{"author_link":"\/users\/emeffe","author_name":"emeffe","author_uid":1120215,"comments":[{"author_name":"Pukami","author_uid":"1124850","time":"2018-12-04T00:49:23Z","epoch":1543884563,"modified":1543884563,"text":"The itch.io link isn't working for me! I'd love to try the game out though, so please ping me when it's up","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Pokang","author_uid":1120757,"time":"2018-12-04T01:08:54Z","epoch":1543885734,"modified":1543885734,"text":"@pukami it is up now! Sorry, my mistake :P \nThank you for your interest!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Literal_Filth","author_uid":1108619,"time":"2018-12-04T01:10:09Z","epoch":1543885809,"modified":1543885809,"text":"Loved the art, but the hit detection for attacks needs work. I found myself having a lot of trouble actually hitting anything. Fun idea too. Trying for some clearer sounds would help a lot too! Otherwise a great first step!","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Pokang","author_uid":1120757,"time":"2018-12-04T01:14:15Z","epoch":1543886055,"modified":1543886055,"text":"@literal-filth Thank you so much for your feedback ! We're aware that the hitboxes are kind of wonky and we'll make better ones next time ! \nAbout the sound, well, yeah... I know hahaha I recorded them on my scuffed mic, I would've done better if I had better hardware, but that's no excuse!\nThank you for playing\u2665","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"danman9914","author_uid":"1001455","time":"2018-12-04T01:32:19Z","epoch":1543887139,"modified":1543887139,"text":"Short and sweet! I liked the voxel-style art and the use of lights. Visually, it reminded me of Bit.Trip Runner. Nice use of the theme. For those playing with a keyboard, I recommend having the controls up in another tab. By the way @pokang the \"Interact\" controls on the itch.io page are wrong! It says 'A' with a keyboard but it's really 'Q'. Took me a while to figure out. Otherwise, great entry!","likes":4,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Pokang","author_uid":1120757,"time":"2018-12-04T01:36:43Z","epoch":1543887403,"modified":1543887403,"text":"@danman9914 Thank you so much for your feedback, it's really an honor to receive comments from someone that made the almighty Pony Island.\nThank you for your bindings feedback, I'll update that, I got QWERTY and AZERTY mixed up!\nThanks\u2665","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"JCPD","author_uid":"1079186","time":"2018-12-04T17:30:16Z","epoch":1543944616,"modified":1543944616,"text":"Nice graphics ! :P really original story ! love it.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Pokang","author_uid":1120757,"time":"2018-12-04T17:35:42Z","epoch":1543944942,"modified":1543944942,"text":"Thank you very much @jcpd \u2665","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"JohnnyGinard","author_uid":"1124621","time":"2018-12-04T17:38:49Z","epoch":1543945129,"modified":1543945129,"text":"Very cool idea! Hadn\u2019t thought about that! hehe :P :top:","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Mike Mihe","author_uid":1125096,"time":"2018-12-04T18:06:46Z","epoch":1543946806,"modified":1543946806,"text":"Unreal grafics and art is looks cool! But i can't hit anything (keyboard input)? i hope u fix it =(","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"emeffe","author_uid":1120215,"time":"2018-12-04T18:58:47Z","epoch":1543949927,"modified":1543949950,"text":"Hey @mike-mihe! Thanks for your feedback, we'll try to fix that asap :)\nThanks @johnnyginard ! we are glad you liked our game ^^","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"YongminPark","author_uid":"1057811","time":"2018-12-04T19:40:01Z","epoch":1543952401,"modified":1543952401,"text":"The entire voxel models looks really lice.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Pokang","author_uid":1120757,"time":"2018-12-05T01:49:48Z","epoch":1543974588,"modified":1543974588,"text":"@YongminPark Oooh thank you so much!\n","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Pokang","author_uid":1120757,"time":"2018-12-05T01:50:09Z","epoch":1543974609,"modified":1543974609,"text":"@johnnyginard Glad you liked it!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"pelicanodepico","author_uid":"1125153","time":"2018-12-05T23:54:43Z","epoch":1544054083,"modified":1544054083,"text":"So cool art style, my laptop almost can't deal with it but I loved the original concept!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"BinaryLynx","author_uid":"1132928","time":"2018-12-06T00:16:35Z","epoch":1544055395,"modified":1544055395,"text":"Nice art and animations!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"TheSomeoneXD","author_uid":"1054609","time":"2018-12-06T00:53:48Z","epoch":1544057628,"modified":1544057628,"text":"Voxel art is beautiful. Good job!