry though!

Very well done game! Music was great, the animations were smooth and generally great, and the mechanics were simple but hard. The only change I would make is to make it so you cannot drink and eat at the same time.

I really loved this game. The graphics were excellent and it was a blast figuring out the controls. A problem for me was that I would constantly get Dry Mouth procs one after another even while drinking. Maybe i'm just bad but that was my only issue.

I love it. The controls are simple but challenging, and the pixel art / animation is great. Made it to #6 on the leader boards at the time of posting. Great game!

Very cool game haha funny and addict x) gg

GROSSSSSSSSSSSS
Controls were kinda confusing, but that's about it for downsides. Awesome.

This is a really nice entry. I think it will be one of the best, despite the relatively complicated controls. But i must say the controls do have a pattern :smile: The game is a great exercise in doing parallel activities.

That is hilarious! The best game I've played so far :D Got 35 points, it gets really hard at the end

### What you did well:

I really liked how the keyboard control scheme was set out for this game, I actually remembered most of the actions after I did the tutorial. The graphics and animations were really neat too, especially the main menu!

### How to improve:

Perhaps make the additional tasks (drinking, wiping sweats etc) slightly less frequent in order to allow the player to eat more hot dogs.

But overall, a really great game that felt well polished.

So much fun! Really felt the panic. Gave it a 5 overall!

This game is so good! I was fine until I started to become dizzy which messes with your hand placement. So fun!

Good stuff ! Nice designs, menu animation :yum:, music, and tutorial.
I think we are always dry mouth and also keys are difficult, espcialy for azerty keyborads x)

Haha! Really well done. I enjoyed playing and really like the control scheme! Never the less the art is too good and the setting along with the look and feel is awesome.
I also like the main menu with the ducks running around <3
Overall a very well polished and solid game :)
Pls feel free to play and rate my game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/split

OMG, definitely my favourite LD 40 game so far. The gameplay, the humour, the graphics, the animations, it's just perfect!

I love the graphics and sound fx's it's so cute. But the game is pretty hard, I'm not so good at these kinds of games.

Thank you for this!!!!
Fantastic idea and implementation, and very fun gameplay!
My score is 21, not very great, but I will come back to this

Global ranking is the best thing of things game :D I do not know why do I have spasm in my right hand, but 66 is my personal best.

Great game! The art is awesome and the gameplay is really fun.

The game is well made. The art is lovely. Funny thing is that you can puke and drink awater at the same time!
It gets pretty hard, cause I don't know what to do when meat sweats outside the tutorial. Good shit and keep it up :)

very nice game: love the art style. I think that it could be a fun multiplayer game

Amazing art, very fun and hectic gameplay, and very fitting theme. Well done.

Like the look of this game, it really caught my attention and the "choppy" animation style suits it very well, very dynamic and expressive movements! Keeping track of the controls became a bit too much for me so I quit in frustration as I was trying to eat, wipe sweat and drink at the same time and mixing up all the keys totally =) Nice game though. Super cool with the people cheering on :)

Hahaha this is great!
Loved the pixel art, the animations, the dialogues and god damn is this hard for me, I suck at multitasking :'D
I think this would be a really, really fun multiplayer game!

Wonderful game and a superb interpretation of the theme. Love the fast-paced hectic controller-hell gameplay. Controlling your character feels just like learning an instrument, with the way you have to use both hands to play optimally and the online leaderboard makes you even more motived to play just one more round. The main menu is visually fantastic, but it might be helpful to include all the buttons on one screen, as it might be easy to miss the tutorial and you're probably not going to have a good time if you haven't played the tutorial. Definitely top-spot worthy.

EDIT: I've noticed the WASD keys sometimes stop responding entirely with seemingly no pattern or trigger.

Damn this game is incredible!! Congrats for all the team behind this!

Best game I've played so far from this jam. Got 90 points \o/
Your game is amazing! The only thing I think it could be improved was the tutorial: you could have explained when you have to hold or just press the keys, and also when you write key1+key2 , usually it means pressing the keys at the same time, but you meant pressing them in a sequence. Will definetly give you highest score though, congratulations!!

This game is dope, love suckin' down those wieners, 10/10 would get meat sweats again

the best pixel art i see so far!!!!!! Really great game!!!! congratulations!!! LoL! I really Enjoy this entry!!!

So much fun to play! It got really stressful keeping track of all the things to do over time but it was just as much fun at the same time! The art and animations in the game were fantastic and I loved the interactive tutorial. Great work!

It didn't occur to me for a while that I can multitask. I don't know how this guy can drink and eat at the same time, but it was a blast :)

Most humoristic entry played so far.
Very well done! :)

Damn this insane! Saw this game at Elysia's stream and I needed to try this for myself! Good music, awesome visuals and my style of humor! This is a perfect LD-game. It's fast, funny and you get better at it every time you play it.

