{"author_link":"\/users\/vertuga32","author_name":"Vertuga32","author_uid":"1150615","comments":[{"author_name":"Alex Weiser","author_uid":"1168351","time":"2020-04-21T00:58:21Z","epoch":1587430701,"modified":1587430701,"text":"Really liked the art and the sound makes a pretty nice atmosphere. Could have used less humm sounds. I gave up after getting two coins couldn't figure out the bird or the fishing rod. Very interesting point and click concept, but I just couldn't figure it out. I don't really know why as a ghost i both cant walk through things or fly though haha. Bummer you opted out of the graphics section, the background aesthetic was probably my favorite part. Nice work   ","likes":4,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Vertuga32","author_uid":"1150615","time":"2020-04-21T06:13:03Z","epoch":1587449583,"modified":1587449584,"text":"@alex-weiser \nThank you) Our artist is something incredible, we ourselves are awesome from such graphics)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Vertuga32","author_uid":"1150615","time":"2020-04-21T06:30:06Z","epoch":1587450606,"modified":1587450606,"text":"@alex-weiser I fixed the rating problem for graphics. Thanks for saying!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Quacky22200","author_uid":"1046353","time":"2020-04-21T10:18:12Z","epoch":1587464292,"modified":1587464292,"text":"Great graphics, really unsure about how this related to the theme, and thought it was a bit too easy to solve. Otherwise, really nice job on the implementation, the graphics are great and the ominous music really help set the tone. Nice idle messages too.","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Evgeniya Zapolnova","author_uid":"1127377","time":"2020-04-21T14:18:58Z","epoch":1587478738,"modified":1587478738,"text":"Game is very beautiful, amazing art and creepy sound! But I found only 2 coins.","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Kate90","author_uid":"1173319","time":"2020-04-23T18:20:50Z","epoch":1587666050,"modified":1587666050,"text":"Amazing art! I love it! I found only one coin so far, must restart it as when I came back under the board I coudnt move my ghost from place. Congratulation on the game!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"OldBlack","author_uid":"1002287","time":"2020-04-23T21:30:55Z","epoch":1587677455,"modified":1587677455,"text":"Awesome art! That and the background ambient music really gives the game a rich mood. The puzzles were also reasonably satisfying to solve. A couple points of criticism: the constant hmmms from your character take away from the mood, I'd probably ditch those entirely, and some of the object interactions felt a bit glitchy (it took me many tries to finally fill the mug with water, for instance). Nevertheless, nice game.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"WegPast","author_uid":"1120084","time":"2020-04-23T21:38:20Z","epoch":1587677900,"modified":1587677900,"text":"That art is just amazing !\nA classic game ! it remind me of \"Gobliiins\" and \"Sam and Max\"\nA bit short though, but building up all this had certainly took some time...\nSound and music are cool too (which one of you did the humming of the ghost ? :p)\nI got those 4 coins and saved me life ! (that boatman ain't here only for the end ;) )","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"aplite","author_uid":"1059711","time":"2020-04-23T21:38:38Z","epoch":1587677918,"modified":1587677918,"text":"Great game! I love puzzle games, and this was a great fit with the theme. The artwork and sound were both very well done. The in game commentary was great, and I loved the humor that was inserted into the descriptions.\n\nGreat job by your team.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Zfert","author_uid":1188963,"time":"2020-04-23T21:45:10Z","epoch":1587678310,"modified":1587678310,"text":"Really enjoyed this one!  Unfortunately I wasnt able to fullscreen on mac.  