{"author_link":"\/author\/swinestudios\/","author_name":"swinestudios","author_uid":"16296","comments":[{"author_name":"popcorn897","author_uid":"35837","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 3:00am","epoch":1429584900,"text":"Fun idea with great mood.\r\rThe graphics are neat and the mood is perfectly set. I really enjoyed floating around gathering the treasures. I do wish the controls were a little more floaty, but thats just me.\r\rYouve addressed the random generator problem and its not cumbersome to restart so thats good.\r\rIts a neat idea; I hope you guys continue it."},{"author_name":"popcorn897","author_uid":"35837","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 3:00am","epoch":1429584900,"text":"Fun idea with great mood.\r\rThe graphics are neat and the mood is perfectly set. I really enjoyed floating around gathering the treasures. I do wish the controls were a little more floaty, but thats just me.\r\rYouve addressed the random generator problem and its not cumbersome to restart so thats good.\r\rIts a neat idea; I hope you guys continue it.\r\r-Sirmi: Team Toast"},{"author_name":"diiq","author_uid":"50429","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 11:28pm","epoch":1429658580,"text":"I love the caves -- very interesting to move around and explore.\r\rThe music was very satisfying, too. \r\rThe bubble gun was a little unwieldy to aim -- maybe if you had to get *under* the piranha and the bubbles shot upward like real bubbles?"},{"author_name":"Junber","author_uid":"33967","time":"Apr 24, 2015 @ 6:25am","epoch":1429856400,"text":"Nice game quite fun but the bubble gun didnt really felt too usefull."},{"author_name":"Alice","author_uid":"51483","time":"Apr 24, 2015 @ 7:27am","epoch":1429860120,"text":"Fun game! I agree with the other comments that the bubble gun doesn't work all that well, but otherwise nicely done."},{"author_name":"SowiHowl","author_uid":"51327","time":"Apr 24, 2015 @ 7:31am","epoch":1429860360,"text":"Good game, maybe the gauge faster would be better but well done !"},{"author_name":"F. Wiktora","author_uid":"51935","time":"Apr 24, 2015 @ 9:15am","epoch":1429866600,"text":"Nice idea, good music. \rYou should continue it by maybe adding more features to it!\r\rGood entry!"},{"author_name":"Justin Mullin","author_uid":"3128","time":"Apr 26, 2015 @ 1:42am","epoch":1430012220,"text":"Random cave generation is cool - I did get stuck once, but mostly got pretty interesting levels. The music works well!"},{"author_name":"reheated","author_uid":"15514","time":"Apr 26, 2015 @ 2:01am","epoch":1430013360,"text":"Fun gameplay and the graphics and music set the mood well. I disagree with some of the posters above: the bubble-gun is well balanced for the sort of gameplay I think you were aiming for."},{"author_name":"dwemthy","author_uid":"49467","time":"Apr 26, 2015 @ 2:05am","epoch":1430013600,"text":"Cool weapon idea, but it does feel ineffective. Would be good to be able to aim it some. \r\rIt was a couple levels before I realized that I had beaten any levels, seemed like being teleported."},{"author_name":"Dietrich Epp","author_uid":"7606","time":"Apr 26, 2015 @ 3:45am","epoch":1430019600,"text":"The controls seemed a bit snappy for an underwater scene, but the fish moved faster which made sense. I'd really like a counter for the number of treasure boxes you have left to collect. I also didn't figure out that there was a weapon until I came back here to rate the game... but I had enough fun just running away and collecting treasure as I could get it. Keep up the good work!"},{"author_name":"BluShine","author_uid":"30611","time":"Apr 26, 2015 @ 4:10am","epoch":1430021100,"text":"Obviously not very fleshed-out, but I can definitely see where this was going. Love the concept, and the awesome music really gives it a cool feel."},{"author_name":"Pilly","author_uid":"50246","time":"Apr 26, 2015 @ 4:41am","epoch":1430022960,"text":"Nice atmosphere, I liked the blue tones and chill music - definitely made me want to explore the mysterious ocean depths.\r\rWeapon was nice - certainly unconventional in that it didn't damage anything, but rather pushed enemies away. Makes me want a future LD theme to be something like "enemies can't die".\r\rI feel like the objective could be more interesting than "collect the treasures", but I'm not sure what that would be.\r\rNice work!"},{"author_name":"thedarknightdu78","author_uid":"52745","time":"Apr 26, 2015 @ 4:42am","epoch":1430023020,"text":"Nice game, a bit repetitive but it's a good start"},{"author_name":"Davikin92","author_uid":"50202","time":"Apr 26, 2015 @ 4:45am","epoch":1430023200,"text":"Polish the randomly generated caves, I am getting done collecting treasure in a zone but warp unexpectedly to somewhere I don't know. The idea is good. You should disable damage taken from the fish when they just got "bubbled"."},{"author_name":"Os_Reboot","author_uid":"45083","time":"Apr 26, 2015 @ 7:38pm","epoch":1430076780,"text":"Fun game. I disagree with the other comments, I thought the bubble gun fit nicely. It could have used some kind of difficulty curve though, the levels got repetitive after a while."},{"author_name":"conniejoern","author_uid":"51680","time":"Apr 26, 2015 @ 9:41pm","epoch":1430084160,"text":"i like the grafic style.\rsadly it looks unfinshed when you come close to the edge of the level"},{"author_name":"2R","author_uid":"49720","time":"May 9, 2015 @ 11:29am","epoch":1431170640,"text":"Cool idea! I like this game style :)"}],"images":["ld32\/16296-13946102d70ca6689b2134380f0f960a.jpg","ld32\/16296-e09cdd580c4b00406247824c0104feff.jpg","ld32\/16296-8294050ab2584455d1c930a5d603c886.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/fbjcmgk7dw8n521\/AquaticRegia.jar?dl=0","text":"Windows, OS\/X, Linux"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"10368","g_author":"16296","g_event":"LD32","g_eventkey":"27","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"10402","g_title":"Aquatic Regia","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"675","g_commentcount":"18","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/444368\/16296-shot0-1429581588.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/444368\/16296-shot1-1429581588.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/444368\/16296-shot2-1429581588.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"You have been sent to explore a mysterious cave that contains valuable treasures, but beware for there are aggressive piranhas guarding them. Luckily, or rather unlucky for you, you have only been given a bubble gun to fend off the piranhas.\r\n\r\nThe goal of the game is to \"finish\" as many consecutive levels as possible by collecting a set amount of treasures at each generated level.\r\n\r\nControls:\r\nArrow keys - move up, down, left, right\r\nLeft click - shoot a spread of bubbles\r\nEsc - pause menu\r\n\r\nCredits:\r\nTheBlueGamer55 - Programming, Art\r\nGeneral Templeton - Programming\r\nhognip - Music\r\npigrocket - Programming Support\r\n\r\nNOTE:\r\nWe spent far too much time on the random cave generation and didn't even manage to complete it. If you get stuck inside a closed-off area, you can go back to the main menu and enter again inside another randomly generated cave without penalty towards your current run.","title":"Aquatic Regia"}