{"author_link":"\/author\/killedbyapixel\/","author_name":"KilledByAPixel","author_uid":"2075","comments":[{"author_name":"kraln","author_uid":"45904","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 2:43am","epoch":1418006280,"text":"The difficulty ramps really quickly after level 4, but nevertheless fun :)"},{"author_name":"BKGH","author_uid":"9732","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 5:55am","epoch":1418017800,"text":"Very interesting concept and interesting implementation!"},{"author_name":"Paperscraps","author_uid":"43555","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 7:46pm","epoch":1418067660,"text":"I really like the idea behind this. The scan line mechanic is super clever. Being able to see a transparent copy of the next scan added a lot to the game. The difficulty is somewhat high."},{"author_name":"the-arrival","author_uid":"47053","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 2:12am","epoch":1418090820,"text":"good idea, good style. I don´t like the level design, but maybe it´s just to confusing because of lack of sleep :)"},{"author_name":"Leo","author_uid":"8754","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 2:16am","epoch":1418091060,"text":"Clever idea, interesting game.\r\rI don't know if it's because my computer somehow can't handle the graphics but the controls felt really sluggish. I wasn't able to beat a level because it needed me to jump with precision I didn't have. I was able to enjoy the game until then, however.\r\rExcellent presentation."},{"author_name":"lonewookie","author_uid":"34535","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 2:23am","epoch":1418091480,"text":"I love the concept but it's a little slippery and hard after level 4."},{"author_name":"catchthefloaty","author_uid":"38619","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 2:26am","epoch":1418091660,"text":"great job"},{"author_name":"KilledByAPixel","author_uid":"2075","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 2:45am","epoch":1418092800,"text":"Thanks guys! I hear you on the difficulty, I need to tighten the platforming mechanics and improve level design. I was really rushed especially with level design. I'm still kind of wrapping my head around how to make best use of the primary mechanic."},{"author_name":"KilledByAPixel","author_uid":"2075","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 7:30am","epoch":1418109900,"text":"I noticed a pretty major bug with keyboard controls that may be causing players to have a worse experience. I mostly tested with a gamepad. I put up a link to an enhanced version with hopefully somewhat better controls."},{"author_name":"MrShoestore","author_uid":"20984","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 1:32am","epoch":1418174820,"text":"Very Clever game. Im a fan."},{"author_name":"ChuiGum","author_uid":"22408","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 3:17am","epoch":1418181120,"text":"Great innovation! It gets pretty difficult but it's still fun. Good job!"},{"author_name":"zakchaos","author_uid":"13273","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 3:20am","epoch":1418181300,"text":"amazing use of theme well done, graphics were simplistic, but very well used, brilliantly done!"},{"author_name":"Lynx","author_uid":"44477","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 4:13am","epoch":1418184480,"text":"Creative and unique idea! Way to get a lot of levels on one screen!"},{"author_name":"Jaloko","author_uid":"37180","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 6:33am","epoch":1418192880,"text":"Enjoyed playing this game, very fun."},{"author_name":"Crefossus","author_uid":"23130","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 7:18am","epoch":1418195580,"text":"Excellent job with the theme and great game design. I love the forgiving checkpoints that don't make you needlessly redo puzzles you have already solved. Extremely rewarding to play.\r\rThe particles and lighting are very well done. I love the graphics consistency overall, although the snowman does stand out a little. I think he fit better as crisp pixels instead of the AA. \r\rThe audio is probably the weakspot, but it's not too grating."},{"author_name":"sanchitgulati","author_uid":"8374","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 10:29am","epoch":1418207040,"text":"windows only :(\rwatched the youtube video. feels awesome."},{"author_name":"Instant Noodles","author_uid":"44379","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 11:51am","epoch":1418211960,"text":"Very hard but definitively cool !"},{"author_name":"Elemental Zeal Games Studios","author_uid":"12839","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 8:37pm","epoch":1418243520,"text":"This was quite neat, and pretty difficult but fun, nice job!"