{"author_link":"\/author\/jahlgren\/","author_name":"jahlgren","author_uid":"17805","comments":[{"author_name":"Orni","author_uid":"10771","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:48am","epoch":1367224980,"text":"very polished game - the controls are precise as well\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I liked it, one of my favorites so far."},{"author_name":"8BitPimp","author_uid":"20953","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 2:36pm","epoch":1367245860,"text":"Gorgeous game, instantly very captivating.\r<br\/>Easily the best game I have seen so far.\r<br\/>Its also freakishly hard, or perhaps that is just me.\r<br\/>It would be nice to see a video of how it should be played.\r<br\/>Great game though."},{"author_name":"kreischweide","author_uid":"21493","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 2:38pm","epoch":1367245980,"text":"Very nice indeed. Only sounds could have been better (less agressive in tone) and some kind of music would help it alot."},{"author_name":"Chman","author_uid":"17883","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 2:40pm","epoch":1367246100,"text":"Hard, but not frustrating. I died because of me, not because of the game, so it's &quot;good&quot; difficulty. Controls are spot-on and this whole hunger\/stamina balance makes the game very interesting to play. Good work !"},{"author_name":"bushmango","author_uid":"5852","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 2:41pm","epoch":1367246160,"text":"I liked it but man is it annoying to have to start over from the beginning every time. Cute graphics :)"},{"author_name":"techmonkey","author_uid":"21970","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 3:11pm","epoch":1367247960,"text":"One of the most playable games I've tested tonight.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The controls were rock solid and the game had a certain feeling of completeness."},{"author_name":"deige101","author_uid":"23187","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 5:04pm","epoch":1367254740,"text":"very cool! I loved it!"},{"author_name":"jahlgren","author_uid":"17805","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 12:21am","epoch":1367280960,"text":"I made a playthrough that i uploaded to youtube. http:\/\/youtu.be\/Vx5XsO9myM4"},{"author_name":"Lianne Booton","author_uid":"19939","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 6:06am","epoch":1367301660,"text":"This is very very well done. Audio and graphics are superb, and I really like the gameplay too. Great job :)"},{"author_name":"Gremlin","author_uid":"12047","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 6:12am","epoch":1367302020,"text":"Love the feel of the controls.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Really hard, but in a fair way. I didn't feel frustrated by the system, I felt like I'd lost the game. That's the sign of a well designed feedback loop."},{"author_name":"omaromeir","author_uid":"23110","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 6:15am","epoch":1367302200,"text":"Cool game, really difficult, but really polished too. I couldn't finish but I will come back for more later. Good luck :D."},{"author_name":"Ryusui","author_uid":"12635","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 6:22am","epoch":1367302620,"text":"Awesome game - this is something I'd probably pay $5 for on Steam. I just wish there were checkpoints of some kind, or a slightly more forgiving hunger\/stamina system in play!"},{"author_name":"Tahooey","author_uid":"18748","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 7:36am","epoch":1367307060,"text":"Very nice game, difficulty was a very good level, I like it :)"},{"author_name":"Tainted_Code","author_uid":"5752","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 7:39am","epoch":1367307240,"text":"Very good game-play. Similar feeling to the Super Meat Boy game. Job well done, nice graphics too!"},{"author_name":"lotusgame","author_uid":"19058","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 7:58am","epoch":1367308380,"text":"So hard ! Thanks to the video playthrough, i could watch what is after level 2 ^^ Your game seems very complete and huge. For a 48h entry, its incredible. Have you plan to make this game before theme has been announced ?"},{"author_name":"JokerDen","author_uid":"16034","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 9:32am","epoch":1367314020,"text":"Cool game. Did you used Setcyl for it?"},{"author_name":"Jubjub.","author_uid":"18307","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 9:35am","epoch":1367314200,"text":"Really cute and the graphics are incredibly nice for such a short time period. Especially like the wall sliding animation, looks smooth!"},{"author_name":"acatcalledfrank","author_uid":"23058","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 9:38am","epoch":1367314380,"text":"Good fun and cute characters, but insanely hard! I'd have played for longer if there were checkpoints rather than starting from scratch every time I think."},{"author_name":"tonic","author_uid":"66","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 4:43pm","epoch":1367339880,"text":"Pretty challenging. Nice style. :)"},{"author_name":"igrowbeards","author_uid":"21464","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 4:43pm","epoch":1367339880,"text":"I liked this a lot - really fun, and super polished."},{"author_name":"Zed","author_uid":"4687","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 4:43pm","epoch":1367339880,"text":"It's cool, but you could fix your steep difficulty curve by maybe saving the progress you make along the bottom when you die."