{"author_link":"\/author\/simonchauvin\/","author_name":"Simon","author_uid":"9596","comments":[{"author_name":"TheThirdOne","author_uid":"21287","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:52am","epoch":1367210820,"text":"I loved this game. It is one one of the best games i have played in a long time. It was very self-explanatory. Thank You for sharing this."},{"author_name":"Logun","author_uid":"8007","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 10:11am","epoch":1367229960,"text":"As you said, need more iterations on gameplay with new LD (obstacles, gravity zone ...) Liked music !"},{"author_name":"8BitPimp","author_uid":"20953","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 12:48pm","epoch":1367239380,"text":"Very strong game, really sets your mind into puzzle mode. Very fun to play and keeps you wanting to beat every level. Good work gone on here."},{"author_name":"zerebruin","author_uid":"18208","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 12:53pm","epoch":1367239680,"text":"Oh, my! This on a mobile device is gold! Gotta try it on my tablet tonight. Fantastic overall look &amp; feel!"},{"author_name":"Yezu","author_uid":"33","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 12:59pm","epoch":1367240040,"text":"I really like the concept."},{"author_name":"Follett","author_uid":"11500","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 12:59pm","epoch":1367240040,"text":"The best game I have played this LD and the first 5 overall I have ever given. If you expanded on the gameplay and added gravity from other planets I would buy this!"},{"author_name":"tonic","author_uid":"66","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 1:01pm","epoch":1367240160,"text":"Pretty interesting, and certainly not too easy! The first 1-2 levels were a bit hard for me to figure what are the game limits (number of clicks vs. how many things you get to sun), but after that it was pretty interesting puzzling around."},{"author_name":"nintendoeats","author_uid":"22819","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 1:05pm","epoch":1367240400,"text":"Really impressed! I would have had no problem playing more levels. The only thing that irked me is that there was no number telling you how many points you could place, so I always had to start every level by testing that."},{"author_name":"rwos","author_uid":"14690","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 1:08pm","epoch":1367240580,"text":"Great gameplay, though the blue dots could have been introduced a little earlier on. Also, an indicator of how many waypoints one has left would have been nice. But other than that it's really fun and tricky and interesting. (and then I accidentally hit reload and everything was lost, so I didn't finish it, sorry). It also has a nice mood to it - audio fits very good. Overall: Excellent!"},{"author_name":"Simon","author_uid":"9596","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 1:08pm","epoch":1367240580,"text":"Thanks a lot guys. I'm not sure whether it can be played on mobile or not. Theoretically yes, but no promises :)\r<br\/>Indeed, the remaining clicks (waypoints) should have been displayed somewhere on the screen. Lack of playtests and perspectives I guess."},{"author_name":"Simon","author_uid":"9596","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 1:18pm","epoch":1367241180,"text":"Oh no it's me, sorry about that reload bug. I can't seem to reproduce it though... weird!"},{"author_name":"NicoJaujou","author_uid":"14758","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:33pm","epoch":1367252880,"text":"Interesting and well executed, good job!"},{"author_name":"ataxkt","author_uid":"14547","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 7:19pm","epoch":1367262840,"text":"Ah thank fuck, finally a genuine original game! Really love it, great work. Agreed with zebebruin - this could be a mobile hit!"},{"author_name":"zerebruin","author_uid":"18208","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 7:22pm","epoch":1367263020,"text":"P.S. works perfectly on my tablet!"},{"author_name":"tomvert","author_uid":"18469","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 11:48am","epoch":1367322180,"text":"Very nice game, easy to understand and good audio."