{"author_link":"\/author\/kirbytails7\/","author_name":"kirbytails7","author_uid":"4767","comments":[{"author_name":"dusho","author_uid":"36575","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 8:48pm","epoch":1408999380,"text":"really hard if you want to get points.. I ended up with -1 lives :)"},{"author_name":"kirbytails7","author_uid":"4767","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 4:23am","epoch":1409026680,"text":"I was certain I fixed the -1 lives thing. Whoops. =) Must've been more sleepy than I thought at the end."},{"author_name":"arbiccdheife","author_uid":"39456","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 4:45am","epoch":1409114400,"text":"Very cool game. Pretty simple to get the hang of and enough challenge to keep it interesting. I personally think the bosses should be a little harder but that's just preference..great entry."},{"author_name":"Tanser","author_uid":"27381","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 4:08pm","epoch":1409155380,"text":"Great work, i like it! :)"},{"author_name":"idovingx","author_uid":"35256","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 4:31pm","epoch":1409156760,"text":"pretty charming actually!"},{"author_name":"Moosefly","author_uid":"25343","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 4:32pm","epoch":1409156820,"text":"Died just before the fourth boss with a score of 25.5k or something. The setting is really unique, and it masks the mundane task of basically picking up items as you trying to string together a bunch of planets to form a galaxy. I find that really nice. The mood was also really nice, although the random red scribbles were kinda out of place.\r\rAnssi@MooseflyGames"},{"author_name":"KrisDevelopment","author_uid":"39050","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 6:25pm","epoch":1409163600,"text":"Yay! Score: 011507 :D\rI like this game, it is very simple and very entertaining.\rYou should work on the audio and the graphics (also a story would be great), but besides that, it is a cool lil game :)"},{"author_name":"SkyWolf","author_uid":"18222","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 6:58pm","epoch":1409165580,"text":"quite relaxing, really digging the music :)"},{"author_name":"43iscoding","author_uid":"35110","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 9:58pm","epoch":1409176380,"text":"Good job. Simple and relaxing game ^^"},{"author_name":"kirbytails7","author_uid":"4767","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 6:35am","epoch":1409207400,"text":"Thanks!\r\r@KrisDevelopment: I feel like any attempt at story, though, has to overcome the whole drilling-through-entire-planets thing, or I suppose it could be silly like Katamari..."},{"author_name":"jackyjjc","author_uid":"21428","time":"Aug 31, 2014 @ 12:13pm","epoch":1409486880,"text":"Really challenging and interesting game! On my second try I got up to level 3 and died :( Would be nice to have a way to restart the game after you lose."},{"author_name":"Chaoseiro","author_uid":"26838","time":"Aug 31, 2014 @ 9:14pm","epoch":1409519340,"text":"Nice game! The music is really good, I only think that boss "fights" should have a more tense music, but the main music is great, as well as the sfx. The graphics are well made, but the "void" thing is out of place."},{"author_name":"kirbytails7","author_uid":"4767","time":"Sep 1, 2014 @ 7:19am","epoch":1409555640,"text":"@jackyjjc - Yeah, I ran out of time for menus and since I expected to anyway, I didn't put them in initially.\r@Chaoseiro - Thanks. I did do a boss theme, but it wasn't any good. And what "void" thing?"},{"author_name":"Sunflower","author_uid":"39564","time":"Sep 2, 2014 @ 9:47am","epoch":1409650920,"text":"Interesting game, though gameplay wasn't very exciting to me (especially the two bosses I encountered seemed rather... slow? And they were waiting quite long between attacks? I guess I wouldn't mind if the game didn't have these bosses at all...). Audiovisuals were alright, though I didn't like sound effect of stringing the world (it sounded like I did something wrong) and the music instruments were somewhat... screechy? ^^""},{"author_name":"kirbytails7","author_uid":"4767","time":"Sep 3, 2014 @ 7:48am","epoch":1409730180,"text":"@Sunflower - Thanks for the honest feedback! I was concerned with the pacing of the game being to quick, since several of my previous games have been seen as rather hard, so I thought to ease into it a bit more. I think it would've been more effective if I had introduced a second boss sooner, personally, but I didn't have time for a fourth boss (and hardly for a third) and wanted to keep some content. And yes, the instruments are a little "bit-crushed" for effect."},{"author_name":"Dry Tree","author_uid":"5357","time":"Sep 4, 2014 @ 8:28pm","epoch":1409862180,"text":"Nice game and great audio, I felt the boss fights were boring as there was nothing to do other than wait it out (unless I missed something?!) ... at first I tried 'lassoing' the boss but that didn't do anything. Good game overall though :)"},{"author_name":"jukimv1986","author_uid":"5402","time":"Sep 6, 2014 @ 5:43am","epoch":1409981880,"text":"GALAXY COMPLETE! Nice game, I had fun playing it. Well done!"},{"author_name":"Dietrich Epp","author_uid":"7606","time":"Sep 8, 2014 @ 2:52am","epoch":1410144420,"text":"Cool, I like the idea of threading worlds together. The music did a lot to contribute, but there was this really annoying piano sound--it sounded like a sample rate conversion gone horribly wrong, I could hear tons of aliasing. Maybe some kind of bitcrusher effect?"},{"author_name":"kirbytails7","author_uid":"4767","time":"Sep 10, 2014 @ 5:00am","epoch":1410324900,"text":"@Dietrich Epp - Yes, the bitcrusher effect was intentional."},{"author_name":"Hypnohustla","author_uid":"20803","time":"Sep 14, 2014 @ 4:56pm","epoch":1410713460,"text":"Nice idea, it was refreshing to play a "shmup" where you don't actually have to shoot anything. Very peaceful :)"}],"images":["ld30\/4767-8d983dbf11509c3554fa652076871c0c.jpg","ld30\/4767-b67d58c995353f761587d2b5f59aa0a8.jpg","ld30\/4767-2e6c46b3584b3c86a8a77fa97db7e0dc.jpg","ld30\/4767-f14687f862e0257b24643e8fa63e5ee0.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/sketchhousegames.com\/WorldOnAString\/Builds.html","text":"Web"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"17680","g_author":"4767","g_event":"LD30","g_eventkey":"24","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"17709","g_title":"I've Got the World On a String","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"709","g_commentcount":"20","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\/4767-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/4767-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/4767-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/4767-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Connect planets together with a rope! Because...uh...\r\n\r\nIt's a top-down shooter without shooting. The idea came from the first game I ever tried (and failed horribly) to make.\r\n\r\nMade in C# with Unity (you'll need the web player) and Visual Studio, with Garageband\/sfxr\/Audacity for audio and Paint.NET for art. \r\n\r\nWASD or arrows to move. Enjoy!","title":"I've Got the World On a String"}