{"author_link":"\/author\/neithr\/","author_name":"NeithR","author_uid":"35366","comments":[{"author_name":"tanjent","author_uid":"36394","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 8:44am","epoch":1398674340,"text":"Truly an unexpected entry for me! I think you can do a lot more with this technology\/platform. Need to think about this some more, hmmm..."},{"author_name":"alexdantas","author_uid":"36899","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 10:04am","epoch":1398765540,"text":"Oh boy this blew my mind\r<br\/>Never saw a game like this!\r<br\/>Nice idea...\r<br\/>\r<br\/>...even though it was boring\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Anyway, thanks for the chocolate bar!"},{"author_name":"kmakai","author_uid":"28426","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 12:48pm","epoch":1398775380,"text":"Agreed, I was very surprised by the format. Great job!"},{"author_name":"Reinkout","author_uid":"34458","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 10:01am","epoch":1398851760,"text":"I agree with everybody, that the concept with a weird platform is great!"},{"author_name":"Vytheros","author_uid":"26487","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 11:59am","epoch":1398858840,"text":"Really did not expect it to be a PDF, it looks like a flash game. A very creative entry, although I feel like it would have been better without the buttons signalling where to game, making it more immersive"},{"author_name":"pinion","author_uid":"19121","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 7:57pm","epoch":1398887520,"text":"Really interesting format, but my pdf viewer kept getting it wrong and putting me one page down from the right one."},{"author_name":"adamwfindlay","author_uid":"29302","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 8:32pm","epoch":1398889620,"text":"Really interesting way of making a game!"},{"author_name":"miwuc","author_uid":"6177","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 8:43pm","epoch":1398890280,"text":"Wow, the idea that one could create games with pdfs never crossed my mind. Loved the humor too, so many piranhas! :)"},{"author_name":"microwerx","author_uid":"714","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 9:12pm","epoch":1398892020,"text":"That was really neat. I never in a million years considered doing a game with a PDF file!"},{"author_name":"Once Upon a Team","author_uid":"27111","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 9:28pm","epoch":1398892980,"text":"Soooooo cool format ! Congrats ! \r<br\/>\r<br\/>Very creative stuff, really inspiring"},{"author_name":"Joshua_Burr","author_uid":"37414","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 9:49pm","epoch":1398894240,"text":"Great idea. When trying this in safari it got a bit confused and often took me to the wrong page."},{"author_name":"Ellian","author_uid":"7701","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 10:50pm","epoch":1398897900,"text":"Amazing! A game made ENTIRELY IN A PDF?!\r<br\/>The gameplay wasn't much but that itself really made it insanely unexpected. In a good way! \r<br\/>Congrats. :)"},{"author_name":"eerongal","author_uid":"2978","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 11:49pm","epoch":1398901440,"text":"It's like a choose your own adventure picture book! Interesting concept to say the least, certainly was NOT expecting that."},{"author_name":"NicoM","author_uid":"32562","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 12:41am","epoch":1398904560,"text":"Max innovation marks....never...ever...expected this;)"},{"author_name":"noom","author_uid":"27369","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 12:49am","epoch":1398905040,"text":"Very well done indeed, I almost didn't try it out because I'm avoiding downloading anything this LD, but then I saw it was a PDF and it blew my mind. Fantastic work."},{"author_name":"Scruffylooking","author_uid":"35076","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 3:19am","epoch":1398914040,"text":"Unexpected.  I agree that it was like a &quot;Choose Your Own Adventure book&quot;, but without all the page turning."},{"author_name":"Dietrich Epp","author_uid":"7606","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 3:47am","epoch":1398915720,"text":"&quot;The person decided to do a suicide with some way.