{"author_link":"\/author\/amras0000\/","author_name":"amras0000","author_uid":"47448","comments":[{"author_name":"DarkMeatGames","author_uid":"34345","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 2:37am","epoch":1429497120,"text":"Really loved the look of the game, but it took me a while to figure out the controls. Once I learned them, it still seemed tough to play. Great music, and as I said, really beautiful."},{"author_name":"Red_Fan games","author_uid":"47563","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 3:10am","epoch":1429499100,"text":"not bad"},{"author_name":"Croze","author_uid":"24715","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 3:19am","epoch":1429499640,"text":"Couldn't figure out how to pick up the houses or anything, and I was getting stuck very often. I tried using right mouse button and that made me look at mouse, tried every key combo plus left mouse while right next to, infront of, or hovering cursor over a housea nd nothing."},{"author_name":"Languard","author_uid":"5657","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 3:21am","epoch":1429499760,"text":"Couldn't figure out the controls...\rGraphics are serviceable, rather liked the tune playing in the background."},{"author_name":"amras0000","author_uid":"47448","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 3:55am","epoch":1429501800,"text":"Added controls to description, hope that helps :T"},{"author_name":"Interface","author_uid":"42145","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 4:46am","epoch":1429504860,"text":"Good job. I liked the music, great mood. Controls aren't too bad once you figure them out. The biggest issue is how you can get stuck when you have enemies in close proximity."},{"author_name":"GAFBlizzard","author_uid":"12278","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 5:04am","epoch":1429505940,"text":"I liked the feeling of the buildings orbiting you before throwing."},{"author_name":"kabutakogames","author_uid":"51243","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 5:43am","epoch":1429508280,"text":"I think your illustrations on the giant and the spiders are great, would like to see more!"},{"author_name":"PachowStudios","author_uid":"51153","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 7:48am","epoch":1429515780,"text":"I couldn't really play it. The enemies just kept pushing me around. Randomly I would be able to pick up buildings but that was it."},{"author_name":"stuffedgravy","author_uid":"50139","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 4:38pm","epoch":1429547580,"text":"I'm having issues reliably picking things up, but I'll assume that's just my user error :) The pickup mechanic visually looks very neat and the relative inaccuracy of throwing fits the character very well. It's pretty fun\/stressful, though that might have been with my difficulty in picking things up haha. Graphics were really good, and the music was spot-on. \r\rGetting stuck in the corner is the worst, there should be a way out of that."},{"author_name":"Hyoga-3D","author_uid":"23927","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 5:12pm","epoch":1429549620,"text":"Strange graphics but the gameplay were nice."},{"author_name":"Xinelu","author_uid":"38942","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 5:13pm","epoch":1429549680,"text":"In a weird way i enjoy the graphic!\r\r:D nice entry!"},{"author_name":"Mental Atrophy","author_uid":"26025","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 9:34pm","epoch":1429565340,"text":"Haven't managed to really play this yet. Right mouse just brings up a Unity menu for toggling fullscreen instead of throwing houses."},{"author_name":"amras0000","author_uid":"47448","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 10:18pm","epoch":1429567980,"text":"@Mental Atrophy : I can't seem to reproduce the issue. In the web version a Unity menu does show up, but the houses are thrown as well. Try the standalone downloaded versions instead if it's an issue."},{"author_name":"MiniBobbo","author_uid":"22584","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 2:06am","epoch":1429581660,"text":"I think the ingame instructions were good, but you should emphasize the HOLD more. Once I learned that I could hold the left button to pick up massive amounts of stuff it became much more fun.\r\rNeat art style!"},{"author_name":"nonetheless","author_uid":"36254","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 8:55pm","epoch":1429735800,"text":"Nice try but kinda hard to control :)"},{"author_name":"Omiya Games","author_uid":"20557","time":"Apr 23, 2015 @ 4:42pm","epoch":1429807020,"text":"It took me a while to figure out that holding the left mouse button and focusing on a single object will cause it to orbit around the giant...eventually. This is easier to understand with the trees, because they orbit very quickly, and thus, serve as a better indicator of the control scheme for your game.\r\rUltimately, I think you need a better tutorial system guiding the player how to play the game. No shame, though: I know it's hard to put that together in such a short amount of time.\r\rOther changes I recommend: make everything react faster! For example, make the giant move faster. Give the player a sense of control by providing them enough speed to feel satisfied with what they're working with. I also using camera shakes, especially if we're talking about an earth shattering giant.\r\rNice work."},{"author_name":"steboots","author_uid":"51802","time":"Apr 28, 2015 @ 11:34pm","epoch":1430263740,"text":"Same, the web version doesn't right click throw for me, sorry."},{"author_name":"chabuduo","author_uid":"24888","time":"May 2, 2015 @ 9:42am","epoch":1430559420,"text":"Was pretty enjoyable once i figured out the controls."},{"author_name":"Fluffy Tigers in the Sky","author_uid":"26553","time":"May 3, 2015 @ 12:08pm","epoch":1430654580,"text":"It took me really long to figure out the controls and I got stuck between the houses... When I finally learned how to use the controls, it was a bit slow altogether, but nice gameplay. I like that you added music, but why not choose a more flashy sound for the "charging"?"},{"author_name":"CiderPunk","author_uid":"7534","time":"May 7, 2015 @ 11:03am","epoch":1430996280,"text":"very cool!"}],"images":["ld32\/47448-298c561af405d91b45811c9ad32904f8.jpg","ld32\/47448-bbef8052c9e63016b28577e34e1fcae7.jpg","ld32\/47448-9e6267e0e84db5fd3a608b229208d560.jpg","ld32\/47448-9cdad11127225fcaa08f56727b213a0b.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/amras0000.github.io\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/amras0000.github.io\/win\/TobyTheRecklessGiant.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/amras0000.github.io\/mac\/TobyTheRecklessGiant.app.zip","text":"OS\/X (untested)"},{"url":"http:\/\/amras0000.github.io\/linux\/TobyTheRecklessGiant.zip","text":"Linux (untested)"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/8yt3mzc7p1d73hr\/TobyTheRecklessGiantsrc.zip?dl=0","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"12507","g_author":"47448","g_event":"LD32","g_eventkey":"27","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"12537","g_title":"Toby the Reckless Giant","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"1012","g_commentcount":"21","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\/47448-shot0-1429492826.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/444368\/47448-shot1-1429492826.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/444368\/47448-shot2-1429498842.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/444368\/47448-shot3-1429492826.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"|---------CONTROLS-------------------------------------------------|\r\nWASD - move\r\nHold\/drag LMB - pick up trees\/buildings under cursor\r\nHold RMB - charge up throw\r\nRelease RMB - throw all held objects towards mouse cursor location\r\nmousewheel - zoom\r\nEsc - options menu\r\nEsc while aiming - cancel throw\r\n|------------------------------------------------------------------|\r\n\r\n\r\n--mechanics--\r\nthrow things at other things to do damage\r\nbuildings do a lot more damage to big spiders than trees do\r\nPretty much everything in the game respawns eventually, so go nuts.\r\n\r\n\r\nA physics-based top-down flinging-buildings-at-monsters-them-up.\r\n\r\nToby has woken to find his once-friendly villages overrun with spiders. To save the villagers, Toby grabs their houses in a desperate attempt to kill the spiders before he himself is killed.","title":"Toby the Reckless Giant"}