{"author_link":"\/author\/notch\/","author_name":"Notch","author_uid":"398","comments":[{"author_name":"GravityScore","author_uid":"28875","time":"Dec 15, 2013 @ 6:15pm","epoch":1387131000,"text":"Fun and well themed for this time of year! Had great fun playing it."},{"author_name":"ArthurMaker","author_uid":"17385","time":"Dec 15, 2013 @ 6:16pm","epoch":1387131060,"text":"Awesome game fun whould rate 1000\/1000p"},{"author_name":"thedeadlybutter","author_uid":"17944","time":"Dec 15, 2013 @ 6:18pm","epoch":1387131180,"text":"Great game, definitely going to check out Dart as I've been looking into doing web games & JS isn't cutting it for me."},{"author_name":"ashen","author_uid":"29060","time":"Dec 15, 2013 @ 6:24pm","epoch":1387131540,"text":"What a fun game, excellent presentation! For some reason my arrow keys didn't show instructions the first time I played so I didn't know what I was doing. Next time they did, and got the idea. \r\rReally like the lighting effects, getting darker as you go and the torch lighting at the end. Nice and smooth too, Chrome only at 9% on my desktop PC. Straightforward use of the actual theme, but the snowy Christmas theme is really great."},{"author_name":"psychopsam","author_uid":"12354","time":"Dec 15, 2013 @ 6:53pm","epoch":1387133280,"text":"Truly amazing. Like an Atari game mixed with Space Harrier. Awesome work. Well done."},{"author_name":"Elite6809","author_uid":"5984","time":"Dec 15, 2013 @ 6:57pm","epoch":1387133520,"text":"Looks the part but gameplay-wise isn't great. You need a great deal of luck with the random generation to get anywhere above 700 points before the minute is up. The tentacles? Goop? stuff seems a little out of place as well and I'm not quite sure what benefit collecting it does. However it is fun to play a bit and it's very impressive that it's done in Dart and HTML5."},{"author_name":"Notch","author_uid":"398","time":"Dec 15, 2013 @ 7:29pm","epoch":1387135440,"text":"The tentacles are because of Cthulhu, of course. To use the goop, and to get closer to being able to beat the game, hold the jump button and tap the chop button."},{"author_name":"CaptainNakou","author_uid":"21141","time":"Dec 15, 2013 @ 8:40pm","epoch":1387139700,"text":"The game and the graphics are really cool.\rBut I think the concept is not that original.\rBut you're still the best programmer I've ever seen in my entire life."},{"author_name":"Flyinpig5","author_uid":"15263","time":"Dec 15, 2013 @ 9:22pm","epoch":1387142220,"text":"I think it looks great, but it's basically spamming S while using arrow keys"},{"author_name":"ENDESGA","author_uid":"19270","time":"Dec 15, 2013 @ 10:13pm","epoch":1387145280,"text":"Hahahaha, very cool!\rI played it alteast 10 times, and only won a couple, it's pretty time consuming.\r\rThe art is fantastic, you always do a good job on art :)\r\r"This is Player. Santa used up Player's time. But Player is cool with that"\r\rhahahaha, nice, nice.\r-ENDESGA"},{"author_name":"jimmypaulin","author_uid":"6965","time":"Dec 15, 2013 @ 10:32pm","epoch":1387146420,"text":"Compelling. The controls felt very tight and nicely tuned with a real pop to them. Very readable graphics and the sound adds a sense of gravitas to proceedings. Jolly and complete, thanks!"},{"author_name":"Donutttt","author_uid":"30043","time":"Dec 15, 2013 @ 10:55pm","epoch":1387147800,"text":"Always nice to see a Christmas game :) the controls are easy and the game is fun... and very addictive."},{"author_name":"dbro","author_uid":"13777","time":"Dec 15, 2013 @ 11:00pm","epoch":1387148100,"text":"Very well done (but of course)"},{"author_name":"alvarop","author_uid":"31332","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 12:57am","epoch":1387155120,"text":"So hard.I made child sad :'("},{"author_name":"ppelle","author_uid":"30223","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 1:18am","epoch":1387156380,"text":"Great!"},{"author_name":"archaeometrician","author_uid":"27214","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 2:18am","epoch":1387159980,"text":"Really nice game ! Congrats !"},{"author_name":"oxysoft","author_uid":"25340","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 3:05am","epoch":1387162800,"text":"Very nice game, also impressive considering you made this in ~24 hours"},{"author_name":"MrBlade","author_uid":"23232","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 3:18am","epoch":1387163580,"text":"I played the early version of this game that you posted on Twitter, I think that this game is really fun, although I am having terrible performance issues? I am sure it's my end, but I am only getting like 3FPS at best. The older version that you put up on Twitter played fine though. Nice work. (I did not rate this game as I feel the performance on my machine is not an accurate representation of this game.)"},{"author_name":"archaeometrician","author_uid":"27214","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 3:40am","epoch":1387164900,"text":"Cool ! I love the theme, It was really nice to watch you coding the game. Awesome work :)"},{"author_name":"voidqk","author_uid":"29154","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 3:48am","epoch":1387165380,"text":"fun game! I couldn't beat it, though... perhaps a strategy I am missing :-).\r\rhas a nice finished quality to it -- I love the subtle animations on the title screen... even just having the snow fall adds a nice mood.\r\rPlease rate mine, if you have the time."