{"author_link":"\/author\/snowflower\/","author_name":"Snowflower","author_uid":"3624","comments":[{"author_name":"CrackedP0t","author_uid":"33088","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 9:43pm","epoch":1398721080,"text":"Linux verision please?"},{"author_name":"vilya","author_uid":"10456","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 10:04pm","epoch":1398722340,"text":"Beautiful looking game!"},{"author_name":"Split82","author_uid":"15279","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 10:25pm","epoch":1398723600,"text":"Looks really nice and well polished. Good job."},{"author_name":"Snowflower","author_uid":"3624","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 10:53pm","epoch":1398725280,"text":"CrackedP0t: Linux build zipped up here for you, let me know if it works since I cant test it .   https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/14939389\/CosmicLayers_Linux\/CosmicLayers_LinuxVersion_0.zip"},{"author_name":"CrackedP0t","author_uid":"33088","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 12:17am","epoch":1398730320,"text":"This is an excellent game!\r<br\/>I would say that it would benefit from music.\r<br\/>Definately a candidate for the win, in my opinon.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>P.S. Linux works fine, so far as I can tell."},{"author_name":"DeathBread","author_uid":"9252","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 1:52am","epoch":1398736020,"text":"Wow. Just wow."},{"author_name":"olkeencole","author_uid":"10982","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 4:33am","epoch":1398745680,"text":"Beautiful game. I want it to last longer!"},{"author_name":"asotelo94","author_uid":"27357","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 2:28pm","epoch":1398781380,"text":"You should switch the point lights render mode to important, I had some trouble because they turn off when I moved."},{"author_name":"Snowflower","author_uid":"3624","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 6:46pm","epoch":1398796860,"text":"asotelo94: thanks, recently upgraded unity version and didnt realize the pointlights were set to auto and caused this behavior for some people.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Updated all the builds with the fix so you shouldnt have any lighting bugs (uses deferred lighting and 4 lights per pixel in the quality settings)"},{"author_name":"Clavus","author_uid":"18043","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 8:05pm","epoch":1398801600,"text":"The visuals are quite nice. The gameplay is ok, but it did feel like it was missing some interesting mechanic to use for moving around."},{"author_name":"archaeometrician","author_uid":"27214","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 11:45pm","epoch":1398814800,"text":"Very beautiful, the graphics are amazing !"},{"author_name":"benmcnelly","author_uid":"31106","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 4:52pm","epoch":1398876420,"text":"I really had fun with and probably spent way to long trying to see if I could get to places I wasn't supposed to, lol!"},{"author_name":"Simon@LD","author_uid":"33672","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 4:54pm","epoch":1398876540,"text":"Wow, really cool level design and lighting!"},{"author_name":"perfect victim","author_uid":"35015","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 4:20pm","epoch":1398960900,"text":"love the graphics!"},{"author_name":"GamerTaters","author_uid":"35352","time":"May 3, 2014 @ 9:42am","epoch":1399109820,"text":"Wow! Such a nice looking game. Loved all the shifting geometry. Loved the lighting and particle effects. It all contributed to great mood. I didn't initially realize red was a reset orb, which was unfortunate. Also, music of some kind would have been great addition too. Really impressive work. Very much enjoyed this one. Well done!"},{"author_name":"SimianLogic","author_uid":"15570","time":"May 11, 2014 @ 3:31am","epoch":1399778760,"text":"Very nice looking, interesting level. Doesn't seem to fit the theme at all, though...\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I had to turn my mouse sensitivity way down to play it. Would be nice to have an in-game setting to adjust that."},{"author_name":"elefantopia","author_uid":"37031","time":"May 17, 2014 @ 5:15am","epoch":1400303400,"text":"Incredible graphics! Fun to play and enjoyed the floating effect to get to the more difficult spaces."}],"images":["ld29\/3624-fa5d9bee82c3888e17559fd9204f187d.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/14939389\/testWeb_CosmicLayers080\/testWeb_CosmicLayers080.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/14939389\/CosmicLayers_OSX\/CosmicLayers_080_OSX.zip","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/14939389\/CosmicLayers_Linux\/CosmicLayers_080_Linux.zip","text":"Linux"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"20267","g_author":"3624","g_event":"LD29","g_eventkey":"22","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"20296","g_title":"Cosmic Layers","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"92","g_commentcount":"17","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\/3624-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"'Cosmic Layers'\r\n\r\nStory:\r\n-----\r\nYou have been placed in the cosmic layers simulation to test your ability to spatially navigate an unstable environment under low lighting conditions  and collect the 44 designated blue bits for reallocation.\r\n\r\nPlease proceed to the red sys admin bit if you wish to reboot the time trial simulation for a fresh start if you wish to test your speed at completing the task at hand.\r\n\r\nTeleporters are available to expedite travel, and exiting through the bottom on the simulation to teleport is a valid option.\r\n\r\n---\r\nControls: WASD+Mouse+ Spacebar to jump, for navigation, ESC to undo mouse cursor lock in the application, you can click on the screen to lock and hide the cursor again.\r\n\r\nIf you click and hold the right mouse button you can fps style zoom to get a better look at distant areas before you take the leap or decide to navigate your way there\r\n\r\n--- \r\nDev Notes:\r\nThis is my first attempt at making a first person world navigation 'freerunning' type game.\r\n\r\nInstead of having elevators or vertically moving platforms I limited myself to building an environment with a limited number of frictionless object types that scaled horizontally or had a vertical passage that interlocked closed that you could run over quickly, or fall through intentionally to find the 'blue bit' items.\r\nI gave the player mid-air movement to an extent to make some of the more vertical section more fluid to navigate and give the player some feeling they could course correct and exit some of the layered 'interlocking donut' platform stacks.\r\n\r\nI totally blew off most of the 1st day doing pixel art for something else I cancelled before I decided to make this instead, so this is a 'jam' only game.\r\n\r\nAnd lastly,\r\nAll feedback is appreciated, thanks for taking time to play it !\r\nYou can leave feedback to me directly on twitter at @christinacoffin , or here in the comments section.\r\nThanks!\r\n-Christina 'Snow Flower' Coffin\r\n\r\n---\r\nHardware Note: This is a graphically intensive game since it uses alot of dynamic lighting+physics for visual cues + particles to create a certain style and mood. Looking at doing a post-jam version and optimizing it a bit more.\r\n---\r\nPlatform Release Notes:\r\nWeb player version tested on chrome on PC+MAC, most accessible and playable version, may be slightly slower than native version.\r\n\r\nIf you have an issue or bug, please specify the platform version you tried.\r\n\r\nMade a Linux version release, I have no way to test this, please let me know if it works or not. I can look into setting up a linux test machine and make this a future build target for jam games in the future.\r\n\r\n---\r\nKnown Bugs im looking at:\r\n\r\nOne of my test PC machines loses mouse input control and the player can longer turn and freelook.\r\n\r\nA weird issue with windowed mode on the standalone mac version, so the workaround is the current mac version release is fullscreen mode only\r\n","title":"Cosmic Layers"}