{"author_link":"\/users\/aeveis","author_name":"aeveis","author_uid":"1004834","comments":[{"author_name":"WongKongPhooey","author_uid":"1076102","time":"2019-04-29T17:35:44Z","epoch":1556559344,"modified":1556559344,"text":"A nice experience and change of pace from the other jam games. The graphics look great and I particularly like how the text drops into place as it displays. Well done!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Fat cat","author_uid":"1106039","time":"2019-04-29T21:19:22Z","epoch":1556572762,"modified":1556572762,"text":"Really adorable graphics!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"randomhuman","author_uid":"1000453","time":"2019-04-29T22:10:28Z","epoch":1556575828,"modified":1556575828,"text":"Not a lot to the gameplay, but there are some nice sentiments and the art is really nice. I love that crying bird and the way he hops around.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Oivin F","author_uid":"1063332","time":"2019-04-29T22:25:55Z","epoch":1556576755,"modified":1556576755,"text":"An experience more than a game. But a wholesome and visually pretty experience","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"treslapin","author_uid":"1125901","time":"2019-04-29T22:48:17Z","epoch":1556578097,"modified":1556578097,"text":"Ah so pretty! I loved it. Thanks for the experience. :)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"jjjjason","author_uid":"1048483","time":"2019-04-29T23:51:53Z","epoch":1556581913,"modified":1556581913,"text":"Pleasant. A very thoughtful interpretation of the theme.\n\nDid you design the underlying system in a way that you can easily iterate upon in the future? Or did you imagine this more of a PoC whose idea you'll continue on?","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Polkadotbot","author_uid":"1141990","time":"2019-04-30T03:26:30Z","epoch":1556594790,"modified":1556594790,"text":"Super cute. It's a nice break from all the things trying to kill you. Would love to see more.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Wesxdz","author_uid":"1043805","time":"2019-04-30T05:35:31Z","epoch":1556602531,"modified":1556602531,"text":"I really liked how short and approachable your game was. You created something great even though the scope was small, that's not something I see done well often :)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"saoi-games","author_uid":"1079667","time":"2019-04-30T06:15:05Z","epoch":1556604905,"modified":1556604905,"text":"The graphics are really well done. I hope that you get more time to work on this post jam. \n\nThe text was a little hard to read, but the pico8 type games doesn't give you much options. \n\nWhat are your future plans for the project?","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"KP_CFTSZ","author_uid":"1077857","time":"2019-04-30T07:18:53Z","epoch":1556608733,"modified":1556608733,"text":"Short (by design I guess) but enjoyable, adorable art\/music","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"johanhelsing","author_uid":"1140305","time":"2019-04-30T07:26:36Z","epoch":1556609196,"modified":1556609196,"text":"I love the crow. Graphics and audio are really cool :)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"tammukka","author_uid":"1153052","time":"2019-04-30T07:46:24Z","epoch":1556610384,"modified":1556610384,"text":"Art is cute, can we get a longer game with the birb? :smile: I spent more time just hopping around than I'd like to admit","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Harksa","author_uid":"1125803","time":"2019-04-30T08:09:48Z","epoch":1556611788,"modified":1556611800,"text":"This is a cute experience but I don't see the theme of the gamejam. ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Fenderbate","author_uid":"1076055","time":"2019-04-30T08:30:48Z","epoch":1556613048,"modified":1556613048,"text":"This is a very interesting entry. If I had to guess the theme is interpeted as this: Your life is your own, and you choose how to SPEND it. I might be absolutely wrong, maybe the theme isn't interpeted as a whole, or not at all and i'm just overthinking this :sweat_smile: Nontheless I like entries that go beyond the usual stabby-stab kill the bad theme.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"NandoN","author_uid":"1152926","time":"2019-04-30T11:39:59Z","epoch":1556624399,"modified":1556624399,"text":"Interesting little interaction","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Ekilibr","author_uid":"1000445","time":"2019-04-30T11:40:54Z","epoch":1556624454,"modified":1556624454,"text":"Original concept :) Had trouble to see the link with the theme, but passed that, mood and graphics are pretty neat!