{"author_link":"\/users\/gorypixels","author_name":"Gorypixels","author_uid":"1202477","comments":[{"author_name":"Juice Lizard","author_uid":"1195733","time":"2020-04-22T12:58:50Z","epoch":1587560330,"modified":1587560330,"text":"It is beautiful. I like the colors. But I can't play: I have a Mac, no Windows. Do you want to create more defined ennemies? Not just balls.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Gorypixels","author_uid":"1202477","time":"2020-04-22T14:44:18Z","epoch":1587566658,"modified":1587566658,"text":"Thanks a lot! :D I approached this as an experiment more than a real game, and due the tight time constrains of a Ludum Dare I couldn't make better enemies, but something to think of if I ever improve this! Sadly, my GameMaker license does not allow me to export it to Mac computers :( So sorry for that!","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"RedDashGames","author_uid":"1186143","time":"2020-04-22T15:16:14Z","epoch":1587568574,"modified":1587568574,"text":"Wow this might be the prittyist and most vibrant game I've seen. biggest problem is that everything seems very... well samey. not too much verasion but hay its a jam game i dont expect too much, but what you did do was very fun indeed. :3","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"zollmaniac","author_uid":"1177111","time":"2020-04-22T15:16:54Z","epoch":1587568614,"modified":1587568614,"text":"Nice game! I enjoyed the graphics and the music a good bit. I think they fit well together. Is this something you're going to continue to develop?","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"RedDashGames","author_uid":"1186143","time":"2020-04-22T15:17:18Z","epoch":1587568638,"modified":1587568638,"text":"also i really would recommend adding some images to this page, its a tad bland, should draw more people to your little game.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"ZEZEL","author_uid":"1177585","time":"2020-04-22T15:18:02Z","epoch":1587568682,"modified":1587568682,"text":"That was so cool, graphics were insane ! Great job for this and for turning a regular tower defence game into this very cool game ! :thumbsup: \n","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Barney25052","author_uid":"1083529","time":"2020-04-22T15:18:52Z","epoch":1587568732,"modified":1587568732,"text":"I really like the 3D look on the 2d sprites, it really adds to the game.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Roboimuri","author_uid":"1075435","time":"2020-04-22T15:19:18Z","epoch":1587568758,"modified":1587568758,"text":"Beautiful work! Very hard though. I liked the graphics a lot. Maybe unsteeepen the difficulty ramp a bit?","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"dodormeur","author_uid":"1003851","time":"2020-04-22T15:19:33Z","epoch":1587568773,"modified":1587568773,"text":"The game is interesting ! It was a short but fun experience, the only problem is that I feel like the most effective way to score is to spawn one soldier at a time behind the ennemies, so they change direction and to just attract them backwards, because there is so many of them you cannot kill them all. I made 66 seconds with that technique ^^\n\nAlso I had a crash once, \n\n\n___________________________________________\n\n############################################################################################\n\nFATAL ERROR in\n\naction number 1\n\nof  Step Event0\n\nfor object obj_aliado_sombra:\n\nUnable to find any instance for object index '100893' name '<undefined>'\n\nat gml_Object_obj_aliado_sombra_Step_0\n\n############################################################################################\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nstack frame is\n\ngml_Object_obj_aliado_sombra_Step_0 (line -1)\n\n","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"loudrasiel","author_uid":"1006216","time":"2020-04-22T15:23:59Z","epoch":1587569039,"modified":1587569039,"text":"I love this game. The colors are beautiful. It's a good concept ! 