{"author_link":"\/author\/fserb\/","author_name":"fserb","author_uid":"6308","comments":[{"author_name":"bace1000","author_uid":"51950","time":"Apr 19, 2015 @ 8:54pm","epoch":1429476540,"text":"Fun concept, and certainly an unconventional weapon! Feels a bit empty without background audio or particles, but has a good challenge and nice graphics."},{"author_name":"TheBigShot","author_uid":"52247","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 3:01am","epoch":1429498560,"text":"One of My favorite entries so far. Its very simplistic but it has a very nice feel to it. I love the death animation and the screen shake. They are both very subtle. The only thing tats missing is perhaps a nice background soundtrack. Other than that veyr well done."},{"author_name":"mcmahoniel","author_uid":"50787","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 3:06am","epoch":1429498860,"text":"It looks great. It would make a great mobile game."},{"author_name":"Jezzamon","author_uid":"10217","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 3:07am","epoch":1429498920,"text":"Very nice game visually!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I think it needs something more to keep my attention, some extra mechanic or goal, or something that shows my progress across games.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Nice job!"},{"author_name":"tentabrobpy","author_uid":"39815","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 3:20am","epoch":1429499700,"text":"Nice game! The simple graphics aren't too impressive at first but the way you use colors here is pretty cool! Being bad at videogames, I only got a score of 7, but it was fun nonetheless!"},{"author_name":"davidcmcdonald","author_uid":"43146","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 3:21am","epoch":1429499760,"text":"very quick and responsive game, i love how you have coded this thing to work well online. the game was hard until i read the instructions and i realized i could move around hahhaha. good work"},{"author_name":"Cherrymochi","author_uid":"52393","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 3:21am","epoch":1429499760,"text":"It&amp;s very simple but I had fun playing this. good job!"},{"author_name":"winmac32","author_uid":"37191","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 3:25am","epoch":1429500000,"text":"Simple and to the point, but lots of fun. Nifty graphics. A little more sound would be nice."},{"author_name":"dalbinblue","author_uid":"13960","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 3:44am","epoch":1429501140,"text":"After over a dozen tries, I could still only get 6 points; I usually got hit the moment I miss a pull or on a successful pull it would move me just far enough to be in an enemy's line of sight.  Perhaps a small grace period with movement would fix this case.  Despite these issue, I did however enjoy the game."},{"author_name":"Leandrus","author_uid":"31764","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 4:41am","epoch":1429504560,"text":"Nice game.\r<br\/>It needs something else, i quit it too fast. \r<br\/>Thanks for sharing."},{"author_name":"From Smiling","author_uid":"41662","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 5:10am","epoch":1429506300,"text":"It's definitely interesting, with a nice graphical feel. It seems like it's trying to feel good, but the controls feel very constrained."},{"author_name":"NuSan","author_uid":"18943","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 1:26pm","epoch":1429536060,"text":"Realy fun to play. I like that you can traverse bullet from the color your grabing, and that enemy shoot when his bullet go offscreen, so you can predict that. The difficulty curve is hard though, passing by 7\/8 kill is challenging. Keep up the good work!"},{"author_name":"Zielak","author_uid":"38590","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 4:30pm","epoch":1429547100,"text":"Good game that requires good timing! Also, nice game over screen transition."},{"author_name":"RokB","author_uid":"4063","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 7:54pm","epoch":1429559340,"text":"Pretty fun. It's simple but in a very good way. I can see this being a really awesome mobile game."},{"author_name":"RadStar","author_uid":"46262","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 8:53am","epoch":1429606080,"text":"Pretty good and simple game! I like it, can't stop for triing to top my score! Didn't know grabbing stuff could feel so good :p"},{"author_name":"frondeus","author_uid":"41007","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 11:34am","epoch":1429615740,"text":"Well done game!"},{"author_name":"Goutye","author_uid":"37076","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 11:39pm","epoch":1429659240,"text":"Simply, but it works well. Maybe some variation? Or other idea to make this game more beautiful because the idea is really a good one!"},{"author_name":"drschizzo","author_uid":"8354","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 9:54am","epoch":1429696140,"text":"good simple game. I saw in your description that it is a choice but i think the gameplay might be smoother if we could catch while moving.