{"author_link":"\/users\/holofire","author_name":"Holofire","author_uid":"1000246","comments":[{"author_name":"Rytannic","author_uid":"1030536","time":"2018-04-24T02:36:39Z","epoch":1524537399,"modified":1524537399,"text":"Link is broken for me :\/","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Holofire","author_uid":"1000246","time":"2018-04-24T02:53:46Z","epoch":1524538426,"modified":1524538426,"text":"@Rytannic Fixed it now, I stupidly forgot to make the itch.io page public. Derp.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Rytannic","author_uid":"1030536","time":"2018-04-24T02:59:36Z","epoch":1524538776,"modified":1524538777,"text":"@Holofire Not a problem! Just happy I told you about it early on. \nPlayed the game! Loved the music and art style. The gameplay was fast-paced and I could feel the pressure when I really needed a particular card. Sadly it felt a bit unfair or perhaps too random? Perhaps I'm just bad though haha. In general, definitely one of the best I've played so far ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Holofire","author_uid":"1000246","time":"2018-04-24T03:17:11Z","epoch":1524539831,"modified":1524539831,"text":"@Rytannic Aha cheers for playing! Yeah the difficulty is ramps up pretty quickly, I've only managed to beat it without cheating once. I really appreciate the comment :)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Mathiouza","author_uid":"1002200","time":"2018-04-24T11:27:34Z","epoch":1524569254,"modified":1524569254,"text":"Cool game, cool music, cool concept, and all of that, but I just made about 120 m ^^' The game is not well balanced I think ^^' I was surprised also when I saw the player just being deformed ^^ Otherwise the art is quite good, and I mainly like the pictures for the cards.\n\nCool overall game, keep coding :)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"iMer","author_uid":"1000367","time":"2018-04-24T11:35:56Z","epoch":1524569756,"modified":1524569756,"text":"Damn this one was hard & very hectic\n\nVery well done though","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Narudgi","author_uid":"1011561","time":"2018-04-24T12:07:17Z","epoch":1524571637,"modified":1524571637,"text":"So damn cool game! 0: I just struggle to get card and energy, maybe I'm just bad ;-;","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Mau","author_uid":"1013077","time":"2018-04-24T12:07:34Z","epoch":1524571654,"modified":1524571654,"text":"fun, but it's hard to master.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"MathijsVissers","author_uid":"1009522","time":"2018-04-24T12:10:26Z","epoch":1524571826,"modified":1524571826,"text":"Works really well. Simple enough to grasp immediately, enough different options to keep you on your toes. Nice job. ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Killnaprimer","author_uid":"1058265","time":"2018-04-24T12:10:27Z","epoch":1524571827,"modified":1524571827,"text":"By all means, great game! It's fun and fits theme great.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"badpaul34","author_uid":"1000390","time":"2018-04-24T12:11:12Z","epoch":1524571872,"modified":1524571872,"text":"Nice game. We thought about a game like that. You did it well, it's clean. Maybe the jump is a little bit too much slow but it had to be like that because of the gameplay.\nMy only regret is the slow pace of the game.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Holofire","author_uid":"1000246","time":"2018-04-24T12:46:18Z","epoch":1524573978,"modified":1524573978,"text":"@Mathiouza Yeah the balancing is the main thing I'd tweak if I had more time, it gets really difficult at the end.  120m is pretty good though, the highest Ive seen anyone get. Thanks for playing!\n\n@iMer Aha yep the difficult ramps up quickly, got to have those fast reactions. Thanks for playing!\n\n@Narudgi I struggle to keep my energy up aswell, definitely have to keep an eye on it. If I had time I would have balanced it a bit better to make sure energy was in enough supply. Thanks for playing!\n\n@Mau I haven't even mastered it myself, managed to beat it once before I submitted it. Thanks for playing!\n\n@MathijsVissers Cheers for the comment, I really appreciate your kind words :smile: \n\n@Killnaprimer Thank you, I am glad you enjoyed playing because I certainly enjoyed making it!\n\n@badpaul34 Man the jump physics almost caused me to tear my hair out. I had to jump leave it in the end because I was spending too much time on it. If I had more time I would have balanced it a bit better and changed the overall pacing. Thanks for playing!