{"author_link":"\/author\/tijmentio\/","author_name":"TijmenTio","author_uid":"18775","comments":[{"author_name":"duon44","author_uid":"8986","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 3:22pm","epoch":1418051820,"text":"Very fun game :D for some reason the screen was very flickery though, loved that you used the disappearing world as a game mechanic"},{"author_name":"talecrafter","author_uid":"3707","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 5:25pm","epoch":1418059200,"text":"Nice game. Feels polished already."},{"author_name":"Insality","author_uid":"43734","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 5:25pm","epoch":1418059200,"text":"OOh i so like this sweety animation of everything, its amazing man!\r<br\/>cant believe what it has been done in 48 hours ;] gj"},{"author_name":"Louisload","author_uid":"46897","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 5:29pm","epoch":1418059440,"text":"AWESOME! very nice work! music, graphics, gameplay, everything is awesome! except Rodolph, god damn he is a very annoying reindeer"},{"author_name":"bofink","author_uid":"46299","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 5:30pm","epoch":1418059500,"text":"Wow! Had a blast playing this wonderful game! Great job!"},{"author_name":"PeerPlay","author_uid":"40389","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 6:36pm","epoch":1418063460,"text":"Super awesome delicious game! Took me a while to figure out I had to run the reindeer off of the screen though. And I lost from the 2 reindeers, and then had to start over again :( Is there an ending where I find Rudolph? As always, you make such a cute game :)"},{"author_name":"Eddy93","author_uid":"19469","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 11:17pm","epoch":1418080320,"text":"Whahah those conversations where hilarious! Well done for the short amount of time!"},{"author_name":"Alex Rose","author_uid":"19499","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 3:40am","epoch":1418096100,"text":"Polished to fuck as usual, this category was always going to be perfect for you. Loved the dialogue, especially Rudolph's.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Rudolph was tough, but I hid round the fence and walked off while he was picking up snow.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I was only a medium santa :( . 47%.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>5\/5 for Festive Spirit too."},{"author_name":"cyrixd","author_uid":"47064","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 3:41am","epoch":1418096160,"text":"Very fun little game! Those reindeer sure are pissed."},{"author_name":"Sheepolution","author_uid":"5959","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 12:11pm","epoch":1418126760,"text":"Awesome game. The way the tiles (dis)appear is a really cool effect. Funny dialog, and of course the graphics and audio is great. Keep up the good work!"},{"author_name":"ajayajayaj","author_uid":"39470","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 12:00am","epoch":1418169300,"text":"One of the best games here!"},{"author_name":"EquipeJAM","author_uid":"46706","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 9:03pm","epoch":1418245080,"text":"good work(\u10e6\u02d8\u2323\u02d8\u10e6)"},{"author_name":"Sh1rogane","author_uid":"14496","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 11:01pm","epoch":1418252160,"text":"This game is awesome. Great graphics (with amazing effects too) and fun gameplay and it feels really polished. Only thing I found little annoying was that the screen flashed quite much. (might just be me)"},{"author_name":"AdventureIslands","author_uid":"11391","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 11:08pm","epoch":1418252580,"text":"Really polished, impressive art and how the world itself was used to defeat the reindeer. This was a blast to play.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I'm just wondering if Rudolf was invincible? Snowballs merely pushed him a little, never knocking him out. I only won by abusing the pathfinding and making him get stuck against the house, so he couldn't move and I could calmly just walk away and make him fall."},{"author_name":"Magicolo","author_uid":"44592","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 11:24pm","epoch":1418253540,"text":"-Fun interpretation of the theme :)\r<br\/>-Liked the style of the contour of the screen :)\r<br\/>-Pretty repetitive gameplay :("},{"author_name":"Grindstorm","author_uid":"44088","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 11:33pm","epoch":1418254080,"text":"A christmas game with no Snowman reference?! I'm ok with this!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Anyways, awesome game, loved the AI, even though Rudolph fell into its own death and made the game quite easy :("},{"author_name":"TijmenTio","author_uid":"18775","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 11:55pm","epoch":1418255400,"text":"Spoiler, you turn into a snowman if you die :)"},{"author_name":"klianc09","author_uid":"20290","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 11:22am","epoch":1418296620,"text":"The controls don't work. :(\r<br\/>I wanted to play this so bad, the pixelart is really great.