{"author_link":"\/author\/javifugitivo\/","author_name":"javifugitivo","author_uid":"25708","comments":[{"author_name":"Root Beer Barrel Boys","author_uid":"36336","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 3:36am","epoch":1398742260,"text":"I like the art style and level design! Awesome job!!"},{"author_name":"kivifreak","author_uid":"10516","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 8:41am","epoch":1398760560,"text":"Good graphics!"},{"author_name":"eralpkaraduman","author_uid":"4077","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 8:54am","epoch":1398761340,"text":"Awesome"},{"author_name":"pereubu","author_uid":"16143","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 8:57am","epoch":1398761520,"text":"great job, there's a lot of content here. Maybe you should add some screenshake to get a better feeling on the guns :D"},{"author_name":"javifugitivo","author_uid":"25708","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 9:34am","epoch":1398763740,"text":"Thanks for the comments! pereubu, It would be a great feature for a future mobile version with more levels ;-)"},{"author_name":"bombjack","author_uid":"18768","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 10:02am","epoch":1398765420,"text":"nice art."},{"author_name":"tacs","author_uid":"35984","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 10:24am","epoch":1398766740,"text":"Love it!"},{"author_name":"Fox_in_sox","author_uid":"36959","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 10:55am","epoch":1398768600,"text":"Really amazing! Took me a while to figure out what exactly is the lever, but I managed to find it in the end.:D The visuals are beautiful."},{"author_name":"orangepascal","author_uid":"12805","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 11:08am","epoch":1398769380,"text":"very nice!"},{"author_name":"javifugitivo","author_uid":"25708","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 12:34pm","epoch":1398774540,"text":"I have updated to fix the problem with the lever (I consider that it is a bug. Now is bigger and more visible)."},{"author_name":"Jeremias","author_uid":"7211","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 12:51pm","epoch":1398775560,"text":"These graphics are really well made but with many enemies, it gets a bit confusing. Like pereubu said, add screenshake :D"},{"author_name":"Stephan Haldaman","author_uid":"17978","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 1:01pm","epoch":1398776160,"text":"Very nice graphics!! The mechanics works perfectly. Hope u get a nice place cause it deserves! :D"},{"author_name":"nicolashognon","author_uid":"37070","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 1:51pm","epoch":1398779160,"text":"great gfx. music is good. perhaps controls can be smoother. good game."},{"author_name":"Citsua","author_uid":"30274","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 2:46pm","epoch":1398782460,"text":"Extremely addictive game with great graphics ! Good job !"},{"author_name":"Nezzhil","author_uid":"21727","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 3:24pm","epoch":1398784740,"text":"Please, hightlight the levers a little, to find them better.\r<br\/>Really fun. Good job :)"},{"author_name":"wdebowicz","author_uid":"29762","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 4:33pm","epoch":1398788880,"text":"After few seconds my audio was brake (just a strange noise) anyway Very good game!"},{"author_name":"Helopol","author_uid":"36919","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 5:39pm","epoch":1398792840,"text":"I love the graphics ! This is fun,even though I had some diffculties to find the levers"},{"author_name":"javifugitivo","author_uid":"25708","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 6:01pm","epoch":1398794160,"text":"Thanks for the feedback! I know that the levers are a bit hidden, but it's part of the gameplay. Thanks for playing our game, we are very proud of it!"},{"author_name":"xdegtyarev","author_uid":"5862","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 8:33pm","epoch":1398803280,"text":"very nice oldshool mood!"},{"author_name":"Hob623","author_uid":"34495","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 9:28pm","epoch":1398806580,"text":"Really nice game. I especially like the music and graphics. At first I had trouble figuring out how to move on (I didn't notice the lever or even know they existed) but it's kinda fun!"},{"author_name":"IAmSpencer","author_uid":"24919","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 9:43pm","epoch":1398807480,"text":"The art style in this was really fantastic. I loved it, also it was pretty damn fun. Great job :)"},{"author_name":"ArcturusDeluxe","author_uid":"26098","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 12:43am","epoch":1398818280,"text":"Cool idea.  Certainly one of the better games I've seen this competition.  Love the art style."},{"author_name":"Balloonsfor600","author_uid":"35061","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 2:35am","epoch":1398825000,"text":"I like the puzzle elements of shooting the switches. Nicely done!"},{"author_name":"gnerkus","author_uid":"28566","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 8:28am","epoch":1398846180,"text":"I've taken too much sugar in my eye. =(\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The game was a little slow."