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Great work!!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":776315,"author_name":"LDJam user 2331","author_uid":"2331","epoch":1649073706,"text":"@wiliam-corrin: Glad you enjoyed it! :) It's subtle, but the snowball sprite does rotate if you watch the little dots on it :P ","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":777458,"author_name":"EmberUshi","author_uid":"emberushi","epoch":1649086149,"text":"It's super cute and it plays well!\n\nI wish the game could have had a wiser screen, but that's a limitation of pico 8, IIRC.\n\n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":778327,"author_name":"Lawrence","author_uid":"lawrence","epoch":1649092959,"text":"It so polished and charming, the penguin is full of character, it's like a tiny cartoon, love it!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":784022,"author_name":"lectvs","author_uid":"lectvs","epoch":1649129755,"text":"A fun game made even more impressive by Pico-8! Love how the snowball blows up after you lose. :laughing: Great compo entry!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":785780,"author_name":"Lumous","author_uid":"lumous","epoch":1649144818,"text":"Great vibe, good fun, the aiming is a little hard, but overall it was enjoyable :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":797210,"author_name":"ruruie","author_uid":"ruruie","epoch":1649200829,"text":"This is one of the cutest things. I wish the little jingle at the start were a full theme.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":799415,"author_name":"MasterOfCheese","author_uid":"masterofcheese","epoch":1649222194,"text":"Wow these Pico-8 games are very cool! Really great entry, everything is very solid. I couldn't manage to beat the snowball!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":800261,"author_name":"LDJam user 243193","author_uid":"243193","epoch":1649234344,"text":"Nice endless runner game!\nI wish the snowball could be pushed to 1\/3 part of screen on left side to give more space for obstacles to deal with. Currently, the snowball takes almost half of the screen.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":806795,"author_name":"Fromage","author_uid":"fromage","epoch":1649286558,"text":"I like this! The crafting was unexpected but I found it a bit hard to pull off. Controls too I would have preferred jump maybe be spacebar? Alt to pick things up?\n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":806884,"author_name":"LDJam user 2331","author_uid":"2331","epoch":1649287461,"text":"@fromage: Unfortunately it's a PICO-8 limitation for what buttons are allowable. If it helps, Z and C act as the same button in PICO-8, and so X + C works if you prefer swapped buttons.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":807022,"author_name":"Fromage","author_uid":"fromage","epoch":1649289030,"text":"Thanks for letting me know, I had no idea and I keep giving this suggestion, heh. ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":809283,"author_name":"LDJam user 250426","author_uid":"250426","epoch":1649325877,"text":"eg \ud83e\udd5a\ud83d\udc27\n\n![eggGet.png](\/\/\/raw\/a32\/d3\/z\/4d53c.png)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":811165,"author_name":"alec","author_uid":"alec","epoch":1649351340,"text":"it took me a minute to get a hang of throwing, and even then Im not good enough at video games to get the ending haha. I love seeing pico8 games, especially ones that get off the grid\/map! This game is super polished, just needs some background music :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":811891,"author_name":"JavaSaurus","author_uid":"javasaurus","epoch":1649359921,"text":"Thank you for submitting this, really enjoy the retro games. I'd have played this game for DAYS in my young days on an NES... Really challenging and fun.  Unique and smart mechanics and the pixel art... well it's just so darn cute I want to lick it :D","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":811905,"author_name":"Alexascher","author_uid":"alexascher","epoch":1649360034,"text":"Very good little arcade game, it's like I'm back in my childhood. Great job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":811923,"author_name":"Steve7411","author_uid":"steve7411","epoch":1649360247,"text":"The graphics are so great! And the overall game mechanic is simple but fun","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":811927,"author_name":"Hawke Games","author_uid":"hawke-games","epoch":1649360351,"text":"Cool game! I really like the pixel graphics. While it is very pixely, I can still easily tell what is going on. The penguin is cute and the snowball is terrifying. The only problem I have is that it's really hard to craft without being able to throw straight down.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":812038,"author_name":"Kaldrin","author_uid":"kaldrin","epoch":1649361469,"text":"2:28 !\nI don't know much about P8 games but I guess it's not easy to make so props!\nThe keyboard controls are not intuitive, why not up arrow to jump? I'm guessing it's less weird on a P8 controller but at least leaving the option to jump with up would be nice ^^;\n\nAppart from that nicely done, works well, a little repetitive though, it becomes more a challenge of reaction time, but jam game, it's normal.\nThe damaging spikes and throwable objects are not different enough imo, often thought I could grab spikes.\n\nI like the graphics, it's a little messy at times but it's quite fluid and the shapes move well, I like the color palette too!\n\nIt's solid & polished, interesting entry","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":812095,"author_name":"LDJam user 2331","author_uid":"2331","epoch":1649362115,"text":"@kaldrin Thanks for the feedback! The main reason up isn't another option for jump is that you can angle your throws, and upward angles let you throw things higher (and farther). There's a reasonably deep crafting tree in the game (and ultimately an ending to it \ud83d\ude09) which relies on hoarding items in front of you. These longer upward throws help quite a bit with hoarding as you don't have to re-throw them forward as often.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":812237,"author_name":"Kaldrin","author_uid":"kaldrin","epoch":1649363410,"text":"@meep Damn that's a whole chunk of the game I missed, gonna play it again!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":813864,"author_name":"alanxoc3","author_uid":"alanxoc3","epoch":1649390456,"text":"Another great PICO-8 game entry. I remember the one you made last year as well. The physics are really great and overall a fun play.