{"author_link":"\/author\/careless\/","author_name":"careless","author_uid":"32413","comments":[{"author_name":"ChuiGum","author_uid":"22408","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 6:52am","epoch":1450162020,"text":"Awesome music and graphics. A great concept too. You should let people rate on the Innovation Category because it is really original. Great job!"},{"author_name":"CodeNMore","author_uid":"33942","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 7:31pm","epoch":1450207560,"text":"I absolutely love the music, and the gameplay is quite nice, well done!"},{"author_name":"Elemental Zeal Games Studios","author_uid":"12839","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 3:31am","epoch":1450236360,"text":"Nice entry!"},{"author_name":"qwetro","author_uid":"59778","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 3:34am","epoch":1450236540,"text":"Great work, love the graphics and the music. It's all good except the control is a bit weird."},{"author_name":"Gtron","author_uid":"51237","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 3:47am","epoch":1450237320,"text":"Cool concept with a pretty well balanced difficulty curve. I would have liked if the audio was a little bit quieter, but that's really just nitpicking."},{"author_name":"Enchae","author_uid":"47449","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 3:47am","epoch":1450237320,"text":"I really like the music, the colors compliment each other nicely, and it's a very interesting idea!\r\rThe graphics were... okay, That one tile looked nice ;)\rBut my main problem is how the framerate dropped a lot which is strange considering how simple it seems.\r\rBut that's forgivable! Good entry nonetheless."},{"author_name":"dcRfj15","author_uid":"49644","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 3:53am","epoch":1450237680,"text":"Awesome Graphics and Audio. I liked the combination of the two to make a nice playful mood.\r\rI couldn't figure out how to get past the 4th level of the vine. I looked for things to break, or things to jump on, but I couldn't find anything. Did I miss something?\r\rGood job overall!"},{"author_name":"Shivur","author_uid":"36762","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 3:59am","epoch":1450238040,"text":"Good concept."},{"author_name":"SSJMetroid","author_uid":"3925","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 2:31am","epoch":1450319160,"text":"You should make windows deployments executables for people who don't have the JRE and don't want it. :("},{"author_name":"Weeping Rupee","author_uid":"60016","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 2:34am","epoch":1450319340,"text":"Good game. Controlled nicely. I didn't make it to the top but I enjoyed it even when I lost. A few more animations would have been nice, but overall good work"},{"author_name":"cudabear","author_uid":"25773","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 3:01am","epoch":1450320960,"text":"This game was pretty fun, though I wish the controls were either a bit more tight, or the camera was further back, so I wasn't jumping blindly as much. Graphics are simple but nice, I like the animation on the character. Audio is nice, but I wish the looping wasn't so obvious. Well done!"},{"author_name":"walaber","author_uid":"31888","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 5:13am","epoch":1450328880,"text":"really cool! I like how the single world space is broken up into mini challenges based on the vine height. performance was a bit rough on my Mac, in particular the framerate seemed to stutter and drop when jumping and causing the screen to scroll. mad it a bit difficult to pull off some of the jumps."},{"author_name":"careless","author_uid":"32413","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 1:54am","epoch":1450403340,"text":"Thanks for all the feedback thus far, I rushed to make a simple entity framework but had no idea of the bad decisions I was making at the time, basically I am getting the enemies too all do too many tests per second its silly.\r\rMain lesson learned is to write a map editor\/ entity framework prior to the compo.\r\rI lost too many hours on day two to really sort out the controls and admit they are not clean enough!\r\rI will look into making an .exe for Windows and upload that, thanks for the tip SSJMetroid."},{"author_name":"emmes","author_uid":"60595","time":"Jan 4, 2016 @ 9:28pm","epoch":1451942580,"text":"I really like the music, and the overall apparence.\rI don't like collision detection and general movement too much, though, it feels unpolished.\rInteresting idea to use twitter for accounts..."}],"images":["ld34\/32413-fb7e1eeba405204d6924dde61951a079.jpg","ld34\/32413-ffaef05c969f7b072809b7da757825b7.jpg","ld34\/32413-bfe14888f32126fe9b0ecd3dc421b9cf.jpg","ld34\/32413-6accc63859673c5c4f24b6d9d2617a97.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/carelesslabs.itch.io\/vine-climber","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/carelesslabs.itch.io\/vine-climber","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"http:\/\/carelesslabs.itch.io\/vine-climber","text":"Linux"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"6691","g_author":"32413","g_event":"LD34","g_eventkey":"31","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"6707","g_title":"Vine Climber","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"475","g_commentcount":"14","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\/32413-shot0-1450145132.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/32413-shot1-1450145133.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/32413-shot2-1450145133.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/32413-shot3-1450145133.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Race the clock to the top of the vine and take out the nasty ghost!\r\n\r\nCollect chests on your way to the top releasing energy which help the vine grow but watch our for those pesky mushrooms.\r\n\r\nWhen you reach the highest heights can you defeat the ghost? If you defeat the boss were you quick enough to make it onto the score board?\r\n\r\nWASD or arrow controls to move left, right and climb the vine. \r\nUse space bar to jump\r\n\r\nUse the mouse to click the buttons in game and be sure to type in a player name, if you use your Twitter handle I will tweet the top players on Twitter.\r\n\r\nEnjoy\r\n\r\n","title":"Vine Climber"}