{"author_link":"\/author\/maple\/","author_name":"Maple","author_uid":"1551","comments":[{"author_name":"Mutt","author_uid":"30829","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 3:50am","epoch":1387251900,"text":"Gameplay is simple but fairly fun. I love the graphics and general atmosphere, you've got a lot of skill in doing pixel art.  The random quotes are slightly confusing and amusing. Good work!"},{"author_name":"Chaoseiro","author_uid":"26838","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 4:29am","epoch":1387254240,"text":"Nice and interesting, and those quotes were really unexpected :P"},{"author_name":"Spaceoff","author_uid":"5791","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 12:57pm","epoch":1387284720,"text":"Those audio clips were just as weird and amusing as you implied.   Awesome pixel art... pretty polished gameplay too.  Awesome job :D\r<br\/>\r<br\/>\r<br\/>And the critics agree:\r<br\/>\r<br\/>37\/40 &quot;It vaguely resembles an RPG, so it's breathtaking&quot; -Famitsu\r<br\/>9\/10 &quot;Was kinda shit&quot; -IGN\r<br\/>10\/10 &quot;Best non-console game of all time&quot; -Some 10yr old console faboy who's never played a PC game before now"},{"author_name":"danbo","author_uid":"26427","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 2:50pm","epoch":1387291500,"text":"Voice actor of the year. Interesting 3-dimensional gameplay. I like how the weapon works where usually you only want to charge it to the first level."},{"author_name":"Managore","author_uid":"3479","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 2:50am","epoch":1387334700,"text":"This game has beautiful pixel art and reminds me a lot of old arcade games. The dragon makes for a fantastic boss, although I couldn't beat him. My only qualm is that starting from the very beginning was a bit frustrating, but if your take on the theme is You Only Get One Life, then that's understandable."},{"author_name":"Venks","author_uid":"13781","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 4:58am","epoch":1387342380,"text":"I'm not a huge fan of the 'one-life' gimmick, but none the less this is an amazing game. Top quality art really makes this game stand out against the rest. Really impressive given the time frame."},{"author_name":"Devon","author_uid":"216","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 5:07am","epoch":1387342920,"text":"Great art. Good controls. The sound effects were my favorite tho. I got confused on how to kill the floaty magenta guys."},{"author_name":"louis.denizet","author_uid":"29406","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 7:42am","epoch":1387352220,"text":"simple but really efficace, liked it!"},{"author_name":"Mekuri","author_uid":"20130","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 7:50am","epoch":1387352700,"text":"A fun little game reminding be of some of the mini games in Mario Party :P - I really love the graphics style, it's very beautiful. I failed to get past the level where the purple thingies starts floating around at the edge. My &quot;Dex monkey keyboard skills&quot; failed - Or I missed some other nice way of dealing with them :P - I really liked this game. Very nice work!"},{"author_name":"MRvanderPants","author_uid":"20836","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 7:50am","epoch":1387352700,"text":"I really liked the audio and graphics of this game. And I really liked who different all the enemies were. This gave the game a more dynamic feel for such a small level"},{"author_name":"Maple","author_uid":"1551","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 8:31am","epoch":1387355160,"text":"--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\r<br\/>SUPER ULTRA AMAZING DEV-STRATS 01: PURPLE FLOATY DUDES.\r<br\/>1. STAND AT EDGE.\r<br\/>2. LOOK OFF INTO DISTANCE.\r<br\/>3. WAIT FOR PURPLE FLOATY DUDE.\r<br\/>4. PRESS AND HOLD Z+X OR J+K.\r<br\/>5. RELEASE Z+X OR J+K AT PEAK OF JUMP.\r<br\/>6. PURPLE FLOATY DUDE ERADICATED.\r<br\/>7. RINSE, REPEAT.\r<br\/>8. DRAGON TIME.\r<br\/>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------"},{"author_name":"dsoft20","author_uid":"8795","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 5:32pm","epoch":1387387620,"text":"Very nice graphics one of the best pixel art I've seen here at LD28.\r<br\/>The gameplay is good :D"},{"author_name":"mutilator","author_uid":"26566","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 5:41pm","epoch":1387388160,"text":"Cute graphics, fitting music and sound effects, hilarious voiceover. Not big on the one life theme, just because it is frustrating to replay extremely simple &quot;levels&quot; repeatedly after failing at something much more difficult.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Fun game, great entry."},{"author_name":"pkenney","author_uid":"30865","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 5:41pm","epoch":1387388160,"text":"I encountered an error and could not run the game: &quot;AtopADarkMountain.exe is not a valid windows executable.&quot;\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Sorry.  I like the screenshots."},{"author_name":"zkenshin","author_uid":"12839","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 5:47pm","epoch":1387388520,"text":"Fun entry, good job. :)"},{"author_name":"murilo","author_uid":"6882","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 2:27pm","epoch":1387462920,"text":"Really good game! Nice graphics! I thought it was too easy at first but things do get complicated hehe! Great work, man."},{"author_name":"ShellfishGames","author_uid":"23164","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 6:25pm","epoch":1387477200,"text":"Cool game, somewhat similar to the one I made.. but different. :D Nice art style and atmosphere, and the voice acting really made it rather special. I didn't make it to the dragon though, unfortunately. Always died in round ~5 or so, and lost motivation to replay the first few rounds each time after a while. :\/"},{"author_name":"sadiquo","author_uid":"30358","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 6:25pm","epoch":1387477200,"text":"Lot of fun, great graphics and gameplay, but return to the start all time we lose was for me annoying."