{"author_link":"\/author\/canary40\/","author_name":"canary40","author_uid":"11373","comments":[{"author_name":"canary40","author_uid":"11373","time":"Apr 22, 2012 @ 11:38pm","epoch":1335137580,"text":"Wow! Best game ever! 5\/5"},{"author_name":"canary40","author_uid":"11373","time":"Apr 22, 2012 @ 11:46pm","epoch":1335138060,"text":"Oh, I found a tip: If you eat the green orbs, you can swim faster. So good!"},{"author_name":"Darkfrost","author_uid":"7085","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 1:12pm","epoch":1335186420,"text":"Nice :) Some more visible background-art might've been nice, but it was quite good fun :) Controlls worked well, although I couldn't get fast enough to get away from the big.. thing.\r:D Good work!"},{"author_name":"R3ason","author_uid":"6105","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 5:52pm","epoch":1335635220,"text":"Oh my various stars, that scared the crap out of me! :D Thanks!"},{"author_name":"jwolf","author_uid":"11073","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 6:08pm","epoch":1335636180,"text":"Hey now, don't be too hard on yourself. It may not be the fanciest thing ever, but you made good use of surprise. Good job!"},{"author_name":"Spiridios","author_uid":"1158","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 6:12pm","epoch":1335636420,"text":"The first time the devourer appears, you're pretty much dead since you weren't expecting it....Not sure if that's good or bad. =p\r\rEating orbs to go faster was a nice touch. I managed to keep ahead of the devourer until I reached the edge of the world. I kept swimming, but with no more orbs I was easily turned into a tasty treat. Is there a way to win?\r\rOne complaint is the use of "space" to both swim and to start a new game. You're madly swimming along for your very life but sadly you get eaten, then the title screen flashes on screen for a single frame and boom, you're in a new game. Using some other key, like enter, to start the game, would prevent this from happening."},{"author_name":"canary40","author_uid":"11373","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 6:33pm","epoch":1335637680,"text":"Haha, yeah there is no way to win really... congrats on evading the... thingy that far though!\rUsing space to start was not a good idea- valid point. I also found that when I'm mashing space like crazy it's easy to restart without meaning to. Thanks for the reviews!"},{"author_name":"Valeour","author_uid":"2679","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 6:47pm","epoch":1335638520,"text":"There's a really good concept there, you should expand on it, it's pretty fun. Just don't like how slow turning is."},{"author_name":"someone","author_uid":"1207","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 6:48pm","epoch":1335638580,"text":"Didn't work in wine, and your source link is broken."},{"author_name":"zdanielz","author_uid":"1860","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 7:01pm","epoch":1335639360,"text":"Good use of the theme! but not much gameplay.. :("},{"author_name":"scoopsy","author_uid":"10538","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 7:37pm","epoch":1335641520,"text":"Can't play, I'm an Mac user. Sorry!"},{"author_name":"Jeremias","author_uid":"7211","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 7:44pm","epoch":1335641940,"text":"Made me laughing xD\r\rAs you collect the 6 green orbs so the big enemy appears... that sound and thing and you think "WTF!?" :D nice suprise. Game is solid, graphics were okay. So just add some gameplay like different enemies and powerups... and slow down the "thing". Keep going!"},{"author_name":"Lawrence Esswood","author_uid":"9259","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 7:45pm","epoch":1335642000,"text":"mmm - did lack in terms of gameplay. Just adding a 'score' for how long you evaded the evil glob would have given it some progression.\r\rOn the other hand, it made me shout "No No NOO!" at my screen as the glob got close, so I guess I had fun XD."},{"author_name":"canary40","author_uid":"11373","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 8:23pm","epoch":1335644280,"text":"Hey sooo sorry about source. Should be fixed now!\r\rI used SDL and stuff so the code is mostly portable, but I don't have a Mac machine to compile on (and no experience!)