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Linheha","author_uid":"1045303","time":"2019-04-30T11:49:30Z","epoch":1556624970,"modified":1556624970,"text":"Peaceful games are the best <3\nand look at this cut little bird\nAlso I didn't understand how the theme was interpreted in your game, but I don't care :D \nI hope you will continue to make more game like this","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Kerdelos","author_uid":"1001554","time":"2019-04-30T11:56:23Z","epoch":1556625383,"modified":1556625383,"text":"Really relaxing ! Everything fits well together and the concept of playing such a short time is interesting !","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"aeveis","author_uid":"1004834","time":"2019-04-30T12:05:14Z","epoch":1556625914,"modified":1556625946,"text":"Thanks for the comments everyone!\n\n@jjjjason There's sort of an underlying system in the works, I had to jam out things to just make it work this time around. Eventually though I'd hope I can use the system for dialogue type stuff whenever I need it for games. Thematically as a proof of concept I really don't know how people will react to the writing, so I guess there's that. \n\n@saoi-games The game is done in Haxeflixel, but the text was originally made to be as small as possible, which I would like to do differently eventually. For a pixel art game, I'm thinking it'll be nice if the text was 2x or 4x the game pixel density so things are more readable, but still pixel art. I haven't done anything about that yet though, and localization and other languages also makes things complicated. I don't currently have any plans for this project, though I think thematically I'll probably be leaning on some more things like this (ie. also like my LD 43 game).\n\n@tammukka I think there's something about controlling a character platformer-style that is just fun. :)\n\n@harksa @ekilibr @linheha Thanks! The point is you are given a choice to how you want to live your life. Living itself costs your life, so this was an attempt to make that more intentional while also being encouraging.\n\n@fenderbate Yeah, basically. I tried to dial in on some more specifics of how that can be done- and the hope is for the player to commit to the choice they've made in living out their life. I think this can be hard though if players don't make the connection from their game-self to real-self, or if they don't take the choices they make seriously. Also it can be a lot of a short game to ask for how someone will want to live out their life.\n\n\n","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Eliphas","author_uid":"1076863","time":"2019-04-30T14:06:20Z","epoch":1556633180,"modified":1556633292,"text":"Very small but good looking game.\nGood work!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Drauthius","author_uid":"1008285","time":"2019-04-30T14:40:46Z","epoch":1556635246,"modified":1556635246,"text":"Nice art and concept","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Becher","author_uid":"1147067","time":"2019-04-30T14:59:46Z","epoch":1556636386,"modified":1556636386,"text":"It's cute :heart:.  \ni love the crow art. ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"jvolonte","author_uid":"1075122","time":"2019-04-30T16:36:19Z","epoch":1556642179,"modified":1556642179,"text":"Didn't get why everyone was crying :( but the parrot is cute. Nice interpretation ^^","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"voidfishing","author_uid":"1123187","time":"2019-04-30T22:47:52Z","epoch":1556664472,"modified":1556664472,"text":"i like this!! the concept works really well for a short little narrative and it's a really nice, different use of the theme; some of the writing is really sweet and i love the graphics and the audio - especially the little crow!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"JediNeeson","author_uid":"1152784","time":"2019-04-30T23:52:43Z","epoch":1556668363,"modified":1556668363,"text":"Cool art and sfx! GG","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Daniel Moreno","author_uid":"1009807","time":"2019-05-01T16:06:44Z","epoch":1556726804,"modified":1556726804,"text":"Graphics are absolutely beautiful, and I get it is a narrative experience, so it doesn't need to be a larger game (it is more like a interactive experience, I guess?). The way the text is show is really polished, but maybe a more readable font would be better. I'm not really sure how this fits the theme, but I'm probably not getting it and that's my fault, haha.\n\nGood job!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Kukareru Sekai","author_uid":"1144625","time":"2019-05-02T08:06:31Z","epoch":1556784391,"modified":1556784391,"text":"Very relaxing and differently paced entry. I enjoyed the atmosphere the game proved, but I didn't really get it. It felt like I was reading a bunch of fortune cookies, but I enjoyed feeling like that. Nice work!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"AVAVT","author_uid":"1012875","time":"2019-05-02T13:28:43Z","epoch":1556803723,"modified":1556803723,"text":"I wish I have your sense of color, your pieces are always so innocently colorful.\n\nThe experience was simple and nice as always!