{"author_link":"\/author\/littleball\/","author_name":"littleball","author_uid":"14756","comments":[{"author_name":"maxx","author_uid":"5660","time":"Aug 26, 2012 @ 4:47pm","epoch":1345999320,"text":"I like the idea. Two things: The character moves way too fast. Maybe you can scale down the speed a little. I felt like i was playing on an emulator on max frameskip if you know what i mean. \r<br\/>Second, if i keep the up key pressed it will sometimes perform a super-jump allowingme to cheat. Don't know if this is intentional. I got stuck at a level where the speed frustrated me. I`ll keep the game on my watchlist, looking foward to the last version!"},{"author_name":"littleball","author_uid":"14756","time":"Aug 26, 2012 @ 5:47pm","epoch":1346002920,"text":"The double jump is a bug, which I'm trying to fix. However the game is meant to be fast which makes it hard, so I'm not sure that's something I want to do."},{"author_name":"littleball","author_uid":"14756","time":"Aug 26, 2012 @ 5:59pm","epoch":1346003640,"text":"The double jump bug is now fixed"},{"author_name":"kevincorrigan","author_uid":"15028","time":"Aug 26, 2012 @ 7:45pm","epoch":1346010000,"text":"I thought this was fun, the speed is a little frustrating though."},{"author_name":"Thurig","author_uid":"14830","time":"Aug 26, 2012 @ 8:26pm","epoch":1346012460,"text":"Nice idea, but speed of the game is too high for me. The music is better then what I made."},{"author_name":"littleball","author_uid":"14756","time":"Aug 26, 2012 @ 9:24pm","epoch":1346015940,"text":"Ok I've taken the comments on board and slowed it down a little, without taking away the too much of the difficulty."},{"author_name":"maxx","author_uid":"5660","time":"Aug 26, 2012 @ 10:32pm","epoch":1346020020,"text":"3130\r<br\/>Wow, that was hard, finally, after getting used to the mechanics at this high speed i managed to beat it. I enjoyed it, congrats. Plus, the game is well attached to the theme,"},{"author_name":"NiceAlexanderAS","author_uid":"7045","time":"Aug 26, 2012 @ 11:29pm","epoch":1346023440,"text":"Wow that is hard! I enjoyed it n.n"},{"author_name":"aschearer","author_uid":"15160","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 10:32am","epoch":1346063220,"text":"I agree with others, the character moves too quickly and it just leads to frustration. I also found the fact that you could stand on power ups a tad frustrating. The 4th level, for instance, has a jump power up (at the top near where you spawn) which I found impossible to collect. The art style is good but perhaps not unique enough to stand out from the crowd of similar games."},{"author_name":"JokerDen","author_uid":"16034","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 10:40am","epoch":1346063700,"text":"Wow, It's was... very fast :) Not bad style."},{"author_name":"ncannasse","author_uid":"8497","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 10:41am","epoch":1346063760,"text":"A bit hard \/ fast :)"},{"author_name":"Jiggawatt","author_uid":"5551","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 10:47am","epoch":1346064120,"text":"This is a clever game. Almost as clever as one of my puzzle-platformers! You make me proud, son.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>My only gripe is the character movement, it's slippery and collisions are unprecise."},{"author_name":"mechagk","author_uid":"16081","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 1:28pm","epoch":1346073780,"text":"Great and frustrating game! Hits the mood it's aiming for."},{"author_name":"emveyh","author_uid":"8574","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 7:02pm","epoch":1346093820,"text":"You move a bit to fast and the controls in general are a bit weird. graphics and sounds are good :)"},{"author_name":"SecondDimension","author_uid":"14838","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 7:23pm","epoch":1346095080,"text":"Looks and sounds very good, I like the idea of evolving your skills to complete the levels, way too hard for me though"},{"author_name":"elbowroom","author_uid":"3590","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 9:44am","epoch":1346146740,"text":"I liked the game and the upgrades. It was fast paced and reminded me of oldskul platformers on the NES.\r<br\/>All and all, very good."},{"author_name":"pbdiode","author_uid":"7263","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 3:22pm","epoch":1346167020,"text":"Overall fun game! I think the player didn't have enough of a curve when jumping, but then I didn't really mind too much. Great job!"},{"author_name":"ChronoDK","author_uid":"10849","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 7:01am","epoch":1346223360,"text":"I like how it feel hectic to begin with even without any enemies. Nice graphics too."