{"author_link":"\/author\/gear\/","author_name":"Gear","author_uid":"4522","comments":[{"author_name":"markengley","author_uid":"4575","time":"Dec 19, 2011 @ 12:58pm","epoch":1324299180,"text":"This could have been really fun, the basic mechanic was good and the graphics\/control\/audio were all ther, but it was waaaaay to hard.  It looks like you had a mechanic where you ended up with multiple characters, but I never reached it."},{"author_name":"kato9","author_uid":"5821","time":"Dec 20, 2011 @ 8:42pm","epoch":1324413420,"text":"Ridiculously difficult! I tried man, but I couldn't get more than one hit on that damn dragon. Why do my bullets travel so slow?? Why do I have to wait so long before I can fire again?? WHY?!?!?"},{"author_name":"Gear","author_uid":"4522","time":"Dec 20, 2011 @ 11:04pm","epoch":1324421940,"text":"Fact 1: I play tested this game way too much on my own.\r<br\/>Fact 2: I didn't get anyone other than me to play test it.\r<br\/>Fact 3: The bullet fire code I wrote was lazily done, causing them to have different speeds depending on how far you aimed.\r<br\/>Fact 4: I never stated the fact in-game that the dragon has an impenetrable shield when you have 0 allies.\r<br\/>Fact 5: The secret exit for getting allies needed to be more accessible.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Final Conclusion: My game requires more kittens."},{"author_name":"Codexus","author_uid":"187","time":"Dec 21, 2011 @ 5:55pm","epoch":1324489800,"text":"lol, well that's one game I won't be able to beat."},{"author_name":"BlueShaman","author_uid":"4891","time":"Dec 24, 2011 @ 11:42pm","epoch":1324769820,"text":"Excellent idea, a few movement bugs (around the edges), nice controls and stuff. Cruelly terrible balancing.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I got (once) four of the little helper people. One hit death is simply too difficult to make the game fun for long. But other than that great. (4\/5 overall)"},{"author_name":"cobhc6","author_uid":"6638","time":"Dec 25, 2011 @ 8:08pm","epoch":1324843380,"text":"this looked a nice idea..."},{"author_name":"summaky","author_uid":"1885","time":"Jan 7, 2012 @ 5:17pm","epoch":1325956320,"text":"It seems that the site is down and I can't play the game."},{"author_name":"Kelly Thomas","author_uid":"6664","time":"Jan 8, 2012 @ 7:28pm","epoch":1326050580,"text":"wow, this ones hard"},{"author_name":"defiantburrito","author_uid":"7829","time":"Jan 9, 2012 @ 8:52am","epoch":1326098820,"text":"Pretty hard until I learned a few tricks.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Once I got it, not a whole lot of gameplay.  But it was still pretty fun and it was a good idea.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I liked your dragon art and the other little characters."},{"author_name":"digital_sorceress","author_uid":"5745","time":"Jan 9, 2012 @ 6:46pm","epoch":1326134460,"text":"impossible!"},{"author_name":"Fififox","author_uid":"3098","time":"Jan 9, 2012 @ 6:58pm","epoch":1326135180,"text":"Waaaaay to difficult; other than that: quality graphics, good sound effects. Some epic music would give the game more mood, but I can't expect that from an LD game. Good entry!"}],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.swfcabin.com\/open\/1324247687","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/25559328\/BeatTheDragon.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"31973","g_author":"4522","g_event":"LD22","g_eventkey":"8","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"32003","g_title":"Beat the Dragon","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"509","g_commentcount":"11","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"Y","g_has_icon":"N","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"text":"WASD to move,\r\nLeft-mouse button to fire\/advance dialogue in special cases.<\/p>","title":"Beat the Dragon"}