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Holofire","author_uid":"1000246","time":"2018-04-24T12:47:44Z","epoch":1524574064,"modified":1524574064,"text":"Just published a fix to clean up the audio and added a toggle so you can now disable the music and sound effects! Thanks everyone for playing, I'll make sure to play each of your games aswell! :smile: ","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"MoffKalast","author_uid":"1084143","time":"2018-04-24T12:56:29Z","epoch":1524574589,"modified":1524574589,"text":"I like the overall concept and it's really fun to play, though I'm kind of bad at it :stuck_out_tongue: It may be wise to group together the same types of cards in a sort of deck where each is offset by a few pixels upwards instead of having the side deck where you don't exactly know what's inside.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Holofire","author_uid":"1000246","time":"2018-04-24T13:00:55Z","epoch":1524574855,"modified":1524574855,"text":"@MoffKalast Thanks for playing! I almost removed the deck itself during development as I thought it might be too difficult to understand with the pace of the game. If I had the time I would definitely rework how the deck works and possibly remove it.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"pndaa","author_uid":"1001569","time":"2018-04-24T13:06:06Z","epoch":1524575166,"modified":1524575166,"text":"This game is just perfect. Loved it. I could play for hours.\nFit the theme perfectly. Really hard but in a good way. Good job.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"SaberOfSong","author_uid":"1082759","time":"2018-04-24T13:35:10Z","epoch":1524576910,"modified":1524576910,"text":"Amazing BGM and sound effects, cool animations, a perfect blend of your two themes. What's not to like?","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Rocktavious","author_uid":"1053841","time":"2018-04-24T14:40:59Z","epoch":1524580859,"modified":1524580924,"text":"Used a slide card to \"slide\" over a jump gap!  10\/10!\n\nEverything about this game exudes polish and fun!  Great job!!!!\n\nThe only real nitpick i have is i want 1,2,3,4,etc buttons to use the cards instead of the mouse and i want the cards to automatically slot in next to each other as i use them up.  I purchased a \"jump\" card and it ended up on the next page of cards that i didn't know i had and caused me to fail #feelsbad.\n\nI got ~82m","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Holofire","author_uid":"1000246","time":"2018-04-24T16:20:36Z","epoch":1524586836,"modified":1524586837,"text":"@pndaa & @SaberOfSong Thank you for playing guys, I really appreciate the kind words you both have said :smile: \n\n@Rocktavious Oh you've just made me realise something about the slide card I overlooked. Since i had to redo it last minute I cheated a bit and just made it so the players hitbox and gravity were temporarily disabled. Forgot that it would cause the player to float :laughing: And yeah, the controls thing I might add today at some point. Thanks for playing :smile:","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"ragnta","author_uid":"1001150","time":"2018-04-24T19:06:11Z","epoch":1524596771,"modified":1524596797,"text":"It should be a good game, if I can beat my 6m record. This stupid character can't jump the whole pit... :'( I tried 10 times... I think it's not my game :(","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Holofire","author_uid":"1000246","time":"2018-04-24T19:09:40Z","epoch":1524596980,"modified":1524596980,"text":"@ragnta I am currently working on a fix for that. Im assuming you have a slightly older PC meaning the game has a lower framerate which causes a problem with how the game calculates jumping. Should have a fix out within a few hours.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"ragnta","author_uid":"1001150","time":"2018-04-24T19:21:31Z","epoch":1524597691,"modified":1524597691,"text":"As I know, the rendering needs some GPU or Processor. I have i5-6600 and gtx 1050 Ti... If I need better pc for a html5 game, I think I will miss it :D Are you sure in your theory? :o ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Holofire","author_uid":"1000246","time":"2018-04-24T20:04:54Z","epoch":1524600294,"modified":1524600312,"text":"@ragnta I have just put a new web build up that should hopefully make it so jumping still works at lower framerates. Let me know how it goes if you try it :slight_smile: ","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"ragnta","author_uid":"1001150","time":"2018-04-24T20:14:23Z","epoch":1524600863,"modified":1524600863,"text":"Now it's working fine. Thank you! It contains more fun than before :) Nice job!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Holofire","author_uid":"1000246","time":"2018-04-24T20:26:10Z","epoch":1524601570,"modified":1524601570,"text":"@ragnta Awesome, thanks for playing! :smile: ","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Connell","author_uid":"1074640","time":"2018-04-25T00:23:14Z","epoch":1524615794,"modified":1524615794,"text":"cool game!