{"author_link":"\/author\/nervous-composers\/","author_name":"Nervous Composers","author_uid":"90328","comments":[{"author_name":"Cowa","author_uid":"44516","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 6:05pm","epoch":1461002400,"text":"I liked the idea. Nice game :)"},{"author_name":"iendsl","author_uid":"92050","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 6:10pm","epoch":1461002700,"text":"Really awesome, great animations :) Cool concept and very fogiving checkpoints!"},{"author_name":"tsjost","author_uid":"19130","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 6:10pm","epoch":1461002700,"text":"Are you able to make a Linux build?"},{"author_name":"CMLSC","author_uid":"86097","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 6:11pm","epoch":1461002760,"text":"I did find a bug where you can spam z and it will lag the game."},{"author_name":"TiRSO!","author_uid":"26416","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 6:13pm","epoch":1461002880,"text":"Cool mechanic but a bit hidden due to some problems:\r1) Consider removing any challenges for the player before you reveal the cool mechanics. For instance, you can easily die in the first level before you discover what the game is about. I'm sure you have lost quite a few players because of that!\r2) There is no hint that you need to hold Z to freeze. I was a bit stuck until I understood how it works.\r\rOtherwise very original idea and good execution. Congrats!"},{"author_name":"CrazY","author_uid":"91915","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 6:13pm","epoch":1461002880,"text":"I dont get it :("},{"author_name":"CrazY","author_uid":"91915","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 6:14pm","epoch":1461002940,"text":"I dont get it but it looks cute :("},{"author_name":"Danman9914","author_uid":"30580","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 6:15pm","epoch":1461003000,"text":"Really neat mechanic! I almost got to the end of the tetris block shaped level but the difficulty got the better of me. I think having the freezing of the shape be delayed made the game harder than it needed to be. Overall great though!"},{"author_name":"ChrisMingay","author_uid":"15929","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 6:25pm","epoch":1461003600,"text":"That's really impressive, nice one :)\r\rTook me longer than I'd care to admit to figure out what the freeze power did...\r\rReally enjoyed this one"},{"author_name":"ginger9","author_uid":"72781","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 6:42pm","epoch":1461004620,"text":"I can't pass level 3 ...\rI like it, unlike something finished in 48 hours."},{"author_name":"monaarc","author_uid":"34192","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 6:44pm","epoch":1461004740,"text":"Very very very good word ! The idea, the little story, the level design... A bit more work on the graphics and you can have a nice indie game ;)"},{"author_name":"IDidGame","author_uid":"52466","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 6:54pm","epoch":1461005340,"text":"the base mechanic and music are great\rtakes a litte long to get to the actual cool stuff\rbefore that its just a basic platformer"},{"author_name":"Javabot","author_uid":"43281","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 7:01pm","epoch":1461005760,"text":"Love almost everything about this game. Such innovation!"},{"author_name":"DesignerNap","author_uid":"21374","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 7:17pm","epoch":1461006720,"text":"Loved this. Really great design and well thought out. Very impressed. Couple of bits of feedback though. \rthe intro was amazing. Loved how it set the tone and the story... then the music for the first level felt really up beat and didn't seem to fit. However the music in the second level was great! I got stuck on the second level after shape shifting to red. Made it up the first few steps but that large drop stopped me from getting any further. For a platformer that relies on skill based timing, you should allow pad or WASD support. Moving on the arrow keys and jumping with Z means you are flipping the controls for most modern games. the left hand is normally reserved for movement and the right action when you think about it. Loved what I played though. Nice concept and well executed. hope the feedback was useful."},{"author_name":"nervous.composers","author_uid":"90328","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 7:31pm","epoch":1461007560,"text":"Hi All, thanks for the great feedback. It is our first project on LD and we are glad that you guys liked it!\rWe'll do better in the next LD!"},{"author_name":"MandolinQuinn","author_uid":"91519","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 6:03am","epoch":1461045480,"text":"Really fantastic entry! Thanks for making this. Had a lot of fun with it"},{"author_name":"kestrelgames","author_uid":"92262","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 6:05am","epoch":1461045600,"text":"freezing the space is a neat concept!"