{"author_link":"\/users\/loyance","author_name":"loyance","author_uid":"1001404","comments":[{"author_name":"bluewingtitan","author_uid":"1074040","time":"2018-04-23T15:16:23Z","epoch":1524496583,"modified":1524496659,"text":"Its a good idea, but it's still very boring. Also your score always shows a bunch of 9s if you die. Its okay, but nothing very great. Also the graphics are not really sharp. As a tipp: In unity, you can tell unity to render the sprites without a upscaling-filter. As a result, you'll get much sharper graphics. Also, think about telling the player how to play on the gamestart, or about adding the choise to use a controller to play. In unity, it's actually very simple: just use the input-manager and setup the joystick-buttons.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Apples_mmmmmmmm","author_uid":"1005769","time":"2018-04-24T04:12:49Z","epoch":1524543169,"modified":1524543169,"text":"Seems like it could be pretty interesting, but the mechanics seem a bit un-intuitive. I also couldn't really tell how many times I could fire different types of weapons, but maybe I was just missing something.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"johnnyjw","author_uid":"1055229","time":"2018-04-24T04:16:46Z","epoch":1524543406,"modified":1524543406,"text":"A lot of the collisions were a bit weird and so was the shooting. Just a little more polishing and it could be great","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Jack Hipson","author_uid":"1075944","time":"2018-04-24T04:21:01Z","epoch":1524543661,"modified":1524543661,"text":"The audio is amazing! The rest of the game isn't all that interesting though. I feel like its already been done. The graphics are good but a bit blurry. Overall, it's a good game but could use a bit more gameplay elements.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Chris Coe","author_uid":"1037263","time":"2018-04-24T04:21:49Z","epoch":1524543709,"modified":1524543709,"text":"Pretty nifty concept. To me though, it was very challenging. I couldn't complete a lap without cheats. Groovy music and background. ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"ZuhairGhias","author_uid":"1085869","time":"2018-04-24T04:23:52Z","epoch":1524543832,"modified":1524543832,"text":"Nice one! This would be really fun with a joystick to shoot. Loved the visuals and art style. Kinda reminded me of F-Zero with all the effects and stuff. Fun.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"ErikU","author_uid":"1013392","time":"2018-04-24T04:24:00Z","epoch":1524543840,"modified":1524543840,"text":"Nice game you've got here. A decent mashup of genres. The racing component seems to be more to yourself, but I could definitely see thing being multiplayer. If I had two suggestions, it would be to make the turning radius sharper and make it so that hitting a wall causes you to glide along it rather than kill all of your momentum. Had a bit of fun with the cheat codes as well. Congrats.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Deadly Apps","author_uid":"1079070","time":"2018-04-24T04:34:04Z","epoch":1524544444,"modified":1524544444,"text":"Controls not intuitive. Game was fun but could be a little more Shmup'y... multi bullets and powerups you collect as you drive could be better than the giant bullet that needs to be fired from mouse? Good use to of the theme though.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Drell","author_uid":"1090315","time":"2018-04-24T22:44:06Z","epoch":1524609846,"modified":1524609846,"text":"Interesting combo of themes! I felt it a little hard to shoot and the UI could use a little work. The idea def has potential tho! ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"tomdeal","author_uid":"1005275","time":"2018-04-24T22:59:26Z","epoch":1524610766,"modified":1524610766,"text":"6246468. Dont know if it is a good score, but I'm proud of it :-) Nice game, I like the sound and the mix between shooting and racing. I had some problems with the controls, mainly the unresponsive shooting mechanism and the turn radius of the vehicle. It is hard to collect the drops when you circle around them all the time. Also, I got stuck a couple of times in the wall. Maybe I'm not a good driver :-) But otherwise, very well done!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Suboptimalplay","author_uid":"1067183","time":"2018-04-24T23:07:11Z","epoch":1524611231,"modified":1524611231,"text":"This was a lot of fun! It had that addictive element that made me want to keep coming back to beat my old high score. Graphics and music were nice, nothing too fancy. I think The connection to the theme was a little tenuous, it didn't really feel like a racing game at all. Overall, very good!