The controls are a bit finicky, but I guess thats on purpose.

Well done!

This game is so damn addicting! I wasn't about to review it until I hit top 10 so thanks for making it truly competitive, and I finally get to live out my dreams of being a competitive eating champion hahaha

Honestly though, the art-style, music, sound effects, intuitive controls that are easy to learn yet challenging enough that they can trip you up when the prompts are hitting you one after the other, the people in the crowd, it's all amazing fun and even humorous! I will definitely be keeping this and playing it for years to come! I wanna hit #1 baby!!

My arms are exhausted too lol! For my placing run, I felt like I was playing Starcraft!!

Thank you for this gem of utter creativity <3

10/10 This is only the second game that I've given 5 stars across the board. It truly deserves it!



Edit: Oh and bonus points for including a tutorial :)

& my ONLY gripe with the entire game was when Dizzy came after Meat Sweats, as there's a super good chance you're gonna fail it, but learning this, I would pay extra special attention to this detail and only tap daintily on any Meat Sweats prompt that came before Dizzy! :O Strategy!

Edit2: @kromeboy is 100% right; this would be an awesome party game to play with friends; both online, and locally with controller support (using face buttons for the hotdog arm and the d-pad for the other arm)

Edit3: I don't think my review communicated effectively just how much I admire the attention to detail in the art. From the title menu, all the way down to the leaderboard. I truly admire and appreciate this game.

Dude, this game had laughing from the start. I loved it (used to go watch the Nathan's Hot Dogs competitions). I can't really think of anything that would make this better. Good stuff! The combination of using wasd to mini game with your left hand while spamming arrow keys was so rewarding.

@Krassenstein haha small world :D Isn't this game sweet?! enjoyed the stream today

-ke9an from Twitch

Thanks so much for all of the wonderful feedback. It's good to know most people are enjoying it regardless of whether they found it easy or not! :D

@hiyek wow, after 13 odd jams I think that's the nicest review I've ever read. Thanks so much, that's put a big grin on my face! :D

@BrothersT I try to leave lengthy reviews for every game I play! That's actually my shortest review so far :p I honestly mean every word of it too! You guys did such an astounding job; the whole Thomson clan must be full of talent :3

Edit: Not sure if lengthy was the word I wanted to go for.. I don't really go for a certain length, I just try to be as complete as possible!

Great idea, great controls, great artwork. Wow, really well executed.

Really good! I couldn't figure out how to exit after I finished, but it's really intense and fun.

This is my favorite video game.

Is the binary file for Linux correct?

Very fun game. I love how random some things are. Great looking animations and very detailed too. Nice polish on the game. Good job!

@THX1342 I just rebuilt and reuploaded the Linux build, in case Unity goofed. Unfortunately, we don't have a Linux box to test on right now, so we're trusting that Unity has done the right thing. What exactly is the problem you are having?

Played on Windows right now and I'm in awe! Absolutely fantastic! My favorite so far!

About Linux, it didn't seem line a linux binary file but a .exe which I couldn't execute. I'll try the new version as soon as I can. If there is still an issue I'll comment here

really cool but a bit too hard

This is great! Really charming sprite-work and animations, and challenging gameplay. My Dog, I'm bad at it, though! I keep spewing away all my points.

Hi there! Please delete 1st and 2nd scores on leaderboard... they were cheated. Overall this is great game with AWESOME graphics, gameplay, e.t.c. But with little security leaks on client side.

@Furka It's quite probable that the top score was using a macro, but 92 is certainly possible. We got 86, so I can definitely see with a bit of practice and some luck equaling or exceeding that score. But yeah, 117 is suspect. We might delete it in the future. And thanks for the feedback!

@furka Hey there. I'm the guy that made to the third place, and no, you don't have cheat to get these scores. If you are just joking I'm sorry, but I get the feeling you are not haha

If you want I'm pretty sure I can beat second place while streaming and recording my keyboard with a webcam

edit: I meant just the second score actually, but idk, maybe 117 is possible too. @brothersT do you want me to try to get there?

@settings Haha sorry lack of communication between me and my bro. I'm the other half of BrothersT and I deleted the scores you were talking about. One was 600+ so you were definitely right

@Furka @settings My brother just informed me that he already deleted the high scores Furka was talking about, but didn't say anything (bad him). They were 160 and 600ish (definitely suspect). Feel free to go for the high score again though, but only if you want to do it for fun :)

@settings And I would love to see you prove that 117 is possible. I definitely cant :D

We need seperate accounts..

Hahahahaha this is kind of amusing xD of course I'll try again, your game is amazing! No need to say sorry, you can delete your scores whenever you want to, it's your game! I'll do a stream later, I'll just forget about the webcam though, it's kind of a hassle and I'm shy *.*

PERFECT scope. Nice job folks. Everything was polished and awesome. You da best.

Reminds me of home.