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>He says he can create snowballs with space, then I can press space, or any other button but nothing happens... Well, except &quot;R&quot; which restarts the game... (On windows 7 64-bit)"},{"author_name":"qristofer","author_uid":"40112","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 11:25am","epoch":1418296800,"text":"So cute, I love it!"},{"author_name":"5k0d","author_uid":"44911","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 11:32am","epoch":1418297220,"text":"Amazing work, the sounds the graphics,\r<br\/>animation feels so smooth.... \r<br\/>GREAT!"},{"author_name":"Chris M","author_uid":"35889","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 11:43am","epoch":1418297880,"text":"Any chance of an OSX build?"},{"author_name":"TijmenTio","author_uid":"18775","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 3:48pm","epoch":1418312580,"text":"can't get the osx compiler to work properly sorry :("},{"author_name":"SuperDisk","author_uid":"11035","time":"Dec 12, 2014 @ 4:34pm","epoch":1418401740,"text":"Wouldn't start for me! D3d borked out while compiling a shader. Since this is Game Maker though I don't really know what you could do about it :\\"},{"author_name":"Elemental Zeal Games Studios","author_uid":"12839","time":"Dec 12, 2014 @ 4:35pm","epoch":1418401800,"text":"This was cute! Nice job. Seemed to flicker a bit as I played, though."},{"author_name":"rfgpfeiffer","author_uid":"7968","time":"Dec 12, 2014 @ 4:45pm","epoch":1418402400,"text":"Santa is snow ball fighting with his reindeer. I like how snow on one square is a limited ressource, that does get replensihed by the snow fall. Fighting all the single reindeer feels a bit repetitive and it would be more fun if it was shorter. The conclusion of the story is good. Playing the game feels pretty good. - Tilman (from compo-account)"},{"author_name":"klianc09","author_uid":"20290","time":"Dec 12, 2014 @ 4:54pm","epoch":1418402940,"text":"Okay, I gave it another try, I found out, that when you have a gamepad connected, the keyboard controls don't work anymore and you have to play with the gamepad. Well, good to know.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Graphics and animation are really awesome, I had no audio though... The combat was at some times really easy, but sometimes really annoying when you get locked down and run out of snowballs.\r<br\/>But overall I liked it!"},{"author_name":"Wolve","author_uid":"25252","time":"Dec 13, 2014 @ 1:11pm","epoch":1418475960,"text":"lol, funny dialogs"},{"author_name":"csanyk","author_uid":"10473","time":"Dec 14, 2014 @ 11:20pm","epoch":1418598900,"text":"Brilliant and perfect."},{"author_name":"NPException","author_uid":"28802","time":"Dec 16, 2014 @ 9:32pm","epoch":1418765220,"text":"Marvelous entry! Great job :)"},{"author_name":"Odefus","author_uid":"44603","time":"Dec 17, 2014 @ 11:44pm","epoch":1418859540,"text":"That was a blast. Turns out I am a medium santa."},{"author_name":"pixelspirit","author_uid":"39537","time":"Dec 29, 2014 @ 4:06pm","epoch":1419868860,"text":"the generated world and actually using it in gameplay was awesome!! I loved the art too! and &quot;Muscle Santa&quot; - fantastic."},{"author_name":"Sanguine","author_uid":"4159","time":"Dec 29, 2014 @ 7:41pm","epoch":1419881760,"text":"Wow! Super impressive! Really enjoyed all the cool fx you put in as always :) Nice one!"},{"author_name":"GFM","author_uid":"7375","time":"Dec 30, 2014 @ 12:25am","epoch":1419898800,"text":"Amazing game! It is really fun and polished!\r<br\/>The graphics were awesome, and I really liked all the little details you added, with the &quot;warping world animation&quot;, the fact that after gathering some snow the tile will be bare... the fantastic throwing animation...\r<br\/>Also, the sounds and music really helped setting the mood!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I really liked this game. :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>But there's one thing bugging me... Was the controller support intentional? Keyboard and mouse controls get disabled if you have a controller connected, though I could play with it and it worked normally after I disconnected it..."}],"images":["ld31\/18775-6d4e2036e29f882876b1e353bf9299ba.jpg","ld31\/18775-ddd45adf3d4c2063b50dc66d41754f35.jpg","ld31\/18775-7d842002f4899a6a86ca89eebc24781c.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/a09owgpyap99oes\/Rudolph.exe.zip?dl=0","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/2q3n7pwxq123lfp\/RudolphSource.gmz?dl=0","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"14428","g_author":"18775","g_event":"LD31","g_eventkey":"26","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"14458","g_title":"Rudolph","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"12","g_commentcount":"33","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\/\/407933\/18775-shot0.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/18775-shot1.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/18775-shot2.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"'Rudolph' is a game about Santa having a bad dream and his reindeer have turn against him. Or maybe it isn't a dream after all? Anyway, join in an epic snowball fight!\r\n\r\nCONTROLS:\r\nASWD\/Arrow keys - move around\r\nHold space or right mouse button - scoop snow\r\nLeft mouse button - throw snowball","title":"Rudolph"}