{"author_link":"\/author\/lonelytimelord\/","author_name":"LonelyTimeLord","author_uid":"6063","comments":[{"author_name":"Gamepopper","author_uid":"21252","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 10:09pm","epoch":1418076240,"text":"That was really fun! The sound effects were adorable. :)"},{"author_name":"cinderous","author_uid":"40629","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 11:51pm","epoch":1418082360,"text":"I really liked the art style\/animations! The crabs were funny, as someone else mentioned the sound effects were quite amusing as well!"},{"author_name":"panda","author_uid":"16086","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 12:09am","epoch":1418083440,"text":"Funny and nice graphics - I like how you have many levels! It's kind of weird though that I'm a fish and I can't swim back up to the platform."},{"author_name":"Ellian","author_uid":"7701","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 12:11am","epoch":1418083560,"text":"God if only you could jump higher. x__x\r<br\/>Good graphics, and I love the magic bacon. :)"},{"author_name":"zulubo","author_uid":"46961","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 12:13am","epoch":1418083680,"text":"Sound effects were great, and despite simply drawn characters the animations were superb! I could see the time spent on those."},{"author_name":"berkano","author_uid":"11027","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 12:13am","epoch":1418083680,"text":"Completely bonkers! Good fun!"},{"author_name":"flyingbear","author_uid":"16232","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 12:17am","epoch":1418083920,"text":"Narwhal with a Gun?? Awesome theme! I wish there was more depth to the gameplay though. Did you think about letting 'W' jump the character? I prefer that with games that require my right hand to use the mouse. I also wasn't sure what the bacon did at first, but I soon figured it out."},{"author_name":"ramonparaiba","author_uid":"21621","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 12:42am","epoch":1418085420,"text":"It took me a while to remember the controls. But I really liked!"},{"author_name":"FerraWare","author_uid":"45480","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 12:52am","epoch":1418086020,"text":"1. Start a game\r<br\/>2. Add narwhals\r<br\/>3. Add bacon\r<br\/>4. ?????\r<br\/>5. Profit\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Really cool concept, keep it up :P"},{"author_name":"andrewkennedy","author_uid":"20990","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 2:29am","epoch":1418091840,"text":"Great idea to have themed levels! The music and art were both really cute. The game felt like a variation of Mario Bros (the old arcade one) but with a gun twist!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Random question - do you happen to use the 2D Platform Controller by jnamobile?"},{"author_name":"LonelyTimeLord","author_uid":"6063","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 9:23am","epoch":1418116680,"text":"@andrewkennedy Nope, I created my own character controller. And thanks, now you mention it I can see the &quot;old arcade mario&quot; feel :P"},{"author_name":"Luke Molnar","author_uid":"26708","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 9:48am","epoch":1418118180,"text":"Soild! Just Soild! FUN as."},{"author_name":"Murchurl","author_uid":"44531","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 1:48pm","epoch":1418132580,"text":"HaHa how did i even get to this! love the title, art is nice and simple. Gameplay is solid, nice job!"},{"author_name":"gquibao","author_uid":"46363","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 10:11pm","epoch":1418162760,"text":"Very funny!! Played a lot. The on the second level, I found a place where no crab reached there, stayed 170 seconds there, i thought it was a bug or something, but I found out it was just luck as one killed me from behind hahahah good game, really!"},{"author_name":"rabbit","author_uid":"26967","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 10:34pm","epoch":1418250540,"text":"Needs better sound.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The gun is really soft and unresponsive. Theres no punch to it.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Bullets are too small and hard to see.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Bacon spawns in places that are entirely out of reach.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Nice song and good animations on the jellyfish."},{"author_name":"jachepe","author_uid":"44966","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 10:35pm","epoch":1418250600,"text":"Great graphics and sound!"},{"author_name":"TMAT Productions","author_uid":"42241","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 10:35pm","epoch":1418250600,"text":"2014 game of the year"},{"author_name":"LonelyTimeLord","author_uid":"6063","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 1:09am","epoch":1418259840,"text":"@rabbit Thanks for the feedback. I agree that the sound is not the best. I haven't got much experience with sound, but hopefully I will get better as I keep practising :) The bacon spawning is an issue I would have corrected if I had the time, but I really wanted to get this in for the compo so I just left it knowing it would probably be highlighted in at least a couple of the comments xD"},{"author_name":"danidre14","author_uid":"32791","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 12:10pm","epoch":1418299500,"text":"Love the feel of your game! The graphics are cool, the music still rings in my ear, and I liekd the different exploration of physics on each level!