{"author_name":"Gamepopper","cat":"LD #31","comments":[],"epoch":1418152740,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"22294","p_author":"Gamepopper","p_authorkey":"21252","p_urlkey":"57661","p_title":"Glow Drop \u2013 The people have spoken!","p_cat":"LD #31","p_event":"LD31","p_time":"1418152740","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"21252","us_name":"Gamepopper","us_username":"\/author\/gamepopper\/","event_start":"1417737600","event_key":"26","event_name":"LD31"},"text":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Glow-Drop-Title.png\"><img class=\"alignleft wp-image-423982 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Glow-Drop-Title-168x300.png\" alt=\"Glow Drop Title\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/a>So first of all, thank you for the huge amount of positive feedback and ratings on <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-31\/?action=preview&amp;uid=21252\" target=\"_blank\">Glow Drop<\/a> so far! I don&#8217;t think I have gotten this much rating and appraisal before in a Ludum Dare event! So I&#8217;ve been taking in your feedback and lots of people want to see a mobile version, so I am giving into your demands and will release Glow Drop onto <strong>Android<\/strong> and <strong>Windows Phone 8<\/strong>!<\/p>\n <p>(Sorry iOS users, but I cannot afford to develop and release a game onto the App Store at this time)<\/p>\n <p>However, I think it&#8217;s fair in saying that this shouldn&#8217;t be a simple release. I feel as though this game could do with a little bit more work to feel more worthy for people to download. So I&#8217;ve been taking in some of the feedback from both the Ludum Dare page and so I have a list of things that can be done to polish up the game a bit more:<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li><strong>Visual Identifiers<\/strong> &#8211; Mostly stuff like how the drops react when they are destroyed or what happens when they start overflowing the screen.<\/li>\n <li><strong>More Special White Drops<\/strong> &#8211; The current game has three, and there is plenty of opportunity to expand the possibilities of these drops.<\/li>\n <li><strong>Improve\/Extend Music<\/strong> &#8211; I am extremely happy and surprised with the amount of people that liked the soundtrack. I didn&#8217;t have much time to properly flesh out the music so I feel I can use some time to either extend it to a longer loop, make it feel less repetitive and\/or remix the existing music to a new genre (I was thinking progressive trance but feel free to tell me otherwise).<\/li>\n <li><strong>Global Leaderboard<\/strong> &#8211; While it&#8217;s nice enough to keep a saved highscore, it&#8217;s much better to also compare it with people around the world. I&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s the best option to implement this for me, but it&#8217;s worth looking into. I know GameJolt has a leaderboard system in its API but for mobile it&#8217;s gonna be different for each platform unless I try a platform-free tool to handle it.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p>Are there any other things you can suggest? Let me know, also <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-31\/?action=preview&amp;uid=21252\" target=\"_blank\">Play and Rate Glow Drop<\/a>!<\/p>\n \n <p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/android\/\" rel=\"tag\">android<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/feedback\/\" rel=\"tag\">feedback<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/glow-drop\/\" rel=\"tag\">Glow Drop<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/ld31\/\" rel=\"tag\">ld31<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/ludum-dare\/\" rel=\"tag\">Ludum Dare<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/physics\/\" rel=\"tag\">physics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/puzzle\/\" rel=\"tag\">puzzle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/puzzle-game\/\" rel=\"tag\">puzzle game<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/suggestions\/\" rel=\"tag\">suggestions<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/windows-phone\/\" rel=\"tag\">windows phone<\/a><\/p>","time":"December 9th, 2014 2:19 pm","title":"Glow Drop \u2013 The people have spoken!"}