{"author_link":"\/author\/eburn184\/","author_name":"eburn184","author_uid":"5565","comments":[{"author_name":"PapyGaragos","author_uid":"7971","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 2:57pm","epoch":1335192720,"text":"I found the controlls a bit goofy but it's a really fun platformer with a nice twist. Good job!"},{"author_name":"PapyGaragos","author_uid":"7971","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 2:57pm","epoch":1335192720,"text":"I found the controls a bit goofy but it's a really fun platformer with a nice twist. Good job!"},{"author_name":"mikolalysenko","author_uid":"5670","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 8:09pm","epoch":1335211440,"text":"This game is frustratingly difficult. Especially in the places where you effectively get stuck after missing a red blood cell jump. Maybe it would be good to make some of them respawn or remove some bottomless pits?"},{"author_name":"matt","author_uid":"7275","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 1:20am","epoch":1335230100,"text":"Nice idea and game. I also found it too difficult."},{"author_name":"eburn184","author_uid":"5565","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 1:25am","epoch":1335230400,"text":"Thanks guys! So far the comments have either been "too easy" or "way too hard". I guess I could say I didn't have time to balance the levels in the 48-hours :\/"},{"author_name":"Skully","author_uid":"10876","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 1:32am","epoch":1335230820,"text":"Addictive game indeed\rLove the virus infecting the cell and using that as a mechanic for getting across passages.\rAlso spot on having infinite lives: encourages continuous play and stops it getting frustrating (or at least less so!)\rgreat job"},{"author_name":"Datw","author_uid":"11318","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 1:37am","epoch":1335231120,"text":"Good game, a little bit hard though. I really liked the graphics of it xD"},{"author_name":"Hazematman","author_uid":"10252","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 1:41am","epoch":1335231360,"text":"Very interesting concept for a platformer! It was very fun, but at level 8 It was much too difficult for me :P"},{"author_name":"pkdawson","author_uid":"11448","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 1:44am","epoch":1335231540,"text":"Great game. Really hard, in a Super Meat Boy kind of way - your timing has to be absolutely perfect in a few sections, but that makes finishing it more satisfying."},{"author_name":"NefariousZhen","author_uid":"9888","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 2:34am","epoch":1335234540,"text":"Quite enjoyable. For some reason chrome kept telling me it was unresponsive but it was very responsive. Otherwise it was fantastic."},{"author_name":"eburn184","author_uid":"5565","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 2:40am","epoch":1335234900,"text":"Thanks! I had Chrome whine to me tonight too while playing Flash games"},{"author_name":"Syntaxide","author_uid":"12186","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 3:05am","epoch":1335236400,"text":"Good game. I only got up to the jumping trick, which I found really cool. I'll definitely play more later."},{"author_name":"eburn184","author_uid":"5565","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 3:06am","epoch":1335236460,"text":"Thanks! I feel the mechanic definitely needs a bit more work if I intend to expand upon what I have."},{"author_name":"dacap","author_uid":"2971","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 3:16am","epoch":1335237060,"text":"A lot of possibilities are open with this game. I really liked it. Good job!"},{"author_name":"jacobalbano","author_uid":"12481","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 3:23am","epoch":1335237480,"text":"Definitely the most unique game I've seen so far, and the first one to get a 5 star rating from me. Nicely done."},{"author_name":"eburn184","author_uid":"5565","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 3:44am","epoch":1335238740,"text":"Thanks a lot! That means a ton to me"},{"author_name":"Gornova","author_uid":"2572","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 2:12pm","epoch":1335276420,"text":"out of theme, but fun game. I hate you for level 5 :D"},{"author_name":"eburn184","author_uid":"5565","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 2:21pm","epoch":1335276960,"text":"I'm not sure if I quite agree with "out of theme" My interpretation of the theme was you'd be a germ in a human body, which is a "Tiny World". I've seen a handful of germ games, so I can't be the only one who had the same train of thought. Thanks for the rating!"