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Daft Pong

By mikelovesrobots3

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness276
Humor313.80
Innovation334.09
Overall533.91
Fun603.76
Mood1413.51
Theme1763.98
Audio3023.12
Graphics4163.24

Comments

spierek 2013-04-29 03:25

Amazing idea and execution. Kudos.

mark_hildreth_ld 2013-04-29 04:03

Really cool idea! I just wanted to scream to everyone on my team to just pick a spot and stay there so we cover the entire side rather than everyone trying to hit the ball.

edocentrique 2013-04-29 04:16

omagad it was SO FUN I don't know how it's possible but suddenly i became Admin and was moving freely spawning multiball with 1 :O AWESOME

algidplasma 2013-04-29 05:29

If you make a wall, there is literally no way to lose.

r00tbeer 2013-04-29 05:48

Nicely done! Minimal for sure, multiplayer and very smooth. Gameplay, graphics, and sound all worked together nicely.

sanojian 2013-04-29 10:07

Great idea and nice execution. Not sure players are all playing the same game or is it just collecting names? Will have to investigate the source...

sos 2013-04-29 12:32

Wow! An MMO in 48h! Mad props, man! And it plays so smooth!

xgeovanni 2013-04-29 15:37

At first, I thought it was awesome that it was semi-MMO pong. Then I realised that it wasn't actually multiplayer, and then I knew the meaning of awesome.

rzfmzn 2013-04-29 15:38

Loved the Idea!!!! Gratz!

holofire 2013-04-29 15:39

Very great game. Pong is as minimal as you can get really :D

casimps1 2013-04-29 15:40

I have just been through a roller coaster of emotions.

First, I read the description. Oh wow, I thought. Someone really tried to go for a large scale multiplayer game? And it's pong? What a cool idea! I have to see this!

Then, I saw the message about how many hundreds of players were playing right now, and I thought, really? I don't know, maybe... if so, awesome!

Then, I saw all the other players paddles. That's when I started to get suspicious. Nobody was AFK. People are always AFK with stuff like this. They were also all moving in very similar ways that looked like AI control to me. Very suspicious at this point.

Then, I clicked away from my browser and saw that the game paused. Boom! I thought! Busted! What a scam! This isn't multiplayer at all! This dev is trying to pass off a fake MMO. Pfft. Loser.

Then, I saw the fake error message and the Admin mode and the crazy Multiball stuff. Oh! Wait! It's a joke. The dev is in on it, and I am just now getting it. Back to "This is awesome!"

Well played, sir. Well played. :)

ysty 2013-04-29 15:41

Brilliant, the most fun I've had with an LD game. I literally laughed out loud when I became admin for some reason and spawned a hundred extra balls.

quill18 2013-04-29 16:45

After spending the weekend creating a multiplayer game for LD26, I was completely blown away by how smoothly your netcode was working.

So blown away that I had to download the source and Check. Through. Every. File. to find out exactly how it worked.

You can't do that to my sleep-deprived brain.

omaromeir 2013-04-29 20:51

Lol I started playing and I was very confused. I laughed when I became admin and realized it was a joke. Awesome game, really funny stuff.

badlydrawnrod 2013-04-30 18:27

Hysterically funny. Excellent!

cataclysmicknight 2013-04-30 20:48

Such an awesome idea, and it's so genius to see play out!!!! Fantastic job!

tompudding 2013-04-30 21:53

Bloody brilliant idea. I was completely misled until I got the multi-ball. Mind blowing!

loren 2013-05-01 15:10

very cool :) Great use of theme!

jadams 2013-05-01 21:32

Well played.

xewlupus 2013-05-07 05:11

Perfecto! Me and 'BarackObama' rocked it :P

justinmullin 2013-05-08 02:17

There are so many things that are incredible about this game, I don't even know where to start. I laughed, I cried...10/10, have all of the prizes.

thesarcastic 2013-05-10 00:54

WOw! Amazing man :)

pacifistgames 2013-05-13 12:50

I liked it a lot, super fun! :)
Where did the list of player names come from, because I was "Pacifist Games" and I saw another player on my team called "PacifistGames" did you pull them from your twitter followers?

bender 2013-05-13 14:53

I love that, when the ball goes too fast, it's actually making some sort of minimalist 8bit music :p
Fun, well done.

beldarak 2013-05-13 21:42

This is simply awesome. You forgot to put AFK AI too :D

beldarak 2013-05-13 21:45

Wait... I saw some AFKs :D

mikelovesrobots3 2013-05-14 01:48

WeaselZone did an awesome Let's Play of Daft Pong: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3oOe9tF3IQ

blackarm 2013-05-16 08:47

This is not an MMO. Why would you claim it as an MMO? This is just AI with a random list of fake usernames...