The art is great and I would absolutely play more of this if it was expanded upon :)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Pandapear","author_uid":1200972,"time":"2020-04-23T21:47:00Z","epoch":1587678420,"modified":1587678420,"text":"This is a really beautiful game; the music and visuals came together to create a great atmosphere, almost like Fran Bow to me. I played through all four coins, and I liked that each of the puzzles made sense. In a lot of point and clicks, it's really easy for the answers to the puzzles to seem arbitrary and weird, but I never felt that here. I thought the relationship to the theme was a bit weak, but that's pretty irrelevant. All in all, great job!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"DJN","author_uid":"1050242","time":"2020-04-23T21:47:08Z","epoch":1587678428,"modified":1587678428,"text":"This is one of my favorite games for this event. Point-and-clicks hold a special place in my heart. Great job!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Lemons","author_uid":"1079166","time":"2020-04-23T21:48:57Z","epoch":1587678537,"modified":1587678537,"text":"Wow great art and audio. Good job!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Gnocchi","author_uid":"1191281","time":"2020-04-23T21:57:07Z","epoch":1587679027,"modified":1587679027,"text":"I really enjoyed your game ! I used to play to a lot of puzzle poitn and click games when I was a child so this project made me nostalgic. \n\nThe drawings are beautiful and fit well with the theme and sounddesign. The level design for the combinations is pretty straight forward and easy to comprehend. I found them a bit too easy even and ended the game in less than 2 miniutes, that's the only improvement I would suggest.\nThe dev looks nice, no bugs or crashes, no wrong collisions or unexpected behavior. \n\nNow that I've played it I feel that this was only the demo version we had in cereals, and the final game will soon be in store. Quite a pleasing entry ! :slight_smile: ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"LemonShrimp","author_uid":1196668,"time":"2020-04-23T22:17:20Z","epoch":1587680240,"modified":1587680240,"text":"This is incredible! When I started the game I was already blown away by the art, it looks amazing :star: The enviroment, characters as well as the user interface. And with the music the whole mood of the scenes is perfect! I just love this atmosphere :two_hearts: Usually I'm not very good at point and click adventures, but because of the small clues and the logical combinations I was able to solve everything very quickly. I appreciate a balance between independent playing and a few small signs here and there. I really enjoyed the experience, great work :star2: ","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"NaBo369","author_uid":"1012500","time":"2020-04-24T10:39:51Z","epoch":1587724791,"modified":1587724791,"text":"Lovely little game, it felt really polished and I had a great time playing it. \nThe graphics and sounds are really spot on and I loved the little ghost as a player character. \nWell done!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Alexascher","author_uid":"1138348","time":"2020-04-24T13:35:35Z","epoch":1587735335,"modified":1587735335,"text":"\u041a\u043b\u0430\u0441\u0441\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u043a\u0432\u0435\u0441\u0442, \u0410\u043d\u0442\u043e\u0445! \u041a\u0440\u0430\u0441\u0438\u0432\u043e \u0438 \u0438\u043d\u0442\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0441\u043d\u043e, \u0445\u043e\u0447\u0435\u0442\u0441\u044f \u0435\u0449\u0451 \u043f\u043e\u0431\u043e\u043b\u044c\u0448\u0435 \u0437\u0430\u0433\u0430\u0434\u043e\u043a \u0438 \u0438\u043d\u0442\u0435\u0440\u0430\u043a\u0446\u0438\u0439. \u041a\u0440\u0443\u0442\u043e!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"willjardine","author_uid":"1016188","time":"2020-04-26T17:37:51Z","epoch":1587922671,"modified":1587922671,"text":"What a wonderful game! The audio didn't play for me but it was still really enjoyable.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"LaserPanzerWal","author_uid":1177710,"time":"2020-04-26T17:49:53Z","epoch":1587923393,"modified":1587923393,"text":"Nice game with good graphics. Solid point&click, though the puzzles were a bit too obvious and thus easy, more of a little fetch quest than a puzzle. The game mood was very enjoyable, I could have done with a little less hmm-ing but that's alright.