{"author_link":"\/author\/alink\/","author_name":"Alink","author_uid":"11244","comments":[{"author_name":"lekochen","author_uid":"12928","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 4:33am","epoch":1355718480,"text":"Can't pass the second level...too hard for me. I think it would be great if you add some checkpoints...or maybe more hit points for Ninja Spider."},{"author_name":"amassingham","author_uid":"1282","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 7:39am","epoch":1355729640,"text":"The tuck and roll mechanic is great.  Did you think about how you might extend the concept if you had more time? Maybe some web swinging?"},{"author_name":"Alink","author_uid":"11244","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 1:05pm","epoch":1355749200,"text":"lekochen: Yeah, I added water at the end, checkpoints and swimming were planned, but not enough time.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>amassingham: Rope swigging was part of the initial plan, but I needed jumping and climbing first, and then I realized it was already a very powerful movement and &quot;game-y&quot; enough. Also, I improvised the collision engine, so not sure how much I could push it.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Some additional tricks are currently possible with the engine (just need to draw pixels) but one more challenging idea was to have moving fireflies, forcing you to time your jump. Maybe even make them slow when you are far, so you can surprise them with a long jump (which are more challenging)."},{"author_name":"DST","author_uid":"18478","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 1:48pm","epoch":1355751780,"text":"This game is waaay more fun than it should be.. :D Very fluid and cool mechanic, just works(TM)."},{"author_name":"Luis Anton","author_uid":"12053","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 1:48pm","epoch":1355751780,"text":"Great game! Reminds me of The Secret of Bryce Manor (iOS). Well done : )"},{"author_name":"robashton","author_uid":"7112","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 1:53pm","epoch":1355752080,"text":"I love the jump and stick and roll mechanics, it would be great extended into a real game with more features."},{"author_name":"lorancou","author_uid":"8588","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 1:56pm","epoch":1355752260,"text":"Great entry! Very nice, polished, controls, I enjoyed playing that. Got stuck in the second level too but I loved the game anyway :) A suggestion would be to be able to re-launch a rope while in mid-air, this would probably help sometimes, especially in this level 2."},{"author_name":"KEFIR","author_uid":"14211","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 1:56pm","epoch":1355752260,"text":"Brilliant idea! Fun and simple!"},{"author_name":"Manest","author_uid":"4323","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 1:57pm","epoch":1355752320,"text":"Realy impresive used of physics engine. \r<br\/>Nice used of the theme too. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>Good work"},{"author_name":"Puffi","author_uid":"5300","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 1:59pm","epoch":1355752440,"text":"Gotta agree with the previous comments, the mechanic itself is great, but checkpoints would've been really nice.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Should there be any audio ? Couldn't hear any sounds, but I'm afraid it might be issue with my browser."},{"author_name":"zenmumbler","author_uid":"17143","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 2:00pm","epoch":1355752500,"text":"Nice mechanic that does translate into a whole-lotta-clickin but I liked the 1st level. Instadeath in water made me not finish 2nd level but overall this is well executed. Nice."},{"author_name":"eventhandler","author_uid":"11846","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 2:02pm","epoch":1355752620,"text":"The jumping mechanic is great and works really well!"},{"author_name":"Datw","author_uid":"11318","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 2:04pm","epoch":1355752740,"text":"The web page won't load. Sad, I really thought this one looked fun!"},{"author_name":"dvdking","author_uid":"14173","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 2:11pm","epoch":1355753160,"text":"Wow this game looks very innovative. Game mechanics work very good. Would be really good for touch devices."},{"author_name":"Alink","author_uid":"11244","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 2:20pm","epoch":1355753700,"text":"Thanks for your nice comments.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@ Puffi: No sounds, I had flash bugs (annoying delay) and no time to fix, so I decided to use ninja sounds.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@ Datw: oh :(. The game is very light (180kb) but has no preloader, maybe try to wait in case connection is very slow."},{"author_name":"Clavus","author_uid":"18043","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 3:35pm","epoch":1355758200,"text":"Great mechanics and fun game!"},{"author_name":"mrspeaker","author_uid":"9199","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 9:36pm","epoch":1355779860,"text":"Wow! Nice work - hope you keep working on it!"