{"author_link":"\/author\/raincole\/","author_name":"raincole","author_uid":"17708","comments":[{"author_name":"cwilloughby","author_uid":"18255","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 5:41am","epoch":1367213760,"text":"Cool idea. Liked the simplicity. The bounce back anim was cool. Liked the art and audio. Got confused a few times on how I should approach a situation, some hints or help would be great."},{"author_name":"Perry","author_uid":"15778","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 5:45am","epoch":1367214000,"text":"This is hard, I took ages on each level trying to work out how the game works. It's a nice puzzle once you understand, maybe for the simple folk like me could you write out a description?"},{"author_name":"VDOgamez","author_uid":"1634","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 5:49am","epoch":1367214240,"text":"I never quite feel like I know what's going on in these kinds of games, but this is a rather unique puzzle and was fun to solve. It could definitely do with some more levels to further explore the kind of stuff you can do with the mechanics."},{"author_name":"ananasblau","author_uid":"3562","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 5:50am","epoch":1367214300,"text":"Okay, I get the idea but i'm never sure why I did fail and that takes away a lot of fun. Other than that it is well done."},{"author_name":"nseward","author_uid":"15218","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 5:53am","epoch":1367214480,"text":"I loved loved loved this game.  Level 9 had me stumped for quite a while.  Great job."},{"author_name":"loxo","author_uid":"23206","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 5:59am","epoch":1367214840,"text":"I think a tutorial would help, but overall a good game."},{"author_name":"Brian Corr","author_uid":"15518","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:03am","epoch":1367215080,"text":"Level 9 is great! That's a proper puzzle game.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I will say that I found the 'early' levels rather boring and simple. I would have preferred a few more using the concepts in level 9 (creating loops).\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Great look, great concept. ::) :)"},{"author_name":"raincole","author_uid":"17708","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:09am","epoch":1367215440,"text":"Sorry for the inconvenience. I had added some description on the webpage(and here). I hope it helps:)"},{"author_name":"sparkleswirl","author_uid":"22944","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:17am","epoch":1367215920,"text":"Definitely a great game! A little confusing at first but it was a good kind of confusion."},{"author_name":"daniel","author_uid":"12606","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:17am","epoch":1367215920,"text":"Once I figured out what was going on it was quite fun :) Inventive mechanic, great puzzler."},{"author_name":"raincole","author_uid":"17708","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:19am","epoch":1367216040,"text":"@ananasblau:\r<br\/>\r<br\/>There are only two ways to fail: 1) you run out of moves(displayed at the top-right corner) or 2) you have fixed nodes(X) only so you can't rotate anything any more."},{"author_name":"Zaszx","author_uid":"8417","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:08am","epoch":1367222580,"text":"Very nice idea, great game. I ragequit at level 9, dont think I can solve that one."},{"author_name":"patrickward","author_uid":"22335","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 10:57am","epoch":1367232720,"text":"Wonderful game. Great puzzles. The bounce backs made me laugh. Great job!"},{"author_name":"Xeke_Death","author_uid":"19338","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 12:39pm","epoch":1367238840,"text":"Not sure how far I got, I wasn't paying attention. Too busy solving puzzles...!"},{"author_name":"bms","author_uid":"7087","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 12:41pm","epoch":1367238960,"text":"Although I sucked at it I really liked the game, maybe you could make the movable parts more obvious\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Well done!"},{"author_name":"noa","author_uid":"22288","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 1:09pm","epoch":1367240640,"text":"good puzzle indeed ^^"},{"author_name":"rogueNoodle","author_uid":"21449","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 1:37pm","epoch":1367242320,"text":"Unfortunately, my brain just doesn't work this way, but I can definitely see the puzzle potential. Very original!"