},{"author_name":"BillyTheCodingKid","author_uid":"31789","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 3:55am","epoch":1387165800,"text":"Grats notch that was a pretty awesome aside from the fact that I suck at collecting wood :)"},{"author_name":"Blinked","author_uid":"8072","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 3:58am","epoch":1387165980,"text":"Saw some of your stream while I was making my game, nice job, the final product turned out pretty good. My biggest complaint would be that the game isn't all that 'fun' as it's pretty much just key spamming, but I really like the actual look of the game.\r\rAlso, the sounds didn't work on Firefox for some reason, had to switch to Chrome to hear them."},{"author_name":"Croze","author_uid":"24715","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 4:11am","epoch":1387166760,"text":"I made chlid so happy, and it only took me exactly 60 seconds :) Pretty good game, I like the 2d-3d art style, really repetitive though"},{"author_name":"DrooobE","author_uid":"31874","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 4:18am","epoch":1387167180,"text":"Overall, I enjoyed it. I found it to be a little repetitive, but still quite fun. Good job :D"},{"author_name":"mcgraw","author_uid":"5989","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 4:21am","epoch":1387167360,"text":"Hey Notch! Great work this weekend! Thanks so much for streaming your effort! :)"},{"author_name":"DaanVanYperen","author_uid":"22396","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 4:22am","epoch":1387167420,"text":"Pretty hard game!"},{"author_name":"SuperPokeunicorn","author_uid":"9858","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 4:22am","epoch":1387167420,"text":"Game was grate (as always). Interesting concept too. Only problem is it is way to hard."},{"author_name":"Bogden","author_uid":"31759","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 4:36am","epoch":1387168260,"text":"Fun, but the controls hurt my hands!"},{"author_name":"GaTechGrad","author_uid":"19778","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 4:44am","epoch":1387168740,"text":"So this is what Santa is doing the other 364 days of the year. :D"},{"author_name":"dcolgan","author_uid":"2293","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 5:09am","epoch":1387170240,"text":"Seems you must mash pretty hard to win. Impressive technical scores though."},{"author_name":"jugglerrob","author_uid":"24814","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 5:40am","epoch":1387172100,"text":"Nice idea but the gameplay seems a bit repetitive."},{"author_name":"Thein","author_uid":"22449","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 5:46am","epoch":1387172460,"text":"It's pretty difficult to keep up with the sun, but the game is really good in every other respect. The graphics are very impressive!"},{"author_name":"caranha","author_uid":"7847","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 5:48am","epoch":1387172580,"text":"Hey Notch!\r+ The 3D runner looked quite awesome.\r+ Liked the instructions in the beginning.\r+ Loved the Night effects. Reminded me of Enduro!\r\r- No sound? awww :-(\r- This game gave me carpal tunnel syndrome :-P Maybe holding S you can continuously attack?\r\rThanks for the game!"},{"author_name":"KayZ","author_uid":"17933","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 7:18am","epoch":1387177980,"text":"Thanks Notch. I've been doing games in Dart for a little bit more than a year and I felt quite lonely with a maximum of only one or two other people creating games in Dart. Thanks to your stream and this game it'll probably be different at the next Ludum Dare.\r\rAlso thanks for your stream. Seeing that you still kept coding when I wanted to sleep made me stay up and keep coding too. Thanks to that I was able to finally finish a game in this LD.\r\rLast but not least, this game encourages me to take a dive into WebGL :)."},{"author_name":"stayg0lden","author_uid":"31982","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:01am","epoch":1387180560,"text":"Fun game, but my wrist hurts from failing to much."},{"author_name":"Kettlecorn","author_uid":"7609","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:40am","epoch":1387182900,"text":"I like the visual style and atmosphere. The snow particles are a nice touch. \r\rThe gameplay itself is a bit monotonous, but perhaps with refinement it could be enjoyable. I feel like the density of objects makes it tough to see ahead and to plan, which makes the game feel a bit frustrating at times, but of course we can't always have what is ideal given 48 hours!"},{"author_name":"primaerfunktion","author_uid":"12505","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:41am","epoch":1387182960,"text":"It's really nice but also repetitive to mash those buttons all the time. But I had fun for a few plays."