{"author_link":"\/author\/lassedissing\/","author_name":"Dissing","author_uid":"17718","comments":[{"author_name":"KoryWazHere","author_uid":"2486","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 9:23am","epoch":1367227080,"text":"Thomas Was Alone clone in 48hrs not bad :)"},{"author_name":"ella guro","author_uid":"19214","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 9:29am","epoch":1367227440,"text":"i realllly like the mood set by the environments. the lighting is really cool. but your character being a big orange-ish rectangle kind of clashes weirdly with the great style."},{"author_name":"jami","author_uid":"12154","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 9:31am","epoch":1367227560,"text":"Nice game! Great atmosphere!"},{"author_name":"johnste","author_uid":"5034","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 9:34am","epoch":1367227740,"text":"Very atmospheric, loved the music and the lighting."},{"author_name":"Mythalore","author_uid":"12844","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 9:59am","epoch":1367229240,"text":"Really nice art style and good music but John is a little short. :)"},{"author_name":"glisk","author_uid":"19092","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 10:00am","epoch":1367229300,"text":"Nice thomas was alone clone with great atmosphere, the music combined with graphics is really nice (I like the orange color for the player btw)."},{"author_name":"Magnus","author_uid":"3935","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 10:03am","epoch":1367229480,"text":"Agree with ella, the player being an orange rectangle looks kind of off."},{"author_name":"karsyf","author_uid":"17889","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 10:04am","epoch":1367229540,"text":"Pretty cool version of TWA, jump collision felt a little splashy sometimes but the atmosphere\\music, little touches like the gently swaying level all cool"},{"author_name":"Muu?","author_uid":"7264","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 10:06am","epoch":1367229660,"text":"Great setting.\rBut some jumps were to hard to achieve."},{"author_name":"Morgawr","author_uid":"8711","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 10:07am","epoch":1367229720,"text":"Really smooth game, the rotating room gave me a bit of motion sickness and the gameplay was a bit slow\/sluggish but pretty good nonetheless!"},{"author_name":"KEFIR","author_uid":"14211","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 10:18am","epoch":1367230380,"text":"Got to the end! My game have almost the same ending and main character looks very alike :) A little annoying that you need to be maximum accurate in movements or you will fall and have to climb back again.. and again.. and again.\rVery good level design work though!"},{"author_name":"The Jahn","author_uid":"2485","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 12:52pm","epoch":1367239620,"text":"I like the ambiance, though jumping can be a bit iffy at times."},{"author_name":"Yezu","author_uid":"33","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 1:50pm","epoch":1367243100,"text":"Great! The graphics are super, the ambient soundtrack fits well. Only the jumping mechanic could use some work.\r\rWhat are shrooms?"},{"author_name":"Dissing","author_uid":"17718","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 3:03pm","epoch":1367247480,"text":"@Yezu\rOh forget to fix that!\rShrooms was a reference to an internal variable. It should have said crazy mode or something like that. Disabling it removes the swaying and background color changes."},{"author_name":"EdoMiyamoto","author_uid":"18304","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:19pm","epoch":1367252040,"text":"Great mood"},{"author_name":"William Bundy","author_uid":"8500","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 4:46am","epoch":1367296860,"text":"The creepy music and lighting enhance the mood of this game, but the context set up by the dialogue snippets really define it."},{"author_name":"BarrensZeppelin","author_uid":"8838","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 8:12am","epoch":1367395620,"text":"Are the shadows rendered real-time? If they are, there's such a huge amount of potential wasted by not making something move in front of the light sources, it's almost sad. :\/\r\rThe ambience was really cool though, and I was not affected by the dizzying effects, excellent job!"},{"author_name":"Pixelfan Games","author_uid":"20908","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 12:01pm","epoch":1367495760,"text":"Good game i love the music"},{"author_name":"ShellfishGames","author_uid":"23164","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 12:12pm","epoch":1367496420,"text":"This was great, I really like the atmosphere. What you did with the shake-effect (felt like it all took place on a ship), the lighting and the ambient sound is really exceptional and totally pays off. \rThe only complaint I got is that it's really quite repetitive and a little too long (John seems to be of the same opinion). Other than that it is one of the best LD26 games I've played yet."},{"author_name":"KilledByAPixel","author_uid":"2075","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 7:10pm","epoch":1367694300,"text":"Level design was good but maybe too repetitive. Good visual style, maybe need a bit more contrast between solid tiles and background for some colors."},{"author_name":"MinionStudios","author_uid":"22273","time":"May 8, 2013 @ 12:46am","epoch":1367973660,"text":"Excellent work. Please ignore any "Stairway to Heaven" or "Jacob's Ladder" references, lol."},{"author_name":"cakemonitor","author_uid":"5357","time":"May 12, 2013 @ 6:38pm","epoch":1368383580,"text":"good sense of mood and nice to see a game which follows a character through a story. it was a little slow paced for me but a really nice game none-the-less"},{"author_name":"dector","author_uid":"9598","time":"May 13, 2013 @ 8:04pm","epoch":1368475140,"text":"Reminds me "Tomas was alone"."},{"author_name":"dremelofdeath","author_uid":"17159","time":"May 17, 2013 @ 9:28am","epoch":1368782580,"text":"Didn't work for me, just printed out a stack trace and died :\/"}],"images":["ld26\/17718-2a65e2d75e19d1f344bca70d60886f61.jpg","ld26\/17718-383fb6e8fc20e92cba69de01b3465ab3.jpg","ld26\/17718-e0ba1af5f68ff8e01a3d3a7fb4bda66a.jpg","ld26\/17718-2a2f25f4e5cdb25848d6292809e65ace.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/30245119\/LD26\/LD26.zip","text":"All platforms(Java)"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/30245119\/LD26\/Source.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"26219","g_author":"17718","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"26249","g_title":"John and the Stairway to Zion","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"563","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\/17718-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/17718-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/17718-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/17718-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"A simple jumping platformer.\r\nHelp John find his way to Zion.\r\nJump though 10 exciting and crazy levels!\r\nCollect orbs to open gates.\r\n\r\nIn case of motion sickness. Try to disable \"Shrooms\" under Settings. (Forgot to change the name!)\r\n\r\nTested on Windows 8, OSX Mountain Lion and Ubuntu 12.10\r\n\r\nSecond Ludum Dare entry and first time composing music.\r\nI think it went better than expected.\r\nDid not have time for optimizing, so the game can take quite some CPU. If you get weird unregular controls, try setting messing with the options in the settings menu. \r\n\r\nThe crazy background color and rotation can also be disabled in the settings menu.\r\n\r\nHope you like it!\r\n<\/p>","title":"John and the Stairway to Zion"}