{"author_link":"\/users\/matt-swieboda","author_name":"Matt Swieboda","author_uid":"1141066","comments":[{"author_name":"Henrik Ganard","author_uid":"1208986","time":"2020-10-05T06:13:02Z","epoch":1601878382,"modified":1601878382,"text":"To bad there isent a Windows or WebGL-version. I can\u00b4t play this. Looks nice though =(","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"CodeRaurus","author_uid":"1213937","time":"2020-10-05T09:36:48Z","epoch":1601890608,"modified":1601890608,"text":"Awww, no Windows or browser version. I wanted go brrrrrr.","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"p-brighenti","author_uid":"1214768","time":"2020-10-05T11:41:55Z","epoch":1601898115,"modified":1601898115,"text":"Too bad I can't play it :(","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"LetterAfterZ","author_uid":"1218261","time":"2020-10-05T12:43:12Z","epoch":1601901792,"modified":1601901792,"text":"Ah wanted to give this one a go. Tried to fire up my macbook pro to learn it's dead :(","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"shan.hsgames","author_uid":"1220887","time":"2020-10-05T16:53:38Z","epoch":1601916818,"modified":1601916818,"text":"No linux, webgl build :cry: ","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"TheseusInABottle","author_uid":"1129237","time":"2020-10-06T05:42:23Z","epoch":1601962943,"modified":1601962943,"text":"Obviously I can't play this but thank you for posting a gif of the gameplay so I can at least say your game looks like it would be fun to play.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Shyrro","author_uid":"1126618","time":"2020-10-06T23:03:43Z","epoch":1602025423,"modified":1602025423,"text":"Too bad couldn't play cause of available versions :\/","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"MatchaFlavor","author_uid":"1213688","time":"2020-10-06T23:14:18Z","epoch":1602026058,"modified":1602026058,"text":"Kinda sad that I'm not able to play it. For future jams, the best thing you can do for yourself for proper feedback and ratings is to make it as accessible as possible.\n\nFor the time being, I just can't rate this.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"MikadoH","author_uid":"1218940","time":"2020-10-07T17:24:43Z","epoch":1602091483,"modified":1602091483,"text":"Not bad but even the Noob difficulty is too hard and I game over almost instantly. I was barely able to make a single loop and I had to go painstakingly slow.\nOtherwise not bad, it works and it's solid for a first Ludum Dare.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Chukwuebuka_racer","author_uid":"1169181","time":"2020-10-08T00:02:11Z","epoch":1602115331,"modified":1602115331,"text":"Screenshot looks nice, but no link to download\/play for windows","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Cargamoni","author_uid":"1213091","time":"2020-10-11T01:34:26Z","epoch":1602380066,"modified":1602380066,"text":"Its not the idea to stuck in a loop ^^ Thanks for the game, please rate ours too ","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"pedrocoden","author_uid":"1192367","time":"2020-10-12T05:40:29Z","epoch":1602481229,"modified":1602481229,"text":"Nice game!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"waynetron","author_uid":"1007237","time":"2020-10-13T09:08:11Z","epoch":1602580091,"modified":1602580091,"text":"It's a complete game and you should be really proud.\n\nI found it really difficult, and I feel it should be difficult, because the entire game is driving around in a circle. But it wasn't a very fun difficult.\nI would start by juicing the hell out of it, skid marks, particles, screenshake etc. The point of the juice should primarily be to help communicate to the player how the game is responding to their inputs. When I am on the grass, then the car is bumpy. If the handling is starting to lose control, then you see skid marks etc. And I would iterate on the driving until it feels really really good.\n\nThen you'll want to something in there to ensure the user takes risk. A lap time limit would be the obvious way. Without that there is no incentive to take risk (drive fast, which is fun). And the user will follow the degenerate strategy of taking their time (which is less fun).","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"","author_uid":"1000000","time":"2020-10-14T10:06:58Z","epoch":1602670018,"modified":1602670018,"text":"Averagly fit into the theme.. Your graphics is not good, sorry. \n\nOne last note: I always write down honest review, because everybody need that, not just nice craps with some bullshit, but sometime I will aperceite very good games. So if this review insult you, but use it well :) Anyway every game is counting so :)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"hunttis","author_uid":"1004192","time":"2020-10-19T16:08:23Z","epoch":1603123703,"modified":1603123703,"text":"It's a game with the proper scope for a jam game, so you could make a complete game!