},{"author_name":"auto_suggestion","author_uid":"24942","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 6:31pm","epoch":1387477560,"text":"I have to admit, the quotes were pretty funny, however irrelevant. Gameplay was solid, good job!"},{"author_name":"Und[0]ne Devs","author_uid":"28859","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 6:31pm","epoch":1387477560,"text":"Great controls and great game :D\r<br\/>killing the dragon took me around half an hour XD"},{"author_name":"Kohijin","author_uid":"3710","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 6:48pm","epoch":1387478580,"text":"Really liked it! Even though the voice overs felt a bit out of place ;) Otherwise great design in all areas"},{"author_name":"Shaun Lebron","author_uid":"31638","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 6:55pm","epoch":1387479000,"text":"Really like the art, the different firing modes, and the unique enemy waves.  I had a lot of fun playing this one."},{"author_name":"ChrisMingay","author_uid":"15929","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 8:21pm","epoch":1387484160,"text":"Lovely stuff! Reminded me of Zelda LTTP :) Oh and I really enjoyed the timelapse and found a new tool (Font Struct) in the process!"},{"author_name":"kutullu","author_uid":"29402","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 10:10am","epoch":1387533900,"text":"&quot;Out of this worrrrld!&quot; :D"},{"author_name":"SonnyBone","author_uid":"1365","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 11:37pm","epoch":1387582320,"text":"Heh\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Haha\r<br\/>\r<br\/>HAAA\r<br\/>\r<br\/>HAHAHAHAHAHA\r<br\/>\r<br\/>HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA\r<br\/>\r<br\/>This shit is amazing! I have nothing else to say."},{"author_name":"atombrot","author_uid":"7738","time":"Dec 22, 2013 @ 2:30pm","epoch":1387722300,"text":"This is great. I like the art style very much. The voice in the background was a bit disturbing, after a while I wouldn't wanto to play without it ;) I first didn't notice that you can charge your attack. And I never saw the boss. I'm too bad at this game ;)"},{"author_name":"tobbez","author_uid":"19361","time":"Dec 22, 2013 @ 2:37pm","epoch":1387722720,"text":"Nice game, a bit annoing voiceovers at times. The waves were different and there was a good finish with the boss. Could use maybe a practise mode to make some of the waves a bit easier to train for."},{"author_name":"TijmenTio","author_uid":"18775","time":"Dec 24, 2013 @ 9:28pm","epoch":1387920180,"text":"Really liked it, nothing I can say that hasn't been said before. The voices were funny but fitted well. Maybe it some checkpoint would've been at place? ;)"},{"author_name":"ezolotko","author_uid":"13121","time":"Dec 26, 2013 @ 7:07am","epoch":1388041320,"text":"Cool"},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"27744","time":"Dec 26, 2013 @ 7:56pm","epoch":1388087460,"text":"Solid game, nice job! I included it in my Ludum Dare compilation video series, if you'd like to take a look :) http:\/\/youtu.be\/mm02WUCsrPg"},{"author_name":"GFM","author_uid":"7375","time":"Dec 28, 2013 @ 4:04am","epoch":1388203140,"text":"Around wave 5 or 6 (those 8 jumpy red turnip) it got too hard for me... But I enjoyed and I'll play again!\r<br\/>Though it's quite simple, it's a fun game! And the graphics and sounds are great! :)"}],"images":["ld28\/1551-6db7da5b29f6dba53c319736855fb737.jpg","ld28\/1551-fab3dc20fc528e1e655ebd0bf9fee09d.jpg","ld28\/1551-db3f280bfa307737c8b8cdaa57afe8ad.jpg","ld28\/1551-7588da9e8ad5947a7b477bd0e358e5be.jpg","ld28\/1551-c27122a1d0f4709bf73adc9bc61a8eff.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/6478756\/Games\/LD72\/28%20-%20YOU%20ONLY%20GET%20ONE%20-%20Atop%20A%20Dark%20Mountain\/AtopADarkMountain.exe","text":"Windows (.exe)"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/6478756\/Games\/LD72\/28%20-%20YOU%20ONLY%20GET%20ONE%20-%20Atop%20A%20Dark%20Mountain\/AtopADarkMountain.gmz","text":"Source (.gmz)"},{"url":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/C7uxXdLG8D8","text":"Development Timelapse (on YouTube)"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/6478756\/Games\/LD72\/28%20-%20YOU%20ONLY%20GET%20ONE%20-%20Atop%20A%20Dark%20Mountain\/AADM_SUAD-S.txt","text":"Super Ultra Amazing Dev-Strats (.txt)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"21176","g_author":"1551","g_event":"LD28","g_eventkey":"20","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"21205","g_title":"Atop A Dark Mountain","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"68","g_commentcount":"31","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\/1551-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/1551-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/1551-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/1551-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/1551-shot4.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Enemies come in waves. There are about 10 waves, with a boss at the end. You can also replay for a faster record, or for a record in attacking least. Inspired by those multi-floor towers of enemies in Zelda games.\r\n\r\nAll but music was made within the 72 hours. The unfinished track I used, I composed within ~6 hours, ~2 months ago.\r\n\r\nControls: \r\nArrows\/Z\/X or WASD\/J\/K. (Move\/Jump\/Attack)\r\nYou can charge X\/K for different attacks.\r\nALT+Enter toggles fullscreen.\r\n\r\nTools used: \r\nGameMaker Studio \r\nMilkyTracker\r\nAudacity\r\nBFXR\r\nFontstruct\r\n\r\nLet me know what you think!\r\n~Maple","title":"Atop A Dark Mountain"}