\r<br\/>Good job!"},{"author_name":"badlydrawnrod","author_uid":"745","time":"Dec 13, 2014 @ 11:16pm","epoch":1418512260,"text":"The graphics and music were really well matched, and the music itself was quite catchy. I thought the game itself was a little on the easy side, but it was still enjoyable. The crabs were particularly well animated.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>And any game with bacon in it is going to get my vote."},{"author_name":"BoxedMeatRevolution","author_uid":"47669","time":"Dec 15, 2014 @ 2:14am","epoch":1418609340,"text":"Liked:\r<br\/>- Controls. Felt good and responsive. Adding the ability to wall jump was a nice touch\r<br\/>- Music. Nice music. Good job\r<br\/>- Graphics. You picked style and stuck with it, so the game looks unified. Some of the sprite animations were extremely adorable\r<br\/>- The weapon. I liked how the shots were ever so slightly affected by gravity\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Disliked:\r<br\/>- The shooting sound effect. It was far too loud\r<br\/>- The static difficulty of each level. It meant that if a level was easy enough it became boring quickly\r<br\/>- The game play. In every level I was able to find a place where I could stand still and easily shoot any dangerous enemies. (1rst level is easy enough to stand anywhere, 2nd in the bottom left corner, 3rd on the uppermost single-block cloud). Because the levels never seemed to get harder, this made me feel as though I'd beaten the game (no sense in trying to get a high score, because I know I could get an arbitrarily high score by playing in a robotic fashion)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Overall: Great start, but I think it would be much better if the levels got became more difficult with time!"},{"author_name":"Conk","author_uid":"40797","time":"Dec 15, 2014 @ 11:50pm","epoch":1418687100,"text":"Fun, nice audio and cool graphics, love the animations! Got like, 50 on each level, lots of rapid fire."},{"author_name":"Crosstales","author_uid":"32967","time":"Dec 24, 2014 @ 12:35pm","epoch":1419424200,"text":"Nice concept and interesting game idea - I like :-)\r<br\/>The graphics and sound is also great.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Very well done and happy x-mas!"},{"author_name":"Canyon","author_uid":"6228","time":"Dec 28, 2014 @ 7:19am","epoch":1419750840,"text":"I think this game needed more peril.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Perhaps a mechanic that meant you lost if you missed more than N bad guys.  A score on it's own is not motivational enough.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>When time counts up, the game should be difficult to survive, but that isn't the case here.  I feel like for this game, the timer should have counted down, and it was more of, how many can get, with in the time constraint.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Otherwise, you just play until you get tire of it.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>It would have been great to change the level after a set time\/goal was reached.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The controls also feel a bit airy.  I like a lot of the little touches, like being invulnerable after spawning, and wall jumping, having a menu with instructions etc.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I think with a few tweaks the game would give one more reason to continue playing."},{"author_name":"Kuality Games","author_uid":"46151","time":"Dec 29, 2014 @ 8:55pm","epoch":1419886200,"text":"Such an adorable game! Really cute audio and artstyle. It just got a bit bored too fast. Wish there was more gameplay."}],"images":["ld31\/6063-32c539e2c2b763488f64fad9728efbc7.jpg","ld31\/6063-6ce9dec9bb193fcc2cd481ef2f66bacc.jpg","ld31\/6063-b54670a27b081c675ffceaa92a77daf6.jpg","ld31\/6063-f04986b68880f2fb894347c7f8fb3ca0.jpg","ld31\/6063-9e08dee696efb8dc9c0122ee1435cf97.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/lonelytimelord.github.io\/narwhal_with_a_gun","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/mega.co.nz\/#!RxVUWYLb!prfbwA0ccvM_iAYubcdIldir8CFCUMkOyYackE7H8e4","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"15003","g_author":"6063","g_event":"LD31","g_eventkey":"26","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"15033","g_title":"Narwhal with a Gun","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"733","g_commentcount":"25","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\/6063-shot0.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/6063-shot1.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/6063-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/6063-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/6063-shot4.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"You're a Narwhal.\r\nYou have a gun.\r\nWhat more do you want?\r\n\r\nGo shoot things :)\r\n\r\nAD - Movement Left\/Right\r\nSpace - Jump\/WallJump\r\nMouse - Aim and Shoot","title":"Narwhal with a Gun"}