{"author_link":"\/author\/folis\/","author_name":"Folis","author_uid":"2494","comments":[{"author_name":"torcado194","author_uid":"5839","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 12:09am","epoch":1367193840,"text":"pretty fun! but seemed kinda finicky to me"},{"author_name":"DDDBOMBER","author_uid":"13768","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 7:12am","epoch":1367219220,"text":"Nice game, though sometimes it was sometimes hard to cut it at the right time"},{"author_name":"Hemuuuli","author_uid":"12944","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 7:45am","epoch":1367221200,"text":"Cutting the rope doesn't always work really well. Makes it annoying to play. :\/"},{"author_name":"SuperlevelSebastian","author_uid":"23031","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 1:52pm","epoch":1367243220,"text":"Same problems. Nice concept though."},{"author_name":"kewry","author_uid":"12789","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 11:53am","epoch":1367322480,"text":"I like it, quite challenging and minimalistic. Something I'd probably add would be 'R' for restarting and instead of a click cut you could draw a line then when the player releases the LMB you'd perform the cut.\r<br\/>The swing losing it's momentum adds some sort of urgency to the game, maybe you could use that for more &quot;timing&quot; cuts."},{"author_name":"theplotlessplot","author_uid":"17880","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 11:56am","epoch":1367322660,"text":"Challenging, but fun!\r<br\/>Cutting the rope doesn't always work and it can be frustrating, but I was able to get to the end. Great job!"},{"author_name":"raincole","author_uid":"17708","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 12:04pm","epoch":1367323140,"text":"Good job. Did you use any physical engine or you just rolled your own?"},{"author_name":"Siewart","author_uid":"10724","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 12:28pm","epoch":1367324580,"text":"Same problems, still fund :)"},{"author_name":"Tipyx","author_uid":"20954","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 12:29pm","epoch":1367324640,"text":"Too hard to cuuuuuut ! But nice :)"},{"author_name":"Pinkerator","author_uid":"23092","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 12:29pm","epoch":1367324640,"text":"Cutting the rope works rarely, and not sure that I get &quot;target&quot; on every level, but this game have potential"},{"author_name":"Puffi","author_uid":"5300","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 12:33pm","epoch":1367324880,"text":"I like the concept, but as mentioned before, sometimes the cutting detection is bit wonky.\r<br\/>Noticed that the ball goes totally berserk when left arrow key is held down which I thought was funny :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Overall nice job!"},{"author_name":"Magnus","author_uid":"3935","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 12:33pm","epoch":1367324880,"text":"Pretty fun, though I think I spent more time on level ~5 or something than all the other levels combined."},{"author_name":"Puffi","author_uid":"5300","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 12:33pm","epoch":1367324880,"text":"I like the concept, but as mentioned before, sometimes the cutting detection is bit wonky.\r<br\/>Noticed that the ball goes totally berserk when left arrow key is held down which I thought was funny :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Overall nice job!"},{"author_name":"Kvisle","author_uid":"3818","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 12:37pm","epoch":1367325120,"text":"I beat it! Pretty nice - I'd love to see the mechanic developed further."},{"author_name":"Hegemege","author_uid":"11022","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 1:47pm","epoch":1367329320,"text":"Pretty challenging and the rope slicing was a gamble, but overall a nice game! Would've been cool to have some more game elements, but I guess it's as minimaslistic as it gets now :)"},{"author_name":"Andrew Shouldice","author_uid":"22249","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 1:57pm","epoch":1367329920,"text":"Neat idea! Rope cutting was indeed tricky, but I actually really enjoyed having to interpret the level to discover where the goal was."},{"author_name":"nilstastic","author_uid":"2443","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 6:30pm","epoch":1367346300,"text":"Pros: Nice idea and the graphics was very &quot;moody&quot;. =)\r<br\/>Cons: Flawed cut-detection (as you probably know) and music would have added a lot to the mood.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>All in all a fun game where better hit detection on the cutting would have made it even better. Would very much like to see an ios\/android imlementation since this game is begging for some touch-love. =)"},{"author_name":"Sanguine","author_uid":"4159","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 7:18pm","epoch":1367349180,"text":"Seems like a cool crossover between Cut the Rope and Angry Birds to me. Maybe it'd be cool to have multiple balls in some levels too?"},{"author_name":"Loren","author_uid":"17687","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 7:31pm","epoch":1367349960,"text":"Thank you for not spelling out the objective, that was a great thing to omit and made the game much more enjoyable.Nice job, very fun :)"},{"author_name":"Dmitrix","author_uid":"10093","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 11:28pm","epoch":1367364180,"text":"I like the black and white style and how it is physics based. Of course I experience the same rope cutting problems and stuff though. :P"},{"author_name":"plop","author_uid":"23114","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 1:51pm","epoch":1367415960,"text":"You should update the way you cut the rope. I'm not sure how you do it now but it won't always work for me. Try using a vector starting at the point in which the user pressed the mouse button, ending at the point where the user released.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>It was pretty fun to play. A tip would be to try to vary the gameplay a bit or get some other variations in there with a matching text ;)"},{"author_name":"PTSnoop","author_uid":"11718","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 7:10pm","epoch":1367435100,"text":"Like some other people, I had some clipping problems when slicing the rope. I found it generally worked best when I moved the mouse slowly or not at all, instead of going with my instincts and flailing wildly. But apart from that slight niggle, a very fun game! I'd love to see a longer post-LD version."},{"author_name":"Foxtacy","author_uid":"12398","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 5:24am","epoch":1367558340,"text":"WHOA i like this idea so much!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>But there's a few tweaks you can do.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>If only you make the mouse collision with the rope, enough to cut it, this will be PERFECT.  ^_^"},{"author_name":"tikilittle","author_uid":"22639","time":"May 5, 2013 @ 6:11pm","epoch":1367777160,"text":"I really like the idea, but cutting the rope only seemed to work if I cut really really close to to the ball."},{"author_name":"tcstyle","author_uid":"4834","time":"May 20, 2013 @ 9:00pm","epoch":1369083300,"text":"Great idea. The controls make it unnecessary difficult."}],"images":["ld26\/2494-d44e10d034782f176c306425440254f7.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.blechi.at\/pixelspade\/games\/misc\/LD26\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.blechi.at\/pixelspade\/games\/misc\/LD26\/Flingler.gmz","text":"Source (.GMZ)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"27269","g_author":"2494","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"27299","g_title":"Flingler","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"634","g_commentcount":"25","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\/2494-shot0.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"NOTE: I edited Level 5 to be easier, due to insane difficulty. This falls under the \"My game is unbeatable\" section of the notes below the comments.\r\n\r\nFlingler is a small physics based game, where your goal is to get the ball at the end of the rope onto the grey-dithered field by cutting the rope at the right time (do so by holding the left mouse button and moving your cursor over the rope; It's a bit unresponsive at times, though)!\r\n\r\nSadly I didn't have any possibility to get some music in. (So rate Sound however you want.)\r\n\r\nGreetings!<\/p>","title":"Flingler"}