{"author_link":"\/author\/thegrieve\/","author_name":"TheGrieve","author_uid":"1947","comments":[{"author_name":"jtpup0","author_uid":"36526","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 3:00am","epoch":1398740100,"text":"Very well done, the mechanics, art style, and story were unique and fun"},{"author_name":"Exeneva","author_uid":"21296","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 3:01am","epoch":1398740160,"text":"I loved the narration, even if there wasn't any sound that I could hear in the game. It's an interesting take on the theme, but the lack of skill-based challenges (whether you dig up something or not is random) makes it hard for me to get into."},{"author_name":"theundeadwarrior","author_uid":"35371","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 3:36am","epoch":1398742260,"text":"Wow! I love the style and he narration :) Good job!"},{"author_name":"olkeencole","author_uid":"10982","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 3:53am","epoch":1398743280,"text":"Simple mechanics but they work together very well. Excellent job! Perhaps more enemies to dodge would be nice like projectile throwing ghosts or something."},{"author_name":"Nuclear_Hammer","author_uid":"19465","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 3:57am","epoch":1398743520,"text":"Hahahahah jack skelenton? Very funny i like your style."},{"author_name":"valid4life","author_uid":"31730","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 4:34am","epoch":1398745740,"text":"A different type of "digging" game! I like!"},{"author_name":"Garris","author_uid":"33993","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 5:33am","epoch":1398749280,"text":"Great atmosphere. Great art. I wish there was a little more to do, but what's there is well done."},{"author_name":"ren","author_uid":"8599","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 5:46am","epoch":1398750060,"text":"nice touch with the narration. I like how this suits the theme both literally and figuratively. Digging did get old after a little while."},{"author_name":"Lost King","author_uid":"5708","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 7:39am","epoch":1398756840,"text":"The narration was tasteful, and I liked the art, at least what I saw of it. For some reason the ground tiles failed to load."},{"author_name":"8BitPimp","author_uid":"20953","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 8:23am","epoch":1398759480,"text":"The drawings are lovely! Not sure i like the star-field as the background."},{"author_name":"TheGrieve","author_uid":"1947","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 8:50am","epoch":1398761100,"text":"Hey guys,\r\rThanks for all the feedback, we had plans for a level progression that explains the beacons and the ghost dog (he's still in there if you find his grave, and dig it up), which added a bit more skilled searching, but alas, there's a time limit :D\r\rRe: the starfield, seems the tilemap isn't loading in for some people, and the rain makes it look like a starfield, please try Ctrl+F5 and hopefully it loads in second time around.\r\rThanks for checking it out,\r\rGrieve"},{"author_name":"zdonkeyx","author_uid":"34347","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 8:54am","epoch":1398761340,"text":"Seems really nicely polished :) For my browser though, space made it scroll to the bottom making it frustrating to play. It seems like this is only a problem for me though"},{"author_name":"Thorig","author_uid":"14618","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 9:15am","epoch":1398762600,"text":"This is the beginning of a nice survival game. Your pet could scare of a few types of creepies. Good entry with nice art style."},{"author_name":"Guybrusch","author_uid":"31908","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 10:11am","epoch":1398765960,"text":"When i hit space the site is scrolling down and i cant see the whole game. The art is nice."},{"author_name":"bombjack","author_uid":"18768","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 10:29am","epoch":1398767040,"text":"Great art ! I liked it"},{"author_name":"zzorn","author_uid":"2534","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 12:52pm","epoch":1398775620,"text":"Love the narrative comments, that work as a tutorial at the same time. Nice mechanics idea with standing still to detect essence. And love the character graphics, and the dog! :)\r\rNot quite challening enough for a survival game, but that's a minor tuning issue."},{"author_name":"theengineers","author_uid":"37408","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 12:58pm","epoch":1398775980,"text":"Great theme, but has a complete lack of challenge. Great narration though, overall the mood is great, work on the gameplay and this could make a great game."},{"author_name":"pancakecity","author_uid":"28537","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 1:42pm","epoch":1398778620,"text":"The narration was excellent!"},{"author_name":"XrXr","author_uid":"36842","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 2:08pm","epoch":1398780180,"text":"Great art! Some sound would add to the mood. Good job!"