},{"author_name":"D-e-X","author_uid":"6254","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 9:23am","epoch":1387185480,"text":"Game looks great as usual, however nice it looks and how smoothly it goes, there's very little replay value on there. There's no achievement feedback except for how many points you got and if you made the goal (which is incredibly hard, actually too hard). It quickly becomes boring although random placement, a really effortless addition to make this the *fun* game it could've been would be progressing onto new "levels", small variations in landscape, maybe some basic NPCs as hinders, upgrades or such, just something that tells you your effort is worth it! (Some new stimuli goes a long way!) You had loads of time to spare, so I don't see why you wouldn't try to make the game less minimalist, objectively speaking. On the other hand though, you made this game in a lot less than 48 hours, so it's still a tremendous achievement, but like I said, some very minimal additions could've made it that much more enjoyable because it's a fun concept. :)\r\rSo to sum up:\r\r+ Graphics (incl. fx)\r+ Humor (dry)\r+ Overall feels and looks somewhat high-end.\r+ Creative\r\r- Overboard difficult to win.\r- Painful controls\r- Buggy collision resolution and world ticks.\r- No rewards, variation or some sort of dynamic.\r- Can't restart the run if I know I won't win.\r- No replay value"},{"author_name":"supremefist","author_uid":"6395","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 9:40am","epoch":1387186500,"text":"Nice one, notch! Good game, but really difficult :)"},{"author_name":"Thijsku","author_uid":"16151","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 9:45am","epoch":1387186800,"text":"Nice game"},{"author_name":"crockid5","author_uid":"12651","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 9:45am","epoch":1387186800,"text":"Nice :)"},{"author_name":"gupta_shvm","author_uid":"10767","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 10:21am","epoch":1387188960,"text":"This is really good! The lighting and snow effects are awesome. Controls feel good as well!"},{"author_name":"mortl8324","author_uid":"9841","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 10:47am","epoch":1387190520,"text":"Funny game. Not a lot of content, but very polished for what it is."},{"author_name":"MRvanderPants","author_uid":"20836","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 10:49am","epoch":1387190640,"text":"Great game! But I do miss some sounds and music."},{"author_name":"capnramses","author_uid":"30024","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 11:01am","epoch":1387191360,"text":"webgl - nice choice! well done on getting a game in 3d within 2 days!"},{"author_name":"juxiliary","author_uid":"7078","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 11:11am","epoch":1387191960,"text":"Nice game. I think games like this are funnest without a fixed time. I prefer having one life or an extendable time limit. That way your high score depends more on skill rather than on how the trees generated. \r\rOthers have said it's pretty hard, but I found it rather easy, won first time. I guess that not everyone picked up on how to use goop (hold a and tap s)."},{"author_name":"granut100","author_uid":"27528","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 11:32am","epoch":1387193220,"text":"Good game! I really like the style of it. Reminds me a lot of Temple Run."},{"author_name":"cwkx","author_uid":"26001","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 11:44am","epoch":1387193940,"text":"I liked that you tried an interesting perspective and an ambitious genre, so gave 5's in innovation, humor and mood (Christmas!). The weakest parts were the audio and theme (3's) but overall it was good and fun (4's) :) While the time spent on the effects is very cute, I think additional gameplay mechanics should have been introduced instead to make it more fun, such as up-down for speed, upgrades, or better score\/point rewards. It'd be nice to have some background ambient sound\/music, even if just blowing\/whistling in a mike to represent cold wind. Great for entering :)"},{"author_name":"Steve [tacospice]","author_uid":"26369","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 11:52am","epoch":1387194420,"text":"Really detailed (graphics, menu mostly). Looks great.\rNice audio.\r\rNeeds preventDefault on keydown to prevent type-to-search in Firefox!\r\rOverall a pretty sweet game."},{"author_name":"Neonian","author_uid":"29665","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 12:54pm","epoch":1387198140,"text":"So funnny and so much fun :D !"},{"author_name":"zorfmorf","author_uid":"28506","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 1:21pm","epoch":1387199760,"text":"Good game, good polish!"},{"author_name":"Rahazan","author_uid":"23945","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 2:23pm","epoch":1387203480,"text":"No sound it seems (firefox)."},{"author_name":"Spit Tex","author_uid":"11277","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 2:33pm","epoch":1387204080,"text":"Fun game, but in the help menu you should explain what the goop does, still don't quiet understand what it does, either way good job"},{"author_name":"bentog","author_uid":"17307","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 2:45pm","epoch":1387204800,"text":"Excellent game! Would be even better with music."},{"author_name":"X-0r","author_uid":"25053","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 3:46pm","epoch":1387208460,"text":"Down with the tentacles!!!"},{"author_name":"alvarop","author_uid":"31332","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 4:39pm","epoch":1387211640,"text":"Good game. Although it's just spamming a button!"},{"author_name":"Nik Sudan","author_uid":"8717","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 5:06pm","epoch":1387213260,"text":"The game looked great, but in terms of gameplay I didn't think that it was the best. At times I was hitting A and S randomly, which made me progress further than I was before, when I was trying to play properly. Some music would have made it a lot more engaging too!"