{"author_link":"\/author\/ttftcuts\/","author_name":"TTFTCUTS","author_uid":"34395","comments":[{"author_name":"BitDare","author_uid":"91893","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 1:49am","epoch":1461030240,"text":"This game was amazing for being finished in 72 hours with great voice acting, which isn't often done for Jam games to this degree of greatness. The graphics were also spot on for 2D."},{"author_name":"lanestp","author_uid":"49246","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 1:56am","epoch":1461030660,"text":"Great game! The voice acting really makes it! Reminds me of Iron Druid. The one and only annoyance is the jump sound effect talking over the narration. Other than that A+"},{"author_name":"gurkenlabs","author_uid":"67508","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 1:59am","epoch":1461030840,"text":"Nice graphics and hilarious voice acting! Good job!"},{"author_name":"TTFTCUTS","author_uid":"34395","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 2:05am","epoch":1461031200,"text":"@lanestp, ran out of time to implement individual sound effect volumes unfortunately."},{"author_name":"paragonpawns","author_uid":"65576","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 3:48am","epoch":1461037380,"text":"I absolutely love the voice acting, well done!"},{"author_name":"F4KETHIS","author_uid":"18623","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 4:17am","epoch":1461039120,"text":"Really fun, love the voice acting and being a squirrel is surprisingly satisfying. Great job!"},{"author_name":"DivineOmega","author_uid":"62107","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 2:08pm","epoch":1461074580,"text":"Great comical voice acting. Very funny stuff. Really nice graphics, and pretty good gameplay. Especially like the chameleon stealth element.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I struggled a little with the platforming stuff. I kept overshooting my jumps.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I really liked how you built the instructions into the game itself."},{"author_name":"ZeroFaction","author_uid":"76669","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 2:35pm","epoch":1461076200,"text":"The game is in the Android secrion, but I can't seem to get it to run. In browser it stays on the &quot;getting things ready&quot; screen forever. And I don't see an app I could use to install ut. Either it shouldn't be in the Android section or my device is incompatible. Samsung Galaxy Note 5. Will play at home on my comp later and provide you with some ratings then. Cheers!"},{"author_name":"ObsessiveNotion","author_uid":"92905","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 2:37pm","epoch":1461076320,"text":"Nice game, controls a little bit hard especially jumping at the top of the castle"},{"author_name":"TTFTCUTS","author_uid":"34395","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 2:40pm","epoch":1461076500,"text":"@ZeroFaction, it's a web game, and the only link I set was web - I didn't do anything to specifically mark it as Android compatible... I'll see if it's possible to prevent that."},{"author_name":"Zayron","author_uid":"41941","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 2:50pm","epoch":1461077100,"text":"Loved the voice acting and the art looks nice. I did not like the controls that much. I fell off the platforms more times than I would like to count haha."},{"author_name":"antglynn","author_uid":"64577","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 2:53pm","epoch":1461077280,"text":"Great artwork, and the voice acting is entertaining. Platforming is quite difficult with the controls, but overall a strong entry. Well done!"},{"author_name":"Arvydas","author_uid":"84596","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 3:38pm","epoch":1461079980,"text":"nice game, the only thing is that i find hard to jump since you can't adjust your position while jumping, you can only stop the jump, is a little weird for a platformer, nice job overall :D"},{"author_name":"ployer","author_uid":"56657","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 4:14pm","epoch":1461082140,"text":"the art is gorgeous, well played. the platforming at the begininng goes from simple to extreme really fast. should have ramped it up. other than that well done!"},{"author_name":"1qgl","author_uid":"84875","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 5:24pm","epoch":1461086340,"text":"Great game! Very funny voice acting. The lack of air-control made platforming a bit weird but that's only a minor thing."},{"author_name":"kestrelgames","author_uid":"92262","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 8:27pm","epoch":1461097320,"text":"The voice acting and graphics on the main character are great. Platforming is frustrating though, the hang time on the jump is just too long and it's really hard to control."},{"author_name":"Le_Sarus","author_uid":"86933","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 8:32pm","epoch":1461097620,"text":"Voice acting made me want to keep playing, only real problem i had was the inertia while jumping was a little too powerful."},{"author_name":"LeftRight92","author_uid":"38834","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 8:37pm","epoch":1461097920,"text":"I'd love to keep playing this, but it crashes every time I try to restart. Good to hear some narrative in LD too."},{"author_name":"Skruffye","author_uid":"63924","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 8:51pm","epoch":1461098760,"text":"Interesting. The main selling point was obviously the humour, so I found it a little odd that you stopped talking for a large chunk of the game! The animation was also notably well done.\r<br\/>The platforming was difficult, and not because it was challenging, more because the controls were overly floaty.\r<br\/>Anyway, it made me chuckle, so thank you! ^^ Good job overall. :)"},{"author_name":"Larzan","author_uid":"10395","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 8:53pm","epoch":1461098880,"text":"Gorgeous gfx, love it. My favourite thing is how the squirrel walks, very cute.\r<br\/>The jumping and hurting sounds are a bit anoying though ;)\r<br\/>And the kinetic movement took some getting used to.\r<br\/>But a great game, well done."