{"author_link":"\/author\/norritt42\/","author_name":"Norritt42","author_uid":"22594","comments":[{"author_name":"EdoMiyamoto","author_uid":"18304","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 7:38pm","epoch":1367263980,"text":"It's very original !"},{"author_name":"Joror","author_uid":"15925","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 7:45pm","epoch":1367264400,"text":"A review of &quot;Bounce me&quot; - by Norritt42, who knows he is a Potato.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The first thing that struck me as I started up the game was the music: calm, digital, a little bit minimalistic tribal.\r<br\/>Excellent full menu with all the options you need, often overlooked. The ability to chose unlocked levels (which are remembered between web-reloads!), add to the replay value.\r<br\/>Visually stark, and a bit empty it fits the theme, but I did find it a bit too pastel-y at times.\r<br\/>During the game itself you get the initial 'learn to play' levels, where I just 'do' something and it works. But going towards level 6\/7, I have to start thinking about what I actually have to do. Challenging at the higher levels, I didn't finish it all.\r<br\/>The more manic version of the menu-music is very pressing, I try to imagine the game with a soft piano concerto, and I can't!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I would summarize my experience of this game thusly:\r<br\/>&quot;I stare down at a flat green floor hunting for shadows from above, hunted onwards, ever repeating, by a jittering drum.&quot;\r<br\/>\r<br\/>(PS. Nicknamewise - Always loved the artwork on that MtG card. And apparent you also know the answer to the ultimate \r<br\/>\r<br\/>Reviewed in full and according to the laws of interweb-promises.\r<br\/>-Joror-"},{"author_name":"runonthespot","author_uid":"13386","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:18pm","epoch":1367266380,"text":"Found it quite hard to control- and obviously I don't play enough FPS since it took me a full 30 seconds to realise that I could move :)  AFter that, quite neat.  Hard, but neat."},{"author_name":"tonic","author_uid":"66","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:40pm","epoch":1367267700,"text":"Pretty hard. Nice visuals. :)"},{"author_name":"ilovepixel","author_uid":"13148","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:40pm","epoch":1367267700,"text":"It was very hard to find out where the ball was going to fall.  Overall the game and idea a very nice and interesting."},{"author_name":"FenrisWolf","author_uid":"783","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:43pm","epoch":1367267880,"text":"I loved it! \r<br\/>\r<br\/>A lot of the time I just did trial and error to find the right spots of where the ball lands. The visual style and music made the game just feel and play great. Nice job!"},{"author_name":"multikorv","author_uid":"8028","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:46pm","epoch":1367268060,"text":"Pretty hard to control, especially on my laptop without a mouse. :)"},{"author_name":"dick_claus","author_uid":"11148","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:50pm","epoch":1367268300,"text":"I think it would be great if game would have some different scenarios. Not just bounce times.\r<br\/>Usually was running backwards, there was no need in moving forward."},{"author_name":"Macroz","author_uid":"10556","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:54pm","epoch":1367268540,"text":"Overall a bit difficult to follow the ball and run at the same time but well done."},{"author_name":"Rafael Sales","author_uid":"22086","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:54pm","epoch":1367268540,"text":"Nice game! Really challenging and fun. Congratz!"},{"author_name":"Cyboot","author_uid":"10242","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 9:06pm","epoch":1367269260,"text":"good game :)\r<br\/>pretty difficult, had to play a few times to get how the game works."},{"author_name":"shines","author_uid":"14768","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 9:12pm","epoch":1367269620,"text":"Neat idea! Found it hard to figure out how to move and toss mats. A quick overlay on that first level would help a ton."},{"author_name":"multitude","author_uid":"21762","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 10:22pm","epoch":1367273820,"text":"innovative concept. i like it. maybe 3rd person or a higher view point would have been better for this, as it is quite hard to see where the ball will hit next."},{"author_name":"Norritt42","author_uid":"22594","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 10:36pm","epoch":1367274660,"text":"Thank you all. The later levels contains an other type of game play not counting bounces. The last to levels also have very different layout. :) \r<br\/>\r<br\/>What an evolving learning experience LD is. It's my first but definitely not my last LD :)."