{"author_link":"\/author\/sakuyan\/","author_name":"Sakuyan","author_uid":"13803","comments":[{"author_name":"andrewkennedy","author_uid":"20990","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 2:23am","epoch":1398651480,"text":"It's like Cave Story and Mega Man had a baby."},{"author_name":"andrewkennedy","author_uid":"20990","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 2:25am","epoch":1398651600,"text":"At first I thought the game was broken . . . very clever!"},{"author_name":"SFBTom","author_uid":"5018","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 2:51am","epoch":1398653160,"text":"Lovely graphics, nice tight controls too!"},{"author_name":"xevozfighter","author_uid":"10433","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:06am","epoch":1398654060,"text":"Very interesting interpretation of the theme.  I couldn't hear any sound.  Don't know if that is a bug on my end or if you didn't have any."},{"author_name":"Quady14","author_uid":"37152","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:11am","epoch":1398654360,"text":"Awesome concept! I really like the idea of collecting the memory cubes to discover backstory, you should definitely keep working on expanding this project!"},{"author_name":"Tesrym","author_uid":"34160","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:29am","epoch":1398655440,"text":"Only the first level worked for me.\r<br\/>After some text popup, and level became darker, I could go outside and nothing happened :o"},{"author_name":"Boodog","author_uid":"27333","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:29am","epoch":1398655440,"text":"Cool game! I like the graphics, but it would be 5x better with sound!"},{"author_name":"ehtd","author_uid":"11246","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:34am","epoch":1398655740,"text":"Reached &quot;the end&quot; then read the comments. Glad I did."},{"author_name":"DrPrettyPatty","author_uid":"30068","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:38am","epoch":1398655980,"text":"Amazing! I gave up on it after the lights went out at the beginning but came back after reading the comments. I love the art and the blobs and the adorable gruesomeness of it all!"},{"author_name":"madmaw","author_uid":"5068","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:39am","epoch":1398656040,"text":"Bigger than it looks!"},{"author_name":"atombrot","author_uid":"7738","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 4:07am","epoch":1398657720,"text":"The story and graphics are nice and the controlos are tight. Well done."},{"author_name":"Halbernacht","author_uid":"35057","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 4:45am","epoch":1398660000,"text":"Surprisingly long and detailed for something made in 48 hours. Once I found the first secret things really started to pick up."},{"author_name":"terraco","author_uid":"36973","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 5:00am","epoch":1398660900,"text":"Very pretty. That boss was too hard for a character with limited movement and 1 hit death. (unless I missed something)?"},{"author_name":"zanenga","author_uid":"34576","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 5:11am","epoch":1398661560,"text":"Love it! Reminds me of Megaman x."},{"author_name":"ENDESGA","author_uid":"19270","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 5:38am","epoch":1398663180,"text":"The art is phantasmagorical :D\r<br\/>Love it"},{"author_name":"Nition","author_uid":"34406","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 5:43am","epoch":1398663480,"text":"Great work. I did get stuck at the first boss - although I also discovered that you can stand just to the left of the grass area and the boss can't hit you until it starts shooting. :) Nice how the unlocked abilities let you deal with new areas in new ways."},{"author_name":"Slader16","author_uid":"26474","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 6:34am","epoch":1398666540,"text":"I like the animations!"},{"author_name":"monaarc","author_uid":"34192","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 11:13am","epoch":1398683280,"text":"Nice game but, i don't know what i have to do ^^"},{"author_name":"Techblogogy","author_uid":"25556","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:24pm","epoch":1398698340,"text":"Good and fun, good job!"},{"author_name":"cr2crstudios","author_uid":"37025","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 4:25pm","epoch":1398702000,"text":"Didn't run quite right on my computer. . . :(  Darned integrated GPU's!"},{"author_name":"bendmorris","author_uid":"36156","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 4:51pm","epoch":1398703560,"text":"Web version froze for me at the first right arrow sign. An empty text box comes up, then nothing."},{"author_name":"trueyomic","author_uid":"16892","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 7:40pm","epoch":1398713700,"text":"Excellent game!  It should have been clearer that you needed to go back and in particular fall into just the right hole.  But in the end it was a very good game.  Very fun!"},{"author_name":"Dreii","author_uid":"24533","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 8:02pm","epoch":1398715020,"text":"Love it! very cavestory, very fun, great graphics! I especially love the death cloud when you kill the slimes! Very challenging boss at  the end, I had so little health she kept one shotting me, almost had her once but I missjumped and she jumped on me haha! Very good job sneaking the hole in there, would of thought the game was broken if not for the theme ;)"},{"author_name":"DarkMeatGames","author_uid":"34345","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 10:29pm","epoch":1398723840,"text":"Great job!! Beautiful pixel art, and solid controls. Boss fight was pretty easy to exploit, and was too hard otherwise (I think I missed some cubes though)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Loved the misleading the player thing, but I honestly quit once after the training level, and didn't replay it until I read the comments. It worked a bit too well :D Good work!"