{"author_link":"\/author\/thebrickanator\/","author_name":"thebrickanator","author_uid":"50329","comments":[{"author_name":"Tensoplast01","author_uid":"58271","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 7:38am","epoch":1450078380,"text":"VERY VERY NICE! Love it :D"},{"author_name":"rosden shadow","author_uid":"64705","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 7:43am","epoch":1450078680,"text":"amazing work"},{"author_name":"timtipgames","author_uid":"15341","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 8:37am","epoch":1450081920,"text":"I love everything about this game. The graphics are superb, the audio very good and the gameplay super &quot;juicy&quot;. Even the story isn't bad. Awesome entry!"},{"author_name":"Jordan","author_uid":"43421","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 8:44am","epoch":1450082340,"text":"The graphics are amazing. I love how you implemented the storyline text in such a simple gray box."},{"author_name":"madcoil","author_uid":"45345","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 9:31am","epoch":1450085160,"text":"Amazing, it has a really nice mood to it and the gfx are incredible."},{"author_name":"midgard","author_uid":"11046","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 9:05pm","epoch":1450126800,"text":"Fantastic atmosphere! I really liked an intro to the story :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I find it a little hard to prevent people from jumping into the volkano tho :("},{"author_name":"Tasgardyen","author_uid":"62459","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 9:06pm","epoch":1450126860,"text":"So fun and innovative concept!! it was challenging but not imossible, GJ!! :D"},{"author_name":"AranHase","author_uid":"62018","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 9:06pm","epoch":1450126860,"text":"Really nice game. Well polished with awesome graphics and sound. Gameplay feels solid and nothing looks rushed. I just failed to see the theme (I didn't beat it). But overall its an impressive game for a 2 day competition..."},{"author_name":"in3orn","author_uid":"65201","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 9:06pm","epoch":1450126860,"text":"Cannot rate :( After the intro I got this error message:\r<br\/>___________________________________________\r<br\/>############################################################################################\r<br\/>FATAL ERROR in Vertex Shader compilation\r<br\/>ShaderName: sha_lava_liquid\r<br\/>\r<br\/>D3DXCompile failed - result\r<br\/>\r<br\/>at gml_Object_obj_lava_render_Draw_0\r<br\/>############################################################################################\r<br\/>\r<br\/>:("},{"author_name":"Multiplexor","author_uid":"50012","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 9:14pm","epoch":1450127340,"text":"Nice! Music and graphics are top notch! And I really like how you set the mood! Keep up the good work man!"},{"author_name":"thebrickanator","author_uid":"50329","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 9:50pm","epoch":1450129500,"text":"@in3orn Unfortunately this is a bug not with the game, but simply means your graphics driver does not support gamemaker glsl shaders properly. To fix this error apparently all you must do is install the latest 'direct X' version on your computer."},{"author_name":"theholychicken","author_uid":"25095","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 7:03am","epoch":1450162680,"text":"Very nice! I love the human volleyball with epic Sith lightning powers!\r<br\/>And how did you do the liquid lava? It looks very nice even though its only a small puddle and a few droplets."},{"author_name":"thebrickanator","author_uid":"50329","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 7:31am","epoch":1450164360,"text":"@theholychicken Thanks heaps :) and I used a rendering technique called metaballs. it's very simple and a quick google should show you how to do it."},{"author_name":"local306","author_uid":"55445","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 10:14pm","epoch":1450217340,"text":"I didn't entirely know what I was doing but I had fun doing it! haha\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Looking forward to dissecting the source code. Thanks for release it :)"},{"author_name":"nodens","author_uid":"40628","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 4:17am","epoch":1450239120,"text":"Great fun! I'm not super good at it, but I had a great time."},{"author_name":"OnlySlightly","author_uid":"1959","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 4:26am","epoch":1450239660,"text":"Loved the combination of all the effects, the rain, the lava the lightning etc. it was really fun watching all the chaos. It was comical trying as hard as I could trying to convince villagers to not throw themselves in lava. Things were sweet once I unlocked force lightning. Overall it was really pretty. After a game over screen I just had to sit and watch all the pretty lava effects, and smoke and boulders.