{"author_link":"\/author\/spotco\/","author_name":"spotco","author_uid":"35477","comments":[{"author_name":"trueyomic","author_uid":"16892","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 4:01am","epoch":1398657360,"text":"Pretty fun game. The only beef I have with it is that it is too hard to control. I got far into the child penguin stage before I died and gave up. It would have been 10x better with WASD + mouse controls."},{"author_name":"spotco","author_uid":"35477","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 5:20am","epoch":1398662100,"text":"Thanks! I'll probably add that if I work on it some more (kinda want to add a "challenge" mode, and I'll put it up on FGL)."},{"author_name":"Reinkout","author_uid":"34458","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 7:56am","epoch":1398671460,"text":"Great graphics! The controls are a bit tough. Other than that, i liked it :)"},{"author_name":"Spierek","author_uid":"14319","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 7:57am","epoch":1398671520,"text":"Neat, though steering and firing at the same time is hard. One thing that bugged me is that drop rate for 1UPs is too high - during a single round I could easily get like 5 lives before dying."},{"author_name":"DustyStylus","author_uid":"15902","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 7:59am","epoch":1398671640,"text":"Agreed with trueyomic, a beautiful game though! Alas, my reaction times don't get any faster as I get older. An 'old farts' mode would be welcome. :D"},{"author_name":"Mihael Medan","author_uid":"18134","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 8:02am","epoch":1398671820,"text":"It's really fun, I like it!"},{"author_name":"halfmage","author_uid":"31988","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 8:02am","epoch":1398671820,"text":"Well done! I really enjoyed it to play this game"},{"author_name":"SkyWolf","author_uid":"18222","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 8:10am","epoch":1398672300,"text":"Penguins that shoot whatever that is, you sir, win the internet :P"},{"author_name":"monaarc","author_uid":"34192","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 10:56am","epoch":1398682260,"text":"I'm a JellyFish Killer !!! Cool game, the controls are juste a bit hard"},{"author_name":"Nnoel","author_uid":"34581","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 12:16am","epoch":1398730260,"text":"Really fun game. Like others have said, the movement is difficult to master. Needs a focus button."},{"author_name":"Pinktreeleaf","author_uid":"27800","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 6:24am","epoch":1398752340,"text":"Loving this game. can't say it's too complex, but the turning feels right, the graphics have a minor realism to it; i guess its the shading. The audio is fitting."},{"author_name":"spotco","author_uid":"35477","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 10:30am","epoch":1398767100,"text":"Thanks! The audio turned out surprisingly well for being 100% autotracker.py (which I discovered 2 hours before the deadline...)"},{"author_name":"Jonochrome","author_uid":"36840","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 10:57am","epoch":1398768720,"text":"Free-range bullet hell starring a penguin. I don't even. I like how the gameplay feels even though I don't have the skills to play this game well."},{"author_name":"popogames","author_uid":"28961","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 11:12am","epoch":1398769620,"text":"Nice game. Took some time to master the controls, but the game play is really nice. The music doesn't fit the theme though."},{"author_name":"tomvert","author_uid":"18469","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 11:27am","epoch":1398770520,"text":"Nice simple game, I loved giving all the fish."},{"author_name":"Blokatt","author_uid":"35237","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 1:33pm","epoch":1398778080,"text":"I loved everything about this one.\rWell done!"},{"author_name":"Pinktreeleaf","author_uid":"27800","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 2:58pm","epoch":1398783180,"text":"Your profile is Gogo from Final Fantasy 6. Awesome!"},{"author_name":"bvanschooten","author_uid":"14520","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 5:56pm","epoch":1398793860,"text":"One of the best games I've played yet! I would have liked to see more colour in the enemies, and pressing 'z' 120 times when giving the fish seems a little pointless. But other than that, great fun!"},{"author_name":"stvr","author_uid":"26473","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 6:32pm","epoch":1398796020,"text":"Aww! Penguins are rad. Very simple, but I did like that there was a low punishment for failure, with a "game over" only resulting in a level restart and no serious penalty before that."},{"author_name":"NoorStudios","author_uid":"36119","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 8:25pm","epoch":1398802800,"text":"I have a soft spot for penguin games =) This was a lot of fun, good job!"},{"author_name":"Vandash","author_uid":"12329","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 10:36pm","epoch":1398810660,"text":"Nice game. If you lose all your fish when you die, then you've got a nice risk\/reward mechanic, what with being able to go up at any time. Good job!"