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"gustavo.christino","author_uid":"1026571","time":"2020-04-27T21:41:52Z","epoch":1588023712,"modified":1588023712,"text":"![4Coins.png](\/\/\/raw\/bc7\/6\/z\/33704.png)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"gustavo.christino","author_uid":"1026571","time":"2020-04-27T21:51:30Z","epoch":1588024290,"modified":1588024554,"text":"An\u00e1lise...\n\n1 - Mec\u00e2nicas, Aprendizado e Fluxo:\nJogo no estilo puzzle com invent\u00e1rio, combina\u00e7\u00e3o de itens e explora\u00e7\u00e3o (tudo via mouse, o que facilita bastante jogar).\nComo tem apenas o mouse como entrada, bem r\u00e1pido \u00e9 poss\u00edvel aprender a jogar (com exce\u00e7\u00e3o da combina\u00e7\u00e3o entre itens, que n\u00e3o ficou cem por cento clara se \u00e9 autom\u00e1tica ou se foi colocando os itens um em cima do outro, porque tentei encaixar e n\u00e3o funcionou, depois funcionou, ent\u00e3o n\u00e3o tenho total certeza).\nComo o estilo \u00e9 muito bem-estabelecido, creio que algumas coisas possam ser melhoradas (fora do tempo da Ludum Dare) para se destacar (em termos mec\u00e2nicos).\nO fluxo de jogo pode entediar um pouco, pois n\u00e3o h\u00e1 risco, mas para quem gosta de point-and-clickers o jogo \u00e9 muito bom (especialmente dada arte gr\u00e1fica).\n\n2 - Gr\u00e1ficos, \u00c1udio, Narrativa e Polimento:\nOs gr\u00e1ficos ficaram realmente incr\u00edveis, parab\u00e9ns.\nO \u00e1udio em termos de efeitos sonoros ficou muito bom (ondas etc).\nA dublagem do personagem ficou um pouco repetitiva (mas est\u00e1 muito bom assim, para tempo de game jam).\nA narrativa sobre \"sobreviver por causa das moedas\" ficou um pouco confusa, dado que o personagem \u00e9 um fantasma. O que pode ser melhorado caso o grupo pretenda dar continuidade ao projeto (talvez abandonando a ideia de se aproximar ao tema do evento).\n\n3 - Cultura:\nO jogo bebe adequadamente da fonte de jogos no estilo point-and-click (ao meu ver), fazendo bastante sentido mec\u00e2nico, gr\u00e1fico e sonoro.\nPecando apenas quando tira proveito da hist\u00f3ria grega sobre a travessia de almas nos mundos inferiores, por conta da situa\u00e7\u00e3o do personagem principal.\n\n4 - Monetiza\u00e7\u00e3o:\nCaso o jogo possa ser estendido (quem sabe conforme sugest\u00e3o dada na parte sobre narrativa, ou atrav\u00e9s de outra solu\u00e7\u00e3o), creio que o projeto (dada beleza gr\u00e1fica e boa implementa\u00e7\u00e3o) poderia vender aos cap\u00edtulos para smartphones ou mesmo como um jogo completo para Steam.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"gustavo.christino","author_uid":"1026571","time":"2020-04-27T21:51:56Z","epoch":1588024316,"modified":1588024563,"text":"Analysis...\n\n1 - Mechanics, Learning and Flow:\nPuzzle style game with inventory, combination of items and exploration (all via mouse, which makes playing a lot easier).\nAs you only have the mouse as an input, you can quickly learn to play (except for the combination of items, which was not 100% clear if it is automatic or if the items were placed one on top of the other, because I tried to fit and didn't it worked, then it worked, so I'm not entirely sure).\nAs the style is very well established, I believe that some things can be improved (outside of Ludum Dare's time) to stand out (in mechanical terms).\nThe game flow can be a little boring, as there is no risk, but for those who like point-and-clickers the game is very good (especially given graphic art).\n\n2 - Graphics, Audio, Narrative and Polishment:\nThe graphics were really incredible, congratulations.\nThe audio in terms of sound effects was very good (waves etc).\nThe character's voice acting was a little repetitive (but it is very good for game jam time).\nThe narrative about \"surviving because of the coins\" was a little confusing, given that the character is a ghost. What can be improved if the group intends to continue the project (perhaps abandoning the idea of \u200b\u200bapproaching the theme of the event).\n\n3 - Culture:\nThe game draws properly from the point-and-click style game source (in my opinion), making a lot of mechanical, graphic and sound sense.\nSinning only when you take advantage of the Greek story about the crossing of souls in the lower worlds, due to the situation of the main character.