{"author_link":"\/author\/kitkom\/","author_name":"Kitkom","author_uid":"89746","comments":[{"author_name":"PlanetHoward","author_uid":"99140","time":"Aug 28, 2016 @ 5:30pm","epoch":1472405100,"text":"Great UI, love that you found a mix between 2d and 3d, I'm gonna be honest, the shooting mechanic was the best, it felt great, responsive, but the rock sometimes was unpredictable, walking sometimes felt a bit slow, but overall it's pretty good for the unpredictable part, I'd recommend using a reticle\/dot in the middle to show where the rock is going :D"},{"author_name":"yoel1234","author_uid":"80283","time":"Aug 28, 2016 @ 8:35pm","epoch":1472416200,"text":"real nice, and fun, had an rts rpg filling to it, with a little polish and a story this can be a good game.\r\ralso it crushed becuse of an error once you shod chack it out.\roverall i liked it."},{"author_name":"yoel1234","author_uid":"80283","time":"Aug 28, 2016 @ 8:35pm","epoch":1472416200,"text":"ops wrong game..."},{"author_name":"yoel1234","author_uid":"80283","time":"Aug 28, 2016 @ 8:52pm","epoch":1472417220,"text":"(now for my real comment ignore the one sent by mistake)\rit took me a while to get it but:\rawsome an fps with a rogatka, i had alot of fun headshoting those club wielding clowns.\rthe sprite textures are great i like that style. gives it a retro old school feel.\r\rone thing i would like is more movement speed."},{"author_name":"Green_Cafe","author_uid":"112791","time":"Aug 28, 2016 @ 11:47pm","epoch":1472427720,"text":"I really enjoyed the game. I had a lot of fun attacking those weird enemies. My only issue is movement speed. But other than that it was fun!"},{"author_name":"zacks","author_uid":"109602","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 6:09am","epoch":1472450640,"text":"Interesting game, especially after training about the accuracy.\rIf the moving speed and the volume can be adjusted it would be better!\rLooking forward to your final version!"},{"author_name":"JK5000","author_uid":"50889","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 4:56pm","epoch":1472489460,"text":"A good little game. I particularly liked the music, graphics and the shoot mechanic. But the opponents are really difficult to get away from. Overall well done."},{"author_name":"pogo575","author_uid":"55224","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 5:08pm","epoch":1472490180,"text":"Loved the graphics but the charging mechanic started to get annoying when there were lots of enemies moving quickly towards me."},{"author_name":"oskardevelopment","author_uid":"21518","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 8:14pm","epoch":1472501340,"text":"Nice music and graphics!\r\rTook a bit to figure out how I harmed the enemies with my weapon, though when I did the game felt a tad short as the victory was quite early?\r\rWhat was that flying purple thing?"},{"author_name":"Kitkom","author_uid":"89746","time":"Aug 30, 2016 @ 3:13am","epoch":1472526480,"text":"@oskardevelopment it's a bug in early version. I have fixed it now.\rThe flying purple thing is portal as spawn point, but it's invincible."},{"author_name":"Givit Game Studios","author_uid":"40092","time":"Aug 30, 2016 @ 4:15am","epoch":1472530200,"text":"Haha what a nice experience I love the art style as well"},{"author_name":"steph88","author_uid":"113244","time":"Aug 30, 2016 @ 6:10am","epoch":1472537100,"text":"Hi, nice game and congratulations ! We're realizing a video with several games of the Ludum Dare #36. We made the same thing at the previous jam.\r\rCan you add your game on indiexpo.net ? (it's free) \rSo we can include also your game in the video ;) \rp.s. write #LDJAM in the game's description."},{"author_name":"Guennor","author_uid":"28702","time":"Aug 30, 2016 @ 6:10am","epoch":1472537100,"text":"It's a complete game with implemented basic mechanics, music, sound effects and UI, so that's pretty good for a game jam. But it has some balancing issues, like the fact that is super easy to get swarmed even on level 1. I have no idea why the slingshot is so high up, looks like the person is holding it with their arm held up above their head. Movement is also very sluggish even while sprinting.\r\rI found an outstanding bug - if you get swarmed and you keep jumping, the creatues will stack on one another and you'll get to incredible heights. Though you will take lots of damage in the process."},{"author_name":"maskinmask","author_uid":"91124","time":"Aug 30, 2016 @ 8:10am","epoch":1472544300,"text":"The tutorial is great,but the game is too hard."},{"author_name":"Xakkar","author_uid":"76807","time":"Aug 30, 2016 @ 10:33am","epoch":1472552880,"text":"Cool hard game)"},{"author_name":"Lojchin","author_uid":"112366","time":"Aug 30, 2016 @ 10:39am","epoch":1472553240,"text":"It is hard but interesting."