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Good job!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":964747,"author_name":"Brusi","author_uid":"brusi","epoch":1683228908,"text":"Game was fun and funny :) Obviously a mailman's goal is to deliver as many packages regardless of the recipient!\nA good implementation of the theme, and cute simple art.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":965583,"author_name":"chrissx2","author_uid":"chrissx2","epoch":1683240646,"text":"I thought that was pizza until very end :D.  \n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":965707,"author_name":"Gametrodon","author_uid":"gametrodon","epoch":1683242965,"text":"The mini-gun is quite fun, but I wish I could tell when I was getting hits, either sound, or hitmarker, or something. It was definitely fun to shoot things though, I just wish there was better feedback. \n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":967285,"author_name":"Kitira","author_uid":"kitira","epoch":1683287543,"text":"Cool game! It wasn't always clear to me if I had hit or not, but mail-shooting with the minigun was the most fun anyway ^^ ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":970965,"author_name":"Camden Obertop","author_uid":"camden-obertop","epoch":1683386745,"text":"this is a fun little rail shooter!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":978748,"author_name":"Zyrus","author_uid":"zyrus","epoch":1683968655,"text":"RATATATA! >:D","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":978770,"author_name":"Savidiy","author_uid":"savidiy","epoch":1683971366,"text":"Funny. Perhaps it would be more fun to see a hit in the box - flying numbers, an increasing box or something like that. You can also add pedestrians or obstacles that prevent shooting.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":979546,"author_name":"Beeb GameCodeCompany","author_uid":"beeb-gamecodecompany","epoch":1684092665,"text":"I agree, I would've liked to see something that says you hit the mailbox. I also didn't reach any \"Full Boxes\" but I went twice and got my highest score. I think you chose the right music that fits the gameplay, nothing more hardcore then delivery papers with music like that lol.\n\n![Score.png](\/\/\/raw\/4cd\/84\/z\/5bc25.png)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":979556,"author_name":"MasterProject","author_uid":"masterproject","epoch":1684093594,"text":"Yep, I agree with the others - I'd have appreciated if there were some feedback regarding whether I hit the boxes or not, and also making the scoring system a bit more clear. That said, considering this was one of your first forays into 3D games, this was a quite decent entry.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":979582,"author_name":"fabula_rasa","author_uid":"fabula-rasa","epoch":1684096451,"text":"Music is very much up my alley :metal: I really enjoyed your interpretation of the theme - made me laugh.\n\nThe game plays well, and I didn't run into any bugs. Could use a bit more player feedback. Some animation (simple flashing would already add a lot) when the mailbox is successfully hit, some pop-up when you manage to fill-up the box and such. If you felt particularly fancy, you could even add some obstacles - flying birds, grandmas on bikes etc. - and take away points for hitting those. But that's polish :grin: \n\n![Screenshot_13.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/732\/a2\/z\/5bc27.jpg)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":979597,"author_name":"okkolobr","author_uid":"okkolobr","epoch":1684097607,"text":"Thank you all for your feedbacks. The next three items on our todo lists were : \n- the forbidden boxes, which would have remove points if hit\n- feedback : having some floating point above the box and sounds when you hit it. little flag on boxes should have rised up when box filled up\n- overheat of the gun\nLooks like we were on the right track !","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":979598,"author_name":"Grommit","author_uid":"grommit","epoch":1684097746,"text":"Forget snail mail, this is rail mail!!\n\n![Screenshot_5.png](\/\/\/raw\/44e\/32\/z\/5bc28.png)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":979746,"author_name":"LDJam user 242971","author_uid":"242971","epoch":1684114721,"text":"Just fun and satifying shooting all those boxes. Reminds me of paperboy.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld53\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/Kaijiro\/ld53","text":"Github"},{"url":"https:\/\/kaijiro.itch.io\/ld53-the-mailgun-man","text":"Itch.io"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"88496","g_author":"1161697","g_event":"LD53","g_eventkey":"118","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"422818","g_title":"The Mail(gun) man","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"1144","g_commentcount":"15","g_site2_node_id":"357582","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"357582","n_urlkey":"422818","n_parent":"332127","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/53\/the-mailgun-man","n_slug":"the-mailgun-man","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"161697","n_created":"1682718018","n_modified":"1779019379","n_version":"1123598","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD53","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":2,"author":161697,"body":"Deep in the dark offices of the LudumDare headquarters, we heard you ...\nWHAT ? 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