{"author_link":"\/author\/dreii\/","author_name":"Dreii","author_uid":"24533","comments":[{"author_name":"dsilvers","author_uid":"11651","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 7:28pm","epoch":1418066580,"text":"This is really fun! The waves of enemies work really well. I can totally sympathize with the lack of sleep problem. Game jamming is tough but rewarding! I think you should be proud of what you were able to accomplish here, it is a great start! If you go forward, I would recommend mouse looking instead of S and D to turn (make them strafe instead), stronger enemies on subsequent waves, and making bonus effects stronger and more visible."},{"author_name":"Ozcr","author_uid":"44154","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 1:10am","epoch":1418087100,"text":"Cool."},{"author_name":"lapskaus","author_uid":"46560","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 1:19am","epoch":1418087640,"text":"Fun to play. Good clean action and well done retro graphics. I didn't get the powerups in the end though, why are there two boxes and only one labeled? Seems like i'm only getting something random when i don't know what my choices are."},{"author_name":"D.B.O.NStudios","author_uid":"45506","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 1:21am","epoch":1418087760,"text":"Great game! Although the using the keys to look is a bit hard though, but that's just a personal opinion. Keep it up!"},{"author_name":"Dreii","author_uid":"24533","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 1:24am","epoch":1418087940,"text":"@lapskaus Ahh that was a bit unclear wasnt it? The rectangle with the face is the lid of the chest, that you open when you shoot. \r\rAnd yeah its random rewards each round. the only real choice is when you see a negative value on a chest item, deciding whether its worth it to take."},{"author_name":"PlasterPhantom","author_uid":"30185","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 8:07pm","epoch":1418155320,"text":"Coulda done with some audio imo :P"},{"author_name":"Team Flashlight","author_uid":"47542","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 6:05am","epoch":1418191200,"text":"Definitely a great job. Cool game, simple but addictive art and game flow. \r\rI don't know if the bonus from the level clear chest is random or set, but I get a negative bonus (regen-2) at level 19, which is interesting. I thought the game lead player in a way that "You should shot and open the chest after the level" but if it is randomly negative or sometime intended negative then that makes people a bit upset.\r\rI think the game difficulty is fine, you don't really need to add stronger enemies because you adjust the spawn speed and that already works well.\r\rLooking forward to your future work!"},{"author_name":"qristofer","author_uid":"40112","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 10:06am","epoch":1418205660,"text":"This is really fun! The speed gets insane, but the upgrades matches it. I miss a good BGM tho. Great job, great game."},{"author_name":"Justin Mullin","author_uid":"3128","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 3:59am","epoch":1418270040,"text":"A fun and polished little shooter. =) It seemed very eash to me (though I can see how folks would have had trouble before you added mouse controls). I eventually quit after about level 15 having had my fill. Unfortunately it seems from your comments I was pretty close to when the difficulty ramps up, so I should've stuck with it."},{"author_name":"DomNomNom","author_uid":"8101","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 4:27am","epoch":1418271720,"text":"nice sprites.\rSound would've made a big improvement\r\rOverall the difficulty curve was fairly good except at the end. There is becomes much easier since once you have the sword you can just stand in the corner and wait for the game to end.\r\r\rSome UI feedback:\rthe shadow of the falling enemies should indicate what enemy is going to fall and also should fade in.\rThe stats at the bottom need units rather than just the format "number (number)""},{"author_name":"Elemental Zeal Games Studios","author_uid":"12839","time":"Dec 14, 2014 @ 12:04am","epoch":1418515140,"text":"That was fun to play, nice job!"},{"author_name":"HolyBlackCat","author_uid":"39241","time":"Dec 17, 2014 @ 12:15pm","epoch":1418818200,"text":"Avast complains about your game. `Win32:Malware-gen`"},{"author_name":"maxmetallica","author_uid":"47374","time":"Dec 17, 2014 @ 1:34pm","epoch":1418822940,"text":"nice man i enjoyed the fun"}],"images":["ld31\/24533-ce677953414debbd3f834c682104fc24.jpg","ld31\/24533-27943498b9714a75a30553c2a67d3c83.jpg","ld31\/24533-1f265c35c42e2f86004d5c96dc2c3508.jpg","ld31\/24533-32073f1fd26c2c22d0a5fbfa5f935c42.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gamechildstudios.com\/junkheap\/junkheap.exe","text":"windows"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"14930","g_author":"24533","g_event":"LD31","g_eventkey":"26","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"14960","g_title":"Junk heap","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"458","g_commentcount":"13","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\/24533-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/24533-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/24533-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/24533-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Oh no, you've fallen to the bottom of a pit of robot junk!\r\n\r\ntry and survive the angry abandoned robots onslaught for as long as you can!\r\n\r\nThere's so much missing from this I way over scoped this game for 48 or even 72 hours. I haven't slept all night and still couldn't get audio in haha.\r\n\r\nsorry for the block of text tutorial as well. I'm tired. goodnight...morning.\r\n\r\n\r\nPost sleep edit:\r\n\r\nthe game ramps up in difficulty slowly starting at round 5 where the rocket fists are added, and after round 10 the zombie like starting enemies start getting bigger and stronger.\r\n\r\nalso every 10 levels is a boss battle.\r\n\r\nportraying growth was the main issue I had(read: main timesuck) Trying to get early interesting game play that slowly eased into a nice fun challenge took allot more testing then I could manage. \r\n\r\nIll just say, being that I wasn't able to hone it in, any levels past 20 are a wild west of OHGODNO.\r\n\r\nedit 2: since I had some time before the jam actually ended I changed the controll scheme to a better one.","title":"Junk heap"}