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"MartinTristan","author_uid":"1028855","time":"2018-04-25T02:38:01Z","epoch":1524623881,"modified":1524623881,"text":"pretty cool concept. the controls could use some tweaking :D","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"MegRabbit","author_uid":"1075600","time":"2018-04-25T02:48:21Z","epoch":1524624501,"modified":1524624501,"text":"I don't think you quite captured the combined themes - there wasn't really a sense that it was a racing game, but the music was great and I really enjoyed playing it.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"sndr","author_uid":"1052002","time":"2018-04-25T18:31:14Z","epoch":1524681074,"modified":1524681088,"text":"Blend between those two mechanics seems interesting, although I didn't quite get the feeling that it was a race. More like a path full of obstacles that did create some tension. Controls probably need some polishing, but the music was cool and it had the potential to create some cool ambience.","likes":1,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld41\/77864-ed15c7b5d5b9444bf5f7c4e47fb09f49.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/HaselLoyance\/LD41","text":"Source code"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/HaselLoyance\/LD41\/releases\/tag\/1.1","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/HaselLoyance\/LD41\/releases\/tag\/1.1","text":"Linux"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/HaselLoyance\/LD41\/releases\/tag\/1.1","text":"macOS"},{"url":"https:\/\/haselloyance.github.io\/0_LD41\/HTML5\/","text":"HTML5 (web)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"38275","g_author":"1001404","g_event":"LD41","g_eventkey":"72","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"221578","g_title":"Blast Me To The Finish","g_status":"USEAR3","g_place":"581","g_commentcount":"14","g_site2_node_id":"77864","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"77864","n_urlkey":"221578","n_parent":"73256","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/41\/blast-me-to-the-finish","n_slug":"blast-me-to-the-finish","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"1404","n_created":"1523747716","n_modified":"1525694407","n_version":"284699","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":77864,"parent":73256,"superparent":9,"author":1404,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"compo","published":"2018-04-23T01:37:08Z","created":"2018-04-14T23:15:16Z","modified":"2018-05-07T12:00:07Z","version":284699,"slug":"blast-me-to-the-finish","name":"Blast Me To The Finish","body":"![logo.jpg](\/\/\/content\/c75\/z\/10d6d.jpg)\n\n![1.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/c75\/z\/10df5.jpg)\n\n![2.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/c75\/z\/10dff.jpg)\n\n![3.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/c75\/z\/10e04.jpg)\n___\n  \n\ud83d\udca1 **Idea:**  \nHeavily inspired by 2D top-down shooter Touhou and a good old classic Mario Kart, I bring to you a combination of \"shmup\" and racing games genres - *Blast Me To The Finish* (personally, I'm a huge fan of this title, since it combines two genres perfectly). This is a racing game, where you pilot a... plane? Is it a plane??? Or is it a bird? Actually, most likely it's a spaceship. Ah yes, you are piloting a spaceship around the oh-so-familiar racing track with a bunch of barraging projectiles from all the possible directions. Your goal here is simple: get the highest score possible by the end of three laps. Beware though, as the enemies get tougher with each completed lap and crushing into borders of the race track will do you no good.\n  \nKill, collect, dominate and have a blast \ud83d\udca5\n  \n___  \n   \n\u270f\ufe0f **Theme:** Combine 2 Incompatible Genres\n  \n___  \n     \n  \n\ud83c\udfc5 **Features:**\n- *BASICALLY 2 GAMES IN 1. RACING + SHOOTER. BEST DEAL EVER*\n- Several levels of powerful weapons with amazing patterns\n- *DID YOU SEE HOW BIG YOUR SCORES CAN BE? INSANADOS*\n- Colorful and peaceful atmosphere\n- *MAYHEM EVERYWHERE JUST LOOK AT ALL THAT*\n- Replay value\n- Energy bar that allows you to truly unleash your destructing capabilities\n- *THE ENERGY BAR ALSO WORKS AS YOUR HP, SO BE CAREFUL WITH YOUR DECISIONS*\n- Precise controls that will remind so much of Touhou \u2764\ufe0f\n  \n___  \n   \n\ud83c\udfae **Controls:**\n- W - Accelerate forward\n- S - Accelerate backward\n- A - Turn left\n- D - Turn right\n- Left Shift - Uses energy to increase firing rate and movement speed\n- Space - Releases a stream of bullets (the more firing power you have the crazier it'll be)\n- Left Mouse - Releases a more powerful bullet which can destroy all the enemies' bullets in its way\n- Right Click - Uses energy to perform THE MOST POWERFUL ATTACK\u2122\ufe0f\n- Escape - Close the game  \n  \n___  \n  \n\ud83d\udd79 **Cheats:**  \nI find the game to be pretty simple, but sometimes I just want to shoot stuff around me mindlessly, you know? For that I have some cheat codes: \n- 1 - grants infinite energy (the bar at the bottom is always full)\n- 2 - grants maximum firing power (300 out of 300, the sickest attack you will ever see)\n  \n___  \n  \n\ud83c\udfa5 **Timelapse:** Finally got around to making this\n  \nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cAM_QREIcFw  \n  \n___\n  \n*NOTE: MacOS and Linux builds are not tested, so use them at your own risk.