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Thanks for playing","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1133163,"author_name":"CodeChomper","author_uid":"codechomper","epoch":1744138409,"text":"@lanalux Thanks I have a good sound guy!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1145392,"author_name":"finntastico","author_uid":"finntastico","epoch":1744370067,"text":"I made it! I didn't believe in myself, but I did it haha. In the beginning I thought that I could slash spiders with my diggers, but then I realized that is not the case. Great entry :)\n\n![Screenshot 2025-04-11 at 12.13.13.png](\/\/\/raw\/9c2\/2\/z\/6bf90.png)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1146809,"author_name":"CodeChomper","author_uid":"codechomper","epoch":1744419890,"text":"@finntastico Glad you made it! I wish we had more time to make hidden rooms and an effective attack for the little robot (we only had 10 hours free on the weekend)!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1150461,"author_name":"LeReveur","author_uid":"lereveur","epoch":1744586627,"text":"Even trying many times, I didn't made it to the end, I always forget this or those trap or ennemy position, and so I lost more life than I get it back. But despite of the random hitboxes, it's fun to play, and the game controls are really responsive, which is pleasant. I also like the arts and SFX. Good job!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1150746,"author_name":"Adhvik","author_uid":"adhvik","epoch":1744614288,"text":"very fun game","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1151344,"author_name":"kuboi","author_uid":"kuboi","epoch":1744650845,"text":"Fun game, made it all the way to the end!\n\nI like the idea of a platformer going down instead of up and the digging mechanic. I was missing a bit more that I could do though, I feel like it could get stale after a while. But the platforming mechanics were great, overall a cool entry:)","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1153399,"author_name":"woona","author_uid":"woona","epoch":1744861711,"text":"It's a fun game and I made it to the end. I would prefer if movement had some acceleration mechanic because I found it difficult to align myself right above 1-tile wide pit to fall into it.\n\nGreat job with balancing the difficulty: the game seems difficult but there are a lot of heart pickups and overall it's manageable.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1156648,"author_name":"Shasaur","author_uid":"shasaur","epoch":1745412068,"text":"Awesome game for only having 10 hours! Was addicting to try and get to \"THE END\" :) It was like a little memory game trying to memorise all the locations of the traps and monsters. Adding a little background music track would have been even more awesome.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1156651,"author_name":"vangrail","author_uid":"vangrail","epoch":1745412287,"text":"Nice concept and well done for the jam. A checkpoint system could help a long way to reach the end safely!\n\n![Screenshot 2025-04-23 144410.png](\/\/\/raw\/a4a\/06\/z\/6c69e.png)","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1157492,"author_name":"Papaver","author_uid":"papaver","epoch":1745532588,"text":"Such a long way down, but I found the end!\nI liked that there were different ways to go, and that often you couldn't go back, but there was always a way forward. Sometimes I wish the camera was a bit lower, to see more of where I was going.\nI like the animation of the swirling arms and how I could smash the blocks to pieces. The platforming mechanics worked well. Perhaps you could map more keys to jump\/left\/right, so that the player can choose to use WASD or arrow keys, and up or space for jump.\n\nOverall, I enjoyed playing your game. Well done! :smile: ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1157616,"author_name":"digital bacon","author_uid":"digital-bacon","epoch":1745567949,"text":"Nice game, made it all the way to the end with a little bit of health to spare.... Good work!\n\n![downfall-screenshot.png](\/\/\/raw\/21c\/31\/z\/6c752.png)","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1158094,"author_name":"Texugo","author_uid":"texugo","epoch":1745624681,"text":"I really like the robot, he's full of character! I missed having more feedbacks, but it was still a pretty fun experience and good game overall! Great work.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1158207,"author_name":"Sam Flemington","author_uid":"sam-flemington","epoch":1745653522,"text":"When the robot said \"ow\" the first time, I became extremely emotionally invested. It was great getting to play your game! One thing I do wish though is that the camera moved below your character a bit more so it was easier to see where you were going to drop down into.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld57\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/CodeChomper\/LDJam57","text":"GitHub"},{"url":"https:\/\/codechomper.itch.io\/ldjam-57-downfall","text":"Play on Itch if it doesn't work here"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"97351","g_author":"1009518","g_event":"LD57","g_eventkey":"111","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"449016","g_title":"Downfall","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"16","g_site2_node_id":"410883","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"410883","n_urlkey":"449016","n_parent":"406845","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/57\/downfall","n_slug":"downfall","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"9518","n_created":"1743807305","n_modified":"1778407933","n_version":"1292739","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD57","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":8,"author":9518,"body":"Can you make it to the bottom? 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