{"author_link":"\/author\/razavidn\/","author_name":"Razbury Games","author_uid":"54947","comments":[{"author_name":"Artylo","author_uid":"24959","time":"Aug 24, 2015 @ 3:04pm","epoch":1440428340,"text":"The game plays good, and it's a good thing it has multiplayer, but the graphics are pretty downscaled or just pixelated overall, which makes it look like it was cobbled together from a lot of assets."},{"author_name":"Zerkruemler","author_uid":"27446","time":"Aug 24, 2015 @ 3:15pm","epoch":1440429000,"text":"Cool idea. It takes some time to get used to control both arms at the same time. Nice graphics and nice music. Well done."},{"author_name":"TomBoogaart","author_uid":"36150","time":"Aug 24, 2015 @ 3:17pm","epoch":1440429120,"text":"nice i dig the game over text and the tentacle animations"},{"author_name":"TiByte","author_uid":"26539","time":"Aug 24, 2015 @ 3:17pm","epoch":1440429120,"text":"Cool Idea. It's something special."},{"author_name":"Arnage","author_uid":"57501","time":"Aug 24, 2015 @ 3:23pm","epoch":1440429480,"text":"I would recommend raising the deadzone on the controller sticks. It seemed like the menu was broken, but it turned out one of my controllers was just constantly changing the selection.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Other than that I like the concept and the chaos. All the arms can get quite confusing, but instead of feeling annoying it feels more like an Octodad kind of endearing clumsiness."},{"author_name":"inurashii","author_uid":"57795","time":"Aug 24, 2015 @ 3:25pm","epoch":1440429600,"text":"Came for the kraken bad pun, stayed for the kraken good fun! I LOVE IT!! I had a great time playing this game; controlling both tentacles was a great kind of challenging. Can't wait to try it multiplayer with a friend, and would love to see more enemies and more polished pacing in a post-comp release. Still one of the brightest gems of the compo so far."},{"author_name":"inurashii","author_uid":"57795","time":"Aug 24, 2015 @ 3:28pm","epoch":1440429780,"text":"oh also -- it'd help a lot if the tentacles had colorful 'P1 left' 'P1 right' floaters for the first five seconds of the game. I started out pretty disoriented."},{"author_name":"Dukio","author_uid":"50987","time":"Aug 24, 2015 @ 4:32pm","epoch":1440433620,"text":"It reminds me to &quot;Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons&quot;. The multi-tasking gameplay works nice and it's fun to play. Overall it has a good ambientation.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>If you want to do some upgrades in the future I suggest you something for the gamepad input. Instead of use bumpers for attack, I would try it with the &quot;clicks&quot; of the joisticks. Your fingers would be tentacles &lt;3"},{"author_name":"architect404","author_uid":"55680","time":"Aug 24, 2015 @ 6:22pm","epoch":1440440220,"text":"great title, great eyebrows, great job!"},{"author_name":"daveh","author_uid":"55246","time":"Aug 24, 2015 @ 7:51pm","epoch":1440445560,"text":"I gave this a straight sweep of 5 stars. Loved it.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Keyboard controls weren't working for me, but controller was fine. Obviously best with a controller anyway - it's quite challenging to move both tentacles!"},{"author_name":"Vennril","author_uid":"15816","time":"Aug 24, 2015 @ 8:46pm","epoch":1440448860,"text":"Nice little game. The gamepad controls are mind-bending sometimes, but in a fun way. I also love the attack animation. Well done :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>+1 for being a Kraken ;)"},{"author_name":"frokes","author_uid":"44142","time":"Aug 24, 2015 @ 9:18pm","epoch":1440450780,"text":"Hmmm, yeah really hard to do with the keyboard. Intresting idea and the multiplayer function is nice. I like the art and the design of the ships.\r<br\/>My only real complaint would be that the menu buttons are very unresponsive."},{"author_name":"vividhelix","author_uid":"35713","time":"Aug 24, 2015 @ 9:54pm","epoch":1440452940,"text":"Ha, this will get top marks in humor I bet. Hard to control via keyboard but really nicely done, music helped a lot too! Best entry I've seen yet!"},{"author_name":"Shaw","author_uid":"30127","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 1:51pm","epoch":1440510360,"text":"As a fellow Kraken'er I can appreciate the effort put into this. Played it with my girlfriend and was lots of fun. Excellent job."},{"author_name":"Mogwaii","author_uid":"58069","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 7:21pm","epoch":1440530160,"text":"Pretty fun even if you are playing the singleplayer. Still have to try the multiplayer. Arms move a bit slow for my taste and it happened quite often that I mixed up the tentacles. But other than that great job!"},{"author_name":"Lou Byrd","author_uid":"58001","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 8:22pm","epoch":1440533820,"text":"I loved the concept.\r<br\/>Gameplay, howevers, wasn't super easy on keyboard. And it was me or the tentacles were always failing to hit.\r<br\/>Would love to try it with gamepads."