{"author_link":"\/author\/matiasbontempo\/","author_name":"matiasbontempo","author_uid":"60542","comments":[{"author_name":"qikcik","author_uid":"69120","time":"Apr 17, 2016 @ 8:08pm","epoch":1460923380,"text":"Nice :D"},{"author_name":"CarlosPidox","author_uid":"91285","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 2:51am","epoch":1460947560,"text":"Beautiful graphics"},{"author_name":"ougrouk","author_uid":"58338","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 3:11am","epoch":1460948760,"text":"I really like your game. It got potential for a lot of fun features!"},{"author_name":"XAND","author_uid":"52238","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 3:12am","epoch":1460948820,"text":"Very nice, however my game ended up crashing due to an unset value error or something like that, the error message was not helpful. Very nice."},{"author_name":"BloodJohn","author_uid":"26449","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 3:18am","epoch":1460949180,"text":"beatiful mechanics. swipe is good for mobile game."},{"author_name":"nickavv","author_uid":"44480","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 3:40am","epoch":1460950500,"text":"Simple and fun. Basic gameplay, but still tough to get a high score. As XAND noted below, I managed to crash the Windows version several times by pressing keys on the title screen. Clicking the shape to start the game seemed to work more reliably."},{"author_name":"JohnGalt","author_uid":"43656","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 3:46am","epoch":1460950860,"text":"I love this neat and fresh idea. One thing to make it better is giving out an extra chance rather than a sudden death."},{"author_name":"Casey Jordan","author_uid":"87952","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 3:47am","epoch":1460950920,"text":"Nice to see someone else in game maker! :D\r<br\/>\r<br\/>This is fantastic. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>Noticed a bug, though. It didn't detect a lose case when I was against the level edge."},{"author_name":"Jukepoks1","author_uid":"55121","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 6:05am","epoch":1460959200,"text":"I played it few times. Nice idea! great implementation of theme. I wish there was some music and sound effects though to make it more fun. Nice visuals love it! after the few times I played though, i got this error: http:\/\/imgur.com\/NejD9ay :( it's either my computer fault to sandboxing it or it's in the game, dunno. I hope this helps!"},{"author_name":"dwhiffing","author_uid":"5662","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 12:21am","epoch":1461024960,"text":"Great concept, great graphics! Felt very polished, like a premium mobile app minus the audio.  I think you could make an awesome finished product out of this, go for it!"},{"author_name":"srakowski","author_uid":"26664","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 12:23am","epoch":1461025080,"text":"Fun little game, well done :)"},{"author_name":"FerraWare","author_uid":"45480","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 1:04am","epoch":1461027540,"text":"Really cool game, pretty polished and clean for a compo entry. You should upload it to Google Play!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Best score: 45 :P"},{"author_name":"gurkenlabs","author_uid":"67508","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 2:00am","epoch":1461030900,"text":"Very cool Game. Unfortunately my game crashed sometimes:\r<br\/>\r<br\/>___________________________________________\r<br\/>############################################################################################\r<br\/>FATAL ERROR in\r<br\/>action number 1\r<br\/>of  Step Event0\r<br\/>for object Move:\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Variable &lt;unknown_object&gt;.&lt;unknown variable&gt;(100008, -2147483648) not set before reading it.\r<br\/>at gml_Script_CheckGameOver\r<br\/>############################################################################################\r<br\/>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\r<br\/>stack frame is\r<br\/>gml_Script_CheckGameOver (line 0)\r<br\/>gml_Object_Move_Step_0"},{"author_name":"Monklet80","author_uid":"86283","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 7:23am","epoch":1461050280,"text":"Very nice! Looks good, smooth action, and good gameplay."},{"author_name":"Jin47","author_uid":"29469","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 5:59pm","epoch":1461088440,"text":"Awesome graphic! Very polished and the overall appearance is really pretty. The gameplay is great but maybe a little too easy to avoid being stucked (maybe it get really harder after a few time"},{"author_name":"Blobo","author_uid":"52667","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 7:42pm","epoch":1461094620,"text":"This was a lot of fun! Thanks for the game!"