\r<br\/>It was also nice getting to hear your voice and have you personally set up the explanation for the setting of the game. Thank you so much for making this game! Great job!"},{"author_name":"TheMeorch","author_uid":"44776","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 4:13am","epoch":1450325280,"text":"Really impressive work -- I love the music, the art is really nice, and it's just fun to play. Great job!"},{"author_name":"fafastudio","author_uid":"51600","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 8:10am","epoch":1450339500,"text":"Real speech, real presentation, real pixel art, very nice gameplay (even if i would have better love to put the fellow humans IN the volcano :D), and real challenge ! (65% of the game for my part) \r<br\/>\r<br\/>Very nice game !"},{"author_name":"berkano","author_uid":"11027","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 8:35am","epoch":1450341000,"text":"Stunning game!"},{"author_name":"InsertNameHere","author_uid":"65607","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 8:55am","epoch":1450342200,"text":"I refuse to believe that this was made in 48 hrs, 2good2betru xD"},{"author_name":"esayitch","author_uid":"16000","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 7:55am","epoch":1450425000,"text":"Really stylish! The idea of jumping to fend people off of somewhere was also pretty new and neat.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Good luck!"},{"author_name":"BoxedMeatRevolution","author_uid":"47669","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 8:41pm","epoch":1450470960,"text":"I rated this 5\/5 in humor for trying to save suicidal villagers from themselves."},{"author_name":"ramoncb","author_uid":"14743","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 4:29am","epoch":1450585440,"text":"The setting is really cool, have a nice use of the theme! It's very polished for a compo entry, the rain and music brought an &quot;urgency&quot; for the situation. I do had a little difficulty to stop the villagers xD\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Anyway, good job!"},{"author_name":"ethankennerly","author_uid":"3040","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 3:27pm","epoch":1450624920,"text":"When I deflected a villager from the volcano, I felt proud.  If you continue to develop this, when villagers went into the lava after passing through me, I felt unaware of the technique that would deflect them."},{"author_name":"Modoc73","author_uid":"50179","time":"Dec 21, 2015 @ 9:03am","epoch":1450688280,"text":"Great entry. Well done with the graphics and game play. Awesome to see what other users of Gamemaker Studio can accomplish. Going to look at the source to see how that lava works. Awesome job."},{"author_name":"martin-denizet","author_uid":"65958","time":"Dec 21, 2015 @ 9:10am","epoch":1450688700,"text":"This game was really really great haha, had much fun playing it, well done! ^^"},{"author_name":"KayZ","author_uid":"17933","time":"Dec 22, 2015 @ 12:43pm","epoch":1450787880,"text":"Can't play it :(\r<br\/>Bandwidth Limit Exceeded\r<br\/>The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his\/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later."},{"author_name":"thebrickanator","author_uid":"50329","time":"Dec 22, 2015 @ 6:28pm","epoch":1450808580,"text":"@KayZ Yep Thanks ;), we have been trying to get our server administrators to look at this problem but cant get them to respond... It appears our site has been attacked\/bombarded and ran out of bandwidth in a few hours. I will upload the files to a temporary server until this is fixed."},{"author_name":"thebrickanator","author_uid":"50329","time":"Dec 22, 2015 @ 7:08pm","epoch":1450810980,"text":"Server bandwidth has been temporarily increased :) so hopefully our site will stay active now."},{"author_name":"alpha_rat","author_uid":"39704","time":"Dec 22, 2015 @ 8:42pm","epoch":1450816620,"text":"Really nice idea! not easy to play though"},{"author_name":"Krafty","author_uid":"60548","time":"Dec 23, 2015 @ 6:38am","epoch":1450852380,"text":"Pretty cool game! It was pretty hard to prevent people from jumping in, and they kept shooting lava at me (when did these villagers gain that cool power?). Still really great! Good job! :)"},{"author_name":"zulman","author_uid":"31114","time":"Dec 23, 2015 @ 10:14am","epoch":1450865340,"text":"Awesome, thank you! Game dynamics is great! Hope you'll enjoy Let's Play Simulator 2016 as well http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-34\/?action=preview&amp;uid=31114 :)"},{"author_name":"vedmich","author_uid":"63025","time":"Dec 23, 2015 @ 10:16am","epoch":1450865460,"text":"Lots of fun, nice visuals and ambient sound!\r<br\/>Cool stuff to play."},{"author_name":"uthamon","author_uid":"55697","time":"Dec 23, 2015 @ 12:16pm","epoch":1450872660,"text":"Usually I'm not fond of using pompous terms, but this game feels... complete? It has easy to learn, hard to master gameplay with enjoyable controls. It has beautiful graphics, atmosphere. It has fitting audio with these cute &quot;bomp&quot; sounds. As if that wasn't enough the story is interesting. Good entry!"