},{"author_name":"yotam180","author_uid":"108140","time":"Aug 30, 2016 @ 12:07pm","epoch":1472558520,"text":"Hard game, but really cool to play! The shooting is indeed the best part of the game - natural, hard but really fun and satisfying when you hit an opponent.\r\rAlso, great job combining 3d environment and 2d characters!\r\rThe artistic style of the game is very interesting, gameplay is nice, and, yea, I liked it!"},{"author_name":"cushycode","author_uid":"111095","time":"Aug 30, 2016 @ 12:34pm","epoch":1472560140,"text":"I liked the look of it, but the gameplay feels like it needs some serious balancing. Firing weapons is somewhat frustrating since you can't really aim properly and your projectile shoots from the top corner.\r\rYou also get swarmed too easily and can't really do anything about it, except push enemies for a second but they swarm you right back. Maybe make the force wave do damage too?"},{"author_name":"PanicTheFirst","author_uid":"73451","time":"Aug 30, 2016 @ 1:52pm","epoch":1472564820,"text":"I like the mixing of sprites into a 3D World.\rThe shooting mechanic feels pretty solid. But the movement speed is a bit too slow. I got really fast surrounded by the enemies and didn't got away from them.\rBesides that, great game. :)"},{"author_name":"nekolas","author_uid":"113624","time":"Aug 30, 2016 @ 3:23pm","epoch":1472570280,"text":"The 2D art style reminds me of Minecraft. Cool for me. Shooting is no doubt the best part. It feels really nice shooting with arrows (Much more light with a long shooting range). It's a surprise when I found out stone rolling in correct physics way and dust splashing up. \r\rMoving speed should be faster. I get easily cornered, then I can't even see whether I have whether hit enemies ahead of me. Anyway, this is really worth playing considering you have done all these in 3 days."},{"author_name":"ginger9","author_uid":"72781","time":"Aug 31, 2016 @ 1:45am","epoch":1472607600,"text":"The best part is, you jump to a zergling, and zergling jumps too. In that way, you can jump as high as your hp bar."},{"author_name":"guoboism","author_uid":"24432","time":"Aug 31, 2016 @ 2:59am","epoch":1472612040,"text":"I like the arts style, very inspiring."},{"author_name":"Geruhn","author_uid":"59910","time":"Aug 31, 2016 @ 1:40pm","epoch":1472650500,"text":"A really hard game, I like it though. Once the little zerglings have you surrounded you're doomed because of the low shots per second you can fire :\/"},{"author_name":"TerraCottaFrog","author_uid":"55226","time":"Sep 1, 2016 @ 1:17am","epoch":1472692320,"text":"Its cool, but I think the slower backwards movement is a bad move. If you are attack from all sides it makes it almost impossible.\r\rThe graphics, sound, and overall aesthetic are really great though, and I love the concept."},{"author_name":"kawzar","author_uid":"90646","time":"Sep 3, 2016 @ 6:27am","epoch":1472883720,"text":"I like the concept and the graphics! The game is really smooth and well put. Shooting feels really good and instinctive!! \rAt first I was like "oh okay, so this is it" on the tutorial and jumped directly to the level I. Bad idea, I hated the zerglings they are difficult and annoying!\rNice job there! :)"},{"author_name":"sP0CkEr2","author_uid":"7135","time":"Sep 4, 2016 @ 4:51am","epoch":1472964360,"text":"It was fun but the movement and shooting mechanic need work. It really felt unfair at times. Really liked the game tho."},{"author_name":"AnaGF","author_uid":"56020","time":"Sep 6, 2016 @ 12:58am","epoch":1473123180,"text":"Great job, I love the concept, art is pretty neat, sound is cool too, and the controls are really smooth. One of my favorite entries :D\r\rHowever, although you say it was intentionally, I think a bit more of walking speed would make the game better. Even if you shoot it is impossible to not get surrounded, because (obviously) shooting a stone takes your time, and the force spell has a cooldown. Since shoots and spells need to be like this because you are an "Ancient Shooter", I think that increasing the walking speed would improve the game feel, and maybe the solution for not making the game too easy would be increasing the amount of enemies instead of keeping the player being slow."},{"author_name":"Kitkom","author_uid":"89746","time":"Sep 6, 2016 @ 2:54am","epoch":1473130140,"text":"Thanks to @AnaGF and everyone who made suggestion!\rI tried to improve movement speed, but the game is just getting too boring. Currently zerglings could catch you when you are not sprinting away from them, and orcs could catch you when you trying to hit & run. If player has higher speed, orcs may be harmless even with increased amount. To avoid this, both player and enemies' speed must be improved. In that case, zerglings would move too fast.\rSo in my opinion it's hard to improve movement speed while keeping it interesting. It would be different if I added more mechanics, enemies and skills in it.