},{"author_name":"Slader16","author_uid":"26474","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 2:15pm","epoch":1398780600,"text":"I thought it was really fun! And that health bar, amazing!"},{"author_name":"njmcode","author_uid":"9985","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 2:35pm","epoch":1398781800,"text":"Thanks for the comments everyone! Regarding the lack of sound: we simply ran out of time. I have some music and ambience in progress that will get added to a release in the very near future. We'll be hacking away and improving this for quite some time yet!"},{"author_name":"randoman","author_uid":"13710","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 2:35pm","epoch":1398781800,"text":"The game has a great atmosphere but it could use some music to make it even better. Love the art style and gameplay. Well done!"},{"author_name":"Muciojad","author_uid":"21095","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 5:48pm","epoch":1398793380,"text":"Nice graphic, but that's pity that there isn't any sound and difficulty challenge ;] Anyway it is very solid entry. I like main-character look, it's... so specific ;D"},{"author_name":"Osteoblast Labs","author_uid":"25848","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 7:40pm","epoch":1398800100,"text":"Well done, great name!"},{"author_name":"Lukbebalduke","author_uid":"26331","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 8:46pm","epoch":1398804060,"text":"Nice Graphics, but dont have songs, dont it ?"},{"author_name":"perfect victim","author_uid":"35015","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 10:58pm","epoch":1398811980,"text":"a little to macabre for my taste ,\rexcept that a very well done game ."},{"author_name":"ghostmaple","author_uid":"26297","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 11:26pm","epoch":1398813660,"text":"I'm a big fan of the tutorial through plot dialogue. It's well done here."},{"author_name":"Danvil","author_uid":"5851","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 11:56pm","epoch":1398815460,"text":"The ground does not render correctly for me. It is just pitch black..."},{"author_name":"ruerob","author_uid":"36728","time":"May 6, 2014 @ 1:22am","epoch":1399339020,"text":"For me the ground doesn't render, too. All I see is black. I didn't give a rating before it is fixed, because I want to see the whole experience before. I think it is a great game and want to thank you for your entry."},{"author_name":"SecondDimension","author_uid":"14838","time":"May 6, 2014 @ 9:21am","epoch":1399367760,"text":"Great art style and narration, a bit more of a challenge would have been nice."},{"author_name":"camlang","author_uid":"34675","time":"May 6, 2014 @ 1:57pm","epoch":1399384320,"text":"Nice work. Realy like graphics style"},{"author_name":"Rick Hoppmann","author_uid":"10000","time":"May 6, 2014 @ 10:18pm","epoch":1399414380,"text":"Bug: Zombies can walk trough walls.\r\rThe graphics are really cool! Cool detail on the players head! I like the text-bounce effect a lot! :)\r\rI somewhat didn't come to such places as seen in your screenshots, but I looted some graves.\rI kinda dislike there is no player input when digging - it would be cool to dig faster when pressing space rapidly.\r\rI'm really missing the audio on this entry, it would possibly have created a great mood.\r\r\rAll in all very cool graphics, but the game soon gets repetitive."},{"author_name":"Atridas","author_uid":"627","time":"May 10, 2014 @ 3:18pm","epoch":1399734780,"text":"Nice idea and art work. Try adding some sound, that would make the experience more enjoyable!"},{"author_name":"end3r","author_uid":"19938","time":"May 18, 2014 @ 2:16pm","epoch":1400422260,"text":"Very cool graphic style and the atmosphere in the game, good job!"}],"images":["ld29\/1947-3b64a72ff87fbb0059167aca68dbbae3.jpg","ld29\/1947-cca66bd217fdd2ce7e0d836c01a26a3c.jpg","ld29\/1947-56fa4b674615e20bc7d37224c43d619a.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/darksoils.jamgam.es\/","text":"Web"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"19357","g_author":"1947","g_event":"LD29","g_eventkey":"22","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"19386","g_title":"Dark Soils","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"387","g_commentcount":"34","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\/1947-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/1947-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/1947-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Samuel doesn't know who, what or where he is, but he knows things aren't going well. Dig up evil from beneath your feet and try to stave off whatever fate awaits him.\r\n\r\n - Arrows to moves\r\n - Space to dig\r\n - Find essence to stay alive\r\n - Avoid the Groundskeeper\r\n - Secret items and powers to find\r\n - Reunite with your beloved pet\r\n\r\nWe never got to finish our level structure for this so we wrapped it up into a survival style effort. Stay alive and find more essence.\r\n\r\nMade in Javascript with PhaserJS\r\n\r\n- Art + animation: @DesignThenCode, @BirdKing\r\n- Game code + concept: @thegrieve, @NJMcode","title":"Dark Soils"}