{"author_link":"\/author\/guyunger\/","author_name":"Wolve","author_uid":"25252","comments":[{"author_name":"mess110","author_uid":"12300","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 1:14pm","epoch":1398690540,"text":"the graphics give it attitude. love how the spirits look. good job"},{"author_name":"Nickabilla","author_uid":"30627","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 1:22pm","epoch":1398691020,"text":"Love the splitted gameplay, first you dive to lure the spirits. Then you shoot them above the water. Cool artstyle!"},{"author_name":"TijmenTio","author_uid":"18775","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 4:14pm","epoch":1398701340,"text":"Holy shit I feel like a fuckin Ocean NInja WATAAAA"},{"author_name":"graebor","author_uid":"11713","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 3:27pm","epoch":1398784920,"text":"Really cool game! Nice art, and the physics of jumping\/diving felt awesome. Very satisfying to play :) Only thing I didn't like was that the voice samples when you resurface got very repetitive and seemed to be mixed quite loudly compared to the music. Great job, especially for 48 hours."},{"author_name":"daandruff","author_uid":"3244","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 3:33pm","epoch":1398785280,"text":"The game is really awesome, but it goes against the rules to add music you haven't done yourself :("},{"author_name":"Kastuk","author_uid":"10192","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 3:40pm","epoch":1398785700,"text":"Great art and sound, but gameplay make me exhausted after unstoppable jumping and diving deeper for lure monsters out without any tactic. What about more horizontal water area, like ocean levels of ECCO?"},{"author_name":"Miltage","author_uid":"8745","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 3:47pm","epoch":1398786120,"text":"I love this game. The art style is fantastic and works well. I love the transition of water to air and the slow aiming mechanic."},{"author_name":"Moosefly","author_uid":"25343","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 4:11pm","epoch":1398787560,"text":"As daandruff already mentioned, you should probably check the compo rules.\r\rGame looked nice, music choice was fitting and the basic gameplay concept was solid and fun. What I did not like though was the fact that you had to have some of the updates to be able to progress (mainly swim speed). This meant that I had to grind for a bit because I unlocked all the damage bonuses first. The updates also felt somewhat unbalanced and I managed to skip the update screen once in the heat of the game. The volume and quality of the voiceover was also all over the place, and they did get somewhat repetitive."},{"author_name":"SoupWithBits","author_uid":"37409","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 4:19pm","epoch":1398788040,"text":"It's the longest I've played any of the entries. I fucking love it. Art, Music, Story, EVERYTHING! Except the site it's hosted on."},{"author_name":"AmmarAlsharekh","author_uid":"27728","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 5:10pm","epoch":1398791100,"text":"fantastic game . I play it 30 minutes and I save link so I can play it later"},{"author_name":"reidrac","author_uid":"24731","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 5:51pm","epoch":1398793560,"text":"I love this game, but it's not fair you used 3rd party music even if audio it's not rated :("},{"author_name":"flavio","author_uid":"25936","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 8:01pm","epoch":1398801360,"text":"Waow, great work !\rI loved the graphics the animations and the mood !\rThe intro was a little bit long as we can not past the text, but it worth it !\rGreat work !"},{"author_name":"spotco","author_uid":"35477","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 5:12am","epoch":1398834420,"text":"Amazing, probably my favorite out of everything I've played. Starts a little slow (health bars on the bosses would have been great), but RPG mechanics keep you interested. Probably the best art and sound design out of anything that I've played here as well.\r\rWould love to see this as a full full fledged game!"},{"author_name":"Halbernacht","author_uid":"35057","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 5:56am","epoch":1398837060,"text":"This is a really amazing game, but it's going to get disqualified unless you change the music. I'd email the guys running the contest and ask if it's ok for you to remove the music."},{"author_name":"Maschinen-Mensch","author_uid":"33058","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 8:53am","epoch":1398847680,"text":"Wow, I really liked playing your game. Music ans visuals are very well done and fitting, the mood is great and the theme is represented properly imho.\r\rYou should have really made the intro skippable in some way, it takes way too long.\r\rWhile the core gameplay is fun and works nicely, I felt that it got very repetitive rather soon. Also the shooting feedback was weird, would have helped to have the lines in a stronger contrating color to the background. I'd even considered completely dropping the charge mechanic, would have been way more fun just to shoot away all the arrows you can while in air."},{"author_name":"Oddly Shaped Pixels","author_uid":"33840","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 8:57am","epoch":1398847920,"text":"Impressive art, and the concept is super original though a bit tedious...\rMaybe you should have applied to Jam more than Compo, cause several persons helped you and coz of the music thing...\rBut its a great game anyway ! :D"},{"author_name":"oatsbarley","author_uid":"5172","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 10:59am","epoch":1398855240,"text":"You definitely should have submitted this to the jam and not the compo if you're going to use someone else's music; it's unfair to everyone in the compo who made everything in their game.\r\rThe art is lovely and the gameplay mechanic is really fun, I just wish the fish were quicker and there were more of them near the top. It takes too long to build up enough to buy an upgrade when you have to swim down a ways and then wait for them to catch you up."