},{"author_name":"aidanmarkham","author_uid":"84155","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 6:58am","epoch":1461048780,"text":"I played this game and liked it a lot! What a great concept! The music could have been better though, and the art was only decent. Let the players know to hold z. I got through the first 2 levels and got this error after the second door.\r___________________________________________\r############################################################################################\rFATAL ERROR in\raction number 1\rof Step Eventobj_dude\rfor object obj_glow:\r\rVariable obj_glow.yy(100069, -2147483648) not set before reading it.\rat gml_Object_obj_glow_Collision_10\r############################################################################################"},{"author_name":"APantaloni","author_uid":"92148","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 9:37am","epoch":1461058320,"text":"The graphics may be simple but I love the responsive controls and the core puzzle mechanics. Very fun to play, congrats!"},{"author_name":"hregrin","author_uid":"59845","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 9:51am","epoch":1461059160,"text":"Very nice! It might be worth it to work a bit more on explaining the mechanics, but overall a great effort!"},{"author_name":"Ramayana","author_uid":"87871","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 9:54am","epoch":1461059340,"text":"Very good game! The puzzles are very fun to do and become quite hard some times!"},{"author_name":"OveRMolo","author_uid":"90859","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 12:19pm","epoch":1461068040,"text":"I really like the mechanics. It's a fun game and challenging :D"},{"author_name":"Shatter Point Studios","author_uid":"85070","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 7:31pm","epoch":1461093960,"text":"Just awesome. I love the freeze mechanic, the puzzles are great, and it's a fantastic use of the theme. My one complaint would probably be the jump itself; I feel like you should press the button to jump, not hold to jump constantly."},{"author_name":"Yword","author_uid":"26150","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 2:35pm","epoch":1461249000,"text":"Really unique and innovative idea! Well done!"},{"author_name":"Lullaby","author_uid":"66242","time":"Apr 22, 2016 @ 7:27pm","epoch":1461352920,"text":"Awesome concept and mechanics. I didn't managed to reach lvl3, by lack of time (I died too many times at the end of lvl2, haha!).\r\rI don't know how many levels you did for this LD, but I'm convinced your game would do a great reflex\/reflexion game :) \r\rWell done, my 5 stars to innovation and theme adaptation!"},{"author_name":"rburema","author_uid":"50394","time":"Apr 29, 2016 @ 6:22pm","epoch":1461953820,"text":"Thank goodness for the check-points, I'd have never made it to the first non-square shape otherwise. (Though I got an inkling of what might be in store through the screenshots.)\r\rSuch a rich mechanic for puzzles, the possibilities are nearly endless :-)"},{"author_name":"Squid","author_uid":"62134","time":"Apr 30, 2016 @ 7:13pm","epoch":1462043280,"text":"This is one of the coolest concepts I have seen so far. I don't think anyone wold complain if the death hit boxes were just a few pixels smaller."}],"images":["ld35\/90328-905284a1249605b370d9da10f106ea3d.jpg","ld35\/90328-93ac071c8508b4969ed7b701fe1f3197.jpg","ld35\/90328-6010085f6b0d9d5103c38e9081562499.jpg","ld35\/90328-33ca108cdc938cb697adb846da401361.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/nervouscomposers.itch.io\/bounds","text":"Windows"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"2358","g_author":"90328","g_event":"LD35","g_eventkey":"33","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"2415","g_title":"Bounds","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"107","g_commentcount":"27","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\/90328-shot0-1460999365.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/90328-shot1-1460999365.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/90328-shot2-1460999365.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/90328-shot3-1460999365.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Bounds was a cheery little lad, enjoying the good life in his shapeful colourful world. One day, a surge of blue death swept through and brought corruption and destruction to his world. All was about to be lost, but Bounds had to do something! \r\n\r\nArrow keys to move\r\nZ to freeze\r\nSpace to shapeshift\r\n\r\nM to mute\r\nEsc to quit\r\n\r\nCredits for BGM from opengameart.org:\r\nChasersgaming\r\nMichael Carey\r\nRevampedPRO\r\nAlexandr Zhelanov\r\n\r\nFixes in v1.01:\r\n- Fixed a crash at end of level 2\r\n\r\n","title":"Bounds"}