{"author_link":"\/author\/ryannielson\/","author_name":"RyanNielson","author_uid":"13891","comments":[{"author_name":"dtap","author_uid":"25207","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 1:44pm","epoch":1460986740,"text":"Solid game. It's nice to be able to change up the direction of shooting, and the audio and art style are very nice."},{"author_name":"TerraCottaFrog","author_uid":"55226","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 3:37pm","epoch":1460993520,"text":"Easily the best game I've played so far\r<br\/>Very fun and I love the build up of the gauge mechanic\r<br\/>The shapeshifting may be a little bit to small a part of the game, but everything else more than makes up for that. Great work.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I have an arcade joystick, and the joystick (which simulates a d-pad) does not work? Could you add d-pad support?"},{"author_name":"ignacioq","author_uid":"90946","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 4:45pm","epoch":1460997600,"text":"Great Game, I don't know where is the shapeshift mode, but I really like the way it moves the spaceship"},{"author_name":"Anikki","author_uid":"46696","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 5:11pm","epoch":1460999160,"text":"So far the LD35 game I've enjoyed the longest."},{"author_name":"nicso","author_uid":"8002","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 5:24pm","epoch":1460999940,"text":"Really cool game, had lot of fun.\r<br\/>A little bit hard to get level 1 upgrade but after that it become quit satisfying."},{"author_name":"nicso","author_uid":"8002","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 5:25pm","epoch":1461000000,"text":"Oh and my score was arround 50 seconds (yeah i suck at shmups)"},{"author_name":"Djapz30","author_uid":"87323","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 5:28pm","epoch":1461000180,"text":"Awesome work!\r<br\/>gameplay is solid and the Sound\/Art is pretty good!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>As for the score... well... I kinda died a lot trying to build up the power meter --&quot; (+-20~25 Secs)"},{"author_name":"seanarooni","author_uid":"31363","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 6:08pm","epoch":1461002580,"text":"Very much enjoyed this!  The upgraded weapons feel great to use.  Enjoyed the art and sound very much."},{"author_name":"Hempuli","author_uid":"491","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 6:31pm","epoch":1461003960,"text":"Very enjoyable! I completely overlooked the shapeshifting feature the first time around, and I'm not totally sure how useful it is in general, but I had good fun playing this. 44 seconds!"},{"author_name":"Jungle","author_uid":"48998","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 8:54pm","epoch":1461012540,"text":"Very cool game. The second form remembers me Boba Fet's ship... heehue. 56.03s record. Very fun! Congrats! Keep the project on!"},{"author_name":"Phaix","author_uid":"38968","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 11:32am","epoch":1461065220,"text":"Great Game! Have it on my list to play it again. :)"},{"author_name":"glaze_96","author_uid":"46004","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 2:50pm","epoch":1461077100,"text":"Got 42 seconds! :D\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Really fun and hard game; hard in a good way!"},{"author_name":"bigbatardyt","author_uid":"90726","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 5:38pm","epoch":1461087180,"text":"Really cool shmup, it flows, it's easy to pickup and pixel art and sounbdtrack are cool !"},{"author_name":"Goutye","author_uid":"37076","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 6:12pm","epoch":1461089220,"text":"47sec at best, but was able to fully upgrade two times the shots! Solid game"},{"author_name":"qu2","author_uid":"87890","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 7:23pm","epoch":1461093480,"text":"A solid shmup. I like it. Hard though (but I never was any good at shmups)."},{"author_name":"plantprogrammer","author_uid":"91677","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 7:26pm","epoch":1461093660,"text":"I am not nearly skilled enough for this kind of game, but in the 20some seconds of survival, I really enjoyed graphics and sound.\r<br\/>Well done :)"},{"author_name":"Garazbolg","author_uid":"64408","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 7:38pm","epoch":1461094380,"text":"Couldn't get past 39s, damn ! But your game is real good, it's clean, its fun, its understandable. And the animations are really nice. I just wish there were more to go with the theme."