{"author_link":"\/users\/isayneigh","author_name":"isayneigh","author_uid":1140979,"comments":[{"author_name":"Codesity","author_uid":"1120245","time":"2019-04-30T13:10:52Z","epoch":1556629852,"modified":1556629852,"text":"Was an awesome little game. cute charakter and great sounds for the athmosphere. Good work.\nThe terrain graphics, were for my opinion, acceptable.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"DrSkort","author_uid":"1077752","time":"2019-04-30T13:35:19Z","epoch":1556631319,"modified":1556631319,"text":"Nice game. I liked the idea behind swapping bodies and becoming the powerful enemy you were afraid to defeat. I died at the last stage because I had no energy left while being in this strong monster and had to swap bodies because I had almost no health and then there were two of them? The art and animation of the game is very consistent and well made. Every enemy is unique and I like how they become consistently stronger. You really feel how you become more and more powerful over the stages. Good job :)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"isayneigh","author_uid":1140979,"time":"2019-04-30T18:03:31Z","epoch":1556647411,"modified":1556647411,"text":"Apreciate it!  I know there's some issue with the \"rapidly press space\" mechanic, but I ran out of time.  I would've really liked to balance the game more. It's hard doing it solo!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"trozen","author_uid":"1100955","time":"2019-05-01T02:14:39Z","epoch":1556676879,"modified":1556676888,"text":"Just played your game and unfortunately I was only able beat level 1 once! The purple guys do a ton of damage, have a lot of health, and you have to get in really close in order for your bullets to hurt them!\n\nI really like the idea of body swapping to \"upgrade\" yourself, but I wasn't able to do it very often due to the difficulty. I'm not sure if I was playing wrong?\n\nRunning out of power and having to play a little mini-game (albeit just simple tapping) is a really interesting mechanic though!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"schmavery","author_uid":"1053345","time":"2019-05-01T02:40:58Z","epoch":1556678458,"modified":1556678458,"text":"Managed to get to the last level but couldn't handle those big enemies. I found the art and animations pretty cute and thought it was cool to be able to swap and play as all the enemies too.\nI wish I could shoot in the direction of my mouse, as it made it much harder to avoid and aim at the same time, but maybe this was in order to make it harder.\nThanks for sharing your game!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Sherlock527","author_uid":"1099785","time":"2019-05-01T02:47:04Z","epoch":1556678824,"modified":1556678824,"text":"That was really fun. I liked the character designs and thought that the body switching mechanic was interesting. I noticed that the large circle bot's projectiles were off centered from the character. overall, great job. ","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"isayneigh","author_uid":1140979,"time":"2019-05-01T11:08:36Z","epoch":1556708916,"modified":1556708916,"text":"@trozen i'm sorry you couldn't get past stage 1. I didn't want it to be that difficult, but I ran out of time and honestly I focused too much on art and presentation that I lost out on improving core mechanics.  I really would've like to balance it more.  You weren't playing it wrong, it's just overly difficult :joy: \n\n@schmavery Great job!  I haven't even been able to do that :joy:.  I considered that mechanic with shooting in the direction of the mouse, but unfortunately the way I programmed it made it difficult to shoehorn that idea in later in the game jam.  This is just a lesson learned for me, I need to have my design more well thought out before I start writing code.\n\n@sherlock527 I must've gotten lazy and forgot to make sure the generation point for the bullet was in the center.  Thanks for pointing it out.\n\nGlad you all enjoyed it :thumbsup: ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Team-on","author_uid":"1097780","time":"2019-05-01T12:06:17Z","epoch":1556712377,"modified":1556712377,"text":"I liked the extenge body mechanics. Think that I see it on LD43 too","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"JofersGames","author_uid":"1126599","time":"2019-05-01T19:22:40Z","epoch":1556738560,"modified":1556738560,"text":"Oh god its so hard, i always either die from rushing or turn into a plane from running out of time aaaa xD\n\nIf it was a little easier to start with and maybe ramps up to super hard (if that is the point of the game)\n\nI think id enjoy it a lot more\n\nGood job anyway :) ","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"isayneigh","author_uid":1140979,"time":"2019-05-01T21:36:29Z","epoch":1556746589,"modified":1556746589,"text":"Agreed it's hard @jofersgames lol.  