{"author_link":"\/author\/dertom\/","author_name":"dertom","author_uid":"479","comments":[{"author_name":"Marcus_siactro","author_uid":"28746","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 10:50am","epoch":1398768300,"text":"Sweet game! Once I figured out not to press &quot;A&quot; in order to play it properly it was really fun and hard! :D"},{"author_name":"dertom","author_uid":"479","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 12:29pm","epoch":1398774240,"text":"@Marcus: Thx for playing! I fixed the bug with the A-key and now the ingame instructions should appear on windows as well... still the 'restart-level'-bug to fix :D"},{"author_name":"AtkinsSJ","author_uid":"1049","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 11:17am","epoch":1398856320,"text":"I'm using Windows XP, and the game just crashes when I try to run it. I'd guess there might be a dll missing."},{"author_name":"Tititesouris","author_uid":"30605","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 11:21am","epoch":1398856560,"text":"When I start the game all I have on the screen is that red machine rotating, and I can't do anything."},{"author_name":"BlazingFanfish","author_uid":"29162","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 11:51am","epoch":1398858360,"text":"Not sure if the control is realy hard or I just can't figure how it works :v The concept is nice btw :)"},{"author_name":"dertom","author_uid":"479","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 1:23pm","epoch":1398863880,"text":"@AtkinsSJ: Not sure about xp, at least it works on my win7. \r<br\/>@Titiesouris: Hmm,seems the GUI is not shown, damn.\r<br\/>@BlazingFanfish: Yeah, the controls might be a bit hard and might differ from mouse-settings,...not sure why I didn't implement keyboard-control (too late for this now)"},{"author_name":"seantheartist","author_uid":"31255","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 2:34pm","epoch":1398868140,"text":"Keeps crashing on my windows 7, seems like a cool concept though!"},{"author_name":"brogrammers","author_uid":"26439","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 2:52pm","epoch":1398869220,"text":"Voice sound effects FTW!!!"},{"author_name":"LPGhatguy","author_uid":"14296","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 2:57pm","epoch":1398869520,"text":"Fun game once I got the hang of it."},{"author_name":"Idkfawin32","author_uid":"34907","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 3:15pm","epoch":1398870600,"text":"Takes a bit to get use to but afterwards it's fun"},{"author_name":"javifugitivo","author_uid":"25708","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 3:39pm","epoch":1398872040,"text":"Strange, strange game, but it is playable, and has a personal touch. Good job!"},{"author_name":"soulrot","author_uid":"13381","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 3:50pm","epoch":1398872700,"text":"A quite challending and fun game, although my right arm thinks different (somehow steering with the mouse made my arm hurt after a while o_0). \r<br\/>\r<br\/>At some point the &quot;toxic collected&quot; counter gave a value of 199.99999\/200 so I was afraid I had to restart the level, but fortunately it still registered as 200\/200!"},{"author_name":"camlang","author_uid":"34675","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 5:27pm","epoch":1398878520,"text":"Nice job."},{"author_name":"perfect victim","author_uid":"35015","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 9:03pm","epoch":1398891480,"text":"your game wont run on my win8 pc , \r<br\/>to bad really wanted to try looks like a fun game ."},{"author_name":"Ragzouken","author_uid":"13822","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 9:06pm","epoch":1398891660,"text":"cool design for the main ship - liked the sounds too!"},{"author_name":"sudorossy","author_uid":"7905","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 10:31pm","epoch":1398896760,"text":"Nice gameplay, really unique"},{"author_name":"SirJson","author_uid":"18639","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 8:49am","epoch":1398933840,"text":"The Toxic-Chopper is hard to control"},{"author_name":"dertom","author_uid":"479","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 12:48pm","epoch":1398948180,"text":"Ok, I also released a version with keyboard-control as afterjam-version! Everything else stayed the same"},{"author_name":"MSaul","author_uid":"35115","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 3:21pm","epoch":1398957360,"text":"Really hard some times that made it even funnier, i really like ship's animations. Well done !\r<br\/>PS : keyboard version work well and nice sounds ;)"},{"author_name":"sensenmann666","author_uid":"31079","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 8:06pm","epoch":1398974460,"text":"wow i had to laugh at the sucking animation, funny game, well done!"},{"author_name":"moonmagic","author_uid":"4706","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 8:11pm","epoch":1398974760,"text":"Toxic lunar lander dreams! I swoop my eggshell craft around and slorp the goo. I found the first goo the nicest: I fell precipitously into further goo and did not get to Elephant for nearly long enough. Wishing that my deaths were catastrophic and not so brusque."