},{"author_name":"NuSan","author_uid":"18943","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 12:31pm","epoch":1418300760,"text":"Good concept and interesting levels. Keep up the good work"},{"author_name":"Gemberkoekje","author_uid":"5952","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 4:39pm","epoch":1418315640,"text":"Bloody hell this game is hard. I also didn't like that it's a bit about premonition: You need to know in advance what's gonna happen, cause if you respond, you'll be too late. That said, I found it really innovative, nice concept, decent graphics.\rFor me, you could've made it a little easier and a little slower paced, but other than that, nice effort and very unique~!\r(Check my entry too! it also has scanlines! :P)"},{"author_name":"glaze_96","author_uid":"46004","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 7:40pm","epoch":1418326500,"text":"Awesome in every way!\rI don't think that the difficulty is a problem because of the quick resets of the levels.\rThe only thing I didn't like was the controls. I like my controls a bit more responsive, but every one has their own taste.\rHope you had a fun time making the game! :)\r\rReally interesting concept btw!"},{"author_name":"ciaodavinci","author_uid":"47511","time":"Dec 12, 2014 @ 1:25am","epoch":1418347200,"text":"Hey interesting concept and great execution. I found it hard to understand why I was dying at the beginning (especially when it was because the scanline had destroyed the pellet). I found the controls a bit slide-y and the jump seemed somehow delayed."},{"author_name":"intersectiongames","author_uid":"39152","time":"Dec 12, 2014 @ 3:26am","epoch":1418354460,"text":"Really like this one. I'm a fan of platforming, especially on the trickier side. This one wasn't super punishing, which was nice. Sometimes you couldn't react until after you've seen the scanline play out, but there were places whre I saw you indicated future platforms and things, which was cool. Maybe try and make that more obvious."},{"author_name":"thopis","author_uid":"46642","time":"Dec 12, 2014 @ 6:10pm","epoch":1418407500,"text":"Funny character and good controls!only thing that's missing is music.Great overall!"},{"author_name":"pjimmy","author_uid":"40339","time":"Dec 13, 2014 @ 7:33pm","epoch":1418498880,"text":"love it, it's challenging, awesome visuals, solid gameplay, well done :)"},{"author_name":"Cake&Code","author_uid":"10976","time":"Dec 16, 2014 @ 7:23am","epoch":1418714280,"text":"Love the idea, it's new and it's brilliant. I think shoehorning in the snowman was a bit awkward, but the game itself has a lot of promise, I think the only difficult thing is being able to properly preview when a section is going to go away, it was really hard to see.\r\rI really hope you take this mechanic and keep pushing it. I think it's got a lot of promise :D"},{"author_name":"rabbit","author_uid":"26967","time":"Dec 17, 2014 @ 3:43am","epoch":1418787480,"text":"Awesome game and one of the better ideas from this jam. It needs a little fine tuning, and it would be nice to know where the blue square would spawn in before hand so you can sorta plan your path to it. Its mostly trial and error right now."},{"author_name":"Leaghorn","author_uid":"45380","time":"Dec 17, 2014 @ 4:11am","epoch":1418789160,"text":"Thats really great. Would be awesome if there was a full length game like that. Make more levels, upgrade graphics and sell it!"},{"author_name":"kirbytails7","author_uid":"4767","time":"Dec 17, 2014 @ 4:55am","epoch":1418791800,"text":"Ha! Level 11 can be skipped!\rVery fun, and a good take on the theme. I like how it escalated at the end."},{"author_name":"kaa","author_uid":"39491","time":"Dec 17, 2014 @ 7:20am","epoch":1418800500,"text":"Canot run, but saw video game play. This game looks fantastic! Game design, level design, whole idea is very interesting"},{"author_name":"ghostonline","author_uid":"4422","time":"Dec 17, 2014 @ 7:39am","epoch":1418801640,"text":"Really love your take on the theme"},{"author_name":"Gins","author_uid":"33074","time":"Dec 17, 2014 @ 9:02am","epoch":1418806620,"text":"That was a ride! Really cool use of the theme, and I finally beat it! Only thing that bugs me is the weird physics where the character acceleration and deceleration don't match up at all, which makes it very hard to time your jumps. That may come down to preference though, and the rest of the game was still brilliant."},{"author_name":"Larzan","author_uid":"10395","time":"Dec 17, 2014 @ 10:56am","epoch":1418813460,"text":"This is the best theme implementation i have seen so far, very good, love it! Great visual style too, level switching, puzzles, all in all a really great game, you should add a few more levels and publish it big time.