{"author_link":"\/author\/sylarisbest\/","author_name":"sylarisbest","author_uid":"40087","comments":[{"author_name":"nbilyk","author_uid":"22825","time":"Aug 24, 2014 @ 8:54pm","epoch":1408913340,"text":"I love it. Well done!\r\rOne suggestion - add a hotkey for restarting from checkpoint."},{"author_name":"Toestee","author_uid":"23165","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 9:30am","epoch":1408958700,"text":"Brilliant concept, I love the mechanic."},{"author_name":"goffmog","author_uid":"2011","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 9:46am","epoch":1408959660,"text":"Puzzle games like this never fail to impress me, such apparent simplicity but I never in a million years would have thought this up for this theme!"},{"author_name":"sam1373","author_uid":"24548","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 10:26am","epoch":1408962060,"text":"Great concept, very fun game."},{"author_name":"PapyGaragos","author_uid":"7971","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 10:40am","epoch":1408962900,"text":"The firsts few challenges might be a bit too hard, that's were I got most of my deaths because i wasn't used to the controls.\r\rGreat mechanic"},{"author_name":"Kuupu","author_uid":"22691","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 11:12am","epoch":1408964820,"text":"Very nice concept. The controls are quite unusual, so it takes a while to get used.\rGreat work, congratulations."},{"author_name":"steve","author_uid":"5178","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 11:53am","epoch":1408967280,"text":"Nice concept, would have liked to have seen a few more checkpoints ;)"},{"author_name":"Cruion","author_uid":"40004","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 1:12pm","epoch":1408972020,"text":"Good entry. Was fun to play and quite challenging. Hope you continue to develop it."},{"author_name":"JaJ","author_uid":"5496","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 3:16pm","epoch":1408979460,"text":"Nice concept, really hard!\rI didn't like the sound of the shooters. Too loud. Had to mute after a while."},{"author_name":"JaJ","author_uid":"5496","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 3:16pm","epoch":1408979460,"text":"Nice concept, really hard!\rI didn't like the sound effects of the shooting things, they were too loud. Turned my sound off after a while."},{"author_name":"The Lag Pack","author_uid":"41583","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 12:27am","epoch":1409012520,"text":"Interesting game."},{"author_name":"CivvyThePandaTM","author_uid":"25153","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 12:52am","epoch":1409014020,"text":"Interesting game, but the audio can't be turned off (it was way too loud) and the controls are a bit hard to get a hold of. Otherwise, it was really fun to play."},{"author_name":"mattperrin","author_uid":"4263","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 1:47am","epoch":1409017320,"text":"I've jamming R over and over to keep playing. That's a good complement by the way. Totally digging it. :)"},{"author_name":"TeamOnBack","author_uid":"35024","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 2:02am","epoch":1409018220,"text":"Nice work!"},{"author_name":"Oxeren","author_uid":"26262","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 4:37am","epoch":1409027520,"text":"Great gameplay mechanic, I guess I haven't seen one like this before. Music is also nice."},{"author_name":"zillix","author_uid":"2460","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 4:59am","epoch":1409028840,"text":"great idea! the relaxing music added to the experience, and I was thankful for the frequent checkpoints :)"},{"author_name":"mclewis","author_uid":"34809","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 5:01am","epoch":1409028960,"text":"Super fun and super hard game"},{"author_name":"Cake&Code","author_uid":"10976","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 5:25am","epoch":1409030400,"text":"Very fun! I love games with cool control schemes like this one :)"},{"author_name":"hazzahazzam","author_uid":"40538","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 6:59am","epoch":1409036040,"text":"First 2 levels too hard, but great game otherwise."},{"author_name":"Lizzip","author_uid":"22200","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 7:31am","epoch":1409037960,"text":"Great concept and executed really well. Thank God for checkpoints in this, it's hard!"},{"author_name":"mrexcessive","author_uid":"20788","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 9:55am","epoch":1409046600,"text":"Hi there. Nice mechanic. I found it too difficult when I reached the guns, but I'm bad at that sort of thing! Death seemed a bit abrupt. Good game!"},{"author_name":"Trilby","author_uid":"16518","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 12:20pm","epoch":1409055300,"text":"Brilliant idea. Very hard game."},{"author_name":"locknic","author_uid":"9841","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 1:20pm","epoch":1409058900,"text":"Fantastic entry. Close to perfect. I didn't manage to finish it because at one point the checkpoint gets spaced too far apart. The main gameplay concept just works so well. The graphics while simple are tasteful and work well. The music, sounds and movement speed worked together so well to make this super zen ambiance."},{"author_name":"darklightteam","author_uid":"27472","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 1:39pm","epoch":1409060040,"text":"Addictive game, good work!"