{"author_link":"\/author\/psychomonster\/","author_name":"psychomonster","author_uid":"17723","comments":[{"author_name":"stimpact","author_uid":"38998","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 4:31am","epoch":1408940760,"text":"Always good to meet other developers using GM :) Really liked the backing soundtrack to this. Controls handled well, spritework was good, especially liked the parallax background effect. Well done :)"},{"author_name":"Tanner","author_uid":"26780","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 6:08am","epoch":1408946580,"text":"Man, this is awesome! Simple and fun."},{"author_name":"donan","author_uid":"22213","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 12:21pm","epoch":1408968960,"text":"Fun game ^^"},{"author_name":"mrexcessive","author_uid":"20788","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 1:53pm","epoch":1408974480,"text":"Hi.  Played fine on Chrome\/W8 in browser. Found it very hard, barely enough time to get through the holes!"},{"author_name":"psychomonster","author_uid":"17723","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 2:17pm","epoch":1408975920,"text":"@mrexcessiv: Thanks for the feedback. Yeah it is hard. This is part of the challenge. I wanted to create a game like flappy bird or timberman... what was your highscore?"},{"author_name":"Bendix","author_uid":"11567","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 2:28pm","epoch":1408976580,"text":"Pretty good, but the sound gets a little annoying after a while"},{"author_name":"simileinchen","author_uid":"39866","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 2:28pm","epoch":1408976580,"text":"So simple yet you got the urge to play it! Well done!"},{"author_name":"DaanVanYperen","author_uid":"22396","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 2:29pm","epoch":1408976640,"text":"18 lightyears!"},{"author_name":"psychomonster","author_uid":"17723","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 2:41pm","epoch":1408977360,"text":"@DaanVanYperen: good job ;) Thanks for playing\r<br\/>@Bendix: the so called engine sound is way to loud... sry man"},{"author_name":"coffeemuggames","author_uid":"41591","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 3:56pm","epoch":1408981860,"text":"It's fun but the sound is veeery loud :D"},{"author_name":"Fera","author_uid":"32387","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 4:03pm","epoch":1408982280,"text":"great idea to keep up with the theme!\r<br\/>its really challenging and i love the retro soundtrack. :D"},{"author_name":"joonamo","author_uid":"10775","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 6:28pm","epoch":1408990980,"text":"I enjoyed reaching different celestial bodies. The move noise was too loud compared to the cool music..."},{"author_name":"Hamsternator","author_uid":"35790","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 7:10pm","epoch":1408993500,"text":"A classic concept =)\r<br\/>It was a nice touch to add the planets the player reached while playing."},{"author_name":"LostTrainDude","author_uid":"39571","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 8:17pm","epoch":1408997520,"text":"Nice way to link the genre to the theme :D \r<br\/>\r<br\/>While I liked the backing track, the sound that the ship makes was a litte too noisy for my own taste.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The game reminds me more of Delta (Commodore 64) than Flappy Bird, which is a GOOD thing! Of course, it is not a shoot em up, but still."},{"author_name":"elkiwydev","author_uid":"40741","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 8:21pm","epoch":1408997760,"text":"Controls doesn't feel right.. in 90% of the try I died because it shifted of 2 when i pressed up\/down only one time.."},{"author_name":"Ofursnati","author_uid":"22793","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 9:43pm","epoch":1409002680,"text":"Good game, the moving spaceship sound was too loud but apart from that solid. GJ."},{"author_name":"psychomonster","author_uid":"17723","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 9:43pm","epoch":1409002680,"text":"@LostTrainDude: Thanks, nice to hear this kind of comparison.\r<br\/>@elkiwydev: I know there is a lagging problem, causes the arrow keys to fire an movement event... Windows Version does not have this bug... Maybe you should try this version. Thanks for giving feedback"},{"author_name":"uberscientist","author_uid":"40833","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 9:47pm","epoch":1409002920,"text":"That movement sound was grating, but great job on the graphics"},{"author_name":"Andrew Adams","author_uid":"20321","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 10:32pm","epoch":1409005620,"text":"Good game."