{"author_link":"\/author\/huvaakoodia\/","author_name":"HuvaaKoodia","author_uid":"21836","comments":[{"author_name":"Dooskington","author_uid":"25167","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 2:11am","epoch":1460945160,"text":"Nice work! I liked the style, and the music."},{"author_name":"Dasginger","author_uid":"40793","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 2:15am","epoch":1460945400,"text":"Nice idea! Each monster having a shape they investigate makes this much harder than I expected."},{"author_name":"nickavv","author_uid":"44480","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 2:19am","epoch":1460945640,"text":"I like it! The character sprites are very cool, even if the level art is a bit bland. The 3rd level gets pretty hard! Good job"},{"author_name":"treylon","author_uid":"90377","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 2:19am","epoch":1460945640,"text":"Well done I rally like the Style!"},{"author_name":"jcmonkey","author_uid":"57798","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 2:20am","epoch":1460945700,"text":"The music was good. The gameplay was interesting."},{"author_name":"Broken Matrix","author_uid":"72499","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 2:20am","epoch":1460945700,"text":"Can't run security error"},{"author_name":"aegypticus","author_uid":"64850","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 2:20am","epoch":1460945700,"text":"I quite liked what you did here! You brought some real ingenuity to the shapeshifting puzzler that is the norm. I thought only that the choice of using sprites in a 3d space was odd."},{"author_name":"Brice","author_uid":"6295","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 2:20am","epoch":1460945700,"text":"I LOVE the music. Sets a great moo along with the blue hues of the game. It took me a while to figure out what I was transforming into, but it made more sense once I saw the robots (the bolt). I love the robots art BTW.\r\rI would have liked the selector UI to have stayed on the screen so it was always ready to go.\r\rFun!"},{"author_name":"jdmazz","author_uid":"50350","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 2:22am","epoch":1460945820,"text":"I feel like this could develop into a cool puzzle game. Seriously, I might buy this is you put some real time into developing it - I love puzzle games! This one probably needs some real man hours to get really fleshed out, though. I really enjoyed. I'm giving you almost full-stars except for humor. To me it seems that you probably should just flag it N\/A, but I'm not sure so I put 1-star."},{"author_name":"Halleflux","author_uid":"24741","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 2:22am","epoch":1460945820,"text":"For the most part, well done! I really liked the art, and it's nice to see some more attempts at 48 hour stealth games. I think the idea of shapeshifting into different objects to evade enemies is a good one.\rHowever, it's not that useful. The enemies move slowly around the map, so it's annoying to wait for them to pass by and form an opening, (and other type of enemy can walk up and eat you =P), and once the enemies see you, you can't really pull it off.\rThere's a balance to be struck, and it's not an easy one to strike. I commend you for the effort you put into this.\rWell done!"},{"author_name":"rynti","author_uid":"8363","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 2:25am","epoch":1460946000,"text":"Cool idea! Really enjoyed the stealth-like gameplay. Took a while until I figured out the controls though - Maybe have a bar with icons for each thing you can shapeshift into and the corresponding key."},{"author_name":"ougrouk","author_uid":"58338","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 2:28am","epoch":1460946180,"text":"Good job. Love the camera behavior. + The art is good."},{"author_name":"greymouth","author_uid":"44465","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 2:28am","epoch":1460946180,"text":"Great work love the style and ambient music"},{"author_name":"Hyden","author_uid":"90504","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 2:36am","epoch":1460946660,"text":"The music really fits the speed of the character, and the 2d mixed with 3d is done perfectly! Good job."