{"author_link":"\/author\/agmcleod\/","author_name":"agmcleod","author_uid":"15813","comments":[{"author_name":"burquitlambadgers","author_uid":"35642","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 1:07am","epoch":1398733320,"text":"Interesting game. Love the audio, but it would be better if the music didn't restart every time you die."},{"author_name":"GameGrape Corporation","author_uid":"35285","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 1:13am","epoch":1398733680,"text":":D the art in this game is awesome :D i like the main character little blue guy. Great job!"},{"author_name":"wdebowicz","author_uid":"29762","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 1:31pm","epoch":1398777960,"text":"This guy really can jump. Nice art style."},{"author_name":"Hayawi","author_uid":"20256","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 3:07pm","epoch":1398783720,"text":"I loved the art style and the audio. Everything really worked to set the mood of a dystopian world moving to a bright future."},{"author_name":"Crooksister","author_uid":"37324","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 9:58am","epoch":1398851580,"text":"I didn't enjoy the music restarting at the beginning of each room. Needs quite a bit of work but you're building towards a nice aesthetic."},{"author_name":"agmcleod","author_uid":"15813","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 11:53am","epoch":1398858480,"text":"Crooksister yeah that was a very late bug. I had to rename the files when I deployed it to lowercase, however my dictionary on tracks for maps still had the uppercase values."},{"author_name":"MunkeeBacon","author_uid":"10400","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 12:17am","epoch":1398903120,"text":"Game controls are clever, I like the idea of the mouse dash. However the music is a little bit repetitive."},{"author_name":"Photon","author_uid":"7658","time":"May 2, 2014 @ 9:39pm","epoch":1399066440,"text":"I think I can kind of see what you were trying to do here, but it needs a little more work. The audio in particular was a little grating in my opinion. The game works and has a certain mood to it, but a little more fleshing out could go a long way."},{"author_name":"VictoryGarden","author_uid":"22357","time":"May 3, 2014 @ 9:48pm","epoch":1399153380,"text":"I really like your character's walk cycle. It's smooth and kind of fussy, which helps with characterization.\r\rDashing and jumping sent me through the roof, and I couldn't get down. There were also a few times when I ended up in a loop based on whether I platformed up or not--seemed a bit cheap. You could put a wall there and get the same result.\r\rAnd then... I thought that dashing through enemies would kill them, but instead it just drained my health, and there seemed to be no reason for the dash other than being able to move quickly (which wasn't necessary since the game was so short and the character moved fast enough). Since it wasn't one-hit-kill, though, it would have really helped to have had a health bar.\r\rI got to the end, though. It was interesting that the player character moves from one anonymous city to another, and I actually walked up to monsters a few times, wondering if they were the friends I was supposed to find ._. This was a nice effect, and a nice driving premise! Good job."},{"author_name":"alexdantas","author_uid":"36899","time":"May 6, 2014 @ 2:08am","epoch":1399341780,"text":"I immediately loved the game. The gray image,\r"I Feel Alone" and the sad keyboard tones gave\rme chills like no other LD entry has.\r\rBut the feeling faded away quite quickly.\rPlease take the following as critiques, not\rcomplaints:\r\r- At first, I jumped and the user went through\r the roof.\r- The music kept restarting at each scene change;\r It's kinda irritating, specially for people who\r like to rush through a platformer.\r ...but the music was so awesome I decided to chill\r around.\r- Completely static enemies - come on, it's very easy\r to add animations on melonJS. It would've made\r a huge difference.\r- I like how the lifebar is a counter that follows the\r character.\r- The ending was great; little fade out with good song.\r\rOverall I think you put a lot of emotion on this game,\rbut it don't deserve to be given 48h only.\rI really think you should work on it whenever you have\rtime - it's a great work of art and expression.\r\rP.S.: High five from a fellow melonJS user! Thanks\ra lot for contributing to it. :)"},{"author_name":"sP0CkEr2","author_uid":"7135","time":"May 7, 2014 @ 3:22am","epoch":1399432620,"text":"some potential but there was no heart here - the enemies never move - frustrating when you hit things and I guess I was taking damage? overall it was fun - nice job"},{"author_name":"CDK","author_uid":"34196","time":"May 13, 2014 @ 5:18pm","epoch":1400001180,"text":"music was kindof annoying as it started over a every new "level". but nice short game.. some movement might have been nice.. but i probably just don't understand the whole concept ^^"},{"author_name":"f7f5","author_uid":"21437","time":"May 17, 2014 @ 7:57am","epoch":1400313120,"text":"Nice setting but it needed more of a challenge."}],"images":["ld29\/15813-d0c2dc16907c649a4231b969177b8213.jpg","ld29\/15813-5f397c3a0b843a7430e8702e19e76159.jpg","ld29\/15813-b15ca9f214157030724a86fa1517dba6.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/projects.agmprojects.com\/ld29-release","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/github.com\/agmcleod\/ld29","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"18239","g_author":"15813","g_event":"LD29","g_eventkey":"22","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"18268","g_title":"Search for hope","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"1111","g_commentcount":"13","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\/\/342546\/15813-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/15813-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/15813-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Given the theme, what i did first was listen to the song \"Beneath The Surface\" by Dream Theater. And that spawned the idea of a game, where as the player you need to find hope, and that hope might not necessarily be above the surface and immediately visible.\r\n\r\nThere is a current bug where if you hold the mouse down to dash back and forth, and combine it with a jump, you will go above the screen (whether under the surface or not) and get stuck. It's something I wasn't able to spend time on to fix, and i thought it was kinda funny. I hope to advance the level design in the future to combine usage of dash jumping.\r\n\r\nTools used:\r\n\r\nGame Engine: MelonJS\r\nMap Editor: Tiled\r\nPixel Art for map tiles: Pixen\r\nSprite art and backgrounds: Pixelmator\r\nMusic: Garageband for the iPad","title":"Search for hope"}