{"author_link":"\/author\/boltkey\/","author_name":"BoltKey","author_uid":"50511","comments":[{"author_name":"qwetro","author_uid":"59778","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 1:36am","epoch":1450056660,"text":"Interesting, but quite difficult."},{"author_name":"Ethan Allwood","author_uid":"54954","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 3:22am","epoch":1450063020,"text":"Difficult, but addicting and fun"},{"author_name":"gallerdude","author_uid":"16506","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 3:23am","epoch":1450063080,"text":"Cool mechanic, but difficult to play."},{"author_name":"internetpaulicy","author_uid":"25260","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 3:27am","epoch":1450063320,"text":"This is a lot of fun. I love it. I really like the idea of the constant jibber jabber. The puzzles are quite unique and very playable. Well done!"},{"author_name":"IAmSpencer","author_uid":"24919","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 3:58am","epoch":1450065180,"text":"I love so many things about this, the minimalist graphics are perfect, the puzzles are challenging but fun, and the mechanic is great and you executed it very well!\r\rIt was super difficult, but the little quotes kept me from raging (too hard). Excellent job! :)"},{"author_name":"sanojian","author_uid":"7542","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 10:42am","epoch":1450089420,"text":"Love the help messages. They are hilarious. Great use of the theme. Very challenging"},{"author_name":"StaNov","author_uid":"55257","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 10:53am","epoch":1450090080,"text":"Love it :) The design, the controls, the quotes :) But the difficulty is soooooooooooooo hard. I've done it to level 4."},{"author_name":"Larzan","author_uid":"10395","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 1:45pm","epoch":1450100400,"text":"Haha, looks familiar a bit ;)\rBut wow, well implemented, love the humor and the idea with the two directions + bumping, very neat and well done (although the music sounded kind of familiar)\rBut really haaaaaaaaaard"},{"author_name":"Pusty","author_uid":"55076","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 8:04pm","epoch":1450123140,"text":"Had fun playing it!\rLittle bit of critic:\r Maybe not using such plain colors (or atleast not red)\r Maybe adding a option to skip a level as someone might\r be stuck in one\r Maybe making the text the square tells pop up more"},{"author_name":"jellycubestudio","author_uid":"15994","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 9:55pm","epoch":1450129800,"text":"Thanks so much for rating my game!\r\rLove your game too. A bit too hard for me but it was fun playing! Funny texts are really nice addition. Music is great.\r\rOverall nice work there!"},{"author_name":"d_0o_d","author_uid":"29499","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 11:22pm","epoch":1450135020,"text":"Interesting gameplay. The name is so good, when you played that game :)\rBut it feels kinda slow. Maybe if that game had something like coins in mario, that would guide the player that would help. And I also think the gamespeed could be a little higher.\r\rI'm not that much of a fan of your graphics, but it is 100x times better than having bad textures (which is common around here...).\r\rThe box talking is fun, but I had hardly time looking at what it said."},{"author_name":"dos","author_uid":"52499","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 11:39pm","epoch":1450136040,"text":"Great touch with the dialogue!"},{"author_name":"TheMeorch","author_uid":"44776","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 4:29am","epoch":1450153440,"text":"I enjoyed this a lot! Surprising level designs that take advantage of the mechanic really nicely. As others have said, it can feel a little slow at times -- though having things move faster might make a difficult game even harder. If you could find a way to make that work, I'd love to see a larger collection of levels in the future.\r\rThe pixel's comments are a really nice touch."},{"author_name":"PaperboxStudios","author_uid":"40202","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 12:21pm","epoch":1450181760,"text":"I love it. The little messages give so much character to the game. Levels are nice and tricky."},{"author_name":"DonEngland","author_uid":"64613","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 12:15am","epoch":1450224600,"text":"The messages are a nice touch"},{"author_name":"eddynardo","author_uid":"49260","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 12:19am","epoch":1450224840,"text":"hard but in a good way :)"},{"author_name":"newbeings","author_uid":"65418","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 12:27am","epoch":1450225320,"text":"really nice mechanic, well done. - it's not that it's hard, it's just that the difficulty ramps up too quickly. I think the speed is also really infuriating, took me many times to beat 3 level but half the time spent was building up the bouncing far enough."