{"author_link":"\/author\/tweedle\/","author_name":"tweedle","author_uid":"44218","comments":[{"author_name":"rotpar","author_uid":"54819","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 3:57am","epoch":1440474720,"text":"Love the art style."},{"author_name":"tobbez","author_uid":"19361","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 4:09am","epoch":1440475440,"text":"The unskippable intro is really annoying, especially since you have to sit through it between every play. Art and music are quite good.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Would have been nice with variable height jumps (and to be able to stand on slopes, rather than fall into them)."},{"author_name":"Aevek","author_uid":"22124","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 4:24am","epoch":1440476340,"text":"Loved the art style and music, just let me walk on slopes please?"},{"author_name":"valid4life","author_uid":"31730","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 5:00am","epoch":1440478500,"text":"Loved the art!\r<br\/>Absolutely great style. Huge fan of the enemies breaking into pieces!"},{"author_name":"AntonyBaasan","author_uid":"20288","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 5:37am","epoch":1440480720,"text":"Wow. Super unique art. Love it."},{"author_name":"DruhinM","author_uid":"54688","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 6:29am","epoch":1440483840,"text":"Love the art"},{"author_name":"LordKawaii","author_uid":"47604","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 6:38am","epoch":1440484380,"text":"I had a hard time getting this game to run, it crashed twice (though it might just be that I'm running Win 10)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Those problems aside I really liked the art and being able to play Universal Monsters was fun!"},{"author_name":"maguera93","author_uid":"51434","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 6:51am","epoch":1440485160,"text":"Awesome art!"},{"author_name":"Shaw","author_uid":"30127","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 7:17am","epoch":1440486720,"text":"Beautiful original art, plays well, could go far with some polish. Nice work."},{"author_name":"eric777","author_uid":"38027","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 7:03pm","epoch":1440529080,"text":"Art = amazing.  Audio quite good too.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>On my first play I wasn't sure I liked the slow moon-gravity thing, but after I started getting the hang of it, I really liked that aspect.  It felt a little like I was in Ender's Game in the arena, floating around and using gravity &amp; inertia while doing things like shooting that are typically 1G.  That was cool.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I was not able to complete the first world.  I think I need more health pickups!  Also, for some reason left-shift didn't crouch for me at all.  Not sure why.  I think I might have been missing a key control mechanic needed to do better than I did.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Nicely done!!!"},{"author_name":"nihilaleph","author_uid":"49665","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 12:47am","epoch":1440549720,"text":"Great artwork and audio! Couldn't get past the first level though... I can't dodge the bullets effectively &gt;.&lt; I'll try again later!"},{"author_name":"m3_on","author_uid":"50133","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 2:37am","epoch":1440556320,"text":"The are style is fantastic! It reminds me of day of the dead stuff and I found myself getting pretty addicted to the game.  As I kept climbing up the level, seeing all the different types of bad guys...very cool and impressive all that you guys got done!"},{"author_name":"tGiant","author_uid":"32655","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 5:35am","epoch":1440567000,"text":"It is an okay game. Lots of bugs with the collision detection of the player. Also the gravity of the player feels too slow."},{"author_name":"CrazyMinnowStudio","author_uid":"56101","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 6:07am","epoch":1440568920,"text":"Great looking and fun. Pretty hard."},{"author_name":"Cerberus","author_uid":"49049","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 6:15am","epoch":1440569400,"text":"the graphics were good, great style, the controls were hard and a bit stiff. the gameplay felt kind of slow. nice work overall"},{"author_name":"Wefiends","author_uid":"25830","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 6:37am","epoch":1440570720,"text":"Really tried to get into this one because of the lovely art, but it was too hard to even get past the first level. Something about the weight on the jump, and the unpredictability of the bullets made it a bit more frustrating than enjoyable for what the game asked of the player. Love being able to pick characters and would've loved to see more of the levels. Good job overall, I think everything could be fixed with a few number adjustments."