{"author_link":"\/author\/mrdave\/","author_name":"MrDave","author_uid":"49905","comments":[{"author_name":"zwrawr","author_uid":"29226","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 10:03am","epoch":1460973480,"text":"Love the sounds"},{"author_name":"sirtetris","author_uid":"26418","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 10:03am","epoch":1460973480,"text":"&quot;Yaaay, new high score!&quot; :D\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Love the awesome sound effects! Gameplay is fun, visuals do their job (viewfields extending through walls makes for a challenge when there are a lot of guards) and did I say the sound effects are awesome?\r<br\/>\r<br\/>All in all a really cool game! :)"},{"author_name":"MrMegawatts","author_uid":"59860","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 10:12am","epoch":1460974020,"text":"Good game!"},{"author_name":"thomz12","author_uid":"35164","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 10:18am","epoch":1460974380,"text":"The sounds are awesome! Nice game!"},{"author_name":"nicotuason","author_uid":"21669","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 10:23am","epoch":1460974680,"text":"Haha this is great! Just walking around is amusing because of the bouncy animation. The gameplay is pretty fun and I somehow managed to get 45 guards on screen before I got seen. And of course the sounds."},{"author_name":"simon","author_uid":"91263","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 10:29am","epoch":1460975040,"text":"fun game!\r<br\/>i like the look, sound and the footsteps...\r<br\/>make a bigger map, give the guards the chance to come into play - its too easy to just stand at the door and attack.\r<br\/>great work!"},{"author_name":"mutonizer","author_uid":"91240","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 11:00am","epoch":1460976900,"text":"Still laughing at how crazy it gets when you have many enemies on screen.\r<br\/>Simple but works and good fun. Audio is the kind tongue in cheek programmer audio I like. Game works as intended though field of view for enemies is a bit weird (through walls?) and it feels like it could be tweaked in some way.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Good one, kudos :)"},{"author_name":"arhpositive","author_uid":"11575","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 12:02pm","epoch":1460980620,"text":"Great fun! First time I tried WASD and failed miserably. Score was 7. Second time I switched to the arrow keys and it was much better. I actually killed around 20 of them before I got stuck in one of the passages on the edges of the screen. I exit one of them and then immediately entered back. After that I was not able to return back to the play area.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>This is a really good entry and a huge amount of fun to play. Keep up the good work."},{"author_name":"grayhaze","author_uid":"23957","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 12:29pm","epoch":1460982240,"text":"Excellent work! The sound effects really make this, but the game is also really fun. I started to get really stressed out after a while...\r<br\/>\r<br\/>A+, would be a mouse again."},{"author_name":"sanojian","author_uid":"7542","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 1:13pm","epoch":1460984880,"text":"Squeek, fear the were-mouse!  Fun and exciting gameplay.  The sounds give it a lot of charm."},{"author_name":"JoeManaco","author_uid":"6837","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 1:21pm","epoch":1460985360,"text":"Really fun game!"},{"author_name":"crisp","author_uid":"59904","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 1:59pm","epoch":1460987640,"text":"This game is SOOOO fun!!!!! And the acapella sounds are a great idea! Very well done!"},{"author_name":"Wirdo91","author_uid":"6107","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 3:40pm","epoch":1460993700,"text":"Awesome sounds"},{"author_name":"bagface","author_uid":"92583","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 5:04pm","epoch":1460998740,"text":"Great game! Completely silly. Squeak!"},{"author_name":"Wevel","author_uid":"37277","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 6:11pm","epoch":1461002760,"text":"Funny audio, using isn't so good as its difficult to then move right"},{"author_name":"ragnta","author_uid":"64481","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 6:47pm","epoch":1461004920,"text":"It's very good game. nice concept, and good audio. Good job!"},{"author_name":"Mathias Olsson","author_uid":"14403","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 7:57pm","epoch":1461009120,"text":"Quite fun. It felt lika a reinvented Pac-Man clone. And nice sound effects."},{"author_name":"glaze_96","author_uid":"46004","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 8:32pm","epoch":1461011220,"text":"Wow! Best game I've played so far, and I've played over 30 now.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Got 50 guards, can you beat that guys? ;)"},{"author_name":"MrDave","author_uid":"49905","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 9:03pm","epoch":1461013080,"text":"Wow guys, thanks for such lovely feedback!"