{"author_link":"\/author\/lvyn\/","author_name":"Lvyn","author_uid":"39221","comments":[{"author_name":"koalamo","author_uid":"40334","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 1:17am","epoch":1408929120,"text":"Well done - love the visuals!"},{"author_name":"Orange","author_uid":"34538","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 1:30am","epoch":1408929900,"text":"Awesome game! The controls through me off at the beginning. LOVE the art style!"},{"author_name":"Makio","author_uid":"24863","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 2:01am","epoch":1408931760,"text":"Handsome ! Very well done ! :D"},{"author_name":"oranebeast","author_uid":"33501","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 7:46am","epoch":1408952460,"text":"Although the shaders messed up\/hurt my eyes, they did indeed look beautiful, just like the rest of this amazing game. Not your average averag puzzle\/platformer"},{"author_name":"Ludipe","author_uid":"20471","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 9:25am","epoch":1408958400,"text":"The art is great and the gameplay is fun, but I think thr rhythm should be faster."},{"author_name":"Lvyn","author_uid":"39221","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 10:00am","epoch":1409046900,"text":"Thanks for feedback all ! :) If you have any issues, tweet me !"},{"author_name":"muriel","author_uid":"30618","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 6:39pm","epoch":1409078040,"text":"Wow, good job ;)"},{"author_name":"HELLO23","author_uid":"21541","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 6:41pm","epoch":1409078160,"text":"I really enjoyed the concept and the music. Kudos for making it in C++."},{"author_name":"everystone","author_uid":"41668","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 6:43pm","epoch":1409078280,"text":"Great! A bit hard to figure out which direction you are supposed to go"},{"author_name":"ice cold muffin","author_uid":"19913","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 6:47pm","epoch":1409078520,"text":"WOW! The graphics is awesome!"},{"author_name":"Torandi","author_uid":"30652","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 6:51pm","epoch":1409078760,"text":"Beautiful graphics, and I really liked the idea of swapping chroma. Gameplay was maybe a bit slow, and I think it might need a way to know which direction you're supposed to go in."},{"author_name":"Conk","author_uid":"40797","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 6:55pm","epoch":1409079000,"text":"Cool puzzles, I did find the physics rather confusing though. The graphics were oddly cool (:"},{"author_name":"ajopart","author_uid":"40976","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 10:40pm","epoch":1409092500,"text":"Grr !! This game has a concept similar to mine, but does the work better... Nice work. Good graphics (psychedelic touch), I like the music. Not knowing where to go is a bit confusing :-)"},{"author_name":"AtsK","author_uid":"36464","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 11:08pm","epoch":1409094180,"text":"Visuals were cool and sound as well. More player guidance would be beneficial I feel."},{"author_name":"Miziziziz","author_uid":"41803","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 3:59am","epoch":1409111640,"text":"I really like the music and art. The gameplay mechanics seem cool too, but they feel like they've been implemented strangely. I kept using space on accident to jump, which was annoying. But mostly, I couldn't really tell what I was supposed to do; I'd just jump around and hope for the best, mostly trial and error.\r<br\/>I feel like this would be amazing if it could be explained better"},{"author_name":"Jupitron","author_uid":"35249","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 10:54am","epoch":1409136540,"text":"Nice mood and clever mechanics! Not very clear how many times space change modes tough."},{"author_name":"bazld","author_uid":"36950","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 5:09pm","epoch":1409159040,"text":"Excellent polished visuals and interesting game mechanic. Amazing you made this in 48hrs!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>[ideally, a longer tutorial section would be useful, ie I died a lot...]"},{"author_name":"Lvyn","author_uid":"39221","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 8:59pm","epoch":1409172840,"text":"Thanks all ! \r<br\/>\r<br\/>I wanted to give it some die'n'retry kind of gameplay, seems this worked too well... ^^\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@Conk: yeah the sliding is a bit special, but I guess that makes the gameplay a little different form other platformers ;) (not talking about color shifting huh :D)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@Jupitron : Colors are always cycling in the same way gray, red, green, blue :)"},{"author_name":"KigurumiDevs","author_uid":"42414","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 11:05pm","epoch":1409180400,"text":"the game crashed when I started it (2x) :("},{"author_name":"Lvyn","author_uid":"39221","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 11:27pm","epoch":1409181720,"text":"Ohh... Any error message ?"},{"author_name":"Lvyn","author_uid":"39221","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 6:00am","epoch":1409205300,"text":"Please send me a mail so we can investigate this. (mail on screen shot)"},{"author_name":"KigurumiDevs","author_uid":"42414","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 8:03am","epoch":1409212680,"text":"Really cool mechanics and visuals :]"},{"author_name":"KigurumiDevs","author_uid":"42414","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 8:04am","epoch":1409212740,"text":"Really cool mechanics :]"},{"author_name":"Raphy","author_uid":"24241","time":"Aug 29, 2014 @ 11:04am","epoch":1409309940,"text":"Very cool mechanics an great execution, well done!!"