April 26th-29th 2013 :: Theme: Minimalism
Ludum Dare 26 — April 26-29th, 2013
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You have one job, and that's to get the potato.
And you have 5 seconds to do it.
Can YOU get enough potatoes to reach the secret special ending???
If you get stuck, just beat your keyboard. That will work.
Linux has not been tested.
Flashing can be toggled on/off with 'T' key, but you have to do it every round.
Postato-mortem now up (with spoilers to help if you get stuck) http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2013/05/08/get-the-postato-mortem/
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Ratings
 | Humor | 4.45 |
 | Coolness | 77% |
| #5 | Audio | 4.23 |
| #23 | Fun | 3.93 |
| #70 | Mood | 3.77 |
| #95 | Overall | 3.79 |
| #311 | Graphics | 3.40 |
| #459 | Innovation | 3.24 |
| #632 | Theme | 3.46 |
Comments
love the voices! i can imagine this being made by sega and played at some dirty seaside town arcades when the dancemat games were all the rage.
got the potato. I think the air control isnt allways working.
nice game though!
GET THE POTATO!!
And I cannot reach it in time :(.
Nice idea, well executed.
I hadn't find a way to get to potato behind the glass cube or whatever it is :/
It can be done. You just have to forget everything you know about everything then proceed to GET THE POTATOOOO
Gave me some good laughs. If you want to expand on this you could always.. get the potatoooooo!
Wow. Incredibly fun and really, really nice all around. Hilarious too! Loved it. Great job.
The audio and humour are fantastic. "Get the potato" is going to be in my head all day tomorrow.
This was amazing! The potato was just a plus to the humor and gameplay!
Hilarious! Had a lot of fun playing this.. and lost track of time. That's a good sign for your game, and bad for my lunch break! >.<
Oh wow! My first thought was Professor Genki with the arena type announcer. I could hear there was alot of effort put into the win audio after each level, but it cut off too quickly. I think the audio is the stand out part, though the puzzles do make you think. Was stuck in my head all day (Right now, what you have to do is ....) . Well Done =]
Fun game! :) Like the voice over. I didn't figure out how to get past the glass. Some instructions for the controls would have been nice.
Hilarious. Love the voices. Got stuck on the third level. Great work!
Oh god do I love the humor in this, Not that minimalistic but damn gettin' potato's have never been this fun.
Get the Potato!!!!. Awesome game - very hard though. I'll try to finish it .
Funniest entry I have played by a mile. Quite fiendish in places too - very proud to have made it to one of the later levels. Would love it if you wrote some kind of blog entry about audio production in the game (what HW/SW did you use to get such great quality video-gamey sounding voice-overs). LOVE! IT!
Hilarious. Like the idea. Got stuck on fifth level though with the glass. I tried beating my keyboard.
I am truly humbled by all of the kind things being said about this game. Although I don't think you all realize that you're saying these things about a game that involves getting a potato.
A postato-mortem is coming in which I'll go over all the audio goodies as far as recording and syncing with the light, so keep your eyes.. peeled!
As for those that are struggling with the first few levels, I REALLY want to help you out, you have no idea, but if I do I will violate the integrity of the game, as minimal instruction is partly how I interpreted the theme. Maybe I will put spoilers in the postato-mortem, I dunno... Thanks for playing the game, at any rate :D
I love you all! L-D-4-8-4-LYFE
Fun, humorous game. Game play was great, especially having to discover some of the key combinations. And the audio was off the charts! I never could get past the glass box though. Well done.
Impressive how the lights are sync'ed with the audio. Count me as another who got suck on the purple glass box. I tried pressing keys but no luck. I should have tried smashing the keyboard, but this is my last good one left and it's too late to go out and buy a new one. ;D
It took a long time to figure out how to get past the potato behind glass. Then I remembered I had a mouse.
I never did get past the potato behind glass under the two panes of purple glass.
Nice work on the audio and the premise.
At first I thought that the ending was going to be like an ode to portal, where you throw the potato in lava or something. But this ending was so much more awesome! Good Job!!!
That's cool, but I was quite shocked as your first level looked a lot like my first level... :) So ok, your game is more funky, but mine is darker, and I don't have a potatoe...
I laughed a lot on this game. I couldn't beat the level with the wall.
Oh man, this is so good. I managed to get through to the end. The hardest level was the 3rd one or something where it was just out of reach and you needed to run to it. I tried everything from running backwards, sideways, and diagonally (Goldeneye/Perfect Dark 64 speedruns anyone?) before realising that I needed to just press shift to run, lol.
It felt like I was on a game show of some sort. The audio and all was handled very nicely, and good job on those vocals!
[SPOILER]
I didn't get it with the purple boxes because I solved the level where you introduce them without the "trick". I then read it in the post mortem. Couldn't see all the levels because on of the later one is too hard for me (you must make a little jump to reach a platform below you, then turn around and pass through a purple wall and a purple floor.
Well... You have great music there, but... you playing it every 5 sec, and it's not good. :/
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I got the potato!