},{"author_name":"goffmog","author_uid":"2011","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 11:01pm","epoch":1461020160,"text":"Really nicely polished, great sounds and core mechanic. Wonder where you need to go from here to make it a larger game? Levels maybe? Some more mouse mechanics such as eating cheese or scaring elephants down corridors? I had a lot of fun until the map was just too crowded to continue. Nice one!"},{"author_name":"dylanwolf","author_uid":"20078","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 11:02pm","epoch":1461020220,"text":"Good use of the theme and neat mechanic. It would have been interesting to see difficulty ramp up (more enemies, faster enemy, etc.)"},{"author_name":"LandoSystems","author_uid":"18212","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 3:53am","epoch":1461037680,"text":"Great sounds, fun little game. Difficulty ramped up pretty quickly. Only managed 11 kills in ~200 seconds. Nice work!"},{"author_name":"sepharoth213","author_uid":"39935","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 8:19am","epoch":1461053640,"text":"nice tech being shown off in this game.\r<br\/>i think the game is crippled by how easy it is to reset aggro on people. i could easily get enough kills to where my framerate was suffering too much to continue just by walking up to people and hitting them before they killed me.\r<br\/>LOTS of potential in this project though, great job :)"},{"author_name":"Marcellus","author_uid":"26515","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 8:52am","epoch":1461055620,"text":"Felt like Goku sneaking behind Hit. Very nice audio, nice work !"},{"author_name":"Husky","author_uid":"17464","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 2:21pm","epoch":1461075360,"text":"I love the sounds, quite humor lol"},{"author_name":"antglynn","author_uid":"64577","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 4:41pm","epoch":1461083760,"text":"Haha great game. Love the sounds. Good job!"},{"author_name":"Xaychru","author_uid":"16472","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 5:33pm","epoch":1461086880,"text":"Lovely sound effects! The transition from mouse to human was a bit too slow in my opinion and it got me killed a few times. It was still fun to play! :)"},{"author_name":"McFunkypants","author_uid":"2297","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 6:56pm","epoch":1461091860,"text":"Wow, this is SO POLISHED. Wonderful work. It's slick, playable, cool, and interesting. Loved it."},{"author_name":"arzi","author_uid":"1524","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 7:34pm","epoch":1461094140,"text":"That was fun! It's a nice variation on a stealth game. I kind of wish there was more content, though :)"},{"author_name":"pythong","author_uid":"717","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 7:37pm","epoch":1461094320,"text":"it started lagging a lot when i reached 100 :) i was a mouse, then got stuck as human in the wall (middle lower right). the guards couldn't kill me, but i could kill them"},{"author_name":"Llucile","author_uid":"58109","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 8:25pm","epoch":1461097200,"text":"I love the sounds, like I wish I could rate it more than 5 stars.\r<br\/>Game itself is fun, a well orchestrated classic, but I didn't really got the use of the shapeshifting skill."},{"author_name":"Reis Mahnic","author_uid":"52764","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 10:51pm","epoch":1461105960,"text":"I know you've heard this, but the sounds really were great. :)\r<br\/>The core gameplay was fun too, though! I could easily see something like this being expanded into a full release. Great job!"},{"author_name":"TeamScripta","author_uid":"91554","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 12:55am","epoch":1461113400,"text":"Loved this game. The ability to shift between mouse and human is a great twist - I'd like to see this mechanic toggle on\/off rather than a hold-down, but that might just be me. As with everyone else, the sound effects were hilarious. Great work!"},{"author_name":"GAFBlizzard","author_uid":"12278","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 7:45am","epoch":1461138000,"text":"Nice graphic design on the menu screen.  I got a high score of 16.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The audio was annoying to me but some might be amused.  :P\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The gameplay was innovative and worked well.  I just wished I could toggle mouse mode instead of holding down a button."},{"author_name":"markusfisch","author_uid":"19466","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 4:29pm","epoch":1461169440,"text":"The sound, okay, probably also your voice, really sells this game to me :) Very funny! Made me smile like an idiot."},{"author_name":"FrozenCow","author_uid":"8435","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 7:24pm","epoch":1461179940,"text":"Loved the sounds! Managed to get 113 guards, it was getting a bit crazy :D"},{"author_name":"Dreschler","author_uid":"52134","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 7:00pm","epoch":1461264900,"text":"Nice game!"