},{"author_name":"zhugolaf","author_uid":"30599","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 5:42pm","epoch":1387215420,"text":"fun"},{"author_name":"ovenchips","author_uid":"19236","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 5:45pm","epoch":1387215600,"text":"A nicely polished game. Hard to gauge depth and I would have lurved to hear a Christmassy jingle in the background. Otherwise, a merry old time was had playing this baby. :)"},{"author_name":"andrewkennedy","author_uid":"20990","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 6:01pm","epoch":1387216560,"text":"Pretty solid game, but it would have been nice to have some strategy other than spamming the attack button the whole way."},{"author_name":"marccspro","author_uid":"26996","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 6:39pm","epoch":1387218840,"text":"Very funny game !"},{"author_name":"MaxguN","author_uid":"21322","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 6:55pm","epoch":1387219800,"text":"Short, simple, efficient. I liked it :)"},{"author_name":"lincore","author_uid":"29939","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 7:03pm","epoch":1387220280,"text":"Wow... the implementation was probably easier than I think but that looks very impressive and polished. Can't beat it though, I'm a bad Santa :~)"},{"author_name":"loxo","author_uid":"23206","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 7:25pm","epoch":1387221600,"text":"I like the awesome graphics and the great atmosphere. Due to your interpretation of the theme the game is really short, multiple levels or stages would have been nice. Maybe santa has to chop wood around the world. But the only thing really missing for a christmas game is a christmas song."},{"author_name":"ziomorti","author_uid":"7388","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:14pm","epoch":1387224540,"text":"Cool and really polished game. I think the theme was kind of.. "forced in" but I loved the humor so I forgive you..."},{"author_name":"recursor","author_uid":"1105","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:16pm","epoch":1387224660,"text":"Gathering the wood and killing the tentacles is pretty fun. I wish there was more to do, but I like the feel of the controls as well as the art in the game."},{"author_name":"thedeadlybutter","author_uid":"17944","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:17pm","epoch":1387224720,"text":"Hands got tired trying to beat this, great game!"},{"author_name":"Coblynau","author_uid":"29114","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:24pm","epoch":1387225140,"text":"Well rounded game; music would have made audio perfect. Good fun, could imagine it in an arcade."},{"author_name":"somepx","author_uid":"29702","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:28pm","epoch":1387225380,"text":"This is incredible given time costraints - really top notch! (no pun intended) ;)"},{"author_name":"Broxxar","author_uid":"22132","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:59pm","epoch":1387227240,"text":"Considering your recent tweets about how many sprites you can render and still pull 60 fps, I'm disappointed that my screen was not filled with more sprites!\r\rWell done, a stellar little game."},{"author_name":"BradleySmith","author_uid":"14944","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 9:01pm","epoch":1387227360,"text":"Really smooth controls and a lot of fun to play, quirky idea too. :)"},{"author_name":"mckoss","author_uid":"31838","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 9:07pm","epoch":1387227720,"text":"Watching Notch create this on twitch.tv was the best part."},{"author_name":"Team-KwaKwa","author_uid":"32076","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 9:09pm","epoch":1387227840,"text":"I had expectations and Notch delivers!"},{"author_name":"lordjosephdeburg","author_uid":"13718","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 9:26pm","epoch":1387228860,"text":"Difficulty is a bit high but this is a good game notch. Well done!"},{"author_name":"minibutmany","author_uid":"22427","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 9:29pm","epoch":1387229040,"text":"Overall very well put together, the graphics were very nice, but I didn't find that I could play it more than a few rounds without getting bored."},{"author_name":"joekinglake","author_uid":"14924","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 9:32pm","epoch":1387229220,"text":"Great entry, would love to hear some frantic music behind this. The graphics are fantastic too!"},{"author_name":"AMSmirnov","author_uid":"11028","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 9:55pm","epoch":1387230600,"text":"Very good small game from a great master. Thank you for interesting live coding."},{"author_name":"Korwegian","author_uid":"31877","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 11:10pm","epoch":1387235100,"text":"Poor, poor Child... No presents for you."},{"author_name":"madmaw","author_uid":"5068","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 11:24pm","epoch":1387235940,"text":"I prefer TypeScript (which I used for my entry), but it's good to see a big name using a JS transpiler."