{"author_link":"\/author\/mcmahoniel\/","author_name":"mcmahoniel","author_uid":"50787","comments":[{"author_name":"mukult","author_uid":"65633","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 6:27am","epoch":1450074120,"text":"Good game! Simple and music felt good! Nice work! :)"},{"author_name":"Nooner Bear","author_uid":"41949","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 6:27am","epoch":1450074120,"text":"Simple and fun, good work! Though, I'm unsure of how to restart after I've died other than to refresh."},{"author_name":"yumaikas","author_uid":"62747","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 6:29am","epoch":1450074240,"text":"Not being able to restart kinda makes it hard to replay."},{"author_name":"mcmahoniel","author_uid":"50787","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 6:48am","epoch":1450075380,"text":"Sorry about the restart functionality, I ran out of time. :) Thanks for playing!"},{"author_name":"floppya","author_uid":"13978","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 6:55am","epoch":1450075800,"text":"Solid, simple game. Nice work getting both themes in there."},{"author_name":"Ghen","author_uid":"52500","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 6:57am","epoch":1450075920,"text":"yep, simple and fun\r<br\/>the music fit the game really well"},{"author_name":"jerry111zhang","author_uid":"55229","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 7:05am","epoch":1450076400,"text":"Would be better if we can restart"},{"author_name":"GodsBoss","author_uid":"20672","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 7:33am","epoch":1450078080,"text":"Is it just me or is that game insanely hard? Why does the balloon try to ascend during the late heavy bombardement the Earth once went through?\r<br\/>Still pretty fun, though."},{"author_name":"Serg","author_uid":"50767","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 7:36am","epoch":1450078260,"text":"Simple, but nice."},{"author_name":"blohod","author_uid":"61724","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 7:42am","epoch":1450078620,"text":"Needs restart! balloon looks weird but still an ok game."},{"author_name":"NaoisTheGuardian","author_uid":"22501","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 9:03am","epoch":1450083480,"text":"Well done on a solidly implemented game."},{"author_name":"rantt","author_uid":"41103","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 2:02pm","epoch":1450101420,"text":"Music really fit the game.  I enjoyed it, nicely done!"},{"author_name":"hexagore","author_uid":"34027","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 6:13pm","epoch":1450116480,"text":"Would have been nice to be able to restart after being hit. A simple idea but it's executed nicely."},{"author_name":"lXxGarrisonxXl","author_uid":"63289","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 4:15am","epoch":1450152600,"text":"fun game and easy to play"},{"author_name":"psychonull","author_uid":"31386","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 3:01pm","epoch":1450191360,"text":"Simple and fun game. Nice work!!"},{"author_name":"argowen","author_uid":"60488","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 2:15am","epoch":1450231800,"text":"I now have a complex with falling objects popping my balloons."},{"author_name":"barret907k","author_uid":"14910","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 4:41am","epoch":1450240560,"text":"Fun yet hard.  No way to reset?"}],"images":["ld34\/50787-709f29fc80d26367d712033e95084355.jpg","ld34\/50787-4535e20e1c8f26c47bf451b1faa3ecc3.jpg","ld34\/50787-14fc96ac5a4a1677fd1c79b38d0da936.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/danieljamesmcmahon.com\/pop\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/mcmahoniel\/pop","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"7245","g_author":"50787","g_event":"LD34","g_eventkey":"31","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"7277","g_title":"Pop","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"858","g_commentcount":"17","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\/50787-shot0-1450059139.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/50787-shot1-1450059139.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/50787-shot2-1450059139.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"You're a balloon just trying to escape your humdrum daily life as a party favor. Ascend higher and higher, but try not to get hit by a meteor!\r\n\r\nYou can move with you left and right arrow keys. You'll grow larger as the atmosphere gets thinner, so be careful!\r\n\r\nThis is only my second Ludum Dare. Like my first entry, I built this with some great inexpensive\/free tools. I drew all of the graphics in Aseprite, generated the popping sound with cfxr, composed the music (quickly) in GarageBand, and brought it all together with Phaser.js.\r\n\r\nI was, surprisingly, able to embody both themes that were voted on this year!\r\n\r\nThanks for playing!","title":"Pop"}