},{"author_name":"Galvesmash","author_uid":"20148","time":"Dec 23, 2015 @ 12:35pm","epoch":1450873800,"text":"Great game, amazing work man. The intro was awesome but the gameplay was hard! It&acute;is so difficult to stop the villages (even harder when they spawn right at the top of the volcano!)\r<br\/>Very innovative idea but need some balance and level design to be better. Continue improving this game!"},{"author_name":"DustyStylus","author_uid":"15902","time":"Dec 23, 2015 @ 2:21pm","epoch":1450880160,"text":"What a fascinating little game. Beautiful graphics and nice sound."},{"author_name":"Trasevol_Dog","author_uid":"51405","time":"Dec 23, 2015 @ 3:26pm","epoch":1450884060,"text":"Very frustrating. I was pushing the villagers towards the lava about 80% of the time I was trying to push them away from it. Very pretty, sounds cool, concept's great and good fun. But so frustrating..."},{"author_name":"publicidadeba","author_uid":"63879","time":"Dec 23, 2015 @ 3:32pm","epoch":1450884420,"text":"The boss in end scared me. Solid entry."},{"author_name":"JoseArias","author_uid":"55992","time":"Dec 23, 2015 @ 4:13pm","epoch":1450886880,"text":"Very fun! I loved the lightning power"},{"author_name":"piper82","author_uid":"28326","time":"Dec 23, 2015 @ 4:24pm","epoch":1450887540,"text":"bit hard preventing villagers to jump in at first, but not that it matters because its not too punishing. you have a typo in the lose message. good job."},{"author_name":"klianc09","author_uid":"20290","time":"Dec 23, 2015 @ 4:41pm","epoch":1450888560,"text":"&quot;God damn, Stop sacrificing yourselves you stupid people! Ok... except you Jimmy, I can't stand you anymore, just get the f*** in the vulcano already.&quot; \r<br\/>The concept is pretty funny. But the gameplay can be quite frustrating, pushing people into the volcano 'by accident' *cough*, especially since you can't control your jump height. Eventually I just ended up guarding one side and shooting lightning to the other side whenever it was off cooldown."},{"author_name":"Bensonance","author_uid":"17953","time":"Dec 23, 2015 @ 5:17pm","epoch":1450890720,"text":"Sweet little game!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Really like the idea of the game, and the perspective\/graphics work well too.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>It's a bit tricky to play at the moment - I think you need more feedback that you're getting damaged (screenshake\/sound etc.) just so that it's clearer. I'm also not sure that the health part was needed? I really enjoyed fending away villagers - I think more of a focus on that part of the game would have been great.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Good job! :D"},{"author_name":"Justin Mullin","author_uid":"3128","time":"Dec 23, 2015 @ 5:33pm","epoch":1450891680,"text":"Awesome!  Love the theme, and it's really quite fun.  It seemed extremely difficult to catch anyone in mid air if they start jumping in, which was a little frustrating, but I learned to stop them before they reached that point.  I knocked more than a few villagers into the flames accidentally...whoops!"},{"author_name":"SketchyGalore","author_uid":"30014","time":"Dec 23, 2015 @ 8:04pm","epoch":1450900740,"text":"Best graphics and presentation I've seen so far this LD!"},{"author_name":"r8berto","author_uid":"50430","time":"Dec 23, 2015 @ 8:36pm","epoch":1450902660,"text":"Amazing work! What game engine did you use?"},{"author_name":"thebrickanator","author_uid":"50329","time":"Dec 23, 2015 @ 10:22pm","epoch":1450909020,"text":"@r8berto Thanks ;D I use Gamemaker Studio."},{"author_name":"Drauthius","author_uid":"52478","time":"Dec 23, 2015 @ 11:48pm","epoch":1450914180,"text":"It seems like I had about the same chance pushing someone away from the volcano as I had to push them in. A bit hard to control and have an impact, but an interesting concept which was quite fun to play. I think it fits both themes, with the growing of the volcanoes wrath (even though the monster baby wasn't too obvious)."},{"author_name":"Allthebees","author_uid":"64473","time":"Dec 26, 2015 @ 10:16am","epoch":1451124660,"text":"Difficult controls but a fun game! It definitely fits the theme."},{"author_name":"KaiseanGames","author_uid":"44370","time":"Dec 27, 2015 @ 5:02pm","epoch":1451235420,"text":"It's gread and new, but I find it too hard. I don't know how to block them. Instead I kept pushing them into the pit. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>However, it's very nice. Keep up the good work."},{"author_name":"anael","author_uid":"45582","time":"Dec 28, 2015 @ 10:44am","epoch":1451299140,"text":"nice mood, the concept is original"},{"author_name":"justinooncx","author_uid":"38380","time":"Dec 28, 2015 @ 1:40pm","epoch":1451309700,"text":"Jeez Louise, this is a bloody difficult game. All my efforts end up chucking them into the volcano. Otherwise, pretty great game!"