},{"author_name":"NPC23","author_uid":"92772","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 2:40am","epoch":1460946900,"text":"Super solid game. I'm a sucker for stealth games and this hits that itch super hard. The game has issues with the middle click spell when it's not in fullscreen mode tho... Just something to put in the description maybe. Still love the game."},{"author_name":"Flygamer101","author_uid":"48756","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 2:42am","epoch":1460947020,"text":"Nice little game. Music was really cool as with graphics."},{"author_name":"Aaranos","author_uid":"51253","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 2:50am","epoch":1460947500,"text":"Game of patience, really like the art."},{"author_name":"urfbound","author_uid":"56066","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 4:33am","epoch":1460953680,"text":"Great game. I really liked the stealth aspect. The fact that each monster investigates a particular item type and their AI (which you did a great job programming) made it a very edge-of-your-seat playthrough reminiscent of MGS for me. I liked the graphics. The subdued style and great lighting made it really atmospheric, and I loved the N64-flavour 2D-on-3D isometric view. The only thing I think could have improved the graphics would have been some backgrounds. The music was really well-composed, and fit the theme really well in my opinion. Great job there and I couldn't think of a way to improve it. The mood is awesome, and among the most memorable of the games I've played so far. Thanks a lot for your submission! I had a lot of fun with it. Hope to play one of your games again! :D"},{"author_name":"pjimmy","author_uid":"40339","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 8:19am","epoch":1460967240,"text":"It looks cool, I like how you've combined 2D and 3D."},{"author_name":"ccglp","author_uid":"34494","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 8:46am","epoch":1460968860,"text":"Very good art style, good job"},{"author_name":"Lancelot Gao","author_uid":"3035","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 9:29am","epoch":1460971440,"text":"Great work!"},{"author_name":"cornand34","author_uid":"88932","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 9:38am","epoch":1460971980,"text":"to hard for me couldn't beat the first level :("},{"author_name":"studdert249","author_uid":"59664","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 10:45am","epoch":1460976000,"text":"Loved the art style and enjoyed the music a lot.\r\rNice work!"},{"author_name":"pathus22","author_uid":"92270","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 1:33pm","epoch":1460986080,"text":"the game is good, the music was great, but it needs some SFX for get more inmersive. Also the camera controller is very well implemented."},{"author_name":"Casey Jordan","author_uid":"87952","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 9:29pm","epoch":1461014640,"text":"I agree with Dasginger's comment about each enemy "investigating" their respective environmental objects! \r\rThere was a surprisingly level of depth to the dynamics. You could tease a lot of out of these mechanics with more time to iterate on level design. :D"},{"author_name":"BarkingCat","author_uid":"34938","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 10:55pm","epoch":1461019800,"text":"The character looks so cute, same for the 2D assets, so lovely. The AI is enjoyable and challenging at times, and the music fits the whole thing perfectly. I really like this."},{"author_name":"Odyssey","author_uid":"58620","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 12:28am","epoch":1461025380,"text":"I didn't get it at first but ended up liking it. Nice!"},{"author_name":"Allthebees","author_uid":"64473","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 12:33am","epoch":1461025680,"text":"The art is fantastic! Liked the use of 2d sprites in a 3d world."},{"author_name":"RetroSpecter","author_uid":"86533","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 2:33am","epoch":1461032880,"text":"It was amazing! I loved it so much! Took me a little bit to get it, but once I got it felt really nice. I dig the 2D and 3D feels, like Paper Mario. Solid."},{"author_name":"JefePapaya","author_uid":"77720","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 8:33am","epoch":1461054480,"text":"Cool game. The music really helps setting the atmosphere. It's great how the music also help me relaxing and being patient to wait when needed (really nice side effect)."