{"author_link":"\/author\/datacr4sh\/","author_name":"datacr4sh","author_uid":"40158","comments":[{"author_name":"gandalf1209","author_uid":"36850","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 2:14am","epoch":1408932540,"text":"Really cool! Graphics honestly don't matter to me if the game is this fun! 9.5\/10! .5 isn't there because there wasn't an explanation to how the game works, but it's really easy to figure out, so there's really no reason to have that in there :D"},{"author_name":"TaylorAnderson","author_uid":"39104","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 2:17am","epoch":1408932720,"text":"this is really cool.  i like the balancing act of trying to get each player high enough to overcome the obstacles by getting a momentum going.  i also really like the death sequence :P"},{"author_name":"gandalf1209","author_uid":"36850","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 2:26am","epoch":1408933260,"text":"Very good!"},{"author_name":"Geckoo1337","author_uid":"35835","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 4:48am","epoch":1408941780,"text":"Interesting concept and minimalist environement - I like it. I don't understand how I can pass through the big obstacles but I like these little guys. Bravo and Thank you ++"},{"author_name":"Beard","author_uid":"40054","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 1:44pm","epoch":1408973940,"text":"Great interpretation.  I like the idea, and the game is fun too!"},{"author_name":"Split82","author_uid":"15279","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 1:47pm","epoch":1408974120,"text":"Very clever game mechanics. I enjoyed playing this one."},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"27744","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 1:59pm","epoch":1408974840,"text":"Cool game. I included it in part 3 of my Ludum Dare 30 compilation video series :) http:\/\/youtu.be\/WU8AB6IzBac"},{"author_name":"datacr4sh","author_uid":"40158","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 2:05pm","epoch":1408975200,"text":"thanks for all the positive feedback so far! this was an experiment in teaching a mechanic with a mimimal amount of hand holding, i'm glad so many people are able to figure out the momentum jumping so easily :)"},{"author_name":"pxlcoder","author_uid":"41120","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 2:47pm","epoch":1408977720,"text":"Easy to learn, yet challenging to play. Great work!"},{"author_name":"yodamaster","author_uid":"38165","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 2:52pm","epoch":1408978020,"text":"Interesting idea, especially the jump-mechanics. Very hard."},{"author_name":"dadman","author_uid":"42062","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 2:55pm","epoch":1408978200,"text":"Awesome! I could play this for days."},{"author_name":"dadman","author_uid":"42062","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 2:56pm","epoch":1408978260,"text":"Awesome! I could play this for days.\r<br\/>  A few more check points would be nice though. Still getting 5\/5!!"},{"author_name":"Xgor","author_uid":"18652","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 3:12pm","epoch":1408979220,"text":"Really cool game. Would be nice with more checkpoints because this game is quite unforgiving."},{"author_name":"Donar","author_uid":"39869","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 3:58pm","epoch":1408981980,"text":"Great concept. Simple but challanging and well presented."},{"author_name":"mrexcessive","author_uid":"20788","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 4:30pm","epoch":1408983900,"text":"Hey there. Love the graphics, including the play|replay and death, death, chainbreak sequence. Great sound. Good job!"},{"author_name":"Konrad Zegis","author_uid":"32927","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 5:21pm","epoch":1408986960,"text":"I really love that chain breaking effect after losing, and sounds. It reminds me of old NES games ;)"},{"author_name":"joonamo","author_uid":"10775","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 7:06pm","epoch":1408993260,"text":"Overall excellent package! The minimalist style continues even outside the game to the web page, nice touch."},{"author_name":"UmbraTilde","author_uid":"30452","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 1:58am","epoch":1409017980,"text":"Tons of fun, although you make the player hit the ground running. Quite addictive."