Next time around I want to work with a team so I can offload the art to someone else and I can focus more on balancing.  Appreciate the feedback!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Listonos","author_uid":"1000380","time":"2019-05-01T22:28:46Z","epoch":1556749726,"modified":1556749726,"text":"It was little bit hard to grasp both the body exchange and coin generation, I feel like just one of those would be enough for a game. But otherwise cool little game.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"isayneigh","author_uid":1140979,"time":"2019-05-02T01:29:03Z","epoch":1556760543,"modified":1556760543,"text":"@listonos that's fair.  2 mechanics is probably too many.  Still learning!  But I also think if I had time to refine those mechanics it would've been a better experience.  Thanks spent a little too much time on the art and the game as a whole (title screen, credits, tutorial).","likes":0,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld44\/140980-5631f71a26b4f57dda99920ad2c8c8f1.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/isayneigh.itch.io\/slotbot-arena","text":"HTML5 (web)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"37918","g_author":"1140979","g_event":"LD44","g_eventkey":"75","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"256916","g_title":"Slotbot Arena","g_status":"USEAR3","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"12","g_site2_node_id":"140980","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0.585703"},"nds":{"n_key":"140980","n_urlkey":"256916","n_parent":"139254","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/44\/slotbot-arena","n_slug":"slotbot-arena","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"140979","n_created":"1554648190","n_modified":"1556579103","n_version":"454208","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":140980,"parent":139254,"superparent":9,"author":140979,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"jam","published":"2019-04-29T23:05:03Z","created":"2019-04-07T14:43:10Z","modified":"2019-04-29T23:05:03Z","version":454208,"slug":"slotbot-arena","name":"Slotbot Arena","body":"![Slotbot Arena_T.PNG](\/\/\/raw\/3b6\/22\/z\/22754.png)\n![samplegame.gif](\/\/\/raw\/3b6\/22\/z\/2276a.gif)\n\n![samplegame2.gif](\/\/\/raw\/3b6\/22\/z\/22799.gif)\n\n\u200b- *Prototype SHMUP following the Ludum dare 44 theme:  Your Life is Currency!*\n\n- *Fight in an arena against other robots.  All coin operated (weird huh?)*\n![samplegame3.gif](\/\/\/raw\/3b6\/22\/z\/2279e.gif)\n\n- *Your starting form won't be enough.  Exchange bodies with enemies you've defeated to revive life and boost your power!*\n![samplegame4.gif](\/\/\/raw\/3b6\/22\/z\/22797.gif)\n\n- *Be mindful of where you're going, the coins only give so much time!  You'll have to rush to regenerate energy to earn coins\u200b (i'm sure some lore could be made up to explain that one!).  You wouldn't want to get stuck in front of an enemy when your character needs more energy, right?!*\n\n- *5 stages is all there is, but the final stage is the most difficult and I don't expect anyone to get through it.  Plus it's a prototype!*\n\n- _*Have fun!*_\n\n![samplegame5.gif](\/\/\/raw\/3b6\/22\/z\/227b7.gif)\n\n\n![tut2.PNG](\/\/\/raw\/3b6\/22\/z\/2267a.png)\n\n\n\n","meta":{"author":[140979],"grade-06-out":"1","cover":"\/\/\/content\/3b6\/22\/z\/2299d.png","allow-anonymous-comments":"1","link-01-tag":"42336","link-01-name":"itch.io url","link-01":"https:\/\/isayneigh.itch.io\/slotbot-arena"},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/44\/slotbot-arena","parents":[1,5,9,139254],"love":0,"notes":12,"notes-timestamp":"2019-05-02T01:29:03Z","grade":{"grade-01":11,"grade-02":11,"grade-03":10,"grade-04":10,"grade-05":10,"grade-07":10,"grade-08":10},"magic":{"cool":92.702481088696,"feedback":6,"given":6.875,"grade":10.285714285714,"smart":-2.016866530793}},"text":"![Slotbot Arena_T.PNG](\/\/\/raw\/3b6\/22\/z\/22754.png)\n![samplegame.gif](\/\/\/raw\/3b6\/22\/z\/2276a.gif)\n\n![samplegame2.gif](\/\/\/raw\/3b6\/22\/z\/22799.gif)\n\n\u200b- *Prototype SHMUP following the Ludum dare 44 theme:  Your Life is Currency!*\n\n- *Fight in an arena against other robots.  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