{"author_link":"\/author\/morganquirk\/","author_name":"morganquirk","author_uid":"4243","comments":[{"author_name":"TestSubject06","author_uid":"7925","time":"Dec 19, 2011 @ 6:25am","epoch":1324275600,"text":"Awesome job Morgan!"},{"author_name":"ncannasse","author_uid":"8497","time":"Dec 19, 2011 @ 11:58am","epoch":1324295580,"text":"Nice job ! Love the boss !"},{"author_name":"Randomasta","author_uid":"2178","time":"Dec 19, 2011 @ 4:43pm","epoch":1324312680,"text":"Cool visual!"},{"author_name":"tcstyle","author_uid":"4834","time":"Dec 19, 2011 @ 4:50pm","epoch":1324313100,"text":"Wow! Great sound and graphics. I found the kitten btw :D."},{"author_name":"Andrew","author_uid":"5432","time":"Dec 19, 2011 @ 4:57pm","epoch":1324313520,"text":"Just a wee bit too slow for a shmup."},{"author_name":"increpare","author_uid":"492","time":"Dec 19, 2011 @ 11:17pm","epoch":1324336320,"text":"the speed\/pacing made dying very punishing, and replaying somewhat unpleasant."},{"author_name":"dr_soda","author_uid":"8342","time":"Dec 19, 2011 @ 11:38pm","epoch":1324337580,"text":"You have some incredibly high levels of polish on this game.  I really like the visual white noise overlay, and the soundtrack is just awesome."},{"author_name":"merthsoft","author_uid":"8682","time":"Dec 20, 2011 @ 4:25am","epoch":1324354800,"text":"This is really fun. A little hard, I keep dying, but a lot of fun."},{"author_name":"bach","author_uid":"5433","time":"Dec 20, 2011 @ 4:35am","epoch":1324355400,"text":"This is cool. Great amount of polish! I agree though that the speed is a little slow.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Awesome entry."},{"author_name":"marudziik","author_uid":"5431","time":"Dec 20, 2011 @ 11:35am","epoch":1324380600,"text":"Very nice looking, but small area of view add some artificial difficulty. Great entry."},{"author_name":"galman","author_uid":"5971","time":"Dec 20, 2011 @ 3:20pm","epoch":1324394100,"text":"Sweet graphics and sounds. well done!"},{"author_name":"Dark Acre Jack","author_uid":"2947","time":"Dec 21, 2011 @ 5:40am","epoch":1324445700,"text":"I died pretty hard in this. Liked the Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet vibe."},{"author_name":"Codexus","author_uid":"187","time":"Dec 21, 2011 @ 5:26pm","epoch":1324488060,"text":"Nicely executed shmup, but the limited field of view combined with slowness of the game and how easy it is to die made me give up rather quickly."},{"author_name":"morganquirk","author_uid":"4243","time":"Dec 21, 2011 @ 6:23pm","epoch":1324491480,"text":"thank you all for your feedback, criticism, and nice words :)"},{"author_name":"angrygeometry","author_uid":"5579","time":"Dec 21, 2011 @ 11:43pm","epoch":1324510680,"text":"holy heck, this is extremely polished and looks fantastic. nice job!"},{"author_name":"Shigor","author_uid":"5242","time":"Dec 22, 2011 @ 3:15pm","epoch":1324566600,"text":"It looks very good (nice mood :), but the oh so slowness combined with restarting from the start with every small mistake makes it quite annoying... I rage quit after a while :\/"},{"author_name":"matthias_zarzecki","author_uid":"3880","time":"Dec 22, 2011 @ 10:25pm","epoch":1324592400,"text":"Like the salvo-effect. Feels hefty. Mood is nice aswell."},{"author_name":"caranha","author_uid":"7847","time":"Dec 22, 2011 @ 10:27pm","epoch":1324592520,"text":"Very freaking good! The idea is simple, but the execution is magnificent. I loved the graphics, the level design, the boss battle and the hidden kittens!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Thanks for the amazing game, and nice work!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Edit: It seems that I've played a version where you don't start from the beginning when you die. Thanks for that!"},{"author_name":"Balooga03","author_uid":"76","time":"Dec 22, 2011 @ 11:24pm","epoch":1324595940,"text":"Nice game, feels really polished. Some passages are a bit hard but thats ok for shmup. I found it a bit too dark, didn't see the ship properly and a bit too slow sometimes. But all in all really good job."},{"author_name":"SonnyBone","author_uid":"1365","time":"Dec 23, 2011 @ 9:55am","epoch":1324633800,"text":"As others have said, the slow progress and quick deaths made this a bit frustrating. AMAZING visuals and sound, though. Really atmospheric shmup... whereas most are huge bullet dodge sessions. Good job!"},{"author_name":"RobProductions","author_uid":"7405","time":"Dec 23, 2011 @ 4:40pm","epoch":1324658100,"text":"Good job, but too hard! The game should restart faster after you die. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>And it felt like I had limited movement on the ship, as if I wasn't in full control. It felt like the ship had to rotate or something to get better aim. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>But otherwise great graphics and mood, the vignette especially helps!"},{"author_name":"Pierrec","author_uid":"1874","time":"Dec 31, 2011 @ 5:34pm","epoch":1325352540,"text":"Well...it's a shoot'em up...but an amazing one, especially for 48h. I don't like shmup very much but was astounished by the visual and audio, congrats!"},{"author_name":"ericdpitts","author_uid":"6759","time":"Jan 4, 2012 @ 6:47pm","epoch":1325702520,"text":"Great work!  I love this kind of game.  Excellent graphics as well.  I really liked the screen effect when you use a bomb, very cool."}],"images":["ld22\/4243-d5736fe312647a499266d1d868a94fad.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/morganquirk.com\/g\/solus","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/morganquirk.com\/g\/solus\/LD22.swf","text":"Web (SWF direct)"},{"url":"http:\/\/morganquirk.com\/g\/solus\/LD22.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"31429","g_author":"4243","g_event":"LD22","g_eventkey":"8","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"31459","g_title":"Solus","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"74","g_commentcount":"23","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\/\/87574\/4243-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Use the second link if the first link doesn't work.\r\n\r\nI worked pretty hard on this. It's a side-scrolling shmup. There's a lot of code and art and sound.<\/p>","title":"Solus"}