{"author_link":"\/author\/psypol\/","author_name":"psypol","author_uid":"7155","comments":[{"author_name":"jcwelgemoed","author_uid":"55308","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 12:34pm","epoch":1450096140,"text":"lol very interesting and nice take on the theme :) Get quite challenging but fun. well done."},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"27744","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 1:01pm","epoch":1450097760,"text":"Nicely made game, love the spin on the theme! I included it in my Ludum Dare 34 compilation video series, if you’d like to check it out :) https:\/\/youtu.be\/rQfOYGAIpM0"},{"author_name":"excaliburHisSheath","author_uid":"41161","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 2:18am","epoch":1450145580,"text":"The slight animation on the dropping boxes was a nice visual touch. I would have liked to see more touches like that. The game works with the simple gameplay (I could see it being pretty fun on mobile) so all it needs is more feedback for this be a solid little snack of a game."},{"author_name":"GameGrape Gaming","author_uid":"52602","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 3:00am","epoch":1450148100,"text":"Hello, This is GameGrape Gaming! Here at GameGrape Gaming we review games, more! We will do a run through of your game making sure you can see someone playing and enjoying your game but also letting you know what could be changed or whats awesome about your game.\r\rFeel free to send as many as you want since we review all the games that are sent! All games will be video reviewed and the reviews will be available on the GameGrape Gaming YouTube channel and GameGrape Gaming website. We will even Tweet and share the games we like the most on Twitter!\r\rSo what are you waiting for? Do you want people to see your game(s)? Do you want to watch people play your game? The time has come! What are you waiting for!\r\rGet Your Game Reviewed Now!: https:\/\/goo.gl\/StKpT9\r\rIf you would like to be placed in the randomly picked group then sign up here (you are not guaranteed to get a review with this option though): http:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/WMMWfbKU5N\r\rThis game looks great and we can't wait to play! Good luck in the competition! :)"},{"author_name":"silkworm_sweatshop","author_uid":"47199","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 3:39am","epoch":1450150440,"text":"Great interpretation of the theme!"},{"author_name":"iapc","author_uid":"53115","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 4:46am","epoch":1450154460,"text":"Nice little game, well done thematically. However, it could have done with some less annoying failure states. For instance, if you try to move a button offscreen, don't let the player die, stop the button at the screen edge."},{"author_name":"TaoPhoenix","author_uid":"13269","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 4:47am","epoch":1450154520,"text":"Extremely simple game but per the site notes the guy isn't a coder, but found something and gave it his all, and made a game and I don't see any \/ many bugs. \r\rAnd it is the closest I've seen to a private joke about a program I made as a child some 28 years ago and now it reminds me of "avoiding random people here in New York City wandering around looking at their cell phones and you have to dodge them" : )"},{"author_name":"TaoPhoenix","author_uid":"13269","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 4:48am","epoch":1450154580,"text":"Ps I got to about 720 but if I worked at it I could get higher so I might post back during voting. \r\rTip - you can move one orb diagonally to safety then jockey the sizing back and forth and save the other one."},{"author_name":"Pietdagamer","author_uid":"46438","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 7:46am","epoch":1450165260,"text":"I like how you interpreted the theme.\r\rBy the way, I got it to work on Linux with WINE."},{"author_name":"RhysD","author_uid":"30493","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 8:14am","epoch":1450166940,"text":"Cool idea, I like having to constantly switch between the buttons to get through the course. It was a bit frustrating if one of the buttons grew past the size of the wall and I went to pick it up and got a game over instantly."},{"author_name":"NirabazGAMES","author_uid":"65891","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 9:21am","epoch":1450170960,"text":"An interesting idea, and the perfect a combination the theme =)"},{"author_name":"psypol","author_uid":"7155","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 9:45am","epoch":1450172400,"text":"Thanks everyone for the comments. i'll try to improve the concept during christmas holidays. nice suggestions from you guys :-)"},{"author_name":"B0pt1K","author_uid":"59431","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 10:04am","epoch":1450173540,"text":"I like the interpretation of the theme, very interesting and enjoyable to play. However, there are a few annoying states to game over such as accidentally hitting the other button, or when a button moves out of the screen. But that's just a small thing - it's fun :)"},{"author_name":"TCP786","author_uid":"33060","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 10:19am","epoch":1450174440,"text":"Really nice design. One of the best interpretations of the theme that I've seen. \r\rOn my best run I made it to 1290 points."