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I could definitely see this as a fully-fledged puzzle game, and I also liked the take on the theme.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":641977,"author_name":"Cinderblade","author_uid":"cinderblade","epoch":1619520595,"text":"the concept is super cool but was really short and easy, would be a really cool game with some more levels and graphics\/sound!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":644276,"author_name":"Smelly Games","author_uid":"smelly-games","epoch":1619529440,"text":"Nice.  It'd be cool to have a bunch of secret interactions, as though it were a kind of physics sandbox.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":644871,"author_name":"fiaKaiera","author_uid":"fiakaiera","epoch":1619531621,"text":"This is short and sweet, but very innovative!\n\nIf pushed further, there's a lot of puzzles you can do with this! Quite a fun and small little concept you can definitely push further. Try to keep that in mind for the future, as this could be a nice little small puzzle you can place in other games too!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":654699,"author_name":"oddarock","author_uid":"oddarock","epoch":1619564715,"text":"A really good idea, very innovative. I personnaly would have enjoyed a longer gameplay and more puzzles. the different interactions between the layers is very interesting and feels \"natural\". Nice entry.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":656755,"author_name":"msnider","author_uid":"msnider","epoch":1619576333,"text":"Innovative idea here! I would have liked to play few more levels with varying challenges, but very neat idea!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":657069,"author_name":"tengusheath","author_uid":"tengusheath","epoch":1619578143,"text":"Nice concept, but a little short. 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With additional environments and puzzles, you'd have a real winner here! \n\nAlso something really tickled me with the way you handled the \"END\". Maybe it was the way you read it, or the bold font over the tree--speaking of which, the animation of the tree was nice, and the art style is cool and distinctive. Very enjoyable!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":658716,"author_name":"beats","author_uid":"beats","epoch":1619591591,"text":"@breadstick Thanks for appreciating the \"End.\", heavy inspiration from Prometheus and Bob.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":662449,"author_name":"Eugenik","author_uid":"eugenik","epoch":1619619689,"text":"Very fun experience!.\n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":662524,"author_name":"Sam Minh","author_uid":"sam-minh","epoch":1619620057,"text":"I appreciate the text to speech. The game is quite hilarious albeit short, but sweet. It knows what it is and does that well, so good job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":662536,"author_name":"BinarySpark","author_uid":"binaryspark","epoch":1619620140,"text":"A short but sweet experience! Also, nice voice acting :wink: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":662616,"author_name":"neonian","author_uid":"neonian","epoch":1619620580,"text":"Very interesting and cool concept","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":662893,"author_name":"Arttu Halonen","author_uid":"arttu-halonen","epoch":1619622081,"text":"There's some potential here for a lot more! Keep it up!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":663074,"author_name":"sendnoose","author_uid":"sendnoose","epoch":1619623035,"text":"Wow that was... short. I was getting intrigued really. Do not appreciate pan in the face with the \"End\" there (just kidding I laughed a bit too hard on that). It's a pretty pleasant game. Shame it's a bit short.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":682452,"author_name":"Dom De Re","author_uid":"dom-de-re","epoch":1619847895,"text":"Good artstyle and interesting interpretation of the theme!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":683330,"author_name":"Alexascher","author_uid":"alexascher","epoch":1619869014,"text":"too short","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":688072,"author_name":"tigerj","author_uid":"tigerj","epoch":1619976602,"text":"I thought this was a cool and unique entry for the theme. Nice interpretation and execution. Voice acting tutorial was an impressive touch.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":688111,"author_name":"PatteDeCanaard","author_uid":"pattedecanaard","epoch":1619977179,"text":"It's a short game, but a very interesting puzzle concept and a good take on the theme. Nice work !","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":696333,"author_name":"Scout","author_uid":"scout","epoch":1620348593,"text":"Definitely a cool idea and it was an interesting idea for a puzzle game I would love to see more as it was a bit short.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":698294,"author_name":"DragonZBW","author_uid":"dragonzbw","epoch":1620514588,"text":"Cool idea! The game did feel like one big tutorial, though. I would've liked to see more applications of these mechanics in some puzzles where the solution isn't told to you outright. Definitely has some great potential though, I think you could really have something if you continue working on this.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":700756,"author_name":"jacic","author_uid":"jacic","epoch":1620773950,"text":"Very nice! It's short, but I feel like this idea is rock solid. Rather Inception-like. :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":700876,"author_name":"beats","author_uid":"beats","epoch":1620784798,"text":"@jacic Definitely Inception-inspired for sure","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":701657,"author_name":"ColeSlaughter","author_uid":"coleslaughter","epoch":1620868782,"text":"I reeeeeeeeeeeeeally like the potential here.  I can totally see this getting expanded into wider \"substates\" with different interactions to accomplish a goal.  A pretty creative mechanic overall, nice job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":702616,"author_name":"Evan","author_uid":"evan","epoch":1620973615,"text":"The concept here is really unique and interesting! I like how you narrated the game, you don't see that a lot in jam games :smile:","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":703759,"author_name":"sparked99","author_uid":"sparked99","epoch":1621108153,"text":"Very cool concept for a puzzle game. It would have been nice to have a couple more levels because the whole game feels like it's just the tutorial level. I did like the little cut scene you did at the end. Good entry. :)","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":704488,"author_name":"pkenney","author_uid":"pkenney","epoch":1621181945,"text":"Love this kind of short really unique entry, great job!  The audio is top-notch: voice tutorial is a great way to make it fun to learn this really unusual system, music fits super-well, and the sound effect for moving up\/down levels is nice.  Graphics were clear and direct.  Game duration was great -- let me play around with this system, have a few surprises and test my knowledge, and then ended without me having any chance to get tired of it: ended while I still wanted more.\n\nCritique-wise I can only offer one thing: maybe the controls could be simplified, I don't know if there is value to moving up\/down with the arrows, so instead of the split arrows-and-WS, you could just have left\/right move on the level and up\/down switch between.  Not that this mattered at all in such a short game.\n\nNice entry!  And so different from your soundcloud concert game that I remember playing before, love seeing that variety of types of entries.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld48\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/beatsjam.itch.io\/substate","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"74835","g_author":"1123353","g_event":"LD48","g_eventkey":"109","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"369063","g_title":"Substate","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"1509","g_commentcount":"31","g_site2_node_id":"234481","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"234481","n_urlkey":"369063","n_parent":"233335","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/48\/substate","n_slug":"substate","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"123353","n_created":"1615280681","n_modified":"1779407294","n_version":"760645","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing 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