{"author_link":"\/author\/evgis\/","author_name":"Evgiz","author_uid":"12507","comments":[{"author_name":"Flygamer101","author_uid":"48756","time":"Apr 19, 2015 @ 8:42pm","epoch":1429475820,"text":"Very Nice Game!"},{"author_name":"siryakko","author_uid":"49920","time":"Apr 19, 2015 @ 8:49pm","epoch":1429476240,"text":"Cool game concept :D"},{"author_name":"Ouro17","author_uid":"31823","time":"Apr 19, 2015 @ 8:59pm","epoch":1429476840,"text":"Nice game, with a great start, cool graphics and good music loop. How can I open the purple door?"},{"author_name":"louki0101","author_uid":"50995","time":"Apr 19, 2015 @ 9:04pm","epoch":1429477140,"text":"Amazing you finished that in 48h! Congratz dude!"},{"author_name":"Evgiz","author_uid":"12507","time":"Apr 19, 2015 @ 9:51pm","epoch":1429479960,"text":"Thank you! Ouro17: You open the purple door by putting rocks on the square buttons, there is also one of these in the entrance of the level."},{"author_name":"Dan Norder","author_uid":"35070","time":"Apr 19, 2015 @ 11:56pm","epoch":1429487460,"text":"Very cool. Weird that I can't vote yet. Will have to remember to come back and do it later."},{"author_name":"SmallPhil","author_uid":"39162","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 1:29am","epoch":1429493040,"text":"This is such a great idea :P The visuals are awesome and the game is very polished. Good job !"},{"author_name":"0x0961h","author_uid":"21155","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 6:13am","epoch":1429510080,"text":"Oooooh, I like it! These sprites are adorable and the core mechanic is great. Nice job!"},{"author_name":"handkor","author_uid":"39462","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 6:14am","epoch":1429510140,"text":"Very complete. The pixel graphics are pleasing and it control well."},{"author_name":"FireSlash","author_uid":"3130","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 6:15am","epoch":1429510200,"text":"Love this. The execution is wonderful and it's well polished as well."},{"author_name":"ironleonem","author_uid":"49950","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 6:16am","epoch":1429510260,"text":"Very well executed title!"},{"author_name":"PaperBlurt","author_uid":"26530","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 6:21am","epoch":1429510560,"text":"I wanna be able to stuff like this too god dammit!"},{"author_name":"Naphier","author_uid":"47675","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 6:27am","epoch":1429510920,"text":"Really quite good. Controls are good. Level design is nice. I enjoy the puzzle aspect and the vacuum zoom in!"},{"author_name":"noxuma","author_uid":"49591","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 6:46am","epoch":1429512060,"text":"Very polished, love it, 29:33 min to beat."},{"author_name":"sanojian","author_uid":"7542","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 6:52am","epoch":1429512420,"text":"Intro music was really great. I like the powerful vacuum effects when you use it. Nice job!"},{"author_name":"Armanky","author_uid":"22901","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 7:11am","epoch":1429513560,"text":"Cool idea! I like how the camera zooms in when you're sucking. Overall, I'd say this game really sucks. ;)"},{"author_name":"MRvanderPants","author_uid":"20836","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 7:12am","epoch":1429513620,"text":"Love the graphics! It's a really cool take on the vacuum games."},{"author_name":"Ossi","author_uid":"26674","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 7:12am","epoch":1429513620,"text":"This is incredibly well executed and it has a good challenge to it without being too frustrating. Great job on the graphics and good use of the theme! Great job!"},{"author_name":"shyupuff","author_uid":"34906","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 7:14am","epoch":1429513740,"text":"Really polished, well designed. I got a bug where I couldnt fire anything out of my vacuum, Great job!"},{"author_name":"Modoc73","author_uid":"50179","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 7:29am","epoch":1429514640,"text":"Very awesome. Love the idea of the vacuum, love the graphics. Well done!"},{"author_name":"GAFBlizzard","author_uid":"12278","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 7:34am","epoch":1429514940,"text":"I liked the player-friendly mute option and restart counter. Nice graphics and lots of content. The low vision range was a bit restrictive though. I liked the zoom for the vacuum.\r\rUnfortunately, infinitely-respawning enemies is one of my host hated game mechanics. :'( Having to walk up the really slow stairs for the boss every time was also saddifying.\r\rI probably killed myself many times by getting locked into the wrong direction. It would be neat if you could change directions while holding the vacuum. I finished it though.\r\rHow did you reproduce the AIM noise or whatever so accurately? That sound effect is spot-on. Also the music is nice, but one tiny extension at the end could make it loop more seamlessly I think."},{"author_name":"Evgiz","author_uid":"12507","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 7:42am","epoch":1429515420,"text":"Thank you for a thorough comment!\r\rBy aim noise, do you mean the sucking\/vacuum noise? I made that with my mouth and edited it slightly in Audacity. I actually made most sounds that way, I just recorded them on my phone then edited them. The music was hard to get to loop properly, yes. I tried for quite a while then just gave up and decided to work on more content instead.\r\rI made the vacuum stay in its direction while using it so that you can move backwards from an enemy and still protect yourself, it would've made certain parts of the game (the boss!) more difficult if you couldn't. \r\rThank you for your feedback!"},{"author_name":"OneL3gend","author_uid":"10022","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 8:21am","epoch":1429517760,"text":"Very awesome idea, was quite fun to play"},{"author_name":"DragonXVI","author_uid":"35553","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 12:59pm","epoch":1429534440,"text":"Nifty little idea, could do with the suction being a bit higher, specially when trying to grab enemies. Love the visuals too!"