{"author_link":"\/author\/snail_man\/","author_name":"Snail_Man","author_uid":"11050","comments":[{"author_name":"hbocao","author_uid":"25980","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 12:22am","epoch":1377476220,"text":"Wow. Great concept! \r<br\/>PS: Fu**ing guards!"},{"author_name":"TheBlueRage","author_uid":"26343","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 3:15am","epoch":1377486600,"text":"Very cool game! I agree with hbocao... Fu**ing guards!"},{"author_name":"sparkleswirl","author_uid":"22944","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 3:27am","epoch":1377487320,"text":"Great concept\/mechanic! It's reminiscent of a few Flash stealth games but the way you combined all the mechanics made it very novel."},{"author_name":"hbocao","author_uid":"25980","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 3:30am","epoch":1377487500,"text":"I really enjoyed your game. Good luck!"},{"author_name":"TwilightFlandre","author_uid":"14448","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:53am","epoch":1377492480,"text":"Another game that revolves around light! The graphics look great and its such a fun stealth game."},{"author_name":"jay griffin","author_uid":"26325","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:56am","epoch":1377492660,"text":"For a 15 hour job this is a really slick piece of work. Some clever mechanics and really nicely implemented to go with it. Excellent job."},{"author_name":"Empyrealhell","author_uid":"26650","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:59am","epoch":1377492840,"text":"The time paradox was a neat idea, and it was executed well. I had trouble with it because of the key bindings (non-qwerty keyboard), but customization is a bit much to ask in 48 hours I suppose. For what I did play, it was solid. Cohesive graphics, appropriate sounds, actual thought put into the theme. I was a bit worried when I saw the small view area in the screenshot, but it worked pretty well. Good show."},{"author_name":"Feysoura","author_uid":"25882","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 5:02am","epoch":1377493020,"text":"WOW.\r<br\/>Loved it."},{"author_name":"Infernal","author_uid":"16392","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 5:16am","epoch":1377493860,"text":"Very great concept!"},{"author_name":"fferro234","author_uid":"26574","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 5:18am","epoch":1377493980,"text":"I loved the time paradox aspect. Maybe it was my computer lagging, but the timer definitely was more than 10 seconds which seemed odd, but otherwise really cool game."},{"author_name":"Snail_Man","author_uid":"11050","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 5:36am","epoch":1377495060,"text":"@fferro It was probably your computer lagging.\r<br\/>On some levels with lots of entities, the game can drag to a quarter of the FPS cap on my computer. It's a result of me not actually optimizing anything.\r<br\/>@everyone else:\r<br\/>Thanks a bunch for your positive feedback! :3\r<br\/>It's really nice to hear so many good things. It feels like when you're making a game, you either become blind to its flaws, or they get magnified 100x."},{"author_name":"archaeometrician","author_uid":"27214","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 6:39am","epoch":1377498840,"text":"So many guards ! Very interesting concept ! Nice game. Ph by the way, the guards are definitively cheating. Headshot all the time, they use aimbot for sure ;)"},{"author_name":"gamepopper","author_uid":"21252","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 10:11am","epoch":1377511560,"text":"The time travel mechanic is very clever, and the platforming is very well put together. I like the gameplay graphics, but the limited field of view made it very obstructing."},{"author_name":"NightShadow0","author_uid":"20302","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 3:48pm","epoch":1377531780,"text":"Wow, this is really impressive!\r<br\/>If i had to nitpick something it'd be that your &quot;sphere of sight&quot; is a bit too small, especially when it comes to evading lasers, but amazing job!"},{"author_name":"tombsar","author_uid":"24831","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 6:04pm","epoch":1377539940,"text":"An interesting game concept, and executed very well. I had severe performance problems on my computer, and the game ran at less than half the intended speed (judging by the 10s countdown).\r<br\/>The graphics are nice, and the gameplay mechanics are very clever. I disliked the laser obstacles, as I think they sometimes 'saw' me outside of their detection radius."},{"author_name":"Boodog","author_uid":"27333","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 7:57pm","epoch":1377546720,"text":"Cool game!"