5 stars on all rate :heart_eyes: ","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Daniel Ewusi-Essel","author_uid":"1202176","time":"2020-04-22T15:25:43Z","epoch":1587569143,"modified":1587569143,"text":"This is amazing...i loved the game and graphics. Thoughts: Can you slow the rate of enemey increase? it gets overwhelming after half a minute","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"ZeGGamer","author_uid":"1076198","time":"2020-04-22T15:28:42Z","epoch":1587569322,"modified":1587569322,"text":"Very fun, It was very hard to survive as the enemies always felt like an unstopable force, so it was a little disheartening as nomatter what I did it all was to no avail. It would have been really cool if you started off with a bunch of material and 10-30 seconds of prep time before those waves started coming at you. You could have different maps or more can that get targeted so that you have to divide your forces amongst different areas. Just my thoughts, but that's what I would do in this instance. good foundations though.\n\nPS, wish there was Music.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"KamiVara","author_uid":"1179554","time":"2020-04-22T15:29:08Z","epoch":1587569348,"modified":1587569348,"text":"Very nice game ! funny and colorful ! Like it !\nIt's simple to understand.\nMaybe to much enemies at once.\nThank you for this game !","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Robin49","author_uid":"1055974","time":"2020-04-22T15:37:04Z","epoch":1587569824,"modified":1587569824,"text":"It is very funny, nice but i got the error","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Prof.Suarez","author_uid":"1186473","time":"2020-04-22T15:40:07Z","epoch":1587570007,"modified":1587570007,"text":"It was cool, but the lack of control was frustrating at times.  overall, I liked it","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"sydream","author_uid":"1165551","time":"2020-04-22T18:47:49Z","epoch":1587581269,"modified":1587581269,"text":"Really enjoyed playing few runs, nicely put together. Controls are easy and work well. Well done !","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"raytheonly","author_uid":"1093998","time":"2020-04-22T19:24:32Z","epoch":1587583472,"modified":1587583472,"text":"Difficulty spike is a bit harsh. But it was fun and looked great. Good Job you did there! :)","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"kiririn51","author_uid":"1017469","time":"2020-04-22T19:35:50Z","epoch":1587584150,"modified":1587584150,"text":"really fun concept and gorgeous visuals, the colors are simply perfect. ","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Gorypixels","author_uid":"1202477","time":"2020-04-23T10:28:08Z","epoch":1587637688,"modified":1587637688,"text":"Wow, thanks a lot for the awesome feedback guys! <3 My programming skills are improving, and in a such a short period of time I wasn't able to make it as playable as I would liked, there's plenty of bugs and balancing issues. But I'm glad you are enjoying the visuals and audio! (It is super low for some reason, pump up the volume to hear it! jajaja :D )","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"I\u00f1aki roque","author_uid":"1194151","time":"2020-04-23T19:48:43Z","epoch":1587671323,"modified":1587671323,"text":"love the colors, and the concept! enemies are coming to fast ","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"WhatNameGames","author_uid":"1173556","time":"2020-04-24T20:14:31Z","epoch":1587759271,"modified":1587759271,"text":"Pretty cool game, love the visuals. The difficulty ramp is a bit extreme though.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Gorypixels","author_uid":"1202477","time":"2020-04-24T20:24:08Z","epoch":1587759848,"modified":1587759848,"text":"@whatnamegames it is jajaja blame tired me from the past on that! I'll definitely try to fix that in a post-jam update of the game. Thanks for playing! :)","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Helgrind","author_uid":"1051469","time":"2020-04-24T21:53:26Z","epoch":1587765206,"modified":1587765206,"text":"I really love the graphics of the game !\nThe colors are amazing. Great job !","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Rafa Braga","author_uid":"1148953","time":"2020-04-24T21:54:59Z","epoch":1587765299,"modified":1587765299,"text":"Love your gam, friend, de mood, the collor and beautyfull graphics are awesome!!! Nice mechanics to explore in the future :)","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Comocosmos","author_uid":"1206973","time":"2020-04-25T01:14:43Z","epoch":1587777283,"modified":1587777321,"text":"This game was fun, I really like the designs you have for everything. It weirdly all kind of fit together. My only complaint is that it feels like no matter how many guards you spawn in there are to many enemies to handle.\nOh yeah that sound track was rad too. Good game concept though!