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Will You Be The 1.

By yosh

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness285
Innovation723.74
Fun1913.37
Audio2183.06
Overall2223.37
Mood3512.97
Theme5572.76
Humor6411.93
Graphics8092.25

Comments

burgerdare 2013-12-16 03:10

web link seems to be broken in firefox.

parapup 2013-12-16 04:49

Let me know, when it's up I'll give you some comments <3

jin47 2013-12-16 11:04

I really enjoyed It. Very Challenging.

kyyrma 2013-12-16 13:54

Ha! Got to be the number one with 95 seconds. Really simple yet cool game. Are the other cursor recordings of earlier players?

Really reminded me of this: http://donottouch.org/ Was it an inspiration? :-)

latfoued 2013-12-16 22:54

It was quite challenging and addictive, i love how simple but fun it is. Nice work !

blazingfanfish 2013-12-17 04:32

Wow, the game is interesting. Somewhat I'm addicted to this game.

yosh 2013-12-17 10:37

UPDATE: Music & sounds are more or less working. The game now takes even longer to load, hurray! #HTML5 #wow #soFuture.

@burgerdare: Problem solved!
@ParaPup: See above!
@Jin47: Thank you =)
@kyyrma: Well as unlucky as this could seem, if you see that time it means you have died at the very end :D (sorry)
@LatFoued, @BlazingFanfish: Many thanks to you two ;)

ohfiddlediddle 2013-12-18 09:11

Seriously love it, very unique. :D

hamster_mk_4 2013-12-19 06:41

It is hanging on 67% load for me, so I can't play.

yosh 2013-12-19 07:04

@hamster_mk_4: Sorry about that, I'm getting more and more fedup with my way of dealing with game assets (notably everything related to audio). If I ever come to use this engine for future projects, I'll make sure to get away this frustration of having the loading stuck. In the meantime I would attempt a restart, if still nothing I'd be interested to debug the issue with you.

biscuitdough 2013-12-19 07:09

The ranking/async multiplayer stuff really makes it stand out, great job.

brmassa 2013-12-19 07:10

sorry to say that i barely could play the game. it seems to have a critical bug.

nickw 2013-12-19 07:17

I had a glitch where the music didn't restart after playing a second time. Really cool async competitive game!

yosh 2013-12-19 07:34

@Bruno: What kind of bug was that critical? Last time I got some weird behavior from the games (wrong collision detection etc.) it was because of the developer console open while playing. Could you tell me more by any chance?
@Nick Weihs: I'm fighting hard against this stupid bug, it's really making me crazy right now ><

dracomagna 2013-12-19 08:26

I really loved the concept of the game. Simple but very fun and addictive and also a very good use of the theme.
Nice work!

mrtedders 2013-12-19 15:55

This game reminds be of a very experimental music video that did the same sort of thing except you couldn't lose in that one. Great work!

_zulli 2013-12-20 08:23

REALLY addicting game! Awesome idea! One of the best entries in this compo thanks for it's challenge! :D

If you have time,please consider rating my game! I would really appreciate it!:D

blooperly 2013-12-20 08:53

Really fun! Not very complex but I love how it plays out. Good job, this is what Ludum Dare is about.

postmodestie 2013-12-20 10:26

Really interesting! So you get to see a score if you finish prematurely, but you get nothing if you finish the game - which is presumably very short?
Other than that great idea!
And i had even sound on Firefox..

ebene-eole 2013-12-21 15:56

I tried to play but the loader seems to never end. :| Is the server down ?

yosh 2013-12-21 20:15

^ indeed. Restarting asap

lonestranger 2013-12-22 05:52

Very well done. Simple and interesting, wish it was longer. Would be neat if there were other levels, other patterns to follow.

samh 2013-12-22 11:39

Nicely done and very original. This is strangely addictive.

van-noctar 2013-12-22 12:08

Yeah!!! Good graphics, good sounds and very good gameplay!! :D 46.51 seconds :D

jacklehamster 2013-12-23 03:00

Pretty cool gameplay and music, and I like that you show the number of people who've gone that far (btw, are the stats real?). It'd be even cooler if the other mouse cursors are actual mouse movements from people who played the game.

jacklehamster 2013-12-23 03:04

Hey, I'm the 16th guy to beat the game ;-P

yosh 2013-12-23 03:19

^ it's actually other people. I record movements from all the sessions, classify them by performance to give the feeling that more and more people are failing as you progress. The only problem is the lag when replaying player records... which gives this feeling that we have some kind of crappy cheating AI :)

Also, the stats are real, the server crashed recently so I might have lost some data though :)

tudd 2013-12-23 03:33

Oh yeah, 17th person to finish. Great twist on the mouse avoider genre. It's not showing all of the other mouse cursors?

zequack 2013-12-23 04:28

The concept is nice, but the session seems to end prematurely when I don't die :/
Anyway I really like the concept !

bradleysmith 2013-12-23 04:32

5 stars for innovation, this is a fantastic interpretation on the theme. Really awesome work! :)

yosh 2013-12-23 04:53

@Bradley: Thanks, most people didn't see the twist. The one you can see at the end screen is basically supposed to represent a heart-beat, and your cursor was all along... sperm :D

jacklehamster 2013-12-23 06:59

Ok got it, I didn't think it was other players because they kept running into the dark areas. Now it makes sense.

zerkruemler 2013-12-23 09:26

Cool concept and solid implementation. Although I understood nothing at the beginning it gets quite clear soon. It is more a memory than a reaction game, but that is ok for me.
Good Work!

pebkac 2013-12-23 10:16

Excellent game. Love what you did recording and playing back other's movements.

ViliX 2013-12-23 11:38

Nice innovative :)

seconddimension 2013-12-23 19:50

Doesn't load for me I'm afraid, I'll try again later

yosh 2013-12-26 08:49

^ Sorry I was out for a while. And to my very own surprise, it was the web server that died this time -.-
All good again!
(Ok now I know why it's such a pain to run online games ==> maintenance :D)

rezoner 2014-01-06 08:49

Man - all stars for the innovation. If this is original idea it is material for a hit - you just need a better execution and marketing.

jaj 2014-01-06 22:37

Very well done, this is a lot of fun.