{"author_link":"\/author\/lase\/","author_name":"lase","author_uid":"44961","comments":[{"author_name":"harley77","author_uid":"43987","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 6:49pm","epoch":1418064240,"text":"Very nice. Great use of the theme and definitely a fun title.  I would love to see it developed further."},{"author_name":"wer2chosen","author_uid":"43767","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 1:40am","epoch":1418175300,"text":"Fun game, enjoyed it, played it a few times. Harder than I thought it would be."},{"author_name":"Instant Noodles","author_uid":"44379","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 10:24am","epoch":1418206740,"text":"simple gameplay like it. Hard to play anyway."},{"author_name":"anissen","author_uid":"30512","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 8:47pm","epoch":1418244120,"text":"Fun mechanic, but it gets very hard very fast! The graphics could use some polish."},{"author_name":"Samm","author_uid":"44022","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 4:27am","epoch":1418271720,"text":"Pretty fun, but the mechanic of being pushed back when being shot seems to play against how slow your character moves. Maybe upping the character move speed, while also causing the pushback effect to be larger might offset it?\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Great entry though :)"},{"author_name":"Pat Kemp","author_uid":"4349","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 4:28am","epoch":1418271780,"text":"Nice, tense gameplay. The zooming out mechanic is neat. Great job!"},{"author_name":"MrShoestore","author_uid":"20984","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 4:29am","epoch":1418271840,"text":"what do the arrows do?  am i supposed to collect them?  all i know is i got bombarded by a LOT of dudes.. then i moved to the other side of the screen and a guy spawned next to me."},{"author_name":"gquibao","author_uid":"46363","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 4:34am","epoch":1418272140,"text":"The first time I played I was like &quot;aw, that's easy&quot;.... Then i died, and died again and again. I really enjoyed the game, it's a good work. The music is a bit awkward, but it's good"},{"author_name":"karlipoppins","author_uid":"43949","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 4:50am","epoch":1418273100,"text":"Nice little game! At one point I was like: &quot;wee I got this I shoot faster then anything&quot; and then 5 super fat opponents spawned on me lol! Very fun to play, a bit repetitive. good job!"},{"author_name":"deathray","author_uid":"17861","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 5:01am","epoch":1418273760,"text":"I wasn't able to figure out how to zoom out. :( The arrows didn't seem to do anything. I like the kick-back on the shooting though."},{"author_name":"spacedoubt","author_uid":"39200","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 5:04am","epoch":1418273940,"text":"Clever use of the theme! I enjoyed playing. I wished the arrows would've grew too, so I could still see them."},{"author_name":"TheMeorch","author_uid":"44776","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 5:08am","epoch":1418274180,"text":"A game where the camera zooms out as you progress -- that's a really cool idea.  It can be annoying that your character gets pushed back by firing, but it certainly adds a new element of danger to games like this.  Nice job!"},{"author_name":"Akurn","author_uid":"40190","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 5:10am","epoch":1418274300,"text":"zoom as a powerup is great!"},{"author_name":"TehSkull","author_uid":"13948","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 6:13am","epoch":1418278080,"text":"Clever use of theme. I like it. Refine it, and you've got a hit on your hands."},{"author_name":"GAFBlizzard","author_uid":"12278","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 11:24pm","epoch":1418339940,"text":"Nice artwork, but holy carpal tunnel batman, please let me hold down arrow keys to fire.  :P  Diagonal shooting might be nice too.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I am not sure if the game has a goal or if it goes forever.  I got to the huge black monsters but stopped after a while."},{"author_name":"GAFBlizzard","author_uid":"12278","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 11:25pm","epoch":1418340000,"text":"I forgot to mention, you might want to add some sort of loading message when you press escape.  On Firefox escape freezes the game (presumably while loading) so some people might think the browser is frozen."},{"author_name":"Raxsus","author_uid":"44875","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 11:44pm","epoch":1418341140,"text":"I keep dying, but then why do I keep playing. Very fun, and a good use of the theme."},{"author_name":"lase","author_uid":"44961","time":"Dec 12, 2014 @ 1:11am","epoch":1418346360,"text":"Good points GAFBlizzard.. everything you mentioned was planned, but time ran out on me :)"},{"author_name":"5T4MP5","author_uid":"34376","time":"Dec 12, 2014 @ 1:27am","epoch":1418347320,"text":"This is a really cool interpretation of the theme. I like that a lot. The movement\/shooting works, but I don't think the knockback really helps the game. Otherwise, I really liked this."