{"author_link":"\/author\/reidrac\/","author_name":"reidrac","author_uid":"24731","comments":[{"author_name":"CustomPhase","author_uid":"20604","time":"Aug 24, 2014 @ 10:41pm","epoch":1408919760,"text":"nice! i like the color palette. had some problems with jumping though, some fishy behavior on the edges of blocks"},{"author_name":"reidrac","author_uid":"24731","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 7:17am","epoch":1408950720,"text":"I couldn't adjust properly the jumps :( I'm glad you like the graphics.\r\rThere's a short and a long jump, but in practice is a little bit to difficult to use and you may end hitting your head with the ceiling."},{"author_name":"Foofur","author_uid":"37074","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 8:23am","epoch":1408954680,"text":"Colors are very nice indeed"},{"author_name":"coffeemuggames","author_uid":"41591","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 9:39am","epoch":1408959240,"text":"The mechanics work well and the artstyle is pretty!"},{"author_name":"ahmedmohi","author_uid":"35551","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 9:43am","epoch":1408959480,"text":"nice , I like the art style and animation .. hope you finish the game afterwards :)"},{"author_name":"Posva","author_uid":"24637","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 10:04am","epoch":1408960740,"text":"Very nice graphics job there. Jumping is quite difficult in borders. Not bad for a non finished game.\rI'd like to know what was your idea to connect with the theme (as the game is unfinished I can understand the theme have not completely taken into account)"},{"author_name":"joppiesaus","author_uid":"29014","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 10:07am","epoch":1408960920,"text":"Very nice!\rbut I am on a 144 Hz monitor, so everything goes 144 FPS instead of 60 FPS... Everything is so dayum fast!"},{"author_name":"DragonXVI","author_uid":"35553","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 10:07am","epoch":1408960920,"text":"Very simple little platformer, but nice visuals. Jumping did feel a bit sticky, but managed to reach the end after a few goes. Good job!"},{"author_name":"royvanrijn","author_uid":"12129","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 10:10am","epoch":1408961100,"text":"Nice graphics, maybe the pink man is a little over the top with the pink background. I love the low-res style, the parallax and text!"},{"author_name":"reidrac","author_uid":"24731","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 10:10am","epoch":1408961100,"text":"Posva: I was playing with the idea of a "pink" world and a "blue" world. You're "a pink", and hence the contact with blue things hurt you. Going down the pit I was expecting to include enemies and kind of explain via conversation with NPC that the blue world was leaking into the pink world and eventually you find a way to correct the situation and then "become a hero".\r\rWell, obviously it was ridiculously ambitious for a 48 hours challenge, but overall I got pretty far. I didn't have a specific plan for some of it (eg, what is the interaction with the enemies?), or how to play the "dual" idea of two worlds and the problems of them "connecting", and what is more important: why?\r\rI'm glad you all seem to like the graphics. That means I'm improving my skills :)"},{"author_name":"reidrac","author_uid":"24731","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 10:12am","epoch":1408961220,"text":"joppiesaus: ha! the update loop is independent on the draw loop, but the updates run on 80 updates per second. That's really interesting, I would have expected it to work just fine!\r\rCould it be an issue with requestAnimationFrame implementation in your browser? Thanks for the feedback!"},{"author_name":"EMAK","author_uid":"25905","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 10:58am","epoch":1408963980,"text":"nice entry!"},{"author_name":"JaJ","author_uid":"5496","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 3:16pm","epoch":1408979460,"text":"Nice visual style. Jumping from a place where you have a ceiling right above you doesn't work as well as it should."},{"author_name":"Alexandre Szybiak","author_uid":"18469","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 7:30pm","epoch":1408994700,"text":"Nice graphics :)"},{"author_name":"ehtd","author_uid":"11246","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 10:43pm","epoch":1409006280,"text":"Jumping is not responsive...nice color palette and cool graphics"},{"author_name":"pvtroswold","author_uid":"38531","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 3:32am","epoch":1409023620,"text":"Fun to play! Too bad there weren't more levels!"},{"author_name":"zillix","author_uid":"2460","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 7:48am","epoch":1409125380,"text":"short and sweet! I like the idea of a world where water doesn't belong and simply kills you :D"},{"author_name":"KevinZuhn","author_uid":"8695","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 12:28pm","epoch":1409142180,"text":"Your level design has a lot of unfair elements, like drops that send you directly into water that you can't see before the drop. You wouldn't know to dodge left or right until you had already been killed once, so it becomes trial-and-error and without checkpoints that gets frustrating. There are also tight corridors that the game expects you to leap out of, which the jump controls don't really support. On a positive note, I thought the art direction was nice."},{"author_name":"reidrac","author_uid":"24731","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 2:26pm","epoch":1409149260,"text":"KevinZuhn: thanks for the feedback! I totally agree with all your points.\r\rThe game engine supports checkpoints, but at the end I didn't use them because it would have been too easy. The jump needs adjustments (eg, being more forgiving when jumping from the edge of a platform, issues with collisions, etc), and I couldn't implement a proper camera allowing the player to look up and down.\r\rThe game is not finished so I tried to make it a little bit of a challenge so people could play it for some minutes. It is scary when you must jump into the void not knowing if there's water waiting for you at the bottom, isn't it? ;)"},{"author_name":"Artamus","author_uid":"39880","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 4:35pm","epoch":1409157000,"text":"Nice game, congrats!"},{"author_name":"Jiyambi","author_uid":"30028","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 6:32pm","epoch":1409164020,"text":"Fun little game, I really like the pixel art for the environment. Would like to see the finished version you had in mind, but even as is, it's fun! :)"},{"author_name":"dickpoelen","author_uid":"34953","time":"Aug 29, 2014 @ 12:28pm","epoch":1409314980,"text":"Takes more than some water to stop me! Nice little game :)"},{"author_name":"Kiwiboi","author_uid":"20891","time":"Aug 30, 2014 @ 2:23am","epoch":1409365080,"text":"Love those colors (purple baby) and a platformer is always fun. The jumping is difficult to time I feel, on the edge he doesn't jump for me sometimes. Hope you continue to work on this, great start."},{"author_name":"markusfisch","author_uid":"19466","time":"Aug 30, 2014 @ 5:51pm","epoch":1409420760,"text":"Sweet graphics! I like it! Only jumping with Z didn't want to merge with my fingers but that may just be my german keyboard :) Well done!"},{"author_name":"ghostinthesoft","author_uid":"20530","time":"Aug 31, 2014 @ 8:09am","epoch":1409472240,"text":"Nice game but on Chrome I had problems with jump+direction key"},{"author_name":"Lokarunith","author_uid":"25012","time":"Sep 8, 2014 @ 2:31pm","epoch":1410186360,"text":"Nice game but I think the the connection with the theme is very superficial."}],"images":["ld30\/24731-bb230f3ffa299fcaa643eb7bcb6d2fe3.jpg","ld30\/24731-9ea5e51f568d6d29ea4facf907c9f604.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.usebox.net\/jjm\/dual-adv\/play\/index.html","text":"Web HTML5"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/reidrac\/dual-adventure-ld30","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"16123","g_author":"24731","g_event":"LD30","g_eventkey":"24","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"16153","g_title":"DUAL Adventure","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"897","g_commentcount":"26","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\/24731-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/24731-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"I couldn't finish the game and because of that the connection with the theme is not clear at all, but at least I managed to put together some pixels and a so-so platformer.\r\n\r\nAlthough unfinished, the game supports gamepads. Just press any button so the game can detect your controller!\r\n\r\nControls: left\/right arrows to move, up to close text, Z to jump (and make text go faster).\r\n","title":"DUAL Adventure"}