{"author_link":"\/author\/gre\/","author_name":"gre","author_uid":"18803","comments":[{"author_name":"SelectricSimian","author_uid":"19392","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 5:11am","epoch":1355720760,"text":"that is some pretty nice lighting for a 48h web game!"},{"author_name":"ddionisio","author_uid":"17724","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 8:35am","epoch":1355733000,"text":"Almost killed my computer processing when I was switching between focus. Otherwise, great graphics and theme!"},{"author_name":"mrspeaker","author_uid":"9199","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 9:31am","epoch":1355736360,"text":"Great work mister!"},{"author_name":"iemfi","author_uid":"16571","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 7:45pm","epoch":1355773200,"text":"Was lagging a lot for me in chrome."},{"author_name":"amassingham","author_uid":"1282","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 12:30am","epoch":1355790300,"text":"Love the lightning, and the frog-tongue mechanics. \rWould love for some sound,and visual effects on consumption ( spitting out bones perhaps? or just a nice chomp )\r\rGreat entry though - Top down walk sprites are Harrrrrd."},{"author_name":"dray","author_uid":"5284","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 2:15pm","epoch":1355839800,"text":"I really liked your game, i ate 41 people in 2:11. after 1min, the game become really laggy like 5fps, don't know why. \rI like the style of the monster."},{"author_name":"haxpor","author_uid":"647","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 7:53pm","epoch":1355860080,"text":"I'm amazed with lighting + shadowing, that's the most interesting for me in this game.\rBeside, I think if you can make the eating process looks more scary, all around feeling is much better.\rNice work though!!"},{"author_name":"loren","author_uid":"17687","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 10:22pm","epoch":1355869020,"text":"Delicious! really liked the style"},{"author_name":"Christina Antoinette Neofotistou","author_uid":"13139","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 5:22am","epoch":1355894220,"text":"great lighting!!!"},{"author_name":"Per","author_uid":"6781","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 2:02pm","epoch":1355925420,"text":"Nice game!\rCool lighting and the feeling of being really evil :)\rAdd some screams in the post compo version!"},{"author_name":"gnx","author_uid":"8333","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 11:14pm","epoch":1355958540,"text":"Very nice visual effects which unfortunately come with a huge performance penalty, I got around 9fps average.\r\rGame mechanic is interesting and the controls do work quite well. Shame for the lack of audio."},{"author_name":"Komradus","author_uid":"11076","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 10:09am","epoch":1355997840,"text":"Really nice lighting effects, it does glitch out and disappear in a few spots but usually comes back."},{"author_name":"namuol","author_uid":"12236","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 11:37am","epoch":1356003120,"text":"Needless to say, love those shadows.\r\rThe tongue mechanic was unique -- I think it could have been more fun with some tweaks to how it animates and responds to your movement -- maybe make it feel a little more physical -- like have it shoot out, slow down near the end, then spring back. A simple sine wave motion would do the trick. Just a small suggestion!"},{"author_name":"joekinley","author_uid":"3012","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 8:21pm","epoch":1356034560,"text":"Man I had fun playing that. I kept eating people forever. And somehow I thought the thing would grow and grow, but I assume it shrinks then too, because I played for like 8 minutes and it should have been huge, but it felt staying the same.\r\rThe graphics are great, the fun playing it was hilarious. Boy I had a blast munching on them people. It was like playing catch. Like wakka wakka pacman style eating people. Funny concept.\r\rGreat humor and approach to the theme. I had a lot of fun. Sadly missing audio :\/\r\rOnly that timer was weird, because sometimes i had like 98 and eating some people bashed me back to 40, then 28, then 41.... could not figure out what the deal was there.\r\rStill, great work =)"},{"author_name":"Will Edwards","author_uid":"10313","time":"Dec 22, 2012 @ 12:59pm","epoch":1356180840,"text":"Very nice lighting, very atmospheric :)"},{"author_name":"Dir3kt","author_uid":"12434","time":"Jan 1, 2013 @ 2:20pm","epoch":1357049700,"text":"Cool game with a nice presentation. Played for a while but got repetitive sadly."},{"author_name":"azurenimbus","author_uid":"12119","time":"Jan 6, 2013 @ 2:49am","epoch":1357440240,"text":"The game looks really good, and it's quite a bit of fun."},{"author_name":"bugninja","author_uid":"8142","time":"Jan 6, 2013 @ 9:58pm","epoch":1357509180,"text":"The graphics were awesome, LOVED the shadow effect, very cool. Quite impressive."}],"images":["ld25\/18803-92934f1c43d1a26e44f16bcc61334814.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gre.github.com\/ld25","text":"Web"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"27451","g_author":"18803","g_event":"LD25","g_eventkey":"14","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"27481","g_title":"A Villain Monster","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"371","g_commentcount":"18","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\/\/201083\/18803-shot0.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Control the Villain Monster, catch humans with your tongue and eat them to survive.\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\nThe game has been implemented in CSS & HTML Canvas (Javascript) with the help of these libraries: jQuery, Backbone.js (+Underscore.js), Illuminated.js.\r\n\r\nI wish I had more time to finish it, I wanted to port the basic collision system to a proper physic engine (using Box2d) and also to make the tongue behave like a \"string\" so it can be more realistic and fun.\r\n\r\nMy main achievement in this project was to make the graphics with Inkscape (not being a designer, I'm proud of my top-down walk sprites :-)).\r\n\r\nThis was my initial draft: https:\/\/twitter.com\/greweb\/status\/279884502220812288\r\n\r\nThe game source code is available on Github http:\/\/github.com\/gre\/ld25 .\r\n\r\nAnd is online on http:\/\/gre.github.com\/ld25<\/p>","title":"A Villain Monster"}