\n\n4 - Monetization:\nIf the game can be extended (who knows, according to the suggestion given in the part about narrative, or through another solution), I believe that the project (given its graphic beauty and good implementation) could sell in chapters for smartphones or even as a complete game for Steam.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"fatPenguin","author_uid":"1009985","time":"2020-05-04T16:17:40Z","epoch":1588609060,"modified":1588609083,"text":"Awww what a sweet entry! I love me some Point & Click :)  \nI really like the artstyle, it feels like you're kinda wandering around in a painting (especially the heaven looked very vanGogh-y) the puzzles were cute and all in all a very good length for aN LD game :)    \nit would have been nice if the player had to first walk to the objects before doing something, although that made it possible to rush through (and sometimes poin & click games can get kind of tiresome, so that wouldn't happen here haha) all in all great for a gamejam, goob job! :)    \nIf you want to continue to work on it, I'd add changing cursos sprites, or make it possible to tab throug the options like in Deponia! :)","likes":1,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld46\/188875-df04ae07c47f53f418dcbbc479598c4e.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.newgrounds.com\/portal\/view\/753099?updated=1587427959","text":"Youtube"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"56825","g_author":"1150615","g_event":"LD46","g_eventkey":"77","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"265468","g_title":"4 coins","g_status":"PVT1","g_place":"247","g_commentcount":"23","g_site2_node_id":"188875","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"188875","n_urlkey":"265468","n_parent":"176557","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/46\/4-coins","n_slug":"4-coins","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"150615","n_created":"1587067754","n_modified":"1587450481","n_version":"612217","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":188875,"parent":176557,"superparent":9,"author":150615,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"jam","published":"2020-04-21T00:21:46Z","created":"2020-04-16T20:09:14Z","modified":"2020-04-21T06:28:01Z","version":612217,"slug":"4-coins","name":"4 coins","body":"Something terrible happened to you and you got here. Now, you need to get out of here to keep you alive.\n![screen_1.png](\/\/\/raw\/75c\/42\/z\/2f719.png)\nFind the coins!\n\n![screen_2.png](\/\/\/raw\/75c\/42\/z\/2e725.png)\nPay attention! \n\n![screen_3.png](\/\/\/raw\/75c\/42\/z\/2e729.png)\nFind salvation.\n\nVertuga32 (@vertuga32) - gamedesign, programming, sounds.\n\nKrauticDan (@krauticdan) - gamedesign, programming, text, vfx.\n\nLaiNa (@laina) - artist, animation.","meta":{"author":[150615,153223,201363],"cover":"\/\/\/content\/75c\/42\/z\/2ec72.png","link-01-tag":[42336],"link-01":"https:\/\/www.newgrounds.com\/portal\/view\/753099?updated=1587427959"},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/46\/4-coins","parents":[1,5,9,176557],"love":0,"notes":23,"notes-timestamp":"2020-05-04T16:18:03Z","grade":{"grade-01":35,"grade-02":35,"grade-03":35,"grade-04":35,"grade-05":34,"grade-06":33,"grade-07":33,"grade-08":34},"magic":{"cool":103.14600207648,"feedback":41,"given":35.375,"grade":34.25,"grade-01-average":3.97,"grade-01-result":247,"grade-02-average":3.682,"grade-02-result":518,"grade-03-average":3.273,"grade-03-result":1247,"grade-04-average":3.394,"grade-04-result":1765,"grade-05-average":4.656,"grade-05-result":34,"grade-06-average":4.032,"grade-06-result":167,"grade-07-average":3.161,"grade-07-result":857,"grade-08-average":4.125,"grade-08-result":161,"smart":0.35398340781299}},"text":"Something terrible happened to you and you got here. Now, you need to get out of here to keep you alive.\n![screen_1.png](\/\/\/raw\/75c\/42\/z\/2f719.png)\nFind the coins!\n\n![screen_2.png](\/\/\/raw\/75c\/42\/z\/2e725.png)\nPay attention! \n\n![screen_3.png](\/\/\/raw\/75c\/42\/z\/2e729.png)\nFind salvation.\n\nVertuga32 (@vertuga32) - gamedesign, programming, sounds.\n\nKrauticDan (@krauticdan) - gamedesign, programming, text, vfx.\n\nLaiNa (@laina) - artist, animation.","title":"4 coins"}