{"author_link":"\/author\/elliottd\/","author_name":"elliottd","author_uid":"27074","comments":[{"author_name":"Tanner","author_uid":"26780","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 6:48am","epoch":1408948980,"text":"Cool graphics."},{"author_name":"simileinchen","author_uid":"39866","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 12:37pm","epoch":1408969920,"text":"Awesome graphics, nice animation and cool concept. Enjoyed!"},{"author_name":"matthias_zarzecki","author_uid":"3880","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 8:15pm","epoch":1408997400,"text":"This is lovely! Amazing work :)"},{"author_name":"dusho","author_uid":"36575","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 8:59pm","epoch":1409000040,"text":"pretty good.. love the graphics and animations\r<br\/>was interesting, but really really short"},{"author_name":"Razoric","author_uid":"27935","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 11:10pm","epoch":1409007900,"text":"Really cool concept.   Enjoyed the graphics and the overall polish of the game."},{"author_name":"John Drury","author_uid":"22999","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 11:11pm","epoch":1409007960,"text":"Great graphics! Played through it all! A mellow mood was excellently set."},{"author_name":"micdoodle8","author_uid":"36649","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 11:11pm","epoch":1409007960,"text":"Great job, nice animations and art."},{"author_name":"zatyka","author_uid":"14357","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 3:05am","epoch":1409022000,"text":"Unity web player worked fine for me.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The graphical tone, music, and glow effect of the orb gave a very nice mysterious atmosphere.  I wanted to keep playing, hoping there was some underlying story connecting things (i.e. what does the orb mean, and why a mailbox?).\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Movements and controls were nice and tight.  There wasn't much gameplay, but that didn't stop me from enjoying what there was."},{"author_name":"primaerfunktion","author_uid":"12505","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 10:58am","epoch":1409050380,"text":"I did not really get what was going on, but it ddefinitely was interesting and looked great."},{"author_name":"rogueNoodle","author_uid":"21449","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 12:27pm","epoch":1409055720,"text":"This ended way sooner than I wanted - it seems like there's way more to the story than presented here, and playing it makes me want to find out what it is. Great visuals\/ animation - sets the mood perfectly. Awesome work!"},{"author_name":"MerlijnVH","author_uid":"14952","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 12:39pm","epoch":1409056440,"text":"Very lovely game, especially the main character. The animation is great for such a short development time! It was over pretty quickly, but I enjoyed the atmosphere!"},{"author_name":"cbear_wallis","author_uid":"27018","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 12:45pm","epoch":1409056800,"text":"Really well done! I wanted to see more of how the mechanics would evolve and get harder ^_^ maybe we'll see a full fledged version ;)"},{"author_name":"elliottd","author_uid":"27074","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 1:32pm","epoch":1409059620,"text":"Thanks for the comments! I made a whole system for the held objects and interaction and planned a bunch more puzzles, but had to cut most of it for the sake of finishing at all. I will definitely do a post-competition update and just make a bunch more levels."},{"author_name":"mechabit","author_uid":"34391","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 2:23pm","epoch":1409062680,"text":"nice and short puzzle game, awesome models and animations. that's a pretty creepy dream-like setting, not sure if it's meant to be soothing or unnerving, maybe the girl is dead and moving around in limbo? perhaps the orbs are lost souls? excellent stuff for 48 hours."},{"author_name":"Crocanti de Pollo","author_uid":"36237","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 7:38pm","epoch":1409081580,"text":"At first I thought it was the camera that changed, because the areas are too similar, then I got it :P Also I really like the concept of the mailbox as a teleporting device :D"},{"author_name":"mactinite","author_uid":"26320","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 5:56am","epoch":1409118660,"text":"Well now you've piqued my curiosity. I love the art, has a kind of Double Fine feel to it. Anyways, great work."},{"author_name":"XenosNS","author_uid":"28415","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 10:55pm","epoch":1409179800,"text":"Sweet! Looks great, liked the animation of the girl. Simple mechanics, be interesting to see how those could be developed further. Game gave me a &quot;Neverending Story&quot; feel for some reason."