{"author_link":"\/author\/syrup\/","author_name":"syrup","author_uid":"3723","comments":[{"author_name":"Aaron","author_uid":"7118","time":"Dec 21, 2011 @ 12:24am","epoch":1324426740,"text":"Nice minimalist design, and I liked the concept of battling your subconscious. Some elements seem to work against your idea though: the bright background (if your mind is happy, why do you need to fight them?), the lack of agency for kills (it feels a bit anti-climatic), and the enemies don't seem to be much of a challenge. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>Perhaps if you made the background start off being really dark and gradually brightening as you kill off the enemies, and add an AI for all of the enemies: when you kill one, they'll run at you, but if you run away, they'll also eventually run away (playing a bit more on that subconsciousness idea). I can definitely see how this game could be really cool."},{"author_name":"seagaia","author_uid":"7853","time":"Dec 21, 2011 @ 6:25am","epoch":1324448400,"text":"Cool, interesting concept! Maybe a short story would be of some help and the graphics maybe a little darker or something, as well as SFX\/some music to set the tune.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>It has a nice framework for something you could build some other ideas upon, keep it up"},{"author_name":"Hempuli","author_uid":"491","time":"Dec 22, 2011 @ 4:16am","epoch":1324527060,"text":"The game was really simplistic, but I quite liked the concept. With some work this could be a pretty neat game."},{"author_name":"summaky","author_uid":"1885","time":"Jan 7, 2012 @ 4:20pm","epoch":1325952900,"text":"The concept is original, but it is currently too easy to be engaging.  When I punch the shadows, I would also like to see something else than just them disappearing, 'cause I didn't know whether it was a glitch or I did something at the beginning :-)"}],"images":["ld22\/3723-ae18a8f5b5413a139dcdd63a075ede96.jpg","ld22\/3723-8edb5b9a8c79e33aebd11e1400d7004a.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/?idps8yehqz7nb16","text":"Windows"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"31621","g_author":"3723","g_event":"LD22","g_eventkey":"8","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"31651","g_title":"Shadow Showdown","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"652","g_commentcount":"4","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\/3723-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/87574\/3723-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"This is Shadow Showdown!<\/p>","title":"Shadow Showdown"}