},{"author_name":"Saiodin","author_uid":"53626","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 9:43pm","epoch":1461101880,"text":"Good audio, great music and art! Controls with controller are extremely responsive. The game is pretty hard. It's really risky to go for the energy pickups, but they are so worth it (the 3rd weapon stage is crazy). The mechanic with turning the ship is the shapeshift part I guess, far stretched but neat mechanic. I had a blast playing! My max time was around 35 seconds :X"},{"author_name":"serp","author_uid":"86299","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 10:05pm","epoch":1461103200,"text":"ah its so hard xD"},{"author_name":"Petya","author_uid":"86210","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 11:12pm","epoch":1461107220,"text":"I loved the music a lot. Very difficult and fun game. I thought the MODE_SHIFTing mechanic could be expounded on more though."},{"author_name":"Omiya Games","author_uid":"20557","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 11:46pm","epoch":1461109260,"text":"Had a lot of fun playing through the game. Vertical shooting is really useful, but since you can shoot in 2 directions there, why not make the horizontal shooting also shoot backwards?  The gold as power-ups was visually not obvious, but I did eventually figure out their function."},{"author_name":"djfariel","author_uid":"52022","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 12:31am","epoch":1461111960,"text":"Just under a minute. Dammit. \r<br\/>Oh, and I lied. I said I'd get to this right away, but I got immediately pulled away from my computer. So I played it now! \r<br\/>\r<br\/>This is absolutely fantastic. You hit everything necessary - feedback (both audio and visual) for everything, fun music, addicting gameplay. Can't ask for any more, unless you're wanting to add in more weapons and gameplay. Nothing negative to say! :D"},{"author_name":"cakeknuckles","author_uid":"7792","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 2:21am","epoch":1461118560,"text":"game has a really good feel to it, and the quick restart makes it addictive! overall, a STELLAR game! haha"},{"author_name":"Manou","author_uid":"29477","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 9:13am","epoch":1461143280,"text":"39s with keyboard.\r<br\/>Loved the retro feeling.\r<br\/>The title screen is well done!"},{"author_name":"randomhuman","author_uid":"56477","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 7:50pm","epoch":1461267900,"text":"Oh man, I suck at shmups. This was solid though, I liked it."},{"author_name":"hadesfury","author_uid":"10263","time":"Apr 23, 2016 @ 2:33pm","epoch":1461421680,"text":"Really hard but also quite fun ! my score was 34s"},{"author_name":"Freank","author_uid":"94168","time":"Apr 24, 2016 @ 1:59pm","epoch":1461506040,"text":"Hi, nice game ! We're realizing a video with several games of the Ludum Dare #35.\r<br\/>Can you add your game on indiexpo.net ? (it's free)\r<br\/>So we can include also your game in the video ;)\r<br\/>p.s. write #LDJAM in the game's description"},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"27744","time":"Apr 27, 2016 @ 4:07pm","epoch":1461772920,"text":"Nice, well made game! I included it in my video compilation series of Ludum Dare games, if you&rsquo;d like to check them out :) https:\/\/youtu.be\/1j0YT8wm6Kc"},{"author_name":"schw3de","author_uid":"42817","time":"Apr 27, 2016 @ 6:36pm","epoch":1461781860,"text":"A good solid game!"},{"author_name":"WERT Studio","author_uid":"55091","time":"Apr 27, 2016 @ 7:54pm","epoch":1461786540,"text":"Neat game. Pretty hard tough"},{"author_name":"Reisen","author_uid":"51666","time":"Apr 28, 2016 @ 2:53am","epoch":1461811680,"text":"A really fun shmup. Music is awesome.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Energy system feels like a slippery slope, as in if you can't get to level 3 before a certain point, you're out. Once you get it rolling though, that's where the fun begins.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Energy pickups doesn't move left when they appears, so it feels like the game is punishing the player for being good. (In-universe, they are static objects, and the player is moving to the right, so... yeah.)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>86.62 seconds."},{"author_name":"Xanjos","author_uid":"21201","time":"Apr 28, 2016 @ 8:50pm","epoch":1461876300,"text":"Managed to last nearly a minute before dying but I like the mode shifting mechanic a lot."},{"author_name":"AnaGF","author_uid":"56020","time":"Apr 28, 2016 @ 9:54pm","epoch":1461880140,"text":"Cool game and polished entry. It is pretty addictive!"},{"author_name":"Aaranos","author_uid":"51253","time":"Apr 30, 2016 @ 7:24pm","epoch":1462043940,"text":"I don't think it fits the theme. Decent shmup."},{"author_name":"3T3A","author_uid":"49634","time":"May 3, 2016 @ 7:02pm","epoch":1462301820,"text":"I think it's one of the funniest game i played. It's fast, it's simple, it's enjoyable. And the music is pretty good for the arcad style of the ludum dare."