},{"author_name":"zedutchgandalf","author_uid":"18216","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 9:38am","epoch":1398850380,"text":"Really cool! I love the art style, the music, the concept... Everything! :)"},{"author_name":"dmcfarline","author_uid":"22181","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 10:30am","epoch":1398853500,"text":"Really cool artwork, I like the fuzzy spore clouds when you kill enemies"},{"author_name":"quill18","author_uid":"7862","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 4:17pm","epoch":1398874320,"text":"Pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew pew!"},{"author_name":"thinkster","author_uid":"30204","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 5:20pm","epoch":1398878100,"text":"Awesome game, really enjoyed it!"},{"author_name":"pancakecity","author_uid":"28537","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 5:54pm","epoch":1398880140,"text":"Whoooaaa so much action! Really pro game!"},{"author_name":"Wakka","author_uid":"30196","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 10:45pm","epoch":1398897600,"text":"Really fun game. The GFX effects are awesome!"},{"author_name":"7heSAMA","author_uid":"6811","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 12:03am","epoch":1398902280,"text":"Character felt basically invincible which didn't give me much incentive to try hard. Also, bunched up enemies all died from a single bullet. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>Individually the sprites are nice, but it's hard to tell what's what as everything (objectives, loot, enemies, terrain) all blends together. I like the PC sprite a lot though, he's rad."},{"author_name":"NicoM","author_uid":"32562","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 12:36am","epoch":1398904260,"text":"Great game! very smooth animation, something about that full 360 character really impresses me, fun gameplay to!! great job!"},{"author_name":"KevinWorkman","author_uid":"5364","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 2:50am","epoch":1398912300,"text":"This is a great start to a fun little game. But did you really make it for ludum dare? Didn't really see the theme and I would guess it took more than one weekend to make!"},{"author_name":"javifugitivo","author_uid":"25708","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 6:27am","epoch":1398925320,"text":"Yes,the theme is that the action is in a cave belowvthe surface,a mine with rails. And we have slept about 8 hours those days. I was doing streaming in twitch as proof ;-)"},{"author_name":"flavio","author_uid":"25936","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 12:52pm","epoch":1398948420,"text":"Crazy and fun ! Cool visuals and gameplay. It seems to me that the game is a little bit hard to play, right from the beginning !"},{"author_name":"MintArcade","author_uid":"35966","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 6:33pm","epoch":1398968880,"text":"Great humor and fun. Was enjoying your game a lot."},{"author_name":"HuvaaKoodia","author_uid":"21836","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 10:31pm","epoch":1398983160,"text":"Well this is the most unapologetic on-rails-shooter I've ever played and it's not bad!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The gameplay is hectic and fun, but I do have a few complaints.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The player hitbox is a tad too big. If enemies come outside of the screen, around corners or spawn right next to you there is too little time to react before they collide into the cart.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I'd prefer a secondary single shot attack which only hits levers, or something similar, as accidentally shooting a lever multiple times is annoying.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Health pickups or, I can't believe I'm saying this, regenerating health might also work to reward skillful play even more."},{"author_name":"Dreii","author_uid":"24533","time":"May 2, 2014 @ 1:10am","epoch":1398992700,"text":"Wow! the animation on the character is amazingly well done! hats off man! the gameplay's really good too with a nice difficulty gate mechanic good stuff :)"},{"author_name":"CupcakeMedia","author_uid":"36424","time":"May 2, 2014 @ 3:28am","epoch":1399000980,"text":"A top down rail shooter? That's surprisingly a not bad idea. Pretty fun, actually."},{"author_name":"javifugitivo","author_uid":"25708","time":"May 2, 2014 @ 9:37am","epoch":1399023120,"text":"Thanks for the comments and pieces of advice. We will work in a version for android with more level an features using your feedback!"},{"author_name":"vinull","author_uid":"19362","time":"May 2, 2014 @ 11:31pm","epoch":1399073160,"text":"Wow, amazing job all!  The gameplay was fun and the art is really good.  This would be a game I'd work on making a full release of."},{"author_name":"Venturelli","author_uid":"26269","time":"May 3, 2014 @ 1:31am","epoch":1399080360,"text":"Very literal take on &quot;on-rails shooter&quot; that is super interesting :D Congrats on the cool graphics as well!"