{"author_link":"\/author\/marksmith93\/","author_name":"Mark Smith","author_uid":"55617","comments":[{"author_name":"qikcik","author_uid":"69120","time":"Apr 17, 2016 @ 8:08pm","epoch":1460923380,"text":"Nice :D"},{"author_name":"sand6r","author_uid":"92690","time":"Apr 17, 2016 @ 8:54pm","epoch":1460926140,"text":"Hey, man, looks like it doesnt run in web-mode"},{"author_name":"sand6r","author_uid":"92690","time":"Apr 17, 2016 @ 8:54pm","epoch":1460926140,"text":"or maybe it's just my laptop thats too outdated to play this"},{"author_name":"jacklehamster","author_uid":"20841","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 3:12am","epoch":1460948820,"text":"Nice work! It's pleasant to navigate into the round world."},{"author_name":"brinkhousegames","author_uid":"65699","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 3:13am","epoch":1460948880,"text":"Very creative, loved the calming music. Had some issues with controls and movement, and I thought there could be a little more direction about the motivation, but great work overall!"},{"author_name":"Tater_hater","author_uid":"21618","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 3:23am","epoch":1460949480,"text":"It is a very pretty game! 100 objective pts is a little much for a jam game.."},{"author_name":"egos","author_uid":"20701","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 3:23am","epoch":1460949480,"text":"nice visual aspect \r<br\/>But the control are really buggy with me"},{"author_name":"Garrett Hoofman","author_uid":"4043","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 3:25am","epoch":1460949600,"text":"Great game! Only feedback is that it was a little tricky seeing the jump on the wolf when the camera is directly above. Maybe tilt it just a bit?"},{"author_name":"Docjekyll","author_uid":"41650","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 4:13am","epoch":1460952480,"text":"Great visual style :-D"},{"author_name":"chobrah","author_uid":"22474","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 4:42am","epoch":1460954220,"text":"This game is absolutely stunning.  I am transported to a distant memory of Mario64 and love it.  The controls and movement bugs detract a little bit, once you master the programming side you will be an unstoppable force.  What you accomplished in LD conditions is unfathomable to me."},{"author_name":"reheated","author_uid":"15514","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 5:09am","epoch":1460955840,"text":"It's gorgeous, and I like the little details like whizzing bullet sounds."},{"author_name":"cornand34","author_uid":"88932","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 8:19am","epoch":1460967240,"text":"nice game"},{"author_name":"jk5000","author_uid":"50889","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 9:12am","epoch":1460970420,"text":"Simple, fun and beautiful."},{"author_name":"TideS","author_uid":"11758","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 9:32am","epoch":1460971620,"text":"Cool graphics style, but too easy to play."},{"author_name":"wumpus","author_uid":"14437","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 9:37am","epoch":1460971920,"text":"Haha, I was going to say it was a bit pedestrian until I found my first hunter and crapped my pants. I got 49\/100 before the swines shot me out of the sky.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Movement was a little ropey (this fish was painfully slow) but the objective and challenge seemed to be balanced just right. I like the touches like sound of the bullets zipping by you and it looks quite nice.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I really enjoyed it."},{"author_name":"Przekop","author_uid":"91564","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 9:38am","epoch":1460971980,"text":"That was great experience. For me bird, and shark was bugged a little. Bird was trying to go somewhere without any input, and shark was very slow in water."},{"author_name":"norseware","author_uid":"87842","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 9:41am","epoch":1460972160,"text":"Wow. This was awesome! I really liked playing this. It's creative, and engaging. The hunters are awesome! :)"},{"author_name":"nopogo","author_uid":"22228","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 9:41am","epoch":1460972160,"text":"Liked the perspective and controls. Also great level design."},{"author_name":"HoldMeImScared","author_uid":"92332","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 9:43am","epoch":1460972280,"text":"I got 67 coins before I quit.  A little glitchiness with movement, but on the whole pretty nice.  I like your little planet :)"},{"author_name":"Berserker_Chris","author_uid":"52858","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 10:02am","epoch":1460973420,"text":"Nice Game, the shooting range is a little bit to high.\r<br\/>but good idea and music"},{"author_name":"Fatsheep","author_uid":"92482","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 10:18am","epoch":1460974380,"text":"Pretty nice game, some minor bugs, has an overall good feel."},{"author_name":"NCBRdev","author_uid":"50319","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 12:33pm","epoch":1460982480,"text":"The only critique I have is that the game runs REALLY slow on some browsers\/computers."