{"author_link":"\/author\/elektron\/","author_name":"elektron","author_uid":"7798","comments":[{"author_name":"Nilmrots","author_uid":"9307","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 7:26pm","epoch":1335295260,"text":"Graphics are not great, but it's a neat game with good music.\rIt's nice to see that I'm not the only one using Game Maker."},{"author_name":"geekygenius","author_uid":"6529","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 12:19am","epoch":1335312840,"text":"This was one of the only games I've played all the way through. Good job on the game play. The graphics (even for pixely) were lacking, but graphics is only s bit of what I rate you on. The music had loads of wrong notes, but I'm not sure if that's intentional or not, because it does create a different mood then some upbeat music done in a major scale. Good job overall!"},{"author_name":"Pacifist Games","author_uid":"10510","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 12:19am","epoch":1335312840,"text":"I really enjoyed it, very intuitive. I liked the graphics because they're heavily stylized. The music was also great for the mood. Is the arrow under the trees there for a reason?"},{"author_name":"10WonXero10","author_uid":"12014","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 12:36am","epoch":1335313860,"text":"I liked this a lot, played it though till the end with a time of 12:41.\r\rExcellent level design. A few teasing glimpses of the goals here and there kept me motivated to keep exploring and the puzzles were easily understood.\r\rThe music gave a stark lonely feeling of being lost and made me connect with my character, I couldn't stop playing until I got the little rectangle home, poor little guy.\r\rGraphics, schmaphics. Non-blocky graphics would have ruined this. It's exactly as it should be.\r\rWell done!"},{"author_name":"YMM","author_uid":"1176","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 12:38am","epoch":1335313980,"text":"Interesting! The minimalism of the graphics, music and mechanics lent it a very cool transient feel that seemed to clash a bit with the ending to me. The platforming felt too fast at first but I can see how it would be annoying if it was slower. Good work!"},{"author_name":"Ergo","author_uid":"5673","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 6:59pm","epoch":1335380040,"text":"Exploring the level is really fun :D, even though the graphics are very low-res it still conveys an interesting varying world.\r\rThe ambient piano music fit the mood, but the sounds quality was low(got lots of crackling, possibly a problem on my end though).\r\rOverall a nice game!"},{"author_name":"badlydrawnrod","author_uid":"745","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 7:04pm","epoch":1335380340,"text":"Liked how you concentrated on making an easy to understand game rather than tons of graphics and unnecessary complication. It all came together nicely and the exploration aspect was fun."},{"author_name":"Jhelle","author_uid":"2232","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 7:18pm","epoch":1335381180,"text":"Enjoyed it, good atmosphere and liked the graphics"},{"author_name":"AdventureIslands","author_uid":"11391","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 7:31pm","epoch":1335381960,"text":"Played it through the end, this was really interesting little adventure. The music was nicely smoothing and the maps simple. They could have had perhaps a bit more detail in them, especially the underground maps were pretty empty and repeative. Disregard that, this was really well done, good job!"},{"author_name":"AdventureIslands","author_uid":"11391","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 7:32pm","epoch":1335382020,"text":"Also my time was 8:47"},{"author_name":"bms","author_uid":"7087","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 6:58pm","epoch":1335466380,"text":"Great game! Loved the music xD I like the graphics also but the char needs a bit more detail, a white rectangle is not enough :) also the file was a bit big.. maybe you have unused assets?"},{"author_name":"elektron","author_uid":"7798","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 12:21am","epoch":1335485760,"text":"No, I don't have unused assets. It's just that the music filesize was absolutely absurd."},{"author_name":"crazyheckman","author_uid":"7321","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 5:12am","epoch":1335503220,"text":"Took me around 9 minutes to beat, pretty good maze."},{"author_name":"R3ason","author_uid":"6105","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 5:27am","epoch":1335504120,"text":"Great! Made it all the way home! Thanks for an awesome game!"},{"author_name":"scgrn","author_uid":"7797","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 5:30am","epoch":1335504300,"text":"Wow, this is great! My favorite entry so far!"},{"author_name":"dukope","author_uid":"11080","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 5:33am","epoch":1335504480,"text":"Expected more LD games to use this aesthetic honestly, but yours is the first I've seen this time. I'm a total sucker for this minimalist style so I enjoyed it. The collection\/switch\/key aspects also made it more interesting than similar games which are mostly about exploration. Nice work."},{"author_name":"Killswitch","author_uid":"4244","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 1:31am","epoch":1335576360,"text":"This was really fun. I love your platform game; the game was like a huge cave maze! I love the way you used simple graphics. I like the piano music. There are levers and switches that you must use to destroy the huge blocks."},{"author_name":"jwolf","author_uid":"11073","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 1:58am","epoch":1335577980,"text":"Nice use of minimalism, both in graphics and sound."},{"author_name":"mneubrand","author_uid":"11653","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 2:12am","epoch":1335578820,"text":"Nice little platformer. I like the minimalistic pixel graphics. Enjoyed playing it."},{"author_name":"Tom 7","author_uid":"1984","time":"Apr 29, 2012 @ 4:23pm","epoch":1335716280,"text":"This was a nice little platformer. It played pretty smoothly despite the discrete inputs, I guess because my guy is pretty small. Fits the theme appropriately. I liked the wandering grain-slowed piano soundtrack. The part with the green dots was a bit aggravating, to have to go back and forth. But I liked the one-way passage; that was a deft surprise. Unfortunately it bit me later: After I get to the beach there are some trees (the screen right after your last screenshot) and it seems that the leaves are solid, and I got stuck inside the middle one because of the same one-way trap. I ain't starting over! :("},{"author_name":"elektron","author_uid":"7798","time":"Apr 29, 2012 @ 5:34pm","epoch":1335720540,"text":"Whoops. I should fix that."},{"author_name":"unicornpooping","author_uid":"12751","time":"May 6, 2012 @ 5:47pm","epoch":1336326120,"text":"Really well done. Loved it. My kind of game."},{"author_name":"Jan Willem","author_uid":"3369","time":"May 6, 2012 @ 5:49pm","epoch":1336326240,"text":"Good mood, I like how the pixelated graphics bring out the "tiny world" theme. Got a little bored after a while though, but finished the game!"},{"author_name":"robcozzens","author_uid":"10944","time":"May 8, 2012 @ 4:16am","epoch":1336450260,"text":"I would try it, but I am on an iMac."},{"author_name":"Super Soul","author_uid":"13112","time":"May 8, 2012 @ 4:29am","epoch":1336451040,"text":"Nice atmosphere and mood. Nice music."}],"images":["ld23\/7798-b9d8d6d35041ccc6b0b6d20e1e725b7a.jpg","ld23\/7798-a6eb45359a59e5d99b5a182936ed7c70.jpg","ld23\/7798-f1520d970142c805138338254ba73544.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/sandbox.yoyogames.com\/games\/197837\/download","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/75049309\/TW.gmk","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"30815","g_author":"7798","g_event":"LD23","g_eventkey":"10","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"30845","g_title":"Lost","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"109","g_commentcount":"25","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\/\/123793\/7798-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/123793\/7798-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/123793\/7798-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Lost is a short, lo-res platform game where you explore a small world, trying to make it back to your home.<\/p>","title":"Lost"}