{"author_link":"\/author\/nanolotl\/","author_name":"Nanolotl","author_uid":"4470","comments":[{"author_name":"Warzone Gaming","author_uid":"34993","time":"Apr 27, 2014 @ 5:14pm","epoch":1398618540,"text":"I love the style and gameplay."},{"author_name":"mrcrazyscience","author_uid":"27338","time":"Apr 27, 2014 @ 5:14pm","epoch":1398618540,"text":"Great game fun and surprising. Great job"},{"author_name":"FyberOptic","author_uid":"36171","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 4:37am","epoch":1398659520,"text":"Great game.  You've come up with some neat mechanics, which go along well with the visuals and gameplay.  I also enjoy the sense of humor.  I've never been a prouder owner of a vintage coat hanger."},{"author_name":"Somfunambulist","author_uid":"19074","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 4:38am","epoch":1398659580,"text":"Great graphics!"},{"author_name":"lparker","author_uid":"24424","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 4:40am","epoch":1398659700,"text":"Great game!"},{"author_name":"GlowingSnail","author_uid":"36700","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 7:32am","epoch":1398670020,"text":"The engine is fast and responsive, that feels good. The blocky 3D engine with pixellated texture, while not original, is kinda cute. Passing the levels require a bit of thinking each time, which is good. Good entry overall!"},{"author_name":"GlowingSnail","author_uid":"36700","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 7:33am","epoch":1398670080,"text":"Thank you for supporting arrow keys. Could you also support non-wide screen-resolutions please?"},{"author_name":"thristhart","author_uid":"3164","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 7:39am","epoch":1398670440,"text":"Great style! I feel like the appearance would be significantly less weird if the hand that's attached to the body pivoted with the shovel hand instead. I can tell if I liked a game if I am willing to retry it after dying - and I was immediately willing to give this another go. Didn't make it past 14\/16 artifacts, but I had fun anyway. Big fan of the pikmin-style artifact names. Definitely the funniest entry I've played so far."},{"author_name":"psychopsam","author_uid":"12354","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 12:21pm","epoch":1398687360,"text":"What a great game.  I really like the graphics and style.  Reminds me of Pitfall.  Super polished too.  Great work."},{"author_name":"Korwegian","author_uid":"31877","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 2:48pm","epoch":1398696180,"text":"Very VERY well done.  Can you send me an envelope of butter-like substance?  I need it for... for science... for to looking at it..."},{"author_name":"marccspro","author_uid":"26996","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 4:40pm","epoch":1398789300,"text":"Nice game well play ;)"},{"author_name":"Marcus_siactro","author_uid":"28746","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 7:58am","epoch":1398844380,"text":"Now this one was great! I had a lot of zelda and soul blazer feels while playing this game. Great work"},{"author_name":"Frump","author_uid":"35460","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 8:01am","epoch":1398844560,"text":"The targeting is a bit strange but I had a lot of fun with this. Good job!"},{"author_name":"MintArcade","author_uid":"35966","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 8:13am","epoch":1398845280,"text":"Very nice game, cute graphics"},{"author_name":"Contacaton","author_uid":"33983","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 8:17am","epoch":1398845520,"text":"That poor spider at the end XD"},{"author_name":"Covenant","author_uid":"326","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 1:04pm","epoch":1398949140,"text":"Loved it! The graphics were awesome, and the gameplay was solid.\r<br\/>Only complaint is that the controls could be a little tighter, but very good work nevertheless! :)"},{"author_name":"TheGreenTie","author_uid":"7421","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 1:09pm","epoch":1398949440,"text":"Holy crap! That was fun! Probably one of my top 5!\r<br\/>Just a reminder, don't make mouse-based games without a fullscreen option, I found myself clicking outside the game while fighting spiders..."},{"author_name":"tomvert","author_uid":"18469","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 1:16pm","epoch":1398949860,"text":"Interesting, made me think of zelda games (the bomb). I love the art style."},{"author_name":"paps","author_uid":"27849","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 1:23pm","epoch":1398950280,"text":"love the artifacts, the style, and the puzzle. I did not go very deep though. Very fun to play"},{"author_name":"mechabit","author_uid":"34391","time":"May 2, 2014 @ 11:00am","epoch":1399028100,"text":"I like the 3D graphics and the humor. Fun mechanics."},{"author_name":"AutumnGuy","author_uid":"34026","time":"May 4, 2014 @ 4:24am","epoch":1399177140,"text":"Great execution of gameplay, and cute graphics.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Well done! Keep up the hard work!"},{"author_name":"bob_fish","author_uid":"14144","time":"May 4, 2014 @ 4:27am","epoch":1399177320,"text":"I found 7 on my first try. Very nice game. Great art, sounds and gameplay. Great job!"},{"author_name":"rojo","author_uid":"29998","time":"May 4, 2014 @ 4:41am","epoch":1399178160,"text":"Definitely enjoyed this one.  