},{"author_name":"TD5","author_uid":"39783","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 10:37pm","epoch":1409005920,"text":"A basic but challenging game. The graphics are actually quite nice at fix together well, I just wish I didn't lose all the time! :P"},{"author_name":"KunoNoOni","author_uid":"6464","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 1:41am","epoch":1409016960,"text":"I loved the graphics, and yes the sound of moving the spaceship was kinda loud but other than that a pretty solid game."},{"author_name":"Oxeren","author_uid":"26262","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 4:32am","epoch":1409027220,"text":"Nice game. Simple, but fun. Also quite hard on first few tries :)"},{"author_name":"Makio64","author_uid":"24863","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 9:16am","epoch":1409044260,"text":"the spaceship is cute ! The gameplay is hard at the start and then we start to masteries it. Anyway I enjoy it and the sound &quot;tieww tiewwww&quot; is very cut and rythmic too :)"},{"author_name":"sneeuwpopsneeuw","author_uid":"38913","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 10:47am","epoch":1409049720,"text":"a realy nice space flappy bird style game"},{"author_name":"hexagore","author_uid":"34027","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 11:18am","epoch":1409051580,"text":"Surprisingly addictive and fun this. You'd think the stepping motion would make it easier but apparently not! :D"},{"author_name":"psychomonster","author_uid":"17723","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 11:33am","epoch":1409052480,"text":"@hexagore: Haha the gaps in the obstacles are exact as big as the player sprite ;) So stepping movement is way easier as a mouse movement or a pixel based movement in generell ; Thanks for Playing and rating :)"},{"author_name":"JaJ","author_uid":"5496","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 1:32pm","epoch":1409059620,"text":"Pretty basic, but plays well. I like the tile based controls, makes it a lot less frustrating than it could have been."},{"author_name":"Hypnohustla","author_uid":"20803","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 1:44pm","epoch":1409060340,"text":"Loved the music but the sound effects were a bit too heavy. Simple gameplay that works. Good job :)"},{"author_name":"kibertoad","author_uid":"7122","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 10:10pm","epoch":1409090700,"text":"There was certain charm in overall animation jerkiness and graphics roughness. Discreet movement of a ship provided a surprisingly different experience to usual smooth navigation."},{"author_name":"dickpoelen","author_uid":"34953","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 9:32am","epoch":1409131620,"text":"Nice little game. Feels really good"},{"author_name":"ajopart","author_uid":"40976","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 9:34am","epoch":1409131740,"text":"Exactly what it is to expect for a 48 hours JAM : simple gameplay yet addictive. Working prototype, effective graphics and (maybe to loud) sound. Congrats"},{"author_name":"markusfisch","author_uid":"19466","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 5:41pm","epoch":1409160960,"text":"A funny little game that is! I like especially the music which is driving but not annoying. Well done!"},{"author_name":"udo","author_uid":"6821","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 11:08am","epoch":1409223780,"text":"Loved this, minimal and fun :)"},{"author_name":"Rehacked","author_uid":"41818","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 12:25pm","epoch":1409228400,"text":"simple and fun and hard .Good job"},{"author_name":"Otopkin","author_uid":"41289","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 1:13pm","epoch":1409231280,"text":"You know I hate when nobody posts their score in the comments of games like this. 236 is my best. Game's fun and simple, only thing that bugged me was the volume was too high with no option to reduce from ingame"},{"author_name":"psychomonster","author_uid":"17723","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 1:51pm","epoch":1409233560,"text":"@Otopkin :D Nice score ^^ Yeah was streaming and redecued the sound at the boxes on my desk... never recognized that it could be so loud ingame ^^... sry for this\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Thanks for the nice comments so far :D"},{"author_name":"jukimv1986","author_uid":"5402","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 7:57pm","epoch":1409255520,"text":"It feels like an evolved version of flappy bird, would love to play this in my mobile phone. Great game!"},{"author_name":"DrCicero","author_uid":"33845","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 10:57pm","epoch":1409266320,"text":"Wine did not want to run the exe and the web version did run a bit slow. Fun game anyway!