*","meta":{"author":[1404],"allow-anonymous-comments":"1","cover":"\/\/\/content\/c75\/z\/10d6d.jpg","link-01":"https:\/\/github.com\/HaselLoyance\/LD41","link-01-tag":"42332","link-02-tag":"42337","link-03-tag":"42341","link-04-tag":"42339","link-05-tag":"42336","link-05-name":"","link-02":"https:\/\/github.com\/HaselLoyance\/LD41\/releases\/tag\/1.1","link-03":"https:\/\/github.com\/HaselLoyance\/LD41\/releases\/tag\/1.1","link-04":"https:\/\/github.com\/HaselLoyance\/LD41\/releases\/tag\/1.1","link-05":"https:\/\/haselloyance.github.io\/0_LD41\/HTML5\/"},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/41\/blast-me-to-the-finish","parents":[1,5,9,73256],"love":0,"notes":14,"notes-timestamp":"2018-04-25T18:31:28Z","grade":{"grade-01":32,"grade-02":33,"grade-03":33,"grade-04":33,"grade-05":33,"grade-06":32,"grade-07":27,"grade-08":32},"magic":{"cool":136.76422573647,"feedback":0,"given":57.75,"grade":31.875,"grade-01-average":2.967,"grade-01-result":581,"grade-02-average":2.532,"grade-02-result":641,"grade-03-average":2.823,"grade-03-result":594,"grade-04-average":2.968,"grade-04-result":598,"grade-05-average":2.677,"grade-05-result":571,"grade-06-average":3.283,"grade-06-result":186,"grade-07-average":1.98,"grade-07-result":526,"grade-08-average":2.733,"grade-08-result":496,"smart":24.27395320024}},"text":"![logo.jpg](\/\/\/content\/c75\/z\/10d6d.jpg)\n\n![1.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/c75\/z\/10df5.jpg)\n\n![2.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/c75\/z\/10dff.jpg)\n\n![3.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/c75\/z\/10e04.jpg)\n___\n  \n\ud83d\udca1 **Idea:**  \nHeavily inspired by 2D top-down shooter Touhou and a good old classic Mario Kart, I bring to you a combination of \"shmup\" and racing games genres - *Blast Me To The Finish* (personally, I'm a huge fan of this title, since it combines two genres perfectly). This is a racing game, where you pilot a... plane? Is it a plane??? Or is it a bird? Actually, most likely it's a spaceship. Ah yes, you are piloting a spaceship around the oh-so-familiar racing track with a bunch of barraging projectiles from all the possible directions. Your goal here is simple: get the highest score possible by the end of three laps. Beware though, as the enemies get tougher with each completed lap and crushing into borders of the race track will do you no good.\n  \nKill, collect, dominate and have a blast \ud83d\udca5\n  \n___  \n   \n\u270f\ufe0f **Theme:** Combine 2 Incompatible Genres\n  \n___  \n     \n  \n\ud83c\udfc5 **Features:**\n- *BASICALLY 2 GAMES IN 1. RACING + SHOOTER. BEST DEAL EVER*\n- Several levels of powerful weapons with amazing patterns\n- *DID YOU SEE HOW BIG YOUR SCORES CAN BE? INSANADOS*\n- Colorful and peaceful atmosphere\n- *MAYHEM EVERYWHERE JUST LOOK AT ALL THAT*\n- Replay value\n- Energy bar that allows you to truly unleash your destructing capabilities\n- *THE ENERGY BAR ALSO WORKS AS YOUR HP, SO BE CAREFUL WITH YOUR DECISIONS*\n- Precise controls that will remind so much of Touhou \u2764\ufe0f\n  \n___  \n   \n\ud83c\udfae **Controls:**\n- W - Accelerate forward\n- S - Accelerate backward\n- A - Turn left\n- D - Turn right\n- Left Shift - Uses energy to increase firing rate and movement speed\n- Space - Releases a stream of bullets (the more firing power you have the crazier it'll be)\n- Left Mouse - Releases a more powerful bullet which can destroy all the enemies' bullets in its way\n- Right Click - Uses energy to perform THE MOST POWERFUL ATTACK\u2122\ufe0f\n- Escape - Close the game  \n  \n___  \n  \n\ud83d\udd79 **Cheats:**  \nI find the game to be pretty simple, but sometimes I just want to shoot stuff around me mindlessly, you know? For that I have some cheat codes: \n- 1 - grants infinite energy (the bar at the bottom is always full)\n- 2 - grants maximum firing power (300 out of 300, the sickest attack you will ever see)\n  \n___  \n  \n\ud83c\udfa5 **Timelapse:** Finally got around to making this\n  \nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cAM_QREIcFw  \n  \n___\n  \n*NOTE: MacOS and Linux builds are not tested, so use them at your own risk.*","title":"Blast Me To The Finish"}