},{"author_name":"Dmitrix","author_uid":"10093","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 11:51pm","epoch":1461109560,"text":"Looks cool!"},{"author_name":"matiasbontempo","author_uid":"60542","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 12:07am","epoch":1461110520,"text":"Hey everyone! Thanks for your comments! They are really inspiring. I am aware about those bugs and I'll try to fix them as soon as possible. You could download the game to your phone and the update should be there soon! Also, I'm planning on adding more modes or having some variants.\r<br\/>Cheers!"},{"author_name":"schizoid2k","author_uid":"60097","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 1:19am","epoch":1461114840,"text":"Very nice! I love the simple, but nice graphics, and the game play makes you think your moves. I scored 42! This game makes you want to keep playing."},{"author_name":"Ayawaska","author_uid":"88601","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 1:27am","epoch":1461115320,"text":"It's like playing UNO ! Nice visual and gameplay. :)"},{"author_name":"brinkhousegames","author_uid":"65699","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 3:18am","epoch":1461121980,"text":"Any chance of a web build? Looks really fun!"},{"author_name":"Ryusui","author_uid":"12635","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 5:34am","epoch":1461130140,"text":"Very nice. I do feel it's a little too reliant on random chance, but I love the concept and the amount of effort put into the graphics."},{"author_name":"ShadowTemplar","author_uid":"66197","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 6:57pm","epoch":1461178320,"text":"A lot of fun! I enjoyed the game very much, I would love to see some sort of level completion in there as well as some more levels. I think the idea is original and I did play it for at least 15 min, so I liked it. Good Job! :)"},{"author_name":"bobismijnnaam","author_uid":"20562","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 7:40pm","epoch":1461180900,"text":"Fun game! I'm going to keep this around for when I get bored :D The mechanic is fun and addictive, but random enough not to hate it when you lose. It also looks really polished and plays nice. Good job!"},{"author_name":"JJJANEE","author_uid":"89049","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 7:44pm","epoch":1461181140,"text":"This is a great, beautiful little game. It interpreted the theme perfectly! The play was just fun and interesting. I love the easiness of the control and the flow was so smooth! The graphics was beautiful. This would be a successful mobile game! great job!"},{"author_name":"SgtBursk","author_uid":"14965","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 7:45pm","epoch":1461181200,"text":"Nice use of fading. Pleasing puzzle experience."},{"author_name":"Louspirit","author_uid":"55260","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 7:50pm","epoch":1461181500,"text":"The game is nice looking. Good! Would have liked a little music."},{"author_name":"MegaBrutal","author_uid":"16637","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 8:30pm","epoch":1461183900,"text":"I never had a smartphone until recently, but the point is that now I have one &ndash; and believe it or not, this is the VERY FIRST game I EVER installed on it. :D\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Nice to see an Android game, though I still miss a Linux port (yeah, Android is Linux too, but I meant Linux for desktop PC, like Ubuntu).\r<br\/>\r<br\/>It nicely fits the theme, and I like the gameplay idea. Thanks for giving me a game that I can play on trains! ;)"},{"author_name":"Wefiends","author_uid":"25830","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 11:42pm","epoch":1461195420,"text":"Really cool concept. Felt good to plan ahead and try to make the longest chain possible."},{"author_name":"Maysickdev","author_uid":"92108","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 1:17am","epoch":1461201120,"text":"Extremely surprised at how fun this is. Great work!"},{"author_name":"DieBackStudios","author_uid":"62053","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 7:48am","epoch":1461224580,"text":"beautiful pixel artsy style and cool gameplay"},{"author_name":"gogo199432","author_uid":"44205","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 11:26am","epoch":1461237660,"text":"It looks so nice and clean! Oh and the gameplay is okay too :D"},{"author_name":"Adipson","author_uid":"22158","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 3:34pm","epoch":1461252540,"text":"cool game ! thks"},{"author_name":"Rulrite","author_uid":"46265","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 9:57pm","epoch":1461275520,"text":"Such a wonderful concept for a tablet\/phone game! I'm really impressed; I could easily see this as a fully developed app (though of course, it looks very polished already).