{"author_link":"\/author\/0x0961h\/","author_name":"0x0961h","author_uid":"21155","comments":[{"author_name":"TaleLore","author_uid":"21654","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 5:36am","epoch":1387171860,"text":"Pretty cool game."},{"author_name":"auto_suggestion","author_uid":"24942","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 5:38am","epoch":1387171980,"text":"Good job on the procedural generation! Really cool puzzle idea."},{"author_name":"Crigs","author_uid":"30740","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 6:02am","epoch":1387173420,"text":"Very interesting mechanic!"},{"author_name":"zzzev","author_uid":"12191","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 6:10am","epoch":1387173900,"text":"Great game, love the unique mechanic (different from similar things I've seen before) and it's very well implemented. Have to say it's the first game I've played here that made me consider the nature of the space-time continuum, so that's gotta be worth some extra credit."},{"author_name":"ashen","author_uid":"29060","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 6:19am","epoch":1387174440,"text":"The parallel timestamp idea is interesting. Nice graphics style. At first I thought my sound card had blown up ;) but then I got used to it and I found the sounds atmospheric. Good game!"},{"author_name":"apwolf","author_uid":"31848","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 6:58am","epoch":1387176780,"text":"Great art style and the mechanic was very cool."},{"author_name":"GravityScore","author_uid":"28875","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 7:13am","epoch":1387177680,"text":"It's a cool concept and quite pretty, but it was very easy. It would have been cooler if you'd done something a bit more with it, but I can imagine that this would have been very tricky due to the time constraints! Great job!"},{"author_name":"Linus Lindberg","author_uid":"20066","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 7:16am","epoch":1387177860,"text":"I like it! A crazy use of the theme well implemented! And the clean art style really brings it together. :D"},{"author_name":"ParaPup","author_uid":"18322","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 7:42am","epoch":1387179420,"text":"The sync is very cool."},{"author_name":"LastResortGames","author_uid":"5040","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 12:42pm","epoch":1387197420,"text":"I love games like this. Great Job. I just wish that it ended a whole lot sooner."},{"author_name":"PaulRdi","author_uid":"31894","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 12:46pm","epoch":1387197660,"text":"Procedural world generation is awsome :) Graphics + Music fit the asthetic very well and the mechanics play out nicely!\rThe Soundeffects could have been a bit lower volume otherwise rly nice game!"},{"author_name":"ricklesauceur","author_uid":"31016","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 12:53pm","epoch":1387198080,"text":"The game is neat, easy but really enjoyable from the graphics to the gameplay."},{"author_name":"Nucleartree123","author_uid":"22024","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 7:44pm","epoch":1387222740,"text":"This is a really cool game!"},{"author_name":"mutuware","author_uid":"14635","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:08pm","epoch":1387224180,"text":"Aah, I got stuck right at the end :("},{"author_name":"postmodestie","author_uid":"8113","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:10pm","epoch":1387224300,"text":"I think i get it!"},{"author_name":"Tonasz","author_uid":"25257","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:14pm","epoch":1387224540,"text":"These two universe specific tunes made the whole fantastic mood!"},{"author_name":"LatFoued","author_uid":"30371","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:49pm","epoch":1387226640,"text":"Very intresting mechanic, was a bit confused at the beginning. Very good job."},{"author_name":"Fadobo","author_uid":"15165","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:49pm","epoch":1387226640,"text":"I played until around 120 and did not really have any challenge at all. I had maybe 3 situations overall that required the other one to stand on a switch."},{"author_name":"Flyinpig5","author_uid":"15263","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:52pm","epoch":1387226820,"text":"Very cool generation, graphics and mechanic! It is a little easy though, perhaps continue this after LD has finished and make it harder? I'd be interested to see what you could make :p"},{"author_name":"george_prosser","author_uid":"29464","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:53pm","epoch":1387226880,"text":"Very cool, would love to see this concept fleshed out."