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Aumbra","author_uid":"1006394","time":"2018-12-06T02:19:49Z","epoch":1544062789,"modified":1544062789,"text":"Graphics were great. Really impressive how much you got done in the jam. Very good job!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Smeax","author_uid":"1015105","time":"2018-12-06T20:21:54Z","epoch":1544127714,"modified":1544127714,"text":"Well this is really good! The voxel graphics looks neat and the sound is pretty good too. The sheep enemies were a bit tough at the beginnging but I got them all down after a few tries :D Well done!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Pokang","author_uid":1120757,"time":"2018-12-06T23:26:10Z","epoch":1544138770,"modified":1544138770,"text":"@pelicanodepico Thank you ! We know it's not very optimized so you don't have to feel bad about your laptop :P","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Pokang","author_uid":1120757,"time":"2018-12-06T23:26:38Z","epoch":1544138798,"modified":1544138798,"text":"@BinaryLynx Thank you!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Pokang","author_uid":1120757,"time":"2018-12-06T23:27:15Z","epoch":1544138835,"modified":1544138835,"text":"@TheSomeoneXD Voxel can only be beautiful :P Thanks!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Pokang","author_uid":1120757,"time":"2018-12-06T23:27:47Z","epoch":1544138867,"modified":1544138867,"text":"@Aumbra Thanks! We're also impressed by how many things we've acheived especially since it was our first jam and first game ever :)","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Pokang","author_uid":1120757,"time":"2018-12-06T23:29:06Z","epoch":1544138946,"modified":1544138946,"text":"@Smeax Thank you but the sound is really not that great... :D \nEnemies are kind of harsh to deal with because of our hitbox system but we're glad you succeeded! ","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Edward Dassmesser","author_uid":"1127693","time":"2018-12-07T00:53:24Z","epoch":1544144004,"modified":1544144004,"text":"Couldn not plays.\n\n5\/5.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"PlagueOfMinds","author_uid":"1128895","time":"2018-12-07T00:58:33Z","epoch":1544144313,"modified":1544144313,"text":"Great first game, but the combat and the dropping of weapons and armor could be improved. Great looking game. I hope you continue to make some more games! Best of luck!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Pokang","author_uid":1120757,"time":"2018-12-07T01:08:20Z","epoch":1544144900,"modified":1544144900,"text":"@PlagueOfMinds Thank you very much for playing! We're aware that we can do better on these points and we will improve it next time we do something, thank you for your wishes!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"AfroAnt","author_uid":"1003671","time":"2018-12-07T03:21:53Z","epoch":1544152913,"modified":1544152913,"text":"Graphics were amazing! I thought it was ironic that I became a better fighter at the end of the game from sheer experience, despite losing the armor. The take on the theme was well done. If you fleshed out the combat \/ platforming, I could see this as a legit game. Good job!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Pellanor","author_uid":"1089700","time":"2018-12-07T05:46:44Z","epoch":1544161604,"modified":1544161604,"text":"Looked really cool, but I could barely hit anything. Got stuck on the first frog :'(","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Vlad Ilisan","author_uid":"1118124","time":"2018-12-07T10:25:11Z","epoch":1544178311,"modified":1544178311,"text":"I love the graphics , good job!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Bingdom","author_uid":1021950,"time":"2018-12-07T12:15:16Z","epoch":1544184916,"modified":1544184916,"text":"Maybe have a single key to drop an item for each 'stage' (or do it automatically with the dialogue).\n\nThis is a solid first game attempt! Well done.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Stending","author_uid":"1000044","time":"2018-12-07T16:16:51Z","epoch":1544199411,"modified":1544199411,"text":"Amazing first entry!\nIt looks beautiful, the animations are super smooth, and it's a great take on the theme!\nLike other people said, the combat feeling could be a bit improved, but that's not a big deal, the game's overall feeling is awesome.\n\nThat's also nice to see you enjoyed your first jam experience, really hope to see you at the next LD!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"MrLeePerry","author_uid":"1036862","time":"2018-12-07T21:40:10Z","epoch":1544218810,"modified":1544218810,"text":"Had some issues sorting out controls initially... but really well done!