},{"author_name":"Jezzamon","author_uid":"10217","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 7:17am","epoch":1346224320,"text":"Interesting, although the game is kinda clunky, the controls don't work very well, and much of the difficulty seems to come from that. Maybe if the controls were fixed (ie you move in the appropriate way when the arrow keys are held down), and then if the game started off slower, and got faster it would seem better. The main issue I felt was the fact that gravity was so ridiculously fast"},{"author_name":"amidos2006","author_uid":"2510","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 4:07pm","epoch":1346256120,"text":"Nice idea but difficult controls :)"},{"author_name":"imef","author_uid":"9591","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 10:37pm","epoch":1346365920,"text":"I loved the game. It's pretty damn hard..."},{"author_name":"Jorjon","author_uid":"5268","time":"Aug 31, 2012 @ 4:39am","epoch":1346387640,"text":"The speed killed me!!!"},{"author_name":"Evil Cult","author_uid":"8607","time":"Sep 2, 2012 @ 7:22am","epoch":1346570220,"text":"Ouch that was hard. I got to level 7 before I had to give in. I liked the challenge and felt as though I was achieving something when I beat a level but the jump was just a little too frustrating for me. I did like how the length of the levels and ability to reset meant that you could just get straight back into things when you botched it. I also loved the fact that the powerups doubled up as a platform which lead to some nice little puzzle elements. I think the movement might need just a little bit of tightening up as that was what made me have to put the game down in the end. Great work though!"},{"author_name":"link2x101","author_uid":"8807","time":"Sep 2, 2012 @ 7:37am","epoch":1346571120,"text":"Fix you jumping engine. Far too sharp, even for a retro style. Parabolas, not the graph of a square-root.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>You fix that and this game becomes 1000% more enjoyable.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Besides that, a generally good job.\r<br\/>Music got quite repetitive.\r<br\/>Good use of theme. Liked the idea, but mediocre execution.\r<br\/>Lacking smoothness (even retro\/old-skool games do have smoothness).\r<br\/>Don't anti-alias the text in the game! It breaks the look and generally does not look very nice.\r<br\/>Allow an extra alternate jump key, preferably the space bar or Z.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Made it to level nine and couldn't make it any further."},{"author_name":"Gareth Jenkins","author_uid":"7693","time":"Sep 2, 2012 @ 7:41am","epoch":1346571360,"text":"Love the art style."},{"author_name":"ubear","author_uid":"14141","time":"Sep 2, 2012 @ 7:48am","epoch":1346571780,"text":"Very nice game, except music, it's quite annoying for me."},{"author_name":"Colapsydo","author_uid":"3984","time":"Sep 3, 2012 @ 8:11am","epoch":1346659560,"text":"Controls could be tricky sometimes, but I like the concept and levels are well thought."},{"author_name":"SiENcE","author_uid":"10298","time":"Sep 7, 2012 @ 8:56pm","epoch":1347051060,"text":"Ha, you choose the same 2bit style as me. But your game is a lot harder. Good work!"}],"images":["ld24\/14756-64bbaa357e630cc81c63b6c5ac139b47.jpg","ld24\/14756-ad09f80f1e2df3568e4b7f448fa711e0.jpg","ld24\/14756-f88ea5ace9b71f873fb166dcd09c013e.jpg","ld24\/14756-7fbe7a3462cac17c8234678a07848434.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/eruant.github.io\/ludum-dare-24\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/Eruant\/ludum-dare-24","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"29354","g_author":"14756","g_event":"LD24","g_eventkey":"12","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"29384","g_title":"Augment to advance","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"305","g_commentcount":"28","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\/\/163678\/14756-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/14756-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/14756-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/14756-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"A tricky little platform game, where you need to evolve your speed, jumping ability and gliding.\r\n\r\nYou can use the keys \"WAD\" or arrow keys to move. \"R\" will restart the current level, and \"M\" will mute the audio.\r\n\r\nThere are 15 levels to frustrate you ( and yes is meant to be hard - it's as unforgiving as old school gaming )\r\n\r\nI hope you enjoy my first Ludum Dare entry!<\/p>","title":"Augment to advance"}