},{"author_name":"timtipgames","author_uid":"15341","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:54pm","epoch":1387226940,"text":"I had no music\/sound playing in the web version (other games in browser do work). I only found out because I read comments about the music ;)\r\rI like the game and its execution. I got stuck when I disabled a key while in the other universe the guy was standing on the corresponding platform. I could also imagine that it will be hard to expand this. Do you have any ideas for it? What mechanics could you see fit in here? \rOverall well done!"},{"author_name":"Flyinpig5","author_uid":"15263","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:55pm","epoch":1387227000,"text":"Forgot to rate! *Dumb me*"},{"author_name":"Kotucz","author_uid":"18194","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:55pm","epoch":1387227000,"text":"Nice! Could be more complex, but at least looks finished:-)"},{"author_name":"adnzzzzZ","author_uid":"7173","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 8:57pm","epoch":1387227120,"text":"Pretty simple mechanic. I thought you'd do more with it though. Other than that good job."},{"author_name":"0x0961h","author_uid":"21155","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 9:14pm","epoch":1387228140,"text":"Thank you all for all your comments. I really appreciate it, thank you again. :)\r\r@GravityScore Exactly. It has some sort of potential, now I see it. :)\r\r@PaulRdi Oh yeah, silly me, I forgot to turn the volume up when I tested sound. Please, tell your ears that I'm sorry. :D\r\r@Fadobo It's all about generator. One time it creates a challenging level and next time you get a flat wtf-level with non-sense wtf-blocks'n'switches. Adding a great generator to make all levels challenging and riddle-y required additional hours which I didn't have to my pity. :c\r\r@Flyinpig5 Well, who knows, maybe I'll be able to make something out of it. :)\r\r@timtipgames Oh, the sound in HTML5-version (and a version itself) was a big pain in the a♥♥ for me. At first, it refuses to play sounds, after that -- refuses to loop them. Well, it seems I didn't solve _all_ the problems with it... -_-\r\rYeah, it just a bug. I tried to kill as many bugs as I could, but I guess some are still alive. My friend-tester, for example, keeps falling through the level. :)\r\rWell... tbh, one day it WAS my idea for the game, but I had absolutely NO ideas what to do with it next. Seeing you, guys, playing it and telling me that it's quite interesting... well, it gives motivation, maybe I should look on it again and maybe evolve it into something I can (well, who knows?) put on Greenlight and not being kicked out with whistles and flying tomatoes. :D\r\r@Kotucz Oh, I wish it be very super-puzzle-ish, very smart and everything, but I was v-v-very ill, I've lost a lo-o-ot of time getting well, so I tried v-v-very hard to make something, that totally worth playing and absolutely worth spending time on without great regret after it. :)"},{"author_name":"Parasyte","author_uid":"7203","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 12:50am","epoch":1387241100,"text":"I liked that the stages are procedurally generated! The first that I played had a lot of non-challenging switch-block placements (just simply walk by in that timeline until reaching a non-passable block, or a switch). The concept is really quite entertaining!\r\rI did not hear any audio at all, using Chrome on OSX 10.9; The dev console shows a lot of 403 Forbidden responses from Google Drive when attempting to load mp3, ogg, and wav files! I had to mark "n\/a" for an audio rating. (I will amend my vote immediately if you can resolve the loading issue.)"},{"author_name":"mcapraro","author_uid":"28472","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 3:25am","epoch":1387250400,"text":"nicely done, i really like the concept of having to keep those two worlds in sync"},{"author_name":"0x0961h","author_uid":"21155","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 5:05am","epoch":1387256400,"text":"@Parasyte Oh my... 403 from Google Drive... *sigh* Like I had no other problems with web-version, thanks Google... -_-\r\rReuploaded game to itch.io, everything should be fine now."},{"author_name":"metkis","author_uid":"27592","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 10:33am","epoch":1387276080,"text":"I thought the mechanic was really cool! I think the random generation of the levels is really swell technically, but it left me wanting something more handcrafted because the mechanics were so neat. Great game, really different than a lot I've played so far. Looks nice too."