},{"author_name":"Simon","author_uid":"9596","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 12:13pm","epoch":1367323680,"text":"Thank you all for giving me your feedbacks and playing my game. It's really great to have that many enthusiastic comments!\r<br\/>Also, I have uploaded a new version with the clicks counter displayed in lieu of the mouse cursor :)"},{"author_name":"Skoggy","author_uid":"7478","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 4:48pm","epoch":1367340180,"text":"Very nice game. Puzzely and nice."},{"author_name":"rwos","author_uid":"14690","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 5:15pm","epoch":1367341800,"text":"Just to clarify - I hit the browser's reload button (because I'm stupid like that), not the one in the game. The one in the game works fine."},{"author_name":"Sylvain.p","author_uid":"20862","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 8:11pm","epoch":1367352360,"text":"Great, How many levels have you built ? (Currently, I'm stuck into the 2 colors and 3 lines level)"},{"author_name":"Simon","author_uid":"9596","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 8:58pm","epoch":1367355180,"text":"This is the last one. There are 14 levels. I had more but a major bug prevented me from using them :("},{"author_name":"Simon","author_uid":"9596","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 8:59pm","epoch":1367355240,"text":"@rwos, ok thanks for clarifying!"},{"author_name":"McBeef","author_uid":"11314","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 11:36pm","epoch":1367364660,"text":"Great game. Loved the mood &amp; the level design."},{"author_name":"Goodlookinguy","author_uid":"7683","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 4:40am","epoch":1367382900,"text":"This game was great. The learning curve was right, the mood was right, and overall it was pretty fun to figure out ways to beat the stages. I could definitely see this game being turned into a larger game that'd I'd play. 'Cause the only drawback I could find is that there wasn't more."},{"author_name":"Webravenz","author_uid":"15961","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 4:56pm","epoch":1367427060,"text":"great puzzle game with nice mood"},{"author_name":"Chronodrax","author_uid":"21759","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 11:08pm","epoch":1367449380,"text":"Great game ! I love how such simple interaction is needed yet requires a lot of thinking. It took me quite a time to understand how to use the attraction. Once it's done the game becomes a bit easier, and yet each new level surprised me, requiring more attention to finish it. The end left me wanting for more levels; it seems that this gameplay can afford so much more of them.\r<br\/>Again, great job :)"},{"author_name":"JAH2488","author_uid":"8475","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 1:37am","epoch":1367458320,"text":"Great stuff."},{"author_name":"Husky","author_uid":"17464","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 9:25am","epoch":1367486400,"text":"Woo! It's really a puzzling puzzle!\r<br\/>Pretty cool, simple yet brilliant.\r<br\/>Good job!"},{"author_name":"stqn","author_uid":"2181","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 5:31pm","epoch":1367515560,"text":"Pretty cool!"},{"author_name":"Pixelulsar","author_uid":"10737","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 9:39pm","epoch":1367616840,"text":"I found it hard to figure out what to do at first, but it was a neat concept."},{"author_name":"wine","author_uid":"22152","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 11:51am","epoch":1367667960,"text":"nice puzzle, well done!"},{"author_name":"TheSarcastic","author_uid":"15783","time":"May 5, 2013 @ 7:30pm","epoch":1367781900,"text":"One of the best of t his LD for sure!"},{"author_name":"Fnkee","author_uid":"22198","time":"May 5, 2013 @ 7:33pm","epoch":1367782080,"text":"One of the most innovative games I've played till now. This was amazing, and deserves 5 stars from my side. Would love to see you work on more levels for this game. The audio was magic as well! Very well done!"},{"author_name":"Mesene","author_uid":"6870","time":"May 5, 2013 @ 7:36pm","epoch":1367782260,"text":"Nice entry, very solid. Well done :)"},{"author_name":"alexfalkenberg","author_uid":"15754","time":"May 6, 2013 @ 3:20pm","epoch":1367853300,"text":"I really enjoyed this. I'm thinking touchscreen for this at some point. I hope you are, too. :)"},{"author_name":"fakeyou","author_uid":"7326","time":"May 7, 2013 @ 9:45am","epoch":1367919600,"text":"awesome game! really nice mechanics and puzzles.