{"author_link":"\/author\/mr_tag\/","author_name":"mr_tag","author_uid":"12297","comments":[{"author_name":"MintArcade","author_uid":"35966","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 8:14pm","epoch":1398715740,"text":"I nearly make an orbit - good game ;)"},{"author_name":"Wakka","author_uid":"30196","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 8:16pm","epoch":1398715860,"text":"graphics are very good, especially the waves :-) I didn't really get the controls right: sometimes I jumped hundreds of meters high, sometimes only half a meter or so."},{"author_name":"Dominator_101","author_uid":"21741","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 8:34pm","epoch":1398716940,"text":"Another Surf Ace game? How can I say no!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Pretty fun! No idea how I'm supposed to make a good wave, but I got to a height of like 300 so there's that :P\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Nice audio and graphics, too.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Overall, I'd give it a rating of: Gnarly!"},{"author_name":"Catmoo","author_uid":"1396","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 8:35pm","epoch":1398717000,"text":"Really nice play on the theme and quite fun to play, plus looks awesome. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>Woulda liked more tricks but of course we all have time constraints ;)"},{"author_name":"Lucariatias","author_uid":"14242","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 8:36pm","epoch":1398717060,"text":"Pretty fun, no matter what I did I didn't seem to be scoring anything, and the physics &amp; controls were a bit fiddly.\r<br\/>Other than that, nice game."},{"author_name":"cirpig29","author_uid":"37344","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 8:37pm","epoch":1398717120,"text":"A very nice Game and a very very great interpretation of the Ludum-theme. Unfortunately I did not understand how to get any points (may be I play to seldom games)."},{"author_name":"lamphj","author_uid":"35721","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 8:39pm","epoch":1398717240,"text":"AWESOME! Fun game, good graphics, creative use of the theme.  I loved it!!"},{"author_name":"Pietro Ferrantelli","author_uid":"30677","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 8:40pm","epoch":1398717300,"text":"Great game ! I love the gameplay ant the graphics ! It's a really fun entry, I enjoyed it a lot :) Amazing job for less than 2 days ;)"},{"author_name":"Jo\u00e3o Kucera","author_uid":"29004","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 8:50pm","epoch":1398717900,"text":"Awesome graphics!"},{"author_name":"SimonLarsen","author_uid":"1980","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 8:55pm","epoch":1398718200,"text":"Really great job. The wave mechanic is a lot of fun and getting mad air time feels great. The announcer was a bit jarring though.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Overall really cool. And thanks for providing a Linux binary. It worked flawlessly (Arch Linux x86)"},{"author_name":"White Rabbit Games","author_uid":"36343","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 10:33pm","epoch":1398724080,"text":"Pretty fun, but the control was a little difficult with keyboard"},{"author_name":"Korwegian","author_uid":"31877","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 12:30am","epoch":1398731100,"text":"2010 points"},{"author_name":"GertJohnny","author_uid":"22774","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 6:31am","epoch":1398752760,"text":"Radical game!  I'm into the art style for sure, gameplay felt a bit slow at times though. I was using a keyboard, though, I might give it another go with a controller later."},{"author_name":"lord","author_uid":"34005","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 7:17am","epoch":1398755520,"text":"Awesome. You made the same pun as us!"},{"author_name":"BlazingFanfish","author_uid":"29162","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 2:38pm","epoch":1398781980,"text":"Great game! Also it's pretty funny :)"},{"author_name":"Xaychru04","author_uid":"16472","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 4:56pm","epoch":1398790260,"text":"Haha I like how you used the theme, really nice idea! The graphisms are cool, the music too, I enjoyed it a lot! :]"},{"author_name":"Afal","author_uid":"27397","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 8:47pm","epoch":1398804120,"text":"This owns"},{"author_name":"Mekuri","author_uid":"20130","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 8:51pm","epoch":1398804360,"text":"Had trouble mastering the controls, but did pull of a few tricks. I really liked the animation of the character and the waves. The idea was great, and the game felt polished."