},{"author_name":"bitowl","author_uid":"25615","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 12:22pm","epoch":1387282620,"text":"really cool idea! would love to see this mechanic explored more indepth."},{"author_name":"SaintHeiser","author_uid":"14848","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 5:35pm","epoch":1387301400,"text":"Very good work!\rGame mechanic looking very interesting.\rThis game too short. But 48H I understand.\rIf there will be more gameplay elements it will be very good puzzle game."},{"author_name":"Shaun Lebron","author_uid":"31638","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 9:23pm","epoch":1387315080,"text":"Great concept. Really nice art."},{"author_name":"dinos","author_uid":"22762","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 11:04pm","epoch":1387321140,"text":"Great concept. Nice game with a very interesting and unique gameplay!"},{"author_name":"WetDesertRock","author_uid":"30221","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 12:34am","epoch":1387326540,"text":"Hah, was not expecting to see a game with the same mechanic as mine.\r\rI'd suggest reducing the amount of unnecessary switches, and haveing more puzzle mechanics."},{"author_name":"mrjordan","author_uid":"25844","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 7:09am","epoch":1387350240,"text":"One of the more unique mechanics I've played for LD48! Given more time I'd love to see other types of puzzle developed in this framework."},{"author_name":"embero","author_uid":"6826","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 2:53pm","epoch":1387378080,"text":"Really cool, liked it a lot!"},{"author_name":"Photon","author_uid":"7658","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 5:25pm","epoch":1387387200,"text":"Nice idea, but the gameplay boils down mostly to walk and wait. Gets kinda repetitive pretty fast. The procedural generation doesn't necessarily help; you walk and wait almost just the same.\r\rCool idea. It could've just used a little more fleshing out."},{"author_name":"PaperBlurt","author_uid":"26530","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 9:22am","epoch":1387444620,"text":"It's like a game made by industry designers.\rReal nice and something different to look at.."},{"author_name":"soy_yuma","author_uid":"7620","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 8:16pm","epoch":1387483860,"text":"I think this is my favourite game of LD 28. I think it's a brilliant idea. The graphics are neat. The sounds and music are not bad. Congratulations! :-)"},{"author_name":"dudsen","author_uid":"27029","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 9:21pm","epoch":1387487760,"text":"Clever concept, definitely worth putting some more work into polishing! Only thing that sucked was that i stepped into the "goal" with on character, while i needed to step on a switch to help the other one, but couldn't move the on stepped into the beam-thingy anymore :( kinda frustrating and a very harsh punishment for my dumbness ;)"},{"author_name":"Steve [tacospice]","author_uid":"26369","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 8:26am","epoch":1387527660,"text":"Cool idea and nice art, audio."},{"author_name":"yosh","author_uid":"6851","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 8:59am","epoch":1387529640,"text":"Unique and very interesting game mechanic... I'm going to recommend this game to some friends because it's really worth it!"},{"author_name":"Before Light","author_uid":"31826","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 9:26am","epoch":1387531260,"text":"I liked it. It was fun to play. Is there any importance the ground colours?"},{"author_name":"Giovanni Cappellotto","author_uid":"20065","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 10:17am","epoch":1387534320,"text":"Super cool idea, it didn't work well on my browser but I had fun when I got the concept."},{"author_name":"glovecat","author_uid":"28794","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 10:25am","epoch":1387534800,"text":"Very original use of the theme :) I liked a lot the parallel universes idea, fun gameplay!"},{"author_name":"tchem","author_uid":"27459","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 10:38am","epoch":1387535580,"text":"Great work!! The mechanic is very cool!!"