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It seems sometimes shooting has a little bit delay, but it is overall fun game","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":908606,"author_name":"twilightrh","author_uid":"twilightrh","epoch":1673378871,"text":"Really fun to play, especially with the other player, if I had anything to add it would be to make the movement and shooting more responsive","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":908639,"author_name":"asfdfdfd","author_uid":"asfdfdfd","epoch":1673379227,"text":"What is better than shoot fellow Ludum Darer?","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":910364,"author_name":"LDJam user 315574","author_uid":"315574","epoch":1673398215,"text":"Really impressive, I love it.  Although with any good multiplayer game it feels like there should be some balance whine going on.  I think carrot is OP :smiley: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":914742,"author_name":"chompdev","author_uid":"chompdev","epoch":1673487712,"text":"A simple, fun, and hectic MP game! :) I love the sprite art and animation. What engine and MP tools did you use?","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":914769,"author_name":"koboldskeep","author_uid":"koboldskeep","epoch":1673488746,"text":"Would be nice if I could see other players' names so I know who to bring down a notch.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":923268,"author_name":"bufalloo","author_uid":"bufalloo","epoch":1673834030,"text":"for this project we didn't use any game engine! just websockets + express rendering on the HTML canvas","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":923498,"author_name":"Moosey","author_uid":"moosey","epoch":1673857795,"text":"A fun little multiplayer game! I think this is the first multiplayer attempt at this theme that I've seen- solid work!!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":923791,"author_name":"Krassenstein","author_uid":"krassenstein","epoch":1673884882,"text":"Hey there, this was pretty awesome! This was such a nice twist on the io genre. Well done!\n\nHere's the VoD so you can jump to your chapter and see it again!\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NYvmJ8_8kww","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":924072,"author_name":"Bastienre4","author_uid":"bastienre4","epoch":1673901017,"text":"Fun game, multiplayer games are always impressive in a jam. The input delay makes it a little bit hard to play but it's a fun entry.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":924227,"author_name":"Tero Pulkkinen","author_uid":"tero-pulkkinen","epoch":1673908364,"text":"I got quite a few enemies, but shooting them was fun","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":924238,"author_name":"KeichiTS","author_uid":"keichits","epoch":1673908766,"text":"Cute graphics and solid mechanics! Nice theme interpretation! \n\nCongrats! ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":924767,"author_name":"ditam","author_uid":"ditam","epoch":1673965671,"text":"Online multiplayer jam entries are always very impressive. I had some (ok, a lot of) issues with lag, and controls being stuck, but I still had fun shooting at some carrots and broccolis.\n\nIs there any sound? I see you didn't opt out of audio, but I couldn't hear anything.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":925497,"author_name":"JuicyBrucey","author_uid":"juicybrucey","epoch":1674056658,"text":"With a few people playing the lag was pretty tough to stomach, but otherwise I had some good fun. I like the cute animated veg quite a lot too, nice job on this :)","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld52\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/open-seasoning.herokuapp.com\/","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"86939","g_author":"1202902","g_event":"LD52","g_eventkey":"116","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"398910","g_title":"Open Seasoning","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"763","g_commentcount":"16","g_site2_node_id":"318640","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"318640","n_urlkey":"398910","n_parent":"313060","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/52\/open-seasoning","n_slug":"open-seasoning","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"202902","n_created":"1673059494","n_modified":"1778500104","n_version":"1002742","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD52","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":3,"author":202902,"body":"![Screen Shot 2023-01-09 at 1.59.45 AM.png](\/\/\/raw\/698\/13\/z\/54ba3.png)\n\nEDITOR'S NOTE: This game is multiplayer! feel free to share the link and play with others :) It's a little laggy as it's a single free heroku instance, please forgive us for the lag!\n\nIt's Open Seasoning here! 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