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Maybe if we could see occasionally a world that we are passing by or on the game over screen, it would 'feel' more connected to the theme."},{"author_name":"psychomonster","author_uid":"17723","time":"Aug 29, 2014 @ 9:00am","epoch":1409302500,"text":"@DrCicero: Hey there. HTML-Version of the game is a little laggy cause the walls of the wormhole are all active gameObjects (accidently)... I will fix that after ld cause, it would change the feeling of playing that game... jam is over :D Thanks this feedback... planets in Background wich would have been reached is a great idea!"},{"author_name":"elefantopia","author_uid":"37031","time":"Aug 30, 2014 @ 4:08am","epoch":1409371380,"text":"Great job! The controls worked well, but maybe forward arrow could be used to accelerate? Cool sounds and graphics."},{"author_name":"icedvariables","author_uid":"38518","time":"Aug 30, 2014 @ 5:00pm","epoch":1409417700,"text":"Kinda like flappy bird without gravity :). Nice work."},{"author_name":"caranha","author_uid":"7847","time":"Sep 6, 2014 @ 4:05pm","epoch":1410019200,"text":"Very neat little game - the graphics are decently done, loved the parallax background. Also the gameplay is on the sweet spot that will make me do the &quot;just one more try&quot; dance.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The collision was a bit iffy, I often died when I &quot;thought&quot; I had cleared an obstacle. One thing that would be cool would be to make a sound every time you clear an obstacle . This would be the beginnings of a rhythm game :-)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>There is also a small visual glitch. When you go to the bottom lane, the entire screen slides down and you can't see the top wall anymore.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Thanks for the game!"}],"images":["ld30\/17723-f37cfb09f42e208a68e57894982e9183.jpg","ld30\/17723-718e1767918d144a1b33f545540f1dfd.jpg","ld30\/17723-b0d691c839e6301870d8990da007c77b.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/dev.psychomonster.com\/html5_ttw","text":"HTML5 (Chrome\/Firefox)"},{"url":"http:\/\/dev.psychomonster.com\/ld30\/ld30_through_the_wormhole.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/psychomonster\/profile\/past_broadcasts","text":"Twitch Documentation "},{"url":"http:\/\/dev.psychomonster.com\/ld30\/ThroughTheWormHole_source.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"17505","g_author":"17723","g_event":"LD30","g_eventkey":"24","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"17534","g_title":"Through The Wormhole","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"940","g_commentcount":"42","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\/17723-shot0.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/17723-shot1.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/17723-shot2.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Hi there.\r\n\r\nFirst thoughts about the theme: \"Yeah easy going!\". Wrote a design document, then I started to develope. After hours I recognized that the game was not funny... cause it was crap. Then I started to think about alternative ideas. After a few minutes I started working on PlanB... a few hours later... damn... game was crap too. I decided to give up... \r\n\r\nAfter playing one or two rounds of COD:Ghosts ambition was back again. Cause time was running, I thought about some really simple ideas.. basic gameplay, simple story, some challenging elements like achivement, a highscore and a progression indicator :)\r\n\r\nHere it is: Through the Wormhole\r\n\r\nControlls: up and down keys to move the spaceship\r\n\r\nWhat to do? You are flying your ship through a wormhole. In the wormhole are some gravity cascades you have to avoid. For every cascade you will travel one lighyear... If you traveled a special count of lightyears you can see wich star (reale ones, you can find them on wikipedia) you would have reached... There are many stars, nebulars and blackholes to discover... start your engines and play :) \r\n\r\nIf you want to play the most performant version of the game, you should download the windows version. The HTML5 Version is visually a little bit different (some animations removed)... use Chrome or Firefox please :)\r\n\r\nUsed Tools:\r\nGameMakerStudio + htlm5 module\r\nPhotoshop CS3\r\nGraphicsGale FreeEdition\r\nAudacity\r\nVLC converter (.it to .mp3)\r\nPython Autotracker ( http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2012\/04\/08\/simple-frontendautomator-for-autotracker\/ )\r\nsfxr\r\nChrome\r\nFirefox\r\nFilezilla\r\n\r\nHope you'll enjoy the for a few moments. It was a cool weekend again. I'm excited to play your games. See at your comments section :D","title":"Through The Wormhole"}