},{"author_name":"Jwatt","author_uid":"5551","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 1:21am","epoch":1450228560,"text":"I like the concept of only having half of your movement directions, but the execution suffers from some false difficulty at its core. The sluggish movement makes it tricky to estimate where you'll slide and bounce. While it was fun for a while, ultimately my patience wasn't enough to reach level 15. \r\rYou could try ramping up the speed or having some visualization of your expected trajectory.\r\rThe commentary from the player adds an extra bit of charm. The audio is listenable I guess, but those graphics kinda hurt to watch."},{"author_name":"Jwatt","author_uid":"5551","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 1:27am","epoch":1450228920,"text":"Oh, and there's a fair amount of content, quite a bit of new twists in the later levels. I don't think most people will play that far because of the fundamental issues in control\/difficulty curve, which is a shame. \r\rWith all that in mind, I see potential in this with some more work."},{"author_name":"ShaunJS","author_uid":"40711","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 8:54pm","epoch":1450298940,"text":"Good job!"},{"author_name":"rd127p77","author_uid":"39898","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 10:45pm","epoch":1450305600,"text":"Good difficult game. With good controls."},{"author_name":"careless","author_uid":"32413","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 2:17am","epoch":1450318320,"text":"I am on level 5 at the moment and getting very angry lol, its a great game with a neat but infuriating game mechanic.\r\rWell done oh and this:\r\r"Hi random stranger... you are not supposed to read this, go win the game. If you are reading through my code, I am sorry for all the ugly duplications and similar evil things in my code. I am learning... But I am glad someone is interested.""},{"author_name":"MaulUdder","author_uid":"64522","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 7:46am","epoch":1450424460,"text":"Difficult levels (sounds familiar -.- ). But it's about the game mechanics and that's solid. Thanks for the post-compo release!"},{"author_name":"arzi","author_uid":"1524","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 12:27pm","epoch":1450441320,"text":"Nice implementation of the theme!"},{"author_name":"scorched","author_uid":"48268","time":"Dec 22, 2015 @ 5:26pm","epoch":1450804860,"text":"Nice idea, but requires A LOT of patience!"},{"author_name":"klianc09","author_uid":"20290","time":"Dec 25, 2015 @ 8:16pm","epoch":1451074260,"text":"A lot of fun, but really challenging (and sometimes infuriating), had to give up at the level that introduced the arrows. The random messages kept it from getting boring."},{"author_name":"blakeohare","author_uid":"63915","time":"Dec 30, 2015 @ 11:51am","epoch":1451475960,"text":"I'm always delighted to see nice, solid puzzle games in such short game jams."}],"images":["ld34\/50511-8e4d76dce9096f4a0175a5f684c2ccc0.jpg","ld34\/50511-1c5c51430752269f15522a81395f2d21.jpg","ld34\/50511-dd883630257329136111ccf206a556f2.jpg","ld34\/50511-2b336784d9808741691061d13a0f68b2.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/boltkey.cz\/upright_","text":"Web (original LD release)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.kongregate.com\/games\/absolutel\/upright","text":"Web (Post-deadline release on Kongregate with new level pack)"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/BoltKey\/ld34","text":"Source (Github)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"5513","g_author":"50511","g_event":"LD34","g_eventkey":"31","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"5531","g_title":"Upright","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"233","g_commentcount":"27","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\/\/511439\/50511-shot0-1450047038.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/50511-shot1-1450047038.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/50511-shot2-1450047038.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/50511-shot3-1450047038.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"You can accelerate only in two directions. But what if you want to get to the other two sides? To help mr. Green reach finish in each level, make clever use of the environment, which can either help you, or kill you, and on top of that, endure all of mr. Green's never ending comments and allusions.\r\n\r\nThis game gets hard pretty quickly and is suitable for experienced players in this genre, don't be surprised. Can you finish all 15 levels? Good luck.\r\n\r\nControls: up and right (duh)\r\n\r\nEDIT: So, apparently, I made this game way too hard. This exact thing happened with one of my older projects. It seems like I'll never learn... Anyway, I decided to quickly make a walkthrough\/speedrun\/whatever: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QuV5ur1HG64&feature=youtu.be. Don't mind the watermark, I wanted to upload it ASAP and didn't want to look for proper tools. So if you want to see how it's done, or want to see some of the later levels, check it out. I hope this kind of stuff is not a violation of LD rules.","title":"Upright"}