{"author_link":"\/author\/abaines\/","author_name":"abaines","author_uid":"64951","comments":[{"author_name":"w1n5t0n","author_uid":"51564","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 1:31am","epoch":1460942760,"text":"Hardest game I've ever played in a Ludum dare. I love it!"},{"author_name":"mactinite","author_uid":"26320","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 5:29am","epoch":1460957040,"text":"Wow, that was difficult.. lol"},{"author_name":"16BitsOfAwesome","author_uid":"18250","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 1:49am","epoch":1461030240,"text":"I got really close to the end of a complicated screen (The one where you have to go right, down, left, down, right, then straight up and it's mostly covered in lava), then I threw my keyboard out the window haha\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Pretty good!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>My only complaint is that I didn't like that if I die as a bat, I respawn as a bat. Makes for awkward starts sometimes."},{"author_name":"nintendoeats","author_uid":"22819","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 7:21pm","epoch":1461093360,"text":"Aside from some bugs I know you are already aware of, that was very well done. I'm not big on massocore, but I could identify that was a good example of it. I do wish that tapping the fly button was a viable strategy since I usually try to make several tiny adjustments to get through places, but that may not be what you were going for.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Oh, the music was good but hearing the same 8 bars over and over again after dying 4000 times can be a bit grating."},{"author_name":"karln","author_uid":"57004","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 5:42pm","epoch":1461173820,"text":"argh cannot play too hard\r<br\/>\r<br\/>fun idea but I&nbsp;could barely play it at all :("},{"author_name":"Weeping Rupee","author_uid":"60016","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 5:44pm","epoch":1461173940,"text":"Boy, I'm a sucker for difficult platforming games. This one was fun and had good style too! The only thing I would suggest is making the fly button the same as the transform button."},{"author_name":"tanis","author_uid":"48604","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 8:38pm","epoch":1461184380,"text":"Damn those hitboxes are way too big for me! Challenging and very hard! I loved it! Very well done!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>It would be better if you would spawn as vampire instead of a bat when you die as a bat though :)"},{"author_name":"sheepsalamanderfox","author_uid":"91406","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 8:46pm","epoch":1461184860,"text":"Some hitbox issues but I like the idea ! Definitely worth trying it !"},{"author_name":"LadyEmaSkye","author_uid":"51931","time":"Apr 22, 2016 @ 9:49pm","epoch":1461361440,"text":"Not a wholeheartedly unique game, but it's well polished. It's rather difficult -- and you don't list the controls anywhere."},{"author_name":"webadev","author_uid":"93130","time":"Apr 22, 2016 @ 11:16pm","epoch":1461366660,"text":"Too hard... but the rest of the game is really nice :) Graphics are cool and sounds."},{"author_name":"ReactorScram","author_uid":"29177","time":"Apr 23, 2016 @ 2:17am","epoch":1461377520,"text":"The controls are unforgiving, and it was hard to get a handle on the rhythm when I would respawn with the left or right arrow still held down. It was difficult to get the timing right for tapping up as a bat, especially since I was panicking from having only two seconds of life at any point.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>But the particles and sound were good, and you followed the theme, so I'm ranking those highly"},{"author_name":"endel","author_uid":"50958","time":"Apr 23, 2016 @ 11:20am","epoch":1461410100,"text":"Very difficult. The challenge reminds me console games from the 90'. Congrats."},{"author_name":"Freank","author_uid":"94168","time":"Apr 24, 2016 @ 12:46pm","epoch":1461501660,"text":"Hi, nice game ! We're realizing a video with several games of the Ludum Dare #35.\r<br\/>Can you add your game on indiexpo.net ? (it's free)\r<br\/>So we can include also your game in the video ;)\r<br\/>p.s. write #LDJAM in the game's description"},{"author_name":"drazil100","author_uid":"89952","time":"Apr 25, 2016 @ 9:43pm","epoch":1461620280,"text":"Very fun game. SO hard at times."},{"author_name":"Rock Eaters","author_uid":"90519","time":"Apr 28, 2016 @ 11:37pm","epoch":1461886320,"text":"like the styly, like the game too but its hard !"},{"author_name":"badia_r","author_uid":"90553","time":"Apr 30, 2016 @ 8:41pm","epoch":1462048560,"text":"Very hard game! Fun to play and addictive, great entry :)"},{"author_name":"ZeroFaction","author_uid":"76669","time":"May 1, 2016 @ 5:36am","epoch":1462080660,"text":"So difficult."}],"images":["ld35\/64951-6f067ef162e2590c3cdfb9899d62a13c.jpg","ld35\/64951-668e6d815109562da1503683f8ca0dbb.jpg","ld35\/64951-fba85dcec34714253db4b70017fd00ec.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/abaines.me.uk\/ld35\/","text":"Web (emscripten)"},{"url":"https:\/\/abaines.itch.io\/vampshift-the-bloodening","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/abaines.itch.io\/vampshift-the-bloodening","text":"Linux"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/baines\/ld35","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"2059","g_author":"64951","g_event":"LD35","g_eventkey":"33","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"2002","g_title":"VampShift: The Bloodening","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"378","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\/\/542293\/64951-shot0-1460939458.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/64951-shot1-1460939458.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/64951-shot2-1460942626.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"VampShift: The Bloodening is a platform game in which you shapeshift into a bat to get through each room.\r\n\r\nControls:\r\n WASD \/ Arrows: Move\r\n Space bar    : Turn into a bat\r\n\r\nMade in C with SDL2, SDL2_image and SDL2_mixer. Available to download for Linux and Windows, or as an HTML5 web version created via emscripten.\r\n\r\nSource code: https:\/\/github.com\/baines\/ld35\r\n\r\nThe creation of the game was livestreamed, see twitch.tv\/insofaras\/profile for the VoDs.\r\n\r\nChangelog:\r\n 19 Apr 01:20 UTC: Added web version (emscripten)\r\n 23 Apr 20:20 UTC: List the controls here\r\n\r\nNOTE ABOUT THE WEB VERSION:\r\nThe web version is an emscripten port that was done *A DAY AFTER* the compo ended, and has some collision\/physics\/timing related fixes to make it work.\r\n\r\nIf you plan on rating the game, then, in the spirit of LD, you should probably rate based on the buggier downloadable versions that were created within the 48 hour time limit.","title":"VampShift: The Bloodening"}