Marlon

Ludum Dare 50

Say hi to German “Günther”!

Günther really likes to fish and falling asleep while being pulled into a deadly waterfall by dangerous rapids! Can you help him? 😱🌊

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Follow us to get all the latest news about Günther!

P. S. Also be nice to him, his parents are competing at the game jam for the first time! 🆕

What do you think our Günther would most likely listen to for music?

Warm welcome to German “Günther”! 🇩🇪🍺🌲

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What do you think would Günther probably hear while going fishing on a beautiful river?🏞

We thought about something like this - Sneak Peek of our soundtrack!🎧

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNdHoADiHnU  

Follow us to let Günther know you support him and keep the latest updates about his (and our) successes! Thanks to @david-shou for the soundtrack!

And also let us know if you like the song in the comments!

Making the last adjustments...

While the whole team is in a rush finalizing the game, our Günther 🇩🇪🍺🌲 is already enjoying his sunny day at the river. 🏞️☀️

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What he doesn't see are the dangerous rapids that are slowly pushing him into a deadly waterfall!

Can you save him? 🌊😱

Being transparent about recent changes in our game

Taking ethical steps by providing you with detailed changelogs.

Taking responsibility and being 100% transparent about what we changed in our game after the jam has ended is an important thing for us. This is done not only to complain with ldjam.com guidelines but rather because we feel we should make changes clear to be also fair to other game jammers.

Also we would like to thank everyone who has already played our game! ❤️

Changelog:

v1.0.1 (2022/04/05) - Fixed sound effects

v1.0.2 (2022/04/05) - Fixed game freezing bug

v1.0.3 (2022/04/08) - Fixed resetting air pressure - Fixed sound effects - Fixed and enabled leaderboard (was disabled in the previous versions due to a CORS problem) - Fixed obstacle colliders - Fixed tutorial not skippable and added retry button - Minor game balancing adjustments

Thanks for also liking info posts!

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Never heard of Paddle Panic - what is it?

Paddle Panic is a single player game in which your goal is to safe Günther from the deadly waterfall. Delay the inevitable - as long as you can!⌛

Günthers boat is in danger by various things like

obstacles floating towards you leaks in Günthers boat the damn boat that keeps losing air - clearly not made in Germany! 🇩🇪⛔

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Streamers destroying their keyboard playing our game ⌨️

We are so excited! 😱 There were several streamers out there this week that tried our game and we think they really liked it! It was such a nice experience seeing somebody actually playing our game and having fun doing it! 😊

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Big thanks to:

HonestDanGames @honest-dan: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1451933776?t=02h25m30s

OddlySpecificGames @MateusBoga https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1452837882

kuviman @kuviman https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1453577000?t=05h49m30s

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What really everyone said was that playing Paddle Panic really requires a well-trained hand, it seems like otherwise you may get a bit of pain in your hand after a while. 🖐️💪 - Also your keyboard may be in danger! ⌨️😂

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Oddlygames was really trying it hard - as you can see in the video. 😱😂

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Also: @kuviman even made the third place 🥉 in our leaderboard, wow! Do you think you can beat him? 👀

How is this even possible?

We are stunned that there are many players around who seem to really love our game! 😊

One has even got a really crazy highscore lasting for 1250s in our game while the second place has 652s - nearly only the half! 😳

Really impressive! 👏

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Maybe you are the chosen one who will be able to beat this crazy highscore?🥇⚔️

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P.S. We know for sure the player hasn’t cheated cause we had a little chat with her about the game. 😊

**[UPDATE]** NEW HIGHSCORE IN OUR LEADERBOARD!

Remember our last post where we were so excited that somebody made a new, we think unbelievable, highscore?👀 (Probably you haven't even seen the post lol)

Well, this highscore has just been beaten by another player!😱

Big props to @Kepsert who is now leading in the leaderboard of Paddle Panic! 👏🥇

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Do you think you can beat his highscore? Then why not give our game a try: Play on itch.io

If you like it we would be really happy about a positive rating also! 😊

⚠️ TRADE OFFER ⚠️

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Please help us and try & rate Paddle Panic now here!

We only need a couple more to achieve our goal of 80 ratings!

LAST CALL

GÜNTHER NEEDS YOUR FINAL RATING NOW!!

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