{"author_link":"\/author\/schonstal\/","author_name":"schonstal","author_uid":"4336","comments":[{"author_name":"Jacic","author_uid":"5267","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 3:23am","epoch":1314069480,"text":"Absolutely amazing game! It actually took me a few tries to figure out I could hold escape to alter the height of my jump. :p\r<br\/>Great graphics and sound too."},{"author_name":"skelethulu","author_uid":"1159","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 3:24am","epoch":1314069540,"text":"Super polished!"},{"author_name":"vintersphrost","author_uid":"4543","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 5:41am","epoch":1314077760,"text":"woah, this is so awesome!!!! these graphics, the playability! go for gold!"},{"author_name":"Thores","author_uid":"1965","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 7:17am","epoch":1314083520,"text":"Holy crap. Graphics, controls, and music are all top notch. Very cool, man."},{"author_name":"mes","author_uid":"4975","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 8:47am","epoch":1314088920,"text":"awesome artwork and music! and it's fun too!! excellent work gentlemen."},{"author_name":"maxx","author_uid":"5660","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 9:32am","epoch":1314091620,"text":"Absolutely amazing! All the elements are very polished, simple but the music makes it very engaging."},{"author_name":"Chaoslab","author_uid":"5609","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 10:13am","epoch":1314094080,"text":"That rocked! :-)"},{"author_name":"jonbro","author_uid":"1187","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 1:19pm","epoch":1314105240,"text":"Amazing graphics and sound. I like the single button too. Things seem to be a little bit unfair at a certain point though."},{"author_name":"Spaceoff","author_uid":"5791","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 7:32pm","epoch":1314127620,"text":"Very fun game, polished, good sound and is very fun.   Unfortunately my Esc key now sticks :("},{"author_name":"BlackBulletIV","author_uid":"3915","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 8:58pm","epoch":1314132780,"text":"Wow! This is amazing! Great graphics, great gameplay, good sound, and lots of polish. Well done guys!"},{"author_name":"mpc174","author_uid":"2493","time":"Aug 24, 2011 @ 2:37am","epoch":1314153120,"text":"Fantastic, the music really sold me too."},{"author_name":"pekuja","author_uid":"110","time":"Aug 24, 2011 @ 10:08am","epoch":1314180180,"text":"Wow, the music reminds me a lot of old Konami NES games. Was that a conscious influence?"},{"author_name":"matthias_zarzecki","author_uid":"3880","time":"Aug 24, 2011 @ 11:33am","epoch":1314185280,"text":"Nice work."},{"author_name":"wally2069","author_uid":"5461","time":"Aug 24, 2011 @ 10:36pm","epoch":1314225060,"text":"My only nitpick would be that some of the collisions are off. Like jumping near the bottom part of a spike causes death even when the player doesn't hit it. It is pretty amazing otherwise and fun for a short platformer style game. The wall jumping sets this apart from other entries."},{"author_name":"Lancer873","author_uid":"6357","time":"Aug 24, 2011 @ 10:59pm","epoch":1314226440,"text":"The physics reminded me of N: The Way of the Ninja. This is a very, very good thing."},{"author_name":"schonstal","author_uid":"4336","time":"Aug 25, 2011 @ 12:04am","epoch":1314230340,"text":"wally2069, it's actually weighted so that you can go 2px into the bottom, and 1px into the top of the spikes.  It does feel a bit frustrating to die when you're only 3px into them still, though (since it's basically only your ear touching it), but I found that it seemed a little weird when you could go through it more than that, like collisions weren't working."},{"author_name":"Maple","author_uid":"1551","time":"Aug 25, 2011 @ 12:34am","epoch":1314232140,"text":"You won."},{"author_name":"KevinWorkman","author_uid":"5364","time":"Aug 25, 2011 @ 3:32am","epoch":1314242820,"text":"Is the web (old) link broken? It doesn't work for me :c"},{"author_name":"mikolalysenko","author_uid":"5670","time":"Aug 25, 2011 @ 5:08am","epoch":1314248580,"text":"Wow!  This is amazingly polished!  The only thing is that it does seem to be a bit frustrating, but the addicting music and slick presentation kept me coming back for more.  It feels almost like a pachinko machine, I want to keep dumping more tries into it."},{"author_name":"schonstal","author_uid":"4336","time":"Aug 25, 2011 @ 6:00am","epoch":1314251700,"text":"KevinWorkman, could you be more specific?  I can't find a problem."},{"author_name":"Nora Shishi","author_uid":"2022","time":"Aug 25, 2011 @ 9:10pm","epoch":1314306300,"text":"It's awesome! I love this game."},{"author_name":"onefineline","author_uid":"4670","time":"Aug 26, 2011 @ 5:22am","epoch":1314335820,"text":"I hope the little jumping guy has health insurance."