},{"author_name":"Warboys","author_uid":"33962","time":"Dec 28, 2015 @ 4:41pm","epoch":1451320560,"text":"Excellent style and I absolutely loved the intro and tutorial combination. The game is reaaaaally hard. Those tiny blobs of lava were the big killers for me, it felt nigh on impossible to dodge them and the balance of the amount of dudes felt quite unforgiving.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Still, I like the concept a lot and movement also felt very good on top of the style! Nice work"},{"author_name":"Aurel B\u00edl\u00fd","author_uid":"1645","time":"Dec 28, 2015 @ 6:17pm","epoch":1451326320,"text":"Quite nice. Though somewhat hard to achieve anything, as walking into the villagers often does the exact opposite of what you want, and if it does what you want, then the effect barely makes a change. But is's a neat idea."},{"author_name":"uvwar","author_uid":"40468","time":"Dec 28, 2015 @ 6:21pm","epoch":1451326560,"text":"Hello fellow Volcano game! I'm not sure if it was just my browser (Firefox) but I kept lagging a fair amount in waves, which made it almost impossible to time anything. I was also struggling badly with my jumps because they would jump 'low' and I would always jump 'high'. Really awesome game!"},{"author_name":"ButtonMasherBros","author_uid":"11937","time":"Dec 29, 2015 @ 5:05pm","epoch":1451408400,"text":"You were featured on Ludum Dare to Believe! Check it out! - https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m9tXmMvEBfI"},{"author_name":"yuigoto","author_uid":"50909","time":"Dec 30, 2015 @ 12:39am","epoch":1451435640,"text":"Great work! The graphics are beautiful, the concept is a really nice one and loved the use of the theme in this one! The lava flowing is also well done in here!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The soundtrack is also great! Though I didn't like the monster fx a bit. :P"},{"author_name":"sergicollado","author_uid":"56825","time":"Dec 30, 2015 @ 11:03am","epoch":1451473080,"text":"So fun game!"},{"author_name":"A-Flat Miner Studios","author_uid":"42150","time":"Jan 4, 2016 @ 6:43am","epoch":1451889480,"text":"Nice. Found it hard to figure out a good way to keep them out reliably, so the pace remained frantic. Good polish, it's nice seeing all the little pieces come together."}],"images":["ld34\/50329-a128b0ce47bd7a387f669f2ff353865d.jpg","ld34\/50329-a160df0d870e73f82347e88c0dc5f3a6.jpg","ld34\/50329-417c3d29761da355a85d990dea27fde8.jpg","ld34\/50329-0b984fadd9da5d7cf4accc6402530aaa.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/qsdevelopment.toppysites.com\/etubo\/mt%20etubo.exe","text":"Windows (48hr Recomended)"},{"url":"http:\/\/qsdevelopment.toppysites.com\/etubo\/html5%20mt%20etubo\/index.html","text":"Web (48hr HTML5 - sometimes has some performance issues)"},{"url":"http:\/\/qsdevelopment.toppysites.com\/etubo\/mt%20etubo.exe","text":"[Post LD] Windows (gameplay improvements)"},{"url":"http:\/\/qsdevelopment.toppysites.com\/etubo\/html5%20post%20ld\/index.html","text":"[Post LD] Web (HTML5)"},{"url":"http:\/\/qsdevelopment.toppysites.com\/etubo\/Etubo.gmz","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"5981","g_author":"50329","g_event":"LD34","g_eventkey":"31","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"5932","g_title":"Mt Etubo","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"110","g_commentcount":"58","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\/50329-shot0-1450064832.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/50329-shot1-1450062835.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/50329-shot2-1450064832.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/50329-shot3-1450061795.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"(I decided to implement the theme of growing)\r\nStop the villagers of Beothata from sacrificing themselves to the volcanic depths of mount Etubo.\r\n\r\nThe volcano feeds and grows from the Beothata people's sacrifices and threatens to destroy the village, along with your loved ones, living there.\r\n\r\nThe bar at the top of the screen indicates how volatile\/aggressive Etubo has become, and the bar at the bottom illustrates your progress through the 3 min game length. (each stage is 1 min long... its long enough :D) In the future I may add more stages.\r\n\r\nuse the WASD or arrow keys to move, and the mouse to move the view \r\n(left mouse button is also used to fire lightning in stage 2 & 3)\r\n\r\nuse the 'esc' key to open the menu overlay.\r\n\r\nI hope that you enjoy the game :D\r\n\r\nRemember don't worry if you cant complete it :P it was balanced to be able to play a few times if you wanted to :D\r\n\r\n=============== SPOILER \/explanation ==============\r\nAt the end of the game (at least, when the volcano erupts) a Monster climbs out of the top showing how when the people were sacrificing themselves into the volcano they were actually helping the monster grow by feeding it, therefor causing the volcano to erupt.\r\n\r\nThis is at least how I originally intended to implement the theme but am not sure how clear it is for people to understand so I thought I should clarify it here :D","title":"Mt Etubo"}