{"author_link":"\/users\/paulstraw","author_name":"paulstraw","author_uid":"1012893","comments":[{"author_name":"James Shipp","author_uid":"1103741","time":"2018-08-12T23:53:16Z","epoch":1534117996,"modified":1534117996,"text":"I couldn't make it to the top! :( I'm impressed you were able to add some of those dope details like the parallax and screenshake that make the game feel much better- this is high quality stuff!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"paulstraw","author_uid":"1012893","time":"2018-08-13T00:18:24Z","epoch":1534119504,"modified":1534119504,"text":"Thanks @james-shipp! I definitely spent an inordinate amount of time on graphical \"juice\", unfortunately to the detriment of audio. Everything is a tradeoff in LD! \ud83d\ude43","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Jakub Kazimierski","author_uid":"1010094","time":"2018-08-13T00:26:30Z","epoch":1534119990,"modified":1534119990,"text":"Graphics is amazing and gameplay is challenging. I really like this game \ud83d\ude0d.  ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Guilhermoni","author_uid":"1101471","time":"2018-08-13T00:38:44Z","epoch":1534120724,"modified":1534120724,"text":"Nice, one of those games that you can spend a good time with, well done.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Pavsel","author_uid":"1098103","time":"2018-08-13T02:19:01Z","epoch":1534126741,"modified":1534126741,"text":"Hard! and i dont really get the theme, but nice! good job! (love that pixel art)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"moltanem","author_uid":"1017760","time":"2018-08-13T03:09:05Z","epoch":1534129745,"modified":1534129745,"text":"A+D+Spacebar was a real weird control scheme for me haha, seemed good on paper but I guess I'm really used to arrow keys + left hand for jumping in platformers, as a result I gave up about when I had to do a bunch of C jumps in a row. Loved the art!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"OmnipotentIndie","author_uid":"1033521","time":"2018-08-13T04:04:52Z","epoch":1534133092,"modified":1534133092,"text":"Art is good, and I enjoyed playing it. Obviously sound would have been nice, but we dont have time for everything. Connection to the theme isnt clear though","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"314owen","author_uid":"1100060","time":"2018-08-13T07:14:49Z","epoch":1534144489,"modified":1534144489,"text":"Challenging and addictive gameplay. Nice touch with the particles under falling blocks.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Alexander Tan","author_uid":"1111565","time":"2018-08-13T07:15:53Z","epoch":1534144553,"modified":1534144553,"text":"The controls are not a good controls scheme, nice level design and it's really hard. but good game","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"langep","author_uid":"1104531","time":"2018-08-13T07:18:44Z","epoch":1534144724,"modified":1534144724,"text":"Took me way too long to get to the first checkpoint than I would like to admit. Cool art ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"suve","author_uid":"1109784","time":"2018-08-13T07:29:14Z","epoch":1534145354,"modified":1534145354,"text":"It's a shame there's no sound, because otherwise this would be a solid compo entry. A good pick for people who enjoy the Dwarf Fortress kind of challenge - because losing is fun!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"deformhead","author_uid":"1102254","time":"2018-08-13T08:22:45Z","epoch":1534148565,"modified":1534148565,"text":"Excellent Game ! Love the art...\nI am a big fan of very hard and retro games !","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Noa Calice","author_uid":"1009812","time":"2018-08-13T09:36:07Z","epoch":1534152967,"modified":1534152967,"text":"Really nice pixel art and overall game feel :) ! Big well done ! The controls weren't that great for me though... I'm really not used to A + D to move, would of loved to be able to use the left and right arrow keys :) ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"TontonPizza","author_uid":"1097724","time":"2018-08-13T10:00:26Z","epoch":1534154426,"modified":1534154426,"text":"Good  game here, it looks simple but you can't go no-brain for the highest ground reachable, you have to think, and think fast.\n","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"DangoGameDev","author_uid":"1103216","time":"2018-08-13T11:57:52Z","epoch":1534161472,"modified":1534161472,"text":"Great, very nice simple pixel art with very responsive movement. Also very tense when the ground starts breaking.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"psychead","author_uid":"1011486","time":"2018-08-13T15:34:04Z","epoch":1534174444,"modified":1534174444,"text":"I like that you chose to keep everything except the key elements black and white, it helps clarity for such a fast game. The difficulty is pretty harsh, I like it.