},{"author_name":"TTFTCUTS","author_uid":"34395","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 9:18pm","epoch":1461100380,"text":"@Skruffye: that was mostly to do with team member availability. I was alone for the last 3 or 4 hours programming stuff - the guy who did the voice acting was unavailable while the level was being built proper and didn't quite know what was required!"},{"author_name":"arzi","author_uid":"1524","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 9:19pm","epoch":1461100440,"text":"Impressive voice overs! Nice art too, too bad I hate these kind of platformers :D"},{"author_name":"CasualCat","author_uid":"91982","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 9:55pm","epoch":1461102600,"text":"Wow great art and animation! Story and voice acting!? That's some really good team work to be able to pull all that off and maintain quality and performance."},{"author_name":"luquio","author_uid":"90316","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 12:58am","epoch":1461113580,"text":"strong design and gameplay!"},{"author_name":"TeamScripta","author_uid":"91554","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 3:08am","epoch":1461121380,"text":"GREAT voice acting and perfect use of the theme!  My only small complaint was the platforming puzzles were extra difficult because the forward momentum was hard to counteract.  But that was small, and overall I really enjoyed it!  I especially loved the art.  I actually liked how it was a little eclectic due to four people contributing.  Great work!"},{"author_name":"Pythius","author_uid":"89991","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 9:18pm","epoch":1461186780,"text":"This game sure has plenty of potential. I really enjoyed the atmosphere and the way the morphing mechanics were implemented, it reminded me a bit of The Lost Vikings (but with a single character if that makes any sense).\r<br\/>A few improvements on the level design front and this game would have been golden. Kudos!"},{"author_name":"fin_nolimit","author_uid":"86340","time":"Apr 23, 2016 @ 9:02pm","epoch":1461445020,"text":"One of the top games in the JAM!!!! Fantastic job!!!! I love the voice sounds!!!"},{"author_name":"SHLFStudios","author_uid":"20984","time":"Apr 25, 2016 @ 1:11am","epoch":1461546360,"text":"Great Game! I wish I didn't have to start from the beginning every time though!"},{"author_name":"talgautb","author_uid":"92835","time":"Apr 25, 2016 @ 7:51am","epoch":1461570360,"text":"cool, but hard to control him"},{"author_name":"Odyssey","author_uid":"58620","time":"Apr 25, 2016 @ 11:09am","epoch":1461582240,"text":"Great game in the time limit. Except the sound was a bit annoying"},{"author_name":"thegunmaster","author_uid":"37542","time":"Apr 25, 2016 @ 2:53pm","epoch":1461595680,"text":"Really good nice, simple mechanics but goes well with the theme. Only 2 problems I had is that the controls are too slippery in the air imo and the loading when restarting takes way too long, a problem that I had with my own game aswell."},{"author_name":"Malvern","author_uid":"15235","time":"Apr 25, 2016 @ 3:22pm","epoch":1461597420,"text":"Unfortunately, this game crashed my browser after I died so I am unable to review it. (Firefox 45\/Windows 10)"},{"author_name":"Roland M","author_uid":"88456","time":"Apr 25, 2016 @ 7:34pm","epoch":1461612540,"text":"Great sound and voice acting. =]"},{"author_name":"Rock Eaters","author_uid":"90519","time":"Apr 28, 2016 @ 10:33pm","epoch":1461882480,"text":"classic paltformer but the main character and chameleon are really nice, i like the backround with rain too !"}],"images":["ld35\/34395-285ccaeede8dcb5d909a636caf5ec74e.jpg","ld35\/34395-6797c8714967237356534a0d797ebad5.jpg","ld35\/34395-87de1b73996a2306cf18f36f0642075b.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/atg.lychnobi.com\/ttftcuts\/boyd\/ld35.html","text":"Web (Not mobile, sorry!)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"3721","g_author":"34395","g_event":"LD35","g_eventkey":"33","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"3733","g_title":"Boyd, P.I.","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"156","g_commentcount":"34","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\/\/542293\/34395-shot0-1461028365.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/34395-shot1-1461028365.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/34395-shot2-1461028365.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Meet Lucius Boyd, a hard-boiled detective who also happens to be a shape-shifting druid. Follow his exploits as he tells the tale of how he escaped a close call with an angry monarch's executioner. Help him find a princess worthy of his meddling fingers.\r\n\r\nControls are explained in-world as you go.\r\n__________\r\n\r\nApparently not mobile compatible - there is no \"not for mobile\" option on the entry page, and because it's a web game it will appear in the mobile category. There isn't anything we can do about this, sorry!\r\n__________\r\n\r\nThings that would have been implemented if we'd had the time:\r\n\r\n- Indivudual SFX volumes. Some are louder than others and it doesn't help.\r\n- Sound on volume change so you can actually tell how loud it's going to be...\r\n- Furniture objects, including breakables.\r\n- Tongue mechanics.\r\n- Archers.\r\n- Arrow traps.\r\n- More carefully planned puzzles (the whole level was made in the last 2 hours before submission)\r\n- Proper music cues.\r\n- Subtitles, in case Boyd's wonderful voice just wasn't enough for you...\r\n- Trees, rocks and other outdoor background objects.\r\n- Rain particles in the foreground - the background is soaked and yet closer it's mysteriously dry...\r\n__________\r\n\r\nMade by a team of four - one programmer, two artists and a musician (who also did the voice acting).\r\n\r\nArt assets are eclectic and mixed due to neither artist being particularly familiar with pixel art. We all did some of the art - try to guess which bits are by the same person! Be gentle, heh.\r\n\r\nHTML5, Dart compiled to JS, WebGL via Three.dart. WebGL requires a fairly new browser to use. Makes use of the web audio API, so IE and older Android browsers will probably fail to load altogether even if they can handle webgl.","title":"Boyd, P.I."}