},{"author_name":"adsilcott","author_uid":"49637","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 3:32pm","epoch":1440602820,"text":"Loved the art style. Pretty fun platformer."},{"author_name":"block97","author_uid":"51145","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 3:37pm","epoch":1440603120,"text":"Art and music are very nice. I really disliked how floaty and imprecise the jumping felt a times though."},{"author_name":"Drunkteam","author_uid":"54805","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 3:41pm","epoch":1440603360,"text":"when i tried this, my screen just when bluck for like, five minutes. I had to restart the computer. What am I doing wrong?\r<br\/>The art looks amazing, bt"},{"author_name":"zenmumbler","author_uid":"17143","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 3:49pm","epoch":1440603840,"text":"The art is really nice and consistent. The game needs some more work wrt difficulty and controls."},{"author_name":"NoWandStudios","author_uid":"50652","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 3:56pm","epoch":1440604260,"text":"Art and music ared good!"},{"author_name":"BeardoGames","author_uid":"25748","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 4:09pm","epoch":1440605040,"text":"Haha, hey fellow Dracula includers, I really enjoyed the gameplay and the refreshingly unique graphic style you used. I look forward to seeing any updates too. Nice work!"},{"author_name":"Mike Mezhenin","author_uid":"34229","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 4:22pm","epoch":1440605820,"text":"Alien design is super-cool, but the game was too hard for my taste."},{"author_name":"yokcos700","author_uid":"7500","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 4:43pm","epoch":1440607080,"text":"FATAL ERROR in\r<br\/>action number 1\r<br\/>of  Step Event0\r<br\/>Looks and sound fantastic, except for the jump sound which is rather too echoey. The gameplay, however, isn't great. As many people here are saying, slope collision doesn't exactly work. I'd say, however, that the game is too hard in a bad way. A lot of enemies kill you before you can react and the player is too large and too slow to reliably dodge. Jumping is incredibly slow, so you're super vulnerable in midair. The enemy variety, however, is great. Not necessarily fair enemies, but the fact that there's so many types of enemies in such a short level is great.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I reached the first (only?) boss and partway into the fight, this happened:\r<br\/>for object obj_boss_1_body:\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Unable to find any instance for object index '9' name 'obj_test_body'\r<br\/>at gml_Object_obj_boss_1_body_Step_0"},{"author_name":"Sunflower","author_uid":"39564","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 6:34pm","epoch":1440613740,"text":"The plot kinda sounds like the premise of &quot;Pixels: The Movie&quot;. ^^&quot;\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The yay:\r<br\/> - art style\r<br\/> - audio\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The nay:\r<br\/> - gameplay feels too slow and inert, making it way harder than it should be\r<br\/> - unpredictable bullets don't help, either\r<br\/> - crouch and pause are &quot;locked&quot; for whatever reason\r<br\/> - title screen stays for too long and cannot be skipped\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Overall, it could really, really use some polish and balancing. As it is now, I've managed to reach the first boss after a few attempts, but couldn't complete the map."},{"author_name":"tweedle","author_uid":"44218","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 9:36pm","epoch":1440624660,"text":"Wow, thank you all so much for the feedback (both positive and negative)! It has been incredibly helpful, and we plan on making some major changes to our game design based on these comments. So keep 'em coming!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@ yokcos700: Thanks for reporting that bug! We'll be sure to squash it.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@Sunflower: Good call out on the unpredictable bullets. Going forward we are going to give bullets a timed shot interval instead of a random number generator. Crouch and Pause are locked because we didn't have time to implement them into the game. We thought it would be funny to just show them as &quot;locked.&quot;\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@BeardoGames: Dracula is best!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@Wefiends: Thanks for the feedback! We plan on spending a lot of time on difficulty and balancing.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@tGiant: Good point. Collision detection was something we struggled with. We'll be sure to work on it!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>It means the world to us that you took time to play our little game. Thank you!"