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Cool weapons!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":714905,"author_name":"silkworm_sweatshop","author_uid":"silkworm-sweatshop","epoch":1633365928,"text":"Nice stuff. Really feels like an old arcady game. Super polished too with lots of content.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":716419,"author_name":"PBG","author_uid":"pbg","epoch":1633377762,"text":"Really fun! and it has scoreboards!! I was a big fan. I thought the projectiles from bad guys were a bit much, but it was still really fun! one of my favorites.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":716741,"author_name":"madjackmcmad","author_uid":"madjackmcmad","epoch":1633380032,"text":"@patsui You might be right about the difficulty. I wanted players to engage in the blocking mechanics as well as attacking, so the projectile rate is Real, but the rewards for parrying them are pretty sweet too. 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Its a cool game with lots of neat combat.  Nice work!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":733971,"author_name":"FabDynamic","author_uid":"fabdynamic","epoch":1633472809,"text":"@paroxysmal and @madjackmcmad Good news: I got this working on mac just now. I'm on Mac OS X Big Sur 11.5.2 on a 2017 macbook pro.   I moved it to my desktop and then ran these two commands and then it worked great:\n```\nsudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine \"\/path-to-game\/Godot\\ Testing.app\"\nsudo xattr -cr \"\/path-to-game\/Godot\\ Testing.app\"```\n\nI hope it works for you and others too.  ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":734084,"author_name":"qookie","author_uid":"qookie","epoch":1633473426,"text":"The game is quite fun. I really like the art style. The online high score is a very nice touch. 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Your turn ;) ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":749981,"author_name":"pvp","author_uid":"pvp","epoch":1633663196,"text":"@madjackmcmad haha challenge accepted.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":750330,"author_name":"monkybusines","author_uid":"monkybusines","epoch":1633671781,"text":"Really awesome game! The combat felt good and the animations are well done","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":750332,"author_name":"Lychee","author_uid":"lychee","epoch":1633671804,"text":"For a compo game the fighting and animations felt well fleshed out! I liked the extra stuff you added like the parry and how attacking\/blocking in midair kept you floating in the air a bit more. It felt kind of hard to kill the enemies quickly enough once I reached the \"unstable\" levels but maybe I wasn't doing it right. Great job overall!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":751549,"author_name":"nyxkn","author_uid":"nyxkn","epoch":1633702211,"text":"Very cute game. Lovely art and animations! Fighting the projectile monsters felt a bit annoying. Some of the controls like the down+attack seemed very unintuitive.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":755404,"author_name":"chesiq","author_uid":"chesiq","epoch":1633801707,"text":"Really nice game and great mechanics. Damn I now wish I also added online highscore... ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":756340,"author_name":"madjackmcmad","author_uid":"madjackmcmad","epoch":1633821575,"text":"@chesiq Check it out here: http:\/\/dreamlo.com\/ I've dropped it into Unity and Godot as well, shouldn't take you very much to get it running. ","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":757835,"author_name":"Solah","author_uid":"solah","epoch":1633881541,"text":"Great game! I love the art and animations, the gameplay is great, well done!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":761966,"author_name":"Kiwi663","author_uid":"kiwi663","epoch":1634072106,"text":"Very nice game. I love your style. 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