},{"author_name":"FloatingGhost","author_uid":"20843","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 4:44pm","epoch":1367339940,"text":"Fantastic - it took me a while to figure out what I was doing but after that it was an amazing game."},{"author_name":"hulahulahest","author_uid":"528","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 4:46pm","epoch":1367340060,"text":"Quite fun. I was annoyed when I died of starvation while in the middle of the &quot;go through the exit&quot; animation. Feels like I was cheated out of winning the level."},{"author_name":"TinyDrakkarStudio","author_uid":"23501","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 4:51pm","epoch":1367340360,"text":"Very good game ! A little difficult at first, but it's fun and original and the gameplay are good."},{"author_name":"SmilingCat","author_uid":"21630","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 4:57pm","epoch":1367340720,"text":"Liked the gameboy-style graphics. Well polished, though I must admit I didn't make it beyond level 3 at any point."},{"author_name":"jahlgren","author_uid":"17805","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 6:16pm","epoch":1367345460,"text":"@hulahulahest Dying in the middle of the &quot;leaving room&quot; animation is a bug. It should not happen, but it can if your hunger is full. I will fix it in a post compo edition\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@JokerDen I made it with As3 using the Flashpunk framework\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@lotusgame No plans. I actually made something different the first day. But it was not fun to play so i started over :). So this was actually made in one day.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I thought of making checkpoints.. But the game is so short that it would defeat the point of being hard."},{"author_name":"Ariake81","author_uid":"19384","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 10:33pm","epoch":1367447280,"text":"Great little retro g"},{"author_name":"Ariake81","author_uid":"19384","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 10:45pm","epoch":1367448000,"text":"Great little retro game, with excellent graphics, animation and sound. The stamina system can at times feel overly harsh though. I seemed to be beaten a few times by impossible deadlines rather than my control (controls by the way are incredibly slick and tight). A great and complete game!!"},{"author_name":"SaintHeiser","author_uid":"14848","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 2:47am","epoch":1367462520,"text":"Excellent work!\r<br\/>Well made minimalistic fun game!\r<br\/>I impressed by game mechanic with hunger =)"},{"author_name":"GeorgeBroussard","author_uid":"8631","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 8:14am","epoch":1367482140,"text":"Well done graphics and mechanics. Seems the hunger meter should start out slower as you are learning the game and get faster later?"},{"author_name":"mortus","author_uid":"20884","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 6:31pm","epoch":1367519160,"text":"Great game, it was hard only first three levels, and then became challenging (which is good). Could be harder to be honest. ;D"},{"author_name":"Alink","author_uid":"11244","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 11:41am","epoch":1367667360,"text":"Very good. The stamina\/eating\/digging mechanism and the semi-random levels are cool innovations."},{"author_name":"GranaDa","author_uid":"11561","time":"May 5, 2013 @ 12:34pm","epoch":1367756940,"text":"Nice graphics and gameplay. Would love a windows version to play offline. Awesome jobe!"},{"author_name":"Riccardo Stucchi","author_uid":"11685","time":"May 5, 2013 @ 12:39pm","epoch":1367757240,"text":"Very nice entry! The controls are perfect and the graphics is very cool! I like the idea of eating blocks to survive. Well done!!"},{"author_name":"Norgg","author_uid":"5283","time":"May 7, 2013 @ 10:36am","epoch":1367922660,"text":"Nice game, really polished. The movement feels really satisfying and responsive."},{"author_name":"RealyUniqueName","author_uid":"20479","time":"May 8, 2013 @ 12:17pm","epoch":1368015120,"text":"it's great in all aspects except i need to start from the beginning after death :)"},{"author_name":"cakemonitor","author_uid":"5357","time":"May 10, 2013 @ 4:28pm","epoch":1368202980,"text":"very nifty game, but tricky! great job :)"},{"author_name":"lasergans","author_uid":"18111","time":"May 10, 2013 @ 4:34pm","epoch":1368203340,"text":"I really like your game :) Feels polished, the controls are very good. :)"},{"author_name":"kddekadenz","author_uid":"10000","time":"May 10, 2013 @ 4:48pm","epoch":1368204180,"text":"Well-balanced and appealing graphics.. However, it does not motivate me to play for long."},{"author_name":"mollymus","author_uid":"13074","time":"May 10, 2013 @ 5:17pm","epoch":1368205920,"text":"Very cool game! Well polished and fun!:)"},{"author_name":"Luck of the day games","author_uid":"11277","time":"May 10, 2013 @ 5:24pm","epoch":1368206340,"text":"Great game, please continue developing this game it is one of the best games in the competion by far"},{"author_name":"Sebastian","author_uid":"20818","time":"May 10, 2013 @ 6:04pm","epoch":1368208740,"text":"This controls very nicely and is a TON of fun!"},{"author_name":"kill0u","author_uid":"5422","time":"May 10, 2013 @ 6:27pm","epoch":1368210120,"text":"I hate you T_T This game is amazing, but insanely hard. But amazing. I down-voted &quot;fun&quot; a little because the hardness reduces the fun, but I gave you really good ratings anyway ;) Good job."