},{"author_name":"jordinuco","author_uid":"51330","time":"Aug 27, 2015 @ 2:13pm","epoch":1440684480,"text":"Graphics are very good! A little buggy, but it&acute;s very replayable, or so I think... good job"},{"author_name":"HeyZeus","author_uid":"19178","time":"Aug 27, 2015 @ 9:14pm","epoch":1440709740,"text":"Awesome, love the art style."},{"author_name":"RoboNebula","author_uid":"55696","time":"Aug 28, 2015 @ 7:08pm","epoch":1440788580,"text":"The Art Style is awesome"},{"author_name":"HotBoxGames","author_uid":"39707","time":"Aug 28, 2015 @ 7:27pm","epoch":1440789720,"text":"While this game looked pretty interesting I couldn't get it to run! I waited for several minutes after booting up the game and I was stuck on a white screen, it's a shame because this looked quite promising!"},{"author_name":"veoviscool12","author_uid":"57463","time":"Aug 28, 2015 @ 7:36pm","epoch":1440790260,"text":"I really loved the art style, fantastic all around. Slopes had me a bit confused, I'd say just implement walking up slopes. The double jump was fine, but your platforms require the player to use every last inch of jump height (At least with Dracula), leaving very little room for error and making it more frustrating than it has to be. Also make the intro skippable. Other than that, great fun! :)"},{"author_name":"DerekRumpler","author_uid":"38602","time":"Aug 31, 2015 @ 9:05pm","epoch":1441054800,"text":"I love the art style, although I'll admit it was awkward for me to play on a laptop with a touch pad. The game crashed in the more polished version when I got to the end of the first hallway and was shot by one of the aliens. I'd think it would be neat if I could use the mouse to aim because I had a few cheap hits from the enemy on account of the slow jumping. I definitely see a lot of potential from this and would love to play more if a final version is released."},{"author_name":"kaitokidi","author_uid":"42118","time":"Sep 8, 2015 @ 10:45am","epoch":1441708800,"text":"Nice, but too difficult"},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"27744","time":"Sep 12, 2015 @ 1:52pm","epoch":1442065620,"text":"Beautiful graphics! I included it in part 26 of my Ludum Dare 33 Compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https:\/\/youtu.be\/3UFkqjoD81E"},{"author_name":"jsmars","author_uid":"3933","time":"Sep 14, 2015 @ 11:55pm","epoch":1442274600,"text":"Really nice menus and style, but I thought movement was a bit too slow"}],"images":["ld33\/44218-ef82a6195678f658d520569a9d2f1fef.jpg","ld33\/44218-0ead7e39a684fb0cdbe5cf0138a0d850.jpg","ld33\/44218-044db2b5311f9ef8d5f03083614e20cb.jpg","ld33\/44218-6f8eddd6c92df9613c0fee4280729728.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=0BxX9W2KgQ432TDBnUmxZZGNWUFU","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0BxX9W2KgQ432dkY2LWRBaW52bTg\/view?usp=sharing","text":"Buggy Version (OG) -- Windows"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"8471","g_author":"44218","g_event":"LD33","g_eventkey":"29","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"8504","g_title":"Monsters vs. Aliens","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"560","g_commentcount":"35","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\/\/479518\/44218-shot0-1440467535.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/479518\/44218-shot1-1440467535.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/479518\/44218-shot2-1440467535.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/479518\/44218-shot3-1440467535.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Some dumb aliens have been receiving Earth's broadcasts of classic monster movies for decades... \r\nBelieving the monsters portrayed are planet Earth's ultimate champions,\r\nthe dummies infiltrated our solar system and are seeking out Earth's champions for ultimate battle!\r\n\r\nGameplay & Controls:\r\n2D Platformer, Sidescroller, Shooter\r\n\r\nLeft Mouse Click = Shoot\r\nRight Mouse Click= Special Attack\r\nA & D = Move\r\nSpace Bar = Jump\r\n\r\nBy: Josh Watson, Stephen Roper & Taylor Dunn\r\nFollow us on Twitter @ZamboniMacaroni\r\n\r\nTech:\r\nGame Maker\r\nAdobe Illustrator\r\nAbleton Live 9\r\nSpriter Pro\r\nGithub\r\nWindows & Mac OS X\r\n\r\nGame Updates:\r\nWe have a lot of functionality we plan to add in later, stay tuned!\r\n\r\n8\/25\/15:\r\nWe've uploaded a bug-fix version! (v1.1)\r\n\r\n**special attack meter now reads correctly -- can now fill to 4\r\n**star animations in the title\/menu screens now work correctly -- they were supposed to be more sparkly\r\n**restart functionality -- restarts the level, rather than the whole game\r\n**tuned the health mechanic -- it's less hard\r\n**launches fullscreen 1080x1920 -- not windowed\r\n\r\nNo new features, you still can't crouch or unlock anything - as we didn't get that in over the weekend...\r\n\r\nLet us know if you find any other bugs and we'll get'em squashed!\r\nWe're working on some ports!\r\n\r\n\r\n","title":"Monsters vs. Aliens"}