},{"author_name":"namuol","author_uid":"12236","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 11:52pm","epoch":1398815220,"text":"Played to completion! Being a penguin is hard. Great job!"},{"author_name":"savethejets1","author_uid":"15315","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 4:05am","epoch":1398830400,"text":"Fun Simple game!"},{"author_name":"01010111","author_uid":"11474","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 5:12am","epoch":1398834420,"text":"penguin bullet hell? this is awesome :D love the way you can return to the title screen."},{"author_name":"Daniel X. Moore","author_uid":"2816","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 6:43am","epoch":1398839880,"text":"Crazy and fast paced! I got a little bored of just spinnig in circles and shooting though."},{"author_name":"jrap","author_uid":"35879","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 6:44am","epoch":1398839940,"text":"ITS'S AN ANTARCTIC SHMUP"},{"author_name":"Solifuge","author_uid":"22357","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 7:42am","epoch":1398843420,"text":"Hi, this is Vector from the Victory Garden team! (posting under Solifuge's account) \r\rMan, I love a cute danmaku game. The idea is great, it's adorable, I like the pace. Touhou controls are fine, though the penguin rotates in a way that's difficult to maneuver. Music and SFX are a bit unbalanced, too, while the backing track didn't quite seem to suit your mood.\r\rThing is, though, I can't really understand why I was collecting fish--I got to 46\/25 and nothing in particular happened (I'm looking at the comments below--it seems that you're supposed to feed the penguin on the surface, but there's no indicator that you'd be able to do that).\r\rPre-post edit:\r\rOkay, I went back and played a bit longer, getting to the baby penguin level, which I probably played about 5 times. Most of the jellyfish are clustered on the edge of the screen, hence most of the fish and powerups they spit out, and a hell of a lot of bullets. However, you have an ocean current there. Getting blown into danmaku over and over again was really frustrating, so I'd say the number one thing is, for this adorable game--do something else about the edges, perhaps? Otherwise, I love the theme, the general setup, the concept. I got pretty involved in playing! So, thank you for the experience."},{"author_name":"x1212","author_uid":"25277","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 8:18am","epoch":1398845580,"text":"Yay, I always wanted to play a game with whale-hunting pingus :D\rGreat audio and storytelling (I consider this growing the child thing a story)."},{"author_name":"xdegtyarev","author_uid":"5862","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 9:29am","epoch":1398849840,"text":"A Great take on bullethell shooters! Controlls are not as good as they should be for a game of this type, but overall the game is pretty fun."},{"author_name":"Jeffalisk","author_uid":"11298","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 9:40am","epoch":1398850500,"text":"Man that second level was tough, but helping the penguin to build his family was the perfect incentive to keep going right to the end. There was no way I was going to let the baby penguin down!\r\rReally enjoyed that. Great job. If you could port this to the Vita and add twin stick controls, I would 100% buy it. :)"},{"author_name":"madflame991","author_uid":"5035","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 9:47am","epoch":1398850920,"text":"+ fun and simple\r+ challenging levels, with a nice story (life's tough if you're a penguin mom)\r- gathering large amounts of fish gets tedious after a while"},{"author_name":"rylgh","author_uid":"15833","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 9:52am","epoch":1398851220,"text":"realllyyyy liked this. good energy system, diagonal spray shots took skill, liked the little beating heart hitbox.\rdidn't understand why bullet-time was in there though (seemed unlimited?) so i just didn't use it.\ralso think it'd be good if your dash could hurt enemies (either that or you die touching them, felt weird just dashing into them and nothing happening)"},{"author_name":"dsoft20","author_uid":"8795","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 9:56am","epoch":1398851460,"text":"Nice entry :D , great graphics."},{"author_name":"zkenshin","author_uid":"12839","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 2:21am","epoch":1398910560,"text":"Cute game, and neat idea. :)"},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"27744","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 6:19pm","epoch":1398968040,"text":"Really cute, fun game! I included your game in part 6 of my Ludum Dare compilation video series! http:\/\/youtu.be\/K5ATRciKj24"},{"author_name":"ThingoStudios","author_uid":"31541","time":"May 2, 2014 @ 2:24am","epoch":1398997140,"text":"I found this one hilarious. The giant fish that fired out huge blasts of energy like a Megaman enemy made me laugh much, much harder than I should have. Good music. Very enjoyable game play, if not a bit repetitive."