I got a laugh out of dirt flavored lipstick.  Some background music would have been great, though."},{"author_name":"Lacaranian","author_uid":"34171","time":"May 6, 2014 @ 4:53am","epoch":1399351680,"text":"Cool game. The Pikmin style item descriptions were a nice touch. Kudos!"},{"author_name":"Troy","author_uid":"34904","time":"May 6, 2014 @ 11:45am","epoch":1399376400,"text":"I adore this game; probably my favorite of this Ludum Dare so far. The environments and art style are great. It was a little tedious when knocking those rocks around the map, particularly when through small openings, or when there were structures\/wall obscuring the camera. Otherwise a great play. Fantastic work!"},{"author_name":"SoupWithBits","author_uid":"37409","time":"May 6, 2014 @ 12:08pm","epoch":1399377780,"text":"This is quite a game for 48 hours!\r<br\/>Wow! Really well done!"},{"author_name":"Gap","author_uid":"29974","time":"May 6, 2014 @ 3:04pm","epoch":1399388340,"text":"*High Five =&gt;* Nice graphics, good game :)"},{"author_name":"VictorDoval","author_uid":"37171","time":"May 6, 2014 @ 3:07pm","epoch":1399388520,"text":"Clean and fun!I Loved the cube style!"},{"author_name":"Belvar","author_uid":"28450","time":"May 6, 2014 @ 3:11pm","epoch":1399388760,"text":"Impressive entry with great graphics. The gameplay is very smooth and fun to play."},{"author_name":"xdegtyarev","author_uid":"5862","time":"May 7, 2014 @ 10:08pm","epoch":1399500180,"text":"Cute characters and the style pretty neat! Well done!"},{"author_name":"Jeremias","author_uid":"7211","time":"May 9, 2014 @ 2:14pm","epoch":1399644540,"text":"A solid game. The artifacts made me smile everytime :D sometimes the camera angle makes it a bit difficult to see paths or gaps."},{"author_name":"Garris","author_uid":"33993","time":"May 10, 2014 @ 2:57am","epoch":1399690320,"text":"Good. Game. Would I play again? The short answer is yes. The long answer is yes, please. I'd like to see some music added, but this was a really fun, well-built game."},{"author_name":"XenosNS","author_uid":"28415","time":"May 10, 2014 @ 2:58am","epoch":1399690380,"text":"Excellent job! Nice fleshed out concept and great humour"},{"author_name":"mcapraro","author_uid":"28472","time":"May 10, 2014 @ 10:27pm","epoch":1399760520,"text":"i like the overall feel of this game, good work!"},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"27744","time":"May 12, 2014 @ 1:56am","epoch":1399859460,"text":"Love the child aspect of the game.  I included it in part 25 of my Ludum Dare compilation video series, if you'd like to check it out :) http:\/\/youtu.be\/06U_lc3kLp4"},{"author_name":"JonathanG","author_uid":"11515","time":"May 12, 2014 @ 8:01am","epoch":1399881360,"text":"This is great!  It's fun to play and there is a good progression of difficulty. It's packed with humour too!"},{"author_name":"copain","author_uid":"35128","time":"May 13, 2014 @ 11:29am","epoch":1399980240,"text":"Simple and fun. Good."},{"author_name":"lucidlarva","author_uid":"25504","time":"May 13, 2014 @ 3:10pm","epoch":1399993500,"text":"I loved this a ton. Really nice gameplay and art and sound and design."},{"author_name":"joe40001","author_uid":"22192","time":"May 14, 2014 @ 9:25am","epoch":1400059200,"text":"Fun game, seems very much inspired by pikmin."},{"author_name":"Moosefly","author_uid":"25343","time":"May 17, 2014 @ 12:22pm","epoch":1400329020,"text":"As others have already mentioned, it's a solid game. Didn't make it far on my first try, but got all of the artifacts on my second run (with one life to spare even). Nice simple puzzles too.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I did have some issues with it:\r<br\/>- Walls blocked your view in some points.\r<br\/>- The area you could see was quite limited, especially when moving towards the screen I had to move by tapping the key so I wouldn't run into any spiders.\r<br\/>- Could've used a fullscreen option.\r<br\/>- The enemies were somewhat tedious, being able to kill them in maybe three hits would've probably been more fun.\r<br\/>- Ambient background audio or something? Didn't like the walking sound effect.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Anssi@MooseflyGames"},{"author_name":"SK16Games","author_uid":"32632","time":"May 19, 2014 @ 9:56pm","epoch":1400536260,"text":"Love this game :D"}],"images":["ld29\/4470-71d7cfa5dde036819d04ce83f6ac1f96.jpg","ld29\/4470-1ea73ad98ab3536c1ad94906cddfe176.jpg","ld29\/4470-0694efb5fd488b74f8adb7ea157f37dd.jpg","ld29\/4470-c35c8532f3b392cd681b073161a0abce.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/47598017\/Ludum%20Dare%20Entries\/ShovelQuest.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/47598017\/Ludum%20Dare%20Entries\/ShovelQuest.gmx.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"18412","g_author":"4470","g_event":"LD29","g_eventkey":"22","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"18441","g_title":"Shovel Quest","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"62","g_commentcount":"41","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\/4470-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/4470-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/4470-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/4470-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Delve into the ground and collect all 16 artifacts.\r\n\r\nControls:\r\nWASD\/Arrows - Movement\r\nMouse - Aiming\r\nLeft Click\/Space - Attack","title":"Shovel Quest"}