},{"author_name":"Kvisle","author_uid":"3818","time":"May 10, 2013 @ 8:53pm","epoch":1368218880,"text":"A bit unforgiving, I think - having to start from the beginning makes it a bit too hard for me.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Are the levels generated, or are they picked randomly from a pool?\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The game is pretty, and the mechanics are solid."},{"author_name":"Angerus","author_uid":"12361","time":"May 10, 2013 @ 10:20pm","epoch":1368224100,"text":"Excellent, just excellent! I only wish a more easy start but well, the die-retry system is a cool one!"},{"author_name":"someone","author_uid":"1207","time":"May 10, 2013 @ 10:25pm","epoch":1368224400,"text":"Very nice. Good fun."},{"author_name":"madlee","author_uid":"15236","time":"May 11, 2013 @ 1:26am","epoch":1368235260,"text":"Probably my favorite of the competition.  Not ashamed to say that I played this for about and hour and a half before I finally beat it!  Very impressive!"},{"author_name":"mildmojo","author_uid":"6748","time":"May 11, 2013 @ 6:20am","epoch":1368252900,"text":"Excellent controls, very much like Super Meat Boy. Much harder than SMB, though, with the hunger\/stamina mechanic. I tried a bunch of times but could only get halfway through. Watching the playthrough, there are some good strategies for getting through some of those levels quicker.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Very complete; I don't know how you did that in a day. =)"},{"author_name":"Zccc","author_uid":"14205","time":"May 11, 2013 @ 2:42pm","epoch":1368283020,"text":"Really hard, but addictive!"},{"author_name":"madlee","author_uid":"15236","time":"May 11, 2013 @ 6:47pm","epoch":1368297720,"text":"I've actually come back and played this game some more after beating it, just because I like it so much!  Do you have any plans to expand on it after the competition period is over?"},{"author_name":"jahlgren","author_uid":"17805","time":"May 11, 2013 @ 9:08pm","epoch":1368306180,"text":"Thanks for all the nice comments\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@Kvisle, The levels are picked from a random pool. I wanted to have much more levels to choose from, but I did not have the time to design them.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@madlee, I do have plans to make this into a full game. Keep an eye on greenlight, it might pop up there :)"},{"author_name":"oskardevelopment","author_uid":"21518","time":"May 12, 2013 @ 9:58am","epoch":1368352380,"text":"Fun platformer with neat 2D art! :) Inspired from Meat boy?"},{"author_name":"finefin","author_uid":"16498","time":"May 12, 2013 @ 1:24pm","epoch":1368364740,"text":"ooooh nice animations! the game is hard but the style makes up for that ;)"},{"author_name":"ethankennerly","author_uid":"3040","time":"May 12, 2013 @ 8:23pm","epoch":1368389880,"text":"Eating blocks interested me.  If you continue to develop this, at various screens I was not sure how to eat my way to the exit or what the timing was to jump and eat or if I was running out the ability to eat."},{"author_name":"TheSheep","author_uid":"11694","time":"May 13, 2013 @ 5:45pm","epoch":1368466800,"text":"Nice graphics, very tight controls, cool idea. Shame it's another platformer though, and I totally suck at keeping track of 5 different things at the same time (running, jumping, eating, stamina and shooting)."},{"author_name":"Martin_Monosys","author_uid":"20047","time":"May 14, 2013 @ 8:39pm","epoch":1368563640,"text":"Interesting, but a bit hard..."},{"author_name":"michail","author_uid":"20486","time":"May 15, 2013 @ 7:39pm","epoch":1368646440,"text":"Nice mechanics, I like the random level idea. Yeah, it is very hard, but it is OK for me."},{"author_name":"Dotanukii","author_uid":"17685","time":"May 20, 2013 @ 6:24am","epoch":1369030740,"text":"One of the best entries I've played yet, the concept is brilliant and it's creates an incredibly fun and urgent mood. Great work!"},{"author_name":"Roupette","author_uid":"15706","time":"May 20, 2013 @ 10:55am","epoch":1369047000,"text":"Nice ! Want to eat the world :p."},{"author_name":"Xanjos","author_uid":"21201","time":"May 21, 2013 @ 12:09am","epoch":1369094640,"text":"Loved the visual style whilst the general gameplay concept was actually pretty interesting and had quite a lot of depth and strategy to it."}],"images":["ld26\/17805-667245f40507f7b88acf5bc3ddd47eda.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.jahlgren.com\/ld26\/","text":"Web (flash)"},{"url":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Vx5XsO9myM4","text":"Playthrough (Youtube)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.jahlgren.com\/ld26\/The_Parasite_LD26_source.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"26446","g_author":"17805","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"26476","g_title":"The Parasite","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"30","g_commentcount":"60","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\/\/233892\/17805-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"The Parasite\r\n\r\n** Please don't rate the game bad because you fail. The game is meant to be hard. **\r\n\r\nInstructions:\r\n\r\nMove with your arrow keys. Eat blocks by pressing C. Blocks will be eaten in the direction you hold the arrow keys. Shoot (vomit) by pressing X, this kills enemies.\r\n\r\nKill all the enemies to advance to the next world (You must also enter the door that is open).\r\n\r\nIf you get too hungry you die. Eat blocks to dampen the hunger.\r\n\r\nEating causes you to loose stamina. Stamina is needed for eating blocks.\r\n\r\n* Boss at the end :) Mabye a Pot*** ..<\/p>","title":"The Parasite"}