},{"author_name":"kunzbe","author_uid":"20508","time":"May 2, 2014 @ 8:21pm","epoch":1399061760,"text":"I like the idea of the player being a thing :)\r<br\/>One big critic: the sound effects were too loud (elvating sound, hitting-the-floor )! That's a pity because I had to turn the volume down and could not hear the well done, moody bg music anymore :("},{"author_name":"drnick","author_uid":"11663","time":"May 3, 2014 @ 8:46pm","epoch":1399149660,"text":"Crashes a lot.\r<br\/>Crashes at the end of the level so I couldn't play it entirely. Good game though. I like the graphics. The slurping animation is very good\/funny. Also, nice engrish. It's always interesting to hear man-made MIC sound effects."},{"author_name":"Garris","author_uid":"33993","time":"May 3, 2014 @ 9:03pm","epoch":1399150680,"text":"This was really hard! It's tough to pull off such a precision skills based game without it feeling unfair, and Toxic Below did a pretty solid job of it. The controls are responsive, if a bit difficult to master (I played mouse only version) and getting the timing right to hover over a spill just feels great."},{"author_name":"pvwradtke","author_uid":"3728","time":"May 4, 2014 @ 5:02pm","epoch":1399222620,"text":"Cool, very interesting mechanics once you get the idea."},{"author_name":"whilefun","author_uid":"7424","time":"May 5, 2014 @ 3:19am","epoch":1399259640,"text":"Neat choice of mechanic, and nice graphics. I found the jam version controls really hard to use, but the game seems pretty fun. Downloading the post-jam version for later :)"},{"author_name":"jujule","author_uid":"13894","time":"May 13, 2014 @ 9:19pm","epoch":1400015640,"text":"I like the game mechanics but when I reach the end of the first level I just see chopper spinning on itself and nothing else. Ii's stuck so I have no other chance but to quit... Too bad."},{"author_name":"aelita1992","author_uid":"35892","time":"May 15, 2014 @ 6:25pm","epoch":1400178000,"text":"Nice game, one of the types I really like, those fly and reach some point games :) And a really nice model of the helicopter :) I hope the game will be further developed, as it's already a succesful 'timestealer' :D"},{"author_name":"GagaPete","author_uid":"16147","time":"May 18, 2014 @ 8:58pm","epoch":1400446380,"text":"Nice challenging game. Played on Android and the controls are pretty frustrating. :)"},{"author_name":"JonathanG","author_uid":"11515","time":"May 19, 2014 @ 7:36am","epoch":1400484660,"text":"Very good! It is challenging, but that's part of the appeal :)  It did crash on my Windows 8 machine though, just after I'd collected all the waste from the level in which there are multiple pools. I do like the sound effects and the slurping animation.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Also I made a linux version of my game for you (the daring adventures of the blob)"}],"images":["ld29\/479-d651d74e8833f81362eb33de7787cdae.jpg","ld29\/479-66099cb6e7de1c73044e9963c8bebdbd.jpg","ld29\/479-64f914908bf2721b01f6646b4e6bbe41.jpg","ld29\/479-ff102a3983196441ff176d544947dd1c.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/goo.gl\/nSm6Mo","text":"Linux(AfterJam-Keyboard)"},{"url":"http:\/\/goo.gl\/4tZHe1","text":"Windows(AfterJam-Keyboard)"},{"url":"http:\/\/goo.gl\/064jdj","text":"Linux(Jam-Mouse)"},{"url":"http:\/\/goo.gl\/OKF7Ps","text":"Win(Jam-Mouse)"},{"url":"http:\/\/thomas.trocha.com\/wp\/?page_id=810","text":"Android + Mac "}],"metadata":{"g_key":"18916","g_author":"479","g_event":"LD29","g_eventkey":"22","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"18945","g_title":"Toxic Below","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"339","g_commentcount":"30","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\/479-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/479-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/479-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/479-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Since lots of people told me the game is almost not controllable I changed the controls to keyboard. Everything else stayed the same...\r\n\r\nYou fly a Toxic-Chopper to clean the earth from toxic fluid that got pumped in years for years by the oil\/gas industry.... Now it comes back and it need to be removed again...and that is YOUR JOB :D              \r\n\r\nFly carefully to the toxic and pump it up with your vehicle. Don't get too deep into the toxic! Otherwise... \r\n\r\nThere are 5 Levels!! Come on, it's not that hard. \r\n\r\nAfterjam-Controls:\r\nleft\/right : a\/d or arrows \r\nthrust     : return or space\r\n\r\nJam:\r\n100% Mouse-based:      \r\nLeft-Button: Thrust UP      \r\nMouse-Movement: Left<->Right        \r\n\r\nYes the controls are tough, but that is part of the game. It is all about timing... :D \r\n\r\nMac-Port: Got the game ported to mac. There are some issues with openal and it have a bug when leaving the game....but hopefully it should work :D\r\n\r\nAndroid: Touch to thrust and accelerometer to move! :D The accel only works only on devices with portrait as native orientation correct. Otherwise the wrong accel value is taken...Game needs lots of power and a decent resolution(otherwise the start-game button won't show up :D) \r\n\r\nSince my engine has still some issues it would be great to tell me your system you played on (especially if it crashed)\r\n\r\n","title":"Toxic Below"}