{"author_link":"\/author\/suese\/","author_name":"Suese","author_uid":"8361","comments":[{"author_name":"Split82","author_uid":"15279","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 3:28am","epoch":1367205780,"text":"Yeah right :D I like it. I make a game about square too."},{"author_name":"dscripps","author_uid":"21720","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 3:31am","epoch":1367205960,"text":"Wow! I'm very impressed and addicted to your game."},{"author_name":"shama","author_uid":"22120","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 3:31am","epoch":1367205960,"text":"Awesome intro. +1 kittens. :D"},{"author_name":"StuStutheBloo","author_uid":"20822","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 3:34am","epoch":1367206140,"text":"Haha, really liked this one. Lots of polish. Attacking was awkward though because it canceled your attack when you let go of the button. Solid!"},{"author_name":"CherryNukaCola","author_uid":"4966","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:23am","epoch":1367209080,"text":"Awesome music!"},{"author_name":"acronaut","author_uid":"22870","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 5:09am","epoch":1367211840,"text":"Nice twist of intro. Hilarious character design! tricky to attack (most likely get hit by enemy than inflicting damage scott-free)."},{"author_name":"skwirl3014","author_uid":"23241","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 5:21am","epoch":1367212560,"text":"This is really nice and polished"},{"author_name":"bobo72a","author_uid":"22834","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 5:30am","epoch":1367213100,"text":"Great entry! One of my favorites so far."},{"author_name":"Orni","author_uid":"10771","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:50am","epoch":1367217900,"text":"fun game!\rthe surprise one gets after the intro is priceless (I was expecting a platformer). by the way - the character is a square wearing pants ... I might have seen its yellow cousin somewhere ;)\r\rcool idea, well done"},{"author_name":"lpcustom","author_uid":"20747","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 7:12am","epoch":1367219220,"text":"The one thing I like about this theme is that I'm seeing a lot of good minimalist graphics. This one has great graphics even though they look simple, they are complex at the same time. Good work!"},{"author_name":"Xgor","author_uid":"18652","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:07am","epoch":1367222520,"text":"Great intro, the collision feels kinda weird, and you can't be hit by a enemy several times without you having a chance to move so that's pretty annoying though."},{"author_name":"Hadyn","author_uid":"23069","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:13am","epoch":1367222880,"text":"Great style, polish and sense of humor. Gameplay is fun enough, though the attack feels a little limited and the enemies aren't overly challenging. Still, I like what you've done with the theme!"},{"author_name":"Perry","author_uid":"15778","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:14am","epoch":1367222940,"text":"Really great, mate. Only one complaint, the birds are annoying."},{"author_name":"Andrio","author_uid":"20219","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:15am","epoch":1367223000,"text":"Funny intro :)"},{"author_name":"daniel","author_uid":"12606","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:31am","epoch":1367223960,"text":"That is quite the character :) Fitting audio selection, goes well with the retro look \/ gameplay."},{"author_name":"Infin8","author_uid":"4643","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 9:38am","epoch":1367227980,"text":"Awesome. I love procedurally generated games. Here's one I can add to the list, a beat em up. Just having a delay in the attack animation makes it so much more fun."},{"author_name":"unclejunkie","author_uid":"23044","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 1:45pm","epoch":1367242800,"text":"Nice game, I've slaughtered the whole army of evil worms and bees!"},{"author_name":"Colapsydo","author_uid":"3984","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 1:54pm","epoch":1367243340,"text":"Nice surprise and nice character animation.\rIs there a particular reason that you choose not to make the attack automatic?"},{"author_name":"FuzzyWuzzie","author_uid":"22923","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:54pm","epoch":1367261340,"text":"This was really cute!"},{"author_name":"Puzzlem00n","author_uid":"11003","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:57pm","epoch":1367268720,"text":"Wow, haha, not bad, not bad, wasn't expecting that after the intro! Pretty funny, I guess. Although, I agree with everyone on the attacking- I just kept hitting the button wondering why nothing was happening at first."