},{"author_name":"0x0961h","author_uid":"21155","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 10:45am","epoch":1387536000,"text":"Thank you everyone. You are so awesome. :D\r\r@Photon: Sure thing. :)\r@dudsen: Ahhh, it's totally not your fault, I just forgot to mention about it in the tutorial. :D\r@Before Light: Nope, just coloured level. :)"},{"author_name":"X-0r","author_uid":"25053","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 12:15pm","epoch":1387541400,"text":"That's a great gameconcept! Procedural levelgeneration is great, too - even if it creates trivial "puzzles" every now and then =)"},{"author_name":"cappelnord","author_uid":"7575","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 12:26pm","epoch":1387542060,"text":"Awesome entry for your first LD. Procedural generated levels are very ambitious but didn't feel very challenging. One guy of mine went out of sight once and never came back\/no death screen. But overall very solid aesthetics and core idea is great!"},{"author_name":"turnA","author_uid":"19248","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 1:49pm","epoch":1387547040,"text":"The target mechanic and their goal is a bit unclear, but I love the dynamically generated level and art style."},{"author_name":"0x0961h","author_uid":"21155","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 1:58pm","epoch":1387547580,"text":"@X-0r Yeah, generator should be more awesome, but ended up being this simple. But it generates interesting levels, I swear! :D\r\r@cappelnord Either he falls down when the block disappear because of timestamps thing or you've met a bug. :)\r\r@turnA Thank you. Glad to hear about art, 'cause it always was a very painful part of gamedev for me. :)"},{"author_name":"JesterBLUE","author_uid":"11191","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 6:59pm","epoch":1387565640,"text":"cool!\rIt would be awesome if when you reached the end, it did a synchronized replay of the two worlds."},{"author_name":"SharpenedSpoon","author_uid":"4648","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 8:35pm","epoch":1387571400,"text":"I dig it! All the little subtle differences from each area was a nice touch! Lets us remember that DETAILS MATTER!"},{"author_name":"Pyrofoux","author_uid":"4440","time":"Dec 21, 2013 @ 1:31pm","epoch":1387632360,"text":"Novative ! Good job."},{"author_name":"TomboFry","author_uid":"20850","time":"Dec 21, 2013 @ 1:31pm","epoch":1387632360,"text":"Brilliant concept, although slightly too slow paced for my liking (not to say others don't like it though). Sometimes block placement was slightly pointless (but it's the random generator's fault!) but otherwise I really enjoyed it."},{"author_name":"Anshul Goyal","author_uid":"18701","time":"Dec 22, 2013 @ 11:14pm","epoch":1387753740,"text":"interesting concept. fun to play."},{"author_name":"Jacques_le_lezard","author_uid":"20660","time":"Dec 23, 2013 @ 1:00pm","epoch":1387803300,"text":"Interesting idea but it's too much repetitive and not enough fluid.."},{"author_name":"archaeometrician","author_uid":"27214","time":"Dec 25, 2013 @ 9:34pm","epoch":1388006940,"text":"Nice game, neat graphics. Innovative gameplay, I like it !"},{"author_name":"Alex Higgins","author_uid":"14001","time":"Dec 25, 2013 @ 11:24pm","epoch":1388013540,"text":"Technically, really impressive, and it's a great concept! I'd really like to see this idea explored in a way that presents the player with some actual challenge, though."},{"author_name":"somepx","author_uid":"29702","time":"Dec 26, 2013 @ 8:54pm","epoch":1388090940,"text":"Truly innovative, loved graphics & audio too. Nice entry!"},{"author_name":"van noctar","author_uid":"21196","time":"Dec 27, 2013 @ 8:30pm","epoch":1388175900,"text":"Very good job! This game is fun and addictive!"},{"author_name":"kirbytails7","author_uid":"4767","time":"Dec 29, 2013 @ 10:35pm","epoch":1388356200,"text":"Nice and clean, with an interesting mechanic, and procedural generation is always fun (check out my entry =D). I like how the music changes when the dimension is switched."},{"author_name":"Coin Flip Games","author_uid":"31135","time":"Jan 1, 2014 @ 8:12pm","epoch":1388606820,"text":"Very innovative!"},{"author_name":"goerp","author_uid":"14225","time":"Jan 3, 2014 @ 11:08am","epoch":1388746980,"text":"Great game, original mechanic. \rWhat I like very much is that with just these simple options you still manage to make an interesting puzzle game.\rNice smooth graphics.\r\rI understand why you have procedural puzzles (and they are good), because it saves you a lot of time (I didn't have enough time and my puzzles were too hard or way too difficult), but I think if you put in more options for your game, it will be even more fun with just the right well thought out braintwisters.\rMaybe you can have a combination of procedural and none procedural elements?\r\rThe music was not really suitable for long play I think (it's playing while I'm typing this), but at least you made music (I do like the chiptunesound).\r\rI found a bug (maybe already solved in the post mortem), I think it happened when the bottom character walked on a tile that just at that timestamp was activated; the character stood on then fell through the just activated block and from then on was one blocker lower than it should have been. \rthe game worked normally, but the character was just drawn lower than it actually was."