},{"author_name":"Phaix","author_uid":"38968","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 8:48am","epoch":1461055380,"text":"Nicely done. Music fits great into the game."},{"author_name":"Millefey","author_uid":"90056","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 9:26am","epoch":1461057660,"text":"This game was a bit too difficult for me to finish but I really liked its atmosphere and innovative gameplay! At first I found the camera strangely wobbly but quickly got used to it. Love the choice of 2.5D btw!"},{"author_name":"Khaoz_Fang","author_uid":"91082","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 10:01am","epoch":1461059760,"text":"Quite interesting, but sometimes enemy come from behind and I cannot see it. Maybe a 2.5D camera is better."},{"author_name":"adamprack","author_uid":"88080","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 10:56am","epoch":1461063060,"text":"It was a neat mechanic, though there could be some refining to make it all mesh better. The mood set by the coloring and music were great, though I wasn't a fan of the character art all that much. Neat idea and start!"},{"author_name":"goost","author_uid":"56261","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 12:13pm","epoch":1461067680,"text":"Cute game, like the art style and the 2D\/3D mix.\rThe transformation delay also adds a lot of difficulty..."},{"author_name":"Almax27","author_uid":"21581","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 12:31pm","epoch":1461068760,"text":"I really enjoyed playing this game, fits well with the theme! (Summer)"},{"author_name":"Verz","author_uid":"17978","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 1:39pm","epoch":1461072840,"text":"Nice game! the music was really good too :)"},{"author_name":"RttStudio","author_uid":"91710","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 4:12pm","epoch":1461082020,"text":"Good Tutorial implementation."},{"author_name":"mountainstorm","author_uid":"83448","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 4:54pm","epoch":1461084540,"text":"Nice idea, i like the mix of 2d and 3d"},{"author_name":"sndr","author_uid":"90735","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 8:30pm","epoch":1461097500,"text":"I liked how you used the shapelifting theme to build a stealth mechanic, different from the others that I've seen so far. If you were to work on this further on, some real interesting puzzles could arise! :)"},{"author_name":"Matzigon","author_uid":"56958","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 9:39pm","epoch":1461101640,"text":"Looks and feels nice. The map would have been smaller, or could have some check points. Other than that it's good. :)"},{"author_name":"ThommazK","author_uid":"40051","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 4:48am","epoch":1461127380,"text":"Love the art style and the music! Gameplay is cool too, a very nice stealth entry. :)"},{"author_name":"Decentsauce","author_uid":"61899","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 5:23am","epoch":1461129480,"text":"Cool game! Really liked the atmosphere. Transforming feels a bit slow so I felt that it was easier to just sneak past everything without getting detected so in stage 2 and 3 I never transformed."},{"author_name":"Adipson","author_uid":"22158","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 6:22am","epoch":1461133020,"text":"nice work and good idear"},{"author_name":"glaze_96","author_uid":"46004","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 12:38pm","epoch":1461155580,"text":"Love how you mixed the 3d with sprites!"},{"author_name":"Patomkin","author_uid":"57656","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 12:56pm","epoch":1461156660,"text":"Quite a nice take on stealth mechanics, yet I would have liked more explaining on the shapeshifting part - couldn't quite get, why I me transforming into screws confused those bears :D the second level put everything into place.\rReally like the art style :)"},{"author_name":"EdoMiyamoto","author_uid":"18304","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 2:53pm","epoch":1461163680,"text":"Stressing and relaxing at the same time !"},{"author_name":"PinkIndian","author_uid":"30459","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 6:19pm","epoch":1461176040,"text":"Music and the atmosphere was great. I liked that the characters were a sprites instead of 3D models."