{"author_link":"\/users\/alec","author_name":"alec","author_uid":1013678,"comments":[{"id":986722,"author_name":"LDJam user 237413","author_uid":"237413","epoch":1696238861,"text":"Interesting game. I like the styling and graphics.\nI found the movement and shifting of the ladder hard at first, but got there.\nGreat submission","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":986827,"author_name":"Dorren","author_uid":"dorren","epoch":1696246101,"text":"Very polished and clever use of theme, great job!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":987032,"author_name":"Whaies","author_uid":"whaies","epoch":1696256731,"text":"Really fun idea and execution across the board. The level of polish you put into your submissions always elevates them :ok_hand: ","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":987434,"author_name":"almageddon","author_uid":"almageddon","epoch":1696267355,"text":"Nice graphics and good execution!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":987436,"author_name":"Pe7e","author_uid":"pe7e","epoch":1696267407,"text":"Looks nice, had a hard time to get A to register. Always love a mute button :)\n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":987448,"author_name":"LDJam user 374261","author_uid":"374261","epoch":1696267576,"text":"Really fun game and arts! Great job :smile: ","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":987454,"author_name":"cheesepencil","author_uid":"cheesepencil","epoch":1696267668,"text":"Made to the end and I had to \"cheese\" it a little bit by rapidly pressing buttons when I felt stuck. This is a great game, really cool effects in a TIC game! <3","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":987488,"author_name":"bloodyaugust","author_uid":"bloodyaugust","epoch":1696268098,"text":"Didn't make it to the end, as I softlocked myself on \"Put your hands up\" by climbing onto the ladder accidentally in space, where I couldn't climb back down. Clever mechanics, once you figure them out! Shifting the ladder along its length took some figuring out, partially due to the strange keybindings, but this is a great little puzzle game with some tough challenges. Well done! :tada: ","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":987535,"author_name":"John Gabriel","author_uid":"john-gabriel","epoch":1696268659,"text":"Awesome take on the theme! At first, it made me think of that one boss fight from Yoshi's Island, but it's very much its own thing. The music is nice and serene - which is very much appreciated, given that the controls are a bit tricky - and the sound effects are really endearing, especially the bloops when the player character is climbing the ladder. I had a _lot_ of slowdown, which is understandable, given how much maths must be involved in all this. I'm not familiar with TIC-80 as much as I am with PICO-8, but this makes me want to give it a look!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":987576,"author_name":"LDJam user 375382","author_uid":"375382","epoch":1696269133,"text":"It is a bit whacky with how the physics behave exactly at each moment, but that is part of the charm! Also really nice pixel graphics.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":987755,"author_name":"hotaloca","author_uid":"hotaloca","epoch":1696271355,"text":"A very interesting game concept. I really find it interesting (and rather difficult) to be able to think in this 2D space by taking the ladder so it works out. The graphics are really cool, and fit the game mechanics very well. I also think it matches the game theme really nicely. Net, a very robust entry, congratulations!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":987894,"author_name":"Apophatique","author_uid":"apophatique","epoch":1696272872,"text":"Once you've mastered the controls, you can fully appreciate the concept. The art direction is very polished, bravo! ","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":988043,"author_name":"Zerbu","author_uid":"zerbu","epoch":1696274307,"text":"I love the 8-bit retro vibe!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":989605,"author_name":"alec","author_uid":"alec","epoch":1696286095,"text":"@bloodyaugust thanks for the review and report, sorry you got soft locked! I'll have to dig into why that would have happened :sweat_smile: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":989629,"author_name":"alec","author_uid":"alec","epoch":1696286227,"text":"@john-gabriel thank you for the comment and report on slowdown! I also got some slowdown, but only on certain computers. I wonder if it could be browser dependent. The game is definitely NOT optimized, so that definitely is a factor.\n\nIn any case, I'll add some native builds for people to download which should run faster then the browser build. ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":989654,"author_name":"alec","author_uid":"alec","epoch":1696286360,"text":"@pe7e thank you for the comment! For what its worth, you can adjust the global volume on tic80 games by\n\n1. hitting escape to bring up the pause screen\n2. going to options\n3. adjusting the volume toggle (0 is muted) \n\njust in case you run into any tic80 games in the future :wink: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":992636,"author_name":"ScottMakesGames","author_uid":"scottmakesgames","epoch":1696306284,"text":"I love this one. I love the art style, I love the gameplay, the character animation is very satisfying to watch. It fits the theme extremely well. This kind of traversal is very interesting, I'd love to see a more fleshed out prototype one day. Excellent work! \ud83d\ude01\ud83d\udc4d\n\nI haven't run into TIC-80 before now, I guess it's similar in concept to PICO-8. I'm going to dig in and learn more later on today, I love this kind of thing.\n\nJust a quick bug report though, probably more for TIC than you @alec but I can't get it to start at all in firefox. I get the white play button in front of the dark blue background, and nothing happens no matter I do. I was able to play it in Chrome however.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":995347,"author_name":"verysoftwares","author_uid":"verysoftwares","epoch":1696330412,"text":"quite original concept with great visuals! also yay for TIC-80.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1003059,"author_name":"chompdev","author_uid":"chompdev","epoch":1696393641,"text":"Really cool art style and satisfying controls! This has a nice Mario Galaxy vibe to it and the ladder system is really intuitive and smoothly animated. You can instantly tell how much polish and thought went into this one. Great work!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1010075,"author_name":"indivicivet","author_uid":"indivicivet","epoch":1696502143,"text":"I got stuck on \"put your hands up\", skill issue!