{"author_link":"\/author\/calciumtrice\/","author_name":"Calciumtrice","author_uid":"31814","comments":[{"author_name":"greysphere","author_uid":"22521","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 3:41am","epoch":1408937760,"text":"This is great! I really enjoyed the boss fights. They must have taken a lot of work to make them so unique. I was totally jonesing for a final battle w\/ all my abilities!"},{"author_name":"vividhelix","author_uid":"35713","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 3:59am","epoch":1408938840,"text":"Sweet little game, lovely art. This was fun!"},{"author_name":"WesleyJohnson","author_uid":"27806","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 4:41am","epoch":1408941360,"text":"I really enjoyed the art, mechanic and gameplay. As greysphere said, I wanted a final battle as well! I couldn't figure out how to use the stomp ability though. I tried pressing "s" but nothing happened Anyway, cool game."},{"author_name":"DrCicero","author_uid":"33845","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 4:42am","epoch":1408941420,"text":"No sound -> use a cool tool like for example http:\/\/humphd.github.io\/sfxr.js , very easy, 5 sec\r\rNo menu -> who needs a menu\r\rFull scope -> who needs 5 bosses? But a final boss would have empowered the player by feeling that he won the game. As you didn't had the time, maybe you could have made one of current bosses the final boss. (only two normal ones and one final one), just because it feels better.\r\rI kind of missed the theme :( (yes there were worlds, and they were 'connected', but ... that was not emphasised by the game, so you felt that 'connected worlds' was not the real concept behind the game.)\rMaybe that could have been adressed by 'teleporting' to another world? Don't know."},{"author_name":"AdamHarte","author_uid":"4760","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 4:46am","epoch":1408941660,"text":"Very nice! love your pixel art. Just a pitty there was no real ending (as far as I could see), but I think this has scope to keep working on it. I would definitely pick up the full version ;)"},{"author_name":"Calciumtrice","author_uid":"31814","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 5:02am","epoch":1408942620,"text":"WesleyJohnson, the ability you get from the earth boss is actually a healing power. It'll only do anything if you're not already on full health which you would have been as you receive a full heal up on beating a boss."},{"author_name":"ClutchNachos","author_uid":"33491","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 5:25am","epoch":1408944000,"text":"Great battles, perfect amount of challenging"},{"author_name":"pjchardt","author_uid":"13158","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 6:17am","epoch":1408947120,"text":"Nice game! Wish there was a final battle with all of the abilities, and I really missed music and sound, but each boss had their own strategy and each ability was unique :)"},{"author_name":"Roknsk","author_uid":"39627","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 7:08am","epoch":1408950180,"text":"Enjoyable game. Reminded me for some reason bosses from megaman."},{"author_name":"ClownAround","author_uid":"42092","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 7:29am","epoch":1408951440,"text":"Very good. I really like the art and style. Would have loved to see the other bosses you wanted to add it. Overall it was great."},{"author_name":"Tanner","author_uid":"26780","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 7:30am","epoch":1408951500,"text":"Interesting game, nice pixel art."},{"author_name":"panurge","author_uid":"21166","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 1:22pm","epoch":1408972620,"text":"Great mechanics and lovely art style. With a bit of story, some sound and a final battle this would make an excellent full game. Very enjoyable!"},{"author_name":"skullum","author_uid":"32976","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 2:58pm","epoch":1408978380,"text":"Very enjoyable game, but a little anticlimactic"},{"author_name":"matthias_zarzecki","author_uid":"3880","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 4:22pm","epoch":1408983420,"text":"Ohh, neat. I get a giant diablo-vibe from this :)"},{"author_name":"01010111","author_uid":"11474","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 5:27pm","epoch":1408987320,"text":"I loved all the powerups! This would make a really fun game if you expanded on it :D"},{"author_name":"Belvar","author_uid":"28450","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 5:36pm","epoch":1408987860,"text":"Great graphics and smooth gameplay. It would be better with some sounds but I can totally relate to the lack of time :)"},{"author_name":"Laralyn","author_uid":"33924","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 6:12pm","epoch":1408990020,"text":"Good work! It's a fun game and especially impressive given the time limits!"