},{"author_name":"jtpup0","author_uid":"36526","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 11:59pm","epoch":1398729240,"text":"Very cool, reminded me of cave story back in the day.. those slimes looked too cute to hurt me at first xD"},{"author_name":"Loneshark","author_uid":"35329","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 4:42am","epoch":1398746220,"text":"I need to get my joypad out for the boss fights on this.\r<br\/>It's a shame you didn't have a sound, but...\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I am book-marking this entry =)"},{"author_name":"pawegio","author_uid":"34988","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 9:41am","epoch":1398764160,"text":"Missing sound, but cool Mario like game!"},{"author_name":"GFM","author_uid":"7375","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 10:41am","epoch":1398767760,"text":"This game really lacked sounds... &gt;_&lt;\r<br\/>The ending would be so much moodier, if a proper music...\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The smoke\/explosion after killing a slime felt great! Overall, graphics were good, but it lacked some polish in a few parts...\r<br\/>\r<br\/>This could be a awesome game!! :)"},{"author_name":"eufrik","author_uid":"35192","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 4:32pm","epoch":1398788820,"text":"Nice game but it could've been better if it has audio. It's one of the best &quot;feel&quot; when you play a game."},{"author_name":"Jools64","author_uid":"17060","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 8:46pm","epoch":1398804060,"text":"This is a really great and fun game. I enjoyed it from start to finish and I really liked the secret based game-play. Really good use of the theme with the story as well. The boss fight was my favorite part. You don't often see decent bosses in Ludum Dare entries. Excellent Work!"},{"author_name":"MoArtis","author_uid":"35084","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 7:58am","epoch":1398844380,"text":"Impressive for an LD. :O Some balancing issues especially on Corrupted blob's life."},{"author_name":"radmars","author_uid":"18627","time":"May 2, 2014 @ 3:16am","epoch":1399000260,"text":"This is awesome!! Great use of the theme."},{"author_name":"DDRKirby(ISQ)","author_uid":"7285","time":"May 4, 2014 @ 4:15am","epoch":1399176600,"text":"Really wish it had some sound!  Looks like you have some good stuff going on here..."},{"author_name":"TobiasW","author_uid":"2587","time":"May 8, 2014 @ 4:04pm","epoch":1399564740,"text":"Secrets in Ludum Dare games a pretty cool - and especially fit this theme well! In the end, I found 6 memory cores, but the end boss took too long for me too finish and I gave up after a few tries. (Then I read the comments and used the exploit. Still took me a while!)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The art was lovely as always! I just wish it was a bit bigger on my 15.6&quot; TrueHD laptop screen: http:\/\/puu.sh\/8E9yR\/abf79d7fee.jpg - maybe think about allowing bigger resolutions next time.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>All in all, great work - and secrets are always a bold thing to do in the LD compo, haha.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>PS: While closing the game, I realized I started the game again with full cubes. There isn't a second different playthrough I just missed, is there? :|"},{"author_name":"Sakuyan","author_uid":"13803","time":"May 9, 2014 @ 6:43pm","epoch":1399660680,"text":"Thanks for the awesome feedback :)\r<br\/>I wish I knew how to make music but my best attempt is to extract awful music from random generators. No one wants to hear bad music too :x\r<br\/>It's a risky move to add secrets to Ludum Dare entries, but after doing like 4 or 5 games I felt why not?\r<br\/>Also thank you for pointing out the resolution issue, I ran the game mostly in web format so I neglected to check the desktop versions. I'll make sure to figure something out soon and for future entries.\r<br\/>As for the full cube restart it's currently a bug where the entire game doesn't fully refresh after the boss. I believed to have fixed it but I guess it popped out again :\/\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Thanks for all the valuable feedback"}],"images":["ld29\/13803-3f150850f67b36d167b92cfd98e2fc44.jpg","ld29\/13803-39b7a2c39a29438e393917c1b0788f5b.jpg","ld29\/13803-69b6dbf515c0d82e22efc705ce7f3feb.jpg","ld29\/13803-09631122351b9a782e5b7bcd2d55ad98.jpg","ld29\/13803-0907830e5ebaa2ec227832100de6e8ca.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gamejolt.com\/games\/platformer\/red\/25765\/","text":"Web\/Gamejolt"},{"url":"http:\/\/pwnscone.com\/sakuyan\/ReD\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ygGc2iJSiD0&amp;feature=youtu.be","text":"Playthrough Video"},{"url":"http:\/\/pwnscone.com\/sakuyan\/ReD\/win32.zip","text":"WIN"},{"url":"http:\/\/pwnscone.com\/sakuyan\/ReD\/Source.7z","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"20136","g_author":"13803","g_event":"LD29","g_eventkey":"22","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"20165","g_title":"ReD","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"214","g_commentcount":"35","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\/13803-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/13803-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/13803-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/13803-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/13803-shot4.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Controls are on the screen.\r\nThanks for playing!\r\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/hyungkim7\r\nSakuyan\r\n","title":"ReD"}