\rBut I'll provide with a "boring" version later."}],"images":["ld36\/89746-455b2d43f85f44b8cab8d5f6e6ba0ccb.jpg","ld36\/89746-80532c2b1dd7fb471e5d5205662676bc.jpg","ld36\/89746-2d11dcc8ed600fd13b4bf672e0a0fcb4.jpg","ld36\/89746-b1e22c4a0e7b555411dcf08a1ea53242.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/kitkom.itch.io\/ancient-ranger-with-ultimate-technology","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/kitkom.itch.io\/ancient-ranger-with-ultimate-technology","text":"Windows (higher movement speed version)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"1260","g_author":"89746","g_event":"LD36","g_eventkey":"35","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"1227","g_title":"Ancient Ranger with Ultimate Technology","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"28","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\/\/570486\/89746-shot0-1472464262.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/570486\/89746-shot1-1472464262.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/570486\/89746-shot2-1472464262.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/570486\/89746-shot3-1472464262.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Unsigned int64 ago, people use stones to deal ranged attack.\r\n\r\nBut a good stone-thrower requires a lot of training, so they invented the slingshot to fire stones. This new technology helped the fight with other creatures greatly.\r\n\r\nBut one day, the earth is invaded by unknown creatures. All of your kind has mutated and you are the only one survived! And they along with a lot of zerglings and titans destroyed your homeland!\r\n\r\nNow it's your time! Show me what you can do with this ultimate weapon as an ancient ranger!\r\n\r\n============\r\n\r\nControls:\r\nWASD : Move\r\nLeft mouse button : Charge and fire\r\nRight mouse button : Emit the Force (It requires cooling down after using it once, and you will hear notification sound effect when it's ready)\r\nLeft Shift : Sprint\r\nQ : Switch weapon\r\n\r\n============\r\n\r\nInstructions in battle\r\n\r\nThere're two kinds of weapons.\r\n\r\nStones are reliable for dealing a lot of DMG, but requires charging for a while. Besides, stones have strong knock-back on light enemies.\r\nArrows now have higher fire rate and DPM but lower DMG. You will have to choose proper weapon to deal with different situations.\r\n\r\nThere're three types of enemies.\r\n\r\nOrcs are normal one. You will have to kill it by at least two stone shot or multiple arrows.\r\nZerglings now have higher speed and hp. You won't be able to kill it with only one arrow, but one half-charged stone is enough to take it down. Think carefully about weapons.\r\nTitans now will not be useless! Approaching titans will slow down your speed and if you didn't managed to escape you will be surrounded by zerglings suddenly!\r\nGood luck!\r\n\r\nBTW: Please run at full screen mode. There may be some bug in window mode due to some reason from Unity.\r\n\r\n============\r\n\r\nSome Questions:\r\n\r\nQ: Why there is no dot in the center of screen to help aiming?\r\n\r\nA: Because you are ancient ranger! Do you think you'are able to fire the stones precisely? No. Try to guess the trace of your weapons and make them of good use. Good luck!\r\n\r\nQ: It's hard to aim and shoot when lots of enemies are moving towards you?\r\n\r\nA: Yes. If there's an enemy blocking your slingshot, the dmg of your weapon will be really low. So keep distance from them. In fact, once you are surrounded while your Force isn't ready, you will die in seconds.\r\n\r\nQ: Why does the movement speed is so low?\r\n\r\nA: Because trying not to get surrounded is part of the game. It will be too easy if you can move at high speed. Use sprint and force to avoid being surrounded.\r\n\r\n============\r\nAbout movement speed:\r\n\r\nThanks to everyone who made suggestion! \r\nI tried to improve movement speed, but the game is just getting too boring. Currently zerglings could catch you when you are not sprinting away from them, and orcs could catch you when you trying to simply hit & run. If player has higher speed, orcs may be harmless even with increased amount. To avoid this, both player and enemies' speed must be improved. In that case, zerglings would move too fast. \r\nSo in my opinion it's hard to improve movement speed while keeping it interesting. It would be different if I added more mechanics, enemies and skills in it. \r\nI've uploaded a alternative version with higher speed.\r\nOrginal Version:\r\nForward Speed : 6 Strafe and Backward Speed : 3 Sprinting Multiplier : 1.5 Hp : 100\r\nHigher Speed Version:\r\nForward Speed : 7 Strafe and Backward Speed : 5 Sprinting Multiplier : 1.8 Hp : 200\r\n============\r\nSorry about my poor English......","title":"Ancient Ranger with Ultimate Technology"}