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"mshopf","author_uid":"1051901","time":"2018-08-13T15:39:10Z","epoch":1534174750,"modified":1534174750,"text":"I suck at this type of game :-(((\n\nVery polished entry, though it's really a standard mechanics one. Add some sound and a bit simpler start, and I could easily see this burning on phones.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"vulpineblazeyt","author_uid":"1006201","time":"2018-08-14T04:06:24Z","epoch":1534219584,"modified":1534219584,"text":"I think this was a pretty good game, enough to get me into it and trying to land that next checkpoint. The physics of it seemed... heavy. That might have been on purpose though. ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Petitpadawan","author_uid":"1034651","time":"2018-08-18T08:41:57Z","epoch":1534581717,"modified":1534581717,"text":"I really like this game, also graphics are really cool, good job !","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"YourLocalSavior","author_uid":"1026135","time":"2018-08-24T02:55:57Z","epoch":1535079357,"modified":1535079357,"text":"Bonus points for doing a web build! Thank you! :)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Jens","author_uid":"1103088","time":"2018-08-28T17:50:58Z","epoch":1535478658,"modified":1535478658,"text":"Great graphics, I missed the sounds though. The keybindings was a bit weird, should have added support for arrows as well. The acceleration in the movement made it so much harder, and it annoyed me a bit :P ","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Anna Petrova","author_uid":"1083884","time":"2018-08-29T19:50:43Z","epoch":1535572243,"modified":1535572243,"text":"Nice art)","likes":0,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld42\/105910-2818f7978d775d6cabf226dc2dc79ed8.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/paulstraw.itch.io\/the-decline","text":"HTML5 (web)"},{"url":"https:\/\/paul.st\/bmcKlwypVZmO.zip","text":"Source code"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"48505","g_author":"1012893","g_event":"LD42","g_eventkey":"73","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"231466","g_title":"The Decline","g_status":"USEAR3","g_place":"272","g_commentcount":"22","g_site2_node_id":"105910","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"105910","n_urlkey":"231466","n_parent":"97793","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/the-decline","n_slug":"the-decline","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"12893","n_created":"1533888096","n_modified":"1534118881","n_version":"322127","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":105910,"parent":97793,"superparent":9,"author":12893,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"compo","published":"2018-08-12T22:58:19Z","created":"2018-08-10T08:01:36Z","modified":"2018-08-13T00:08:01Z","version":322127,"slug":"the-decline","name":"The Decline","body":"Made in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 42 by Paul Straw.\n\n### Can you get to the top of this crumbling world?\n\n* ### \ud83d\udd79 [Play now in your browser on itch.io!](https:\/\/paulstraw.itch.io\/the-decline)\n* ### \ud83d\udcdd [Read the postmortem blog post!](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/the-decline\/compo-ludum-dare-42-postmortem-the-decline)\n* ### \ud83d\udcbb [Check out the source code on GitHub!](https:\/\/github.com\/paulstraw\/ld42)\n\n![6-juice-small.gif](\/\/\/raw\/d52\/3\/z\/16d2b.gif)","meta":{"author":[12893],"link-01":"https:\/\/paulstraw.itch.io\/the-decline","link-01-tag":"42336","link-01-name":"HTML5 (web)","grade-06-out":"1","cover":"\/\/\/content\/d52\/3\/z\/16d1e.png","link-02":"https:\/\/paul.st\/bmcKlwypVZmO.zip","link-02-tag":"42332","link-02-name":"Source code"},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/the-decline","parents":[1,5,9,97793],"love":0,"notes":22,"notes-timestamp":"2018-08-29T19:50:43Z","grade":{"grade-01":33,"grade-02":32,"grade-03":33,"grade-04":33,"grade-05":33,"grade-07":28,"grade-08":30},"magic":{"cool":110.43668630597,"feedback":15,"given":32.625,"grade":31.714285714286,"grade-01-average":3.516,"grade-01-result":272,"grade-02-average":3.3,"grade-02-result":336,"grade-03-average":2.435,"grade-03-result":661,"grade-04-average":2.742,"grade-04-result":652,"grade-05-average":3.726,"grade-05-result":172,"grade-07-average":2.404,"grade-07-result":346,"grade-08-average":2.839,"grade-08-result":415,"smart":12.48122966534}},"text":"Made in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 42 by Paul Straw.\n\n### Can you get to the top of this crumbling world?\n\n* ### \ud83d\udd79 [Play now in your browser on itch.io!](https:\/\/paulstraw.itch.io\/the-decline)\n* ### \ud83d\udcdd [Read the postmortem blog post!](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/the-decline\/compo-ludum-dare-42-postmortem-the-decline)\n* ### \ud83d\udcbb [Check out the source code on GitHub!](https:\/\/github.com\/paulstraw\/ld42)\n\n![6-juice-small.gif](\/\/\/raw\/d52\/3\/z\/16d2b.gif)","title":"The Decline"}