},{"author_name":"neilcorre2k6","author_uid":"49082","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 2:10pm","epoch":1460988300,"text":"Hi there! :) \r<br\/>\r<br\/>This is a very interesting game! :D it can be used to raise awareness :D\r<br\/>\r<br\/>just sayin' ;)"},{"author_name":"plantprogrammer","author_uid":"91677","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 3:19pm","epoch":1460992440,"text":"An excellent entry :)\r<br\/>Despite the wobbly\/glitchy controls, I loved playing it."},{"author_name":"Jukepoks1","author_uid":"55121","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 3:21pm","epoch":1460992560,"text":"This is really nice! only problem is that when I shapeshift to a bird it starts below ground sometimes. Hard and fachinating game. I like the music. Audio of those bullets passing by is awesome! it makes the game so intense all of a sudden :D This game looks beautiful even though its lowpoly!"},{"author_name":"Dooskington","author_uid":"25167","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 5:34pm","epoch":1461000540,"text":"Cool game! I liked the whole &quot;round world&quot; thing."},{"author_name":"RyanNielson","author_uid":"13891","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 6:06pm","epoch":1461002460,"text":"Great game, I love the music and the art. There was a bit of hitchiness on my laptop though for some reason. Overall, great effort though. It's quite unique."},{"author_name":"wheerd","author_uid":"92309","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 8:07pm","epoch":1461009720,"text":"I love the graphics and the music, and the use of shape shifting is cool :)"},{"author_name":"bluszcz","author_uid":"55906","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 11:08pm","epoch":1461020580,"text":"Nice (and it does run in the web mode - Chromium \/ Linux)"},{"author_name":"KunoNoOni","author_uid":"6464","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 12:39am","epoch":1461026040,"text":"What a wonderful little game. I really enjoyed not have to kill anything lol. Just need to run around and collect thinks. quite relaxing :)"},{"author_name":"Ogniok","author_uid":"39370","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 1:36am","epoch":1461029460,"text":"The game is pretty neat. I love the idea of changing into different types of animals :D"},{"author_name":"Spud","author_uid":"84747","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 10:26am","epoch":1461061260,"text":"I enjoyed the tiny planet"},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"27744","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 11:28pm","epoch":1461108180,"text":"I like the graphics and feel of this game! I included it in my video compilation series of Ludum Dare games, if you&rsquo;d like to check them out :) https:\/\/youtu.be\/F-G7DKrQW4g"},{"author_name":"Patomkin","author_uid":"57656","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 1:40pm","epoch":1461159300,"text":"A very pretty game! I've had some problems with controls, though - the shark (whale?) is very slow, making it really time consuming to collect coins underwater, and the bird sometimes freaks out and flies into the ground :\/ don't know, why.\r<br\/>Tried a couple of times to eat those hunters. Raawr! :D"},{"author_name":"Ithildin","author_uid":"15664","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 4:09pm","epoch":1461168240,"text":"Great entry! Navigation around the globe is smooth, and despite the hunters the experience is mostly relaxed, well done!"},{"author_name":"ObsessiveNotion","author_uid":"92905","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 10:46pm","epoch":1461192060,"text":"I have always been a fan of planet games. I think the controls are bad, would be better if the character looks instantly into the direction I want to go or atleast much quicker. Keep it up"},{"author_name":"blockdroppers","author_uid":"93276","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 10:46pm","epoch":1461192060,"text":"Pretty fun game!"},{"author_name":"joaomosmann","author_uid":"63197","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 11:08pm","epoch":1461193380,"text":"Beautiful! The graphics matches well with the audio. As expected, it needs some polishing. There is some bugs when shape-shifting between bird and shark. But you're in the right track. Could totally become a bigger game!"},{"author_name":"WojtaW","author_uid":"90397","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 11:23pm","epoch":1461194280,"text":"Nice game."},{"author_name":"Uson Chen","author_uid":"90795","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 11:24pm","epoch":1461194340,"text":"Great style~ I like the natural stuffs."},{"author_name":"Shatter Point Studios","author_uid":"85070","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 11:43pm","epoch":1461195480,"text":"The art design and music is really nice. I think I would have enjoyed this more without the people shooting at me; it seems like it could be a nice relaxing puzzle\/platformer thing."