&quot;  I laughed hard, that was funny!  And wow, a PDF game..."},{"author_name":"Baknik","author_uid":"22088","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 4:54am","epoch":1398919740,"text":"Very interesting use of pdf."},{"author_name":"Teesquared","author_uid":"35091","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 5:02am","epoch":1398920220,"text":"Point and click adventure in Power Point\/PDF is very innovative. Better graphics and an interesting story could work with this format."},{"author_name":"Christina Antoinette Neofotistou","author_uid":"13139","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 5:11am","epoch":1398920760,"text":"so innovative! It's like the games I used to dream up when I was a kid. Top marks for innovation!!!!"},{"author_name":"CDK","author_uid":"34196","time":"May 2, 2014 @ 2:28pm","epoch":1399040580,"text":"nice innovative game - thought somewhat boring :) but nice idea ^^"},{"author_name":"terraco","author_uid":"36973","time":"May 3, 2014 @ 1:45am","epoch":1399081200,"text":"Choose your own adventure PDF... wow"},{"author_name":"BadgerPriest","author_uid":"3353","time":"May 3, 2014 @ 11:41pm","epoch":1399160160,"text":"I'm still trying to figure out how I managed to commit suicide in the first cave."},{"author_name":"Tuism","author_uid":"35114","time":"May 4, 2014 @ 9:49am","epoch":1399196640,"text":"Unexpected entry is unexpected. High novelty, low on... Anything really :P But innovative, I'll give you that. I like the built-in level-skip &quot;feature&quot; :P"},{"author_name":"Oddly Shaped Pixels","author_uid":"33840","time":"May 4, 2014 @ 10:21am","epoch":1399198560,"text":"Super innovative! Must have been a lot work to come to this. Impressive work!"},{"author_name":"alexdantas","author_uid":"36899","time":"May 5, 2014 @ 2:05am","epoch":1399255200,"text":"Hello, there!\r<br\/>FYI your game was featured on this blog post:\r<br\/>\r<br\/>(9 Gems from Ludum Dare 29)\r<br\/>http:\/\/alexdantas.net\/stuff\/posts\/9-gems-from-ludum-dare-29\/\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Thanks a lot for making this awesome entry :)"},{"author_name":"mcapraro","author_uid":"28472","time":"May 6, 2014 @ 5:51am","epoch":1399355160,"text":"the link seems to be broken"},{"author_name":"NeithR","author_uid":"35366","time":"May 7, 2014 @ 12:19am","epoch":1399421640,"text":"Hi everyone!\r<br\/>Thank you very much for the feedbacks! :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Also I am very sorry if the game is a bit boring, couldn't think any better mechanism for the game theme and my still-lack of skill on art to implement more complex game mechanism xD.\r<br\/>But I am still happy and satisfied with the result xD. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>@Vytheros:\r<br\/>Thanks for the input, will try to use a better symbol (which blends with environment better than square buttons) for my other next pdf game ;).\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@microwerx:\r<br\/>Neither me (except in millions years :p), since I got inspired from Squeka Artika who made a pdf game earlier than me (She is also my friend and we made several games last year ago.) xD.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@Ellian:\r<br\/>The file is entirely in a pdf, but the file itself was exported from power point. It still works with other alternative power point as long it support pdf export and hyperlink ;).\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@Tuism:\r<br\/>Yeah, I like that built-in level-skip feature since it makes me faster to debug my game especially in hundred of pages xD.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@alexdantas: \r<br\/>Thank you very much for the feature :D\r<br\/>The word &quot;Gem&quot; made my eyes in gems xD.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@mcapraro:\r<br\/>Thank you very much for the notice ;)\r<br\/>Dropbox disabled the document contain hyperlink for security reason right now. Since my pdf game relies on hyperlink to go to other pages, it is affected too."},{"author_name":"NeithR","author_uid":"35366","time":"May 8, 2014 @ 4:14am","epoch":1399522140,"text":"Update!\r<br\/>The Web version is up again.\r<br\/>I use Box to host the pdf."