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":814800,"author_name":"fatPenguin","author_uid":"fatpenguin","epoch":1649417221,"text":"\"I'm in this picture and I don't like it. >=(\"\n\nJust kidding, hehe. Saw your game on the stream and had to try myself with my boyfriend yesterday :)\nSO cute!!! And the character is basically our \"game studio\", so we had to try this!!\n\nI love the idea of a cartridge game and aesthetics, the transitions were really nice :)\nController support would have been cool for the cartridge feel :id: \n\nSadly, we didn't make it to the ending yet, but will keep trying!\n\nA very sweet little entry, congrats! :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":815783,"author_name":"marcmagus","author_uid":"marcmagus","epoch":1649436778,"text":"Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for feedback! If you\u2019d like to revisit the play and commentary you can view the highlight at https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/videos\/1448957705\n\nGreat to see Adelie return, with a fun and challenging game.\n\nIn tweaks, maybe if the down-throw for combine had a slightly more forgiving target range, tweaking the difficulty down slightly without fundamentally changing it might be beneficial. There's already a lot of difficulty just in managing the slidy movement.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":815806,"author_name":"extar","author_uid":"extar","epoch":1649437129,"text":"I love finding Pico-8 games on Ludum Dare, as a platform it's so well-suited to making cute little games for jams like this. Great little Pico-8 game, I love all the animation you managed to include and there were some cute bleepy bloopy sound effects.\n\nI've posted a review too: https:\/\/youtu.be\/qxkNPOozqCE","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":815870,"author_name":"tigerj","author_uid":"tigerj","epoch":1649438049,"text":"It's a very creative twist on this style of mechanic. I had a great time playing it on stream.  \n  \nhighlight: https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/videos\/1449896005?t=01h26m59s","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":816360,"author_name":"kuviman","author_uid":"kuviman","epoch":1649446378,"text":"![Screenshot 2022-04-08 233240.png](\/\/\/raw\/7e3\/32\/z\/4d90c.png)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":818615,"author_name":"elysiagriffin","author_uid":"elysiagriffin","epoch":1649504111,"text":"Thanks for submitting your game for me to play on my stream!\n\nIf you\u2019d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here: \nhttps:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/videos\/1450143040?t=4h32m14s\n\nGood luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D\n\n\ud83d\udc9c Elysia Griffin AKA Button Feedback Lady\n\nhttps:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/elysiagriffin","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":820839,"author_name":"Raphiell","author_uid":"raphiell","epoch":1649548203,"text":"Yes! Sub 2 minutes. Thanks to watching this on Kuvi's stream I knew exactly what to do :thumbsup: \n![ld50 penguin.PNG](\/\/\/raw\/cb3\/31\/z\/4db35.png)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":821036,"author_name":"LDJam user 2331","author_uid":"2331","epoch":1649556190,"text":"@raphiell Glad you ended up giving it a go- congrats on finishing it! :D","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":824052,"author_name":"CharQ","author_uid":"charq","epoch":1649644441,"text":"It's a super cute game and I loved the penguin!  Sadly I didn't get to the end, but I was happy to survive for more than 2 minutes =)\n\nThank you for sharing your game on my Twitch stream (MsMiaChar).  Here's a link to the video (game starts around 02:54:00): https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/videos\/1446760516","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":827489,"author_name":"LDJam user 250825","author_uid":"250825","epoch":1649800523,"text":"Fun game! Took me a while to get a hang of combining items but that made the game a lot more strategically interesting. Love the snowfall and footstep particle effects! Was a bit confused after losing that I couldn't find any way to restart the game in-game but had to use the PICO-8 \"Reset\" feature (though this might be normal for PICO-8 arcade games, I don't have much experience :D). Great pixel art as well, loved the entry in general!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":829922,"author_name":"potkirland","author_uid":"potkirland","epoch":1649982785,"text":"very well made game. especially for compo! the art style! the audio everything is fitting perfectly. and the mechanics are so simple and intuitive you dont even question it.! i can easily see this become the next learntofly series :smile: the penguins hurt sound was too sad thou ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":831893,"author_name":"ColeSlaughter","author_uid":"coleslaughter","epoch":1650174519,"text":"Whaddup Meep!\n\n[Thanks for submitting your game to stream!](https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/videos\/1457327946?t=01h51m48s)\n\nSorry I'm  not nearly as good at your game as you are at mine.  I did my best... :sob: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":836999,"author_name":"Jvdwijk","author_uid":"jvdwijk","epoch":1650570997,"text":"Very cute game, very nicely done for within 48 hours too!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld50\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.jam.vg\/raw\/b19\/z\/49c5f.png","text":"Source (p8.png)"},{"url":"https:\/\/meepmoop.itch.io\/chasing-pavements","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"82788","g_author":"1002331","g_event":"LD50","g_eventkey":"110","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"387861","g_title":"Adelie - Chasing Pavements","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"40","g_commentcount":"36","g_site2_node_id":"285248","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"285248","n_urlkey":"387861","n_parent":"276397","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/50\/adelie-chasing-pavements","n_slug":"adelie-chasing-pavements","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"2331","n_created":"1648871365","n_modified":"1778686731","n_version":"906568","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD50","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":3,"author":2331,"body":"![ldbanner.png](\/\/\/raw\/b19\/z\/49c8c.png)\n\nSurvive being chased by a rolling snowball with a crafty penguin.\n\nPickup, combine, and throw objects to delay the snowball's inevitable descent! 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