{"author_link":"\/author\/acehk\/","author_name":"acehk","author_uid":"28118","comments":[{"author_name":"Garris","author_uid":"33993","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:36am","epoch":1398655860,"text":"I see a lot of potential here. Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but I couldn't seem to get past that first switchback."},{"author_name":"Danman9914","author_uid":"30580","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:37am","epoch":1398655920,"text":"Very difficult right off the bat! Nice graphics and animation"},{"author_name":"acehk","author_uid":"28118","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:46am","epoch":1398656460,"text":"It is extremely difficult. I was low on time so I knew I wouldn't be able to make a long game with lots of levels, so I went for 1 really tough level.  You know what they say: Difficulty over Quantity.  Anyway, it is beatable.  I managed to beat it after about 25 failed attempts."},{"author_name":"TeamPurpleDolphins","author_uid":"37395","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 1:22am","epoch":1398734220,"text":"Good feel, though the controls are certainly tricky to master. Excellent animations and graphics. Enjoyed the 3D side-scroller format."},{"author_name":"jayemjee","author_uid":"21660","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 1:33am","epoch":1398734880,"text":"...oy.  This one's rough.  The overall look is very well done, however, it's really, really hard.  *Too* hard.  Controls are a little stiff, and there's no indicator as to how long you can stay aloft."},{"author_name":"sugarbyte","author_uid":"34276","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 1:39am","epoch":1398735240,"text":"First game to make me laugh out loud with joy! So much fun, nice job :)"},{"author_name":"VDOgamez","author_uid":"1634","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 1:43am","epoch":1398735480,"text":"This game feels really nice to play, even though I keep missing the jumps. The game's very hard. The graphics have a charm to them."},{"author_name":"acehk","author_uid":"28118","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 1:47am","epoch":1398735720,"text":"@jayemjee: agree on all the criticisms. I had very little time to actual test the game. I spent most of Saturday night trying to get swinging rope physics to work, then gave up and swapped to jetpack on Sunday."},{"author_name":"Phobos001","author_uid":"12851","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 2:07am","epoch":1398736920,"text":"Very difficult, but so satisfying when you do beat it. I don't know why you made an idle animation though, because if you stop for even a nanosecond you DIE."},{"author_name":"perfect victim","author_uid":"35015","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 7:57pm","epoch":1398801120,"text":"HARD but verrrry addictive!"},{"author_name":"Stepperz","author_uid":"35525","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 8:03pm","epoch":1398801480,"text":"I tried and failed about 30 times. It's impressive how addictive a difficult game can be!! I might just go and play it again :)"},{"author_name":"tacs","author_uid":"35984","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 8:07pm","epoch":1398801720,"text":"Found it very hard but still fun to play :)"},{"author_name":"JavadocMD","author_uid":"29362","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 8:00am","epoch":1398844500,"text":"Haha, tough, but fun. Very nice graphics. Adding a glow effect to the lava might help to make it "feel" hot."},{"author_name":"rylgh","author_uid":"15833","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 9:02am","epoch":1398848220,"text":"christ that's tough. better too tough than too easy, though"},{"author_name":"Gamepopper","author_uid":"21252","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 4:37pm","epoch":1398875520,"text":"Well animated, good graphics. Fun simple platformer right here."},{"author_name":"http404error","author_uid":"34416","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 6:45pm","epoch":1398883200,"text":"Fourth try! I do feel like beating it was an accomplishment, though."},{"author_name":"shatley123","author_uid":"20690","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 6:54am","epoch":1398926940,"text":"hilariously awesome"},{"author_name":"clearlyspam23","author_uid":"18940","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 2:00pm","epoch":1398952500,"text":""Found it very hard""},{"author_name":"bentog","author_uid":"17307","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 11:52pm","epoch":1398988020,"text":"After about a thousand tries, I completed it! Maybe you should make it gradually become more difficult and have a bigger level. I mean, you have to play for a long time to win as it is, but the time you win takes less than a minute of playing. The graphics were impressive for the particles and the fact that the character has animation. Would be a lot less frustrating if the character had no friction. Hey, we both made platformer games where you have to escape a volcano!"},{"author_name":"acehk","author_uid":"28118","time":"May 2, 2014 @ 1:32am","epoch":1398994020,"text":"@bentog - Woo Volcanoes! I wish I had more time to make multiple levels or a longer level with a difficulty curve. As far as friction goes, I don't even know how, but there is 0 sliding in Unity, yet the web player, the ground feels a lot more slippery. No idea why tbh D:"},{"author_name":"acehk","author_uid":"28118","time":"May 2, 2014 @ 1:33am","epoch":1398994080,"text":"in the web player*"}],"images":["ld29\/28118-125397c8654ce08996617f0bf9128ea6.jpg","ld29\/28118-e7614f7befcab1652cb7759877890631.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/acehk.itch.io\/volcanodave","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/a8gftjp11vg99mj\/jVLy3KSlvI\/VolcanoDaveExe","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/a8gftjp11vg99mj\/jVLy3KSlvI\/VolcanoDaveExe","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/a8gftjp11vg99mj\/jVLy3KSlvI\/VolcanoDaveExe","text":"Linux"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/a8gftjp11vg99mj\/tKY7bvD9cY\/VolcanoDaveSource","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"20597","g_author":"28118","g_event":"LD29","g_eventkey":"22","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"20626","g_title":"Volcano Dave","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"372","g_commentcount":"21","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\/28118-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/28118-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Trapped in the heart of an erupting volcano, your only hope is to propel yourself to safety using your oxygen tank as a jetpack. Move with W \/ D or the arrow keys. Hold down Spacebar to boost. This game is tough, good luck!\r\n\r\nFIXES: Made some tweaks\/fixes to address how unintentionally difficult the game was, plus a couple other bugs:\r\n- less buggy grounded test resulting in the initial jump boost being more reliable\r\n- interactable blocks darkerned to differentiate from non-interactable rock walls\r\n- lights were getting stuck before. Now the red glow rises with the lava properly. Like above fix, this helps with obstacle visibility\r\n- fixed typo in GUI message\r\n- made reset 'R' instead of 'any key' to avoid accidental resets immediately upon winning or losing","title":"Volcano Dave"}