{"author_link":"\/author\/dylan-m\/","author_name":"Dylan McCall","author_uid":"10898","comments":[{"author_name":"loren","author_uid":"17687","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 3:11am","epoch":1355799960,"text":"Cool idea, I like the gradual fades of the characters as they moved. Really feels like an LCD game. Nice job :)"},{"author_name":"nickworks","author_uid":"18927","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 7:25am","epoch":1355815200,"text":"Nice aesthetics. Gameplay was challenging."},{"author_name":"BlockBrains","author_uid":"17970","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 4:48pm","epoch":1355848980,"text":"I suck so hard lol. Neat concept overall :)"},{"author_name":"sanojian","author_uid":"7542","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 7:56pm","epoch":1355860260,"text":"Nice idea but my plumber is suicidal. I don't have to do anything to win. Latest Firefox on WinXP"},{"author_name":"Aslai","author_uid":"8782","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 3:18am","epoch":1355886780,"text":"If you time it just right, you can fire the lower projectile, kill the plumber, and then the gun kills the next plumber as he spawns. Just a silly little time saver :)"},{"author_name":"bugninja","author_uid":"8142","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 5:23am","epoch":1355894280,"text":"The concept is very very interesting. I would love to see a polished game with a lot of levels with this concept of setting the traps. Like dropping the spikes, or swinging a pendulum, or whatever. So many ways to go from here. Very smart game."},{"author_name":"zatyka","author_uid":"14357","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 5:26am","epoch":1355894460,"text":"Nice idea. The AI needs improvement, he died 3 times without me having to do anything. Cool idea, and cute little art style."},{"author_name":"Dylan McCall","author_uid":"10898","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 5:31am","epoch":1355894760,"text":"Thanks for the comments :) Yeah, I was really hoping for something more puzzle-like, but I ended up starved for time so I had to settle on whatever arrangement was actually solvable. I'm excited some of that earlier idea shows through! (Also due to time constraints, I spent the last hour making the graphics reminiscent of an era where collision detection was frustratingly inaccurate and people put up with it. Funny what a little time pressure can do). Dropping spikes would be awesome! Nice idea."},{"author_name":"bigbadwofl","author_uid":"8326","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 5:38am","epoch":1355895180,"text":"Very nice. Difficult and compelling. Quite innovative."},{"author_name":"Komradus","author_uid":"11076","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 10:26pm","epoch":1355955660,"text":"Cool concept, the AI could use some work (he kills himself after activating the 2 leftmost traps) but otherwise the game provides an interesting challenge."},{"author_name":"RosyPenguin","author_uid":"5628","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 6:15am","epoch":1355983800,"text":"I like the idea! And the effects are nice, kind of reminds me of Game and Watch."},{"author_name":"Per","author_uid":"6781","time":"Dec 21, 2012 @ 12:02am","epoch":1356047820,"text":"Good idea for a game with this theme.\rThe graphics was simple but very nice."},{"author_name":"gnx","author_uid":"8333","time":"Dec 21, 2012 @ 12:51am","epoch":1356050760,"text":"Worked well enough. Visuals are crisp and easy to understand. \rLevel design could do with some improvements, some of the traps are positioned so that the invaders are hardly affected by them."},{"author_name":"bitwise-constructs","author_uid":"14345","time":"Dec 21, 2012 @ 6:16am","epoch":1356070260,"text":"Good idea, but the game is pretty easy. If you drop the two platforms he can't make it across."},{"author_name":"Nick Cash","author_uid":"10844","time":"Dec 21, 2012 @ 7:07am","epoch":1356073320,"text":"Nice simple mechanics, and yet surprisingly challenging. Well done!"},{"author_name":"BrothersT","author_uid":"12722","time":"Dec 21, 2012 @ 1:35pm","epoch":1356096600,"text":"Nice idea."},{"author_name":"Dylan McCall","author_uid":"10898","time":"Dec 21, 2012 @ 6:22pm","epoch":1356113820,"text":"I guess I should explain why some people find it challenging and some don't, so you don't feel like you're missing something.\r\rI made two somewhat silly errors with this one: I didn't think about timing code until really late, so I ended up with a lot of stuff built around the environment I was working on. I sorted out most of that near the end (at least so it would work the same on Firefox and Chrome on my own computers), but I also had some needlessly complicated math involving floating point numbers, and depending on the frame rate that math can become very imprecise. Therefore, jumping behaves subtly differently on different computers.\r\r(And for the hundredth time I was reminded: never use floating point numbers unless they're completely mandatory, which they just about never are).\r\rThanks again for the nice comments :)"},{"author_name":"atrodo","author_uid":"17766","time":"Dec 26, 2012 @ 3:31pm","epoch":1356535560,"text":"A really fun game, once I realized it wasn't working in Firefox and I loaded it into Chrome."},{"author_name":"haxpor","author_uid":"647","time":"Dec 30, 2012 @ 8:15am","epoch":1356855000,"text":"I like this.\rThis must be managed efficiently in some ways to kill all those invaders. For myself, I don't use the last trap, the last invader fell into the 1st platform and can't jump up, ha ha. Nice job!"},{"author_name":"SuperDisk","author_uid":"11035","time":"Dec 31, 2012 @ 8:41pm","epoch":1356986160,"text":"Neat game. I won in about 3 tries though."}],"images":["ld25\/10898-4e63410f5556dcf344381c58f482ee5f.jpg","ld25\/10898-28030e776ae5a696abfd40dd1cdf54ab.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/s1.dylanmccall.com\/LD25\/CrimsonPlumber\/AttackOfTheCrimsonPlumber.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/s1.dylanmccall.com\/LD25\/CrimsonPlumber\/AttackOfTheCrimsonPlumber.dart","text":"Source (Dart)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"27740","g_author":"10898","g_event":"LD25","g_eventkey":"14","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"27770","g_title":"Attack of the Crimson Plumber","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"278","g_commentcount":"20","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\/\/201083\/10898-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/10898-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"It's just another day minding your own business in your evil dungeon when a goodie-two-shoes plumber barges in and starts demanding some princess, and all your coins. Set off the traps to stop him and his two equally annoying twins before they blow up the bridge you happen to be standing on!\r\n\r\nCreated with Dart and HTML5 Canvas over three days.<\/p>","title":"Attack of the Crimson Plumber"}