{"author_link":"\/author\/herszkorn-sacha\/","author_name":"bigbatardyt","author_uid":"90726","comments":[{"author_name":"Martin Enderleit","author_uid":"18859","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 8:32am","epoch":1460968020,"text":"Love the graphics, music, and mood. But it was pretty difficult to play. The shooting directions was unintuitive to me. I also had trouble moving around obstacles quickly enough. Other than that... Great job."},{"author_name":"_beta","author_uid":"86563","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 8:37am","epoch":1460968320,"text":"Kindo off difficult to play, but nice graphics and ideas"},{"author_name":"luquio","author_uid":"90316","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 8:52am","epoch":1460969220,"text":"I saw the twitch and I came to play your game, it worked a little slow on my Mac :( but it's great"},{"author_name":"Tygrak","author_uid":"91658","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 9:17am","epoch":1460970720,"text":"The game was very difficult for me, but it looks good and has a cool mechanic."},{"author_name":"Lancelot Gao","author_uid":"3035","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 9:30am","epoch":1460971500,"text":"Love the art, Great work!"},{"author_name":"Berserker_Chris","author_uid":"52858","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 9:34am","epoch":1460971740,"text":"Really cool Idea, but its hard to play, some times the time to shift is to short. Shooting is unintuitv."},{"author_name":"Przekop","author_uid":"91564","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 10:05am","epoch":1460973600,"text":"Looks great, sounds cool. But the fact that you have to mash w or s to go up\/down in 3d mode was quite unpleasant, and at fist it is too dark."},{"author_name":"thomz12","author_uid":"35164","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 10:38am","epoch":1460975580,"text":"Graphics and music are great, its very difficult to play in 3D and dodge the walls."},{"author_name":"staircase27","author_uid":"91010","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 10:39am","epoch":1460975640,"text":"Very difficult to play. Couldn't work out how to move properly"},{"author_name":"notime4games","author_uid":"88269","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 10:59am","epoch":1460976840,"text":"I like the idea of switching between first person and side scroller.\rHowever I never got past the first wall, tried 10 times to get it right. Seems you need to mash w and s to go up\/down in first person mode? I'm missing something here I'm sure"},{"author_name":"Drenghel","author_uid":"67582","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 11:01am","epoch":1460976960,"text":"Liked to idea a lot, but yeah, pretty hard to control.\rAnd for some reason, I couldn't see the right part of the screen. Probably blocking me from see the Shifting jauge.\r\rAnd I had a bug during tutorial, the last message panel refused to go away even with spamming the Enter key.\r\rStill, congratz :)"},{"author_name":"Saymon","author_uid":"50227","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 11:01am","epoch":1460976960,"text":"Great work, but i had trouble with the obstacles in the beginning."},{"author_name":"Red15","author_uid":"3348","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 11:05am","epoch":1460977200,"text":"A real challenge to play, the relation shooting direction is a weird one, perhaps switch together with shifting or make it scroll from the top instead of the right"},{"author_name":"ConorOD","author_uid":"89815","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 11:30am","epoch":1460978700,"text":"Top marks for music, graphics and concept, but too many frustrating elements with the controls and gameplay to enjoy fully. For example, you need to press 'up' to fire forward in 2D mode - it should be 'right'. Also, I couldn't figure out how to change height in 3D mode, and switching to it from 2D mode seemed to reset it every time, making it impossible to progress."},{"author_name":"Kazetsukai","author_uid":"89028","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 11:52am","epoch":1460980020,"text":"Didn't understand the controls very well, holding up didn't seem to make me go above the wall?"},{"author_name":"ruchirbapat","author_uid":"88260","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 12:13pm","epoch":1460981280,"text":"nice graphics and mood. its a cool game"},{"author_name":"whilefun","author_uid":"7424","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 12:55pm","epoch":1460983800,"text":"The graphics and music were really good. I found the pace of the movement between 2D and 3D shift too sudden, and always failed to pull up in time. I think a slower transition zone or more advanced "shift coming" warning could make this more approachable. Very cool idea!"},{"author_name":"Lokkij","author_uid":"90824","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 2:24pm","epoch":1460989140,"text":"This is a great entry. The core idea of shifting between 2D and 3D is well-executed and very fun. It suffers from occasionally unintuitive controls and the connection between the 2D and 3D versions of the world is sometimes unclear, making it difficult to predict what the other mode will look like. Still, the great idea and level design make up for this. Great job!"