{"author_link":"\/author\/bsowers\/","author_name":"bsowers","author_uid":"29844","comments":[{"author_name":"AmmarAlsharekh","author_uid":"27728","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 12:06am","epoch":1387238460,"text":"I liked the large number of enemies and weapons"},{"author_name":"taocayo","author_uid":"30769","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 12:44am","epoch":1387240740,"text":"The last level (I'm assuming 5?) is tough. Liked the feel of the controls. The bow may be a bit overpowered in comparison with the other weapons. Nice AI."},{"author_name":"blasmena","author_uid":"31457","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 12:48am","epoch":1387240980,"text":"THIS IS VERY GOOD! gameplay is very smooth, sound effects are awesome! very satisfying to kill things. Loved the weapons. Some polished art on top of this code and it would be perfect!"},{"author_name":"Zekyon","author_uid":"20619","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 12:53am","epoch":1387241280,"text":"Funny game, it become very hard when you pass certain number of levels and I really like it. Maybe the implementation of the theme hasn't very innovating but the theme wasn't the panacea precisely."},{"author_name":"van noctar","author_uid":"21196","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 3:08am","epoch":1387249380,"text":"Like sounds and Zelda ambiance. Funny"},{"author_name":"JaymeeMak","author_uid":"30729","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 3:41am","epoch":1387251360,"text":"The sound of the sword slashing should be tuned to a lower volume - the higher pitch is slightly painful.\r\rThe little guy running around is cute."},{"author_name":"torcado194","author_uid":"5839","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 3:43am","epoch":1387251480,"text":"pretty difficult! but i liked it. i liked the variety of weapons"},{"author_name":"Ryusui","author_uid":"12635","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 3:47am","epoch":1387251720,"text":"Very atmospheric. Are the dungeons purely random?"},{"author_name":"Sakuyan","author_uid":"13803","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 3:47am","epoch":1387251720,"text":"Pretty cool gameplay, I think the game could've been better with constant-fire attacking while holding button down. Otherwise, good work."},{"author_name":"Ariake81","author_uid":"19384","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 3:55am","epoch":1387252200,"text":"great work on this game, reminded me of that old arcade game Gauntlet, which is a good thing i'd say :)"},{"author_name":"bsowers","author_uid":"29844","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 4:23am","epoch":1387253880,"text":"You guys that like the SFX are crazy. ;-) I made the sword swing sound by rubbing two butter knives together, and the arrow sound by scratching my table.\r\r@taocayo - There is no last level, actually. Game keeps going until you die.\r@JaymeeMak - Fair enough.\r@Ryusui - Yes, the dungeons are purely random. \r\rThanks for playing!"},{"author_name":"seagaia","author_uid":"7853","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 4:35am","epoch":1387254600,"text":"good base for a bigger game i think----!"},{"author_name":"mystakin","author_uid":"28484","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 5:14am","epoch":1387256940,"text":"A fun, addicting game. The enemy variety is what really hooks me, and the fact that death is so powerful adds a degree of tension whenever he's close."},{"author_name":"LukuluK","author_uid":"19988","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 12:55pm","epoch":1387284600,"text":"The mood of this game is really good, controls are pleasant.\rGG for the random generation of the levels, and the monsters behaviour !\rI would just have liked a less difficult maze challenge."},{"author_name":"danbo","author_uid":"26427","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 1:29pm","epoch":1387286640,"text":"Great work in a short time. Obviously reminds of Spelunky.\r\rAt first I thought the dead bodies were somehow where other players snuffed it. That would be cool, though impossible in a procgen dungeon."},{"author_name":"doctorscientist","author_uid":"25260","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 8:52pm","epoch":1387313220,"text":"I really enjoy the atmosphere even though its quite tragic. The fog is neat. I am pretty sure that the sword swing effect is the sound of scissors :D I like how death is always a threat and can't be killed but can be delayed creating a sort of metaphor for going on."},{"author_name":"vinull","author_uid":"19362","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 1:26am","epoch":1387416060,"text":"Reminded me of Gauntlet - neat little game. The music is very well done!"},{"author_name":"ashen","author_uid":"29060","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 12:19pm","epoch":1387455240,"text":"Very smooth feeling movement and fighting. Music adds greatly to a mournful mood. Nice random level generation, well done!"