},{"author_name":"matiasbontempo","author_uid":"60542","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 7:26pm","epoch":1461180060,"text":"5\/5, I really enjoyed playing this game. The asthetic is beautiful."},{"author_name":"Lokarunith","author_uid":"25012","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 10:09pm","epoch":1461189840,"text":"Nice game!"},{"author_name":"zzapp","author_uid":"55441","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 12:09am","epoch":1461197040,"text":"Nice concept, the art and music were both good and I enjoyed playing it.\rGreat job."},{"author_name":"Cole and Jordan Studios","author_uid":"61262","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 12:39am","epoch":1461198840,"text":"Very well done! The atmosphere is great and the difficulty curve while a little sharp especially in level 3 is planned pretty well; it's satisfying when you win but not this moment of massive relief per se, which is good."},{"author_name":"squidblinkgames","author_uid":"62820","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 5:20am","epoch":1461215700,"text":"Enjoyed the mood of the game. Unfortunately, I had trouble getting into it as the shapeshifting rarely saved me, and I had trouble discerning when it might actually be useful."},{"author_name":"Weeping Rupee","author_uid":"60016","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 1:14pm","epoch":1461244140,"text":"This game had a very original varnish of style over top of a really simple premise. It was pretty fun avoiding all the baddies-- my only qualm is that the transforming only rarely comes in handy.\r\rStill, nice work!"},{"author_name":"Pestel Crew","author_uid":"47507","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 1:22pm","epoch":1461244620,"text":"Love the mood, music is very soothing, seems like there is some backstory going on.\rSadly the gameplay is lacking, beat the whole game without ever using shifting ability properly. Definitely has a potential though, so keep it up!"},{"author_name":"josemorval","author_uid":"93135","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 6:56pm","epoch":1461264660,"text":"I don't know why...but it reminds me of Chihiro...it is very simple mechanic a game, but it has something special. Good job!"},{"author_name":"neontropics","author_uid":"90062","time":"Apr 22, 2016 @ 6:22am","epoch":1461305820,"text":"Great music and nice stealthy gameplay! I liked just trying to hightail it and run past enemies more than trying to transform though."},{"author_name":"LOSTALLOY","author_uid":"87699","time":"Apr 22, 2016 @ 7:37am","epoch":1461310320,"text":"Great atmosphere! Everything feels dreamy!"},{"author_name":"zetsumi","author_uid":"90428","time":"Apr 22, 2016 @ 8:17am","epoch":1461312720,"text":"Nice Work and nice game !!!"},{"author_name":"Fabraz","author_uid":"50665","time":"Apr 22, 2016 @ 3:00pm","epoch":1461336900,"text":"2D sprites in a 3D world, we used a similar aesthetic in our LD game! Adore the tranquil soundtrack."},{"author_name":"bytegrove","author_uid":"11939","time":"Apr 24, 2016 @ 3:10pm","epoch":1461510300,"text":"Nice and creepy game! :D\rVery good looking graphics and eerie atmosphere, nice work!"},{"author_name":"Molpe","author_uid":"67097","time":"Apr 25, 2016 @ 12:29pm","epoch":1461587040,"text":"Great game! Nice graphics, great mechanics, also I just love the green blob things! \r\rI've made a short let's play video if you want to check it out: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=68xbKZiPWsE"},{"author_name":"Green Soda","author_uid":"64207","time":"Apr 26, 2016 @ 2:21am","epoch":1461636960,"text":"NICE WORK AND STYLE! is the camera on perspective mode? have u tried switching it to orthographic?\ranyways, cool sprites and gamelplay.. u made it interestingly challenging xD a solid entry"},{"author_name":"KairosXIII","author_uid":"92648","time":"Apr 28, 2016 @ 4:34am","epoch":1461817740,"text":"Beautiful mood set by the art and audio. Those damn bears have super long range vision!"},{"author_name":"Brian Mayberry","author_uid":"29355","time":"Apr 29, 2016 @ 7:26pm","epoch":1461957660,"text":"I just adore this art style! The music sets to mood perfectly. Great take on this type of game, like you said it is similar to my entry, but yours has a lot more depth with the mechanic. On Level 2 I was able to complete it by simply out running the monsters, once I knew where the exit was."