},{"author_name":"KodingNights","author_uid":"33865","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 4:21pm","epoch":1460996160,"text":"Cool with the transition, but moving up and down with the ship in first persion view was too slow, I crashed all the time... :'("},{"author_name":"AinoraZ","author_uid":"50640","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 8:58pm","epoch":1461012780,"text":"Pretty cool game, tough the control were a little too wonky for me. It's hard to control the ship properly. Anyway, good job with the game!"},{"author_name":"davor10105","author_uid":"69795","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 10:11pm","epoch":1461017160,"text":"Quirky mechanics, but very interesting indeed"},{"author_name":"MattThePie","author_uid":"42363","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 11:15pm","epoch":1461021000,"text":"This is really sweet man, well done. I'm sooo bad at it though!"},{"author_name":"Scoff Studios","author_uid":"64138","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 11:30pm","epoch":1461021900,"text":"Difficult indeed!"},{"author_name":"Odyssey","author_uid":"58620","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 12:29am","epoch":1461025440,"text":"Very difficult and the controls were a bit off, but cool mechanic"},{"author_name":"jcmonkey","author_uid":"57798","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 1:19am","epoch":1461028440,"text":"this is an amazing game, with some more love this could be an even more amazing game."},{"author_name":"TriSquare","author_uid":"45249","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 1:20am","epoch":1461028500,"text":"Very nice graphics and music I still don't understand the controls and I had trouble with the first few levels"},{"author_name":"Ghust1995","author_uid":"58051","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 1:48am","epoch":1461030180,"text":"Very interesting mechanics. The UI is a little bit confusing and it's kind if hard to see your bullets. but I really liked the idea =)"},{"author_name":"RetroSpecter","author_uid":"86533","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 2:01am","epoch":1461030960,"text":"It is a pretty cool concept, though a little bit rough around in the execution. The gameplay is a bit confusing at first and very difficult. I wish I could just shift at will. But its super cool on the graphics and design end."},{"author_name":"Remdiky","author_uid":"85681","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 5:35am","epoch":1461043800,"text":"Its too difficult for me, but idea with shifting is very cool!"},{"author_name":"mactinite","author_uid":"26320","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 5:43am","epoch":1461044280,"text":"Great job! Pretty difficult for me."},{"author_name":"Khaoz_Fang","author_uid":"91082","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 6:43am","epoch":1461047880,"text":"Really fantasy graphics."},{"author_name":"Adipson","author_uid":"22158","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 8:18am","epoch":1461053580,"text":"good job"},{"author_name":"DuckTieTeam","author_uid":"87994","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 8:18am","epoch":1461053580,"text":"Super awesome games. However sometimes you just cannot see bullets of the enemies."},{"author_name":"TeamLambda","author_uid":"76236","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 12:36pm","epoch":1461069060,"text":"Nice graphs, everything looks very good!\rHowever I had a hard time to navigate and avoid the obstacles in 3D. \rThe idea of shifting dimensions is really nice :)"},{"author_name":"Mordokay","author_uid":"90600","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 1:00pm","epoch":1461070500,"text":"Great idea and an even greater execution .. good job!"},{"author_name":"pogo","author_uid":"93256","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 2:30pm","epoch":1461075900,"text":"I love the 3d\/2d switching - the 3d seconds look awesome.\rI found that the shooting felt really awkward, and the bullets moved to fast to dodge, so every fight feels like shooting the enemies until one of you dies. A quick restart key would also be really cool!"},{"author_name":"DieBackStudios","author_uid":"62053","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 3:50pm","epoch":1461080700,"text":"the art style and music really makes it shine :D"},{"author_name":"orukinawa","author_uid":"34628","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 5:39pm","epoch":1461087240,"text":"The wall reflections make it a bit confusing but also give a trippy feel to the game, I like that"},{"author_name":"MintArcade","author_uid":"35966","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 6:09pm","epoch":1461089040,"text":"Little bit hard at first, but it's great!"},{"author_name":"ohmaigawd","author_uid":"60756","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 9:48pm","epoch":1461102180,"text":"The game was quite hard to play and I needed some time to figure it out. But after I did it became quite fun! I loved the kinda psychedelic effect when I was in 3D mode :)"},{"author_name":"geekguy100","author_uid":"76055","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 10:13pm","epoch":1461103680,"text":"The graphics were awesome and I think you took shapeshifting in a unique way. Nice job! I did notice though that pressing "D" didn't slow down the ship, it sped it up and caused some shape shifting problems. Other than that, awesome game!"