},{"author_name":"Eero Tuovinen","author_uid":"40525","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 3:54pm","epoch":1409068140,"text":"Very good. A solid kernel of a dexterity puzzle game. The idea works, and is ripe for elaboration. The implementation is very good for a competition quickie: attention has been brought to the correct parts, and the product is more whole than can rightfully be expected under these constraints."},{"author_name":"Kiwiboi","author_uid":"20891","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 4:19pm","epoch":1409069640,"text":"Excellent entry! Very well done and awesome concept! Great job! :)"},{"author_name":"booyaa","author_uid":"6473","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 5:15pm","epoch":1409073000,"text":"i love this game!"},{"author_name":"hogtrick","author_uid":"39067","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 5:26pm","epoch":1409073660,"text":"Very nice game. I liked the gameplay very much."},{"author_name":"rogueNoodle","author_uid":"21449","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 5:43pm","epoch":1409074680,"text":"Nice! Has a bit of a Two Brothers vibe, but with a much more hardcore difficulty. Awesome entry :)"},{"author_name":"dix","author_uid":"30021","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 6:09pm","epoch":1409076240,"text":"Nice game! I found it really hard, but really nice :D\rNice music aswell!"},{"author_name":"Vallar","author_uid":"41060","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 7:23pm","epoch":1409080680,"text":"This is a really nice and interesting game. It was fun playing through it. It gets harder as you progress and the difficulty curve scales nicely. \r\rI liked the music as well although the sound effect of the turrets was higher than expected. \r\r\rAll in all a very interesting and good game :) well done!"},{"author_name":"TabloidA","author_uid":"39631","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 7:26pm","epoch":1409080860,"text":"Its a great game but I'm pretty sure this concept has been used before around Nitrome or somewhere."},{"author_name":"jawm","author_uid":"25983","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 8:24pm","epoch":1409084340,"text":"great game, difficult. nice use of the theme"},{"author_name":"Josh H","author_uid":"38721","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 8:47pm","epoch":1409085720,"text":"Cool mechanic in this game. It was pretty tricky to control both at once. Well done!"},{"author_name":"CoderMusgrove","author_uid":"29691","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 9:54pm","epoch":1409089740,"text":"I suck at it, but it's really fun!"},{"author_name":"kibertoad","author_uid":"7122","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 10:02pm","epoch":1409090220,"text":"An interesting fresh gameplay mechanic. Wish it wasn't that unforgiving, though :)."},{"author_name":"blindfox","author_uid":"41896","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 12:01am","epoch":1409097360,"text":"Although the controls feel awkward at first, it's clear to see how they add to the challenge, and a few levels of practice make the thinking shift from the controls to the puzzles themselves. Nice game!"},{"author_name":"Sandcrawler","author_uid":"3966","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 5:20am","epoch":1409202900,"text":"I made a YouTube Video of your game, for my series of Ludum Dare 30 Games. http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xnifKpjT1NU"},{"author_name":"Rage Paint","author_uid":"39734","time":"Aug 29, 2014 @ 10:04pm","epoch":1409349540,"text":"Super fun! Not sure if it was stated anywhere, but wish I had known earlier that the link between them could be touched, just not the balls themselves."},{"author_name":"Alexandre Szybiak","author_uid":"18469","time":"Aug 30, 2014 @ 9:24pm","epoch":1409433540,"text":"My brain just died :D I love it ! Crazy level design, I only wish there were even more checkpoints. Great job man."},{"author_name":"Resonious","author_uid":"38940","time":"Sep 4, 2014 @ 12:30am","epoch":1409790300,"text":"Pretty cool idea. Feels a little slow but it might be frustrating if faster, so hard call if that's actually a huge issue."}],"images":["ld30\/40087-d4c482d3d0e73b491323c77e7d041a53.jpg","ld30\/40087-e19526bc2bcb6e55829bec8b99662adc.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/62521757\/Alter%20Axis%20Web.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/62521757\/Alter%20Axis%20Windows.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/62521757\/Connected%20Spheres-source.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"17319","g_author":"40087","g_event":"LD30","g_eventkey":"24","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"17348","g_title":"Alter Axis","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"204","g_commentcount":"41","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\/\/375043\/40087-shot0.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/40087-shot1.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Alter Axis is a Input Coordination game where you control two characters that are connected via a rod. \r\nThe rod holds the two characters at a fixed distance, so in order to move and rotate you must move both characters in unisin.\r\nThe goal is to get past all the obstacles and reach the end.\r\n\r\nControls:\r\nWASD: moves the blue character up\/down\/left\/right\r\nDirectional Keys: moves the green character up\/down\/left\/right\r\n\r\nCredits:\r\nFont: http:\/\/www.dafont.com\/forced-square.font by Drawperfect\r\n\r\nChange Log:\r\n+ 'R' key resets game back to checkpoint","title":"Alter Axis"}