},{"author_name":"0x0961h","author_uid":"21155","time":"Jan 3, 2014 @ 12:24pm","epoch":1388751540,"text":"Thank you every one again! :)\r\r@goerp I'll see if I can manage to make a great generator, I'll make something like "Endless" mode. But I think I'll have to make levels first anyway. :)\r\rMusic was made in the last hour before submission, so I'm glad even if it's "okay". :)\r\rOh yeah, I knew about this bug, it's just "last time bug". Didn't manage to fix it. :c\r\rThanks for the feedback. :)"},{"author_name":"anvoz","author_uid":"30146","time":"Jan 3, 2014 @ 1:45pm","epoch":1388756400,"text":"Really cool concept, especially on the idea of the timestamp. The procedural generation was really good but I think it can not create any challenging for the game. I believe this game will become a great success base on its core concept."},{"author_name":"Madball","author_uid":"8370","time":"Jan 3, 2014 @ 3:06pm","epoch":1388761260,"text":"A good idea, though I didn't understand it at first. However, it wasn't challenging at all.\rAlso, borders of blue blocks are difficult to see."},{"author_name":"hadesfury","author_uid":"10263","time":"Jan 3, 2014 @ 3:29pm","epoch":1388762640,"text":"Cool game ... more thrill needed :D"},{"author_name":"01101101","author_uid":"5105","time":"Jan 4, 2014 @ 1:50pm","epoch":1388843100,"text":"Well done, would be great to be able to move a bit faster though ;) More variations in the puzzle would be welcome as well and it looks like you might be working on that, so good job!"},{"author_name":"nyrrrr","author_uid":"24704","time":"Jan 4, 2014 @ 10:59pm","epoch":1388876040,"text":"Great game. I like the proc gen aspect :)\rThe only thing that bugged me a little was that you can't holf a direction key so he moves several steps. \rBut that's nit-picking. Good job! :)"},{"author_name":"LTPATS","author_uid":"29798","time":"Jan 6, 2014 @ 5:07am","epoch":1388984520,"text":"Liked the use of the theme, the graphics and music were nice and added a lot to the experience. Not the most challenging, and a couple minor issues occurred while playing.\r\rOne when a character walked into a block right as it appeared and they permanently walked underneath the floor about one tile down (it actually didn't affect the gameplay, just visually weird).\r\rAlso not sure if intended or not, but when a character hits the finish, they can't backtrack, this was frustrating when I realized I needed to activate a switch after I already moved one character to the end and I needed to restart from the very beginning.\r\rOverall it's a cool game and I enjoyed the procedurally generated levels! I'd be interested in seeing this game expanded into something larger!"}],"images":["ld28\/21155-d266a28c0b1210a67289328e26efc9b7.jpg","ld28\/21155-75fc92bb4b2f39fa3d0949200df36828.jpg","ld28\/21155-9ff6fcc66227487970f46e13239c1c16.jpg","ld28\/21155-6fdd5b7ea26ae2a34ea59d4fe538053d.jpg","ld28\/21155-69e93025070b3eb41b255e90bfa9d4ec.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/bit.ly\/IYf7W2","text":"Windows\/Linux\/MacOS"},{"url":"http:\/\/0x0961h.itch.io\/parallelsync","text":"Web (HTML5)"},{"url":"http:\/\/bit.ly\/19rahex","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"21643","g_author":"21155","g_event":"LD28","g_eventkey":"20","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"21672","g_title":"parallelsync","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"261","g_commentcount":"71","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\/21155-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/21155-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/21155-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/21155-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/21155-shot4.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"There's always a lighthou... wait, I've already heard it before somewhere. Maybe not in this timeline, though.\r\n\r\nDo you believe that there are unlimited timelines and we are the true masters of the Time deciding what path should it choose? Yes, multiverse is a great idea, but... but what if you only get _one_ parallel universe?\r\n\r\nControls are described on title screen:\r\n* Space -- change active universe\r\n* Arrow Left \/ Arrow Right -- move character left or right (respectively)\r\n* Arrow Down -- wait for one time unit\r\n* Escape -- return to menu\r\n\r\nLevels are procedurally generated.\r\n\r\nWindows\/Linux\/MacOS version requires JRE7 and can be run via .jar file or via .bat file.\r\n\r\nWeb version may have issues with music (it's not looping properly).\r\n\r\nHave fun!","title":"parallelsync"}