},{"author_name":"Team Sloth Fox","author_uid":"42077","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 6:27pm","epoch":1408990920,"text":"I got a lot of use out of one skill in particular, and I liked the way each boss had a different attack pattern. The skill I got at the end was the most fun though! Also, great graphics."},{"author_name":"DragonXVI","author_uid":"35553","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 7:06pm","epoch":1408993260,"text":"Nifty little game, if a bit short. The fire power is a bit OP :p Obliterated the other guardians with it."},{"author_name":"kyyrma","author_uid":"8424","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 7:28pm","epoch":1408994580,"text":"Really good art for the short timeframe½ I kept running into a bug where my character would be stuck walking into a certain direction. At first I though that was because of loss of focus, but the game seems to be built to handle that (with the large play icon appearing when focus is lost).\r\rAs mentioned by others, sound can usually be handled fairly quickly. Look into sfxr and its multitude of offspring for sound effects, absolute-music, fakemusicgenerator, autotracker etc. for music."},{"author_name":"stephenhaney","author_uid":"39284","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 7:56pm","epoch":1408996260,"text":"Absolutely terrific. I'd love to play a longer version (not something I've said after most of the games I've tried). Let me know if you ever make a continuation: @sdothaney on twitter. The difficulty was almost too high at first, but after I beat down the magma beast I was able to use his power to take down the others. Great job!"},{"author_name":"emmelineprufrock","author_uid":"22454","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 12:15am","epoch":1409011800,"text":"Loved the visual style. Found the initial boss fight to be a little boring since it was so easy to dodge his attacks, but it was a great game for 48 hours. Absolutely love the art."},{"author_name":"Fanttum","author_uid":"42108","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 12:55am","epoch":1409014200,"text":"Great game and loads of fun. I was left wanting more, and too bad there wasn't any music. Loved the mega man style of taking the bosses abilities."},{"author_name":"KunoNoOni","author_uid":"6464","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 1:19am","epoch":1409015640,"text":"Wow, we kinda had the same idea for our games :) You've done a really nice job with it. I would love to see you develop it further. Add sound and perhaps some music to it."},{"author_name":"mactinite","author_uid":"26320","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 6:14am","epoch":1409033340,"text":"I really liked all the power-ups I received fighting the bosses, though it would have been cool to at least have the ability to go back in and stomp on all the bosses again with my new found powers."},{"author_name":"syawqy","author_uid":"15312","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 11:47am","epoch":1409053320,"text":"you can make this better, I hope you will continue developing this game"},{"author_name":"nikki93","author_uid":"39848","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 10:37pm","epoch":1409092320,"text":"The art is just awesome. Any tutorials etc. you know of on doing this kind of art style? It's like pixelly but smooth in a way."},{"author_name":"jomomomo","author_uid":"4914","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 1:10am","epoch":1409101500,"text":"Nice job... pretty hard. I couldn't get past the first boss..."},{"author_name":"LeafThief","author_uid":"3923","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 4:37am","epoch":1409113920,"text":"Well done to set yourself goals. I think you did a great job at fulfilling your goals! The gameplay was good. If you're looking to improve game feel my advice would be to improve and elaborate on player animations. \rSame goes for bosses, who could e.g. have another attack.\r\rBut still, impressive for 48hours and even more so because you were able to finish all your personal goals!\rI'm curious what you'll come up with in the future :)"},{"author_name":"Calciumtrice","author_uid":"31814","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 7:35am","epoch":1409124600,"text":"For anyone interested, I'd actually just finished up a game I was able to spend a bunch more time on the day before Ludum Dare started:\r\rhttp:\/\/calciumtrice.tumblr.com\/post\/95493081248\/freelance-archeology"},{"author_name":"stvr","author_uid":"26473","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 12:08pm","epoch":1409140980,"text":"Really great style, love the art and the bosses. Powerups are a lot of fun!"