},{"author_name":"egos","author_uid":"20701","time":"Apr 29, 2016 @ 9:13pm","epoch":1461964080,"text":"not really original but very well realized good job and especialy for art and music"},{"author_name":"Squid","author_uid":"62134","time":"Apr 30, 2016 @ 6:37pm","epoch":1462041120,"text":"Loved the win animation!"},{"author_name":"CAT_IN_THE_DARK_WOOD","author_uid":"27523","time":"Apr 30, 2016 @ 6:55pm","epoch":1462042200,"text":"That is really solid cool game. Like visual style of game and atmosphere it creates."},{"author_name":"dcRfj15","author_uid":"49644","time":"Apr 30, 2016 @ 7:45pm","epoch":1462045200,"text":"This is awesome! I loved the gameplay, and the mood which this game created. It was hard, but it was not frustrating. Everytime I was caught, I was eager to try again. By the way, I really liked the camera - I think that it added a lot to the game's mood.\rGreat job!"},{"author_name":"AinoraZ","author_uid":"50640","time":"May 2, 2016 @ 8:20pm","epoch":1462220100,"text":"Pretty nice idea. Love the pokemon like ! :D..."},{"author_name":"Nomys_Tempar","author_uid":"44631","time":"May 3, 2016 @ 7:08am","epoch":1462258980,"text":"Lovely game !"},{"author_name":"bradur","author_uid":"40138","time":"May 3, 2016 @ 9:49am","epoch":1462268640,"text":"Beautiful game with great music & sound. It really felt good. The only minus I could think of was that it was sometimes hard to see where the enemies were since you couldn't control the camera. Good work!"},{"author_name":"orukinawa","author_uid":"34628","time":"May 3, 2016 @ 1:06pm","epoch":1462280460,"text":"Great job on the AI and pathfinding. Also five stars for mood :)"},{"author_name":"yuigoto","author_uid":"50909","time":"May 9, 2016 @ 9:30am","epoch":1462785900,"text":"Great work! The stealth + puzzling shapeshifting concept is really nice. :P\r\rHad a hard time fooling some mobs, but I had lots of fun playing it! Controls work nicely, are pretty responsive and the game has some great mood, thanks to the setting!\r\rCheers! :D"}],"images":["ld35\/21836-5034d237da059a6f3334f3d0ff6de073.jpg","ld35\/21836-108eb3dcf7f4d96adb78683e24e2c374.jpg","ld35\/21836-ed5a200ea41715e122f778d4db46a02e.jpg","ld35\/21836-27846243377ad47798cd5fefea232540.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/huvaakoodia.github.io\/LD35_2015_WEB\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/uc?export=download&id=0B0MghCoVXkVld29WcHZ6Y2NzTHc","text":"Win\/Mac\/Nux"},{"url":"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/2016\/04\/21\/transformagician-postmortem\/","text":"Postmortem"},{"url":"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/2016\/04\/30\/transformagician-developer-commentary-walkthrough\/","text":"Developer Commentary \/ Walkthrough"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"3226","g_author":"21836","g_event":"LD35","g_eventkey":"33","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"3250","g_title":"Transformagician","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"364","g_commentcount":"74","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\/\/542293\/21836-shot0-1461358064.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/21836-shot1-1461021123.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/21836-shot2-1461021123.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/21836-shot3-1461021123.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"- - Goal - -\r\n\r\nAvoid detection and reach the magic portal.\r\nShapeshift into harmless objects to fool your enemies, but beware: each monster has a soft spot for one type of item, which they will sometimes investigate.\r\n\r\n- - Controls - -\r\n\r\nMovement: WASD or Arrows\r\nActivate\/cancel shapeshifting: 1,2,3 or LMB, MMB, RMB\r\n\r\n\r\n- - Developer's comments - -\r\n\r\nThe 72H build is up. Improvements are listed in the version log.\r\nAny comments are welcome!\r\n\r\nKnown bugs:\r\nMiddle mouse button does not work properly in the embedded web version, consider the standalone web build instead.\r\n\r\n- - Credits - -\r\n\r\nProgramming:\r\nHuvaakoodia\r\n\r\nGraphics:\r\nRanquil - Markus Ranki\r\n\r\nAudio:\r\nOn-Jin (on-jin.com)\r\nPresence of Music (presence-of-music.com)\r\n\r\n- - Version Log - -\r\n\r\nV0.9, 48H build - 18.04.2016 3.50\r\n\r\nV1.0, 72H build - 19.04.2016 1.50\r\n- Improved graphics\r\n- Ending cinematic\r\n- Sound effects\r\n- Tweaked difficulty\r\n\r\nV1.0.1 - 23.04.2016 0.25\r\n- Web build performance improvements\r\n- Fixed wall normal map glitch\r\n- Decreased player movement speed a bit","title":"Transformagician"}