},{"author_name":"Thorig","author_uid":"14618","time":"May 2, 2014 @ 10:42am","epoch":1399027020,"text":"Nice game, the controls are fine."},{"author_name":"PaperBlurt","author_uid":"26530","time":"May 3, 2014 @ 9:22am","epoch":1399108620,"text":"Hey I mean penguins are always penguins.\r\rLike the animations..."},{"author_name":"dector","author_uid":"9598","time":"May 3, 2014 @ 2:26pm","epoch":1399126860,"text":"Cool graphics. And challenging game."},{"author_name":"ehtd","author_uid":"11246","time":"May 3, 2014 @ 5:23pm","epoch":1399137480,"text":"I really like bullet hell games, just my type of game to play after work. Good job!"},{"author_name":"DonovanWu","author_uid":"36681","time":"May 3, 2014 @ 6:44pm","epoch":1399142340,"text":"After I know the dash trick the game feels easier. While I used to think the game is hard, now I find the level difficulty balance is very well done and challenges players in a good way!"},{"author_name":"Maschinen-Mensch","author_uid":"33058","time":"May 3, 2014 @ 8:09pm","epoch":1399147440,"text":"Holy cow this is the penguin shmup I never knew I wanted! Really nice idea with guiding the player along trough the different stages."},{"author_name":"petey123567","author_uid":"4433","time":"May 4, 2014 @ 6:40am","epoch":1399185300,"text":"Solid entry! Protip: Z and Y are switched on European keyboards - best to sample both."},{"author_name":"Oddly Shaped Pixels","author_uid":"33840","time":"May 4, 2014 @ 10:54am","epoch":1399200540,"text":"Super polished controls and gameplay. The persistence and seeing your family grow is a super idea! Great job!"},{"author_name":"hyouko","author_uid":"31859","time":"May 4, 2014 @ 4:09pm","epoch":1399219440,"text":"Fun, and it has plot progression (of a sort)! The hitbox feels a bit big for a typical danmaku game, which makes it pretty hard to dodge some of the burst attacks."},{"author_name":"spotco","author_uid":"35477","time":"May 5, 2014 @ 12:18am","epoch":1399248780,"text":"You're supposed to use the "dash" button to get out of the hairiest situations (you can dash to destroy bullets). It's mentioned in the controls popup, but in retrospect should have made a in-game text popup to make sure it wasn't missable.\r\rThe game's probably pretty damn hard without it!"},{"author_name":"LemmingSurvivor","author_uid":"24803","time":"May 6, 2014 @ 2:02pm","epoch":1399384620,"text":"Controls are a bit floaty - which makes sense, but makes it hard to squeeze through gaps. Felt like more of a problem with the mouse controls, actually - keyboard ended up being easier to me.\r\rThe surfacing mechanic puts a nice spin to the idea, and takes away a lot of the frustration.\r\rGood work."},{"author_name":"MaesK","author_uid":"30782","time":"May 11, 2014 @ 8:50pm","epoch":1399841100,"text":"Great game! I couldnt stop until I finished it! (with a joypad, it was harder with a keyboard)\r\rIt is addictive, it has a good mechanic, and it has penguins! What else could it need? :P"},{"author_name":"King_Mew","author_uid":"34967","time":"May 12, 2014 @ 2:08am","epoch":1399860180,"text":"Fun game! It got a bit boring after a while. Solid gameplay and great graphics though!"},{"author_name":"udo","author_uid":"6821","time":"May 13, 2014 @ 7:02pm","epoch":1400007420,"text":"That was fun! At first I walked up to the other penguin who said "click" but I was empty. Maybe it should say something else in that case... Anyway, good work!"},{"author_name":"ActionRemix","author_uid":"31866","time":"May 14, 2014 @ 12:42pm","epoch":1400071020,"text":"Whew, I beat it! The penguin seemed to be magnetized to a random direction - this increased the difficulty tremendously. Cute level transition."},{"author_name":"ohsqueezy","author_uid":"10718","time":"May 14, 2014 @ 4:31pm","epoch":1400084760,"text":"Go to the surface, feed the baby, dive back into another maniacal killing spree!!"},{"author_name":"Nanolotl","author_uid":"4470","time":"May 17, 2014 @ 2:11am","epoch":1400292360,"text":"Quite a fun Danmaku game. The controls when near the edge of the screen felt really weird though."}],"images":["ld29\/35477-974c8a3e815dac6ea94de60e5df6f183.jpg","ld29\/35477-acb6efb632313b65614163475202fb8e.jpg","ld29\/35477-c28c2208f065333612a93b7a44ecbdf4.jpg","ld29\/35477-15d5365ef49108126ce568fbef7144f4.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/spotcos.com\/penguin\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/spotco\/pingouin_shooter","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"20561","g_author":"35477","g_event":"LD29","g_eventkey":"22","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"20590","g_title":"Maniac PengMaku!!","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"176","g_commentcount":"53","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\/35477-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/35477-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/35477-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/35477-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Maniac PengMaku!\r\n\r\nMade in 48 hours for the Ludum Dare 29 Compo by SPOTCO\r\n\r\nUpdate: Added mouse controls due to popular demand!\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.spotcos.com\r\nhttp:\/\/www.twitter.com\/spotco","title":"Maniac PengMaku!!"}