The only game I've yet to give all fives too. Loved playing this on stream, this really ticked all the boxes for me. Be proud <3

@brothersT hi, a friend of mine warned me about the highscore discussion here, so here I am. Me and a friend of mine wanted to know how much we could do if we did it in doubles, just for fun, so we did it, and got 117, did not even think it was possible to ask you guys to delete the highscore, but since it is, I would like to do so, and to apologize for any legitimacy questioning, it was most definitely not legit.

Very well done, nice original mechanic and even an online scoreboard! Not to mention a very fitting graphical style. Nice one!

@pedroteoso haha thanks for owning up! And someone just scored 999824, so don't feel too bad ;) Cheers!

Thanks for making this game! I had a lot of fun trying to beat my own score.
After a few hours and really tired hand, I managed to score 124 points. I recorded it, so please don't ban me =)
https://youtu.be/clKfl0phRuE
Of course it doesn't prove anything, but it might at least show that scores around 130 or even 140 are humanly possible.

@marcoskwkm Holy crap! I am seriously impressed! :D Such consistency! Even using both hands at the start! smart! Reminds me of doing the intro of through the fire and flames on guitar hero with both hands on the frets. Thanks so much for recording it, I don’t think I would have believed it otherwise! :D

At that speed my hand just seized up around the 50 mark. I have a feeling your score is going to stand for a long time!

Rob

[edit] Just watched it a third time. Absolutely nuts.

@marcoskwkm That's amazing! So crazy. You have some serious dedication sticking at it for that long. I apologise that we didn't get time to balance the gameplay a bit more before release. The random nature of the LH tasks means that, as far as I can tell, some runs are just doomed to fail (e.g. if you too many "Dizzy"s or even "Dry Mouth"s in a row). Or maybe you were able to keep up anyway :) Bravo!

Would you mind if we post your video on our game page and blog feed?

Joseph

@brotherst Not at all, feel free to use it however you like.

I had a lot of fun playing this! The art was great, I liked the music, it was a novel idea, and was well executed! For some reason the menu was kind of laggy, but the actual game ran great. Other than that, I can't really think of anything else that could be done better. Good job!

Pretty fun and nicely done, I also like how well it's polished! :smile:

Fun game with good gameplay scalability. The art is very beautiful. Congratulations for the game.

Jogo divertido e com boa escalabilidade da jogabilidade. A arte está muito bonita. Parabéns pelo jogo. :flag_br:

One of just few games in LD that feels like a real published game. Cool idea, funny, great execution. Great job :)

Astonishing game. Perfect scope and very well polished. Art is great and is a heck of a load of fun to play. Unfortunately, i couldn't get past the 40 mark, i'm not coordinated enough :sweat_smile:. There was however just one instance where i got too dizzy without even realising. I believe the balance bar was cover by one of the other progress bars. But other than that, this is an amazing game. If you have the chance, please work on this game. You guys would be doing everyone a great service. Congratulations!

Pretty awesome! I hate hot dogs so this became more of reaction playthrough for me haha.. lots of fun!! Super cute art & novel controls! Great job - thx for making it and for the entertainment https://www.twitch.tv/videos/208866297

@jenninexus Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. I had fun watching you play. You're not the only one who has been disgusted, though for most people it's the hotdogs coming out of the mouth rather than going in :P

I've been playing a lot of games on this jam, and now that I'm checking this one, I think I've found my favorite. Everything from the presentation, sprites, sounds and gameplay is a thing to behold. It's just so very good, funny and ambitious.

The animations are outstanding. From the duck walking around to the people on the crowd. It's just as dynamic as the fast-paced action of the game itself. The controllers do look somewhat weird, but when in motion, they make perfect sense. It's a weird mix of time-management arcade action and I love it.

It's just incredible, and very tough. After a few rounds, I only managed to make it to 27, but it felt so great. I'd like to leave more substantial feedback about it, but it's one of those rare times that none come to mind. I like it all.

Congratulations on making one of the best games of this jam. [In behalf of my team](twitter.com/whalesandgames), we're looking forward to your future projects. Cheers! :whale:

Astonishing entry. Everything feels polished. Instant fav! :clap:

Holy shit I spend the last 2 hours eating hot dogs o.O

Good Job!

Man this game was so fun to play. I loved the huge skill ceiling, made me go back and play it several times. I thought I was good at execution but man some of those high scores are super impressive. One of the best games I played this jam.

Wow this was hard. Super fun! The tutorial was well done and much appreciated

Simply brilliant.

The idea is great. The visuals, the music and implementation all feel super polished. I had a lot of fun although I wasn't very good at the game.

Not sure whether this was deliberate, or just tolerated but I noticed that it's possible to drink and eat at the same time. Didn't really help get a high score though :(

One of the strongest Jam entries I have played so far, great job!

Really fun game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 40 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4a6KN4k75w