},{"author_name":"KunoNoOni","author_uid":"6464","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 2:12am","epoch":1409018820,"text":"Cool game mechanic and interesting use of theme"},{"author_name":"Empyrealhell","author_uid":"26650","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 5:20am","epoch":1409030100,"text":"That was pretty awesome. I liked the concept, the mechanic was fun and executed well. It was a bit punishing once you got to the crazy parts of the game, I felt like I had to go back way too far, and it stopped being fun."},{"author_name":"SteveSalmond","author_uid":"24965","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 9:19am","epoch":1409044440,"text":"I found it quite tricky, but then again I'm terrible at anything involving platforms :)  Loved the interpretation of the theme."},{"author_name":"syawqy","author_uid":"15312","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 5:16pm","epoch":1409073060,"text":"HAAARD...."},{"author_name":"nikki93","author_uid":"39848","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 10:27pm","epoch":1409091720,"text":"Fun game! A little annoying some times but that just means I suck at it lol. I like how the website has the color theme too."},{"author_name":"Jishenaz","author_uid":"26581","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 11:51pm","epoch":1409096760,"text":"Cool music! The mechanics are really fun, but also a little difficult to master. But I'm sure if I played this long enough, I would get really good."},{"author_name":"Otrora","author_uid":"32989","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 3:42am","epoch":1409110620,"text":"I keep playing and keep dying and keep playing. Well implemented and very addictive."},{"author_name":"rRootagea","author_uid":"29965","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 4:59am","epoch":1409115240,"text":"The good kind of challenging! Really enjoyed the visual style."},{"author_name":"AlucardX60","author_uid":"39086","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 7:35am","epoch":1409124600,"text":"Wow. Love the mechanic, the art, the difficulty balanced(no pun intended) enough to be addicting. This is a really good entry. Didn't make it very far though."},{"author_name":"MrSylar59","author_uid":"38521","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 11:14am","epoch":1409137740,"text":"Very cool game, it's very hard ! I love that challenge x)"},{"author_name":"jukimv1986","author_uid":"5402","time":"Sep 1, 2014 @ 2:17am","epoch":1409537520,"text":"Cool mechanics! I also really liked how you designed the website to fit the colours in the game. Great job!"},{"author_name":"lekochen","author_uid":"12928","time":"Sep 2, 2014 @ 1:15pm","epoch":1409663400,"text":"Solid mechanics."},{"author_name":"Teejay5","author_uid":"16615","time":"Sep 4, 2014 @ 12:45am","epoch":1409791200,"text":"the death sequence of the chain breaking is perfect! haha, nice game + mechanics! also, that's a nice color scheme you have going for the game."},{"author_name":"hbocao","author_uid":"25980","time":"Sep 7, 2014 @ 11:07pm","epoch":1410130920,"text":"I really enjoyed this! Very cool mechanics. I only didn't liked the death &quot;animation&quot;. Took to long and to much effort to retry. Awesome entry, man!"}],"images":["ld30\/40158-860bf210298410ba12a9a0e074c91e84.jpg","ld30\/40158-2f95170922eea715180baf51861f4236.jpg","ld30\/40158-000e63c7871daf4a70d9ff47f9986329.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/24678384\/Unity%20Projects\/LD30\/Build\/Build.html","text":"Unity Web Player"},{"url":"http:\/\/gamejolt.com\/games\/platformer\/tether\/33075\/","text":"GameJolt Mirror"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2014\/08\/25\/tether-postmortem\/","text":"Postmortem"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/24678384\/Unity%20Projects\/LD30.zip","text":"Unity Project Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"16714","g_author":"40158","g_event":"LD30","g_eventkey":"24","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"16743","g_title":"TETHER","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"80","g_commentcount":"32","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\/40158-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/40158-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/40158-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"The momentum of two worlds chained between two souls. Press jump as a runner lands to jump higher.\r\n\r\nTETHER was made by Shane Rypers (@datacr4sh) for the 48h draw of LD30.\r\n\r\nMusic made in Bosca Ceoil, SFX in sfxr, art in PDN, game in Unity.","title":"TETHER"}