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One Hot Potato

By tomski

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness282
Audio353.81
Theme373.69
Fun383.72
Humor603.46
Overall683.67
Mood1243.36
Graphics1303.82
Innovation1843.10

Comments

guginogaming 2013-12-17 02:49

Where's the download?

teddy 2013-12-17 02:52

haha, yea you need a way to play :)

tomski 2013-12-17 02:52

Where has it gone!?

tomski 2013-12-17 02:54

Should be fixed now, sorry about that :)

tfjo 2013-12-17 02:55

Maybe a last-minute bugfix?

tfjo 2013-12-17 02:55

Yep, it's here now!

glovecat 2013-12-17 03:06

Excellent and fun haha, and the song is amazing

tomski 2013-12-17 03:09

Thanks glovecat!

lekochen 2013-12-17 03:13

TowerFall with potato!

magnesiumninja 2013-12-17 03:24

Hehe, despite the lag, that was pretty fun. Well done guys!

angela 2013-12-17 03:29

Cute and fun game with a unique take on the theme. I enjoyed the trail left behind by speeding potato.

mistertubbs 2013-12-17 03:30

How you got this done in 72 hours, I'll never know!

tomski 2013-12-17 03:44

Haha! Multiplayer is actually a lot more functional than we first thought, might extend this after LD.

People need to stop holding onto the potato when they are dead though :P

taylorlunt 2013-12-17 04:08

Pretty cool.

wojworks 2013-12-17 04:10

The game does indeed look like it would be quite the fun multiplayer game, but there is no mention of the controls anywhere, not in your post and not in the README. I spent about a half hour figuring out you aim and click with the mouse to throw the potato.

Aside from this, the potato doesn't do enough damage in my opinion, kinda hard to get to the computer and throw in time to make it worth it really

Also, in one of my game the potato got stuck in the wall.

That all aside, great game though, high quality, especially if you were worrying about multiplayer as well, even if it didn't work that way in the end.

tomski 2013-12-17 04:20

Ill add controls to the description, just one of those things that slips on little sleep, sorry!

The damage is up to 60% depending on how long you hold it for, networking took a big chunk of time to sort out, so there are a bunch of bugs that probably would have been ironed out if we hadn't gone for it.

Thanks for the feedback!

scipio-xaos 2013-12-17 04:31

"OH NO!"
Pretty cool, though the window was too big to display on my screen all at once, but I managed to play it, still. Pretty cool. :3

tomski 2013-12-17 04:32

Ah, our bad. Hopefully it didn't ruin it too much!

2013-12-17 13:56

Really fun! Best of luck with the voting Tom <3

reecpj 2013-12-17 23:15

This game is too good! Genuinely, it's suspiciously good..

2013-12-18 04:34

Love it! great game guys!

tombofry 2013-12-18 20:21

Yet another multiplayer game I've found this Ludum Dare, which is awesome! Surprisingly a lot of fun to play, even if there are a couple of bugs. Shame you couldn't get network MP working to a standard you were happy with :/
Mine too is local multiplayer ;)

zkenshin 2013-12-18 20:54

Neat idea, good job (:

christian-s 2013-12-18 21:26

Did not start for me (OS X Mavericks). The screenshots look beautiful, though!

mephi 2013-12-18 21:29

Nice idea. Towerfall fans aren't we? :D
Great game done in no time!

javifugitivo 2013-12-19 01:12

The song is very cool! Thats funny!

porglezomp 2013-12-19 01:14

Launches to a black screen and then quits with no error messages here on OS X Lion.

tomski 2013-12-19 02:46

Ok, uploaded a new jar, we haven't got anything running OS X that we can test on :(

smirnov48 2013-12-19 06:40

Good game. I like this graphic, and sound is wonderful, and so much fun. Thank you.

paperblurt 2013-12-19 09:17

Fun and simple!
nice going..

woop!

badpaul34 2013-12-19 20:15

Cute game, graphics are amazing. We enjoyed sound too !

There is however a lack of feedback, we didn't understand what we had to do, and didn't seen the "hot potato" mechanic. Maybe a lack of time, too bad, the overall is still nice.

angelk 2013-12-20 04:56

Very cute, I was surprised at how much you got done in that amount of time! I played vs CPU, I'll have to play again vs 4 friends; I've got 4 controllers.

hyde-wyvern 2013-12-20 05:08

WOAAAAA I Love bluegrass music and the main theme amazed me ^^ perfect perfect! And the multi-player and all of that is so much fun :D I would love playing this with a group of friends :D

tomski 2013-12-20 05:08

Please do! Let us know how it goes :)

nicealexanderas 2013-12-21 02:02

hahahahah cute game here very funny and fun, i couldn't play with anybody but as far as i can see the game looks fun if you play with others. I love the animation and how the game looks! Also the happy music was nice! Excellent work! :D

cakemonitor 2013-12-21 13:20

Very nice game. A lot of fun, great graphics & audio and good use of the theme too. Well polished overall :)

xanjos 2013-12-22 16:46

Really fun take on the theme (a multiplayer deathmatch game where only one player actually has the weapon) and I loved how holding onto a literally hot potato burns down your health but makes your throw do extra damage. I did find a small bug where after finishing a game and starting a new one, the fading to red transition still occurs though.

mrblade 2013-12-24 20:36

The handling on the player is a bit slow. Nice sounds, great graphics.

jezzamon 2014-01-02 22:37

This game was fun to play! Although this happened: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2963538/glitch.jpg