{"author_link":"\/author\/shmackson\/","author_name":"Shmackson","author_uid":"39901","comments":[{"author_name":"wolfmother","author_uid":"38776","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 4:01am","epoch":1408938960,"text":"Plus points for music\/sound.\r<br\/>Graphics are decent. Would have been cool if the ball inverted to white when in the right half of the screen.\r<br\/>Concept isn't too bad, but the mechanics aren't doing it for me. It feels awkward in a bad way, instead of silly and fun like physics games should."},{"author_name":"CogentInvalid","author_uid":"22583","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 4:08am","epoch":1408939380,"text":"I couldn't connect to your website to download\/play the game. It might be under some stress right now."},{"author_name":"AndyBrown","author_uid":"5699","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 4:10am","epoch":1408939500,"text":"I like your backstory for the game! It's pretty challenging to grab the ball, and then when you do it sometimes flies off by itself. The most I could do was throw it back and fourth three times before dying."},{"author_name":"Shmackson","author_uid":"39901","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 4:19am","epoch":1408940040,"text":"Yeah sorry about those play mechanics guys(grabbing the ball, string physics), they worked much better on the windows version. Currently trying to figure out what went wrong with them on the HTML port."},{"author_name":"Jaloko","author_uid":"37180","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 4:27am","epoch":1408940520,"text":"Cool concept, I found it hard to play but that was probably just me haha."},{"author_name":"Tanner","author_uid":"26780","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 5:35am","epoch":1408944600,"text":"Great mechanics!"},{"author_name":"kidando","author_uid":"31330","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 6:03am","epoch":1408946280,"text":"Congrats on finishing your game. It was kind hard to maneuver"},{"author_name":"DaanVanYperen","author_uid":"22396","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 1:56pm","epoch":1408974660,"text":"Stuck throwing a void ball through a portal until you die, it's exactly like my day job! D:"},{"author_name":"mrexcessive","author_uid":"20788","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 2:56pm","epoch":1408978260,"text":"Hey, I liked the look and feel but found it very difficult.  The swinging balls are great.  Good job!"},{"author_name":"Hyoga-3D","author_uid":"23927","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 6:02pm","epoch":1409075820,"text":"Nice game, but I could not play so well since I was playing alone, but think that it would work great with two persons."},{"author_name":"howkj1","author_uid":"41421","time":"Aug 30, 2014 @ 8:14pm","epoch":1409429340,"text":"It took me awhile to figure out that I needed to click &quot;versus&quot; before moving to the keyboard. All documentation said use wasd and keys. Otherwise, interesting take on a few classics. The rocket guy reminds me of Nes from Earthbound and his yoyo."},{"author_name":"shashwat","author_uid":"39936","time":"Sep 13, 2014 @ 8:13pm","epoch":1410638880,"text":"Interesting game. Hard to play both sides, though. Although, I understand that that's not how it should be played."},{"author_name":"igoramendola","author_uid":"31253","time":"Sep 14, 2014 @ 1:43am","epoch":1410658680,"text":"Cool idea and nice graphics! The human looks funny hehehe\r<br\/>A polished post compo version could be interesting ^_^"}],"images":["ld30\/39901-b735e1dbc4893f5ec445e8c642d2e2ce.jpg","ld30\/39901-4accf2a2626922256299c2fecb04db24.jpg","ld30\/39901-f06151a82fd712744364f678bcc5b425.jpg","ld30\/39901-a232b2101b625f28318c1e8643439118.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/shmackson.weebly.com\/html5-swing-pong.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/shmackson.weebly.com\/","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/shmackson.weebly.com\/","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"16185","g_author":"39901","g_event":"LD30","g_eventkey":"24","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"16215","g_title":"String Pong","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"1023","g_commentcount":"13","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\/\/375043\/39901-shot0.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/39901-shot1.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/39901-shot2.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/39901-shot3.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"CONTROLS\r\nHuman Side: WASD to control. Q to release ball.\r\nAlien Side: Arrows to control. Space to release ball.\r\n\r\n\r\nHow To Play\r\n-Only had time to implement the multi-player mode..\r\n-If the ball stays on your side for 10 seconds it will blow up. When it is thrown to the other side it will restart the timer.\r\n-Touch the catcher on the end of your string to the the ball and it will pick it up.\r\n-Swing, jam or otherwise throw the void ball through the portal to the other side of the portal so it doesn't kill you. \r\n\r\nThe game is meant to have a high skill cap, don't give up!\r\n\r\n\r\nSTORY-ish\r\nA void opened up on the White House lawn, connecting our world to another. Then a void ball spawned and threatened to turn into a black hole and destroy our planet. So America and the aliens both found their finest civilian to attempt to save their world by throwing the void ball into through the void into the other world.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n*Something has gone wrong with the HTML version and has made player lose grip on the ball very quickly, if you have the option I'd recommend downloading the Windows version for a bit better experience.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","title":"String Pong"}