{"author_link":"\/author\/nastynate\/","author_name":"nastynate","author_uid":"25842","comments":[{"author_name":"GreenyUk","author_uid":"27431","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 2:15am","epoch":1377569400,"text":"Cool solid game. Got pretty hard real quick but still fun :) Reached level 12. Not sure if that's good or bad aha!"},{"author_name":"Dark Arts and Sciences","author_uid":"13938","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 2:18am","epoch":1377569580,"text":"On MacOS X 10.8.4, I get &quot;PolyBlade cannot be opened because of a problem. Check with the developer to make sure PolyBlade works with this version of OS X.&quot;"},{"author_name":"CarmineGames","author_uid":"14688","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 2:19am","epoch":1377569640,"text":"Hard too see the action with the distracting backdrop"},{"author_name":"Blupsy","author_uid":"25359","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 2:20am","epoch":1377569700,"text":"Really smooth and fun gameplay!"},{"author_name":"nastynate","author_uid":"25842","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 3:04am","epoch":1377572340,"text":"I'm sorry if there are problems with the OSX distro, I don't have OSX nor do I know anybody who does so I wasn't able to test it. I followed the instructions from Love2D but I will look into it."},{"author_name":"Jayjay","author_uid":"5475","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 3:47am","epoch":1377574920,"text":"Fun, little tricky playing a SmashTV\/Total Carnage style with short range attacks =P"},{"author_name":"sP0CkEr2","author_uid":"7135","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 3:47am","epoch":1377574920,"text":"well that was fun -- nice graphics and plenty of action -- gret job"},{"author_name":"murilo","author_uid":"6882","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 11:44pm","epoch":1377646740,"text":"The animation and art was good. But the font for reading wasn't easy on the eyes. Pretty cool overall!"},{"author_name":"JALgames","author_uid":"26549","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 5:01pm","epoch":1377708960,"text":"Weird conroll. Don't know if it is because of my laptop but the mosue stops moving when I press any key in this game."},{"author_name":"GarethIW","author_uid":"20364","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 9:25pm","epoch":1377724800,"text":"With the lack of controls explanation and objective info, I actually didn't realise that mouse clicks attacked. I got to Level 33 by just kiting enemies around.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>It's a nice little 2D game once such things were figured out though."},{"author_name":"nastynate","author_uid":"25842","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 1:47am","epoch":1377740520,"text":"@JALgames It's definitely your laptop. That's a common feature  in laptops to make sure you don't accidentally click the trackpad while typing."},{"author_name":"nathanhoffer","author_uid":"25795","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 1:57am","epoch":1377741120,"text":"I really liked this one.  Really really really fun!!"},{"author_name":"link2x101","author_uid":"8807","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 1:59am","epoch":1377741240,"text":"Fullscreen should always be an option when the mouse is used in this way...\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Either way, nice graphics, loved the talkative character.\r<br\/>The game was very smooth and precise and the short range was a very interesting twist.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>It suffered from the lack of sound."},{"author_name":"porglezomp","author_uid":"21051","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 2:02am","epoch":1377741420,"text":"Also having trouble on mac, will try from source in a moment."},{"author_name":"porglezomp","author_uid":"21051","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 2:08am","epoch":1377741780,"text":"For people on MacOS, if you have the L&Ouml;VE engine downloaded, you can just zip the contents of the folder, rename the archive.zip to &lt;anything&gt;.love, and then run that.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Quite a nice game!"},{"author_name":"Vile Smile","author_uid":"26636","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 2:53am","epoch":1377744480,"text":"Very cool idea. The game feels kinda empty; some music would be good. The graphics were good, but I think the player should have stood out better from the background. Nice!"},{"author_name":"01rafael","author_uid":"11984","time":"Sep 16, 2013 @ 6:36pm","epoch":1379356260,"text":"Cool graphic, but actoin is ordinary."},{"author_name":"Eelfroth","author_uid":"7288","time":"Sep 16, 2013 @ 6:40pm","epoch":1379356500,"text":"I like it. Nice work with the graphics!"}],"images":["ld27\/25842-5f4f4c42b948ad0ad31a0d8a4b0d256b.jpg","ld27\/25842-6c420d7c42b1ee576849cfefdb1aa39d.jpg","ld27\/25842-fda36912ccd0929efeb6bbab4c1f1d34.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/hz1m9h1909e3c25\/PolyBlade.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/vy6z7j2zy72t4rj\/PolyBlade.osx.zip","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/g1v3so2jsaxasao\/PolyBlade%20Source.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"23272","g_author":"25842","g_event":"LD27","g_eventkey":"18","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"23302","g_title":"PolyBlade","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"173","g_commentcount":"18","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\/\/273708\/25842-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/25842-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/25842-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"An action-arcade game inspired by Smash TV where your weapon has a mind of its own.\r\n\r\nControls:\r\nWASD - Movement\r\nLeft Click - Attack\r\n\r\nProgrammed in Lua with Love2D.","title":"PolyBlade"}