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"gamechoy","author_uid":"1002324","time":"2020-04-25T01:16:40Z","epoch":1587777400,"modified":1587777400,"text":"This is one of the most addicting entries I've played yet! The aesthetic is super unique and sharp and the frantic pace is very enjoyable. Plus the fact that you made this in GameMaker is sweet! The farthest I could get was around 75 seconds. Awesome work!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"joemid","author_uid":"1001158","time":"2020-04-25T04:17:15Z","epoch":1587788235,"modified":1587788235,"text":"Very addictive!  I love the graphics and sounds- Omg- it is so stressful when those candy bubbles are invading en masse.  I made it 45 something seconds, and couldn't beat that- then I had a look at the comments and using the \"lure\" technique I made it all the way to 62.55.  95?!  You gotta be kidding me!!!  Love that this was made in GM as well- I am still hearing that can crunch!  Thanks for the game!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Yvanor","author_uid":"1000658","time":"2020-04-25T17:40:58Z","epoch":1587836458,"modified":1587836458,"text":"As you said, the game is very hard to play.\n\nHowever I had a good time, the graphics are really cool, and I like how dynamic the game is.\nI think that if you reuse that engine next time and take more time to work on the gameplay, you could make an awesome game !\n\nWell done !","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Gorypixels","author_uid":"1202477","time":"2020-04-26T09:27:58Z","epoch":1587893278,"modified":1587893278,"text":"Thanks @yvanor! A super valid point ajajaja thanks for playing! :)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Gorypixels","author_uid":"1202477","time":"2020-04-26T12:53:31Z","epoch":1587905611,"modified":1587905611,"text":"Made a Post-Jam tiny improvement based on your feedback!\n\n-Increased the volume to audible levels\n-Hopefully fixed the fatal error that sometimes used to happen\n-Added a tiiiny little leeway at the begining of the game to prepare to the (still) massive assault coming seconds later ajajaja :)\n\nHope you like it!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Sebeee","author_uid":"1145228","time":"2020-04-26T17:25:39Z","epoch":1587921939,"modified":1587921939,"text":"You did a brilliant job. Well done","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"SpiRiTs","author_uid":"1013352","time":"2020-04-26T20:20:04Z","epoch":1587932404,"modified":1587932404,"text":"This game looks awesome: the colors, art, music all fit together pretty well. The difficulty though was a bit to high. Great job","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Pietro Ferrantelli","author_uid":"1000191","time":"2020-04-27T16:17:57Z","epoch":1588004277,"modified":1588004277,"text":"Oh gosh I love those 3D colorful pixels aesthetics <3 Very inspiring and eye-candy ! The concept is also really clever, interesting and well executed, I had a blast playing it ! Well made entry !","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"marcusnystrand","author_uid":"1196098","time":"2020-04-27T16:41:42Z","epoch":1588005702,"modified":1588005702,"text":"a bit weird but pretty fun game concept! Awesome aesthetics, color scheme is nice and striking too. I feel like this fake 3D-style could be used for lots of different kinds of game really!!\n\nWell done!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"gustavo.christino","author_uid":"1026571","time":"2020-04-27T18:41:32Z","epoch":1588012892,"modified":1588012892,"text":"![CAN you stay alive.png](\/\/\/raw\/bc7\/6\/z\/336ce.png)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"gustavo.christino","author_uid":"1026571","time":"2020-04-27T18:48:24Z","epoch":1588013304,"modified":1588013304,"text":"An\u00e1lise...\n\n1 - Mec\u00e2nicas, Aprendizado e Fluxo:\nA mec\u00e2nica \u00e9 interessante e divertida.\nA cada partida a gente aprende a jogar um pouco melhor.\nO fluxo de jogo gera mais ansiedade do que t\u00e9dio, ent\u00e3o posso considerar que fica dif\u00edcil muito r\u00e1pido (talvez prolongar o tempo mais f\u00e1cil no in\u00edcio permita o jogador aprender melhor ainda na primeira partida).\n\n2 - Gr\u00e1ficos, \u00c1udio, Narrativa e Polimento:\nConsiderando que tudo foi feito durante o tempo de Ludum Dare: meus parab\u00e9ns ao artista gr\u00e1fico e meus parab\u00e9ns ao respons\u00e1vel pelo \u00e1udio, ficou muito bacana.\nA narrativa n\u00e3o \u00e9 o foco do projeto, ao que entendi, ent\u00e3o n\u00e3o cabe falar muito a respeito disso.