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Webow","author_uid":"1152051","time":"2019-05-02T20:38:14Z","epoch":1556829494,"modified":1556829494,"text":"I like the sprites very much and though short, what is here is a nice start to a nice little story-based game. ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"MateusBoga","author_uid":"1059026","time":"2019-05-03T00:18:38Z","epoch":1556842718,"modified":1556842718,"text":"What an odd but interesting game. It's very phisolophical and religious, very cool!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"elrobo","author_uid":"1001518","time":"2019-05-03T07:21:38Z","epoch":1556868098,"modified":1556868098,"text":"Really liked the bird sprite, very cute. Also very nice to have the instructions in the game.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Reality Blind","author_uid":"1058401","time":"2019-05-04T12:14:49Z","epoch":1556972089,"modified":1556972090,"text":"Beautiful art and interesting experience \u2764","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Dorkulon","author_uid":"1059246","time":"2019-05-04T19:19:22Z","epoch":1556997562,"modified":1556997562,"text":"I loved the art and sound design. Super cute little experience! :two_hearts: ","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"foolmoron","author_uid":"1002602","time":"2019-05-05T23:52:53Z","epoch":1557100373,"modified":1557100373,"text":"Really nice presentation that creates more questions than it answers, in a good way","likes":0,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld44\/151878-1f92bf5900414fddda88b5c70c29db7c.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/yk5l4cqq5up89vj\/AMomentToReflect_compo_source_by_aeveis.zip?dl=0","text":"Source code"},{"url":"https:\/\/aeveis.itch.io\/a-moment-to-reflect","text":"HTML5 (web)"},{"url":"https:\/\/aeveis.itch.io\/a-moment-to-reflect","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/aeveis.itch.io\/a-moment-to-reflect","text":"Flash (web)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"39801","g_author":"1004834","g_event":"LD44","g_eventkey":"75","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"253458","g_title":"A Moment To Reflect","g_status":"USEAR3","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"34","g_site2_node_id":"151878","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0.897155"},"nds":{"n_key":"151878","n_urlkey":"253458","n_parent":"139254","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/44\/a-moment-to-reflect","n_slug":"a-moment-to-reflect","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"4834","n_created":"1556469354","n_modified":"1556470081","n_version":"440700","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":151878,"parent":139254,"superparent":9,"author":4834,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"compo","published":"2019-04-28T16:48:01Z","created":"2019-04-28T16:35:54Z","modified":"2019-04-28T16:48:01Z","version":440700,"slug":"a-moment-to-reflect","name":"A Moment To Reflect","body":"![ld_preview.png](\/\/\/raw\/2e2\/1\/z\/20e9d.png)\n\n## Description\n\nYou are some kind of bird in a garden. You have been given a moment to think about life.\n\nMore experiments in short narrative. Also I'm on vacation so this was scoped pretty minimally.\n\nThanks for playing!\n\n\n## Controls\n\n- **[Arrow Keys]** to Move\n- **[X]** to Interact\n\n\n## Tools\n\n- Art: **Gimp**\n- Library: **HaxeFlixel**\n- IDE: **Flash Develop**\n- Music\/Sound: **OpenMPT**\n- Level Editor: **Tiled**\n","meta":{"author":[4834],"cover":"\/\/\/content\/2e2\/1\/z\/20e8e.png","link-01":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/yk5l4cqq5up89vj\/AMomentToReflect_compo_source_by_aeveis.zip?dl=0","link-01-tag":"42332","link-01-name":"Source (Dropbox)","link-02-tag":"42336","link-03-tag":"42337","link-04-tag":"42438","link-02":"https:\/\/aeveis.itch.io\/a-moment-to-reflect","link-03":"https:\/\/aeveis.itch.io\/a-moment-to-reflect","link-04":"https:\/\/aeveis.itch.io\/a-moment-to-reflect"},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/44\/a-moment-to-reflect","parents":[1,5,9,139254],"love":0,"notes":34,"notes-timestamp":"2019-05-05T23:52:53Z","grade":{"grade-01":63,"grade-02":61,"grade-03":63,"grade-04":60,"grade-05":62,"grade-06":61,"grade-07":55,"grade-08":61},"magic":{"cool":45.509666084393,"feedback":17,"given":12.375,"grade":60.75,"smart":-41.380771143169}},"text":"![ld_preview.png](\/\/\/raw\/2e2\/1\/z\/20e9d.png)\n\n## Description\n\nYou are some kind of bird in a garden. You have been given a moment to think about life.\n\nMore experiments in short narrative. Also I'm on vacation so this was scoped pretty minimally.\n\nThanks for playing!\n\n\n## Controls\n\n- **[Arrow Keys]** to Move\n- **[X]** to Interact\n\n\n## Tools\n\n- Art: **Gimp**\n- Library: **HaxeFlixel**\n- IDE: **Flash Develop**\n- Music\/Sound: **OpenMPT**\n- Level Editor: **Tiled**\n","title":"A Moment To Reflect"}