{"author_link":"\/author\/drazil100\/","author_name":"drazil100","author_uid":"89952","comments":[{"author_name":"astouder","author_uid":"86999","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 3:21am","epoch":1461035760,"text":"Our first game jam and it was a blast. Put every ounce of energy into it. \r\rWe hope you all love Star Buddy!"},{"author_name":"astouder","author_uid":"86999","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 2:51pm","epoch":1461077160,"text":"Dang this game is hard. Hope you all love a challenge!(yes it is beatable) going to make some touchups to the tile work. As well as a "ship part found" message that didnt make it into the build."},{"author_name":"marod","author_uid":"62521","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 7:42am","epoch":1461137820,"text":"Nice game!"},{"author_name":"teamross","author_uid":"65203","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 8:05am","epoch":1461139200,"text":"Interesting level design, the green monsters are easily fended off, but most of them are hidden in bushes!\r\rGood job for your first jam!"},{"author_name":"gogo199432","author_uid":"44205","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 8:22am","epoch":1461140220,"text":"Really nice little game, especially for your first LD :) It was indeed hard to notice those little green guys sometimes like someone mentioned before. I found the player a tiny bit unresponsive, maybe make the moving and jumping a bit faster. But otherwise good job :)"},{"author_name":"aemiliu5","author_uid":"60212","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 8:31am","epoch":1461140760,"text":"nice game!\rthe level design and the animations were great!\rthe music was nice too!"},{"author_name":"Raptorij","author_uid":"92575","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 9:00am","epoch":1461142500,"text":"goooooood very goood game bro"},{"author_name":"jk5000","author_uid":"50889","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 9:01am","epoch":1461142560,"text":"Great idea, and it is really beautiful, but a bit too difficult for me."},{"author_name":"drazil100","author_uid":"89952","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 9:11am","epoch":1461143160,"text":"The final version of this game's difficulty will be way more balanced when we actually have more than 72 hours to make it. Really hard to balance a game when one of your enemies is added to the game 40 minutes before the deadline. \r\rI'm really glad people seem to be liking it despite the hard difficulty!"},{"author_name":"Dread_Lord369","author_uid":"54265","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 10:14am","epoch":1461146940,"text":"I think you did quite well with this game. I love the fluidity of the abilities, and the ambiance is nice as well. Good job!"},{"author_name":"Strike","author_uid":"56894","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 10:24am","epoch":1461147540,"text":"Very nice game. I just couldn't stand the controls, mostly the keyboard layout. It was very troublesome to me. But I guess that with some practise I should be ok. Except that part it's a pretty good game overall."},{"author_name":"tybantarnusa","author_uid":"92485","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 3:44pm","epoch":1461166740,"text":"I love the art and the game mechanic"},{"author_name":"astouder","author_uid":"86999","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 4:05pm","epoch":1461168000,"text":"Ya the controls are not the best. The final game will have customizable controls. Thanks for the feed back. ;)"},{"author_name":"astouder","author_uid":"86999","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 10:15pm","epoch":1461190200,"text":"Version 1.2 has an improved button layout for both keyboard and controllers. I recommend playing this version or later."},{"author_name":"WeaverDeveloper","author_uid":"90781","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 12:17am","epoch":1461197520,"text":"Fun niche to fit with the theme. Pretty decent overall."},{"author_name":"Weeping Rupee","author_uid":"60016","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 1:12am","epoch":1461200820,"text":"Love the idea and the graphics. Wish i was better at it so i could see more : )"},{"author_name":"drazil100","author_uid":"89952","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 1:53am","epoch":1461203280,"text":"thats on us for not programming check points or something. it is pretty hard."},{"author_name":"jasonalighieri","author_uid":"91352","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 2:32am","epoch":1461205620,"text":"Cool idea! I found it a bit difficult to control sometimes."},{"author_name":"magicagrilsdoinggamesforsenpai","author_uid":"91264","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 2:42am","epoch":1461206220,"text":"wow, this is a realy good entry, dont mention it, in your firs jam. Congratulations guys, very nice work. I realy like the level design."},{"author_name":"Karai17","author_uid":"46460","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 3:13am","epoch":1461208080,"text":"Great game all around. Top notch. :)"},{"author_name":"nlbi21","author_uid":"56356","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 3:17am","epoch":1461208320,"text":"Wow nice game i like it the art and music. Will continue adding things? :D Nice game guys."