},{"author_name":"jonnopon3000","author_uid":"4856","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 10:44pm","epoch":1461278340,"text":"I smiled the whole time playing this, it's wonderful"},{"author_name":"sP0CkEr2","author_uid":"7135","time":"Apr 22, 2016 @ 2:23am","epoch":1461291480,"text":"that was a fab game - loved the concept, the artwork and the audio - overall great job - one small thing too many enemies come after each kill and also the mouse got lost in one of the holes"},{"author_name":"euske","author_uid":"17675","time":"Apr 23, 2016 @ 12:22pm","epoch":1461413820,"text":"The game mechanics is good, but the game became a bit repetitive after a few hits. The sound effects are nice."},{"author_name":"fin_nolimit","author_uid":"86340","time":"Apr 23, 2016 @ 9:23pm","epoch":1461446280,"text":"Now that is a cute little game! I laughed (and loved) the little mouse sounds lol nice work"},{"author_name":"QuestionableQuality","author_uid":"53106","time":"Apr 24, 2016 @ 10:35am","epoch":1461493800,"text":"It was very Metal Gear Solid. I'm not a huge fan of stealth games so I wasn't great at it, but it definitely worked well."},{"author_name":"marmpa","author_uid":"56456","time":"Apr 26, 2016 @ 10:42am","epoch":1461667020,"text":"Really nice game and very very funny sounds.I got stuck on one of those walls though."},{"author_name":"danieldsj","author_uid":"60805","time":"Apr 29, 2016 @ 2:09am","epoch":1461895440,"text":"I was thinking of making a game similar to this initially.  Great effort.  Great sounds."},{"author_name":"deadbodyoutline","author_uid":"38495","time":"Apr 29, 2016 @ 2:42am","epoch":1461897420,"text":"Haha, funny game :D\r<br\/>\r<br\/>When on a hurry, I could enter\/exit quickly as a mouse on the holes until the enemies move away ;)"},{"author_name":"noddingTortoise","author_uid":"63291","time":"Apr 29, 2016 @ 8:08pm","epoch":1461960180,"text":"Great game, with awesome sound effects. Good job!"},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"27744","time":"Apr 30, 2016 @ 3:28pm","epoch":1462029780,"text":"Nice, well made game. I included it in my video compilation series of Ludum Dare games, if you&rsquo;d like to check them out :) https:\/\/youtu.be\/6jh8RTn7UxY"},{"author_name":"randomhuman","author_uid":"56477","time":"May 1, 2016 @ 9:33am","epoch":1462094880,"text":"Great sound effects! This game is fun and gets challenging fast."},{"author_name":"Spacemyname","author_uid":"31852","time":"May 4, 2016 @ 2:21am","epoch":1462328160,"text":"The web version on the LD site has a bug where if you turn into mouse and then attack a guard the level progresses, which can cause the game to start flashing 3 numbers of levels at a time (ex. 13,14,and 15 all at once) and spawn enemies for each kill. In my video review you'll see the bug replicated, otherwise nice game!"},{"author_name":"megalukes","author_uid":"90769","time":"May 9, 2016 @ 12:05am","epoch":1462752000,"text":"I had a lot of fun with this one. Great work!"},{"author_name":"Danilo Bezerra","author_uid":"14104","time":"May 9, 2016 @ 12:59am","epoch":1462755240,"text":"Nice polishment on the menus and good sound effects! Need more challenge."},{"author_name":"broknecho","author_uid":"45690","time":"May 9, 2016 @ 4:05am","epoch":1462766400,"text":"Sound effects were awesome.  Neat survival game.  The shapeshifting was a nice function and could totally be added to. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>Great job."},{"author_name":"nhojrekrap","author_uid":"89453","time":"May 9, 2016 @ 5:50pm","epoch":1462815900,"text":"Really well polished and hilarious sound effects :P"},{"author_name":"RockNRedPanda","author_uid":"32996","time":"May 9, 2016 @ 9:53pm","epoch":1462830480,"text":"I had fun with the game! But didn't grasp the relation with shape shifting. Cool SFX mate!"}],"images":["ld35\/49905-f3014e5acd66068169710d40ba86688b.jpg","ld35\/49905-dfe521d5040e1977b2050a67a629ad8b.jpg","ld35\/49905-06dd7d845f4110ce4a3d03ab919b5181.jpg","ld35\/49905-eb9bd6beb66663d225e27a0548db048e.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.davetech.co.uk\/ludumdare35","text":"Web (html5)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.davetech.co.uk\/ludumdare35download\/exe","text":"Windows (exe)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.davetech.co.uk\/ludumdare35download\/gmz","text":"Source (gmz)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"1932","g_author":"49905","g_event":"LD35","g_eventkey":"33","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"1985","g_title":"Hide and Squeak","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"222","g_commentcount":"54","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\/\/542293\/49905-shot0-1460973084.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/49905-shot1-1460973084.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/49905-shot2-1460933145.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/49905-shot3-1460933145.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Switch between a man and a mouse as you try to avoid guards and get points by whacking them in the back! \r\nControls:\r\nMove: WASD or Arrow keys \r\nAttack: Space\r\nShapeshift: E or Shift (hold down)\r\n(works on an AZERTY keyboard)\r\n\r\nAs a mouse you move faster and can use the holes to get around, but you can only attack as a human. \r\nThe mouse holes on the edges of the map wrap you around to the one on the other side.\r\n\r\n\r\nFeaturing:\r\n - Pathfinding \r\n - Groovy sound effects!\r\n - Dynamic sounds that get distorted (listen to the sounds of the footsteps)\r\n - Rodent action\r\n - Sneakyness\r\n - High scores. \r\n - Atleast one funky screen transition. \r\n - Did I mention my voice?\r\n","title":"Hide and Squeak"}