},{"author_name":"nicso","author_uid":"8002","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 1:27pm","epoch":1398864120,"text":"Nice concept.\rMaybe a little too much grinding tho."},{"author_name":"wdebowicz","author_uid":"29762","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 2:41pm","epoch":1398868560,"text":"Game is simply great, but mixed feelings about compo. I saw many games who was in jam just because of music. I'm sure you would get better votes if you would place it in jam."},{"author_name":"Aaants","author_uid":"16061","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 5:45pm","epoch":1398879600,"text":"Beautiful. Really impressive!"},{"author_name":"aaronjbaptiste","author_uid":"19914","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 7:21pm","epoch":1398885360,"text":"So polished, the controls were really fluid and jumping out of the water felt really good. Diving deep the lure the enemies was a bit tedious, but seriously, good job."},{"author_name":"BuKaneerz","author_uid":"31324","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 10:17pm","epoch":1398895920,"text":"Awesome game !\r(i did not understand in the first begining, but after that.. just awesome !)"},{"author_name":"mcapraro","author_uid":"28472","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 11:42pm","epoch":1398901020,"text":"WOW! this is soo awesome! i love the graphics, i love the way the dialog animates out, love the game mechanic and slicing through the fish while jumping in the air. wow, one of my favorites so far!"},{"author_name":"rnlf","author_uid":"30930","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 10:00am","epoch":1398938100,"text":"Really cool game :-) Feels very smooth and dynamic."},{"author_name":"Yword","author_uid":"26150","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 1:03pm","epoch":1398949080,"text":"The actions are very cool and stylish!"},{"author_name":"Pixelulsar","author_uid":"10737","time":"May 2, 2014 @ 12:46am","epoch":1398991260,"text":"Really like this game, my favourite so far!"},{"author_name":"PapyGaragos","author_uid":"7971","time":"May 2, 2014 @ 11:24am","epoch":1399029540,"text":"Great entry with nice art (good choice of colors) and awesome controls.\r\rThe game feels good and is rewarding to play. The sense of progression could be reworked. As it is, it's a bit tedious"},{"author_name":"Raiyumi","author_uid":"25829","time":"May 2, 2014 @ 6:27pm","epoch":1399054920,"text":"I really like the concept and it has amazing art!"},{"author_name":"Dreauw","author_uid":"9890","time":"May 3, 2014 @ 4:01pm","epoch":1399132560,"text":"Great game !\r\rI killed the 4 spirits and that was really fun :)"},{"author_name":"DonovanWu","author_uid":"36681","time":"May 3, 2014 @ 5:50pm","epoch":1399139100,"text":"Awesome game! I'm surprised that it's made within 48 hours!"},{"author_name":"allinlabs","author_uid":"2908","time":"May 4, 2014 @ 1:08pm","epoch":1399208580,"text":"The movement & shooting system in the game feel very very good and is rewarding, it's a lot of fun"},{"author_name":"Takapouyou","author_uid":"38041","time":"May 5, 2014 @ 8:38am","epoch":1399278780,"text":"I love this game, the ost is really cool btw, if a link exist, I'm very interrested in"},{"author_name":"Striwx","author_uid":"29515","time":"May 9, 2014 @ 10:57pm","epoch":1399675920,"text":"Very cool epic shonen spirit !! Maybe the hero voice was a little bit cliché. The collisions with the boss were a little frustrating"},{"author_name":"rincewind_cz","author_uid":"25122","time":"May 12, 2014 @ 2:01pm","epoch":1399902960,"text":"Really liked the graphics and the intro.. the game itself is bit repetitive, but maybe that's just me.. :) good job"},{"author_name":"pinkmonkeyhead","author_uid":"11711","time":"May 16, 2014 @ 12:48am","epoch":1400200980,"text":"omg... you did this in 48h? unbelievable\rI love the graphics and the mechanics. Much fun!!"},{"author_name":"GFM","author_uid":"7375","time":"May 18, 2014 @ 3:13am","epoch":1400382480,"text":"Outstanding entry. Wow!\r\rThe game is really fun, the graphics are beautiful and the polish... It's so frigging polished! It could be a "common game" (as in "one not from a game jam") that I wouldn't find it surprising.\rOh, and the snippets in japanese were a great idea! I found it really funny.\r\rBut I have one complaint. Although I find it fun (and fitting) that at first you can only shoot from outside the water, the health meter feels really broken. It starts decreasing then I suddenly die. When I'm circling enemies to jump again, many times I grazed one, took what seemed like little damage, and then died before getting away from it.\r\rBut other than that, the game is already awesome!"}],"images":["ld29\/25252-ef6a935f6ade8340d6c0abb173505f63.jpg","ld29\/25252-e0c26f497c4116175c8a96a046c3c128.jpg","ld29\/25252-12acc7844da114e03362da4f82adef0e.jpg","ld29\/25252-6b6f8d735ed5837c9cb1207970cf766d.jpg","ld29\/25252-f179ef55ca0fbc1f2af235c9c938ee0c.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.newgrounds.com\/portal\/view\/638425","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.newgrounds.com\/art\/view\/wolvegames\/hanoka-promo-poster","text":"Promo Art Poster!"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/3s6uutl8aedo076\/source.rar","text":"src"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"19457","g_author":"25252","g_event":"LD29","g_eventkey":"22","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"19486","g_title":"Hanoka","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"21","g_commentcount":"36","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\/25252-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/25252-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/25252-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/25252-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/25252-shot4.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"I added a button for the \"original version\" where i removed the music. Hope this is good enough to still qualify for compo! :D\r\n\r\nThank you all for playing and for the overwhelmingly nice reviews!!\r\nThis was one of my favorite jams so far!","title":"Hanoka"}