\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Great work! You should be very pleased with yourself."},{"author_name":"TheCain","author_uid":"87568","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 10:11pm","epoch":1461276360,"text":"This is a great puzzle game.\r<br\/>It would be even better if it had some sort of goal."},{"author_name":"MiniBobbo","author_uid":"22584","time":"Apr 22, 2016 @ 2:26am","epoch":1461291660,"text":"This was fun and looks great.  My highest score was 45."},{"author_name":"Marjie62","author_uid":"35766","time":"Apr 22, 2016 @ 5:21am","epoch":1461302160,"text":"WOW.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Simple. Fun. Surprisingly deep.  I kept thinking I'd figured out what I needed to be optimizing for and threw myself a curveball (trapped myself in corners of increasing complexity) over and over.  I'd love to write an AI for this game :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The game's really nicely polished, I particularly love the way that things fade into view when you start a new game.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Having a big-but-not-infinite world felt kind of weird.  I found myself wondering how the game would play as more of a pure puzzler, with just a few tiles in the level, and you need to get all of them.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Final random thought - I love how much room there is for elaboration on top of this base.  There could be some statefulness to your shape (e.g. some tile that changes your color but not your shape when you enter it, or vice versa) to throw a wrench in any strategy that's based on simply finding the longest path in a partially visible graph.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Awesome! Wonderful!"},{"author_name":"Green Soda","author_uid":"64207","time":"Apr 22, 2016 @ 5:53am","epoch":1461304080,"text":"SHAPESSSSSSSS... appealing graphics, man! I like the simplicity (i know it really is not simple) ... and it allures me how it makes me wanna try again... VERY NICE PRESENTATION ... fantastic..\r<br\/>\r<br\/>encountered a bug somewhere (Code Error, it says) but it's no biggie... i dont know how to reproduce it anyways...\r<br\/>\r<br\/>this is one of my faves so far :)) simple graphics really is my thing"},{"author_name":"namrog84","author_uid":"4313","time":"Apr 22, 2016 @ 6:17am","epoch":1461305520,"text":"great concept. beautiful game!"},{"author_name":"merzlot","author_uid":"40559","time":"Apr 22, 2016 @ 11:25am","epoch":1461324000,"text":"Nice! Clever mechanics and neat visuals. Good game!"},{"author_name":"Fabraz","author_uid":"50665","time":"Apr 22, 2016 @ 2:11pm","epoch":1461333960,"text":"Fun mind-bender to work with colors and shapes to mix-match them."},{"author_name":"Naca","author_uid":"86219","time":"Apr 22, 2016 @ 6:11pm","epoch":1461348360,"text":"Really fun and addicting game! Congratulations for you first compo, it's an excellent result. I liked the clean graphics and I'm trying to beat your highscore :D It's my favourite one on the geometric-shaped approach."},{"author_name":"Naca","author_uid":"86219","time":"Apr 23, 2016 @ 8:47pm","epoch":1461444120,"text":"I'm surprised by how much I like this game :D You forgot to add &quot;current score&quot; info when the game finishes. I can only see my highscore, but not how close I get to it! Keep working on it, it's a good one! Btw, my highscore is 100, not bad but I don't think I'll reach 223 :D"},{"author_name":"Togimaro","author_uid":"55111","time":"Apr 24, 2016 @ 12:55pm","epoch":1461502200,"text":"Cool idea and efficient gameplay!\r<br\/>The game has crashed several times like said before in the comments.\r<br\/>Despite this it's really cool! Good job :) \r<br\/>PS : currently my best score was 73 but I'll try to improve him ^^"},{"author_name":"Dreschler","author_uid":"52134","time":"Apr 24, 2016 @ 6:47pm","epoch":1461523320,"text":"Very interesting game, cool idea and mechanics. Keep working on it, congrats!"},{"author_name":"MementoGames","author_uid":"92436","time":"Apr 24, 2016 @ 7:17pm","epoch":1461525120,"text":"Very simple and pretty graphics.\r<br\/>It's very fun to play!\r<br\/>I think the grid should be infinite (or a different game mode). I got stuck at the borders many times. hehe\r<br\/>Some multipliers for matching the shape and the color would be nice too.\r<br\/>Awesome entry!"},{"author_name":"Llucile","author_uid":"58109","time":"Apr 25, 2016 @ 11:56am","epoch":1461585060,"text":"Really nice smartphone game ! Everything is working flawlessly and the gameplay is fun.\r<br\/>The rules are not really clear though."