{"author_link":"\/author\/decentsauce\/","author_name":"Decentsauce","author_uid":"61899","comments":[{"author_name":"shar","author_uid":"63723","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 1:12pm","epoch":1450098420,"text":"voice sound, lol"},{"author_name":"Chaserbrown","author_uid":"61940","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 6:47pm","epoch":1450118520,"text":"Enjoyed this! :D"},{"author_name":"Dooskington","author_uid":"25167","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 8:28pm","epoch":1450124580,"text":"Not bad! I liked the voices."},{"author_name":"AzureAspect","author_uid":"54852","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 8:29pm","epoch":1450124640,"text":"Speed up...length up...length up *thump*!\r<br\/>game oooover!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Liked the simple concept and old graphics style :)"},{"author_name":"Darkflint","author_uid":"57115","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 9:59pm","epoch":1450130040,"text":"I though their is no sound, but seems like i am the only oned who couldnt hear it :( But overally nice game."},{"author_name":"Red_Fan games","author_uid":"47563","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 11:19pm","epoch":1450134840,"text":"Pretty neat!"},{"author_name":"pompaz","author_uid":"65164","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 11:19pm","epoch":1450134840,"text":"Very nice!"},{"author_name":"djfariel","author_uid":"52022","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 1:15am","epoch":1450141800,"text":"Fantastic sound effects. I found that the &quot;powerup&quot; that improved length actually made the game much more difficult."},{"author_name":"Decentsauce","author_uid":"61899","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 1:41am","epoch":1450143360,"text":"@djfariel True, game balance was low on my list at the time so mostly in the beginning it isn't always helpful to increase length. (Though score multiplayer always scales with player length)"},{"author_name":"Soka","author_uid":"64553","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 1:51am","epoch":1450143960,"text":"Original and adictive :D!"},{"author_name":"KilledByAPixel","author_uid":"2075","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 2:25am","epoch":1450146000,"text":"Nice little game. Controls feel good, procedural level works well. I don't hear any sound, not sure whats up with that. The speed increases come on a bit fast and unexpectedly. Visuals work well enough but I think you could have just went fully abstract."},{"author_name":"themadknights","author_uid":"64533","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 1:44pm","epoch":1450186740,"text":"Sound are great hahaha"},{"author_name":"PlasmaErnst","author_uid":"52774","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 2:05pm","epoch":1450188000,"text":"Hey there. Had fun with your game, good job!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I can very well imagine the speed builing up constantly.\r<br\/>Maybe pickups to give back lives or to slow speed down."},{"author_name":"HongerTrollie","author_uid":"64529","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 7:39pm","epoch":1450208040,"text":"Nice game. I left the &quot;length up&quot; powerups alone for my second run for as long as I could. Got a lot further. I like the sound effects :P Well done"},{"author_name":"intXparts","author_uid":"55548","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 10:12pm","epoch":1450217220,"text":"Awesome game! I really enjoyed the simplicity and escalation of the challenge. Excellent work!"},{"author_name":"SinclairStrange","author_uid":"44332","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 1:42am","epoch":1450229820,"text":"Very simple but overall well done. It was pretty fun and enjoyable! :) I wish there was more hazards though. Good job!"},{"author_name":"lastninja2","author_uid":"30017","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 10:51am","epoch":1450262760,"text":"Liked it ;)"},{"author_name":"BubuIIC","author_uid":"11335","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 1:22pm","epoch":1450271820,"text":"Fun little game. I liked the voice sounds :-).\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I did some pygame projects in past Ludum Dares and I just build a Version for Linux of your game. You can find it here if you want to add it: https:\/\/cloud.bubu1.eu\/index.php\/s\/LepyntSlO5lXR10\/download"},{"author_name":"marveus","author_uid":"63104","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 4:55am","epoch":1450327800,"text":"Good job! Really enjoyed the voice sounds! :D"},{"author_name":"aeveis","author_uid":"8854","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 5:55am","epoch":1450331400,"text":"I liked it! Interesting concept, I liked how adding length made game play more complicated, rather than linearly easier\/harder. I also liked the voice sounds."},{"author_name":"fafastudio","author_uid":"51600","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 11:48pm","epoch":1450482180,"text":"Because of the lack of sound at first i got freaking scared by your splendid voice acting xD \r<br\/>\r<br\/>Pretty good game by the way. Nice concept ! :)"},{"author_name":"Ayte","author_uid":"30997","time":"Dec 19, 2015 @ 3:48pm","epoch":1450539780,"text":"Simple concept, well executed ! i enjoyed it !"},{"author_name":"Kuality Games","author_uid":"46151","time":"Dec 19, 2015 @ 11:09pm","epoch":1450566240,"text":"Thumbs up for participating for the first time in LD, I'd like to try your next game."},{"author_name":"NirabazGAMES","author_uid":"65891","time":"Dec 21, 2015 @ 3:31am","epoch":1450668360,"text":"Great you are! nice little game)"},{"author_name":"pkenney","author_uid":"30865","time":"Dec 22, 2015 @ 3:12am","epoch":1450753620,"text":"Nice first-time entry, I liked the list of things you did for the first time.