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Pokang","author_uid":1120757,"time":"2018-12-08T02:54:23Z","epoch":1544237663,"modified":1544237682,"text":"@afroant Haha that's pretty ironic yeah :D Enemies do hit harder at the end tho due to your lack of armor! Thank you for your kind feedback :)\n\n@pellanor I'm sorry you felt that way, we've had a few comments about the hitboxes but it's the first time someone doesn't get past the frog :(\n\n@vlad-ilisan Thank you very much!\n\n@bingdom That's a pretty good idea! We didn't think of that. We didn't do it while the dialog because we wanted the player to \"feel\" that he was making a sacrifice. Thank you for the kind words. :)\n\n@mrleeperry Thank you! We know the kbm controls aren't very cool to use, we developed the game with the focus of making it a controller game, thank you for playing it and giving feedback!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"DeathBySnail","author_uid":"1000461","time":"2018-12-10T13:22:43Z","epoch":1544448163,"modified":1544448163,"text":"For a first try you guys did good. Hit detection definitely needs improvement!","likes":0,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld43\/120835-72bc11cd28a2b9085d64d0a8245dab43.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/pokang.itch.io\/hatty-n-tom","text":"Windows"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"40762","g_author":"1120215","g_event":"LD43","g_eventkey":"71","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"223540","g_title":"Our first game, Hatty & Tom.","g_status":"USEAR3","g_place":"391","g_commentcount":"35","g_site2_node_id":"120835","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"120835","n_urlkey":"223540","n_parent":"120415","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/43\/our-first-game-hatty-tom","n_slug":"our-first-game-hatty-tom","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"120215","n_created":"1541790344","n_modified":"1543887622","n_version":"396789","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":120835,"parent":120415,"superparent":9,"author":120215,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"jam","published":"2018-12-04T00:37:21Z","created":"2018-11-09T19:05:44Z","modified":"2018-12-04T01:40:22Z","version":396789,"slug":"our-first-game-hatty-tom","name":"Our first game, Hatty & Tom.","body":"Hey everyone!\n\nWe're very proud to present you our first game, first LD, first Jam!\n\nIt's called Hatty & Tom, the theme was \"Sacrifices must be made\", and we decided to make a short story-driven 3D Sidescroller in which you start at the final boss, and have to make sacrifices along the way to get back to your hometown.\nYou're Tom, seeking adventures and glory with your living-hat-bunny friend, Hatty, who guides you through the Voxel-style world you're part of. The game has been made to be played with a controller but you can still play it with a keyboard, the binds are listed at the end of this text.\n\n![unknown (2).png](\/\/\/raw\/5b7\/d1\/z\/1da90.png)\n\nThis is the first time we're making a game and we're honestly very proud of it, it makes us happy considering the fact that we were a team of 3 which was very unexperienced in the game development domain.\nOur team consisted of Dumbeldor (programmer), Emeffe (programmer), and Pokang (beginner artist)!\nWe all learnt how to use Unreal Engine on the run and we learnt a whole lot during this jam, working in a restricted environment really brings up the best out of a learning experience.\nWe didn't sleep a lot and we worked super hard to bring a decent game for you guys and for ourselves, and we're very satisfied with what we made, we hope you will enjoy it!\nEverything happened super fast and we weren't seeing time passing by!\n\n\nNow that I've shortly introduced our game and team I will enter in the more technical details for those interested.\n\nTo make this game, we've used these resources : \n\n\t-Unreal Engine 4\n\t-MagicaVoxel (thank you ephtracy ily so much?)\n\t-Mixamo\n\t-Photoshop\n\t-Audacity\n\t-LMMS\n\t-GitHub\n\nAbout the assets, every voxel asset has been made by Pokang on MagicaVoxel and he's super thankful for ephtracy who made such an intuitive and beautiful software to use.\nWe've chosen to use Mixamo for rigging and animations because it makes decent, fast and cool animations, that can be a little goofy sometimes, which we enjoy!\nWe've used Photoshop for a few UI assets, and all the sound effects have been recorded by Pokang and his scuffed mic with various objects around his apartment.\nThe super short music loop has been made by Pokang on LMMS, he's never really made music before so the track is very simple, we didn't want to have a near to silent world and we didn't want to use other's people assets!\nAll the rest has been made by our super cool programmers who have made an crazy job at learning UE4 along their path to enlightment and who learnt a whole lot of cool things during the development of the game.