{"author_link":"\/author\/nightshadow0\/","author_name":"NightShadow0","author_uid":"20302","comments":[{"author_name":"jolle","author_uid":"9","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:46pm","epoch":1367268060,"text":"Music is very, very loud.\r\rTakes a while before there's any challenge. Being able to shoot would probably be more fun, but not as minimal, I agree."},{"author_name":"psychomonster","author_uid":"17723","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:46pm","epoch":1367268060,"text":"Needs a little bit more speed... but i like the pacifistic gameplay..."},{"author_name":"jolle","author_uid":"9","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:46pm","epoch":1367268060,"text":"Music is very, very loud.\r\rTakes a while before there's any challenge. Being able to shoot would probably be more fun, but not as minimal I guess."},{"author_name":"ToastyAbraham","author_uid":"21311","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:47pm","epoch":1367268120,"text":"Great spaceship graphics"},{"author_name":"Norritt42","author_uid":"22594","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:49pm","epoch":1367268240,"text":"I like it but the mouse for movement would have been better. Since that would make it easier to move. And there is no way to shoot right? But over all i like it and the sound is grate."},{"author_name":"Cosmologicon","author_uid":"1151","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:49pm","epoch":1367268240,"text":"Clever mechanic, it really made me hate how big my ship was. It was fun getting the hang of shrinking down and maneuvering around obstacles. I wish it were a bit faster, is all. It took a long time for it to really get going, I felt."},{"author_name":"jolle","author_uid":"9","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:50pm","epoch":1367268300,"text":"Sorry for the comment spam, wasn't meant to be two comments to start with, and I can't edit them apparently, and I need to say that the music thing was my flash player being really silly. Volume is fine!"},{"author_name":"finefin","author_uid":"16498","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 9:11pm","epoch":1367269560,"text":"the asteroid looks like gollum!"},{"author_name":"multikorv","author_uid":"8028","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 10:12pm","epoch":1367273220,"text":"No sound in space, except for thumping dance-techno."},{"author_name":"NightShadow0","author_uid":"20302","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 9:03am","epoch":1367312280,"text":"Thank you all for the comments!\rI agree that the game takes too long to take off, will tweak that after the compo.\rAnd i thought everyone knew that stars radiate techno music :)"},{"author_name":"ataxkt","author_uid":"14547","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 1:10pm","epoch":1367327100,"text":"No sound in space, but there's a techno soundtrack? ;) Takes a while to get hard, which is a shame, I like the core idea."},{"author_name":"Yacodo","author_uid":"17935","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 3:55pm","epoch":1367337000,"text":"Can tell I it slow or if my computer can't run it ? Really slow :\/"},{"author_name":"qdowngames","author_uid":"15224","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 9:57pm","epoch":1367358720,"text":"Well it's very slow to start, wish there was a tad more feedback to the player and "feel" to the game. I can see what you were getting at though!"},{"author_name":"Hypnohustla","author_uid":"20803","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 10:07pm","epoch":1367359320,"text":"Good effort going on here :)"},{"author_name":"RobProductions","author_uid":"7405","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 10:15pm","epoch":1367359800,"text":"Fun but slow and graphics could use animation"},{"author_name":"AdventureIslands","author_uid":"11391","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 11:30am","epoch":1367407500,"text":"There is no sound in space. Except for very loud techno.\rPretty well done game. It could be a lot faster though. The shrinking effect was done well, but there could have been a bit more situations to use it for instead of just the blue walls."},{"author_name":"GarethIW","author_uid":"20364","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 7:04pm","epoch":1367607540,"text":"A little slow to get started, but not bad thereafter!"},{"author_name":"sekaru","author_uid":"23171","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 7:07pm","epoch":1367607720,"text":"Liked the concept but yeah definitely needed to be a bit faster-paced."},{"author_name":"pvwradtke","author_uid":"3728","time":"May 5, 2013 @ 2:24am","epoch":1367720340,"text":"Shrinking the space ship, now that's something different as far as shmups go. I also like the humor to justify the lack of sound effects. The background and asteroids need some work, but the ships designs are well done for a 48 hour effort."},{"author_name":"NightShadow0","author_uid":"20302","time":"May 5, 2013 @ 6:25pm","epoch":1367778000,"text":"Thank you all!\rI should clarify that the ships and asteroids aren't mine, i got them off OpenGameArt."},{"author_name":"TheSarcastic","author_uid":"15783","time":"May 5, 2013 @ 7:59pm","epoch":1367783640,"text":"Isn't weird that once I let go of the spacebar my bar still goes down?"},{"author_name":"NightShadow0","author_uid":"20302","time":"May 6, 2013 @ 8:34pm","epoch":1367872140,"text":"The Hold bar is how long you'll stay shrunk and is always decreasing, basically the more you shrink the less time you'll stay that way."},{"author_name":"Milo","author_uid":"2934","time":"May 6, 2013 @ 10:26pm","epoch":1367878860,"text":"I like that the theme in this game is a tool available (or further, essential) to the player. I'd love to see it developed further (since at the moment, I only have to use it with the beam obstacles and it'd be cool if there were more challenging uses of it that were necessary), but it's a fairly solid game as it is."},{"author_name":"RawBits","author_uid":"5167","time":"May 17, 2013 @ 8:53pm","epoch":1368823680,"text":"Boring - action comes very late.\r\rThe music is nice but isn't fitting the slow paced action.\r\rThe shrinking mechanism is a pretty good idea but the implementation could use some more thinking. I can't put my finger on it though, sorry."}],"images":["ld26\/20302-c6cca553a62995f2d6f0bcfbac041cd1.jpg","ld26\/20302-5f3e39b8ef01e06ccad29db74a6dbd1d.jpg","ld26\/20302-99a75c8e424ad1a12834adb80cac9e0d.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/minimality.gabrielveiga.com\/ld48","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/minimality.gabrielveiga.com\/","text":"Web (post-jam)"},{"url":"http:\/\/minimality.gabrielveiga.com\/source.rar","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"26198","g_author":"20302","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"26228","g_title":"Minimality","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"513","g_commentcount":"24","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\/20302-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/20302-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/20302-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"I followed the theme very loosely and ended up with a game where the main mechanic involves shrinking your character.\r\n\r\nEDIT: Removed from compo, i didn't realize you couldn't use CC stuff.\r\n\r\nEDIT2: Uploaded a post-jam, improved version that i'll keep working on. If you want to rate the game, please do so based on the original version. But try the new one afterwards!<\/p>","title":"Minimality"}