},{"author_name":"primaerfunktion","author_uid":"12505","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 6:00pm","epoch":1409162100,"text":"This is really cool. Great work. Especially on the art."},{"author_name":"PapyGaragos","author_uid":"7971","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 7:22pm","epoch":1409167020,"text":"I didn't understand what the S ability was supposed to do. Maybe it was just a lack of feedback"},{"author_name":"IAmSpencer","author_uid":"24919","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 4:26am","epoch":1409199660,"text":"damn this was pretty cool! The art was really nice, and the monsters were pretty unique and interesting. Great job! :)"},{"author_name":"PaperBlurt","author_uid":"26530","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 9:36am","epoch":1409218260,"text":"Graphics and mood are beyond good.\rReal nice adventure!"},{"author_name":"Joe Williamson","author_uid":"28182","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 10:16pm","epoch":1409263860,"text":"That was really cool. Well done!"},{"author_name":"jimmypaulin","author_uid":"6965","time":"Sep 14, 2014 @ 6:36pm","epoch":1410719460,"text":"Unique gameplay and a heck of a lot to cram in 48h, I enjoyed this engrossing little title. I thought the artwork was excellent, particularly the fire boss who was properly nasty. I would have loved sound - your other effects e.g. screen shake were spot on but some simple sounds would have added loads"}],"images":["ld30\/31814-7c252355d022adbe341b13c9705ebbaf.jpg","ld30\/31814-413a02fad013f7065e43106f548a0a64.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/s\/u3eunpk3d00b05z\/TheTree.swf","text":"Web (Flash)"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/mvixrjkq5ojhm5j\/TheTree.zip?dl=0","text":"Source D\/L"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"17817","g_author":"31814","g_event":"LD30","g_eventkey":"24","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"17846","g_title":"The Tree","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"256","g_commentcount":"37","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\/31814-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/31814-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Intro:\r\n\r\nHello! This is my second Ludum Dare entry. For my first I made a Twine game so wanted to create a more traditional game this time. I did all design, development and artwork as per compo rules.\r\n\r\nThe Tree is an action game where you play as a warrior who must fight three guardians. By defeating one, you gain their power which can be used to better battle the others. The order in which you choose to take on the guardians will affect the difficulty and strategies you can use.\r\n\r\nThe Tree's theme of connected worlds is based on the idea of the world tree which connects different realms. In the game, you travel to the areas of the three guardians via rainbow bridge.\r\n\r\n\r\nMy aims for the game were:\r\n\r\n+ Fun combat and abilities\r\n+ Unique bosses\r\n+ Pretty pixel art\r\n\r\n\r\nThings I didn't manage:\r\n\r\n- No sound: I was working right up to the deadline and had no time for sound effects or music\r\n- No menus: The game has no start menu screen or win screen - everything just takes place in game\r\n- Full scope: Originally, I had planned five bosses instead of three with a possible final boss fight at the root of the world tree which would have required all gained abilities to defeat\r\n- One of the areas has unpolished art as time was running out and it had to be hurried and made a lot quicker than the others\r\n- The ghost dash ability allows you to teleport into non-walkable parts of the map, although it checks to make sure you aren't going to move outside of the map bounds\r\n\r\n\r\nHow I developed:\r\n\r\n* Programming: Uses the HaxeFlixel framework, made in FlashDevelop, runs in Flash\r\n* Art: Drawn in Manga Studio 5 using a Wacom Cintiq\r\n* Buds: Made alongside my brother, \"Pinion\" (who made his own compo entry, \"Starlight Cowboy\") and his wife and my partner, \"Team Sloth Fox\" (who made a jam entry, \"Heart Earth\")\r\n\r\n\r\nControls:\r\n\r\nThe game is controlled with the arrow keys for movement and the A, S, Z and X keys (these keys are shown beside their matching ability on the HUD).\r\n\r\n\r\nThanks for reading and playing! I can also be found at calciumtrice.tumblr.com and @calciumtrice on twitter.","title":"The Tree"}