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I appreciated that you checked all the boxes by including sound, although I see you didn't want to be rated on art and sound... but who cares man, just keep doing those and you'll keep improving!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Gameplay was a solid idea.  It was good that one hit didn't instantly send me back to the start of the game.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>If I could tweak just a few parameter values in this game I would speed it up... everything.  The pace of moving forward, and the pace of swinging the thing there left and right.  Maybe increase the gaps between meteors to compensate.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>As it is, when I started the game it felt very slow, and when I got my speed up but then got hit I felt really slow... like ITCHING slow, not a pleasant relief from action slow.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>That's just a minor tweak though!  This is a solid first entry you can be proud of and build on, nice work."},{"author_name":"Decentsauce","author_uid":"61899","time":"Dec 22, 2015 @ 7:03am","epoch":1450767480,"text":"@pkenney Thank you for the kind words. :) Main reason why I didn't include the graphics\/audio categories was because I felt there wasn't much to rate. Haha, in hind sight it might have been better to include those categories. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>The parameters you are talking about do change during the game but I agree that the initial values are way to low. Takes half a minute before the fun gets started. (And even longer if you get hit, whoops!)"},{"author_name":"Budi","author_uid":"17932","time":"Dec 22, 2015 @ 1:14pm","epoch":1450789740,"text":"I like the voice! Well done, man. :-D\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I like the concept, it needs just a little bit of balance, slow speed is a little bit boring, but after one speed up and bad luck with obstacles, it immediately gets really hard."},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"27744","time":"Dec 28, 2015 @ 2:15pm","epoch":1451311800,"text":"Really nicely made game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 34 compilation video series, if you&rsquo;d like to check it out :) https:\/\/youtu.be\/XwDbETpIdpU"},{"author_name":"f7f5","author_uid":"21437","time":"Dec 28, 2015 @ 9:52pm","epoch":1451339220,"text":"The Linux exe gives:\r<br\/>\r<br\/>$ .\/start.sh \r<br\/>Traceback (most recent call last):\r<br\/>  File &quot;\/usr\/local\/lib\/python2.7\/dist-packages\/cx_Freeze\/initscripts\/Console.py&quot;, line 27, in &lt;module&gt;\r<br\/>  File &quot;Skyway.py&quot;, line 37, in &lt;module&gt;\r<br\/>pygame.error: File is not a Windows BMP file\r<br\/>\r<br\/>and I tried running the source but it didn't work:\r<br\/>\r<br\/>$ python Skyway_source.py \r<br\/>Traceback (most recent call last):\r<br\/>  File &quot;Skyway_source.py&quot;, line 37, in &lt;module&gt;\r<br\/>    background = pygame.image.load('Background.png')\r<br\/>pygame.error: Couldn't open Background.png"}],"images":["ld34\/61899-4f540120399521e435e744fcbc37ffe0.jpg","ld34\/61899-c3d9b31330c5cd5c21736632abf8ef07.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/5xnf44vw8tazrku\/Skyway.rar?dl=0","text":"Windows &amp; Source"},{"url":"https:\/\/cloud.bubu1.eu\/index.php\/s\/LepyntSlO5lXR10\/download","text":"Linux (Thank you BubuIIC!)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"7453","g_author":"61899","g_event":"LD34","g_eventkey":"31","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"7485","g_title":"Skyway","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"491","g_commentcount":"29","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\/61899-shot0-1450055361.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/61899-shot1-1450055361.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"How to play:\r\n1.Download file\r\n2.Unzip Skyway.rar\r\n3.Run Skyway.exe\r\n4.Have fun! (And let me know your opinion ;) )\r\n\r\n\r\nGame description:\r\nIn this game you drive a vehicle on a railway but what is this!?! The vehicle was assembled wrong and is very wide now. Also the railway is not on the ground but in the sky!\r\n\r\nDodge the incoming meteors while catching the power ups to increase your length and score! The bigger you are the faster your score increases. Survive as long as possible and brag to everyone about your awesome highscore.\r\n\r\n\r\nAbout me & the script:\r\nI'm Simon, the developer of Skyway. A little over two weeks ago I started making games in Python and I thought Ludum Dare would be the perfect way to improve my Python skills. This is my first Ludum Dare game. ^^ (And also my first finished game) The code is written in Python and is about 500 lines long. The script was written from scratch during the compo.\r\n\r\nThings I did for the first time during the compo:\r\n-Use images instead of colored blocks\r\n-Use sounds\r\n-Looping animation (+rotations)\r\n-Title screen\r\n-Make a Class \r\n-Delete objects that went off screen for better performance\r\n\r\nI'm quite happy with this game though I did want to implement stages with more obstacles rather then slowly increasing the difficulty. Sadly there was no time for this because of two game breaking bugs. (Which are fixed now)\r\n\r\nBug fixes:\r\n14\/12\/2015: Fixed an exeption where you couldn't start a new round after a round\r\nSecond try at same bug...: \r\nWell, I'm stupid. :-) So my menu works by adding 1  when you press either left or right and subtracting 1 if you let go. What happened is that when the game is over and you still had a button down that value would become negative when that button was released. When this happens the value couldn't become 2 anymore and you can't start another round.\r\n\r\nSolution: If Value <= 0:\r\n             Value = 0\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","title":"Skyway"}