},{"author_name":"oskardevelopment","author_uid":"21518","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 8:31pm","epoch":1440534360,"text":"Cool game and nice enemies! Apparantly only a few times the tentacle attacks worked, most of the time I was banging my keyboard with nothing happening! I loved the kraken and the enmies look, was really fitting graphics and the audio was very well made!"},{"author_name":"crucknuk","author_uid":"53686","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 11:30pm","epoch":1440545100,"text":"Playing this in multiplayer is quiet fun. Unfortunately, inputs don't work correctly sometimes"},{"author_name":"ceosol","author_uid":"34411","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 2:49pm","epoch":1440600240,"text":"The attack controls were very unresponsive for me. I found you had to spam the buttons to have a small chance of actually attacking. I got the idea of the game, though."},{"author_name":"Razbury Games","author_uid":"54947","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 4:32pm","epoch":1440606420,"text":"Hey @Ceosol! If you see this, I'm curious to know more about the problem you're experiencing. All of the other bugs etc. we kind of knew were in the game, but you've described a problem I've never experienced before. If you see this, it would be awesome if you could email me more about your set-up and what was happening - dean@vidarthegame.com\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Thanks so much for playing, and hopefully we can get it fixed for you!"},{"author_name":"GameQuester","author_uid":"45230","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 11:43pm","epoch":1440632280,"text":"One tentacle got stuck on the buttom border. Beside that I had a lot of fun with this. Also the music and sfx were very well fitting."},{"author_name":"A Flat Miner Studios","author_uid":"42150","time":"Aug 27, 2015 @ 1:06am","epoch":1440637260,"text":"Fun and crazy. 2220 in single player!"},{"author_name":"jrhee","author_uid":"55500","time":"Aug 28, 2015 @ 9:36pm","epoch":1440797460,"text":"Crazy game, had a blast- seems like it'd be even more fun with 4 players\/8 tentacles!"},{"author_name":"BoyWithStick","author_uid":"48647","time":"Aug 29, 2015 @ 4:30am","epoch":1440822300,"text":"A Krakengood time...sorry, had to go there.  Fun game, especially for those like me who tend to have their tentacl...I mean human hands into many things at one time.  It got pretty chaotic when the ships started coming in faster.  I got 1100.  Fun game play!  The graphics and audio fit nicely together.  Cool entry!"},{"author_name":"Tselmek","author_uid":"48996","time":"Aug 30, 2015 @ 12:16pm","epoch":1440936660,"text":"Really nice concept, very hard controls when playing on 1player mode. Ufortunately didn't have someone to play with but this looks like a lot of fun when playing with 4 players. Nice animations and music."},{"author_name":"PeteGrammarman","author_uid":"15086","time":"Sep 6, 2015 @ 5:19am","epoch":1441516440,"text":"If the tentacles could high-five each other this would have been THE perfect game."},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"27744","time":"Oct 8, 2015 @ 5:20pm","epoch":1444324500,"text":"Neat game! I included it in part 31 of my Ludum Dare 33 Compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZV7CU8j_StI"}],"images":["ld33\/54947-cba249cfc70038a923e801ec9e4e90cc.jpg","ld33\/54947-3a38abb0397eaeccea9f4c71d073c2ce.jpg","ld33\/54947-a0103e06687c8b82be5e6cee6def2e67.jpg","ld33\/54947-410cebc72482df2a3d32374520679b57.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0BxQleylACi-MellNcW9KUE9Menc\/view?usp=sharing","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/sharedfiles\/filedetails\/?id=512087011","text":"Greenlight"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"9547","g_author":"54947","g_event":"LD33","g_eventkey":"29","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"9580","g_title":"Kraken Skulls","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"303","g_commentcount":"27","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\/54947-shot0-1440382665.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/479518\/54947-shot1-1440382665.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/479518\/54947-shot2-1442235335.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/479518\/54947-shot3-1442235335.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Kraken Skulls is a four player couch co-op tentacle beat 'em up. Protect the Kraken's head while trying to rack up a high score! All assets \/ music are original too :)\r\n\r\nXBox controller recommended, and required to do more than one player. You can play single player with just the keyboard.\r\n\r\n*Note, google drive's interface is weird; click the download button (downwards arrow) at the top of the screen. Sometimes, it's hidden, so move your mouse up there and jiggle a little. \r\n\r\nUPDATE: We got really excited by the positive reception of Kraken Skulls, and have taken your feedback to heart. We're creating a new build which fixes the bugs described below, fixes the art assets, and adds a ton of features: new ships, new modes, new levels, new attacks. We really think this could become a cute little party game!\r\n\r\nWe've posted a greenlight link below. Please please please! Head to the greenlight page and give us a quick thumbs up, it would mean the world!","title":"Kraken Skulls"}