{"author_link":"\/author\/yosh\/","author_name":"yosh","author_uid":"6851","comments":[{"author_name":"Andrew","author_uid":"5432","time":"Dec 19, 2011 @ 2:36pm","epoch":1324305060,"text":"There weer some ledges next to the water I couldn't jump over, and it was a bit tricky seeing where the water started\/stopped."},{"author_name":"olav_st","author_uid":"7758","time":"Dec 20, 2011 @ 7:58pm","epoch":1324410780,"text":"Cool little game :) I player it in firefox and there was some text that extended beyond the screen, but other than that it worked great!"},{"author_name":"Codexus","author_uid":"187","time":"Dec 20, 2011 @ 10:29pm","epoch":1324419840,"text":"Cool little game.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>On my Firefox the text was rendered way too big, it turns out this is because I have it configured to prevent websites from using their own font. Not that your game is to blame for that."},{"author_name":"SonnyBone","author_uid":"1365","time":"Dec 21, 2011 @ 7:45am","epoch":1324453200,"text":"OH MAN IT'S SCARY WHEN YOU DROWN. Bonus MOOD score for that..."},{"author_name":"Goldendice","author_uid":"4718","time":"Dec 21, 2011 @ 8:15am","epoch":1324455000,"text":"It feels really eerie the second time you see the I was here sign. The books were off grammatically and I couldn't even manage to get to one (in the far lower right of the map I believe). I don't think I missed any powerups."},{"author_name":"Benjamin","author_uid":"2952","time":"Dec 21, 2011 @ 4:43pm","epoch":1324485480,"text":"good overall ! Minimalism gfx work well, but a swimming and walking animation ( 2 frames is enough ) would have been great. I guess you have the skills for that coz your information panel and powerups graphics are gorgeous"},{"author_name":"johndrinkwater","author_uid":"9489","time":"Dec 22, 2011 @ 1:24pm","epoch":1324559940,"text":"I too found the fonts too large on Firefox, but font-face loading is enabled.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Enjoyable adventure, I got to the credits screen. It would somehow have been nice to get a &lsquo;you&rsquo;ll learn to do things&rsquo; message near the start, as I was convinced I had missed an instruction and went through most keys to find jump ;)"},{"author_name":"_ferritt","author_uid":"8504","time":"Dec 22, 2011 @ 5:27pm","epoch":1324574520,"text":"Liked it, found it amusing for a simple platform game with a few interesting twists.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Oh and I found the kitty :)"},{"author_name":"x2l2","author_uid":"7237","time":"Dec 23, 2011 @ 9:25am","epoch":1324632000,"text":"you use your own javascript library for this?"},{"author_name":"yosh","author_uid":"6851","time":"Jan 3, 2012 @ 7:34am","epoch":1325575740,"text":"Thanks for the feedback :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The game is mostly missing some sounds, a music and animation for the main character... for sure.  I also think that an improved game-design would have avoided the ambiguous &quot;water jump&quot;.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Concerning the programming, I made this engine &quot;from scratch&quot; based on previous little game projects of my own. (you can check this one for instance: http:\/\/www.kongregate.com\/games\/yoshh\/samsara ).\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Finally, I'm quite bad in pure story telling games... especially because I put the writing part at the extreme end of the compo (combined with a non-native tongue awful style)."},{"author_name":"Aaron","author_uid":"7118","time":"Jan 7, 2012 @ 11:20pm","epoch":1325978100,"text":"It's really cool for you to include snapshots of the paper designs. I would never have the time to do those, did they help?"},{"author_name":"Kelly Thomas","author_uid":"6664","time":"Jan 8, 2012 @ 3:15am","epoch":1325992200,"text":"Cute game\r<br\/>This is a great job for a first release."},{"author_name":"Cosr","author_uid":"1454","time":"Jan 8, 2012 @ 9:26am","epoch":1326014460,"text":"Liked it, but couldn't beat it.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Water was a bit too close in colour to the background. You also had to squint a bit too hard to see some of the secret passages, though making them lighter might make them too obvious."},{"author_name":"Drebin","author_uid":"7345","time":"Jan 9, 2012 @ 3:43am","epoch":1326080280,"text":"Nice game. I think your scope was just right for Ludum Dare, it plays really well and you were able to get a few game design ideas in there."}],"images":["ld22\/6851-bdffd87130eb0d98e37b9dd2b8ca1da0.jpg","ld22\/6851-02d25de7517c8493c3d2062d89985eda.jpg","ld22\/6851-07eeb536857be87be5a8596253abc7ff.jpg","ld22\/6851-5dfaf995de53e002db6315a0acfa4da4.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/4936312\/LD22\/index.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/cboissie\/HTML5-JS-Stuff\/","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"31597","g_author":"6851","g_event":"LD22","g_eventkey":"8","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"31627","g_title":"I Was Here","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"186","g_commentcount":"14","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\/\/87574\/6851-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/87574\/6851-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/87574\/6851-shot2.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/87574\/6851-shot3.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"## Synopsis ##\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\"Will you wake up ? Don't be scared while exploring this dark but so familiar cave, and try to light up your own memories.\"\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n## About ##\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe name's yosh... a french guy crazy enough to participate to this awesome LD challenge : D\r\n\r\nDuring these 48h, I worked on a little browser game based on html5\/javascript. It's untitled  \"I Was Here\" and it's a basic adventure\/platformer game.\r\n\r\nAfter many unachieved project, I started something less ambitious than usual, with both minmal gameplay and graphics. \r\nEnjoy !\r\n\r\nFeel free to check the soure code and ask questions :)\r\n\r\nYosh'\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n## FAQ ## \r\n(may contain spoiler or game help)\r\n\r\nQ: I can't reach a book, my character is not jumping far enough when going out of water.\r\nA: If something seems to be unreachable, try again later when you'll have collect the adequate power up.\r\n\r\nQ: Some texts seem to be too big to fit in the screen\r\nA: If you are using Firefox, have a look to the first comments below.<\/p>","title":"I Was Here"}