\n\ngood:\n- very interesting and unique gameplay\n- great graphics and music; especially clear style for the art and it's all really polished, especially for a game jam\n\nbad:\n- possible to get stuck on ladders you've hoisted up\n- physics\/controls feel a bit janky\/unintuitive (but I guess that's part of learning the game, and sort of fun, so maybe this isn't a real criticism)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1010770,"author_name":"Nilan","author_uid":"nilan","epoch":1696518408,"text":"This game has some really interesting ideas, and the visuals and music are absolutely stunning.   \nAlthough there are a few minor issues, like occasionally getting stuck after climbing up a ladder and not being able to come back down even when in the same position.  \nOverall it's a fantastic game.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1010814,"author_name":"quasilyte","author_uid":"quasilyte","epoch":1696519333,"text":"I had major performance issues in Firefox, but Chrome showed some miracles and I was able to play the game with an adequate FPS.\n\nI'm not sure I totally understood the rules behind moving the ladder when it's in the hands, but I managed to complete the game somehow. \ud83d\ude05\nThe ladder refuses to move sometimes and this can get frustrating. I had to restart the game once due to a softlock-like situation.\n\nThis game is quite clever in many ways. The sound design is one of my most favorite thing here.\nThe puzzles themselves are somewhat simple in a sense that they usually can be completed by a trial and error without any real planning; but that's a very common issue with puzzle-like games that were made in a very limited time window. This game does show its main mechanic and that mechanic is quite impressive.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1011047,"author_name":"T C","author_uid":"t-c","epoch":1696523691,"text":"Great game!  The mechanics were very well executed and the levels were very interesting.  Got a bit stuck on the last one, and trying to reposition the ladder while holding it was a bit rough, but I made it all the way through and had a great time.  Well done!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1012407,"author_name":"gentoogames","author_uid":"gentoogames","epoch":1696548258,"text":"this is insanely cool! absolutely love the core mechanic, and the chip-tune is perfectly off-kilter to give it that out of space vibe. some really tricky puzzles in here, and recently, ive been loving anything to do with platformer puzzlers. fantastic entry!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1013817,"author_name":"6len","author_uid":"6len","epoch":1696597817,"text":"This is my favourite game so far, great take on the theme IMO, graphics and sound effects are really nice (especially climbing the ladder) and gameplay is really enjoyable.\n\nSometimes the ladder wanted to do it's own thing but I was hitting it off everything :sweat_smile: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1014849,"author_name":"zealous-coder","author_uid":"zealous-coder","epoch":1696623408,"text":"There seems to be a lot going on here and I like it. I think I got a bug\n![hands.png](\/\/\/raw\/818\/21\/z\/5fe76.png)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1015144,"author_name":"alec","author_uid":"alec","epoch":1696631887,"text":"@zealous-coder that does not look like \"Good Posture\" to me :laughing: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1016003,"author_name":"LDJam user 283449","author_uid":"283449","epoch":1696668310,"text":"This game feels super polished and I love the artstyle. Also the controls feel super good. Great game, had fun playing it!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1016565,"author_name":"Wuppos","author_uid":"wuppos","epoch":1696688275,"text":"This was a really cool little puzzle game! The asthetics and music\/sound were great and really fitted the intruiging puzzley gameplat. Realy well done!\n\nMaybe it was because I played on keyboard, but I had a bit of trouble moving the ladders where I wanted them. I especially did not know how I could move them up and down. The character seemed to just do that on their own sometimes. Pressing the up and down arrows sometimes helped, but sometimes did not. Anyway, I really liked the puzzle design, where you had to figure out how to get the ladder to the right place to get to the flag. I had a lot of fun :D ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1028572,"author_name":"Alexandru Barbanoua","author_uid":"alexandru-barbanoua","epoch":1697757407,"text":"the graphics are unique and I really like the gameplay","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld54\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/git.sr.ht\/~alect\/fantasy-console-carts\/blob\/main\/astros-ladder.janet","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"68222","g_author":"1013678","g_event":"LD54","g_eventkey":"117","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"291969","g_title":"Astro's Ladder","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"60","g_commentcount":"30","g_site2_node_id":"371690","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"371690","n_urlkey":"291969","n_parent":"371459","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/54\/astros-ladder","n_slug":"astros-ladder","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"13678","n_created":"0","n_modified":"0","n_version":"1165133","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"id":371690,"parent":371459,"_superparent":9,"author":13678,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"compo","published":"2023-10-01T21:38:48Z","created":"2023-09-18T16:37:04Z","modified":"2023-10-22T17:09:20Z","_trust":7,"version":1165133,"slug":"astros-ladder","name":"Astro's Ladder","body":"One small step (ladder) for mankind, one giant leap for Astro the Astronaut! 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Traverse micro sized planetary puzzles with the help of Astro's trusty ladder.\n\n### Controls\n\n1. Use \u25c0\ufe0f and \u25b6\ufe0f to walk around planet\n\n2. \ud83c\udd70\ufe0f button to pickup Ladder. Press \ud83c\udd70\ufe0f again to drop it\n\n3. While holding, you can use \ud83d\udd3c and \ud83d\udd3d to adjust grip point height. Press \u274e and \ud83c\uddfe to shift your grip point along the ladder.\n\n4. Place the ladder on 2 Planets, then press \ud83c\udd71\ufe0f to begin climbing the ladder! Press \ud83c\udd71\ufe0f again to try and get off, though you'll need to be close enough to a planet.\n\n5. Reach the Red flag in each level to progress. There are 6 levels.\n\n6. If you get stuck, restart the game with Control+R. 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