\nWe're impressed at how many things we've come to acheive during the 72 hours of the jam and these things include : \n\n\t-A cool main menu\n\t-A lot of animations for characters\n\t-A fighting system\n\t-An equipment system with items you can drop when needed\n\t-A dialog system which brings a story we entirely wrote and imagined from scratch\n\t-Crouching, jumping, movement features\n\t-A platformer part\n\t-A healing system\n\t-A very short cinematic\n\t-A checkpoint system\n\t-Very mean enemies that attack you just for the sake of it\n\t-Credits!\n\t-An excessive theine consumption by the team\n\n![Capture.PNG](\/\/\/raw\/5b7\/d1\/z\/1ddec.png)\n\n![unknown.png](\/\/\/raw\/5b7\/d1\/z\/1d9f3.png)\n\nNow to give a little background about where this all started, Dumbeldor and Emeffe are both students and friends in the 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first game, first LD, first Jam!\n\nIt's called Hatty & Tom, the theme was \"Sacrifices must be made\", and we decided to make a short story-driven 3D Sidescroller in which you start at the final boss, and have to make sacrifices along the way to get back to your hometown.\nYou're Tom, seeking adventures and glory with your living-hat-bunny friend, Hatty, who guides you through the Voxel-style world you're part of. The game has been made to be played with a controller but you can still play it with a keyboard, the binds are listed at the end of this text.\n\n![unknown (2).png](\/\/\/raw\/5b7\/d1\/z\/1da90.png)\n\nThis is the first time we're making a game and we're honestly very proud of it, it makes us happy considering the fact that we were a team of 3 which was very unexperienced in the game development domain.\nOur team consisted of Dumbeldor (programmer), Emeffe (programmer), and Pokang (beginner artist)!\nWe all learnt how to use Unreal Engine on the run and we learnt a whole lot during this jam, working in a restricted environment really brings up the best out of a learning experience.\nWe didn't sleep a lot and we worked super hard to bring a decent game for you guys and for ourselves, and we're very satisfied with what we made, we hope you will enjoy it!\nEverything happened super fast and we weren't seeing time passing by!\n\n\nNow that I've shortly introduced our game and team I will enter in the more technical details for those interested.\n\nTo make this game, we've used these resources : \n\n\t-Unreal Engine 4\n\t-MagicaVoxel (thank you ephtracy ily so much?)\n\t-Mixamo\n\t-Photoshop\n\t-Audacity\n\t-LMMS\n\t-GitHub\n\nAbout the assets, every voxel asset has been made by Pokang on MagicaVoxel and he's super thankful for ephtracy who made such an intuitive and beautiful software to use.\nWe've chosen to use Mixamo for rigging and animations because it makes decent, fast and cool animations, that can be a little goofy sometimes, which we enjoy!\nWe've used Photoshop for a few UI assets, and all the sound effects have been recorded by Pokang and his scuffed mic with various objects around his apartment.\nThe super short music loop has been made by Pokang on LMMS, he's never really made music before so the track is very simple, we didn't want to have a near to silent world and we didn't want to use other's people assets!\nAll the rest has been made by our super cool programmers who have made an crazy job at learning UE4 along their path to enlightment and who learnt a whole lot of cool things during the development of the game.\nWe're impressed at how many things we've come to acheive during the 72 hours of the jam and these things include : \n\n\t-A cool main menu\n\t-A lot of animations for characters\n\t-A fighting system\n\t-An equipment system with items you can drop when needed\n\t-A dialog system which brings a story we entirely wrote and imagined from scratch\n\t-Crouching, jumping, movement features\n\t-A platformer part\n\t-A healing system\n\t-A very short cinematic\n\t-A checkpoint system\n\t-Very mean enemies that attack you just for the sake of it\n\t-Credits!\n\t-An excessive theine consumption by the team\n\n![Capture.PNG](\/\/\/raw\/5b7\/d1\/z\/1ddec.png)\n\n![unknown.png](\/\/\/raw\/5b7\/d1\/z\/1d9f3.png)\n\nNow to give a little background about where this all started, Dumbeldor and Emeffe are both students and friends in the same class, and Dumbeldor met Pokang during another project which is called Skyrim Together, a Skyrim mod that has the objective of bringing multiplayer and coop to Skyrim.\n\nFeel free to tell us your honest opinion about our game, we'd love to hear it even if it's not positive!\n\nWe're looking forward to playing all of your awesome submissions guys, I've personally noted some of them that I REALLY want to play.\n\n![unknown (1).png](\/\/\/raw\/5b7\/d1\/z\/1da94.png)\n\nThank you Ludum Dare to give us this wonderful opportunity to train ourselves and create cool stuff, we enjoyed this event so much as a team.","title":"Our first game, Hatty & Tom."}