},{"author_name":"liquidminduk","author_uid":"37631","time":"Aug 30, 2014 @ 8:51am","epoch":1409388360,"text":"I loved the shifting worlds in this that changed the gameplay greatly! Beautiful sound design, and the little block had more character than I expected!\r<br\/>Great work"},{"author_name":"Sunflower","author_uid":"39564","time":"Aug 30, 2014 @ 1:43pm","epoch":1409405880,"text":"It's not the first time I've seen this concept, but it's still done rather well, nonetheless. Too bad I got completely clueless at level 4, and then after climbing very, very high on some green spikey thing I fell off and was falling... falling... falling... and I was never heard from again. &gt;.&lt;"},{"author_name":"Stending","author_uid":"25361","time":"Aug 30, 2014 @ 10:03pm","epoch":1409435880,"text":"Really cool game!\r<br\/>I love the visual effects!"},{"author_name":"HayManMarc","author_uid":"40890","time":"Aug 30, 2014 @ 11:50pm","epoch":1409442300,"text":"You're right.  This is a lot like mine, but yours has a lot more mood to it.  I found it hard to figure out where I was supposed to go to complete the level.  I don't like trial-and-error method of playing games much.  :)  Very nice work with the graphics."},{"author_name":"Rehacked","author_uid":"41818","time":"Aug 31, 2014 @ 12:34pm","epoch":1409488140,"text":"Good job on this.Graphics was fantastic and beautiful but was confusing for gameplay. anyway i liked this game"},{"author_name":"malf","author_uid":"40615","time":"Sep 1, 2014 @ 5:49pm","epoch":1409593440,"text":"A bit hard on the eyes , but it looks beautifully made and it's fun to play"},{"author_name":"Lvyn","author_uid":"39221","time":"Sep 1, 2014 @ 5:59pm","epoch":1409594040,"text":"Thanks for feedback ! Next time will speedup the game or add more directions ;)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@Sunflower you can use R to reset the level :)"},{"author_name":"Cash","author_uid":"31729","time":"Sep 1, 2014 @ 6:46pm","epoch":1409596860,"text":"Really enjoyed this,also I love the sliding idea"},{"author_name":"dook","author_uid":"18341","time":"Sep 1, 2014 @ 7:01pm","epoch":1409597760,"text":"Very impressive. Looked great and the music and sound was good :) It could use something to guide the player through so it'd be a bit less trial and error. But really impressive for a compo game!"},{"author_name":"bluesky","author_uid":"40978","time":"Sep 1, 2014 @ 7:36pm","epoch":1409599860,"text":"This is actually very entertaining, well done."},{"author_name":"Dohan","author_uid":"14678","time":"Sep 1, 2014 @ 8:47pm","epoch":1409604120,"text":"Some levels are so big, it's too easy to get lost. The shaders are cool and I've enjoyed the music."},{"author_name":"commodoreKid","author_uid":"39580","time":"Sep 2, 2014 @ 10:57pm","epoch":1409698320,"text":"I understood what you tried to do and how it would work but everything was unclear. I didn't get which color I changed the world into and where would be the platforms. The idea is also not very original anymore. I think you should consider dimming the shiny graphics too."},{"author_name":"silentlamb","author_uid":"40102","time":"Sep 4, 2014 @ 5:11pm","epoch":1409850360,"text":"The music is really lovely! The game is a bit too hard for me though, maybe it's because enormous levels after the second or third teleport. I got lost pretty fast. Good job, I enjoyed playing your game!"}],"images":["ld30\/39221-f475fa3d4be07f0d27270f11a21effa4.jpg","ld30\/39221-98171b3d294f7bf1f8902d718e7afdff.jpg","ld30\/39221-55f47bf5df1c9bec7b5331de5215b804.jpg","ld30\/39221-37d141f4f50a4b445d40c91e21043bea.jpg","ld30\/39221-aa3cef0b4c73028afd33d187f23e3be6.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/8153136\/Chroma.rar","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dGSwklGmoKk","text":"Timelapse"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8tQ0F4gMtXM","text":"Walkthrough"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/8153136\/Chroma_source.rar","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"15852","g_author":"39221","g_event":"LD30","g_eventkey":"24","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"15882","g_title":"Chroma","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"352","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\/\/375043\/39221-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/39221-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/39221-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/39221-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/39221-shot4.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Chroma is about shifting between different planes... The goal is to reach a portal in each of the 8 levels. To do so you have to use your chroma: the ability to shift in and out of these different worlds that are defined by the color spectrum.\r\n\r\n\r\nThe game was programmed from almost scratch in C++ (the base code was about 500 lines of OpenGL helper code).\r\n\r\nLibraries used:\r\nBox2D, glew, glm, glu, OpenGL, SDL2, SDL2_image, and SDL2_mixer.\r\n\r\nFor art and levels: NeoTextureEdit and Blender.\r\n\r\nMusic and sounds: abundant-music.com, sfxr.\r\n\r\n\r\nEnjoy !\r\n\r\nControls:\r\n- move: Q\/Z\/D (azerty) or A\/W\/D (qwerty)\r\n- shifting chromas: Space\r\n- reset level: R\r\n- menu: Escape\r\n================================================================\r\nPS. If there is a missing DLL message, you may need VS2012 redist ( http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/fr-fr\/download\/details.aspx?id=30679 )\r\n================================================================\r\n","title":"Chroma"}