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Ludum Party!
Challenge your friend, or your friendly CPU to a series of quick minigames using only two buttons!
Each game makes use of the two buttons—it should be fairly obvious which button does what.
Player 1's A/B buttons are Q and E on the keyboard.
Player 2's A/B buttons are I (as in 'icecream') and P on the keyboard.
** Note: there are 4 mini-games! Try 'em all! (Their order is shuffled, so if you get to a game you've already played, you've done them all! [Feel free to keep playing however ;)])
Known bugs:
Doesn't load on Mac Safari (loads fine in Chrome and Firefox though). Not sure why; am investigating.
Tools used:
* Sublime Text 3
* Bosca Ceoil
* Bfxr
* Audacity
* PyxelEdit
* Photoshop
* Chrome debugging tools
* snõw (http://underscorediscovery.github.io/snow/)
* tusk (https://github.com/BlazingMammothGames/tusk)
* Programmed in Haxe!
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 81% |
| #53 | Fun | 3.89 |
| #68 | Overall | 3.92 |
| #74 | Humor | 3.60 |
| #104 | Theme | 4.18 |
| #112 | Audio | 3.60 |
| #118 | Mood | 3.63 |
| #241 | Graphics | 3.58 |
| #278 | Innovation | 3.47 |
Comments
Very nice music. There should really be a "next game" button though.
Interesting games. I enjoyed the sledding one.
Nicely polished.
Impressed in the quantity of minigames. Not all of them play super well, but in a wario-ware style packaging it's fitting and enjoyable.
Also I lost to mr computer. Bad.
Well done ! Although I don't appreciate my computer beating me at general culture ^^
I love it! Reminds me of warioware! Things i've learned: A randomly controlled computer is better than me at trivia, galaga style games and sledding. :(
Nice job!
All of the mini games were great. Looks like a really ambitious LD entry, and you did a good job with it.
This is so great - Always awesome to see local multiplayer games in LD, especially ones that are this complete.
Great job! I whipped that computer's ass in the space game. Didn't see a yeti in the ski-free game though, sadly. :) I liked the sound design and the everything felt really lively and interactive.
Great game. I don't have someone else to play it with right now, but it seems like it would be a lot of fun.
Really fun! Interesting to see so many different mini games you could make while keeping the theme in mind.
Very nicely done. All the games feel polished and playable, and it's very cool to have both 2 player and vs computer options. The music in the space game is quite cool.
It would be nice if the trivia game gave you feedback so you could tell whether your button press was accepted or not. The AI seems to have a big advantage in the bottle rocket game, or else I'm missing a part of the controls.
Neat mini games. The sound and presentation were top notch!
not very creative in terms of the wario-ware type package, but hey it uses 2 buttons. It's a funny game and Now I know how tall mount Everest is. The CPU is just a bit TOO smart at the quiz game. or maybe I'm just a bit dumb, and of course, variety. but then, you only had 48 hours
Wow, this one should qualify as multipĺe entries :D. Nice mini-games, though some of them the computer is too stupid to win ;).
The computer kick my ass in every game expcept space cops. I rule at space cops, thanks god, or i would have felt like an idiot. Great game.
Wow. The scope of this is impressive and it's pretty fun too. Great job!
Still not working in Safari not sure why, but worked fine in Chrome on Mac. Great fun little game. Loved that you could play against the computer even if the CPU beat me in most games haha. Well done.
That computer is way way waaaaaaaay too good :P I really liked how much content was crammed into this, graphics were simple and effective, and sounds were spot on for the game.
Something weird I noticed is that when I clicked Q+E it didn't start, but when I clicked E+Q it finally did. No clue why. Maybe mouse was out of context or something and I'm just hallucinating.
Solid entry, good luck!
This is a cool concept I like that you've just pushed as many 2 button games as you can into a single game.
I think the feel of the game suggests the games should be quicker, and run on faster, so you're having to change what you're doing every 5 seconds or so.
Love this game! Liked the music for all the mini games except space cops. Took me awhile but I managed to beat the computer on all the games, but I think the computer is a little too good at this. All the nicknames and mini game names were pretty funny too
Holy moley you have a lot of skill and perseverance to create this many games! It makes it difficult to vote on your project as a whole however. Anyway well done, you're working is very impressive!
You managed to add a lot of games in such a small time frame! Grats! They're all fun to play. You should make the cop spaceships a bit different so that they stand out or you easily lose track of your own :)
Really nice job, a very solid and polished game! My favorite minigame is the sledding!
Wow! So many games AND multiplayer AND AIs! This is very impressive, because it all works rather well and is quite fun on top. Well done!
Nice job! Impresive that you got some AI in there in such a short time :)
Very cool game! I wish I had a friend to play it with, but thankfully you threw in a CPU to play against! Very nice job with the design, too.
You definitely started with a great idea. I think if you put a lot of polish into it, you could make an amazing party game out of it! :D
i love the idea, bunch of minigame with only 2 control, awesome music and visual
this game remind me lot of bishi bashi on PS1 :D
what a cool wario-ware clone! The bottle rocket blast was my favorite followed by Space Cops :)
Not only one game, but four! Nice that you have your own game engine using snow.
Neat! Some questions in quiz are skipped so fast I can't even read them. Is it the computer replying faster than me? :D Also I bumped in a flag or something in skiing level intentionally, thinking it's a collectable
I really enjoyed this entry! At first I thought it was only the quiz (which was fun + frustrating enough) but it's really amazing that there are a ton of mini games involved. Great job!
Amazing party game! It felt very polished. Thanks for including AI, I'm coming back and playing again with some friends later!
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SO MANY MINIGAMES! :) It was hard to tell the shooters apart on the space cops one. I really liked the bottle blaster one, that was pretty cool. Well done :)