},{"author_name":"Erlend Aakre","author_uid":"54973","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 12:22pm","epoch":1450181820,"text":"Great little game, much fun to play :)"},{"author_name":"pjimmy","author_uid":"40339","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 12:29pm","epoch":1450182240,"text":"awesome, very intelligent concept, fun and challenging, very creative! One of my favourites, well done! :)"},{"author_name":"daandruff","author_uid":"3244","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 12:36pm","epoch":1450182660,"text":"Really original idea. I think you should elaborate on this game!"},{"author_name":"Fadobo","author_uid":"15165","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 12:41pm","epoch":1450182960,"text":"Very addictive little game and great usage of the themes. I assume you also restrained yourself when it comes to scope and actually finishing the game in time, which is also something I am jealous of."},{"author_name":"fractalbear","author_uid":"64635","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 12:49pm","epoch":1450183440,"text":"Awesome! Loved how perfected it fits the theme, very original :)"},{"author_name":"David Cookie","author_uid":"66030","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 1:12pm","epoch":1450184820,"text":"Ok, even if there's no audio, it's 5 stars for me! Really cool concept and most importantly it really fits the theme of the jam. Well done!"},{"author_name":"WizzardMaker","author_uid":"53413","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 1:13pm","epoch":1450184880,"text":"Nice and funny game, I've got 300 points, it would be nicer if you had made some music for it, but meh who needs music, right?"},{"author_name":"anael","author_uid":"45582","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 1:20pm","epoch":1450185300,"text":"Good concept, well done."},{"author_name":"epicTCK","author_uid":"65206","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 1:23pm","epoch":1450185480,"text":"Well done (:"},{"author_name":"limered","author_uid":"66066","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 1:35pm","epoch":1450186200,"text":"Very nice idea and take on the theme. A simple, yet challanging game. I like it."},{"author_name":"Didi","author_uid":"37039","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 1:43pm","epoch":1450186680,"text":"Interesting mechanic and very challenging!"},{"author_name":"Gipzo","author_uid":"32280","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 5:16pm","epoch":1450199460,"text":"An interesting concept. There is a problem, where block can repitedly go on the same line.\rMy score is 470."},{"author_name":"Taffaz","author_uid":"19054","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 5:30pm","epoch":1450200300,"text":"Cool concept, love how you interpreted both themes."},{"author_name":"swipefaststudios","author_uid":"24642","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 5:36pm","epoch":1450200660,"text":"It was fun but really tricky, nice concept!"},{"author_name":"Simplest","author_uid":"26438","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 5:50pm","epoch":1450201500,"text":"Oh my god you got a really nice and innovative concept :D. Good job! Its funny to play It"},{"author_name":"h.attila","author_uid":"8403","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 7:02pm","epoch":1450205820,"text":"I liked the idea and it's a nice twist on the themes. I guess it'd be even more fun a phone with touch controls (I tried the web version, it was working fine for me). It would be much better with some nice backgrounds, more variety in the enemies and music\/sound though. Oh, I got about 320 point before I gave up. :)"},{"author_name":"EstrelSteel","author_uid":"54667","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 8:02pm","epoch":1450209420,"text":"Nice!"},{"author_name":"Slothmachine","author_uid":"30979","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 8:16pm","epoch":1450210260,"text":"Good multitask practice. Quite hard also."},{"author_name":"Tuism","author_uid":"35114","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 8:37pm","epoch":1450211520,"text":"Really cool idea, dunno what you want to do with it, but it could probably extend into something more :)\r\rPlaying it not on a touch device is silly :P"},{"author_name":"ChaosCult","author_uid":"47349","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 9:35pm","epoch":1450215000,"text":"3890 =) Simple but brilliant idea. 5 stars innovation."},{"author_name":"shadowforce768","author_uid":"64636","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 10:05pm","epoch":1450216800,"text":"Very creative mechanics. Great game!"},{"author_name":"Wukkopi","author_uid":"4857","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 11:09pm","epoch":1450220640,"text":"PB: 1730 points\rNice concept and thsi would be a great time killer on mobile platforms. I built a strategy for this where i would make the buttons even size and on top of each other, this made the game a lot easier and most of the time i even didn't have to move the buttons."},{"author_name":"RhythmLynx","author_uid":"39966","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 11:21pm","epoch":1450221360,"text":"After a few false starts I had one good run, got 520. It's a very simple and effective mechanic, good job!"},{"author_name":"Zeezgames","author_uid":"63931","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 12:06am","epoch":1450224060,"text":"Wow , good literal use of the theme and ye it was challenging and i enjoyed playing it \r\rWell Done!"},{"author_name":"Capitals","author_uid":"28209","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 1:19am","epoch":1450228440,"text":"Lovely take of the theme and worked perfectly. Challenging, I think the controls would work well with the theme. Good Luck!"},{"author_name":"anv","author_uid":"55892","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 7:18am","epoch":1450336380,"text":"Awesome idea!"