{"author_link":"\/author\/sputnikgames\/","author_name":"sputnikgames","author_uid":"37026","comments":[{"author_name":"ehtd","author_uid":"11246","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:53am","epoch":1398656880,"text":"Interesting"},{"author_name":"Tater_hater","author_uid":"21618","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:53am","epoch":1398656880,"text":"Pretty fun, very challenging XD"},{"author_name":"otato","author_uid":"32786","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:53am","epoch":1398656880,"text":"It would be an all right peggle clone, but the time it takes for the balls to settle is excruciating."},{"author_name":"clearlyspam23","author_uid":"18940","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:56am","epoch":1398657060,"text":"Graphics were nice, especially the intro screen. However, the game moved kind of slowly. It would be nice to be able to shoot more than one ball at a time, or atleast be able to remove the current ball when its obvious it's a miss."},{"author_name":"IAmSpencer","author_uid":"24919","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:57am","epoch":1398657120,"text":"It would be better if you could shoot multiple balls at once, but otherwise it was pretty fun. Good job :)"},{"author_name":"noom","author_uid":"27369","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:58am","epoch":1398657180,"text":"I liked the hand drawn feel of the graphics. I got tired of waiting for the balls to despawn so I could shoot again though."},{"author_name":"porousnapkin","author_uid":"35873","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:58am","epoch":1398657180,"text":"Cool! Peggle with rats! Nice job. Very difficult. I think you should double the available balls."},{"author_name":"renatopp","author_uid":"15241","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 4:01am","epoch":1398657360,"text":"in the web version I see just a black screen"},{"author_name":"gikdew","author_uid":"18806","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 7:11am","epoch":1398668760,"text":"I dont really like rats, but your game is awesome!"},{"author_name":"orangepascal","author_uid":"12805","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 7:42am","epoch":1398670620,"text":"Would have loved being able to fire the next ball even if the first one was still bouncing around - that can take ages to finish :)"},{"author_name":"Xeke_Death","author_uid":"19338","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 8:11am","epoch":1398672360,"text":"I think the initial velocity of the ball is too low, or the gravity is too high, the ball always starts falling off too fast...\r<br\/>Needs a 'end turn' option to speed up gameplay, waiting for the ball to settle is frustrating...\r<br\/>Overall, good work... I like it..."},{"author_name":"GagaPete","author_uid":"16147","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 10:49am","epoch":1398681840,"text":"The game is way too slow sadly. Would be better to shoot new balls even when the previous one is still on the screen.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Oh, and the game doesn't run in FF 25. All you see is a black screen and the console reports &quot;ReferenceError: FlurryAgent is not defined&quot;."},{"author_name":"vilya","author_uid":"10456","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 11:13am","epoch":1398683280,"text":"Nice idea &amp; well implemented. It'd be nice to be able to fire a second ball while the first is still moving. Also, it's really hard! Maybe increasing the ball count for the first level would help?"},{"author_name":"PapyGaragos","author_uid":"7971","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 12:19pm","epoch":1398687240,"text":"I like the idea of this game. I think it could be greatly enhanced with some basic audio"},{"author_name":"Jan Peter (jpdev)","author_uid":"34367","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 2:55pm","epoch":1398696600,"text":"could be a cool game, if I may present a wishlist:\r<br\/>- more ammo\r<br\/>- ability to shoot again while the first projectile is still there (it takes a little too long for it to settle)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I had a problem that sometimes when I was out of ammo the game would not reset. (A simple reload did fix that.)"},{"author_name":"sputnikgames","author_uid":"37026","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 12:07am","epoch":1398729720,"text":"Thanks for the feedback everyone.  I totally agree with many of you. :)  \r<br\/>\r<br\/>Fixed a few bugs today especially the the end of levels\/no ammo bug.  Game ended at level four instead of level five bug fixed.  There wasn't supposed to be a floor so that was a bug too.  Can't remember why I left that on. :\/"},{"author_name":"pancakecity","author_uid":"28537","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 1:55am","epoch":1398736200,"text":"Good idea!"},{"author_name":"petey123567","author_uid":"4433","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 4:30am","epoch":1398745500,"text":"Full game loop takes a bit too long; I keep saying &quot;c'mon, c'mon, I know I missed, c'mooon&quot;"},{"author_name":"PoQA Games","author_uid":"22866","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 5:25am","epoch":1398835200,"text":"Very challenging, but fun. Took a while for the balls to disappear though, would be nice to have multiple shots at the same time."},{"author_name":"PaperBlurt","author_uid":"26530","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 6:54am","epoch":1398840540,"text":"Real innovative and fun and extremely easy to learn!\r<br\/>Great job!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Like this kind of puzzle games and there are so many ways to solve it. Wanna hit two rats with one ball!"},{"author_name":"snooze82","author_uid":"12061","time":"May 2, 2014 @ 7:54am","epoch":1399016940,"text":"hard one - got till level 4. the ball isnt aligned with the cannon - that makes it more difficult to aim"},{"author_name":"alwaysinbeta","author_uid":"9420","time":"May 5, 2014 @ 11:19pm","epoch":1399331640,"text":"Really good game. Great graphics. Found it quite tough having to start from the first level again. Needs audio!"},{"author_name":"loxo","author_uid":"23206","time":"May 19, 2014 @ 4:16pm","epoch":1400515860,"text":"I like the concept of the game very much. But the game feels really hard. I finished the first level instantly, but after dying in the second level I never managed to beat the first level again."}],"images":["ld29\/37026-6580a62736f39ae6663d4dbe6d2089ff.jpg","ld29\/37026-9cde905655e7bbbff0192a27659c1e0f.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.sputnikgames.com\/ludumdare","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.sputnikgames.com\/ludumdare\/EffinRats.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"20484","g_author":"37026","g_event":"LD29","g_eventkey":"22","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"20513","g_title":"Effin' Rats","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"1036","g_commentcount":"23","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\/37026-shot0.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/37026-shot1.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"A five level physics puzzler.  Shoot the rats off their perch to clean the underground maze of pipes.\r\n\r\nTools used: Phaser 2.0.2, Photoshop, Visual Studio Web, Typescript\/Javascript\/HTML5\r\n\r\nGame was written in typescript and the translatedjavascript output is what's used online.","title":"Effin' Rats"}