},{"author_name":"Dir3kt","author_uid":"12434","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 6:49pm","epoch":1367347440,"text":"This was too difficult for me. Only way to beat few levels was too spam the bouncers. I'm quite disabled when it comes to 3D though."},{"author_name":"Norritt42","author_uid":"22594","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 7:15pm","epoch":1367349000,"text":"Sorry. It's ment to be like super eat boy meets ping pong in 3D. But i mayby went over bord on the dificulty. :)"},{"author_name":"Kyle Bolton","author_uid":"21520","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 9:41pm","epoch":1367357760,"text":"I wish I had a reticle to show me where the flats would be placed.  Aside from that, well done!"},{"author_name":"SuperDisk","author_uid":"11035","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 9:43pm","epoch":1367357880,"text":"It was a neat idea, not so neat execution.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>It mostly involved running around randomly and throwing down mats until you beat the level.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Also, the beginning instruction texts only stayed for about 0.5 seconds, so I couldn't read them, I had to look at your screenshot on what to do."},{"author_name":"sharbelfs","author_uid":"3689","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 9:51pm","epoch":1367358360,"text":"It's hard to understand in the first times, but it's very original."},{"author_name":"Norritt42","author_uid":"22594","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 10:00pm","epoch":1367358900,"text":"SuperDisk: Sorry. That's a strange glitch I don't know how to work around it yet. It should work but it doesn't?\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The hardest part of the design is to make the player understand how to play the game. I failed obviously :(. The game is not that hard if you understand how you should play."},{"author_name":"howieV (binarygirl)","author_uid":"8824","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 10:42pm","epoch":1367361420,"text":"original idea.. found it quite hard to get going at first but kind of got the hang of it ..good stuff man :)"},{"author_name":"tankete","author_uid":"21907","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 6:26am","epoch":1367389260,"text":"Too difficult for me. I had a hard time controlling with my mouse."},{"author_name":"wademcgillis","author_uid":"3444","time":"May 6, 2013 @ 8:06pm","epoch":1367870460,"text":"Very hard."},{"author_name":"Dietrich Epp","author_uid":"7606","time":"May 12, 2013 @ 5:37am","epoch":1368336720,"text":"It was hard to figure out what was going on, because the text for the instructions at the beginning of the level disappeared before I could read them.  I tried reading them a few times but it was too fast and I never successfully read them!  Thankfully, I found the instructions on the site.  It's a great concept, but the first-person perspective makes it very difficult to estimate where the ball will land.  I ended up tossing trampolines just ahead of the shadow, which got me to level 5 which was a little too hard for me."},{"author_name":"stqn","author_uid":"2181","time":"May 19, 2013 @ 5:32pm","epoch":1368984420,"text":"No Linux build :(."},{"author_name":"Norritt42","author_uid":"22594","time":"May 19, 2013 @ 10:19pm","epoch":1369001640,"text":"stqn: Sorry, next LD i will do that."}],"images":["ld26\/22594-8b7d9e3aef479bab427acc01fdb2b887.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/2479005\/BounceMe.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/2479005\/BounceMeWeb\/BounceMeWeb.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/2479005\/LD26JohanHoltby.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"26958","g_author":"22594","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"26988","g_title":"Bounce me","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"1167","g_commentcount":"26","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\/22594-shot0.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"This is a game about bouncing a ball around. You have flat and angle shaped trampolines to aid you. There are instructions at the beginning of each level. It's a steep learning curve, but you will get it! :)\r\n\r\nVideo of the game play: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iUtiLuTqtMo\r\n\r\nI will release all code as http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\/ when the completion is done at my indie db page\r\nhttp:\/\/www.indiedb.com\/members\/norritt42.\r\n\r\nHope you enjoy it!<\/p>","title":"Bounce me"}