{"author_link":"\/author\/hypp\/","author_name":"hypp","author_uid":"14403","comments":[{"author_name":"dreadzilla","author_uid":"37112","time":"Apr 19, 2015 @ 11:20pm","epoch":1429485300,"text":"Nice music and sound effects! Plus it's a car game! Thumbs up!"},{"author_name":"Mano","author_uid":"25270","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 8:01pm","epoch":1429559760,"text":"Not that unique weapon, but A+ on the humor."},{"author_name":"Jakob37","author_uid":"50156","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 8:02pm","epoch":1429559820,"text":"I really liked the humour in this game. I smiled the whole way through it. The visuals might be the weaker part of the game, but they still made their job well. Nice job, I liked this!"},{"author_name":"thumbgarden","author_uid":"52000","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 8:03pm","epoch":1429559880,"text":"Funny little game. Nice work"},{"author_name":"OnErrorResumeNext","author_uid":"35752","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 8:06pm","epoch":1429560060,"text":"C64. Outrun. Flashbacks from my childhood. Nice. :)"},{"author_name":"tanjent","author_uid":"36394","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 8:53pm","epoch":1429562880,"text":""This sure does look like outrun!" #thingsinmyhead ... Plays one round of the game and reads text below, sure enough there it is!! I thought I should avoid the birds so I only got 3 kills :) For a real clone there should be the "world map" with splitting levels and a goal at the end... probably something oil related :P"},{"author_name":"Tommislav","author_uid":"2393","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 9:23pm","epoch":1429564680,"text":"I couldn't play the game embedded on this page (if I try to speed up the web page just scrolls away), but the link works fine.\r\rI love the way you managed to capture the feeling of the wind blowing in your hair... only the coughing, the fumes and the bumpy road makes it a bit less glamorous. A bit. =D"},{"author_name":"Anshul Goyal","author_uid":"18701","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 4:27am","epoch":1429590120,"text":"*cough... cough... cough*... I am such a horrible person... *cough... cough... cough*"},{"author_name":"suppi","author_uid":"29243","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 9:31pm","epoch":1429651560,"text":"you made me kill innocent birds. i hope you are happy with yourself."},{"author_name":"fleegle2000","author_uid":"5313","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 11:01pm","epoch":1429743360,"text":"Bit hard on the birds, no? Funny game, audio is pretty good, though I found the way the birds moved in relation to the road a bit unusual, and I wasn't sure that my accelerating was actually helping me get any closer to the birds. First car game I've played this competition - not sure that a car is all that unconventional a weapon, but hey. Anyway, good work!"},{"author_name":"Martin Vilcans","author_uid":"10862","time":"Apr 24, 2015 @ 12:20pm","epoch":1429877700,"text":"Unconventional weapon indeed. Great voice (cough) acting BTW. :-)"},{"author_name":"gillyadrien","author_uid":"52777","time":"Apr 25, 2015 @ 5:53am","epoch":1429940880,"text":"Nice music, and fun game! I'm loving the *cough* sounds.\rGood work!"},{"author_name":"celisoft","author_uid":"49455","time":"Apr 25, 2015 @ 9:14am","epoch":1429952940,"text":"Love the game, it reminds me Lotus \/ Crazy Cars on my Amiga !!"},{"author_name":"grillaface","author_uid":"19137","time":"Apr 25, 2015 @ 7:55pm","epoch":1429991400,"text":"Haha yeah stupid birds come get some!"},{"author_name":"hunttis","author_uid":"41000","time":"Apr 25, 2015 @ 7:56pm","epoch":1429991460,"text":"The logic is infallible in the description! Nice work on the road-illusion. Reminded me of outrun!\r\rCough cough :D"},{"author_name":"coderitual","author_uid":"22182","time":"Apr 25, 2015 @ 7:59pm","epoch":1429991640,"text":"Super graphics style but as a bird, I have some doubts about the mechanics :)"},{"author_name":"OnlySlightly","author_uid":"1959","time":"Apr 26, 2015 @ 6:15am","epoch":1430028600,"text":"The perspective made me nostalgic for old racing games. Even though the subject matter was kind of gruesome it was kind of pleasant driving in the summer day, to no destination in particular. I appreciated all the particle effects, the smoke and blood. And cute touch with the coughing along with the smoke :) Great job!"},{"author_name":"Nilq","author_uid":"39343","time":"Apr 26, 2015 @ 5:30pm","epoch":1430069100,"text":"Woah. Nice! It's pretty satisfying, to run the birdish thing over. x3"},{"author_name":"muumeroinen","author_uid":"31137","time":"Apr 26, 2015 @ 5:38pm","epoch":1430069580,"text":"Cough cough cough"},{"author_name":"Sergi Montaner","author_uid":"50492","time":"May 7, 2015 @ 11:17pm","epoch":1431040320,"text":"Quite a strange game you have.\rThe idea is interesting and the programmer art is lovely.\rI would critic that the gameplay is quite repetitive and the kill sound feels like someone is knoking on the door.\rAnyway nice implementation on the old school racing games map."},{"author_name":"Druid","author_uid":"31662","time":"May 8, 2015 @ 10:37am","epoch":1431081120,"text":"Really interesting idea!"}],"images":["ld32\/14403-22adfbf0baf02d9b745a484f800b6756.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/kompetensum.com\/ld32\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/hypp\/ld_32_an_unconventional_weapon","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"12676","g_author":"14403","g_event":"LD32","g_eventkey":"27","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"12706","g_title":"An Unconventional Weapon","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"693","g_commentcount":"21","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/444368\/14403-shot0-1429484036.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"An Unconventional Weapon\r\n\r\nBackground:\r\nFACT: The worlds reserve of fossil fuels is depleting.\r\nFACT: As you most likely have heard, fossil fuels consists of dead dinosaurs.\r\nFACT: The only living relative to the dinosaurs are the birds.\r\nCONCLUSION: Logically, to refill the reserve, you must kill as many birds as possible.\r\n\r\nInstructions:\r\nThe exhausts from your car will make the birds sick so they fly lower.\r\nWhen they fly low enough you can run over them with your car.\r\nBut if you go to fast you use up more of the worlds fuel reserve.\r\n\r\nUse arrow keys to control the car.\r\n\r\n--------------------------\r\n\r\nThis time I decided early on that I wanted to do an Outrun-style racing game,\r\nusing techniques from the 8-bit\/16-bit era. So that is what I did, \r\nthere is no 3d in the game, just the illusion of 3d.\r\n\r\nYou need a fast computer and a fast browser.\r\n\r\n* Tested on Windows with latest Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer.\r\n(Internet Explorer runs slooooow).\r\n\r\n* Tested on OSX with latest Chrome and Safari.\r\n\r\n","title":"An Unconventional Weapon"}