},{"author_name":"kalth.streil","author_uid":"30964","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 10:23pm","epoch":1387577880,"text":"Just reached level 5 :)\r\rThe mood is incredibly, with both the music and the introduction giving you the creeps. Then the procedural generated levels (or at least random starting positions) add variation to the game, which is something my own lacked.\r\rThere are five kinds of enemies and as many weapons (sword, bow, scales, death's scythe... am I missing any? XD) but to be honest, I found most of them frustrating: for example, spamming the bow is awesome, but sadly you can't strafe, so it becomes useless quite fast. The sword doesn't do much damage even though you have to get close. The scythe moves around in a pattern which I found quite unhelpful, and while it's away you lose your only weapon. The scales were my preferred weapon :)\r\rThe quantity of enemies is cool, but the game lacks any kind of healing, so it gets rough real quick, and fleeing is sometimes not an option when there's an enemy on the way. So yeah, it's a good game but lacks a bit of QA, which is to be expected of a LD of course :)\r\rGreat job!"},{"author_name":"Snuti","author_uid":"31813","time":"Dec 21, 2013 @ 12:13am","epoch":1387584480,"text":"Nice game, it became very challenging after a few levels, which made it interesting. Loved the attack animation and the atmospheric music really added that extra touch to the game :)"},{"author_name":"Lacutis","author_uid":"11378","time":"Dec 21, 2013 @ 10:50pm","epoch":1387665900,"text":"Liked the variety of weapons and enemies. The random dungeons was nice but it was easy to get cornered by death.\rNice entry and use of the theme."},{"author_name":"Anachron","author_uid":"27481","time":"Dec 22, 2013 @ 4:34pm","epoch":1387729740,"text":"Spooky! Nice Gauntlet-style game. Started to get pretty hard around level 4-5 but I never stopped believing. Then I died, but had fun doing so, so good work!"},{"author_name":"somepx","author_uid":"29702","time":"Dec 24, 2013 @ 9:10am","epoch":1387875900,"text":"Very good! I'm a killing machine w\/ the bow ;)\rA bgm would have set the mood and boost the gameplay experience, however, good job!"},{"author_name":"Denis Chakarov","author_uid":"26461","time":"Dec 26, 2013 @ 8:00am","epoch":1388044500,"text":"Nice game with wonderful music!"},{"author_name":"Will Edwards","author_uid":"10313","time":"Dec 28, 2013 @ 11:12pm","epoch":1388272020,"text":"A very nice fairly-complete-game-for-LD feeling with great AI and good levels. Lots of small stuff like arrows going through walls and things but nothing detracting from the playability of the thing; something I always seem to overlook in my own entries."},{"author_name":"postmodestie","author_uid":"8113","time":"Dec 29, 2013 @ 12:08pm","epoch":1388318580,"text":"Very Gauntlety, with nice twists. The atmosphere could be more sinister, as it is the apocalypse and all, as suggested by the music ;)"},{"author_name":"anvoz","author_uid":"30146","time":"Jan 1, 2014 @ 4:08pm","epoch":1388592180,"text":"The game was really well made. I love the graphics style. Really cool set of weapons and monsters."},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"27744","time":"Jan 4, 2014 @ 3:06pm","epoch":1388847660,"text":"Simple, cool little dungeon game :) Well done! I included it in part 20 of my Ludum Dare 28 compilation video series, if you'd like to take a look :) youtu.be\/O9M3TIYW4UU"}],"images":["ld28\/29844-71c130fe41932dc59356ce8292d21bf2.jpg","ld28\/29844-2dd1879e1b488dfce8f081a9ff68e60e.jpg","ld28\/29844-ee775cf3080983ad9d657e1a098c9473.jpg","ld28\/29844-96e09b7a1d0c9d7a69f55807f75d8d20.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.theanimalfarmcreations.com\/blight\/Blight.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.theanimalfarmcreations.com\/blight\/BlightPostCompetition.html","text":"Web (Post Jam)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"20958","g_author":"29844","g_event":"LD28","g_eventkey":"20","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"20987","g_title":"Blight","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"145","g_commentcount":"28","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\/\/308734\/29844-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/29844-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/29844-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/29844-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"The Apocalypse has come and the Four Horsemen are doing their thing.\r\n\r\nThis is a dungeon crawler\/hack 'n slash with randomly generated dungeons and a rapidly escalating difficulty curve.\r\n\r\nMade for the \"You Only Get One\" theme: you only get one touch from Death before you die, you only get one weapon at a time, and you only get one minute per floor before Pestilence harms you.\r\n\r\nSupports keyboard (direction keys + Space) & XBox controllers (analog stick + A).\r\n\r\nFeatures 4 different weapons & 5 different enemy types.\r\n\r\nEnjoy!","title":"Blight"}