},{"author_name":"fin_nolimit","author_uid":"86340","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 3:17am","epoch":1461208320,"text":"I watched your game on Shakesoda and that was super cool! I could NOT get passed level one but it was cool to see them pass it!! lol!! Fantastic game! The whole feel of it was awesome and you guys nailed the theme for sure!"},{"author_name":"astouder","author_uid":"86999","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 6:05am","epoch":1461218400,"text":"@nlbi21 yes we will be adding a bunch of fun monsters and some new abilities to the full game. Glad you liked it."},{"author_name":"Shatter Point Studios","author_uid":"85070","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 7:05pm","epoch":1461265200,"text":"This is a good start! A little too difficult but still fun. I really like the buddy's transform mechanic. Graphics and audio were nice."},{"author_name":"Arvydas","author_uid":"84596","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 7:12pm","epoch":1461265620,"text":"the mood of this game is amazing, very well done!"},{"author_name":"Hempuli","author_uid":"491","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 9:12pm","epoch":1461272820,"text":"Very cute! The shield didn't seem all that useful and I wish there had been some use for the platform in the first level because that was the best fun I had! The punch sound is very satisfying and I really like the general concept here."},{"author_name":"victorljs","author_uid":"41782","time":"Apr 22, 2016 @ 6:46pm","epoch":1461350460,"text":"Nice game."},{"author_name":"Chaserbrown","author_uid":"61940","time":"Apr 23, 2016 @ 7:13pm","epoch":1461438480,"text":"Great job! This game is pretty hard, but I feel like it's difficulty fits it well."},{"author_name":"Hyden","author_uid":"90504","time":"Apr 24, 2016 @ 5:17pm","epoch":1461517920,"text":"Was really fun :)"},{"author_name":"monetai","author_uid":"57774","time":"Apr 24, 2016 @ 8:20pm","epoch":1461528900,"text":"It was a good moment !"},{"author_name":"MintArcade","author_uid":"35966","time":"Apr 24, 2016 @ 9:47pm","epoch":1461534120,"text":"Nice game. Very well executed."},{"author_name":"iossif","author_uid":"23131","time":"Apr 25, 2016 @ 9:42am","epoch":1461577020,"text":"punching those green slimes felt really good! good mix of movement and sound."},{"author_name":"mooncalf","author_uid":"56703","time":"Apr 28, 2016 @ 4:01am","epoch":1461815760,"text":"Everything a game needs is in this game. I would have liked to see some puzzles requiring the other two morphs early on and interspersed with combat segments. Great entry."},{"author_name":"crazyrems","author_uid":"26101","time":"Apr 28, 2016 @ 11:08pm","epoch":1461884580,"text":"Oh that's difficult. Movements are a bit too slow, maybe that's due to the gravity on this planet.\rAnyway graphics are nice and simple. Did I mentioned slow controls?"},{"author_name":"nyaki","author_uid":"90215","time":"May 2, 2016 @ 4:53pm","epoch":1462207680,"text":"Great idea, nicely done :D"},{"author_name":"Madball","author_uid":"8370","time":"May 2, 2016 @ 9:38pm","epoch":1462224780,"text":"What seemed like a cute game about human-and-alien friendship, turned out to be a brutal game about giant jellyfish knocking you into pits of murderous blobs. Other than that sudden change, graphics and music were still cute and pleasant."},{"author_name":"OnlySlightly","author_uid":"1959","time":"May 3, 2016 @ 3:27am","epoch":1462245720,"text":"I really liked all the different modes star buddy could go into. I liked how clever you could be with it. When we discovered that you could smush the enemies with your star buddy in platform mode, it was a fun surprise. Platforming using the platform mode was fairly fun once we got the hang of using it."},{"author_name":"emmelineprufrock","author_uid":"22454","time":"May 3, 2016 @ 3:31am","epoch":1462245960,"text":"Really interesting game! Very relaxed ambient music. \r\rA few notes: \r\r\r-Bouncing! This game could use bouncing, though that's probably a different mechanic. I just wanted star buddy to bounce a bit. \r\r-We stalled pretty heavily on some of the more precision platforming segments. Probably just a bit of fine tuning there. \r\r-Jelly's are OP. Without health pick-ups this game is kind of brutally difficult, despite being adorable."},{"author_name":"sathomason","author_uid":"89326","time":"May 5, 2016 @ 8:55pm","epoch":1462481400,"text":"Pretty cute. Can't figure out how to lift up with the platform, though.\rAnimations were solid. Sound effects fit. I love punching those evil little slimes."