{"author_link":"\/author\/maike\/","author_name":"maike","author_uid":"40774","comments":[{"author_name":"DustyStylus","author_uid":"15902","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 11:14am","epoch":1408964940,"text":"Excellent graphics. "HEEEEE-MAN!"\r\rCollision detection seems... a bit harsh? Perhaps that's just the web version. Or maybe I'm just a rubbish player. ;)"},{"author_name":"maike","author_uid":"40774","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 11:23am","epoch":1408965480,"text":"Thanks mate :)!\rCollision detection is based on the squares and not just the faces, maybe that's why you're a 'rubbish player' :p"},{"author_name":"Larzan","author_uid":"10395","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 12:30pm","epoch":1408969500,"text":"Nice mechanics, flappy LD, hehe"},{"author_name":"Jesper Oskarsson","author_uid":"1737","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 12:34pm","epoch":1408969740,"text":"I got 85!\r\rI found that the optimal strategy was just to hold space to keep the boxed out at the edges and just move whenever I needed to because there enemies coming at the edges. You could make it so that you can't hold the space key as long as possible.\r\rIt's a shame that characters are so small in-game as they seem to be really detailed and well made! I can't really make them out on the screen... Maybe the heads of the enemies that killed you could show up and talk to you? or taunt you whenever they show up on screen?"},{"author_name":"monsterkillu","author_uid":"28534","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 1:02pm","epoch":1408971420,"text":"I must say art is really good .. I wished to see more on that on the gameplay side of it too next time :)"},{"author_name":"evilentity","author_uid":"26880","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 2:15pm","epoch":1408975800,"text":"Very cool! Nice simple game"},{"author_name":"maike","author_uid":"40774","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 2:40pm","epoch":1408977300,"text":"Thanks to everyone for playing and leaving a comment, I'll make sure to try, rate and give feedback to your games as well :)!\r\r\r@Larzan Thanks :)! In fact, I did develop a game with similar mechanics to Flappy Bird before, I ended up calling it Tappy Colour, hope you'll check it out :)!\rAndroid: https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=maike.me.tappycolour\riOS: https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/tappy-colour\/id892184447\r\r\r@Jesper Oskarsson I also realized pretty much everyone, including myself, would just lean up against the walls whenever possible, which is why enemies spawn at each side on every third wave :p\rAs for the size of the enemies, it was a tricky choice, for the sake of gameplay I choose to keep them small so that it would be possible to spawn two next to each other and still have enough room to get past them (and I'd rather have portrait orientation rather than landscape for the sake of making it fast paced), but if you use an Android device with really high resolution (e.g. Nexus 10) then you'll get a crystal clear view of them :)!\r\r\r@monsterkillu I spent the first day developing an entirely different game (I hope I'll have enough free-time to release it on Sunday), which I later abandoned because it didn't fit the 'Connected Worlds' theme at all. This ended up costing me quite a lot of time, although I'm not sure if I would have added anything else in terms of gameplay. I considered adding ability to choose player icon, power-ups (e.g. fire projectile & slow-motion) but in the end I decided to spend almost all my time making sure that performance was great, there were no bugs (at least I think I got rid of them) and that you would never encounter a situation where it would be impossible to get past the enemies. In other words, I'd rather have my game feel complete instead of having tons of unfinished features\/bugs. E.g. I think the player sliding out of screen when the game is over and sliding back in when a new game can begin gives the game the kind of feel that it's a finished product."},{"author_name":"TeamQuadratic","author_uid":"18547","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 4:29pm","epoch":1408983840,"text":"Pretty tricky at points, but overall a fun game."