},{"author_name":"Udell Games","author_uid":"30630","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 11:26pm","epoch":1387236060,"text":"Simple but fun, and the graphics are great for the time limit. Nice stuff, but it got a little repetitive after a while."},{"author_name":"Capitals","author_uid":"28209","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 11:33pm","epoch":1387236480,"text":"Only notch would make a game with trees."},{"author_name":"TinyMoonStudios","author_uid":"31665","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 1:07am","epoch":1387242120,"text":"Nice graphics and an interesting mechanic. Good going."},{"author_name":"sprawl","author_uid":"29314","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 1:35am","epoch":1387243800,"text":"Great presentation and art. Fun gameplay and very interesting."},{"author_name":"Dmitrix","author_uid":"10093","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 3:04am","epoch":1387249140,"text":"Awesome"},{"author_name":"HeroesGrave","author_uid":"13812","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 4:03am","epoch":1387252680,"text":"Great game."},{"author_name":"Bloated Hippo","author_uid":"21024","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 4:31am","epoch":1387254360,"text":"Love it!"},{"author_name":"KunoNoOni","author_uid":"6464","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 5:07am","epoch":1387256520,"text":"It was a neat game. I really liked the concept but I wish you'd have had more time to put in sound."},{"author_name":"rosa89n20","author_uid":"24093","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 5:25am","epoch":1387257600,"text":"My god! That's such fun game! and Hard!!! I can beat ridiculous fishing, but this one... man..."},{"author_name":"bluemanshoe","author_uid":"31038","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 5:35am","epoch":1387258200,"text":"Overall, very good. Game play a bit repetitive though."},{"author_name":"NikinCZ","author_uid":"30704","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 9:20am","epoch":1387271700,"text":"Nice experience - not just beacuase you are Notch :)"},{"author_name":"Linus Lindberg","author_uid":"20066","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 9:32am","epoch":1387272420,"text":"Solid game, get's a bit repetetive"},{"author_name":"Lo-X","author_uid":"24781","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 10:28am","epoch":1387275780,"text":"Well, the theme reminds me a bit of 10sec one. It was hard to everyone to came up with very original ideas. The game lacks a bit of fun and music. I like pixel art graphisms. It serves tour game well."},{"author_name":"SiENcE","author_uid":"10298","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 11:38am","epoch":1387279980,"text":"Nice idea with the daylimit and i like that you choose dart to implement it. I think LudumDare is always good to learn new things."},{"author_name":"finefin","author_uid":"16498","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 12:12pm","epoch":1387282020,"text":"a nice little game with nice mechanics. but I didn't expect anything else from THE indie game hero!"},{"author_name":"AtomicVikings","author_uid":"25123","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 12:15pm","epoch":1387282200,"text":"I like the pixel style. :-) Funny and small game. :-)"},{"author_name":"bach","author_uid":"5433","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 12:47pm","epoch":1387284120,"text":"I enjoyed this :)"},{"author_name":"jaspreetdhanjan","author_uid":"20912","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 3:14pm","epoch":1387292940,"text":"Fun game!"},{"author_name":"Daniel Debert","author_uid":"25682","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 4:15pm","epoch":1387296600,"text":"I liked it but it wasn't enough :c"},{"author_name":"SunShiranui","author_uid":"18130","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 4:28pm","epoch":1387297380,"text":"Good game, but it's a bit too difficult."},{"author_name":"JALgames","author_uid":"26549","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 4:57pm","epoch":1387299120,"text":"Nice game, but I didn't like the controls too much. Arrow up would be much more intuitive for jumping. But anyway, this game is very good."},{"author_name":"pusheax","author_uid":"8150","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 5:48pm","epoch":1387302180,"text":"I made a child sad several times, then looked at screenshot where he was happy. It was enough for me."},{"author_name":"RoseNinja","author_uid":"27220","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 6:04pm","epoch":1387303140,"text":"a fun christmas game awesome"},{"author_name":"emmelineprufrock","author_uid":"22454","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 7:43pm","epoch":1387309080,"text":"Very pleasant, too difficult for me."},{"author_name":"BrothersT","author_uid":"12722","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 8:50pm","epoch":1387313100,"text":"Awesomely themed, great visuals, and a real challenge. Child says thumbs up!"},{"author_name":"oskardevelopment","author_uid":"21518","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 9:42pm","epoch":1387316220,"text":"A fun game that shows your technical expertise with pixels. Good luck and Merry Christmas!"},{"author_name":"FelixNemis","author_uid":"6525","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 10:01pm","epoch":1387317360,"text":"Very nice game, good use of the theme. Very nice difficulty as well, and fun to play, though I'm still not sure what exactly the goop does.