},{"author_name":"Cole and Jordan Studios","author_uid":"61262","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 11:13pm","epoch":1461107280,"text":"This game is great on the graphics side of things, but the gameplay wasn't there, it was immediately far too challenging, but it was fun nonetheless, and the atmosphere was great."},{"author_name":"Kuality Games","author_uid":"46151","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 9:26am","epoch":1461144060,"text":"Great mechanics, shifting in perspective. Gameplay is excellent, a bit hard. Idea is very good though."},{"author_name":"Black Horn Studios","author_uid":"50908","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 10:52am","epoch":1461149220,"text":"Nice game concept!"},{"author_name":"tsjost","author_uid":"19130","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 11:34am","epoch":1461151740,"text":"Could you make a Linux version?"},{"author_name":"Adipson","author_uid":"22158","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 11:41am","epoch":1461152160,"text":"Bravo pour ce jeu, et encore merci à toi pour ton test video ! c'etait vraiment fun de te voir jouer à Shapeshift for cheese en direct avec ma petite souris sur twitch ! :)"},{"author_name":"Gamepopper","author_uid":"21252","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 12:46pm","epoch":1461156060,"text":"Great job with the 2D\/3D shifting. Sadly the game wasn't performing well on my PC, plus the UI buttons and text didn't align well in window mode (so text especially were going off the right of the screen).\r\rThe music was nice but there needs to be a different sound for enemy bullets and player bullets, else it's confusing who is firing and when."},{"author_name":"madalaski","author_uid":"29994","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 1:52pm","epoch":1461160020,"text":"Graphics and music are sublime. Unfortunately, I found the gameplay quite difficult as there was little indication as to when obstacles were coming up and the Screen Size was a little bugged out so I couldn't see the "Shift" meter. Nevertheless very good game."},{"author_name":"Patomkin","author_uid":"57656","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 2:23pm","epoch":1461161880,"text":"The idea is very interesting and could definitely work (as 3D shift shows), but 2D shooting is very weakly implemented :( the enemies shoot really fast, you shoot really fast, something happens, and then you switch to the amazing 3D part. Rework the 2D part and this could become a very interesting game :)"},{"author_name":"PoV","author_uid":"19","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 3:11pm","epoch":1461164760,"text":"When you see this, contact me. http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/contact\/"},{"author_name":"Pestel Crew","author_uid":"47507","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 8:46pm","epoch":1461184860,"text":"Interesting idea, a good prototype! At the beginning of lacking tips."},{"author_name":"DarkFieldGames","author_uid":"91912","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 11:07pm","epoch":1461193320,"text":"Cool game mechanic, hard game. The walls in 3d space could have been a bit more forgiving (would have preferred something like e.g in star fox, if you hit an object, you would fly through it but take damage still). Overall graphics, audio and the overall game is awesome."},{"author_name":"wg_phancock","author_uid":"51056","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 12:08am","epoch":1461196980,"text":"Looks and sounds great and has an interesting mechanic, but it was difficult to understand when enemies were shooting me sometimes, and the controls were pretty touchy in 3D mode. It's a great concept, but I think it probably just needs more than a weekend allows to really get it working in a fun and intuitive way."},{"author_name":"subpixel","author_uid":"66707","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 2:33am","epoch":1461205680,"text":"I really like the concept for this, but the mechanics are still too shaky to enjoy: in level 1, I can get past the first shift, but I have no clue what's going on after that and I just die repeatedly :(\r\rSeriously though, I love the concept, I hope you move it along further!"},{"author_name":"Karai17","author_uid":"46460","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 2:36am","epoch":1461205860,"text":"Interesting game, but too hard to really give it a go."},{"author_name":"josefnpat","author_uid":"11249","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 10:25am","epoch":1461234000,"text":"This is a neat game! I love the game mechanic!"},{"author_name":"gurkenlabs","author_uid":"67508","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 10:29am","epoch":1461234240,"text":"Really cool game :)"},{"author_name":"batmanasb","author_uid":"63802","time":"Apr 22, 2016 @ 12:55am","epoch":1461286200,"text":"Sadly I wasn't able to run the game in WINE on linux, but from what I saw in the streams, it's a clever concept, Definitely rare to see a game with 3D and 2D. \r\rThe game itself looked fun but a little artificially hard due to the vertical movement speed, and the fancy UE4 lighting effects worked wonders on the mood and look of the game, but also made the shots very hard to see."