{"author_link":"\/author\/vethan\/","author_name":"vethan","author_uid":"35577","comments":[{"author_name":"Max Amaden","author_uid":"62658","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 11:20am","epoch":1461064500,"text":"Really awesome game. Keep up the good work!"},{"author_name":"Powersource","author_uid":"44448","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 11:25am","epoch":1461064800,"text":"At least on my machine (chrome linux) the fps was bad enough that some of the platforming was almost impossible."},{"author_name":"siryakko","author_uid":"49920","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 11:27am","epoch":1461064920,"text":"Nice concept, love the graphics and the ambiance. You should continue working on it"},{"author_name":"Verz","author_uid":"17978","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 11:30am","epoch":1461065100,"text":"Good work!! nice graphics :)"},{"author_name":"Raphael_","author_uid":"83721","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 11:30am","epoch":1461065100,"text":"Decent. The gravity is too strong and objective isn't really clear."},{"author_name":"pokipsy","author_uid":"56863","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 12:02pm","epoch":1461067020,"text":"So cool to see a stealth game in a ludum dare entry ! Graphics look really good. I would have like to have a player indicator on the mini map, because I got lost esaily. \rPlease change the jump sound, it quickly gets boring ^^\rOverall, very nice entry !"},{"author_name":"studdert249","author_uid":"59664","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 12:26pm","epoch":1461068460,"text":"Loved the music and the art style nice work!"},{"author_name":"remiv","author_uid":"51869","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 1:37pm","epoch":1461072720,"text":"fun sneaking game. good work."},{"author_name":"RealityCheck","author_uid":"44504","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 3:50pm","epoch":1461080700,"text":"Definitely release worthy graphics here. Beautiful to look at. Gameplay felt nice an polished as well, apart from the map which didn't help me at all. I kept running around in circles and couldn't find the end goal. Also, sometimes the guards could see me even if I had changed shape before their cone of vision caught up with me. I found it smarter to just jump over them... which is cheating and defeats the purpose of the game. However, with some more work - this could be a really fun game."},{"author_name":"2kah","author_uid":"22263","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 8:46pm","epoch":1461098460,"text":"Really nice concept! I'd like to see a version with the other features you suggested (and a bit less buggy)"},{"author_name":"jk5000","author_uid":"50889","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 12:55pm","epoch":1461156600,"text":"The idea, music and graphics is great."},{"author_name":"vethan","author_uid":"35577","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 1:02pm","epoch":1461157020,"text":"Thanks for the comments so far guys :D Let me know if there's any other build types you'd wanna see"},{"author_name":"SIN Gaiiden2","author_uid":"90749","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 2:58pm","epoch":1461163980,"text":"Nice Game. keep up :)"},{"author_name":"hadesfury","author_uid":"10263","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 3:16pm","epoch":1461165060,"text":"I agree with above, the jump could use some work! But pretty nice graphics, congrats on making 2 rigged character models."},{"author_name":"EdoMiyamoto","author_uid":"18304","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 3:19pm","epoch":1461165240,"text":"Hey :) quite good ! I had a hard time jumping to the top of the plaforms, forcing me to lure guard and then jump on them, but the idea is cool :)"},{"author_name":"hadesfury","author_uid":"10263","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 3:20pm","epoch":1461165300,"text":"I agree with above, the jump could use some work! But pretty nice graphics, congrats on making 2 rigged character models.\rMaybe you should say somewhere that there is a double jump, I almost gave up on the first platform !"},{"author_name":"Insality","author_uid":"43734","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 5:15am","epoch":1461215400,"text":"BE LAMP && STAY ON GUARDIAN'S HEAD"},{"author_name":"Alex Rose","author_uid":"19499","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 2:58pm","epoch":1461250380,"text":"Nice idea, graphics were cool, good fit for the theme.\r\rI felt the gravity was a bit heavy. The main thing though was that I feel the shapeshifting should've been a "hold" rather than a "press" thing. If I shapeshift too early before the guard sees me, I unshapeshift right in front of him. If I shapeshift in front of him he still gets me.\r\rI ended up finding it way less hassle to just jump on their head all the time and ended up never shifting. It'd be nice to have other forms too.\r\rOther than that, solid entry. Nice one."},{"author_name":"iossif","author_uid":"23131","time":"Apr 23, 2016 @ 2:36pm","epoch":1461421860,"text":"the graphics and the mood are nice. the controls are very weird for me though. the jump could use a little tweaking."},{"author_name":"pirate_shell","author_uid":"56787","time":"Apr 29, 2016 @ 1:33pm","epoch":1461936480,"text":"I quite enjoyed the graphics, and they sure were impressive for a LD entry. The game was also quite solid with a few exceptions here and there. For example, the jump felt way too heavy in my opinion. The map was completely useless(at least for me) and maybe a slightly more fitting choice of music would have been nice, as the current one sounds just a bit like porno. Other than that, solid entry."},{"author_name":"ocarson","author_uid":"42418","time":"May 9, 2016 @ 8:15pm","epoch":1462824600,"text":"Looks really nice, like a bit of procedural generation too!"}],"images":["ld35\/35577-570a22f01e345d1097b7e7dc5c3583f4.jpg","ld35\/35577-e44bc94ce003811a6cf1f5200ae0ffad.jpg","ld35\/35577-e61bc74db339df5f34121c8cc70ad9f1.jpg","ld35\/35577-47138e0e03148296c5020565338fff2d.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/vethan.itch.io\/shifty-the-spell-theif","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/vethan.itch.io\/shifty-the-spell-theif","text":"Windows"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"2369","g_author":"35577","g_event":"LD35","g_eventkey":"33","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"2404","g_title":"Shifty the Spellthief","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"637","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\/\/542293\/35577-shot0-1461028594.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/35577-shot1-1461028594.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/35577-shot2-1461028594.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/35577-shot3-1461028594.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Shifty the spell thief is a stealth platformer where you play as Shifty as he uses his shapeshifting ability to sneak past guards and steal artifacts.\r\n\r\nObjective is to make your way from the red\/blue cell where you start to the green room, take the artifact in the green room, and make your way back out again!\r\n\r\nIt's a bit buggy at times, suspicious seems to have broken a little bit so the guards spot you even when you've shapeshifted. \r\n\r\n\r\nGame features Procedurally generated dungeons, and basic AI for the guards, but we didn't manage to finish implementing some of the behaviours. It was intended that suspicion was a representation of how appropriate the item you shape shifted into was for the environment.\r\n\r\nThe windows download is the original from the deadline. The WebGL build is updated with an optimisation because it ran TERRIBLY in browser if the whole dungeon was always rendering (which it was) but no game-play\/content has been updated.\r\n\r\nP.S. Follow me @vethan4 and Egon @fiddyfyre on Twitterz\r\n\r\nTeam:\r\nProgrammers: Nathan \"Vethan\" John & Egon Erdelyi\r\nArtists: Patrik Skog & Mathias \"Generic intern 5\" Karlsson\r\nAnimator: Christian \"Cheese\" Christiansen\r\n\r\nControls (PC):\r\nWASD: Movement\r\nE: Interact\r\nShift: Shapeshift\r\nSpace: Jump \/ Double Jump\r\nEscape: Pause\r\n\r\nXbox 360Controller:\r\nLeft stick: Move\r\nA: Jump \/ Double Jump\r\nX: Interact\r\nRight Trigger: Jump\r\nStart: Pause","title":"Shifty the Spellthief"}