\rAlso nice title.\rGood luck and keep at it!"},{"author_name":"Royal Railway","author_uid":"6155","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 10:14pm","epoch":1387318140,"text":"It's a game! Sorry to say, but I wonder how much the lack of music brings down my general score. No music gives a low audio rating, of course, but it also decreases the mood a bit, since the graphics and especially the lovely effect of nightfall approaching were really quite pretty, and in the end it also brings down the fun - a catchy track could have done so much for a game like this.\r\rAlong with graphics, on the other hand, I gave you a high score on the humour – you had me at the game's title.\r\rI must say, you really should've made the up arrow key be the jump button instead. My brain didn't work properly when it came to jumping and chopping with the same hand, for some reason.\r\rA game, I suppose. Music, and at least to my sloppy brain, better controls, would've boosted the score, definitely. Perhaps you could do what I did about the music this time around, if you want to work on your own but can't make music, which was to let Wolfram Alpha generate some for me: http:\/\/tones.wolfram.com\/generate\/"},{"author_name":"gamepopper","author_uid":"21252","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 10:23pm","epoch":1387318680,"text":"Liked the 3D graphics used, and I found the obviously simplified grammar amusing. However in my opinion, using time as a way to connect the theme a weak concept."},{"author_name":"Mechatodzilla","author_uid":"29150","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 12:23am","epoch":1387325880,"text":"Nice entry! I had fun with it."},{"author_name":"Jade649","author_uid":"32334","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 1:02am","epoch":1387328220,"text":"How do you play it?"},{"author_name":"Korwegian","author_uid":"31877","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 1:20am","epoch":1387329300,"text":"It took me a while to realize how essential goop was to winning the game, but I finally beat it with 53 seconds!"},{"author_name":"leparlon","author_uid":"15043","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 2:24am","epoch":1387333140,"text":"Sh*t I keep making child sad.\rAmazing how well is runs though.. only dart and html5, nice work.\r5 for graphics, mood and audio."},{"author_name":"Cory Martin","author_uid":"3043","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 5:26am","epoch":1387344060,"text":"I don't like the graphics much at all; the color choices are very unappealing. I don't find the gameplay to be fun either. I like Christmas though."},{"author_name":"Colorvade","author_uid":"22146","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 5:35am","epoch":1387344600,"text":"I find the gameplay and aesthetics really underwhelming. It's a complete package that functions well, but there's not much to think about in-game, and as mentioned above, the colors are either overly saturated or not at all, with no hue-shift in the shading.\r\rI hope this doesn't come off as 'hating' simply because you're Notch, I have a ton of respect for your work."},{"author_name":"Lythom","author_uid":"7763","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 7:28am","epoch":1387351380,"text":"D-e-X already gave you a good feedback so I won't repeat what was told. Just a note about sounds : they end to be really annoying. I'm not sure how to fix it, but maybe a more quiet sound for the jump and a stronger visual feedback would allow the same comprenhension without the annoyment.\rGood overall, I liked it. Thanks for the game !"},{"author_name":"yosh","author_uid":"6851","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 8:33am","epoch":1387355280,"text":"Really cool little game! (And bravo for being a Dart pioneer). \r\rLoved the art of the game. Are the purple trees a reference to Day of the Tentacle?\r\rWhat could be improved: \r- more entity types\r- stupid AND\/OR catchy music\r\rAlso, in a totally different topic, I Love you Notch <3"},{"author_name":"dsoft20","author_uid":"8795","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 9:27am","epoch":1387358520,"text":"Nice game but a bit difficult."},{"author_name":"daredevildave","author_uid":"5182","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 9:54am","epoch":1387360140,"text":"OK, it's nice. First couple of play throughs I was thinking this is impossible. I'll never get that much wood. Then I read the instructions :-D\r\rSo a nice little added depth by adding the goop. \r\rI like it. Also good classic Notch art-style."},{"author_name":"Ekilibr","author_uid":"29137","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 4:12pm","epoch":1387382820,"text":"Very well played. That's an addictive game. I played several times, and I will again !"},{"author_name":"Jinz","author_uid":"28627","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 7:48pm","epoch":1387395780,"text":"Not the best product made by you, but still awesome.. :D"},{"author_name":"fullmontis","author_uid":"21736","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 10:36pm","epoch":1387405860,"text":"Amazing amount of polish for such a short development time. Game feels very smooth and is fun to play."