},{"author_name":"Tinco","author_uid":"11765","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 2:04pm","epoch":1367243940,"text":"Challenging puzzler :)"},{"author_name":"aquilicoco","author_uid":"22746","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 2:19pm","epoch":1367244840,"text":"Very nice puzzle game."},{"author_name":"jhrrsn","author_uid":"18114","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 2:29pm","epoch":1367245440,"text":"Clever, challenging puzzler. Made my head hurt, in a good way."},{"author_name":"lekochen","author_uid":"12928","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 2:46pm","epoch":1367246460,"text":"Neat puzzler, good game."},{"author_name":"Husky","author_uid":"17464","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 2:49pm","epoch":1367246640,"text":"Fun!\r<br\/>I like the puzzles, it's full of challenge!"},{"author_name":"LrdKzrth","author_uid":"22257","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 3:31pm","epoch":1367249160,"text":"Great idea, and really clever"},{"author_name":"martijn","author_uid":"20699","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:08pm","epoch":1367251380,"text":"Simple, yet brilliant"},{"author_name":"Ditto","author_uid":"14669","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 7:36pm","epoch":1367263860,"text":"Only problem I have with it is that you can't fold the menu : ( there is a mild bug that makes you lose if you keep pressing the direction button when folding onto a cross. Loved it, great job on the game!"},{"author_name":"Norritt42","author_uid":"22594","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 9:55pm","epoch":1367272200,"text":"Wow that was intriguing. Nice work and hard game play."},{"author_name":"GaTechGrad","author_uid":"19778","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 4:42am","epoch":1367296620,"text":"Nice innovative idea, but I'll admit I was just randomly trying things until level 5.  That's when I really grasped what I needed to do to complete the levels.  However, level 9 completely stumped me."},{"author_name":"GaTechGrad","author_uid":"19778","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 4:48am","epoch":1367296980,"text":"Just figured out level 9.  Had to think a little differently to solve it.  Nice game!"},{"author_name":"Markusn","author_uid":"19611","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 6:32am","epoch":1367303220,"text":"unique idea. admittedly made my brain melt. really hope you release this on mobile!"},{"author_name":"NaoisTheGuardian","author_uid":"22501","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 7:02am","epoch":1367305020,"text":"Really cool!\r<br\/>I love puzzle games like these. It would make a good iphone game."},{"author_name":"EdoMiyamoto","author_uid":"18304","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 7:14am","epoch":1367305740,"text":"I've never seen that before, it's cool :)"},{"author_name":"Korda","author_uid":"14993","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 7:33am","epoch":1367306880,"text":"Really good. Well thought out puzzles. Bravo"},{"author_name":"Madball","author_uid":"8370","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 8:41am","epoch":1367310960,"text":"The concept is interesting, I think it's rather difficult to come up with a good idea for a puzzle. The game was easy to understand and fun to play, however it is kinda... minimalistic. I would like to see more content added."},{"author_name":"Colapsydo","author_uid":"3984","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 8:59am","epoch":1367312040,"text":"Powerful concept which fits the theme.\r<br\/>I spent some time on the last one."},{"author_name":"ilo","author_uid":"12377","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 9:15am","epoch":1367313000,"text":"The puzzles are well designed - I played to completion - and the fact that your goal is to achieve simplicity fits perfectly with the theme. Well done. :)"},{"author_name":"Neonlare","author_uid":"1913","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 10:00am","epoch":1367315700,"text":"Neat little puzzler, enjoyed the mechanic for a while :)."},{"author_name":"Zccc","author_uid":"14205","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 4:04pm","epoch":1367337540,"text":"Great idea, I really liked the concept, even tough the puzzles were hard to figure out. But cool game!"},{"author_name":"RealyUniqueName","author_uid":"20479","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 8:18am","epoch":1367395980,"text":"Simple but clever and unique idea. Well done!"},{"author_name":"pjchardt","author_uid":"13158","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 4:32am","epoch":1367555220,"text":"Very nice puzzle game.  Nice use of the theme.  