},{"author_name":"cynicalmonkey","author_uid":"53023","time":"Apr 25, 2016 @ 6:44pm","epoch":1461609540,"text":"nice idea, but really needed some music or sound effects. while the mechanics are easy to work out for yourself the size of the level and the lose condition aren't so some explaining would be nice. its got a lot of potential for a mobile game but personally would of liked some way pf predicting what the next shape might be, it just felt random so it was hard to make informed choices when presented with multiple directions to go"},{"author_name":"sharrackor","author_uid":"92033","time":"Apr 25, 2016 @ 6:49pm","epoch":1461609840,"text":"Really good idea and good graphics!"},{"author_name":"humble_ray","author_uid":"91072","time":"Apr 26, 2016 @ 4:34am","epoch":1461644940,"text":"Beautiful game!"},{"author_name":"Frederika and Patrick","author_uid":"89951","time":"Apr 27, 2016 @ 12:30am","epoch":1461716700,"text":"This is a really fun game, very innovative. I wanted to keep playing it."},{"author_name":"AnaGF","author_uid":"56020","time":"Apr 27, 2016 @ 11:47am","epoch":1461757320,"text":"Nice mechanic, and very polished game. It is addictive."},{"author_name":"RyanNielson","author_uid":"13891","time":"Apr 28, 2016 @ 9:54pm","epoch":1461880140,"text":"Fantastic game. It's very polished and is a great idea. It's quite simple, but it does what it's designed to do very well. Some audio would have added greatly to the feeling of the game. Nice work!"},{"author_name":"guoboism","author_uid":"24432","time":"Apr 29, 2016 @ 11:50am","epoch":1461930300,"text":"Simple but fun!"},{"author_name":"DAT.NOT.MY.GAME!","author_uid":"56318","time":"Apr 30, 2016 @ 3:55pm","epoch":1462031400,"text":"Good one!"},{"author_name":"puppetmaster","author_uid":"39425","time":"Apr 30, 2016 @ 9:50pm","epoch":1462052700,"text":"Very clever game! It seams so easy :-)! Keep up the good work!"},{"author_name":"Alphish","author_uid":"39564","time":"Apr 30, 2016 @ 10:05pm","epoch":1462053600,"text":"Pretty neat entry, though it could use more audio. An indication about the current score in the game wouldn't hurt, either. Also, you might consider making different distinction between various colours, so that colour-blind people can enjoy your game, too. ^^'"},{"author_name":"Aaranos","author_uid":"51253","time":"Apr 30, 2016 @ 10:16pm","epoch":1462054260,"text":"Site appears to be down, can't download."},{"author_name":"Xanjos","author_uid":"21201","time":"May 1, 2016 @ 9:15pm","epoch":1462137000,"text":"Pretty simple concept but absolutely fun and addictive to play. Definitely one of those games that would translate very well to mobile."},{"author_name":"emmelineprufrock","author_uid":"22454","time":"May 2, 2016 @ 2:58am","epoch":1462157580,"text":"Lovely and simple. Lots of potential there, and I love a good mobile game."},{"author_name":"OnlySlightly","author_uid":"1959","time":"May 2, 2016 @ 3:00am","epoch":1462157700,"text":"Super cool concept and very well polished game.It really felt like a complete game. this was a very addicting game. This is something I could definitely see myself playing quite a bit on my phone. Really great aesthetic too. I especially liked the simple shadows."},{"author_name":"3T3A","author_uid":"49634","time":"May 2, 2016 @ 4:33pm","epoch":1462206480,"text":"I can't acces the game from pc for some reason. I'll play the android version in some hours"},{"author_name":"SantiHisteria","author_uid":"59433","time":"May 3, 2016 @ 6:15pm","epoch":1462299000,"text":"Simple and fine mechanic! I liked it. Good work!"}],"images":["ld35\/60542-bcbdceb7403c106d90a785db3d3a8c60.jpg","ld35\/60542-161b4eaeeb528d084ba33381edebf30e.jpg","ld35\/60542-80b37ba7e7a370316522b03d8c42f393.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.matiasbontempo.com\/shapegrid\/ShapeGrid.exe","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.matiasbontempo.shapegrid","text":"Android - Google Play"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.matiasbontempo.com\/shapegrid\/LD35 - ShapeGrid.gmz","text":"Source.gmz"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"2274","g_author":"60542","g_event":"LD35","g_eventkey":"33","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"2211","g_title":"ShapeGrid","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"164","g_commentcount":"63","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\/\/542293\/60542-shot0-1460937301.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/60542-shot1-1460917743.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/60542-shot2-1460917743.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Create your path through a world of shapes and colors. But be careful, you can only walk on tiles that share at least one of those two properties with you.\r\n\r\nThis is my first Compo! So I'd love to hear some feedback.\r\nThanks for playing!\r\n\r\nPS. My highscore so far is 223! Can you beat the creator?\r\nPS2. I finally had the chance to fix those game breaking bugs! :D","title":"ShapeGrid"}