{"author_link":"\/author\/keksdev\/","author_name":"keksdev","author_uid":"4439","comments":[{"author_name":"Vanish","author_uid":"29777","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 3:58am","epoch":1387165980,"text":"Nice graphics and music, simple but still innovative."},{"author_name":"Udell Games","author_uid":"30630","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 12:22pm","epoch":1387196220,"text":"Beautiful backgrounds. I think this would be nice if you fleshed it out to tell the story of the mayfly more. Maybe build it up to be more of an adventure. Short, simple, but very innovative."},{"author_name":"Linus Lindberg","author_uid":"20066","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 12:22pm","epoch":1387196220,"text":"I like the idea, but it felt more like a movie than a game..!\r<br\/>Love your use of colors"},{"author_name":"DustyStylus","author_uid":"15902","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 12:25pm","epoch":1387196400,"text":"At first I was like, &quot;hrmm&quot;... and then realised what a lovely take on the theme it was. A really nice idea, implemented nicely. Simple but effective. :)"},{"author_name":"reecpj","author_uid":"31762","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 12:26pm","epoch":1387196460,"text":"Gorgeous, but not much gameplay. i suppose that's the point!"},{"author_name":"Toki Anholmes","author_uid":"18147","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 12:42pm","epoch":1387197420,"text":"Great job on the art ! The lack of gameplay creates a particular feeling, which I love ! \r<br\/>It seems that there still is some debug features, like when Q is pressed :)"},{"author_name":"Raphy","author_uid":"24241","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 12:48pm","epoch":1387197780,"text":"Poetic game ! Very simplistic gameplay but that's part of the experience, gives a feeling of contemplation and discovery that I really like. \r<br\/>On the other hand, it's sometimes buggy when I fly, I instantly teleport and it's kindda weird."},{"author_name":"AlanZucconi","author_uid":"21108","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 1:33pm","epoch":1387200480,"text":"The graphics has something magic in it! *_*"},{"author_name":"Tanner","author_uid":"26780","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 4:45pm","epoch":1387212000,"text":"Graphics are beautyful. Mood is awesome :)"},{"author_name":"AnnaGavaldaKedavra","author_uid":"17388","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 4:36pm","epoch":1387297860,"text":"NIce but lacks of gameplay."},{"author_name":"goerp","author_uid":"14225","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 8:27pm","epoch":1387311720,"text":"It's an experience not a game! And I don't mean that in a bad way.\r<br\/>Sounds like autotracker though, it doesn't really go with the beautiful game, I think."},{"author_name":"DaanVanYperen","author_uid":"22396","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 8:52pm","epoch":1387313220,"text":"Really artistic, me like!"},{"author_name":"rincewind_cz","author_uid":"25122","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 2:27am","epoch":1387333320,"text":"This (not even a proper) game has best theme interpretation I've seen so far. Graphics are really impressive and artistic. Unfortunately music doesn't fit this.. As an experiment it's great ;-)"},{"author_name":"Anshul Goyal","author_uid":"18701","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 5:08am","epoch":1387429380,"text":"happy game. nice graphics.\r<br\/>the character swims sooooo sloow :D"},{"author_name":"grifdail","author_uid":"15168","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 9:06pm","epoch":1387573260,"text":"Whaouuuuuuu, this was very beautiful... Thank for the experience."},{"author_name":"Dry Tree","author_uid":"5357","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 10:06pm","epoch":1387576860,"text":"Very pleasant artwork and a nice take on the theme. Personally, I felt the lack of gameplay (i.e. player choices or skill) left something to be desired, but this was nice nonetheless. Good work."},{"author_name":"mmickyman","author_uid":"21047","time":"Dec 22, 2013 @ 12:54am","epoch":1387673340,"text":"Slow start but it's a pretty little poetic game."},{"author_name":"atombrot","author_uid":"7738","time":"Dec 29, 2013 @ 4:08pm","epoch":1388332980,"text":"very nice graphics! :)"}],"images":["ld28\/4439-e43321be1aff8097a6c3a8cd92410ab6.jpg","ld28\/4439-e1c254794760c409f2596bdedfcca3ce.jpg","ld28\/4439-e15610d8cc315bc1a2720b0d3476836f.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/j.mp\/ld28mayfly","text":"Web(HTML5)"},{"url":"http:\/\/j.mp\/ld28mayflyjarfixed","text":"OS\/X, Linux, Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/j.mp\/ld28mayflysrc","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"22020","g_author":"4439","g_event":"LD28","g_eventkey":"20","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"22049","g_title":"Mayfly","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"603","g_commentcount":"18","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\/4439-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/4439-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/4439-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"My first solo entry!\r\n\r\nSo after thinking about the one problem - the theme - for \r\nthe first 10 hours, I came up with the idea of a mayfly's day.\r\n\r\nDuring the only day of her whole life she gets out of the\r\nwater, visits dangerous caves and meets her loved one. Just\r\nto give birth to another day of another mayfly.\r\n\r\n\r\nControls:\r\nFlap the wings by pressing\/holding the mouse button or space key.\r\n\r\nDeveloped with:\r\nJava, LibGDX, Eclipse, Gimp, autotracker, convert","title":"Mayfly"}