\n\nUnfortunately it's really super friggin' difficult :smile: I honestly could finish one loop after quite a lot of retries, I didn't understand why I lost almost immediately when I ran off the road.\n\nInstead of fighting the controls, a more fun take could be to try and find the right driving lines to optimise the time. Like mentioned by @waynetron above, timer would make this quite different (and very likely better). Now your high-score is only metered by your patience to drive slow enough.\n\nIt's really a good idea to use a language that most users can run, a web build is best, since it doesn't require installing anything. Can't say much about crystal (as this is actually the first time I heard about it), but good choices could be Phaser (for javascript\/typescript) or maybe HaxeFlixel (with haxe).","likes":1,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld47\/222998-7281ee75b65a6e8e21bfa8fe10227add.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/mswieboda\/looper","text":"Youtube"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/mswieboda\/looper\/releases\/download\/v0.1.5\/looper.app.zip","text":"Youtube"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"57543","g_author":"1141066","g_event":"LD47","g_eventkey":"76","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"266910","g_title":"looper","g_status":"PVT1","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"15","g_site2_node_id":"222998","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"222998","n_urlkey":"266910","n_parent":"212256","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/47\/looper","n_slug":"looper","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"141066","n_created":"1601703048","n_modified":"1601949814","n_version":"691623","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":222998,"parent":212256,"superparent":9,"author":141066,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"jam","published":"2020-10-03T22:28:29Z","created":"2020-10-03T05:30:48Z","modified":"2020-10-06T02:03:34Z","version":691623,"slug":"looper","name":"looper","body":"Stay on the tracks, or game over!\n\nWASD or arrow keys to accelerate and turn\n\nHold any SHIFT to drift\n\nIn menus: WS\/arrow and Enter\/Space to select, Esc\/Backspace to go back or exit\n\nStill very much WIP but it's my first Ludum Dare, just happy to be able to submit something!\n\nI'm coding in [crystal](https:\/\/crystal-lang.org\/) using [raylib](https:\/\/www.raylib.com\/) bindings to crystal via [cray](https:\/\/github.com\/mswieboda\/cray) \n(also [game](https:\/\/github.com\/mswieboda\/game) a WIP OOP wrapper)\n\nArt in [aseprite](https:\/\/www.aseprite.org\/), sound WIP but probably with [jsfxr](https:\/\/sfxr.me\/)\n\nMacOS only right now and no browser support, sorry! Here\u2019s some gameplay since most can\u2019t play (sorry again)\n\n![gameplay.gif](\/\/\/raw\/a07\/22\/z\/38b35.gif)\n\nIf I have time I'll try Linux builds, and then Win via [WSL](https:\/\/crystal-lang.org\/install\/on_wsl\/).\n\nCrystal may not have been the best cross-platform choice but I love programming in it :D\n","meta":{"author":[141066],"allow-anonymous-comments":"1","link-01":"https:\/\/github.com\/mswieboda\/looper","link-01-tag":[42332],"link-02-tag":[42339],"link-02":"https:\/\/github.com\/mswieboda\/looper\/releases\/download\/v0.1.5\/looper.app.zip","cover":"\/\/\/content\/a07\/22\/z\/36372.png","grade-06-out":"1"},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/47\/looper","parents":[1,5,9,212256],"love":0,"notes":15,"notes-timestamp":"2020-10-19T16:08:23Z","grade":{"grade-01":16,"grade-02":16,"grade-03":16,"grade-04":16,"grade-05":18,"grade-06":3,"grade-07":14,"grade-08":14},"magic":{"cool":97.590007294853,"feedback":13,"given":12.5,"grade":16.142857142857,"grade-01-average":2.643,"grade-02-average":1.929,"grade-03-average":1.964,"grade-04-average":2.536,"grade-05-average":2.5,"grade-05-result":1440,"grade-06-average":2.5,"grade-07-average":1.833,"grade-08-average":2.25,"smart":-0.37383308423253}},"text":"Stay on the tracks, or game over!\n\nWASD or arrow keys to accelerate and turn\n\nHold any SHIFT to drift\n\nIn menus: WS\/arrow and Enter\/Space to select, Esc\/Backspace to go back or exit\n\nStill very much WIP but it's my first Ludum Dare, just happy to be able to submit something!\n\nI'm coding in [crystal](https:\/\/crystal-lang.org\/) using [raylib](https:\/\/www.raylib.com\/) bindings to crystal via [cray](https:\/\/github.com\/mswieboda\/cray) \n(also [game](https:\/\/github.com\/mswieboda\/game) a WIP OOP wrapper)\n\nArt in [aseprite](https:\/\/www.aseprite.org\/), sound WIP but probably with [jsfxr](https:\/\/sfxr.me\/)\n\nMacOS only right now and no browser support, sorry! Here\u2019s some gameplay since most can\u2019t play (sorry again)\n\n![gameplay.gif](\/\/\/raw\/a07\/22\/z\/38b35.gif)\n\nIf I have time I'll try Linux builds, and then Win via [WSL](https:\/\/crystal-lang.org\/install\/on_wsl\/).\n\nCrystal may not have been the best cross-platform choice but I love programming in it :D\n","title":"looper"}