},{"author_name":"MrBlade","author_uid":"23232","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 8:20pm","epoch":1377548100,"text":"Hey Man, I was the guy who gave you some support when you were having frame rate issues; I am so glad to see that you finished- I do see what you were talking about though. With more than two or three guards on the screen, my framerate would go down below ten. :c But when this game works, it works well. You executed the mechanics perfect! I love the line of sight. Took me a minute to figure out that by moving my mouse I could see more. Keep it up man. Nice work."},{"author_name":"doonay21","author_uid":"18952","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 5:06pm","epoch":1377622860,"text":"Excellent game! And interesting innovation! Thanks for this game!!"},{"author_name":"mikegbrown","author_uid":"25369","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 5:11pm","epoch":1377623160,"text":"This was great. Those guards are dicks. Well done."},{"author_name":"handCraftedRadio","author_uid":"1094","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 4:35pm","epoch":1377707400,"text":"Wow! This is awesome! Great concept and very good use of the theme! I'd love to see this idea expanded upon into a bigger game."},{"author_name":"almightyzentaco","author_uid":"25879","time":"Aug 28, 2013 @ 4:57pm","epoch":1377708720,"text":"Nice job. I liked the lighting system."},{"author_name":"nathanhoffer","author_uid":"25795","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 3:47am","epoch":1377747720,"text":"FREAKING AWESOME!!  I love the look of the characters.  This was one of my favorite entries so far."},{"author_name":"theholychicken","author_uid":"25095","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 10:18am","epoch":1377771180,"text":"Brilliant concept! The time travel self duplication is just too epic.\r<br\/>Terrific pixel art style.\r<br\/>Very awesome!"},{"author_name":"ellipticaldoor","author_uid":"24027","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 4:55pm","epoch":1377795000,"text":"Good initial story :D"},{"author_name":"SanguineTheSecond","author_uid":"27789","time":"Aug 30, 2013 @ 5:22pm","epoch":1377883020,"text":"The game felt a bit execution-based even after you've already solved the puzzle in your mind, I think that could be improved. The concept was cool."},{"author_name":"GFM","author_uid":"7375","time":"Aug 31, 2013 @ 3:11pm","epoch":1377961560,"text":"Nice game! The walking animation was great!! :D\r<br\/>\r<br\/>But a little too heavy for my pc. :(\r<br\/>(I played until the second stage with detectors, then it got too laggy...)"},{"author_name":"Literal Games","author_uid":"26056","time":"Aug 31, 2013 @ 5:16pm","epoch":1377969060,"text":"Gets very difficult to see what's going on out of view, but really good fun and a great concept! Well done!"},{"author_name":"shard123","author_uid":"3824","time":"Sep 1, 2013 @ 5:42pm","epoch":1378057020,"text":"Really impressive! I hope to get this good with Game Maker some day!"},{"author_name":"Arrow-x","author_uid":"17767","time":"Sep 1, 2013 @ 6:00pm","epoch":1378058100,"text":"very good use of the theme ... fun game"},{"author_name":"Vile Smile","author_uid":"26636","time":"Sep 12, 2013 @ 11:45pm","epoch":1379029200,"text":"Really liked the concept. Flashlight visual was very cool. Nicely done!"}],"images":["ld27\/11050-573eddfcf65679af47d08ca7cee4c3d4.jpg","ld27\/11050-7f19dfa56d961d94a9d3d91c2358d958.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/app.box.com\/s\/ysqp9j1v4nh4gvbxh7sd","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/app.box.com\/s\/33vze038r9kh9rlu33yi","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"24679","g_author":"11050","g_event":"LD27","g_eventkey":"18","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"24709","g_title":"Chrono Escape","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"98","g_commentcount":"30","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\/\/273708\/11050-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/11050-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"A platform\/puzzle\/stealth game about a man and a time machine.\r\nIt was made in an estimated 15 hours of work, by Snail_Man.\r\n\r\nThe game was made in GameMaker8.1, and all the sprites were made in the native graphical editor. The sound was made using SFXR, and Audacity with a microphone. The music was recorded using a double-ended AUX cable, a keyboard, and audacity.\r\n\r\nI hope you enjoy playing the game as much as I enjoyed making it :D\r\nFeel free to do with the source what you will. The programming is horrible unoptimized and messy. If you make anything cool with it, send it my way :D\r\n\r\nYou can find the postmortem here:\r\nhttp:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2013\/08\/29\/chrono-escape-post-mortem\/","title":"Chrono Escape"}