},{"author_name":"drazil100","author_uid":"89952","time":"May 7, 2016 @ 12:39am","epoch":1462581240,"text":"@Sathomason thanks! The platform shape was not meant to go up but horizontal as much as you want. So don't feel bad for not figuring it out.. the only up movement is the jump button. :)\r\r- For those who mentioned the slow 'floaty" movements... This was on purpose.. our other game (Space Ninja) is very fast and time based, so we wanted this game to be more relaxed and slower paced. Plus the floatyness I felt was more alien planet like. \r- For those who mentioned the difficulty.. Yea it's hard! A little harder then was intended. We didn't get much time for balancing it. The "Jellies" were added to the build late and did not get enough time spent on fine tuning them.. they were supposed to float around, have slower projectiles and be killable with attack buddy or deflected projectile. Sorry bout that :( (A third enemy didn't make the game.)\r\rThanks for all the wonderful complements!"},{"author_name":"RyanNielson","author_uid":"13891","time":"May 7, 2016 @ 5:51pm","epoch":1462643160,"text":"GREAT IDEA!"},{"author_name":"pixelpotions","author_uid":"63064","time":"May 8, 2016 @ 2:07am","epoch":1462672920,"text":"Solid entry, love the shape-shifting mechanics! Good job. :)"},{"author_name":"thedailyfandom","author_uid":"97081","time":"May 9, 2016 @ 7:08pm","epoch":1462820580,"text":"The Daily Fandom covered this awesome game on our YouTube channel! Check out the video! https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yz8H9BRj7wk"},{"author_name":"drazil100","author_uid":"89952","time":"May 16, 2016 @ 10:59pm","epoch":1463439240,"text":"Yay"}],"images":["ld35\/89952-1703d0f1e0f2b3ec51ccfcd7d3281aca.jpg","ld35\/89952-ae9c0ffdcd814b88372356a90f098fbf.jpg","ld35\/89952-85b18d18e7f4d4fe8b31dcdaf1ed0c44.jpg","ld35\/89952-36331a00f0e18692e5a7ab1ed106cd54.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0BwtXnWDgMvdiYWVjOTU5WUkzNEU\/view?usp=sharing","text":"Recommended (Google Drive)"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/h5r4op9xxf13an2\/StarBuddy_V1_3%20Recomended.exe?dl=0","text":"Recommended (Dropbox)"},{"url":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/folderview?id=0B3uG1VM-57B0YTMydGhISlptYTA&usp=sharing","text":"All Versions (Google Drive)"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/usyai8zwhy4f18n\/AAD1uw7pe9lzC9VW6V3hwF1ja?dl=0","text":"All Versions (Dropbox)"},{"url":"http:\/\/imgur.com\/BeY5rnz","text":"GIF"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"4525","g_author":"89952","g_event":"LD35","g_eventkey":"33","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"4593","g_title":"Star Buddy","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"239","g_commentcount":"44","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\/89952-shot0-1461035724.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/89952-shot1-1461036757.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/89952-shot2-1461036757.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/89952-shot3-1461035724.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"A space traveler crashes on an alien planet and finds a shape-shifting friend named Buddy. With your new found companion, you must make your way trough a strange land to find your lost ship parts, while avoiding the local wildlife. Be nice to Buddy, he's all you got.\r\n\r\n\r\n -CONTROLS:-Keyboard-\/-DS4-\/-XBOX-\r\n - - - - - - - - - - - \r\nJump----:-Spacebar-\/----X-----\/---A---\r\nPunch---:-----J------\/----R1----\/---RB--\r\nPlatform:-----K-----\/----L1----\/---LB--\r\nShield--:-----L------\/--Square--\/---X---\r\nMove----:---A--D---\/--D-PAD---\/--D-PAD-\r\n\r\n CREDITS:\r\n - - - - - - - - - - -\r\n Austin Allman----Programmer\r\n Aaron Stouder---Artist\r\n Mark Cheney----Level Design\r\n\r\n==========================================================================\r\nThis game was made in a meetup hosted by Lone Star College as an event for students in the game design degree. If you like this game please check out the games made by our fellow students.\r\n\r\nWho Are You And What Are You Doing Here??\r\nhttp:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-35\/?action=preview&uid=85070\r\n\r\nGene Goes to the Zoo\r\nhttp:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-35\/?action=preview&uid=93097\r\n\r\nLiquify\r\nhttp:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-35\/?action=preview&uid=89326\r\n==========================================================================\r\n\r\n\r\nUpdate 4\/20: Version 1.1 has had a few updates in the graphics and also some bug fixes. Will continue to bug hunt and will update the download folder as we post new builds.\r\n\r\nUpdate 4\/20: Version 1.2 Has a new control scheme and we have lowered the background music.\r\n\r\nUpdate 4\/22: Version 1.3 Fixed Lvl 2 out of bounds bug. Another volume adjustment to the background music. Centered the Ship Part Found graphic correctly. \r\n\r\n _______________________________________________________________\r\n|The RECOMMENDED is the most current build for Ludum Dare VOTING\r\n|,while\r\n|The All VERSIONS link holds all of them since the deadline. But you probably |figured that.\r\n\r\n|Why two links??? \r\n| Just in case Murphy's around.\r\n\r\n ______________________________________________________ \r\n|We will be posting a build with updated music and changes soon. Any version\r\n| after VERSION 1.3 will be post Ludum Dare and should not be used for rating. \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","title":"Star Buddy"}