{"author_link":"\/author\/schme16\/","author_name":"Shane Gadsby","author_uid":"3057","comments":[{"author_name":"k_wright","author_uid":"3202","time":"May 2, 2011 @ 6:12am","epoch":1304316420,"text":"Your 'Web' button links to your source files. Gonna rate Windows games later, but just wanted to let you know."},{"author_name":"rgbDreamer","author_uid":"4345","time":"May 3, 2011 @ 4:49am","epoch":1304397840,"text":"It crashes as soon as I open it. Windows 7 32 bit. \rUnhandled exception at 0x0139c514 in TheDark.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x00000000.\r(Looks like you're writing to a null pointer.)\rHere's the dissembly source from the MSVS JIT debugger:\r...\r0139C50D call esi \r0139C50F mov esi,eax \r0139C511 add esp,8 \rCrash here: 0139C514 cmp byte ptr [esi],bl \r0139C516 je 0139C5B1 \r0139C51C lea esp,[esp] \r0139C520 mov edi,0Fh \rplease let me know if you fix: rgbdreamer@gmail.com"},{"author_name":"Fenmar","author_uid":"3866","time":"May 3, 2011 @ 4:31pm","epoch":1304439960,"text":"The dialog was really humorous. But as far as I noticed, the level was quite straightforward (I just followed the wall on the right hand side). It would have been more challenging if there was a labyrith where you could get lost."},{"author_name":"Desmont","author_uid":"3889","time":"May 3, 2011 @ 7:01pm","epoch":1304448960,"text":"I'm having trouble launching the game (Win7 x64). When running the .exe in explorer nothing happens, when running the .exe from command line I get something like this: http:\/\/love2d.org\/screenshots\/love-070.png . The linux version worked fine."},{"author_name":"Dark Acre Jack","author_uid":"2947","time":"May 4, 2011 @ 6:49am","epoch":1304491440,"text":"Wandering around in the dark... is this an LD pre-pro simulator!? :)"},{"author_name":"Cybs","author_uid":"3865","time":"May 4, 2011 @ 3:48pm","epoch":1304523780,"text":"Couldn't move more than 5 pixels or so.. then the keys did nothing"},{"author_name":"Shane Gadsby","author_uid":"3057","time":"May 6, 2011 @ 3:55am","epoch":1304653800,"text":"@Fenmar That was the initial intention, but I ran out of time :(\r\r@Cybs I'm not sure what would cause that, it never happened to myself or some of my beta testers\r\r@Desmont - The game was coded on Win7 x64 so I'm not sure why there'd be an issue"},{"author_name":"rgbDreamer","author_uid":"4345","time":"May 8, 2011 @ 6:34pm","epoch":1304879340,"text":"Cool light effect. Slow.\rWorked when I realized it was in Love, so I ran it with that."},{"author_name":"Endurion","author_uid":"103","time":"May 13, 2011 @ 3:27pm","epoch":1305300120,"text":"Works fine here on Windows 7, 64bit. The game looks nice but isn't too much of an challenge. Funny dialogue."},{"author_name":"Kynrael","author_uid":"3913","time":"May 13, 2011 @ 4:15pm","epoch":1305303000,"text":"It's a cool and nice idea, a pity you didn't get time to really finish this. Instead of an instant game over, maybe you could have made monsters of the dark start chasing you or something when the light goes out :p"},{"author_name":"Danik","author_uid":"2311","time":"May 17, 2011 @ 11:02am","epoch":1305629820,"text":"It was slightly tedious waiting for the lantern to recharge. It charged slower than it drained, which means you spend more time waiting than walking. \rI followed the left wall, and even though I recharged the lantern to 100 I didn't make it after going north and turning west. :(\rThe dialogue was well made and fun, and I also liked the light effect. It just lacks some more content, which is understandable for a LD game."},{"author_name":"TellusE","author_uid":"749","time":"May 21, 2011 @ 1:06pm","epoch":1305982860,"text":"I'm afraid I keep getting 404's on all of the links :-\/"},{"author_name":"mwest","author_uid":"24","time":"May 21, 2011 @ 9:19pm","epoch":1306012440,"text":"Sorry...\r\rNot Found: The requested URL \/theDark.zip was not found on this server."},{"author_name":"Shane Gadsby","author_uid":"3057","time":"May 22, 2011 @ 5:13pm","epoch":1306084080,"text":"Sorry to those who wern't able to play this, my host has had some issues... Now resolved!"}],"images":["ld20\/3057-73308985c33a5362787c68dab13e8826.jpg","ld20\/3057-c1ea6b48776aba1c7f14031e5e84c106.jpg","ld20\/3057-5638999496ff0bd6eec748f95abad1cf.jpg","ld20\/3057-31af5a41b2ea7efd492a9ae1cd1f6fa2.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/opengaming.biz\/theDark.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/opengaming.biz\/theDark.love","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"http:\/\/opengaming.biz\/theDark.love","text":"Linux"},{"url":"http:\/\/opengaming.biz\/source.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"32946","g_author":"3057","g_event":"LD20","g_eventkey":"6","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"32976","g_title":"The Dark","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"224","g_commentcount":"14","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\/\/45257\/3057-shot0.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/45257\/3057-shot1.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/45257\/3057-shot2.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/45257\/3057-shot3.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"to use the Mac and Linux versions, you will need to install the love2d engine, found here: http:\/\/love2d.org\r\n\r\nThe game was going to include a lot more RPG elements, but I ran out of time, so I scaled it back to a dungeon runner.\r\n\r\nhope everyone enjoys<\/p>","title":"The Dark"}