{"author_link":"\/author\/gizmo\/","author_name":"gizmo","author_uid":"5900","comments":[{"author_name":"lulzfish_4","author_uid":"5606","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 3:13am","epoch":1367204880,"text":"I'm having trouble with your Web URL, it was working earlier."},{"author_name":"Scott McBee","author_uid":"17423","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:03am","epoch":1367207880,"text":"This is pretty great. The art style fits perfectly without copping out to geometric shapes, and I love the glow everything had. This seems like it would have made a perfect intellivision game."},{"author_name":"CagedRat","author_uid":"557","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:09am","epoch":1367208240,"text":"I like the CRT look.  Pinkbunny looks like Pinkduckhead to me.  First thing I tried to do was eat one of the purple things."},{"author_name":"Jack Zackowitz","author_uid":"22419","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:21am","epoch":1367208960,"text":"love it."},{"author_name":"lfpetrini","author_uid":"14452","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:30am","epoch":1367209500,"text":"Had some issues to access the website but it worked after some tries. The game is fun and the art is great :)"},{"author_name":"Spiridios","author_uid":"1158","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:38am","epoch":1367209980,"text":"Love the art style - more the CRT effect than the actual graphics. I like your interpretation of the theme."},{"author_name":"Tozy","author_uid":"1831","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 5:01am","epoch":1367211360,"text":"I like the glowing effect!"},{"author_name":"Brian Corr","author_uid":"15518","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:23am","epoch":1367216280,"text":"This is very goodlooking. Reminds me of Paganitzu (a very old PC game which I loved as a boy). i love the glow.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Nice work buddy"},{"author_name":"Filth and Money","author_uid":"23016","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:23am","epoch":1367216280,"text":"Link not working for me! =("},{"author_name":"swizzcheez","author_uid":"16129","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:25am","epoch":1367216400,"text":"Nice touch with the 80's style monitor blur."},{"author_name":"svenardo","author_uid":"19180","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:25am","epoch":1367216400,"text":"Very well done. As a life long boulder dash fan it's jarring not to be able to pick up the diamonds ;). Enjoyed it a lot and would like to have a way to return to the last screen I was at on reload."},{"author_name":"svenardo","author_uid":"19180","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:27am","epoch":1367216520,"text":"Of course, after writing that, I got to the end screen ;)"},{"author_name":"gizmo","author_uid":"5900","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:28am","epoch":1367216580,"text":"@brian corr: paganitzu was my main inspiration! i even planned enemies like the snakes, but i ran out of time.. i will finish this game outside of the compo and put more levels in once i fetched some sleep :D"},{"author_name":"loxo","author_uid":"23206","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:29am","epoch":1367216640,"text":"I don't know why, but the graphics reminds me of the 1983 digger game. Maybe it's the diamonds. Great!"},{"author_name":"gizmo","author_uid":"5900","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:31am","epoch":1367216760,"text":"@svenardo: hehe, i thought it might be fun to reverse it: collect the potatoes\/boulders and leave the jewelry lying around.. pink bunnies have no use for diamonds :)"},{"author_name":"Crazi456","author_uid":"20961","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:02am","epoch":1367222220,"text":"Was fun! Potatoes!!!"},{"author_name":"Tanius","author_uid":"21178","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 11:40am","epoch":1367235300,"text":"Can't seem to find the page"},{"author_name":"gizmo","author_uid":"5900","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 3:07pm","epoch":1367247720,"text":"The pageloading errors should be fixed now - Sorry for that!"},{"author_name":"Merkoth","author_uid":"22272","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:22pm","epoch":1367252220,"text":"Love the graphics and plays well. Nice job!"},{"author_name":"timtipgames","author_uid":"15341","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:27pm","epoch":1367252520,"text":"ahhh the good old sokoban times... nothing too new here, but I liked the graphics :)"},{"author_name":"kewry","author_uid":"12789","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:43pm","epoch":1367253480,"text":"LD the only type you get the potatoes instead of the diamonds!\r<br\/>Nice puzzle, love the blurry effect!"},{"author_name":"SaintHeiser","author_uid":"14848","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 9:14am","epoch":1367312940,"text":"Cheap and cheerful=)\r<br\/>But not bad at all. Good luck, man!"},{"author_name":"RealyUniqueName","author_uid":"20479","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 5:11pm","epoch":1367514360,"text":"Perhaps you should add &quot;restart level&quot; button"},{"author_name":"Eternal_Rest","author_uid":"21324","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 2:54am","epoch":1367549340,"text":"It reminds me of the game built in to my old television.