},{"author_name":"Erkberg","author_uid":"24534","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 12:20am","epoch":1387412100,"text":"Pretty fun and flawless game, but I really suck at it. ;)"},{"author_name":"GeorgeBroussard","author_uid":"8631","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 2:26am","epoch":1387419660,"text":"Notch make game. I like game, I rate game. Now Notch play and rate my game :)\r\rThis was a lot of fun and has neat mechanics. I've yet to make the damned child happy, but I'm trying...900 so far."},{"author_name":"GeorgeBroussard","author_uid":"8631","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 2:31am","epoch":1387419960,"text":"Ok, child is happy. Christmas is saved. Whew.... :)"},{"author_name":"SimianLogic","author_uid":"15570","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 3:03am","epoch":1387421880,"text":"Love the look and the sound effects... seems super hard, though. I don't get the purple trees--is that a secondary goal?"},{"author_name":"henrykun","author_uid":"5379","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 3:32am","epoch":1387423620,"text":"Very nice concept and polished. I like the graphics and sounds and as well, the gameplay is good although I think it's hard. How did you decide where to put every object? is it generated ramdonly?."},{"author_name":"Adam Tea","author_uid":"29328","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 7:50am","epoch":1387439100,"text":"It's so hard! Can't get enough wood!!"},{"author_name":"madflame991","author_uid":"5035","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 1:57pm","epoch":1387461120,"text":"Truly funny and entertaining! Really liked your English."},{"author_name":"brogrammers","author_uid":"26439","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 2:19pm","epoch":1387462440,"text":"it doesn't work on firefox"},{"author_name":"mize_VS_mildmojo","author_uid":"32157","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 5:52pm","epoch":1387475220,"text":"Great polish here. Looks and feels great, though it's punishingly difficult to win (I didn't).\r\rThere's a game-breaking bug when playing in my default browser, though. You're not preventing key events from bubbling, so they trigger typeahead find for me in Firefox. The first time I hit 'a', it brings up the search box, taking focus away from the game. To fix, just call .stopPropagation() and .preventDefault() on the key events you want to consume. It's an easy thing to overlook. =)\r\rNo sound in Firefox on OS X. Looks like the game doesn't even try to load the WAV files?\r\r-mildmojo"},{"author_name":"Mago","author_uid":"5227","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 6:13pm","epoch":1387476480,"text":"Simple but fun. I liked the graphics and the sound."},{"author_name":"nyytroh","author_uid":"19152","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 7:43pm","epoch":1387481880,"text":"oh gawd! I can't smash keyboard faster"},{"author_name":"psychomonster","author_uid":"17723","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 9:08pm","epoch":1387486980,"text":"Hey Notch. Cool game. Saw the stream... but I suck at your game... Like webGL... hmhhmhm okay I try to beat your game again ^^"},{"author_name":"glovecat","author_uid":"28794","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 5:19pm","epoch":1387559640,"text":"Good entry. A fun game with simple controls. Poor children :("},{"author_name":"Techblogogy","author_uid":"25556","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 6:37pm","epoch":1387564320,"text":"Hey Notch! Your game is very nice. Can you tell me where have you leaned Dart and WebGL? Thanks in advance"},{"author_name":"sfdnetwork","author_uid":"27919","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 11:07pm","epoch":1387580520,"text":"Simple. But Very Fun Indeed. Well Done Sir."},{"author_name":"samooJAM","author_uid":"11043","time":"Dec 21, 2013 @ 11:58am","epoch":1387626780,"text":"Nice webgl graphics! And I really enjoyed the twitch stream."},{"author_name":"gre","author_uid":"18803","time":"Dec 21, 2013 @ 1:52pm","epoch":1387633620,"text":"This is tough!\rNice game."},{"author_name":"tobbez","author_uid":"19361","time":"Dec 22, 2013 @ 4:42pm","epoch":1387730220,"text":"I like the game, the trick to winning is to know exactly what you need to do to kill the tentacles and to use the gloop when you have it. Very well polished game."},{"author_name":"CustomPhase","author_uid":"20604","time":"Dec 22, 2013 @ 5:21pm","epoch":1387732560,"text":"Im sorry, but i dont find it any good. Its an ok game, dont get me wrong, but nothing too interesting."},{"author_name":"Giovanni Cappellotto","author_uid":"20065","time":"Dec 23, 2013 @ 1:28am","epoch":1387761780,"text":"Super fun game, great job!"},{"author_name":"StoneMonkeyStudios","author_uid":"15650","time":"Dec 23, 2013 @ 2:01am","epoch":1387763760,"text":"Quite funny, but very difficult to win. I could just be terrible at it though. Solid entry! :)"},{"author_name":"MystFire","author_uid":"25724","time":"Dec 23, 2013 @ 12:55pm","epoch":1387803000,"text":"I really liked the game, but it's also incredibely hard :("},{"author_name":"kibertoad","author_uid":"7122","time":"Dec 23, 2013 @ 3:03pm","epoch":1387810680,"text":"in the beginning it looks really fun, but actual gameplay is too erratic without much variety. and yes, I'd make a terrible Santa."},{"author_name":"Harsay","author_uid":"17616","time":"Dec 24, 2013 @ 12:13am","epoch":1387843680,"text":"It's a very fun to play game but poorly connected with theme :<"},{"author_name":"Super Hamster","author_uid":"22460","time":"Dec 24, 2013 @ 6:18pm","epoch":1387908780,"text":"A very interesting game but a bit complicated."