{"author_link":"\/author\/robmozart\/","author_name":"robmozart","author_uid":"21059","comments":[{"author_name":"puttputt","author_uid":"22072","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:07pm","epoch":1367258520,"text":"Interesting concept. Kind of hard to switch between notes.\r\rWorked good on 10.8."},{"author_name":"Exclamation Mark","author_uid":"22286","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:30pm","epoch":1367259900,"text":"Hmmmm.... Well I do love the out of the box thinking and creativity, square peg in a round hole and all that but I find this a bit too outlandish?"},{"author_name":"Merkoth","author_uid":"22272","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:32pm","epoch":1367260020,"text":"Feels a little buggy right now, but it's a nice idea. You should provide Windows binaries too, though."},{"author_name":"hnjslater","author_uid":"16286","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:36pm","epoch":1367260260,"text":"Pretty and soundy enough but I didn't understand what I was supposed to be doing :-("},{"author_name":"robmozart","author_uid":"21059","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 9:06pm","epoch":1367269260,"text":"Thanks for the feedback everybody!\r\rYes, objective of the game is not well defined, and the collision detection and movement programming is pretty clumsy. I tried to keep the idea and execution simple but I ran out of time before I could make something coherent."},{"author_name":"nilstastic","author_uid":"2443","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 10:22am","epoch":1367317020,"text":"Pros: Liked the graphics! (beeing old helps) =)\rCons: What was the point of the game? A bit unfinished?"},{"author_name":"robmozart","author_uid":"21059","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 2:17pm","epoch":1367331120,"text":"nilstastic: A bit unfinished, yes. I ran out of time and was not able to make the gameplay interesting."},{"author_name":"boboKat","author_uid":"20222","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 3:03pm","epoch":1367333880,"text":"Looks cool but I'm not up to the Mac install. Perhaps add a gameplay video?"},{"author_name":"metadept","author_uid":"15489","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 5:05pm","epoch":1367341200,"text":"I like the concept, but I kind of wish the notes didn't fire when switching velocity, so that I could play actual tunes. Also it seems like adding some gravity (so the notes curve downward) and\/or reversing the incline of the stairs would help make it easier to target individual stairs. Hope you keep developing this idea!"},{"author_name":"Tanius","author_uid":"21178","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 5:14pm","epoch":1367341740,"text":"Nice kind of interaction. The only thing i don't get is how you compute the score, or what is the target, but i thing is because is unfinished. It's a nice start, spend more time on it!"},{"author_name":"cardboard","author_uid":"16294","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 2:20am","epoch":1367460900,"text":"This is actually quite enjoyable. I really like the graphics, and I feel like this could be pretty unique and cool if you finish it up."},{"author_name":"TheCze","author_uid":"17841","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 9:09pm","epoch":1367528640,"text":"A game play video would be nice if you can't get a port working. The graphics look nice!"},{"author_name":"Pixelfan Games","author_uid":"20908","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 11:29pm","epoch":1367623440,"text":"I love the graphics, good concept i think this game can be more amazing. Good Job!"},{"author_name":"goerp","author_uid":"14225","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 6:07pm","epoch":1367690520,"text":"Clean simple graphics. I would try it if it were for windows as well."},{"author_name":"matthias_zarzecki","author_uid":"3880","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 6:10pm","epoch":1367690700,"text":"Ahh, the rare Mac-only-game. It's sad not many people will be able to play it :("},{"author_name":"tony.pe","author_uid":"11037","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 6:25pm","epoch":1367691600,"text":"Looks neat, don't have a Mac. Wish I could play it. :("},{"author_name":"DBRalir","author_uid":"10296","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 7:44pm","epoch":1367696340,"text":"Seems to work fine on Linux when run from source."},{"author_name":"Prelucid","author_uid":"17759","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 8:47pm","epoch":1367700120,"text":"Cool idea. Seems like we should have one more button!"},{"author_name":"Cybearg","author_uid":"22470","time":"May 5, 2013 @ 4:21am","epoch":1367727360,"text":"Looks neat! Wish I could play it."},{"author_name":"daniel2357","author_uid":"21129","time":"May 5, 2013 @ 7:47am","epoch":1367739720,"text":"Don't have OS X."},{"author_name":"Kvisle","author_uid":"3818","time":"May 8, 2013 @ 9:53pm","epoch":1368049680,"text":"Got this to run in Linux without any big problems - just had to install the missing packages. For me, in Ubuntu 13.04 that was python-pyglet and libavbin0 ...\r\rAs you say, it's unfinished - but you've got something going on, I like that."},{"author_name":"lorancou","author_uid":"8588","time":"May 18, 2013 @ 6:26pm","epoch":1368901260,"text":"Don't have a mac :\/"}],"images":["ld26\/21059-fc7f3a4bed9756eed9d17d18b8c50742.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/541595\/PianoStairs%20OS%20X.zip","text":"OS X"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/541595\/pianostairs.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"26947","g_author":"21059","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"26977","g_title":"Piano Stairs","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"1307","g_commentcount":"22","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\/\/233892\/21059-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Notes are blasted out of a trumpet onto a stair of piano tangents. Ehm, at the end of the stairs there's a little pond thingy. The only thing a player controls is the speed of the notes blasted out of the trumpet.\r\nI tried to keep the ambitions low but I still ran out of time. The gameplay is not finished at all but I'm happy about the layout and visual stuff regarding the theme.\r\n\r\nThis is my first time doing Ludum Dare. It's actually my first game ever.\r\n\r\nThe OS X executable should work on 10.7 and 10.8. I'm not sure about 10.6, let me know if you try it.\r\n\r\nI'll try to make a Windows port.\r\n\r\n\r\nLibrary, tools:\r\n\r\nPyglet\r\nSublime Text 2\r\nPhotoshop\r\nAbleton Live\r\n\r\n\r\nTimelapse video: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vq6qpnMj-xQ<\/p>","title":"Piano Stairs"}