Found the menu confusing as I thought it was the first level and was trying to rotate the segments :)"},{"author_name":"JonRB","author_uid":"4452","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 4:54pm","epoch":1367599740,"text":"While the audio did get a little repetitive, I really liked this game. Simple, challenging and fun. I could see this being ported to phones and being quite succesful.\r<br\/>My poor little 3am mind can't handle it so I'm going to try and finish it in the morning."},{"author_name":"Pokemonsta","author_uid":"23925","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 11:49am","epoch":1367667840,"text":"Awesome"},{"author_name":"mramaizng","author_uid":"8329","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 4:44pm","epoch":1367685540,"text":"Nice puzzle game. Controls weren't very intuitive but the game was awesome. a"},{"author_name":"omaha","author_uid":"5229","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 5:10pm","epoch":1367687100,"text":"this was great.  i found it pretty difficult."},{"author_name":"PabloAlexandre31","author_uid":"10620","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 10:17pm","epoch":1367705520,"text":"This is hard, but i like it, haha! I liked of menu."},{"author_name":"GranaDa","author_uid":"11561","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 11:27pm","epoch":1367709720,"text":"Nice puzzle. Fun to solve and to play again. Nice entry!"},{"author_name":"recursive frog","author_uid":"8342","time":"May 5, 2013 @ 4:37pm","epoch":1367771520,"text":"On the one hand I think I really like the concept, but on the other I can't quite figure out the rules for what causes some lines to stick and form a structure while others keep rotating.  The game feels like it should be simple but I just found that I was getting really unexpected results on every level."},{"author_name":"SaintHeiser","author_uid":"14848","time":"May 9, 2013 @ 3:55am","epoch":1368071400,"text":"Awesome idea, man!\r<br\/>I understand how it work only when I beat half of game. I beat it completely and it was cool =)\r<br\/>Excellent work! Really minimalism =)"},{"author_name":"namuol","author_uid":"12236","time":"May 16, 2013 @ 7:39pm","epoch":1368732840,"text":"Great puzzle game that incorporates the theme perfectly into gameplay!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>With some polish and more levels, this could totally be a successful mobile game."},{"author_name":"alts","author_uid":"18267","time":"May 20, 2013 @ 7:17am","epoch":1369033920,"text":"Cool to see another game about pivots and rotation. Finished the game. I didn't feel confident until the end of the last puzzle about when or why a move would work with X nodes. Up until that point it was quite fun working through the puzzles. 9 I ended up winning just on a desperate guess. I suppose I didn't properly figure out the rules by that point."}],"images":["ld26\/17708-1bb8889bca783503e6bb2ddda8869b14.jpg","ld26\/17708-351d55e08392481259020fc30cee023d.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/raintomorrow.cc\/games\/folding","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/raincole.github.io\/folding-page\/folding.zip","text":"Source"},{"url":"http:\/\/s9.postimg.org\/abowma6ot\/4_6_18_51_PM.gif","text":"Demo Gif"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"24995","g_author":"17708","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"25025","g_title":"Folding","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"207","g_commentcount":"49","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\/\/233892\/17708-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/17708-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Welcome to the world of Folding.\r\n\r\nThere are only nodes and segments here, but for a minimalist, it's still crowded. Keep simplifying them, until only a simplest structure(i.e. line or loop) remains.\r\n\r\n*Demo*:\r\n\r\nFor those who got confused: http:\/\/s9.postimg.org\/abowma6ot\/4_6_18_51_PM.gif\r\n\r\n*Goal*:\r\n\r\nTurn the structure into a straight line or a loop before you run out of moves(on the top-right cornor).\r\n\r\n*Instruction*:\r\n\r\nYou can rotate a segment which has a handle(hollow circle) at its end. When it hits another segment, it stops if it's aligned to any axis(i.e. up, left, down, right), or it bounces back to previous position otherwise.\r\n\r\nOnly the outermost nodes will become handles.\r\n\r\n*Control*:\r\n\r\nMouse: Select a handle.\r\nWASD(or Arrows): Rotate a segment.\r\n\r\n*Apology*: Sorry I couldn't code a geometric interpolation in such a short time, so if you have low FPS there will be some bug. Please use a fast computer.\r\n\r\n*EDIT*: Beautify the web page. The game itself isn't changed.","title":"Folding"}