},{"author_name":"Alink","author_uid":"11244","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 12:34pm","epoch":1355833740,"text":"Wow, I finally now better understand why players wanted checkpoints. A last minute typo broke the respawn. It's indeed much too harsh like that (I couldn't pass my own level). Sorry for people who tried with this bug, or bravo for your perseverance.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I updated the entry and documented the change. Previous testers may need to hit ctrl+F5 to force their browser to use the new file."},{"author_name":"Sestren","author_uid":"10343","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 3:34am","epoch":1355887740,"text":"Feels a bit like a game of golf, particularly with the jump counter in the corner. Really nice concept and well-executed!"},{"author_name":"pfirsich","author_uid":"14778","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 8:34pm","epoch":1355948940,"text":"This game is absolutle amazing! I love it. It's more fun than almost all the other games I've played yet. I'm not sure who much exactly it has to do with &quot;You are the villain&quot;, but I'm completely okay with this (hence the already mentioned awesomeness)."},{"author_name":"Alink","author_uid":"11244","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 10:33am","epoch":1355999280,"text":"@ Sestren: Yes, indeed, small inspiration from that. I didn't really pushed in that direction, though.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@pfirsich: Thanks! The idea is that a big ugly spider is a classical villain in video games. I tried to emphasizes this with the sprites (cute passive light-bringer fireflies versus nasty jumpy spider easting them all), but with limited time and arts skills, it is not easy."},{"author_name":"CoffeeOnimal","author_uid":"1643","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 11:56am","epoch":1356004260,"text":"Great game! I saw on your post-mortem that you came to this mechanic because you couldn't get walking to work. If this was an accident, make more! This worked out great. I can't really find anything wrong or that I would improve with this. Excellent work."},{"author_name":"Freakill","author_uid":"14167","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 4:21pm","epoch":1356020160,"text":"AMAZING! I'm really impressed, mechanics are really good (the only &quot;flaw I could point is drowning recognizition some times, but just to say something). Honestly I am really impressed, the feel of the spider rolling is really good. I'm not an insectologist, but I've seen some documentaries to have recalled the moment of WOW when saw spiders rolling. I really liked it. The scenarios are also well designed to pose a challenge (maybe second one starts a little bit abruptly in difficulty). Please go forward with this game, web mechanics would be also really cool :) really cool game, one of the best played so far!!! :D Creepy sounds would be awesome too ;)"},{"author_name":"juaxix","author_uid":"10960","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 8:25pm","epoch":1356034800,"text":"Love this Spidey :)\r<br\/>Very good done, I see like a very playable and interesting game"},{"author_name":"ncannasse","author_uid":"8497","time":"Dec 24, 2012 @ 7:44pm","epoch":1356377940,"text":"The controls are quite good : simple and addictive, feels like a real spider. The game is lacking a bit of goals though."},{"author_name":"Colapsydo","author_uid":"3984","time":"Dec 24, 2012 @ 7:52pm","epoch":1356378420,"text":"The spider moves are quiet realistic, and actions make the gameplay fun and challenging.\r<br\/>Like some other, I found a bit frustrating to always come back at the starting point in the second level."},{"author_name":"michax","author_uid":"14308","time":"Dec 27, 2012 @ 5:11pm","epoch":1356627960,"text":"Ok, currently my favorite game! Second level is a little to hard but it's still enjoyable challange. Great mechanics! Graphics could be better but for compo it's perfect entry. Congralutation!"}],"images":["ld25\/11244-6bc2cfaa18da831823c6859450fc199f.jpg","ld25\/11244-590617f6b237f444bc98abe0b80ec599.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/flyingmaze.com\/games\/ld25\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/flyingmaze.com\/games\/ld25\/ld25_src.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"28414","g_author":"11244","g_event":"LD25","g_eventkey":"14","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"28444","g_title":"Bloody Ninja Spider","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"26","g_commentcount":"27","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\/11244-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/11244-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"You are the evil Ninja Spider and you must eat all the pretty fireflies of each levels.\r\n\r\nClick to jump. Keep the button pressed to roll, release to stick to walls, but each material has special properties (avoid sand, water and slippery moss). The space key allows to control the view with the mouse. \r\n\r\nThere is a jump counter, you may try to minimize this number, but that's just a suggested challenge. 'R' to retry the level. The last level (3rd, with 'The end'), has no exit.\r\n\r\nFixed a typo making it much harder than intended (progress lost when you die, which made level 2 virtually unbeatable) <\/p>","title":"Bloody Ninja Spider"}