},{"author_name":"KunoNoOni","author_uid":"6464","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 11:44pm","epoch":1335310740,"text":"Very Addictive! :)"},{"author_name":"amidos2006","author_uid":"2510","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 11:52pm","epoch":1335311220,"text":"Thats really a nice entry :) I love the twist in the game :)"},{"author_name":"Incredible Ape","author_uid":"12165","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 2:43am","epoch":1335321480,"text":"Neat game. Reminds me of Too Many Plumbers."},{"author_name":"YMM","author_uid":"1176","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 3:07am","epoch":1335322920,"text":"The gameplay itself was interesting and kind of fun. \r\rBut I can't help but notice that the loading screen, menu, white bar effect and parts of the source code bear a striking similarity to my (uncredited) game Give Up Robot 2 ( http:\/\/games.adultswim.com\/give-up-robot-2-online-game.html ) :S Credit would've been appreciated."},{"author_name":"Tourgen","author_uid":"2408","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 3:09am","epoch":1335323040,"text":"Good game, I'm just bad at it. I couldnt do the 3 stacked jump that alternated directions."},{"author_name":"eburn184","author_uid":"5565","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 3:14am","epoch":1335323340,"text":"Hey Matt, your work is actually a huge inspiration of mine! I'll be more than happy to give credit!"},{"author_name":"KevinWorkman","author_uid":"5364","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 3:21am","epoch":1335323760,"text":"Creative twist, if a little difficult at times. But if you did copy the game from YMM, that ain't cool."},{"author_name":"YMM","author_uid":"1176","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 3:30am","epoch":1335324300,"text":"Hey, that'd be cool but, uh, I never publicly released the source code for that game! I'm glad I inspired you and I really don't mind people decompiling my stuff to learn from it, but straight-up using a reskin of my menu\/preloader in your game feels wrong to me (especially since it goes against the spirit of Ludum Dare)."},{"author_name":"eburn184","author_uid":"5565","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 3:34am","epoch":1335324540,"text":"I never decompiled GUR2. The preloader is actually based off Drakenek's preloader on the flashpunk forums, with a static background, text of the game's title, and a second colored bar. I learned how to do tweening from Chevy Ray's Flee Buster entry, which I thought was in the spirit of Ludum Dare. I honestly never meant you any harm. You're one of the reasons I got into making games!"},{"author_name":"bms","author_uid":"7087","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 3:41am","epoch":1335324960,"text":"It's really not cool to decompile games, use the code without permission AND make the code public as if you own it. Thus, I will not rate this game."},{"author_name":"eburn184","author_uid":"5565","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 3:44am","epoch":1335325140,"text":"I never decompiled any Flash games. I can provide all of the forum posts that I got code \/ concepts from. All of the code in my game is code I've either written, or that is already open sourced via FlashPunk, and its forums."},{"author_name":"robcozzens","author_uid":"10944","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 3:51am","epoch":1335325560,"text":"Pretty cool idea, but the controls are really difficult."},{"author_name":"mneubrand","author_uid":"11653","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 4:33am","epoch":1335328080,"text":"Solid platformer with nice innovative game mechanics. Definitely needs some difficulty tweaking but otherwise awesome"},{"author_name":"bms","author_uid":"7087","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 7:34am","epoch":1335338940,"text":"Happy you guys have things sorted out with YMM. It's wierd situation indeed.. Anyway, I Quite like the game! cute graphics, solid gameplay.. Good job!"},{"author_name":"Kendja","author_uid":"12019","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 9:01am","epoch":1335344160,"text":"Very well done. But i given up on the tooth level(the last picture on that page)."},{"author_name":"4urentertainment","author_uid":"11521","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 12:01pm","epoch":1335354960,"text":"Okay I played the game all the way through and I must say, I am amazing!