{"author_link":"\/author\/excitemike\/","author_name":"ExciteMike","author_uid":"935","comments":[{"author_name":"bburbank","author_uid":"1159","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 5:49pm","epoch":1335203040,"text":"Really like when you jump through the planet. This would make a neat game, you should power through and make more of it!"},{"author_name":"ExciteMike","author_uid":"935","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 10:23pm","epoch":1335219480,"text":"oops. my last-minute changes to make it easier accidentally made it harder :("},{"author_name":"Rex Peppers","author_uid":"4914","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 2:40pm","epoch":1335450900,"text":"Brilliant!"},{"author_name":"strega","author_uid":"5269","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 2:46pm","epoch":1335451260,"text":"Really unique idea! I liked the visual style a lot. There's a lot of nice feedback in the game. I think this could be a really addicting like rotation\/orientation game on mobile devices."},{"author_name":"Monkey Armada","author_uid":"2883","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 2:51pm","epoch":1335451560,"text":"great concept! I've been bouncing for 5 minutes before noticing i didn't know what i was doing.\rA hud would help to know if the player is on the right path.\rThis has tons of potential.\rOh, and an advice from a colorblind: if you plan to use colors as interactive items, try to add some texture too, just to make it easyer for us :D"},{"author_name":"danblack","author_uid":"818","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 3:06pm","epoch":1335452460,"text":"Nice game and some realy nice touches. Falling through the world is nice and I like the different effects of the different colours. I personally would like it if there was some way to fight back. Maybe a colour that you jumped on to turn you temporarily invincible so you could smash those pesky UFO's. Cool game though and with just a few tweaks it could be really nice."},{"author_name":"Homletmoo","author_uid":"8408","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 3:47pm","epoch":1335541320,"text":"Wow. One of the best ideas I've seen yet. I particularly like the idea behind the cycles and the empty sections. One nitpick would be how abrupt the restarts are; sometimes I didn't even notice I'd died."},{"author_name":"Gremlin","author_uid":"12047","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 3:53pm","epoch":1335541680,"text":"This is pretty awesome. At first it seemed really straightforward, and then the invisible\/missing sections showed up, and the UFOs, and it became a lot more challenging.\r\rI think there were a couple of times I managed to bounce off the 'missing' sections (on the face, not the sides). I think what happened was that I went through the first one and bounced off the second one."},{"author_name":"schizofunky","author_uid":"11944","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 4:07pm","epoch":1335542520,"text":"This is a really nice concept and you've use the sound in a really effective way :)"},{"author_name":"iFred_QC","author_uid":"7462","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 4:11pm","epoch":1335542760,"text":"I read the other way around, so I was actually trying to hit the UFOs. Was wondering what was up with the reset LOL.\r\rGood looking, but nothing much to do."},{"author_name":"Square Particle","author_uid":"12696","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 7:51pm","epoch":1335555960,"text":"very cool"},{"author_name":"madflame991","author_uid":"5035","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 12:50pm","epoch":1335617100,"text":"This has potential. I likes the "planet" and the trails, although the background trails were a bit distracting."},{"author_name":"deepnight","author_uid":"2982","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 12:54pm","epoch":1335617340,"text":"Very nice effects and ambient! The death should be more visible : right now, it's not "obvious" that you got hit."},{"author_name":"Jhelle","author_uid":"2232","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 12:57pm","epoch":1335617520,"text":"Simply beautiful and simply simple. Loving it!"},{"author_name":"matthias_zarzecki","author_uid":"3880","time":"May 3, 2012 @ 5:48pm","epoch":1336066980,"text":"Lovely idea! the environment is quite beautiful, and this could be greatly imporved by some sort of music-system."},{"author_name":"elvis75k","author_uid":"12897","time":"May 3, 2012 @ 10:53pm","epoch":1336085280,"text":"Fantastico!! Cool gameplay and great fx."},{"author_name":"demonpants","author_uid":"531","time":"May 10, 2012 @ 11:45pm","epoch":1336693200,"text":"Nifty little game, certainly very pretty. Could use some more interesting mechanics, but is a off to a good start."},{"author_name":"Krisjet","author_uid":"5486","time":"May 11, 2012 @ 2:14pm","epoch":1336745340,"text":"Very cool idea, but it would be great if it had an ending. I got pretty discouraged by resetting at checkpoints after one hit from enemies. I think this concept has a lot of promise."},{"author_name":"Keirua","author_uid":"12584","time":"May 11, 2012 @ 7:31pm","epoch":1336764360,"text":"Really good ! That's very innovative. It's must have been a hell to developp. How did you came up with such an idea ? I have never seen anything that look like this, even by far !\rThat's a bit hard to play though, since for some sections the effect is not very clear. And i'm still not sure of what really happens.\rI can't believe there are so few comments :\/"},{"author_name":"KevinWorkman","author_uid":"5364","time":"May 11, 2012 @ 7:50pm","epoch":1336765500,"text":"This is a fun start, and I like the visuals. The ufos seemed a little too random to be fair, especially with no way to fight back. But I echo what everybody else said, great job!"},{"author_name":"Oye Beto","author_uid":"7933","time":"May 12, 2012 @ 6:03am","epoch":1336802280,"text":"Interesting..!\rI see potential for a rhythm game. Each ring could make a different note to make melodies."},{"author_name":"JonathanG","author_uid":"11515","time":"May 12, 2012 @ 7:43am","epoch":1336808280,"text":"Looks very nice, and a good mood while playing (helped by the music). It's an interesting idea for gameplay, but doesn't seem to go anywhere and doesn't really hold interest for that long."}],"images":["ld23\/935-d3e914ac7d865ee2844fad9543c44e76.jpg","ld23\/935-6199ba0ec1e312f23556aed03bce931a.jpg","ld23\/935-6e7318751c381dec3750f13d8ee487a6.jpg","ld23\/935-798aba1d1d98e82326df8e07a01b23fc.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/excitemike.com\/Pogo_Planet","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/bitbucket.org\/excitemike\/ld23\/get\/Time%20Up!.zip","text":"Unity Source(zip file)"},{"url":"https:\/\/bitbucket.org\/excitemike\/ld23","text":"Unity Source (mercurial repo)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"30437","g_author":"935","g_event":"LD23","g_eventkey":"10","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"30467","g_title":"Pogo Planet","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"193","g_commentcount":"22","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\/\/123793\/935-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/123793\/935-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/123793\/935-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/123793\/935-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Use the arrow keys to move your bouncy guy left and right, and avoid hitting UFOs! Landing on differently-colored sections of the planet has different effects! White ones are checkpoints!\r\n\r\nThe game doesn't end properly, instead the scrolling-planet-thing loops and gets a little faster each time. So just see how far you can get, I guess! \r\n\r\nNOTE FOR JUDGES:\r\n1. To create the music(more of a soundscape I guess) and sound effects, I downloaded instrument samples from http:\/\/bit.ly\/GKEEj and modified them only slightly.\r\n2. For the title screen, I used the Tuffy font by Thatcher Ulrich (http:\/\/bit.ly\/I2ZWKa)\r\nThe rules seem to allow that stuff, but we can move the game to the jam if it bothers anyone.\r\n<\/p>","title":"Pogo Planet"}