},{"author_name":"oxysoft","author_uid":"25340","time":"May 6, 2016 @ 11:16pm","epoch":1462576260,"text":"the player spaceship moves a bit slow but a fun shmup nonetheless, music was great also"},{"author_name":"drazil100","author_uid":"89952","time":"May 7, 2016 @ 6:24pm","epoch":1462645140,"text":"Your ship animation and title were on point. The shots that the smaller ship shot were the same speed as the ship.Which meant that if you kill a ship right infront of you, he might have a bullet inside if him that kills you immediatly."},{"author_name":"TheMeorch","author_uid":"44776","time":"May 7, 2016 @ 7:04pm","epoch":1462647540,"text":"Super well made shmup with lovely pixel art and pumping music!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I absolutely love how the energy system encourages you to play aggressively.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Given how quickly most of the enemies move horizontally, I found myself very rarely using the vertical shooting mode. The UFOs that stop in place give you a good reason to use that mode, so more enemies like that would be great.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Great work!"},{"author_name":"Ironhead","author_uid":"89786","time":"May 7, 2016 @ 7:27pm","epoch":1462648920,"text":"Great game. Fun but difficult. Art was great, Sounds were on point, and mechanics worked well. Great job!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>PS: Thanks again for playing and rating my game on your stream! Great feedback for me to use in my game dev learning endeavors."},{"author_name":"Tselmek","author_uid":"48996","time":"May 7, 2016 @ 7:30pm","epoch":1462649100,"text":"Really nice and juicy shooter, the beginning feels a little too grindy after as we keep on trying btu other than that I have no complaint. The experience is very polished. I could reach 59.26s on the second try but couldn't go over 30s after that. On a side note, the game works really well with the gamepad controls."},{"author_name":"pixelpotions","author_uid":"63064","time":"May 7, 2016 @ 9:01pm","epoch":1462654560,"text":"Fun shoot em up! Liked the music though I don't understand how rotation equates to shapeshifting?"},{"author_name":"Siegfried Croes","author_uid":"88589","time":"May 8, 2016 @ 8:06pm","epoch":1462737660,"text":"Very nicely polished game. I only got to 44.23s, I'm not that great at this type of games ^^'"},{"author_name":"abuzreq","author_uid":"17923","time":"May 9, 2016 @ 4:15pm","epoch":1462810200,"text":"Awesome game.. I loved the visual effects .\r<br\/>The shape shift weren't much beneficial though\r<br\/>The game was fun and had a cool mood ."}],"images":["ld35\/13891-e363ccac24ae98dbc16d25727235838a.jpg","ld35\/13891-a93e4e87ba49afec050dc81b45a719b9.jpg","ld35\/13891-c224acb2d17a00b9c34683873757a995.jpg","ld35\/13891-0f588045e885dfa210e8c5557cae0670.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/ryannielson.itch.io\/mode-shift","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/ryannielson.itch.io\/mode-shift","text":"OSX"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"3240","g_author":"13891","g_event":"LD35","g_eventkey":"33","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"3264","g_title":"MODE_SHIFT","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"115","g_commentcount":"43","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\/13891-shot0-1460992856.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/13891-shot1-1460985970.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/13891-shot2-1460985970.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/13891-shot3-1460992856.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"The year is 2356.\r\n\r\nA massive alien fleet is heading towards Earth with the intention of destroying civilization. Armed with Earth Gov's latest model of space combat vehicle, dubbed \"The S.H.I.F.T.E.R.\", humanity's best pilots head towards the alien fleet, hoping to buy Earth Gov enough time to organize an evacuation.\r\n\r\n\r\nGameplay:\r\n\r\nSurvive for as long as possible, while collecting energy dropped by enemies to improve your weaponry. Your ship's energy level decreases over time and requires a constant resupply. Use your MODE_SHIFT ability to re-orient your ship into a vertically shooting position to destroy more enemies. This game is all about beating your old high scores, so practice makes perfect.\r\n\r\nThis game plays best with a gamepad, but supports keyboard and mouse input as well. Using a keyboard for movement and a mouse for shooting and transforming is the second best input method.\r\n\r\n\r\nControls:\r\n\r\nMove: WASD, Arrow keys, Left analog (gamepad)\r\nShoot: Left mouse click, Space bar, A\/B (gamepad)\r\nExecute MODE_SHIFT (Shapeshift): Right mouse click, E, X\/Y (gamepad)\r\nFullscreen: Alt + Enter\r\n\r\n\r\nIf you post a comment consider including your high score along with it. We're really interested to see how long people last.\r\n\r\nKeywords: Windows, OSX, GameMaker, SHMUP, mode shift","title":"MODE_SHIFT"}