{"author_link":"\/author\/velro\/","author_name":"Velro","author_uid":"25399","comments":[{"author_name":"timtipgames","author_uid":"15341","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 3:42am","epoch":1377488220,"text":"This is really difficult! I was lost once there were three lines. Two things I would have loved to see: Better feedback on what "the game" thinks I am doing right and an easier mode :) Not bad for a "first "finished" game" game :)"},{"author_name":"oajfh","author_uid":"26844","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 10:12pm","epoch":1377554820,"text":"Quite a nice idea, an audio-based game. However, no real ending, and I managed to get through by mashing the keys (sorry). I quite liked this game, anyway."},{"author_name":"Velro","author_uid":"25399","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 11:38pm","epoch":1377559980,"text":"@oajfh It's intended to be fun and somewhat educational. I didn't want to punish anyone for not having ridiculous hand coordination. It's cool if you facerolled your way through it :)"},{"author_name":"Canobie","author_uid":"16998","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 6:11pm","epoch":1377626760,"text":"I couldn't run it! It just flashed up and closed. (Mac 10.7)"},{"author_name":"doonay21","author_uid":"18952","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 6:17pm","epoch":1377627120,"text":"Hell no, too difficult for me ;) I will always have some love for music games! Nice work!"},{"author_name":"Velro","author_uid":"25399","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 1:44am","epoch":1377653940,"text":"@Canobie Sorry about that, I'm not sure why it's doing that. I haven't been able to try it on a Mac. Its a Java game so I orginally thought it'd work on all platforms. Now that I'm researching I'm seeing there is a conversion process. Sorry for the confusion, I'll try uploading a converted version tomorrow. Thanks for the feedback on this!"},{"author_name":"Mekuri","author_uid":"20130","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 8:53pm","epoch":1377722880,"text":"Damn, this game gets difficult fast! At least for someone with very little instrument experience. I really like the idea though."},{"author_name":"namrog84","author_uid":"4313","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 7:42am","epoch":1377761820,"text":"Extremely difficult. Wasn't sure which key to be pushing most of the time. No visual recognition if i was doing right or wrong (aside number up top?, not near where my eyes are focused)"},{"author_name":"Almax27","author_uid":"21581","time":"Aug 31, 2013 @ 11:35pm","epoch":1377991800,"text":"While I play drum myself and would have no problem on a drum kit, it's very very difficult on a keyboard :)"},{"author_name":"X-0r","author_uid":"25053","time":"Aug 31, 2013 @ 11:37pm","epoch":1377991920,"text":"I wonder if it's easier on actual drums... It's totally challenging, looks much easier on the screenshot :P"},{"author_name":"ArcturusDeluxe","author_uid":"26098","time":"Sep 1, 2013 @ 12:16am","epoch":1377994260,"text":"Even though I make music myself (although I don't play actual instruments much) this was hard as hell. I could manage when the cymbal rides came in, but then the cymbal crashes as well, ouch. Interesting take on the theme though."},{"author_name":"Arcana","author_uid":"22457","time":"Sep 1, 2013 @ 12:24am","epoch":1377994740,"text":"Holy crap, that was difficult. Like the others I wasn't really able to tell if I was doing well or not. I do finger drumming on drum pads once in a while but I couldn't get through the four instrument types!\r\rI do like the idea and I'm glad that someone submitted a rhythm game for this theme."},{"author_name":"Velro","author_uid":"25399","time":"Sep 1, 2013 @ 7:14am","epoch":1378019340,"text":"The feedback I was trying to give was the color changing. When its black your on a "streak" and when it goes back to the original color you missed one.plus I couldn't change individual note colors. At the time I didn't know how to make particle effects, which would have been great for this. If I can get it to fit the theme I'm hoping to do another music game."},{"author_name":"Empyrealhell","author_uid":"26650","time":"Sep 4, 2013 @ 9:23am","epoch":1378286280,"text":"The controls felt a bit awkwardly laid out, there was no way I was hitting all four of those keys in rapid succession. It was a blast, though."},{"author_name":"psychomonster","author_uid":"17723","time":"Sep 8, 2013 @ 12:17am","epoch":1378599120,"text":"What da ... this is fucking hard... but hey I think there are music loving gamers who can play this! Looks good..."},{"author_name":"TeamQuadratic","author_uid":"18547","time":"Sep 8, 2013 @ 12:18am","epoch":1378599180,"text":"No idea what I was doing half the time, but I made it through by button mashing :P Cool game."},{"author_name":"galman","author_uid":"5971","time":"Sep 10, 2013 @ 7:24pm","epoch":1378840740,"text":"I really like the idea, but it's to hard already at the beginning :P"},{"author_name":"Wertle","author_uid":"22452","time":"Sep 11, 2013 @ 4:21am","epoch":1378872960,"text":"Apparently my capacity to retain tracks of rhythm information stops at 3, but I'm glad the drum sounds made it good for flailing frantically :) I had a little trouble with the color feedback for the lines, I couldn't tell if color or black meant "success" or "miss" Nice work overall!"},{"author_name":"geekdrums","author_uid":"25923","time":"Sep 16, 2013 @ 3:40pm","epoch":1379345700,"text":"I wanted to challenge more! (by a drummer)"}],"images":["ld27\/25399-87fb91926a6f35dcb2a4b14ea6a4f9d0.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/zltdtb03ic3h4bx\/KeyboardSlap.jar","text":"Windows (Executable JAR)"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/Velro\/KeyboardSlap","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"24825","g_author":"25399","g_event":"LD27","g_eventkey":"18","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"24855","g_title":"Keyboard Slap","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"937","g_commentcount":"19","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\/\/273708\/25399-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"A fun rhythm game using Libgdx and Freesound.org samples.","title":"Keyboard Slap"}