},{"author_name":"elefantopia","author_uid":"37031","time":"May 10, 2014 @ 5:14am","epoch":1399698540,"text":"Unexpected and interesting format for a game (200+ pages, wow!)."},{"author_name":"x1212","author_uid":"25277","time":"May 12, 2014 @ 7:15am","epoch":1399878600,"text":"great idea ... I guess there is no one who cannot play this :)"},{"author_name":"gre","author_uid":"18803","time":"May 12, 2014 @ 5:28pm","epoch":1399915380,"text":"WTF a game in a PDF? AWESOME !!!\r<br\/>Nice exploration.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Unfortunately, no audio.. :-P ;-D"},{"author_name":"udo","author_uid":"6821","time":"May 12, 2014 @ 9:17pm","epoch":1399929120,"text":"This is the first time ever I've seen someone use PDF as a platform like this - good job!"},{"author_name":"aelita1992","author_uid":"35892","time":"May 14, 2014 @ 7:43am","epoch":1400053080,"text":"Awesome idea to make a game in pdf, didn't know it is even possible, or rather that someone will try :D"},{"author_name":"Make A Game","author_uid":"5631","time":"May 15, 2014 @ 11:26pm","epoch":1400196060,"text":"Haha pretty clever entry."},{"author_name":"rubna","author_uid":"14711","time":"May 16, 2014 @ 2:42pm","epoch":1400251020,"text":"very original! I liked how much it still felt like a little world :) good job!"},{"author_name":"Raiyumi","author_uid":"25829","time":"May 16, 2014 @ 9:22pm","epoch":1400275020,"text":"This was a really clever way to make a game. Really cool!"},{"author_name":"oal","author_uid":"11141","time":"May 17, 2014 @ 5:05pm","epoch":1400346000,"text":"Haha, this is the first time I've played a game entirely in a PDF. I thought I had opened some kind of manual, but it was actually pretty entertaining."},{"author_name":"kirbytails7","author_uid":"4767","time":"May 19, 2014 @ 12:59am","epoch":1400460840,"text":"Interesting format. The suicide option seems unnecessary and potentially distasteful."}],"images":["ld29\/35366-7e35fcb733f6b6d10b94741d3b4b0e66.jpg","ld29\/35366-0634d4d881d6ba216354524a40024ab1.jpg","ld29\/35366-906491ada2755bc1004bfff9e1ed0746.jpg","ld29\/35366-4c843b67b320b7607a15d9449aaaee66.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/neithr.blogspot.com\/2014\/04\/to-surface.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/neithr.blogspot.com\/2014\/04\/to-surface.html","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/neithr.blogspot.com\/2014\/04\/to-surface.html","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"http:\/\/neithr.blogspot.com\/2014\/04\/to-surface.html","text":"Linux"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/qorr5bp4yg7aq42\/source%20code.txt","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"19228","g_author":"35366","g_event":"LD29","g_eventkey":"22","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"19257","g_title":"To Surface","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"1077","g_commentcount":"39","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\/35366-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/35366-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/35366-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/35366-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"You need a pdf reader play this game.\r\nGenerally a lot of OS and browser already support pdf  reader so no need to download any plugin at all.\r\n\r\nSince the game is in pdf, you can choose to play it in browser directly or download it to desktop and play it using a pdf reader.\r\n\r\nWhen playing it, be sure to fit the page in the screen that only 1 page you see. Also, no scrolling for better game experience.\r\n\r\n-- Update (May 7th after, 2014)\r\nI switched to Box now. It supports pdf to played on the browser ;).\r\n\r\n-- Update (May 7th, 2014)\r\nDropbox disabled documents contain hyperlink. Since my pdf game relies on hyperlinks to go to other page, it is affected as well so I have to renew the link. Also, it is not possible to view pdf file directly on Dropbox right now so you have to download the game (the size is less than 500 kb).\r\n\r\nMeanwhile, I am still searching an alternative which can view as well as Dropbox. So far, couldn't find a better alternative yet. (minimum is to view a pdf file directly)\r\n\r\nSorry for inconvenience. ","title":"To Surface"}