},{"author_name":"retrophantom","author_uid":"48958","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 3:44pm","epoch":1429544340,"text":"nice love it"},{"author_name":"Cerberus","author_uid":"49049","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 6:51pm","epoch":1429555560,"text":"I really liked the game, it was slow and with good design, the controls are easy and smooth, the gameplay is fun. i admired alot the graphics, wow. Overall Excellent Job!"},{"author_name":"Headmade","author_uid":"42076","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 8:24pm","epoch":1429561140,"text":"Very nice game! Nice graphics, nice gameplay, nice sounds, everything is really polished. Well done.\r\rMy only gripe is that while the weapon is unconventional, the enemies are not. I would have like something more creative than a slime.\r\rI did not finish the game as I just couldn't beat the room where the guns are introduced. Either I'm too stupid or you have a bit of a difficulty spike there. Maybe introduce the guns, without throwing infinitely respawning enemies at the player?\rStill a great game though!"},{"author_name":"esayitch","author_uid":"16000","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 9:20pm","epoch":1429564500,"text":"Great, solid entry. Everything from the graphics, to the music, to the gameplay. I dig the usage of the theme because it affects gameplay.\r\rGood luck!"},{"author_name":"GTA LUDUM V","author_uid":"3968","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 7:33am","epoch":1429601280,"text":"Some task feels too repetitive and cumbersome (the stones thing). Overall I had fun playing this game, even though I can't beat the boss, only managed to damage him twice. Great job!"},{"author_name":"SteveSalmond","author_uid":"24965","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 9:12am","epoch":1429607220,"text":"Super cool dude! You and I have a pretty similar interpretation of the theme - great minds and all that, eh :) Loved the zoom-in effect when you start hoovering."},{"author_name":"Nysten","author_uid":"34563","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 9:20pm","epoch":1429650900,"text":"Pretty cool game, I really like the feel of it!"},{"author_name":"suppi","author_uid":"29243","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 9:58pm","epoch":1429653180,"text":"fantastic! great graphics, very nice polish, fun gameplay and a really nice idea.\rI think the audio could be somewhat improved. it was a bit gloomy and repetitive."},{"author_name":"nonetheless","author_uid":"36254","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 7:03pm","epoch":1429729080,"text":"Great entry, nice audio, graphics work, I love the Vacuum Zooom :). neat idea and nice execution, hell of a work dude :)"},{"author_name":"chikun Dev Team","author_uid":"29857","time":"Apr 23, 2015 @ 3:30am","epoch":1429759500,"text":"Pretty inventive, very nice idea!"},{"author_name":"agirreb","author_uid":"50896","time":"Apr 23, 2015 @ 11:08am","epoch":1429786980,"text":"Love it."},{"author_name":"SecondDimension","author_uid":"14838","time":"Apr 24, 2015 @ 7:01pm","epoch":1429901760,"text":"Really enjoyed this, very polished entry. Good graphics and music."},{"author_name":"Somnium","author_uid":"50228","time":"Apr 25, 2015 @ 10:13am","epoch":1429956480,"text":"Excellent game! It feels very polished, and I really enjoyed the graphics, as well as the interesting take on the theme :-) \r\rIt is a bit annoying with infinite spawning enemies in the "puzzle-heavy" sections though, since you have to start over when dying."},{"author_name":"Anshul Goyal","author_uid":"18701","time":"May 2, 2015 @ 1:20am","epoch":1430529300,"text":"awesome sire, quite unique! love the ambience in the game that you put together."}],"images":["ld32\/12507-a82141900dfa0a71d3e2fb60842d9b69.jpg","ld32\/12507-d57769842d46bcdeb058acf446358014.jpg","ld32\/12507-f49cc6444cd0d0266bc4991e3754987b.jpg","ld32\/12507-d1f6a8e067e9a5eff80f10821945716b.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/evgiz.net\/games\/vacuumhero","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/evgiz.net\/games\/vacuumhero\/download\/VacuumHero.exe","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/evgiz.net\/games\/vacuumhero\/download\/VacuumHero.jar","text":"OSX"},{"url":"http:\/\/evgiz.net\/games\/vacuumhero\/download\/VacuumHero.jar","text":"Linux"},{"url":"http:\/\/evgiz.net\/games\/vacuumhero\/source","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"12672","g_author":"12507","g_event":"LD32","g_eventkey":"27","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"12702","g_title":"Vacuum Hero","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"34","g_commentcount":"38","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\/\/444368\/12507-shot0-1429472778.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/444368\/12507-shot1-1429455199.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/444368\/12507-shot2-1429467144.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/444368\/12507-shot3-1429467144.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"-\r\n\r\n\r\nDescription\r\n--------------\r\nBe a hero! You couldn't find a sword, unfortunately, but a vacuum cleaner will probably do, right? Vacuum Hero is an action and puzzle game. Use your vacuum cleaner to suck up enemies, bullets and whatever else you may find, and launch them wherever you please. Do not try at home! \r\n\r\n\r\nTools used\r\n--------------\r\nIntelliJ IDEA\r\nPixen\r\nTiled\r\nAudacity\r\nLibGDX\r\n\r\n\r\nIf you find any bugs etc, I would appreciate a heads up on twitter (@Evgiz).\r\nSome computers seem to struggle with HTML5 version (especially with the audio) so if you have any trouble I recommend downloading the desktop version instead.\r\n\r\nThank you for playing!\r\n\r\n","title":"Vacuum Hero"}