{"author_link":"\/author\/camthestar\/","author_name":"camthestar","author_uid":"17340","comments":[{"author_name":"RadioLemon","author_uid":"18002","time":"Aug 24, 2015 @ 1:19am","epoch":1440378840,"text":"I like the monster, and it is cool how you did the code from actual scratch."},{"author_name":"Pusty","author_uid":"55076","time":"Aug 24, 2015 @ 3:12am","epoch":1440385620,"text":"yeah looks cool! :D"},{"author_name":"Jelinib","author_uid":"54894","time":"Aug 24, 2015 @ 3:31am","epoch":1440386760,"text":"The evil laugh was great, even though I can't rate yours for the audio.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>One can only wonder where all those children go after I touch them... My belly? The waking world? The deepest, darkest pits of Mexico? A white van? Some mysteries might never be solved."},{"author_name":"TheRuseman","author_uid":"56263","time":"Aug 24, 2015 @ 3:37am","epoch":1440387120,"text":"Hitbox was very small, kind of difficult to get used to. I liked how the enemy AI would run away from you. My final score was 1250."},{"author_name":"Ybalrid","author_uid":"55047","time":"Aug 24, 2015 @ 3:48am","epoch":1440387780,"text":"I really like the monster. the hitboxes are a bit small so it's hard to catch the childerns"},{"author_name":"fatSquirrel","author_uid":"10782","time":"Aug 24, 2015 @ 4:48am","epoch":1440391380,"text":"Reminds me of Zombies Ate My Neighbors.  I liked the speed of the monsters, would be cool if he had an attack to slow down and stop the kids."},{"author_name":"PokeyOne","author_uid":"56015","time":"Aug 24, 2015 @ 4:50am","epoch":1440391500,"text":"cool game"},{"author_name":"KrisDevelopment","author_uid":"39050","time":"Aug 24, 2015 @ 4:54am","epoch":1440391740,"text":"5 on the theme :)\r<br\/>Java devs will actuall see the amount of efford put into the code. Nice work keep it up!"},{"author_name":"DarkStar","author_uid":"56911","time":"Aug 24, 2015 @ 4:55am","epoch":1440391800,"text":"the laugh is awesome! but it crashes after about 100sec for me"},{"author_name":"ViliX64","author_uid":"29167","time":"Aug 24, 2015 @ 4:55am","epoch":1440391800,"text":"Unfortunately it doesn't work on Ubuntu Linux 64bit Openjdk 1.8.0 :("},{"author_name":"Reisen","author_uid":"51666","time":"Aug 24, 2015 @ 12:04pm","epoch":1440417540,"text":"Monster vs children hitbox is a bit too small."},{"author_name":"bradur","author_uid":"40138","time":"Aug 24, 2015 @ 6:40pm","epoch":1440441300,"text":"Awesome soundtrack &amp; evil laugh sound :D.\r<br\/>The monster is terrifying! Love it!"},{"author_name":"FloatingGhost","author_uid":"20843","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 12:00am","epoch":1440460500,"text":"Had to go install Java 8\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Massive errors log\r<br\/>http:\/\/pastebin.com\/m4nGKiMS"},{"author_name":"Daisuke909","author_uid":"8522","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 12:48am","epoch":1440463380,"text":"Not a lot to say about this one. I found the monster sprite quite charming."},{"author_name":"djfariel","author_uid":"52022","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 9:35am","epoch":1440581400,"text":"1st Thought:\r<br\/>Perfect use of theme!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Pros: \r<br\/>#datmusicthough\r<br\/>If the art were done in a darker style, this game would legit creep me out haha. \r<br\/>Controls felt good, monster speed vs children speed was perfect. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>Cons: \r<br\/>The plain blue background. It kind of took away from the game I felt. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>Overall:\r<br\/>Nice simple game. Good job"},{"author_name":"KR-Eddie","author_uid":"15475","time":"Aug 27, 2015 @ 1:02pm","epoch":1440680220,"text":"The sprites were nice, even if the animation lacked a little bit. The background tiles were well done but even so the background seemed a little dull. Transition tiles between terrain types make a huge improvement in disguising the &quot;grid&quot;.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>A word of advice from a fellow Java developer: Making everything from scratch is a good learning experience, and using external libraries may be bothersome. But for making games, especially when time constrained, it can be extremely useful to use a framework or an engine.\r<br\/>Take a look at LibGDX, it helped me a whole lot!"},{"author_name":"Gaspard_","author_uid":"25208","time":"Aug 29, 2015 @ 12:43pm","epoch":1440851880,"text":"Score 1150.\r<br\/>Indeed small hitbox, but that makes for those situations where you run around a kid to grab him!\r<br\/>Pretty fun."},{"author_name":"Biruts","author_uid":"25209","time":"Aug 31, 2015 @ 4:57pm","epoch":1441039920,"text":"Very nice project guys, i really love it, please check our game too and if you liked it give us a vote. Look for Road to hell and enjoy."}],"images":["ld33\/17340-c5ccd354fa5584e65eae8140477c29a9.jpg","ld33\/17340-954691a0d48f0d17da5f91737f0459cb.jpg","ld33\/17340-12cd3da1b43f147a2f4b3e021860d83c.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/e67jqlmzhgoq7ks\/Childhood%20Monsters.jar?dl=0","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/camm73\/ChildhoodMonsters","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"9357","g_author":"17340","g_event":"LD33","g_eventkey":"29","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"9390","g_title":"Childhood Monsters","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"870","g_commentcount":"18","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\/17340-shot0-1440366621.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/479518\/17340-shot1-1440366621.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/479518\/17340-shot2-1440366572.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Remember those childhood nightmares of being chased by monsters. Now you can be the monster and experience the monster's POV!\r\n\r\nControls:\r\nWASD - move\r\nESCAPE - return to main menu\r\n\r\n\r\nCoded in Java without external libraries, all graphics done in paint.net\r\n\r\nThis game should work on Windows, Max OSX, and Linux as long as you have Java installed, although I have only tested it with Windows.","title":"Childhood Monsters"}