\r\rI was like Nooo NOO nOO while playing too! Ha ha ha!"},{"author_name":"Jesper Oskarsson","author_uid":"1737","time":"Apr 28, 2012 @ 8:33pm","epoch":1335644880,"text":"As said previously, this has the potential of becoming a fun game, if you could actually escape the creature at the end and if maybe making the orbs give you a speed boost it could become interesting.\r\rBut that you feel like you've learned a lot is really the main thing. Good work!"},{"author_name":"LukeRissacher","author_uid":"10956","time":"Apr 29, 2012 @ 5:01am","epoch":1335675360,"text":"Not bad :) I like the look of the creatures. And the deserty theme. And the unsanitary sounds."},{"author_name":"RHY3756547","author_uid":"7339","time":"Apr 29, 2012 @ 2:47pm","epoch":1335710520,"text":"hahaha that surprise was absolutely amazing 5\/5 humor"},{"author_name":"schizofunky","author_uid":"11944","time":"Apr 30, 2012 @ 4:12pm","epoch":1335802020,"text":"That was quite cool actually! I'm not quite sure what was chasing me at the end but i managed to outswim it for a few minutes lol!"},{"author_name":"wademcgillis","author_uid":"3444","time":"May 1, 2012 @ 3:03pm","epoch":1335884280,"text":"THE THINGY. AGH. I can't escape!\r\rA lot of people seem to be doing games like this.\r\rIt would be nice if the game lasted longer than "Hey you grew! Time to die!""},{"author_name":"demonpants","author_uid":"531","time":"May 1, 2012 @ 6:05pm","epoch":1335895200,"text":"Hey buddeh, how about some Mac OS X?"},{"author_name":"Pacifist Games","author_uid":"10510","time":"May 1, 2012 @ 8:30pm","epoch":1335903900,"text":"I like the concept, love to see it expanded. High marks for humor because of the ending. :)"},{"author_name":"cltatman","author_uid":"12674","time":"May 1, 2012 @ 10:56pm","epoch":1335912660,"text":"The glob-nomming was simple, but drifty and zen-ish, so still pleasant. :) I kept playing through to the end, hoping I could somehow evade\/defeat the meat-demon and progress. No such luck!"},{"author_name":"tfendall","author_uid":"3275","time":"May 2, 2012 @ 12:30am","epoch":1335918300,"text":"Ha! Scared me a bit the first time. The controls seemed really sensitive to me, so it made it hard to collect enough green orbs, but it was fun. I definitely tried 5 or 6 times since it was so easy to retry."},{"author_name":"jrasmussen24","author_uid":"11788","time":"May 2, 2012 @ 1:24am","epoch":1335921540,"text":"Good thing my speakers were up for that... \u0ca0_\u0ca0. What a short, sad life that creature lives. Eat a couple green blobs; die."},{"author_name":"robcozzens","author_uid":"10944","time":"May 6, 2012 @ 1:32am","epoch":1336267620,"text":"I would play it, but I'm on an iMac."},{"author_name":"Jeffalisk","author_uid":"11298","time":"May 7, 2012 @ 4:36pm","epoch":1336408260,"text":"I laughed at the "ending" :D"},{"author_name":"davidwparker","author_uid":"7737","time":"May 7, 2012 @ 4:47pm","epoch":1336408920,"text":"Sorry, I couldn't play this as I don't have Windows."},{"author_name":"Akunate","author_uid":"1525","time":"May 9, 2012 @ 12:36am","epoch":1336523460,"text":"Reminded me of the game Spore when you are still a microscopic organism. Which was my favorite part of the game. This game was just as fun."}],"images":["ld23\/11373-9c0cd4d1c80d875a820f403b80e014fa.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/?x606b2pj7tdomz7","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/?4ymnfuxqvgq1440","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"31214","g_author":"11373","g_event":"LD23","g_eventkey":"10","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"31244","g_title":"A Drop of Water","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"778","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\/\/123793\/11373-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Pretty much the worst game ever, however--\r\nIt holds a tiny surprise if you collect 6 green orb thingies.\r\nand, I learned a lot making this game!\r\n\r\nI used C++, SDL, and Opengl for the programming\r\nGimp and PyxelEdit for the art (lol! what art!?)\r\nAnd Bfxr for the sound effects.\r\n\r\nI look forward to seeing the creations of others! \r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/github.com\/dreamycactus\r\nHere's the code in case those links don't work!<\/p>","title":"A Drop of Water"}