\rOh, and +1 for the snowman of course ;)"},{"author_name":"exoddinary","author_uid":"44864","time":"Dec 17, 2014 @ 11:19am","epoch":1418814840,"text":"To be honest, I might do not know how to play the game if you didn't post the animated gif version. And yay I finished the game with just 73 tries"},{"author_name":"Fede3751","author_uid":"26899","time":"Dec 17, 2014 @ 12:50pm","epoch":1418820300,"text":"Really cool game! Liked the whole idea! Really hard to finish it but i managed to do it after 60 deaths! :D\r\rGreat entry! :)"},{"author_name":"Kovalsky","author_uid":"46890","time":"Dec 17, 2014 @ 12:57pm","epoch":1418820720,"text":"Your game awesome"},{"author_name":"Tifu","author_uid":"7793","time":"Dec 17, 2014 @ 3:05pm","epoch":1418828400,"text":"61 deaths! Made it! That was awesome, great use of theme, really challenging! Great job!"},{"author_name":"nosfer","author_uid":"8471","time":"Dec 17, 2014 @ 5:19pm","epoch":1418836440,"text":"Fun. Dificult, Irritating, but fun :) Finished with 80 deaths :)"},{"author_name":"Sestren","author_uid":"10343","time":"Dec 18, 2014 @ 2:35am","epoch":1418869800,"text":"This is my favorite take on the theme thus far. The timeout-related deaths confused me at first, but everything else was easy enough to understand. Pretty difficult, but very fun."},{"author_name":"ArcturusDeluxe","author_uid":"26098","time":"Dec 18, 2014 @ 8:08pm","epoch":1418932980,"text":"Very cool idea, nice take on the theme. Love the presentation - the lighting effects and stuff are really cool. Fun gameplay too, even if sometimes its a bit tricky to parse whats going on with all the platform changes, and the insta-deaths when you take too long are a bit confusing. Nice job though!"},{"author_name":"Dietrich Epp","author_uid":"7606","time":"Dec 18, 2014 @ 11:49pm","epoch":1418946240,"text":"Fantastic, simply fantastic game.\r\rP.S. Your game will be in my next video (episode #4)."},{"author_name":"little-burrito","author_uid":"38819","time":"Dec 19, 2014 @ 9:51pm","epoch":1419025560,"text":"I recorded while I played the game: http:\/\/youtu.be\/_wJdWK9gO-U\r\rReally, really cool game. For some reason the controls took some time for me to get used to, but the idea of the scan lines is soo good! I think it could be worth investigating letting them be slower, so that there's a bigger chance you might figure out what to do on the first try, because like this it almost became like you needed to die once just to have an idea of what would happen on the next level. On the other hand, this speed gives it much greater replayability and I'd love to see a speed run of this! Very, very well done."},{"author_name":"taviandir","author_uid":"39572","time":"Dec 19, 2014 @ 10:43pm","epoch":1419028680,"text":"nice concept but i couldnt get past level 4 no matter how fast I was :("}],"images":["ld31\/2075-f9a8dca0506061c318c7ea64ce946993.jpg","ld31\/2075-41b793f3cdf70ff071a7bef5729afcd4.jpg","ld31\/2075-fbbe6c0e18d59cd4790b83f8c65abaff.jpg","ld31\/2075-4c7562f80b07351946a793040d6db24c.jpg","ld31\/2075-23a94b3950fb659f01f619e59507878c.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/42191645\/ScanLines_LD31.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iAkql3nPJmA","text":"YouTube (full playthrough)"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/42191645\/ScanLines.zip","text":"Post Compo Latest Version"},{"url":"https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/p\/frankengine\/code\/HEAD\/tree\/branches\/LudumDare31","text":"Source"},{"url":"http:\/\/frankforce.com\/?p=4894","text":"Postmortem"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"14163","g_author":"2075","g_event":"LD31","g_eventkey":"26","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"14193","g_title":"Scan Lines","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"47","g_commentcount":"43","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\/\/407933\/2075-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/2075-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/2075-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/2075-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/2075-shot4.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"HOW TO PLAY\r\n\r\n* A scan line sweeps across the screen, creating and destroying the world. \r\n* The scan line destroys any blue box it touches which instantly kills you. \r\n* Touching a blue boxes saves your game.\r\n* Use WASD, arrow keys, or gamepad to play.\r\n\r\nThis is a fairly short game with some difficult platforming challenges but many incremental saves. The LD48 version contains 30 levels. Also you are a snowman, don't ask why. Good luck!\r\n\r\nThanks for all the great comments and suggestions! I put up an enhanced version with some bug fixes, better platforming mechanics, cleaner level design, preview of the save points, and a new death transition. I will continue to work on it and keep that link updated with the latest version.","title":"Scan Lines"}