},{"author_name":"loopinlouie","author_uid":"44470","time":"Dec 12, 2014 @ 1:38am","epoch":1418347980,"text":"Cool concept based on the theme. I especially like blue arrows, but I wish the arrow drops were not random, because if I don't get a blue arrow for a while it guarantees certain death. I don't like that the enemies can spawn randomly ontop of you, or that you die with just one hit and then have to restart from scratch. I got to this bigger boss type monster after getting 3 blue arrows in a row on one run, and then he appeared right ontop of me and I died, doh! I like how the enemy eyes change colors to represent their health. I am not really a fan of using 4 buttons to shoot in 4 directions, it feels sort of like an unnecessary addition to the gameplay, and I wish I could just aim with the mouse. With some more work, I can see this being pretty fun though, because the base mechanic of the screen zoom being controlled by power-ups is pretty cool."},{"author_name":"DefectiveMelon","author_uid":"44221","time":"Dec 12, 2014 @ 1:42am","epoch":1418348220,"text":"I liked it, it was pretty funny to grow so my face covered the whole screen. I think it would be a whole lot better if you could hold down the arrow keys though, right now it gets slightly annoying\/painful"},{"author_name":"TeamQuadratic","author_uid":"18547","time":"Dec 12, 2014 @ 1:48am","epoch":1418348580,"text":"What a brilliant game! It was epic going from fighting a few enemies to battling massive armies of them!"},{"author_name":"Jed T.","author_uid":"6818","time":"Dec 12, 2014 @ 5:26am","epoch":1418361660,"text":"Neat little game, simple but fun, I love how the enemies swarm to the player and how you try your best to hit the fire keys. Maybe you could try to make it funny for example, instead the enemies trying to kill you they try to take your ice cream or something :)"},{"author_name":"csanyk","author_uid":"10473","time":"Dec 13, 2014 @ 4:35am","epoch":1418445000,"text":"lol, the first time I played this, I thought the recoil from shooting was the only way to move, and thought the game sucked.  Then I discovered walking with WASD and felt dumb for not reading the instructions, but the game got better."},{"author_name":"ezPuzzle","author_uid":"48221","time":"Dec 13, 2014 @ 9:00am","epoch":1418460900,"text":"health bar, rapid fire, and slower scaling would make this go to the top of my list."},{"author_name":"Nobuyoshi","author_uid":"41434","time":"Dec 13, 2014 @ 5:42pm","epoch":1418492220,"text":"The game is buggy."},{"author_name":"whitematterteam","author_uid":"47146","time":"Dec 13, 2014 @ 7:52pm","epoch":1418500020,"text":"Nice game and pretty nice art. I liked the concept. It was pretty hard."},{"author_name":"martial_cantarel_games","author_uid":"47216","time":"Dec 13, 2014 @ 10:12pm","epoch":1418508420,"text":"^^^"},{"author_name":"Wilson","author_uid":"21565","time":"Dec 13, 2014 @ 10:14pm","epoch":1418508540,"text":"Awesome game :) Reached 30,000 points and was so big I didn't fit in the screen top-bottom."},{"author_name":"Arkrothe","author_uid":"29482","time":"Dec 13, 2014 @ 10:17pm","epoch":1418508720,"text":"Really liked the way you used the theme, and the recoil added a fun twist to this kind of gameplay."},{"author_name":"EthanWebster","author_uid":"38791","time":"Dec 14, 2014 @ 11:06am","epoch":1418554860,"text":"Fun game, nice work"},{"author_name":"cardboard","author_uid":"16294","time":"Dec 15, 2014 @ 5:14am","epoch":1418620140,"text":"I got lucky and got the invincible bug, so I was able to play until I got the character to fill up nearly the entire screen, which was fun. The music is fine, but it gets repetitive rather quickly. The game mechanic of zooming out as you progress is very nice."},{"author_name":"wilbefast","author_uid":"14535","time":"Dec 16, 2014 @ 6:58pm","epoch":1418755980,"text":"Very interesting control mechanic - real brain-f*ck to start out with. Think it'd be worth developing further :)"},{"author_name":"Vladik Plays","author_uid":"43115","time":"Dec 17, 2014 @ 1:15pm","epoch":1418821800,"text":"Can't open it up, says:\r<br\/>There should be build_data\r<br\/>Folder next to the executable"},{"author_name":"pf0nzica","author_uid":"48435","time":"Dec 19, 2014 @ 4:04am","epoch":1418961540,"text":"game is dope, hard as a rock. so much as if there is no expiration date. music repetitive. had me going up on a tuesday"},{"author_name":"pf0nzica","author_uid":"48435","time":"Dec 19, 2014 @ 4:05am","epoch":1418961600,"text":"also it is broke \r<br\/>\r<br\/>There should be 'build_Data'\r<br\/>folder next to the executable"},{"author_name":"sP0CkEr2","author_uid":"7135","time":"Dec 26, 2014 @ 4:34pm","epoch":1419611340,"text":"interesting gameplay - i love the idea of powering up the screen - nicely done"}],"images":["ld31\/44961-7b7a3199181b86b91f646582097001bf.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/12128537\/build.exe","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/6qg4tv5tvcnfhyd\/AAAe6fr9T95Ay4R_ozWQlaiRa?dl=0","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"14342","g_author":"44961","g_event":"LD31","g_eventkey":"26","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"14372","g_title":"Tight Angle","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"899","g_commentcount":"37","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\/44961-shot0.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Where IS the screen? Is the screen all you can see? Is it all the camera shows? What even really is a CAMERA in a video game?\r\n\r\nLearn all this and more in Tight Angle, the game about zooming out.\r\n\r\nMove - WASD\r\nShoot - Arrow Keys\r\nRestart - ESC\r\n\r\nSince a few people have asked, I'll post here:\r\nGreen Arrow - Range Up\r\nBlue Arrow - Zoom Out\r\nRed Arrow - Size Up & Zoom Out\r\n\r\nAlso:\r\nSometimes, you can't even die. This means you've encountered a bug, OR that you're really good! Have fun!\r\n\r\nBe my friend on Twitter @lase__","title":"Tight Angle"}