},{"author_name":"Green Soda","author_uid":"64207","time":"Apr 22, 2016 @ 7:47am","epoch":1461310920,"text":"AWESOME GAME ENTRY!! The idea is pretty interesting and genius... but the learning curve is steep... y'know, it's one of those games tht's easy to learn but hard to master... xD Interesting overall.. great game... one of my favorite concepts so far!"},{"author_name":"AnaGF","author_uid":"56020","time":"Apr 22, 2016 @ 10:52am","epoch":1461322020,"text":"Neat game, very original mechanic and good take on the shapeshifting them. Polished graphics too.\rHowever I found it a bit difficult. In my opinion, the most hard task to do is to predict when to change between 2D and 3D, if you could anticipate somewhat when to change between dimensions it would be great."},{"author_name":"Fabraz","author_uid":"50665","time":"Apr 22, 2016 @ 2:00pm","epoch":1461333300,"text":"Interesting concept, Super Paper Mario meets SHMUP!"},{"author_name":"omarhuseynov011","author_uid":"92927","time":"Apr 22, 2016 @ 4:02pm","epoch":1461340620,"text":"Really fun game! I especially liked shifting between 2D and 3D, very creative! I am UE4 dev myself and I can tell you did a very good job. Thanks for the great entry!"},{"author_name":"marmpa","author_uid":"56456","time":"Apr 23, 2016 @ 7:41pm","epoch":1461440160,"text":"This game is incredible.It is far the best game i rated. The fact that you can go from 2d to 3d is so cool.REally nice job."},{"author_name":"davidB","author_uid":"20693","time":"Apr 24, 2016 @ 3:22pm","epoch":1461511020,"text":"in 3D view, I can move up or down (zqsd) the ship rotate but it doesn't up\/down.\rin 2D view, the fire doesn't shoot always in the same direction for the same key.\r\rThanks for the tuto.\r\r\rI play 64bit on Window10 with zqsd."},{"author_name":"Hyden","author_uid":"90504","time":"Apr 24, 2016 @ 4:50pm","epoch":1461516300,"text":"Was fun, I suck at shmups clearly xD"},{"author_name":"Mikaza","author_uid":"62586","time":"Apr 25, 2016 @ 2:22pm","epoch":1461593820,"text":"Juste awsome !!!!"},{"author_name":"MayankUnreal","author_uid":"90244","time":"Apr 26, 2016 @ 7:53pm","epoch":1461700080,"text":"A big tough for others game devlopers to compete. Great graphics and cool mechanics"},{"author_name":"CaptainPilot","author_uid":"41078","time":"Apr 28, 2016 @ 9:19pm","epoch":1461878040,"text":"It was really difficult to play and it wasn't particularly intuitive. That said, it was a neat concept"},{"author_name":"Xanjos","author_uid":"21201","time":"Apr 30, 2016 @ 12:14am","epoch":1461974940,"text":"Game is insanely hard but I absolutely loved the transitions between 2D and 3D gameplay."},{"author_name":"WizzardMaker","author_uid":"53413","time":"Apr 30, 2016 @ 8:19am","epoch":1462004040,"text":"Great looking game, but a whee bit to hard. I had fun playing it"},{"author_name":"Tselmek","author_uid":"48996","time":"May 1, 2016 @ 10:37am","epoch":1462098720,"text":"Saw it played on stream and it was pretty cool, sadly it is immensely laggy on my craptop and is completely unplayable :\/"},{"author_name":"mkghoster","author_uid":"92669","time":"May 1, 2016 @ 6:17pm","epoch":1462126320,"text":"Really liked the 2D-3D shifting but the game is waaaay to hard and unforgiving..."},{"author_name":"Aaranos","author_uid":"51253","time":"May 3, 2016 @ 2:24am","epoch":1462241940,"text":"Neat game. I think the menus need keyboard support. Using the mouse to restart after each death gets tedious due to the difficulty."}],"images":["ld35\/90726-70d2464097384c4b28abd6058835982e.jpg","ld35\/90726-950cd62580872d2cd7dd1413fe1b0932.jpg","ld35\/90726-5a5a8e2930674853f8673c63e735df7e.jpg","ld35\/90726-2217edd3c5653f58a74c11fe677d0f5c.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gamejolt.com\/games\/space-dimension\/141530","text":"Windows-64bits"},{"url":"http:\/\/gamejolt.com\/games\/space-dimension\/141530","text":"Windows-32bits"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"3911","g_author":"90726","g_event":"LD35","g_eventkey":"33","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"3917","g_title":"Space Dimension","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"569","g_commentcount":"73","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\/90726-shot0-1460953530.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/90726-shot1-1460953530.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/90726-shot2-1460953530.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/90726-shot3-1460953530.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Space Dimensions is a top down scroller SHMUP, or not exactly ...\r\n\r\n*---AVOID SPOILERS---*\r\nBy pressing shift, you'll add the third (Z) dimensions, and shift to a third person game.\r\n*---AVOID SPOILERS---*\r\n\r\nThe goal is to master this transition, to get to the end of the level.\r\nA tutorial and 2 levels are available !\r\n\r\nBecause I'm not a sound designer, neither a 3D artist, and because i was all by myself, i used some free asset, and some songs i enjoyed playing with.\r\n\r\nHere is my first jam ! \r\nIt's made with ue4 (Unreal Engine 4), Hope you'll enjoy it !\r\n\r\nONLY THE LEVEL 2 WORKS FOR MAC DEVICES !!\r\n\r\nBE AWARE THIS IS A TRY HARD GAME !!","title":"Space Dimension"}