},{"author_name":"AndyBrown","author_uid":"5699","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 3:23am","epoch":1409109480,"text":"Fun entry! The gameplay felt pretty smooth. It was easy to pick up, yet challenging enough to keep me playing for awhile. I would have really liked to have seen different waves on the two sides- maybe starting off with empty on one side and obstacles on the other, then progressing to having different obstacles on both sides. Without that, I found myself just watching one side of the screen."},{"author_name":"maike","author_uid":"40774","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 7:57am","epoch":1409125920,"text":"@TeamQuadratic Thanks, glad you liked it :)!\r\r@AndyBrown I agree, when I play I also focus on just one side of the screen - in the beginning I had implemented it in a way that made it possible for the 'Good' and 'Evil' enemies to spawn at both sides, so when a 'Good' enemy hit the 'Good' player then it would just go right through, whereas if an 'Evil' enemy hit the 'Good' player then it would be game over (same idea would of course apply to 'Evil' player), but I figured that this would be confusing for most people which is why I abandoned the idea. But you're right, keeping one side empty would definitely solve this problem, I'll definitely add this if I feel there's desire for more gameplay features ~ thanks for the feedback :)!"},{"author_name":"caranha","author_uid":"7847","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 8:31am","epoch":1409127960,"text":"congrats for making your game! The graphics work against you, I think. In my phone, the text and sprites are too tiny, and it is hard to make out anything. A more abstract style would have been better in my opinion. \r\rCheers, and hope to see you next LD!"},{"author_name":"Aaants","author_uid":"16061","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 7:31pm","epoch":1409167560,"text":"Nice one :)"},{"author_name":"Pierrec","author_uid":"1874","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 9:48am","epoch":1409218980,"text":"A nice take on Flappy Bird. I wished your graphics were bigger because I like them and can hardly see them on my phone."},{"author_name":"egor-idiot","author_uid":"23565","time":"Aug 29, 2014 @ 3:03pm","epoch":1409324280,"text":"flappy mirror %)\rNice illustrations."},{"author_name":"01101101","author_uid":"5105","time":"Sep 2, 2014 @ 3:52pm","epoch":1409672820,"text":"Fun to play, but hard!"},{"author_name":"hbocao","author_uid":"25980","time":"Sep 3, 2014 @ 5:48am","epoch":1409722980,"text":"Simple but effective gameplay. The art is too small that I couldn't appreciate it properly."},{"author_name":"goerp","author_uid":"14225","time":"Sep 6, 2014 @ 8:14pm","epoch":1410034140,"text":"Nice game.the graphics were small on my phone, but still big enough to be nice.\rWorked smoothly on my device. I was a bit confused on the concept, am I playing one side against the other? I missed the connection to the theme a bit, I guess.\rBut it was fun playing."},{"author_name":"Frankus","author_uid":"22747","time":"Sep 11, 2014 @ 9:40pm","epoch":1410471300,"text":"The game is simple but yet addictive. Kinda hard on the web player. I guess that I should play it on a device, it would be better :P. Great job!"}],"images":["ld30\/40774-8797e34e0fe2af458fd54539f4f44c4c.jpg","ld30\/40774-469324a828d3bd9cf2573c0eb9f9f975.jpg","ld30\/40774-39bebf32a0e1d85370612931fc2d3cbb.jpg","ld30\/40774-7f7a026464bf74c0e6f1237d7b365907.jpg","ld30\/40774-95d2d112a4d522b0469bfb99f49aeb62.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=maike.me.goodvsevil","text":"Android"},{"url":"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/artist\/michael-frandsen\/id882588401","text":"iOS"},{"url":"http:\/\/maike.me\/ld30","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/maike.me\/","text":"more"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"16460","g_author":"40774","g_event":"LD30","g_eventkey":"24","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"16489","g_title":"Good vs Evil","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"576","g_commentcount":"18","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\/40774-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/40774-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/40774-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/40774-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/40774-shot4.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Like hard games? Dodge the enemies for as long as possible!\r\n\r\n\r\n-----\r\nI strongly recommend that you play the Android\/iOS* version of the game as it provides a better 'feel'.\r\nPlease let me know what you think :)!\r\n\r\n*Submitted to the App Store but the approval process is very long.","title":"Good vs Evil"}