},{"author_name":"skwirl3014","author_uid":"23241","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 9:01pm","epoch":1367268960,"text":"This is pretty good"},{"author_name":"Suese","author_uid":"8361","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 10:31pm","epoch":1367274360,"text":"The range of the sword doesn't go far past the body, so I figured I had to make the swords 'attack' region slightly ahead of the character. \r\rI had the attack 'automatic' but it really made it feel hokey being forced into the entire animation on the tiniest little tap.\r\rIf you think it's too easy try 'death-sandwich'\rIf you think it's too hard try 'easy' :)\r\rThanks for all the encouraging comments."},{"author_name":"Kom","author_uid":"12552","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 12:10am","epoch":1367280300,"text":"Apart from the flying enemies being able to hit you when they don't appear to be close enough depth-wise, this is reasonably fun and is of a quality that one does not often see in a Ludum Dare entry."},{"author_name":"toonheart","author_uid":"21211","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 12:18am","epoch":1367280780,"text":"I see headless snakes... Love it Love it. \r\rDone rating.\r\rPlease do show some love on my game too :)\rhttp:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-26\/?action=rate&uid=21211"},{"author_name":"CloudiestNights","author_uid":"20248","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 1:03am","epoch":1367283480,"text":"And then it was a diamond :) Simple game made tougher with the delayed attack animation. Quite funny, too XD"},{"author_name":"john_conder9","author_uid":"12682","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 2:07am","epoch":1367287320,"text":"This is a game I could spend hours playing trying to get better at. ... And I'd probably still suck :P Brilliant concept, hilarious implementation, and I loved the potatoes dropping from the birds (when I could kill them that is, because, let's be honest: that was hard. That was very, very hard.)"},{"author_name":"BlennosoftGames","author_uid":"8308","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 3:43am","epoch":1367293080,"text":"Nice parody of the theme in the intro :P Also quite fun, though took me a few tries to figure out you have to hold the attack button."},{"author_name":"syawqy","author_uid":"15312","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 4:15am","epoch":1367295000,"text":"nice art\rbut collision feel a bit weird"},{"author_name":"ddionisio","author_uid":"17724","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 6:47am","epoch":1367304120,"text":"Nice surprise with the intro! I love the graphics, plenty of personality into each creature. I have to agree that it was kinda hard to tell if you're able to hit enemies."},{"author_name":"GeorgeBroussard","author_uid":"8631","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 9:53am","epoch":1367315280,"text":"Liked the visual style and the music. Really disliked the attack and having to hold the attack key down vs just tapping it once?"},{"author_name":"lotusgame","author_uid":"19058","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 11:48am","epoch":1367322180,"text":"Funny intro. good job. But It's difficult to attack bird."},{"author_name":"SonnyBone","author_uid":"1365","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 12:01pm","epoch":1367322960,"text":"You got me! I was expecting yet another 'block' game and then BOOOOOM you hit me with the art change! I hate those birds, though. I can't hit them when they're on another plane, but they can hit me. I hate them for that! Great job with the art and sound. Nice interpretation of theme!"},{"author_name":"zatyka","author_uid":"14357","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 10:06pm","epoch":1367359260,"text":"I really liked this one. Great surprise opening, and fun game play. Nice job!"},{"author_name":"kunzbe","author_uid":"20508","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 10:55pm","epoch":1367362200,"text":"the intro was really neat, especially the clash of style.\ri would have liked this style element more if used it again later in the game"},{"author_name":"Hayawi","author_uid":"20256","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 2:28am","epoch":1367461380,"text":"Nice game, I really liked the intro :D"},{"author_name":"vinull","author_uid":"19362","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 2:32am","epoch":1367461620,"text":"Other than the slow swing of the sword, everything about this game is great. I love the music and the art style!"},{"author_name":"SomeNetworkGuy","author_uid":"21998","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 2:45am","epoch":1367462400,"text":"Beautiful animations! Clever intro! Excellent Music!