},{"author_name":"tnerb","author_uid":"24462","time":"Dec 24, 2013 @ 7:19pm","epoch":1387912440,"text":"The goop seems a little OP \rbut I really like the artwork!"},{"author_name":"ViliX","author_uid":"29167","time":"Dec 28, 2013 @ 10:25pm","epoch":1388269200,"text":"This is one of the best entries! You might be the winner of this LD :)"},{"author_name":"GFM","author_uid":"7375","time":"Dec 29, 2013 @ 2:17pm","epoch":1388326320,"text":"This a well done game, I can't say otherwise. I liked (your usual) "pixel-art in a 3D world" style. :)\r\rBut I didn't find the game fun at all... :(\rI felt the game was only about mashing the 's' button... and that's it. I didn't feel compelled to keep playing it only for a higher score..."},{"author_name":"commanderstitch","author_uid":"14366","time":"Dec 29, 2013 @ 8:43pm","epoch":1388349480,"text":"Nice entry in the sense that i was surprised by what this game turned out to be. The mechanic with the goop was very important to discover. :D I loved the menu's and the personality of the messages."},{"author_name":"raarlac","author_uid":"11711","time":"Dec 30, 2013 @ 3:18am","epoch":1388373180,"text":"Good mechanics, but very repetitive"},{"author_name":"michail","author_uid":"20486","time":"Dec 30, 2013 @ 2:07pm","epoch":1388412120,"text":"The gameplay is a bit repetitive, and gathering all the needed wood in just one minute seems nearly impossible. On the other hand, the graphics and the falling snow make a nice mood together."},{"author_name":"StMatn","author_uid":"18894","time":"Jan 2, 2014 @ 4:36pm","epoch":1388680260,"text":"Really challenging game. The graphics look great!\rTreepunching ftw! :D"},{"author_name":"theholychicken","author_uid":"25095","time":"Jan 3, 2014 @ 6:08am","epoch":1388728980,"text":"tentacles make santa lose wood D:"},{"author_name":"ShellfishGames","author_uid":"23164","time":"Jan 4, 2014 @ 6:14pm","epoch":1388858940,"text":"Very nice graphics."},{"author_name":"joppiesaus","author_uid":"29014","time":"Jan 5, 2014 @ 2:09pm","epoch":1388930640,"text":"Fun! I still didn't manage to get enough wood, the poor child.\rNice graphics thought."},{"author_name":"Ludipe","author_uid":"20471","time":"Jan 5, 2014 @ 2:27pm","epoch":1388931720,"text":"Almost completed it last time! Anyways, great game, extremly polished and I like that it's christmas-related."},{"author_name":"lorniebear","author_uid":"31739","time":"Jan 5, 2014 @ 3:27pm","epoch":1388935320,"text":"Great fun, really enjoyed it. To improve, I would add better sound, but I'm sure you are busy making updates for minecraft!\r\r(I reeealy like minecraft, such a huge fan!)"},{"author_name":"lorniebear","author_uid":"31739","time":"Jan 5, 2014 @ 3:43pm","epoch":1388936280,"text":"After playing your previous, I have to admire what an excellent programmer you are! The games get better every time!"},{"author_name":"jfroco","author_uid":"2085","time":"Jan 6, 2014 @ 2:40am","epoch":1388975700,"text":"Incredible graphics and art style. Congrats. The mechanics is too simple for me but it seems to be very addictive. Great entry."},{"author_name":"juaxix","author_uid":"10960","time":"Jan 6, 2014 @ 1:32pm","epoch":1389014820,"text":"I like the procedural stuff"},{"author_name":"Jezzamon","author_uid":"10217","time":"Jan 6, 2014 @ 9:30pm","epoch":1389043500,"text":"I decided to play your game, even though your game already has 370 because hey, you're notch!\r\rAnyways I thought it was really fun! It was well lengthed as a jam game too. I always like the sound effects in your games :)"},{"author_name":"xhunterko","author_uid":"1960","time":"Jan 7, 2014 @ 1:02am","epoch":1389056220,"text":"The controls were a bit off for me for some reason. And it moved too quickly for me. But maybe I'm just slow? Could have made do with some sound effects. But maybe that's just me. Neat idea."},{"author_name":"Michcioperz","author_uid":"10103","time":"Jan 11, 2014 @ 8:18pm","epoch":1389471180,"text":"0% coolness, it says? meh."}],"images":["ld28\/398-70c6f084e9b7f7aaa7d564c0ab1679e1.jpg","ld28\/398-bd52ddeb3875856f031307dee385ed59.jpg","ld28\/398-0f6b1787c9972b7823c89decf7ece40e.jpg","ld28\/398-919678a87edd1825eeb2afca095551fb.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/game.notch.net\/christmaschopping\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=llme7tCNCk0","text":"Timelapse"},{"url":"http:\/\/game.notch.net\/christmaschopping\/LD28.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"21354","g_author":"398","g_event":"LD28","g_eventkey":"20","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"21383","g_title":"Last Minute Christmas Chopping","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"158","g_commentcount":"164","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\/398-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/398-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/398-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/398-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"A game made in Dart using WebGL and Web Audio. Should run fine on most modern browsers, but you need to manually enable WebGL in Safari to get it to run.\r\n\r\nSanta has forgotten about Christmas, and needs to gather wood for his elves, so they can make the gifts in time. But Santa only has ONE minute to do so!","title":"Last Minute Christmas Chopping"}