\nPolimentos podem ser feitos em rela\u00e7\u00e3o \u00e0 HUD e ao espa\u00e7o em torno da cena propriamente dita.\n\n3 - Cultura:\nA est\u00e9tica do jogo permite conversar com efeitos art\u00edsticos (tanto gr\u00e1ficos, quanto em termos de \u00e1udio).\nO jogo remete a jogos de administra\u00e7\u00e3o de parques de divers\u00e3o, mas (obviamente) n\u00e3o \u00e9 o objetivo.\nOs soldados (oi-oi-oi) fazem lembrar de brincadeiras do tempo de crian\u00e7a; ent\u00e3o o jogo bebe da fonte do imagin\u00e1rio infantil.\n\n4 - Monetiza\u00e7\u00e3o:\nSe o jogo for reprojetado para ter uma narrativa (mesmo que simples\/direta), poderia haver diversos est\u00e1gios; quem sabe vendesse em stores como itch.io (a baixo custo) ou para smartphones (neste caso com propagandas, creio).\nTrazer jogadores poderia fazer proveito do que foi dito em [3], em seguida uma pesquisa e a procura por nichos de interesse em redes sociais (como Facebook etc).","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"gustavo.christino","author_uid":"1026571","time":"2020-04-27T18:48:49Z","epoch":1588013329,"modified":1588013329,"text":"Analysis...\n\n1 - Mechanics, Learning and Flow:\nThe mechanics are interesting and fun.\nWith each game we learn to play a little better.\nThe flow of the game generates more anxiety than boredom, so I can consider that it becomes difficult very quickly (perhaps prolonging the time easier in the beginning allows the player to learn even better in the first game).\n\n2 - Graphics, Audio, Narrative and Polishment:\nConsidering that everything was done during Ludum Dare's time: my congratulations to the graphic artist and my congratulations to the responsible for the audio, it was very nice.\nThe narrative is not the focus of the project, as I understand it, so there is little point in talking about it.\nPolishing can be done in relation to the HUD and the space around the scene itself.\n\n3 - Culture:\nThe aesthetics of the game allows you to chat with artistic effects (both graphics and audio).\nThe game refers to amusement park management games, but (obviously) is not the goal.\nSoldiers (oi-oi-oi) remind us of childhood games; then the game draws from the source of children's imagination.\n\n4 - Monetization:\nIf the game is redesigned to have a narrative (even if simple \/ direct), there could be several stages; maybe it would sell in stores like itch.io (at low cost) or for smartphones (in this case with advertisements, I believe).\nBringing in players could take advantage of what was said in [3], then a search and search for niches of interest on social networks (such as Facebook etc).","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Le Don","author_uid":"1166879","time":"2020-04-28T12:14:30Z","epoch":1588076070,"modified":1588076070,"text":"It looks great. But I think the game has to be explained better, as I couldn't figure why I should use those defends pencils or in generell how the economy in this game works.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Gorypixels","author_uid":"1202477","time":"2020-04-29T20:14:17Z","epoch":1588191257,"modified":1588191257,"text":"@le-don absolutely right! I'm more an artist than a game designer or programmer, and this game is a perfect example on that XD Next time my challenge will be to make something more engaing mechanically!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Gorypixels","author_uid":"1202477","time":"2020-04-30T07:42:52Z","epoch":1588232572,"modified":1588232572,"text":"@gustavo-christino Thanks for the super detailed feedback! :D","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Eran Haas","author_uid":"1084385","time":"2020-05-01T23:24:47Z","epoch":1588375487,"modified":1588375487,"text":"Really fantastic art style, really captured a certain early 90s look!\n\nI failed to read instructions, and did not realize I could drop the pencils my first few games.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"fatPenguin","author_uid":"1009985","time":"2020-05-02T11:53:17Z","epoch":1588420397,"modified":1588420397,"text":"Great artstyle and idea, I love this \"tiny world\" thing :) I didn't really figure out what to do at first, and I think click and drag would have been a bit better to move the cam :) all in all, good job! The artstyle is amazing!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"theblackfrog","author_uid":"1184450","time":"2020-05-06T22:41:34Z","epoch":1588804894,"modified":1588804894,"text":"What a wonderful crazy idea :) lov it. Super hard. Well done. 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