{"author_link":"\/author\/nehmulos\/","author_name":"Nehmulos","author_uid":"9775","comments":[{"author_name":"Jimanzium","author_uid":"24428","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 10:46am","epoch":1377686460,"text":"Linux 64bit only is really limiting how many people can test your game. You might want to port to windows or mac so more people can rate it"},{"author_name":"Urfoex","author_uid":"5888","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 9:25pm","epoch":1377724800,"text":"&quot;Hectic&quot; as you already said.\r<br\/>But so far so good."},{"author_name":"MrBlade","author_uid":"23232","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 3:52am","epoch":1377748020,"text":"Hey man, seems like a good game. But a lot of people (including myself) do not have lua. So you need to compile with static lua. lua52.dll is missing. Please compile and put it back up."},{"author_name":"Nehmulos","author_uid":"9775","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 7:02am","epoch":1377759420,"text":"I fixed the lua bug on Windows &amp; tested it on a different maschine now. Lua was included in the zip, but it was called lua5.2.dll and not lua52.dll, sorry about that.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>For some reason it can take 5-10 seconds until the window shows up when running it on Windows, so please be patient when you start it."},{"author_name":"Arrow-x","author_uid":"17767","time":"Sep 1, 2013 @ 6:16pm","epoch":1378059060,"text":"nice game ...good art .. I like well done"},{"author_name":"SecondDimension","author_uid":"14838","time":"Sep 2, 2013 @ 8:03pm","epoch":1378151880,"text":"It was tricky to work out what was going on, seems like a nice concept though. Everything kept moving to the left by default, so the cursor and knight would keep moving left even when no keys were pressed. Good work on getting something done and submitted."},{"author_name":"jackyjjc","author_uid":"21428","time":"Sep 2, 2013 @ 10:53pm","epoch":1378162080,"text":"I really like the graphics and the idea! However I was playing this myself so it was kinda hard because my brain can't control two things together. I thought after summoning the monsters they would automatically find and attack the user and it turns out I need to control it..wish it is done automatically"},{"author_name":"alexandervrs","author_uid":"5234","time":"Sep 3, 2013 @ 12:09pm","epoch":1378209840,"text":"It was like a tabletop RPG, nice idea."},{"author_name":"Diptoman","author_uid":"25325","time":"Sep 3, 2013 @ 3:29pm","epoch":1378221840,"text":"This is a very interesting and fun concept! The movements could have been made smoother though, especially the jumps. Had a lot of fun playing this with my brother, this definitely has to be expanded more!"},{"author_name":"jomomomo","author_uid":"4914","time":"Sep 12, 2013 @ 10:56am","epoch":1378983060,"text":"Can I get a Mac version?"},{"author_name":"Badger","author_uid":"22136","time":"Sep 12, 2013 @ 6:15pm","epoch":1379009400,"text":"Cool game"}],"images":["ld27\/9775-8868ea970b15f4aef174b1edd4ccccc3.jpg","ld27\/9775-814fe3c98cf6f70caa4cc5b16bc163b4.jpg","ld27\/9775-a533055efc9227b5e6fdaef41294d4dc.jpg","ld27\/9775-a4ca5be1d4158e2b61d6ed56e143d9ab.jpg","ld27\/9775-2682849d18058f5c8ce2fc2f4c31e5c8.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/nehmulos.github.io\/ascension-switch\/linux-export.zip","text":"GNU\/Linux 64bit"},{"url":"http:\/\/nehmulos.github.io\/ascension-switch\/windows-export.zip","text":"Windows 32bit"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sxajYESkckU","text":"Timelapse"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/Nehmulos\/ascension-switch","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"23597","g_author":"9775","g_event":"LD27","g_eventkey":"18","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"23627","g_title":"Ascension Switch","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"529","g_commentcount":"11","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\/9775-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/9775-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/9775-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/9775-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/9775-shot4.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"This is a 2 Player game.\r\n\r\nGoal:\r\nOne player starts with a knight that has to reach the top of the tower and collect the gold.\r\nThe other player starts as Dungeon master who can summon and posses enemies (for gold) to hinder the knight.\r\n\r\nAfter 10 seconds they both swap roles and now the other player has to ascend as a knight.\r\nThe player who reaches the top first wins the game.\r\n\r\nControls:\r\nThe game is controled entierly via keyboard. \r\nYou may have to disconnect your gamepad, if it causes problems I didn't implement it 100% so don't use it.\r\nPlayer 2 uses the NUM-pad.\r\nIf you don't have a numpad you can edit the hotkeys in the lua files in the game directory.\r\nPlayer1: \r\nMove: wasd \r\nAction (summon): e\r\nAttack \/ previousCard: CTRL-left\r\nnextCard: space\r\n\r\nPlayer2:\r\nMove: numpad\r\nAction (summon) NUM_9\r\nAttack \/ previousCard: NUM_0\r\nnextCard: NUM_+\r\n\r\nContent:\r\nSadly I had no time for more than 1 stage and couldn't add a tutorial.\r\nSo the game starts very hectic. \r\n\r\nAs a dungeon master you first summon 1 skeleton knight (on your cursor) then swap to the possess card and and attack your oppenent to force him to respawn.\r\n\r\nSpawning Enemies is very picky with the position and there is a delay after you press summon (even if it fails), so make sure your cursor is on a free spot when you press it.\r\n\r\nAlso there is no sound, because I didn't add any.\r\n\r\nI started this with the base-code from an old game (texture_cache, engine and so on),\r\nso there might be some old unused files in the repo that were not created by me.\r\nI don't want to remove them now because I'm too afraid of breaking it in the last minute before submit.\r\nSource & git are included.\r\n\r\nRunning:\r\nLinux use the linux-run.sh or launch with SDL2 and lua5.2 installed\r\nWindows: run ascension-switch.exe (can take 5-10 seconds to start)\r\nMac: maybe coming soon, too.\r\n\r\nI didn't test it on another pc, so I might screwed up exporting the libs (Sorry!).\r\n\r\nLanguage: C\r\nLibs: SDL2, SDL2_net, SDL2_image, SDL2_ttf, SDL2_mixer lua5.2","title":"Ascension Switch"}