},{"author_name":"dejant","author_uid":"34568","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 8:58pm","epoch":1398804780,"text":"Nice graphics!"},{"author_name":"Snowflower","author_uid":"3624","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 9:21pm","epoch":1398806160,"text":"very cool, love the name of the game haha. \r<br\/>It took me a few playthroughs to get the hang of making waves to get a ton of air and score points."},{"author_name":"BrothersT","author_uid":"12722","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 2:59am","epoch":1398826440,"text":"haha. had to check out one of these surf ace games and I wasn't dissapointed. didn't quite get exactly what up and down did to the waves. if anything it seemed like they were the wrong way round. nice game!"},{"author_name":"edibletoaster","author_uid":"5756","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 7:28am","epoch":1398842580,"text":"Nice theme interpretation. Looks pretty cool. I sucked at the game but it was pretty amusing"},{"author_name":"ande765a","author_uid":"11482","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 4:36pm","epoch":1398875460,"text":"Nice game! Had a great time playing it :)"},{"author_name":"icereci","author_uid":"32854","time":"May 3, 2014 @ 11:34am","epoch":1399116540,"text":"liked it. It was hard for me to combo the jumps :)\r<br\/>gj"},{"author_name":"TeamPurpleDolphins","author_uid":"37395","time":"May 3, 2014 @ 8:47pm","epoch":1399149720,"text":"Very well done. Looks quite polished and was pretty fun to play too."},{"author_name":"Lyje","author_uid":"29064","time":"May 4, 2014 @ 3:46pm","epoch":1399218060,"text":"Found it quite hard to do the tricks in time! Love the theme though :P"},{"author_name":"MrBlade","author_uid":"23232","time":"May 4, 2014 @ 4:49pm","epoch":1399221840,"text":"Really fun an interesting game. The sounds are nice, art is good, and the gameplay is solid. I really liked seeing my waves being created as I made them. I found this game hard to play with a keyboard, but it was quite fun and easy with a controller. Good work!"},{"author_name":"radmars","author_uid":"18627","time":"May 4, 2014 @ 8:42pm","epoch":1399235820,"text":"Awesome! Reminds me of Skate or California Games :D"},{"author_name":"Rick Hoppmann","author_uid":"10000","time":"May 4, 2014 @ 10:40pm","epoch":1399242900,"text":"This game made me rage quit ...\r<br\/>I failed hard to get any points. Loopings didn't brings score and when doing a trick using 1, 2 or 3 he didn't get back on board.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I'm sure it is cool once you get the hang out of it and I really like graphics and sound, but otherwise it just is frustrating."},{"author_name":"recursor","author_uid":"1105","time":"May 11, 2014 @ 9:59pm","epoch":1399845240,"text":"I never could get any points. Still, it was pretty fun. Nice job."},{"author_name":"Romko Pidstryhach","author_uid":"32804","time":"May 11, 2014 @ 10:25pm","epoch":1399846800,"text":"Really fun game."},{"author_name":"sP0CkEr2","author_uid":"7135","time":"May 16, 2014 @ 12:51am","epoch":1400201160,"text":"fun game but I never get a score - awesome game - adding to my foavorites"}],"images":["ld29\/12297-168435f99c01a84753a71a12bf65e398.jpg","ld29\/12297-83e2a2d0be704e67227a73c7f327420a.jpg","ld29\/12297-2af312e79c122416c02bcd9c30cb3719.jpg","ld29\/12297-76d77113e102eab3a925a99a29152716.jpg","ld29\/12297-7448f3b526827af207f525578fdcbf6c.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/chasing-carrots.com\/beneath\/","text":"Web (unity)"},{"url":"http:\/\/chasing-carrots.com\/beneath\/beneath_linux.zip","text":"Linux (untested)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"18729","g_author":"12297","g_event":"LD29","g_eventkey":"22","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"18758","g_title":"Ben Eath the Surf Ace","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"181","g_commentcount":"32","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\/\/342546\/12297-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/12297-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/12297-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/12297-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/12297-shot4.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Ben Eath is an ex Surf Ace trying his big comeback. This dude is so f*ing COOL he even can control the waves!\r\n\r\nHow HIGH can you get? Be careful though: when you come back down and hit the waves again you should not be in the middle of a trick and your board has to be more or less horizontal to get the points!\r\n\r\nMade in unity by Christoph (programming), Tobi (art), Dominik (programming), Patrick (art) and Patrick (sounds&music).","title":"Ben Eath the Surf Ace"}