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Its a bit easy tho, i got to the end in less than 3mins."},{"author_name":"GeorgeBroussard","author_uid":"8631","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 6:17am","epoch":1367561520,"text":"Good art and retro style. Nice entry for 48 hours.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Funny you mention Paganitzu :) We published that game in the early 90s and I was thinking of that the whole time I was playing this. Keith Schuler (who made it) works on Borderlands today."},{"author_name":"jacklehamster","author_uid":"20841","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 8:26am","epoch":1367569260,"text":"Cute game, and I like how you made it CRT style.\r<br\/>Now the puzzles, they are too easy, and add more diversity."},{"author_name":"free_napalm","author_uid":"12423","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 1:55pm","epoch":1367675400,"text":"I could finally play it, and I like it. It reminds me of Adventures of Lolo and other NES puzzle games. It is quite easy, but I had great fun speedrunning on my first try."},{"author_name":"sP0CkEr2","author_uid":"7135","time":"May 6, 2013 @ 4:33am","epoch":1367814480,"text":"great way to use the theme in your design of the game -- too bad there was  no music -- great effort!"},{"author_name":"Martin_Monosys","author_uid":"20047","time":"May 6, 2013 @ 8:43pm","epoch":1367872680,"text":"Nice game, cute looks, needs some sound! :) A bit short, too, but what's there is rather good!"},{"author_name":"Uhfgood","author_uid":"53","time":"May 6, 2013 @ 11:38pm","epoch":1367883180,"text":"Well done, nice way to be minimalistic.  Even though the blurring was interesting, it just looked like someone smeared Vaseline over my screen."},{"author_name":"Alexander","author_uid":"20967","time":"May 9, 2013 @ 1:21am","epoch":1368062160,"text":"The ending was cool!"},{"author_name":"naufr4g0","author_uid":"4310","time":"May 9, 2013 @ 11:25pm","epoch":1368141600,"text":"Really like graphics (expecially CRT effect) and the gameplay.\r<br\/>Maybe levels are a bit too easy, game needs more challenging ones!"},{"author_name":"Misfit","author_uid":"10677","time":"May 15, 2013 @ 8:11pm","epoch":1368648360,"text":"Retro puzzles forever! CRT effect is awesome!"},{"author_name":"voxel","author_uid":"1789","time":"May 18, 2013 @ 9:35am","epoch":1368869400,"text":"I _loved_ this. Have to admit I didn't realise it was a bunny, but that's part of the charm of simple, abstract graphics, they're many things to many people. Would play a longer version of this"},{"author_name":"gizmo","author_uid":"5900","time":"May 19, 2013 @ 12:32am","epoch":1368923220,"text":"@GeorgeBroussard i _loved_ your early titles! i remember playing Pharao's Tomb for hours on end back in the days... As an hommage to all you guys at Apogee and episodic gaming in general i decided to turn this game into a small trilogy. I just finished the first episode, featuring 15 levels, enemies, sound, a narrative and finally a possibility to reset a level :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>-&gt; http:\/\/www.pixelz.de\/pcave1.exe (or use the link above)"},{"author_name":"fermcg","author_uid":"22219","time":"May 19, 2013 @ 1:10am","epoch":1368925500,"text":"I liked it :D"},{"author_name":"cardboard","author_uid":"16294","time":"May 20, 2013 @ 11:48pm","epoch":1369093380,"text":"I really like the blurred graphics. It makes me feel like I'm playing on an old CRT monitor or TV. My only complainst are the game felt too short and the puzzles never became difficult enough. I'm about to give the Post-Comp version a try though, so I'm pretty sure you've addressed these things."}],"images":["ld26\/5900-361d97ee99dfde04d7f249c0f4c94d69.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.pixelz.de\/pcave1.exe\/index.html","text":"Post-compo (Web)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.pixelz.de\/pcave1.exe\/ld26\/index.html","text":"LD48 (Web)"},{"url":"http:\/\/gizmo.indiepixel.de\/ld26\/index.html","text":"LD48 (Web, alternative link)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"25897","g_author":"5900","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"25927","g_title":"Puzzlecave Episode 1 - Raiders Of The Lost Potato","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"698","g_commentcount":"37","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\/5900-shot0.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Potatomonster stole all potatoes from Pinkbunnyland, help Pinkbunny to retrieve em all!\r\n\r\nThis is my april 2013 #LD48 entry\r\n\r\nAs an artist (and not a programmer) who mainly deals with lot's of polygons and high-res imagery all day i wanted to approach art in games from the most minimal, basic angle i could think of. So no Photoshop, no Softimage, Mudbox or Zbrush. My weapon of choice was a texteditor (Pluma\/gedit), a palette of whopping 6 predefined colors and a couple of arrays. So, pixeling a spriteanimation felt a bit like editing several excel sheets at once...\r\n\r\nIt was quite a monkish experience and i enjoyed it a lot.\r\n\r\nIf the resulting game is a piece of minimal art surely depends on your personal viewing angle, but i can assure you the process of crafting was indeed under quite minimal conditions :D\r\n\r\n\\o gizmo \r\n<\/p>","title":"Puzzlecave Episode 1 - Raiders Of The Lost Potato"}