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Holofire","author_uid":"1000246","time":"2018-04-25T00:25:01Z","epoch":1524615901,"modified":1524615901,"text":"@Connell Thank you for playing! :smile: ","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Connell","author_uid":"1074640","time":"2018-04-25T00:26:26Z","epoch":1524615986,"modified":1524615986,"text":"your welcome","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Sammy6","author_uid":"1073573","time":"2018-04-25T00:31:54Z","epoch":1524616314,"modified":1524616314,"text":"Great Game! it was really fun","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Holofire","author_uid":"1000246","time":"2018-04-25T00:36:51Z","epoch":1524616611,"modified":1524616611,"text":"@Sammy6 Thanks for the kind words :smile: ","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"arzi","author_uid":"1001976","time":"2018-04-25T15:51:13Z","epoch":1524671473,"modified":1524671473,"text":"This was really good. It didn't seem anything was missing or even unpolished, so very well scoped game. The music was a bit too repetitive, but other than that everything was really spot on!\n\nThis is one of those LD games that don't really need any extra work.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Holofire","author_uid":"1000246","time":"2018-04-25T21:30:27Z","epoch":1524691827,"modified":1524691827,"text":"@arzi Thanks so much for the kind words! :smile:  I put quite a bit of time into the polish, i'm glad it shows. Thanks for playing :smiley: ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"tweedle","author_uid":"1001846","time":"2018-04-27T21:02:50Z","epoch":1524862970,"modified":1524862970,"text":"great idea and implementation, nice work! \ud83e\udddf\u200d\u2642\ufe0f","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Holofire","author_uid":"1000246","time":"2018-04-28T01:03:23Z","epoch":1524877403,"modified":1524877403,"text":"@tweedle Cheers, thanks for playing :smile: ","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Mr ChocolateSalmon","author_uid":"1011669","time":"2018-05-15T02:40:10Z","epoch":1526352010,"modified":1526352010,"text":"Haha awesome effort. The deck\/hand confused me at first, as I couldn't use any card in the deck pile, and it wasn't really explained. But I caught on pretty quick. Overall, it was simple and easy to learn :thumbsup: ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Holofire","author_uid":"1000246","time":"2018-05-15T19:55:33Z","epoch":1526414133,"modified":1526414133,"text":"@mr-chocolatesalmon Thank you for playing! :smile: ","likes":0,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld41\/81804-d988c288362ebf304c12550ff6aa0d70.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/holofire.itch.io\/the-core","text":"HTML5 (web)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"43409","g_author":"1000246","g_event":"LD41","g_eventkey":"72","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"241098","g_title":"Journey to The Core","g_status":"USEAR3","g_place":"65","g_commentcount":"36","g_site2_node_id":"81804","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"81804","n_urlkey":"241098","n_parent":"73256","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/41\/journey-to-the-core","n_slug":"journey-to-the-core","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"246","n_created":"1524169296","n_modified":"1524535678","n_version":"267357","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":81804,"parent":73256,"superparent":9,"author":246,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"jam","published":"2018-04-24T01:57:32Z","created":"2018-04-19T20:21:36Z","modified":"2018-04-24T02:07:58Z","version":267357,"slug":"journey-to-the-core","name":"Journey to The Core","body":"![prev0.png](\/\/\/raw\/6f\/z\/1309a.png)\n![prev3.png](\/\/\/raw\/6f\/z\/130d8.png)\n![prev2.png](\/\/\/raw\/6f\/z\/130a4.png)\n![prev4.png](\/\/\/raw\/6f\/z\/1313f.png)\n![prev5.png](\/\/\/raw\/6f\/z\/13141.png)\n![prev1.png](\/\/\/raw\/6f\/z\/12866.png)","meta":{"author":[246,3880],"grade-07-out":"1","grade-06-out":"1","cover":"\/\/\/content\/6f\/z\/1277e.png","link-01":"https:\/\/holofire.itch.io\/the-core","link-01-tag":"42336","link-01-name":" ------ All Versions ------ [Web, Win, Mac, Linux]"},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/41\/journey-to-the-core","parents":[1,5,9,73256],"love":0,"notes":36,"notes-timestamp":"2018-05-15T19:55:33Z","grade":{"grade-01":28,"grade-02":28,"grade-03":28,"grade-04":28,"grade-05":29,"grade-08":27},"magic":{"grade":28,"given":14.25,"feedback":19,"smart":-7.9014502983741,"cool":84.409715080671,"grade-01-average":4.096,"grade-01-result":65,"grade-02-average":3.981,"grade-02-result":92,"grade-03-average":4.038,"grade-03-result":90,"grade-04-average":4.288,"grade-04-result":77,"grade-05-average":3.796,"grade-05-result":381,"grade-08-average":3.52,"grade-08-result":372}},"text":"![prev0.png](\/\/\/raw\/6f\/z\/1309a.png)\n![prev3.png](\/\/\/raw\/6f\/z\/130d8.png)\n![prev2.png](\/\/\/raw\/6f\/z\/130a4.png)\n![prev4.png](\/\/\/raw\/6f\/z\/1313f.png)\n![prev5.png](\/\/\/raw\/6f\/z\/13141.png)\n![prev1.png](\/\/\/raw\/6f\/z\/12866.png)","title":"Journey to The Core"}