},{"author_name":"trexmix","author_uid":"59937","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 11:43pm","epoch":1450395480,"text":"Simple and addicting! I wish your mobile port the best!"},{"author_name":"klianc09","author_uid":"20290","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 11:49pm","epoch":1450395840,"text":"Simple, yet effective gameplay. I think it has the potential for a nice mobile game. Nice Job."},{"author_name":"JamesMowery","author_uid":"64932","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 12:09am","epoch":1450397040,"text":"I enjoyed it. Add some music or sound to give even more immersion!"},{"author_name":"Kenneth Ng","author_uid":"66377","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 7:38am","epoch":1450423980,"text":"Cool game. Definitely something new I've never seen before. Some small fixes to make it easier on the player could be having the buttons not snap to the center point (which has caused my fair share of losses, just trying to move the button)."},{"author_name":"cescababs","author_uid":"66617","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 7:37pm","epoch":1450467120,"text":"Great Game simple design but very addictive... my points were at 370"},{"author_name":"Xgor","author_uid":"18652","time":"Dec 19, 2015 @ 4:15pm","epoch":1450541400,"text":"Tried it out for mobile and while I get that this is made for it some things made me feel that the other version works better design wise. First you might want to remove the mobile interface for the mobile version.. it just looks weird. Secondly I instinctly tried to use one finger each for the buttons but that lead to them just colliding into each other. I got a feeling dragging with the mouse feels better due to there is only one you can take at a time."},{"author_name":"psypol","author_uid":"7155","time":"Dec 19, 2015 @ 4:43pm","epoch":1450543080,"text":"thanks for the valuable input. Nice that you could test both to really see the difference. it's a true question i admit. was the touch version really the best one or mouse IS the true version in the end ?\r\rabout the mobile interface i could not remove it for now.\rsomeone made the export for me, my android sdk seems broken in unity :-( but ill work on this."},{"author_name":"ruerob","author_uid":"36728","time":"Dec 19, 2015 @ 9:07pm","epoch":1450558920,"text":"Nice idea! My best score is 250 so far! It's a great twist on the theme! I'll definitely try the android version later!"},{"author_name":"psypol","author_uid":"7155","time":"Dec 19, 2015 @ 9:16pm","epoch":1450559460,"text":"Hello to all. i finally managed to make make APK's on my own.\rthere is now a post jam version with minor adjustments i detail up-there in the header description\r=> http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2gbld34-postLDApk"},{"author_name":"publicidadeba","author_uid":"63879","time":"Dec 23, 2015 @ 8:36pm","epoch":1450902660,"text":"This game is ready! It's READY to go! Well done guys, 5\/5 in everything almost!"},{"author_name":"ChuiGum","author_uid":"22408","time":"Dec 31, 2015 @ 11:57pm","epoch":1451605920,"text":"Very very original! Could definitely see this as a mobile game. I like the innovation, very great job!"},{"author_name":"agilejoshua","author_uid":"39858","time":"Jan 4, 2016 @ 9:09am","epoch":1451898240,"text":"Cool idea."},{"author_name":"Haokarlos","author_uid":"62182","time":"Jan 4, 2016 @ 9:28am","epoch":1451899380,"text":"Really nice and challenging idea"},{"author_name":"Fartenko","author_uid":"49406","time":"Jan 4, 2016 @ 9:31am","epoch":1451899560,"text":"I really like this game! Interesting concept and idea! Good job!"},{"author_name":"randomhuman","author_uid":"56477","time":"Jan 4, 2016 @ 10:36am","epoch":1451903460,"text":"That's pretty cool, well done."},{"author_name":"Geckoo1337","author_uid":"35835","time":"Jan 4, 2016 @ 1:41pm","epoch":1451914560,"text":"Simple mechanics, but good enough. Maybe another aesthetic could improve this project. Thumbs up ++"}],"images":["ld34\/7155-63d20f57c78bb0ed70f06dea15a8c758.jpg","ld34\/7155-3fc5c0ac0f6325c7b2fa3b69e64bd3ed.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ld342gbWebgl","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2gbWin","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2gbld34-apk","text":"APK (not recommended)"},{"url":"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2gbld34-postLDApk","text":"APK (Post-LD tweaked)"},{"url":"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2gbSource","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"6217","g_author":"7155","g_event":"LD34","g_eventkey":"31","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"6325","g_title":"2 Growing Buttons ...","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"552","g_commentcount":"56","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\/7155-shot0-1450045507.gif-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/7155-shot1-1450045507.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"TWO GROWING BUTTONS (put your SCORE in Comments to help me balance it !)\r\n[LD34 entry for 2 themes at once !]\r\n\r\n\"2GB\" is An endless game. Play with mouse. \r\nThe only thing you can do is to move around the two buttons at your disposal.\r\nNow the twist : When you move a button it shrinks down while the other grows.\r\nTRY to survive as long as possible TELL ME YOUR SCORE IN COMMENTS THANKS\r\n\r\nGame made by One GameDesigner who don't codes ;-)\r\nUsed PlayMaker for Unity\r\nAs game layout shows: it was planed as a touch\/mobile game\r\n\r\nSORRY ONLY WINDOWS FOR NOW!\r\nAndroid coming soon i hope\r\nmy export is broken :-( \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[BEST PLAYED IN 800*600 Windowed]","title":"2 Growing Buttons ..."}