},{"author_name":"ninjacharlie","author_uid":"24096","time":"May 3, 2014 @ 12:59pm","epoch":1399121640,"text":"Ha, a literal rail shooter :D\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Pretty fun game, I would have liked to have some more mechanics, but what you had there was good. Good job :)"},{"author_name":"Hyoga-3D","author_uid":"23927","time":"May 3, 2014 @ 2:21pm","epoch":1399126560,"text":"Very cool game, reminds me of snes game, art is very polished too, I just didn't liked the gun sound it is a bit annoying."},{"author_name":"PaperBlurt","author_uid":"26530","time":"May 4, 2014 @ 6:06pm","epoch":1399226460,"text":"Rail shooters ARE fun.\r<br\/>I can focus on killing and shooting instead of steering.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Like the badass guy in the cart too!"},{"author_name":"sP0CkEr2","author_uid":"7135","time":"May 5, 2014 @ 3:23am","epoch":1399259880,"text":"took a bit to figure out the levers - relaly nice game - great job"},{"author_name":"matthias_zarzecki","author_uid":"3880","time":"May 7, 2014 @ 6:13pm","epoch":1399486080,"text":"Ha, this is awesome :D\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Love the level-design, among other things :)"},{"author_name":"Waterman7","author_uid":"31692","time":"May 8, 2014 @ 4:09pm","epoch":1399565040,"text":"Nice concept, and great art! It was really fun to just mindlessly shoot at everything that moved.\r<br\/>I was kinda missing an overall directive though, I was not really sure if I was trying to get to a certain point in the level or just had to make as many points as possible."},{"author_name":"conormn","author_uid":"31095","time":"May 9, 2014 @ 4:58am","epoch":1399611180,"text":"Really great style. Mechanics and execution were excellent!"},{"author_name":"caranha","author_uid":"7847","time":"May 13, 2014 @ 7:12am","epoch":1399964820,"text":"Pretty novel idea. It needs some polish, for example when you lose a life you teleport with no feedback -- at first I thought the game had glitched. But definitely has potential."},{"author_name":"pinkmonkeyhead","author_uid":"11711","time":"May 16, 2014 @ 4:56pm","epoch":1400259060,"text":"Impressive graphics"},{"author_name":"GFM","author_uid":"7375","time":"May 18, 2014 @ 1:25pm","epoch":1400419200,"text":"Nice graphics! How the health is represented is really cool, but not all that practical...\r<br\/>The game is good, but since the bullets go through enemies, it's hard not to shoot those scepters...\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Nice game. :)"},{"author_name":"TeamFlare","author_uid":"25793","time":"May 18, 2014 @ 2:15pm","epoch":1400422200,"text":"Very cool and fun. Of course graphics are great, sound also, but what I liked most was the playability and the fun when blasting monsters :) Do you intend to develop that further? I can totally see this on the playstore :)"},{"author_name":"javifugitivo","author_uid":"25708","time":"May 18, 2014 @ 7:23pm","epoch":1400440680,"text":"Thanks for all the feedback! Yes, we are already working in a version for Google Play with more levels and features and better graphics ;-)"}],"images":["ld29\/25708-a1ebe04149e052fad6e20466f1e4fc23.jpg","ld29\/25708-300582c1ae870f929e983a9fd2bc43ff.jpg","ld29\/25708-65f56555c770d9a5788c28ef5144df4e.jpg","ld29\/25708-0a79b4b9838e3c8981b7fae7361dd8f0.jpg","ld29\/25708-dac3faa1b4fc584863fd43adfd57b4ca.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/52662287\/Mechanic%20Moon%20Studio\/Tentacle%20Rails\/index.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/52662287\/Mechanic%20Moon%20Studio\/Tentacle%20Rails\/TentacleRails.exe","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/52662287\/Mechanic%20Moon%20Studio\/Tentacle%20Rails\/TentacleRails.apk","text":"Android"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"18244","g_author":"25708","g_event":"LD29","g_eventkey":"22","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"18273","g_title":"Tentacle Rails","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"84","g_commentcount":"54","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\/\/342546\/25708-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/25708-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/25708-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/25708-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/25708-shot4.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"You are a mercenary that has been sended to a mine to destroy a plague of tentacles. you must travel in a mine-cart through labyrinths of rails using levels to change paths, while you destroy hundreds of enemies: slimes, tentacles and other obstacles that you must defeat before arriving to the surface...\r\n\r\nControl: Left-Click with your mouse to shoot projectiles to destroy enemies and obstacles. You can shoot to levels to change its positions.\r\n\r\nTip: The levers are near of the turrets, first you have to destroy a turret to activate the switch.\r\n\r\nFeatures: \r\n\r\n- A big level with a lot of action and puzzles!\r\n- You only has to worry in destroy your enemies!\r\n- Enemies with pathfinding to find you and ... kill you?\r\n\r\nCredits:\r\n\r\nDeveloper: Javier Martinez Vidal\r\nArtists: Eduardo Perez Pastor & Sinda\r\n\r\nPost-Mortem:http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2014\/04\/29\/tentacle-rails-post-mortem\/\r\n\r\n\r\nNote: If you have low perfomance in Html5, try Windows version.\r\n\r\nUpdate: Fix to the problem with the visibility of the levers, and version to Android systems added!","title":"Tentacle Rails"}