\r<br\/>you seem to forget to post your source code"},{"author_name":"fserb","author_uid":"6308","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 2:30pm","epoch":1429712700,"text":"@drschizzo, the source code link was on the game page. I'll add the link here."},{"author_name":"Kahztein","author_uid":"51703","time":"Apr 24, 2015 @ 8:56am","epoch":1429865460,"text":"Very simple yet very fun!"},{"author_name":"dos","author_uid":"52499","time":"Apr 26, 2015 @ 8:41pm","epoch":1430080560,"text":"Love the color feedback and different ghost mechanics. Looks really smooth!"},{"author_name":"SaintHeiser","author_uid":"14848","time":"Apr 27, 2015 @ 7:57am","epoch":1430121120,"text":"Very adictive game with strange rules..."},{"author_name":"ehtd","author_uid":"11246","time":"Apr 29, 2015 @ 2:45am","epoch":1430275200,"text":"Good, but felt it is missing something."},{"author_name":"RockhopperGames","author_uid":"46057","time":"Apr 30, 2015 @ 1:06pm","epoch":1430398860,"text":"Superb visual style, and surprisingly fun gameplay! I like how the ghosts seem to work on a similar system to the player, having to retrieve their attacks before firing again. Excellent work for the time available!"},{"author_name":"MrShoestore","author_uid":"20984","time":"May 2, 2015 @ 3:15pm","epoch":1430579400,"text":"This is a pretty good little game and i had a lot of fun playing it."},{"author_name":"FrozenCow","author_uid":"8435","time":"May 4, 2015 @ 9:48pm","epoch":1430775780,"text":"I really like the style and concept of this game. Simple and effective. The animation when you die is a nice example, simple but really nice looking."},{"author_name":"tvalentius","author_uid":"23073","time":"May 5, 2015 @ 11:04am","epoch":1430823540,"text":"Nice game and i really love the minimalist concept of the game!"},{"author_name":"Namide","author_uid":"28704","time":"May 6, 2015 @ 2:54pm","epoch":1430923740,"text":"Very interesting concept, so addictive!\r<br\/>I like the sounds, the colors and the transitions!"},{"author_name":"01101101","author_uid":"5105","time":"May 6, 2015 @ 3:44pm","epoch":1430926740,"text":"Very smooth, colourful and not that easy! Congrats on a polished and fun entry! :)"},{"author_name":"jmborden","author_uid":"42811","time":"May 7, 2015 @ 4:57pm","epoch":1431017520,"text":"Well done leaderboard."},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"27744","time":"May 11, 2015 @ 3:24pm","epoch":1431357540,"text":"Colorful, addictive, and very fun. I included it in part 9 of my Ludum Dare 32 compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https:\/\/youtu.be\/eqkTJc6zIls"}],"images":["ld32\/6308-f5a84d015aaf37779e24bd6cc90a166a.jpg","ld32\/6308-0509cfb5793dd3a1892f6170f1c74d91.jpg","ld32\/6308-db35727442cbb8bf11dcc339783cc4ef.jpg","ld32\/6308-4c94ea08a81abf0aeb7caec8eab60d9b.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/fserb.com\/vault\/the-name-of-the-game-is-grab.html","text":"Web (HTML5)"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/fserb\/sketch\/blob\/master\/src\/LD32.hx","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"12719","g_author":"6308","g_event":"LD32","g_eventkey":"27","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"12749","g_title":"the name of the game is grab","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"296","g_commentcount":"31","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\/6308-shot0-1429474522.gif-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/444368\/6308-shot1-1429474775.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/444368\/6308-shot2-1429474775.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/444368\/6308-shot3-1429474775.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Instructions: Grab ghosts, avoid getting hit.\r\n\r\narrows\/WASD\/ZQSD\/,AOE : Move around\r\nmouse move\/click: Grab\r\n\r\nFor a while, I've been trying to bring some League of Legends mechanics into smaller games, and Ludum Dare seemed like the ideal opportunity to do so. One of the funniest characters to play in LOL is Blitzcrank, so I knew the mechanics were solid: hooking things is fun. There's also the counter side of having to stand still while hooking which makes one vulnerable if the hook misses.\r\n\r\nAfter the core mechanic was chosen, most of the work went on the enemies. Each enemy has a slightly different AI. Pink rotates its bullet around itself, so it tries to always stay the same distance from you; Yellow always tries to stay as far from you as possible, shooting from time to time; Purple throws a bullet in your direction, and moves there to grab it back; Blue just tries to dodge the hooks and counter-shoots you.\r\n\r\nAnother interesting part of the game is how every time you kill a ghost, you stay with the other three ghosts (and the BG changes), as if each set of 3 ghosts is kinda a different game. I think this could be explored further in other games.\r\n\r\n\r\n","title":"the name of the game is grab"}