\r\rHard to know where the enemies are. Looking down at the shadows felt unintuitive and awkward. And attacking was difficult. I didn't like holding the attack button to attack. I would rather just tap it to attack.\r\rBut fun overall."},{"author_name":"ecool377","author_uid":"16979","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 2:51am","epoch":1367462760,"text":"Perfect, great game suprised you finished it in 48 hours to tell the truth."},{"author_name":"Rose","author_uid":"7352","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 3:01am","epoch":1367463360,"text":"Cute intro. :)"},{"author_name":"MinionStudios","author_uid":"22273","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 4:51am","epoch":1367469960,"text":"Great game! I love the screen effect"},{"author_name":"Tanius","author_uid":"21178","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 5:41am","epoch":1367472960,"text":"lol great graphics & music. Is it normal that in order to attack i have to long press j, right?"},{"author_name":"jacklehamster","author_uid":"20841","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 6:27am","epoch":1367475720,"text":"Nice graphics! I wish I didn't first see the screenshot from the post though, it would have been a nice surprise. I would have tried this game after the intro anyway."},{"author_name":"theRestlessTaxidermists","author_uid":"19596","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 11:12am","epoch":1367492820,"text":"Nice intro! Attacking was really hard though. May have to tweak that. But overall quite nice!"},{"author_name":"Jiggawatt","author_uid":"5551","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 11:39am","epoch":1367494440,"text":"Doesn't do much, but does it decently.\r\rClumsiness in the form of unskippable text and awkward attacks\/collisions. The player character it animated all right, everything else looks programmer arty. A bit heavy on the scanlines, don't you think?"},{"author_name":"matthias_zarzecki","author_uid":"3880","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 8:50pm","epoch":1367527500,"text":"The Intro is great :D\r\rAlso nice work on the music. The game itself turns out to be somewhat difficult."},{"author_name":"Suese","author_uid":"8361","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 11:33pm","epoch":1367537280,"text":"Everyone's gone soft. Games in my day were HARD."},{"author_name":"Sylvain.p","author_uid":"20862","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 5:28pm","epoch":1367688180,"text":"The intro is funny. Good job."},{"author_name":"Covenant","author_uid":"326","time":"May 5, 2013 @ 11:12am","epoch":1367752020,"text":"Top notch visuals! The attack control was a bit hard getting used to it, and never much fun because of it... Other than that, great job!"},{"author_name":"Ithildin","author_uid":"15664","time":"May 5, 2013 @ 9:40pm","epoch":1367789700,"text":"Nice game! The intro was really funny =)\r\rAlso, I enjoyed the art and music. About the gameplay, the attack could have been a bit more fluid, but it was fun nonetheless. Good job! :D"},{"author_name":"MrShoestore","author_uid":"20984","time":"May 6, 2013 @ 2:32am","epoch":1367807220,"text":"that is such a cool way to do graphics man... in a weird way the game reminds me of that old genny\/snes pacman game were he walks around on an adventure... dont know why... wonder if i still have that... *off to dig through boxes*"},{"author_name":"Suese","author_uid":"8361","time":"May 7, 2013 @ 12:00am","epoch":1367884500,"text":"It totally reminded me of Pacland too. I was going for the cheap SNES game feel."},{"author_name":"sP0CkEr2","author_uid":"7135","time":"May 15, 2013 @ 3:23am","epoch":1368587880,"text":"reminded me of pac-land for some reason -- nice job -- whats with the kitties?"},{"author_name":"whiteravens","author_uid":"23106","time":"May 18, 2013 @ 9:44pm","epoch":1368913140,"text":"I like the art :), though the mine placement are confusing at times."}],"images":["ld26\/8361-8ce2f5fb81f7689ae82550d700e02c1a.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/thesuese.com\/ld26_the_square\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/thesuese.com\/downloads\/ld26_entry.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"27195","g_author":"8361","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"27225","g_title":"The Square - By Suese","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"260","g_commentcount":"53","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\/8361-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"An action beat-em-up.\r\n\r\nKeyboard Controls:\r\n\r\nW,A,S,D - Move\r\nK - Jump\r\nJ - Attack\r\n\r\nWith minimalism as the theme I figured lots of people would be making a game about a little red square this Ludum Dare.\r\n\r\nI figured \"why should I be any different\".\r\n\r\nHere is my entry: The Square.\r\n\r\nEnjoy.<\/p>","title":"The Square - By Suese"}