},{"author_name":"Solifuge","author_uid":"22357","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 11:53pm","epoch":1461196080,"text":"I liked the atmosphere, the visuals, the water shader, and the sound quite a bit. Was fun juking and hopping around shots, though I wish I had a way to remove the threats from some areas; perhaps tricking poachers into shooting one another or something? Also, some cost or mechanic that limited how often you could shapeshift, or changed it in some other way, might have been neat. As it was, it was a bit slow, but I enjoyed playing it; my record was 65\/100. Thanks for putting this together!"},{"author_name":"AnaGF","author_uid":"56020","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 1:13am","epoch":1461200880,"text":"Cute game, creative and original idea. Graphics and audio are nice too."},{"author_name":"vini60","author_uid":"49640","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 1:25am","epoch":1461201600,"text":"Really great atmosphere. I love the mini-world."},{"author_name":"fenwick","author_uid":"80489","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 2:05am","epoch":1461204000,"text":"Very nice and peaceful game.  Good peaceful music too.  Unfortunately I could only find 99 of the 100 coins :(.  Also I think diagonal movement is faster than up\/down..."},{"author_name":"Freank","author_uid":"94168","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 4:57pm","epoch":1461257520,"text":"Hi, nice game ! We're realizing a video with several games of the Ludum Dare #35.\r<br\/>Can you add your game on indiexpo.net ? (it's free)\r<br\/>So we can include also your game in the video ;)\r<br\/>p.s. write #LDJAM in the game's description"},{"author_name":"endel","author_uid":"50958","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 9:15pm","epoch":1461273000,"text":"Pretty cool. I can see a lot of potential on this core idea. The mood is really deep and relaxing. Keep it up! Congratulations."},{"author_name":"drazil100","author_uid":"89952","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 11:47pm","epoch":1461282120,"text":"Those hunters are mean. how do you eat them?"},{"author_name":"MintArcade","author_uid":"35966","time":"Apr 23, 2016 @ 9:35am","epoch":1461403800,"text":"Fantastic game! Nice models, great visuals for compo entry. Wow!"},{"author_name":"Andreas Brandt","author_uid":"29122","time":"Apr 23, 2016 @ 10:26am","epoch":1461406860,"text":"NICE! great entry, a little bit difficult to die here, but amazing graphics."},{"author_name":"jasonalighieri","author_uid":"91352","time":"Apr 26, 2016 @ 1:41am","epoch":1461634560,"text":"This has a great feel to it. Sadly I kept hitting a bug where I'd be moved to sea-level every time I shifted to a bird."},{"author_name":"medidog","author_uid":"89905","time":"May 1, 2016 @ 4:59am","epoch":1462078440,"text":"This game really has unique setting. Really lacks a balance of challenge though. Would improved if the collision of the coins would be wider. I also found the speed of the movement a little slow. Overall, nice entry!"},{"author_name":"Louspirit","author_uid":"55260","time":"May 6, 2016 @ 9:28am","epoch":1462526580,"text":"It is a relaxing game. I experimented some troubles with the bird that didnt want to fly sometimes."},{"author_name":"smbe19","author_uid":"37059","time":"May 9, 2016 @ 11:26am","epoch":1462792860,"text":"Good entry, the perspective was a little weird, though. The art style was cool, but the gameplay is lacking diversity. But that's understandable for a 72 hour game. Good job."}],"images":["ld35\/55617-871a059738680cfb6a0bfa369e09871a.jpg","ld35\/55617-4fb353840fa6c4b484afb6f16950ca7c.jpg","ld35\/55617-0517f453b83d2f4409190197343c40ed.jpg","ld35\/55617-238e27182f0d04d9f0042f3cf7537a4d.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/9279d978eace8d05ead6ef7ee0c0088c42a48fcf.googledrive.com\/host\/0B4lOz-3CnBpSUmNabHYzaVpBc2s\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/gryz5q22ftxi9b6\/Blue%20Moon%20Windows%20Build.rar?dl=0","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/sexukd1cpz26vjb\/Ludum%20Dare%2035%20Project.rar?dl=0","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"2408","g_author":"55617","g_event":"LD35","g_eventkey":"33","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"2342","g_title":"Blue Moon","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"387","g_commentcount":"54","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\/55617-shot0-1460897361.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/55617-shot1-1460897361.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/55617-shot2-1460897361.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/55617-shot3-1460897361.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Blue Moon is an exploration and collecting game where the player controls a shapeshifter who can swap between 3 forms; A wolf, a shark and a bird.\r\n\r\nEach form gives different advantages that are needed to collect all the gems and avoid the evil Hunters.\r\n\r\nControls:\r\n\r\nW,S,A,D & Arrow Keys - Move your character\r\n\r\nSpacebar - Jump\/Swim Up\r\n\r\n1 - Shapeshift into a Wolf\r\n\r\n2 - Shapeshift into a Shark\r\n\r\n3 - Shapeshift into a Bird\r\n\r\nMouse Scroll Wheel - adjust camera\r\n\r\n* I apologise for a couple of movement bugs I didn't have time to fix *","title":"Blue Moon"}