{"author_link":"\/author\/karsithe\/","author_name":"Hazel","author_uid":"3026","comments":[{"author_name":"matthias_zarzecki","author_uid":"3880","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 9:32am","epoch":1346059620,"text":"Hey, it's a boxcat! I have one of those too :)\r\rLovely idea. It's fun trying to find a partner for the next generation, and then playing as that one. Love the run-animation, simple and efficient.\r\rMovement can be abit clunky sometimes. I often got stuck on slopes (sometimes on slopes between the level-wall and spikes), which was kinda frustrating."},{"author_name":"eyehawk","author_uid":"15255","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 11:40am","epoch":1346240100,"text":"Haha, I was cracking up at your feature list before I played the game - e.g. bad coder art, worse coder music :) But honestly though quite a cool quirky game! Loved the style of the cat and the cartoony world!"},{"author_name":"Desi Quintans","author_uid":"14456","time":"Sep 1, 2012 @ 11:13am","epoch":1346497680,"text":"Yours is probably the highest I've rated any game so far. The only thing I didn't like about it was that my cube animal would slow down or even get stuck when trying to climb hills."},{"author_name":"raohmaru","author_uid":"14867","time":"Sep 1, 2012 @ 11:18am","epoch":1346497980,"text":"Loved those cubed cats!\rBesides the fun, the game has a goal or a win condition, or are you always evolving?"},{"author_name":"hgcummings","author_uid":"11392","time":"Sep 1, 2012 @ 11:22am","epoch":1346498220,"text":"This was really fun. I really liked the combination of game elements: Frantically trying to find a mate, while avoiding the spikes, and attempting to follow the 'nearest mate' indicator in the bottom left (which I guess actually makes sense, since pheremones or whatever would tell you proximity but not direction). I thought the controls were fine and I liked the movement of the cat, although the camera angle was occasionally a bit awkward. I couldn't tell what the little cubes that you could eat were for; they didn't seem to increase my score or anything else. I thought the graphics and sound worked really well."},{"author_name":"Hazel","author_uid":"3026","time":"Sep 2, 2012 @ 1:57pm","epoch":1346593920,"text":"Thanks for all the comments! Personally, I wasn't very happy with the final controls or camera. During the compo they varied from even-more-frustrating to great in 90% of situations but completely broken in the other 10%. I actually wanted your character to feel a little inadequate at the start so the species becomes a little more controllable as you evolve, but the problem with hills breaks that.\r\r@Raohmaru You win and the game ends, when you become the "perfect species" - by reaching a certain value in all your stats. Most of your potential mates at that point are going to have the possibility of decreasing your abilities at that stage though.\r\r@hgcummings The yellow cubes give you points, red give health and blue gives more time. The idea was that the cubes don't regenerate so they give you a boost in the start, to prevent the game getting easier rather than harder as you become more powerful. They were a bit last minute though :O"},{"author_name":"robcozzens","author_uid":"10944","time":"Sep 9, 2012 @ 6:11pm","epoch":1347213960,"text":"Great job!"},{"author_name":"Datw","author_uid":"11318","time":"Sep 9, 2012 @ 6:21pm","epoch":1347214560,"text":"The controls\/physics were kinda messed up (IMO), but quite good anyway."},{"author_name":"Pierrec","author_uid":"1874","time":"Sep 9, 2012 @ 7:17pm","epoch":1347217920,"text":"it lags a bit on my computer, preventing me to play it well, but it's rather funny!"},{"author_name":"sfernald","author_uid":"258","time":"Sep 10, 2012 @ 7:13am","epoch":1347260880,"text":"Cute concept and graphics. Found the short time to find a new mate a little irritating. Also, I could never get jumping to work I think. But still really well done."},{"author_name":"samoojamies","author_uid":"11043","time":"Sep 11, 2012 @ 4:35pm","epoch":1347381000,"text":"Controls a bit awkward but playable. Overall a great game. Very nice graphics and the theme was implemented succesfully!"},{"author_name":"KevinWorkman","author_uid":"5364","time":"Sep 12, 2012 @ 12:29am","epoch":1347409440,"text":"This is a fun idea and it was good to just play around with, but it would have been cool with some more game elements- maybe some bad guys? Different levels that different traits would be good for? Overall great job for 48 hours!"},{"author_name":"goerp","author_uid":"14225","time":"Sep 12, 2012 @ 7:54pm","epoch":1347479340,"text":"haha it sounds like the bass-voice of the music is saying meow meow. Cute and definitely evolution. Good one."}],"images":["ld24\/3026-75da3ad96193048fdfc26a55207369fd.jpg","ld24\/3026-87a07faf5d9e6e628b60eba96b786dd8.jpg","ld24\/3026-c85da71814516bdefefaf0a1608a4cea.jpg","ld24\/3026-7344e87bdc1b1f76fca290a18a383038.jpg","ld24\/3026-65926810849b4cd8a0e06f2bc911ab18.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/hazelmckendrick.com\/ld24\/OneDayToBreed.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/hazelmckendrick.com\/ld24\/1d2bsource.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/hazelmckendrick.com\/ld24\/onedaytobreed.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"29465","g_author":"3026","g_event":"LD24","g_eventkey":"12","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"29495","g_title":"One Day To Breed","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"145","g_commentcount":"13","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\/\/163678\/3026-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/3026-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/3026-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/3026-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/3026-shot4.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"When you only have a single 24-second long day to live, you need to take evolution into your own hands. \r\n\r\nStart out as a near useless cube and then control successive generations as you struggle to find the best suited mate and spawn a child slightly more suited to the harsh cube world environment. Also collect more cubes.\r\n\r\nControls:\r\n- WASD or arrows to move\r\n- Space to breed\r\n- z to jump, if you evolve the ability to jump\r\n\r\nFeatures:\r\n- Cubes!\r\n- Two dimensions, plus an additional dimension FREE!\r\n- Bad coder art!\r\n- Worse coder music!\r\n- More cubes!\r\n- Frustration!\r\n- Romance!\r\n- Cubes!\r\n<\/p>","title":"One Day To Breed"}