{"author_link":"\/author\/perry\/","author_name":"Perry","author_uid":"15778","comments":[{"author_name":"rhill","author_uid":"14454","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 1:26am","epoch":1346030460,"text":"It's asking me to rotate to landscape mode. But I'm on a PC."},{"author_name":"NedortGames","author_uid":"14208","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 2:09am","epoch":1346033040,"text":"Good, but not really origanal but I suppose all entries in this theme will be rather the same.\r<br\/>I would have liked if the sprite could be turned around"},{"author_name":"vicethal","author_uid":"14312","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 2:18am","epoch":1346033580,"text":"I was like &quot;oh, another eat the bigger fish game&quot;. But no! I am the biggest fish! But wait! Mines?! gah! Dynamite?!?!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I was thoroughly amused. Thanks for supporting linux :)"},{"author_name":"Perry","author_uid":"15778","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 2:28am","epoch":1346034180,"text":"rhill, it autoscales so it can support phones. If you're on PC, just change the size of your browser window so it's landscape. Sorry about that."},{"author_name":"jijaweb","author_uid":"12312","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 6:55am","epoch":1346050200,"text":"Cool game. It was fun to play. Those damn dynamites!!!"},{"author_name":"JokerDen","author_uid":"16034","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 12:49pm","epoch":1346071440,"text":"Good pixel work. But I don't get where is health and what kind of food i can eat (i dead from big fish lol)."},{"author_name":"Dakota","author_uid":"10697","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 12:51pm","epoch":1346071560,"text":"I wish I had an android phone. Was still as fun to play on the PC."},{"author_name":"theomnis","author_uid":"15860","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 2:45pm","epoch":1346078400,"text":"I LOLed when they started dropping dynamite on me."},{"author_name":"pjchardt","author_uid":"13158","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 2:47pm","epoch":1346078520,"text":"When using the mechanic where the avatar moves to the mouse position, maybe not require the player to hold the mouse button?  I felt it just added complexity.  Perhaps this is because on mobile devices it is touch input?  Anyway, nice job!"},{"author_name":"DWallin","author_uid":"11452","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 3:28pm","epoch":1346080980,"text":"I had trouble with mouse input, it seemed to register wrong (if I clicked anywhere not on the far left or right the shark would keep moving to the bottom right until it went offscreen. Other than the technical problems I would say you need more of an indicator of whether a fish is consumable or not (a random fish 1\/10th your size being able to shrink you isn't what someone would normally assume when you are controlling a shark)"},{"author_name":"yetanother","author_uid":"14706","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 4:46pm","epoch":1346085660,"text":"Nice graphics."},{"author_name":"Brassawiking","author_uid":"13137","time":"Aug 27, 2012 @ 5:05pm","epoch":1346086800,"text":"Good solid work. Kudos for thinking about different devices!"},{"author_name":"Kassoon","author_uid":"5418","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 3:28am","epoch":1346124180,"text":"Dynamite: A shark's only natural predator."},{"author_name":"Oreganik","author_uid":"12485","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 3:56am","epoch":1346212260,"text":"I love the look and the game mechanics. Job well done for 48 hours. That said, some sort of goal -- beyond time alive -- would have been sweet. Or even variations in the sea floor..."},{"author_name":"Perry","author_uid":"15778","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 12:32pm","epoch":1346243220,"text":"@Oreganik\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I completely agree, I didn't have the full 48 hours, I had ~20 hours of work over the weekend and would have loved to actually put some elbow grease on it, sadly I spent the majority of my time trying to get the game to scale up\/down on web. It doesn't even do that properly, as @DWallin found."},{"author_name":"gnx","author_uid":"8333","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 1:44pm","epoch":1346247540,"text":"Pleasent looking art. Shark movement could use some easing and sense of physics.\r<br\/>Also there isn't a whole lot to do :)"},{"author_name":"csanyk","author_uid":"10473","time":"Sep 1, 2012 @ 4:29pm","epoch":1346516640,"text":"It's not really evolution, though, is it?"},{"author_name":"AdventureIslands","author_uid":"11391","time":"Sep 2, 2012 @ 11:05am","epoch":1346583600,"text":"Eating some fishies when suddenly. Dynamite.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>It was funny, but the game itself is very basic and I don't see what it has to do with the theme."},{"author_name":"rhaasken","author_uid":"12716","time":"Sep 5, 2012 @ 12:08am","epoch":1346803380,"text":"Nice graphics.  Sound would have helped though.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The controls were imprecise.  If that was fixed, I think it would be a lot more fun.  The dynamite was a nice touch.  Pretty hard to avoid though."},{"author_name":"harusame","author_uid":"7308","time":"Sep 5, 2012 @ 12:10am","epoch":1346803500,"text":"It's a pity there are no audio. The game it's quite cool and funy ^^ Not a big relationship with the theme.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Dynamite o_O XD\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Good job."},{"author_name":"tupperwarespoon","author_uid":"15839","time":"Sep 16, 2012 @ 5:56am","epoch":1347774660,"text":"I think it would have been better to have you just be another fish. Because although I was meant to eat things that were smaller than me, but leave bigger things alone, I was always bigger than anything on the screen, but some things still hurt me. Music was pretty good, but it didn't loop, so once it had played I was then just playing in silence."},{"author_name":"hamster_mk_4","author_uid":"4265","time":"Sep 17, 2012 @ 3:27am","epoch":1347852120,"text":"The size changing game dynamic was brilliant, especially when there were challenges that made being a smaller size preferable."}],"images":["ld24\/15778-33267b53f707c9b1b77cd08cb91cb73f.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.perryfraser.com\/chomp","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.perryfraser.com\/chomp\/javascript","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"29360","g_author":"15778","g_event":"LD24","g_eventkey":"12","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"29390","g_title":"Chomp!","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"380","g_commentcount":"22","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\/15778-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Chomp! Don't bite off more than you can chew.\r\n\r\nBasically, eat what is smaller than you, and avoid the human made things.\r\n\r\nGame: perryfraser.com\/chomp\r\nSource: perryfraser.com\/chomp\/javascript\r\n\r\nLibraries: gamejs (gamejs.org)\r\nTools: GIMP, FileZilla, Notepad++\r\nBrowsers: Firefox, Chrome. Does not work on Internet Explorer 9.\r\nDevices: PC, Android, iOS.<\/p>","title":"Chomp!"}