},{"author_name":"Mase","author_uid":"18575","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 3:12am","epoch":1409195220,"text":"The sound effects are too electronic. I don't think they fit the setting.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The models are very nice though and I like the magic mailbox idea."},{"author_name":"atgaubatz","author_uid":"26773","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 3:43am","epoch":1409197080,"text":"Love the feel of this game!"},{"author_name":"Andrew Shouldice","author_uid":"22249","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 12:02pm","epoch":1409227020,"text":"Serene, surreal. Best character work there is in LD.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The rules of this world intrigue me; I want to hang out here more! Post-compo version please!"},{"author_name":"leafarz","author_uid":"30173","time":"Aug 29, 2014 @ 5:01pm","epoch":1409331360,"text":"neat visuals you have here especially the animations! pretty eerie atmosphere also.\r<br\/>the concept is really cool!\r<br\/>great job!"},{"author_name":"0x0961h","author_uid":"21155","time":"Aug 30, 2014 @ 9:17pm","epoch":1409433120,"text":"Fabulous animation!"},{"author_name":"Aske","author_uid":"21356","time":"Aug 30, 2014 @ 9:19pm","epoch":1409433240,"text":"These graphics and animation are REALLY good ! Keep up the amazing work!"},{"author_name":"Adam Thompson","author_uid":"39368","time":"Aug 30, 2014 @ 9:19pm","epoch":1409433240,"text":"Amazing game, great audio + visual experience. A delight to explore and uncover. Cheers :)"},{"author_name":"spotco","author_uid":"35477","time":"Sep 2, 2014 @ 4:56am","epoch":1409633460,"text":"Really impressive character animations for such a short time, hope this gets worked into something bigger!"},{"author_name":"Steve | tacospice","author_uid":"26369","time":"Sep 8, 2014 @ 1:34pm","epoch":1410182940,"text":"Pretty nice graphics, though the colors could be a little more vibrant maybe. Not very difficult. Nice background music."},{"author_name":"Teejay5","author_uid":"16615","time":"Sep 11, 2014 @ 8:04am","epoch":1410422340,"text":"Really nice animation! I got this really interesting dream-like vibe from the style of the game. I didn't know what was going on at first, but I did manage to figure it out decently without instruction. \r<br\/> Like Steve | tacospice here said, I do agree that you should play with the colors a bit more, the game still looks really good! also, cute character :D"}],"images":["ld30\/27074-6747c9451e153e7db7b27a6843bfb987.jpg","ld30\/27074-31bd50cf94847e2cb787acd3175319a0.jpg","ld30\/27074-487f2ae04b374364a39412734d22dfdb.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.stone-golem.com\/ElliottDavis\/LD48\/CloudConnected\/CloudConnected_win.zip","text":"Windows (15M)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.stone-golem.com\/ElliottDavis\/LD48\/CloudConnected\/CloudConnected_webplayer\/CloudConnected.html","text":"Web (unity 4.6 beta, 6M)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.stone-golem.com\/ElliottDavis\/LD48\/CloudConnected\/CloudConnected_mac.zip","text":"OS\/X (16M)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.stone-golem.com\/ElliottDavis\/LD48\/CloudConnected\/CloudConnected_linux.zip","text":"Linux (17M)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.stone-golem.com\/ElliottDavis\/LD48\/CloudConnected\/CCSource.zip","text":"Source (53M)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"17131","g_author":"27074","g_event":"LD30","g_eventkey":"24","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"17160","g_title":"Cloud Connected","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"288","g_commentcount":"27","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\/27074-shot0.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/27074-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/27074-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Initial submission was lacking a third level which is omitted because of bug blocking completion, I fixed this and updated in the spirit of bug fixing without adding content that was not complete at the deadline.\r\n\r\nAdded mac\/linux\/web builds, the web player seems to work even though I used the Unity 4.6 beta.\r\n\r\n\r\nUpdated version available on itch.io http:\/\/kenruze.itch.io\/cloud-connected\r\n\r\n\r\nKeyboard controls: WASD\/Arrow keys + X to interact\r\nGamepad controls: Left analog stick + X to interact (XBox 360, but others should work too; Button 3 for interact)\r\n\r\nI wrote a post about my process here: http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2014\/08\/27\/cloud-connected\/","title":"Cloud Connected"}