\r\rThe mechanic is extremely innovative and extremely fun! I also really like how, it's very hard to master, but not frustrating. \r\rI think you did an amazing job with this. Great work!"},{"author_name":"Angerus","author_uid":"12361","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 1:26pm","epoch":1335360060,"text":"Difficult but not to much...I will say that's a challenging game! the graphism are funny and the gameplay is really interesting for a plateformer. I find it very fun ! Nicely done!"},{"author_name":"De10ter","author_uid":"8352","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 3:32pm","epoch":1335454020,"text":"Unfortunately I couldn't play. After the menu screen I get an error:\rError: Error #2130: Unable to flush SharedObject.\r\tat Error$\/throwError()\r\tat flash.net::SharedObject\/flush()\r\tat com.ld23.worlds::TitleWorld()\r\tat com.ld23::Main\/init()\r\tat net.flashpunk::Engine\/onStage()\r\tat flash.display::DisplayObjectContainer\/addChild()\r\tat flash.display::Stage\/addChild()\r\tat com.ld23::SirusTheVirus\/startup()\r\tat com.ld23::SirusTheVirus\/onMouseDown()"},{"author_name":"Broxter","author_uid":"1400","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 4:11pm","epoch":1335456360,"text":"Interesting concept that kept me playing all the way through (took me a little over ten minutes); I really liked how you seamlessly integrated a meaningful story into such a simple game. However, I felt like you overused the multi-jumping aspect (which made the game slightly frustrating at times) at the cost of more puzzle-type plays on the concept (like in the last level). The graphics were quite nice and consistent for the most part. I thought it was weird when a copy would automatically jump if a red blood cell was infected whilst jumping, and I thought it was unnecessary that you seemingly amplified the jumping sound effect when there were more copies of the player."},{"author_name":"Orni","author_uid":"10771","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 8:42pm","epoch":1335472620,"text":"simply a solid good game\rI enjoyed it"},{"author_name":"eburn184","author_uid":"5565","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 3:18am","epoch":1335496380,"text":"If you have played my game and I haven't rated your's yet, no worries, I'll get to it this weekend. Thanks!"},{"author_name":"Draknek","author_uid":"741","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 4:04pm","epoch":1335628740,"text":"It's a nice idea, been done before (Tiny Plumbers) but that's not a problem really.\r\rFound level 4 frustrating. Sfx annoying."},{"author_name":"Christina Antoinette Neofotistou","author_uid":"13139","time":"May 13, 2012 @ 9:22am","epoch":1336900620,"text":"Haha! The graphics and humor are lovely! Kudos!"},{"author_name":"Toast","author_uid":"6788","time":"May 13, 2012 @ 4:00pm","epoch":1336924500,"text":"This game is the most refreshing and complete-feeling I've played so far. Really, good job on this one."}],"images":["ld23\/5565-efb18ec0376e16dea08db476041007af.jpg","ld23\/5565-d0f62cf373b507235ae27cca10041f40.jpg","ld23\/5565-68fb7efc1f51d6532cf4ac62e82f42d9.jpg","ld23\/5565-c021a0e80b1ca34745adcad815bc0df8.jpg","ld23\/5565-497a20b4644863ee3879cc18e4a2e8d3.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ericbernier.com\/ld23\/SirusTheVirus.swf","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ericbernier.com\/ld23\/SirusTheVirus.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"31351","g_author":"5565","g_event":"LD23","g_eventkey":"10","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"31381","g_title":"Sirus the Virus","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"211","g_commentcount":"42","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\/5565-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/123793\/5565-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/123793\/5565-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/123793\/5565-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/123793\/5565-shot4.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Sirus the Virus\r\n\r\nYour name's Sirus and you're a virus. You prey on unsuspecting humans, jumping, and replicating your way through their body, up to their brain. Once there the human realizes you're no ordinary virus...\r\n\r\nMove with left\/right arrow keys, or A\/D keys.\r\nJump with Up, X, or W.\r\nCollect the red blood cells to replicate. Clones of yourself can jump in mid-air while spawning!\r\nIf you get stuck restart with the R button. There is a small camera bug that I did not have time to fix.\r\n\r\nReach the human's brain to infect him! <\/p>","title":"Sirus the Virus"}