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Would have liked to see how many boxes I could place though and I thought that the introduction of the blue squares was a little late into the game."},{"author_name":"kill0u","author_uid":"5422","time":"May 9, 2013 @ 12:32pm","epoch":1368102420,"text":"Nice concept :)"},{"author_name":"henrykun","author_uid":"5379","time":"May 11, 2013 @ 4:15am","epoch":1368245400,"text":"I really like art and sounds, well done. The idea is clever too, nice job! :)"},{"author_name":"lorancou","author_uid":"8588","time":"May 14, 2013 @ 3:14pm","epoch":1368544140,"text":"Bravo !! As the other said, a truly original game! Release this on mobiles and make some money now :)"},{"author_name":"Simon","author_uid":"9596","time":"May 14, 2013 @ 3:38pm","epoch":1368545580,"text":"Again thank you for your feedbacks, it makes me so happy! I was not considering the idea of publishing this game at first but you are starting to convince me. It seems like Kongregate could be a good way of doing it, it accepts HTML5 and have a mobile portal. Anyway thank you for playing, liking, rating and commenting!"},{"author_name":"marnaouf","author_uid":"12107","time":"May 14, 2013 @ 7:21pm","epoch":1368558960,"text":"Interesting concept and very fun game"},{"author_name":"DST","author_uid":"18478","time":"May 16, 2013 @ 7:24am","epoch":1368688740,"text":"Mechanics in this is plain awesome, and the graphics lend themselves well to the theme"},{"author_name":"someone","author_uid":"1207","time":"May 16, 2013 @ 1:51pm","epoch":1368711960,"text":"That was really cool. Good job."},{"author_name":"shawn42","author_uid":"571","time":"May 17, 2013 @ 3:33am","epoch":1368761280,"text":"Great puzzler. I agree w\/ nintendoeats: I really wanted to know how many waypoints I get per level.  Very addictive, nice work."},{"author_name":"Puccini","author_uid":"12961","time":"May 18, 2013 @ 6:47pm","epoch":1368902520,"text":"I like it :)"}],"images":["ld26\/9596-3a232ea102caf6ddc7be74677e8fe148.jpg","ld26\/9596-5f72d24494ea1c5e46b11eb94ff2809f.jpg","ld26\/9596-1ae6ea4ed53918dacaaaf7042f8ded7f.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/simonchauvin.itch.io\/down-the-line","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/simonchauvin\/Down-The-Line","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"25012","g_author":"9596","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"25042","g_title":"Down The Line","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"95","g_commentcount":"44","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\/9596-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/9596-shot2.bmp-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/9596-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Info\r\n----------------------------------------------------------------\r\nDown The Line empowers you to bring light to the sun !\r\n\r\nUse the left mouse click to put down waypoints and create paths for the entities to take. Then, lead them to the sun.\r\n\r\nRanting\r\n--------------------------------------------------------------\r\nI hope you'll enjoy the game, I wanted to make more levels and iterate on the gameplay a bit more but I ran out of time and energy I guess. The game has been tested on Firefox and Chrome.\r\n\r\nAt first I wasn't so enthusiast about the theme but it led me to dig the question of minimalism, thus I mainly focused on the notion of optimization as I feel that it's at the heart of minimalism. So, even though the graphic design appears minimalist I actually wanted to make a game where the player is the one minimizing, optimizing the way to the sun.\r\n\r\nAnyway, have fun and thank you in advance.\r\n\r\nPost-compo version\r\n--------------------------------------------------------------\r\nAdded a label to show how many waypoints (clicks) are left.\r\nShowing\/adding cursor when needed.\r\n\r\nTools\r\n--------------------------------------------------------------\r\nProgramming with {FM.js(engine);}: https:\/\/github.com\/simonchauvin\/FMJSEngine\r\nGraphics with Inkscape\r\nSounds with bfxr\r\nAnd music with Circuli: http:\/\/www.earslap.com\/projectslab\/circuli","title":"Down The Line"}