},{"author_name":"Jhelle","author_uid":"2232","time":"Aug 26, 2011 @ 7:26am","epoch":1314343260,"text":"Very polished and fun to play, top scores on audio and graphics too. Well done gentlemen!"},{"author_name":"Shigor","author_uid":"5242","time":"Aug 26, 2011 @ 8:02am","epoch":1314345420,"text":"It's about the first purely &quot;mash escape key&quot; game which I enjoyed :) Excellent music (I'm just sucker for the old SID style music...)"},{"author_name":"marudziik","author_uid":"5431","time":"Aug 26, 2011 @ 8:27am","epoch":1314346920,"text":"Really nice entry, although a bit hard and unforgiving (monkey slides down quite fast so when there are spikes on both sides, sometimes it's hard to see when to jump). Music is super-awesome."},{"author_name":"Rudy","author_uid":"4807","time":"Aug 26, 2011 @ 2:39pm","epoch":1314369240,"text":"Very nicely done, like the idea. Controls\/sliding is well done, but can be randomly punishing on an impossible spike\/jump combo. I suppose it sort of fits the theme by combining escape key pun with escaping giant laser thing. Good music\/sound. Love the death animation."},{"author_name":"Felipe Budinich","author_uid":"2502","time":"Aug 26, 2011 @ 2:54pm","epoch":1314370140,"text":"It was fun and very polished, tho it may be a little too hard at times."},{"author_name":"KevinWorkman","author_uid":"5364","time":"Aug 26, 2011 @ 6:25pm","epoch":1314382800,"text":"It works now, must have been a hiccup on my end. Nice job!"},{"author_name":"N0_Named_Guy","author_uid":"5344","time":"Aug 27, 2011 @ 12:16am","epoch":1314403860,"text":"Fun game! Loved the use of escape. You sure didn't want to escape the escape theme!"},{"author_name":"Klare","author_uid":"2040","time":"Aug 27, 2011 @ 9:17pm","epoch":1314479520,"text":"This game is perfect in every way :o Loooove the soundtrack!"},{"author_name":"ointment","author_uid":"5551","time":"Aug 27, 2011 @ 9:46pm","epoch":1314481260,"text":"A simple concept, but great presentation and so much fun. Games like these are Ludum Dare's speciality."},{"author_name":"dogbomb","author_uid":"4138","time":"Aug 28, 2011 @ 5:18pm","epoch":1314551580,"text":"This is awesome. So polished and everything just WORKS. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>I wish I could see a little farther ahead as I ended up with a few unfair deaths by jumping into the unknown. Reminds me of &quot;ninjump&quot; on iOS quite a bit, but thats not a bad thing.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>If this ever ports to iOS... you have yourself at least one sale."},{"author_name":"schonstal","author_uid":"4336","time":"Aug 29, 2011 @ 8:20pm","epoch":1314648900,"text":"dogbomb, I take it you've only played the LD version.  If you try the version on Kongregate, I've fixed most of the issues people have complained about, including the player's maximum height on the screen (you can now see ahead a little more than a full jump).  After adjusting the height, I never feel like I'm unfairly killed by a random spike group (you can be reckless and have it happen still, so you should still try to be careful).\r<br\/>\r<br\/>If you liked the LD version, check out the Kongregate version!  I think you'll have fun with it."},{"author_name":"johnfn","author_uid":"3187","time":"Aug 30, 2011 @ 5:40am","epoch":1314682500,"text":"Whoa, one of the best entries I've seen so far. Simple mechanics, but oh so addicting. Well done."},{"author_name":"tcstyle","author_uid":"4834","time":"Aug 30, 2011 @ 7:42pm","epoch":1314733020,"text":"I really suck at this game, which is a pity cause the impression is great."},{"author_name":"Make A Game","author_uid":"5631","time":"Aug 31, 2011 @ 10:45am","epoch":1314787200,"text":"Great game! Fast paced and fun. The sliding down and speed up mechanics aren't very obvious at first, but since dying is part of the process, the players will eventually get there. Congrats!"},{"author_name":"Andrew","author_uid":"5432","time":"Sep 8, 2011 @ 1:11pm","epoch":1315487160,"text":"Not entirely the most original idea, but it makes up for it in execution and aesthetics."},{"author_name":"Zanzlanz","author_uid":"11407","time":"Jun 29, 2012 @ 4:44pm","epoch":1340987940,"text":"Epic game!  Graphics were perfect, music was great.\r<br\/>But I just can't get 350 feet, I'm stuck at 334."},{"author_name":"Alface","author_uid":"16229","time":"Sep 6, 2012 @ 5:18am","epoch":1346908380,"text":"I loved the game!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>You have reconstructed the game for ios and android? Or you did porting flixel?\r<br\/>You can show me somewhere find more about this port?\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I'll certainly download on my phone"}],"images":["ld21\/4336-43c325ce315f64586a394e43e13263e3.jpg","ld21\/4336-eec469d91779672001888ed1b4756246.jpg","ld21\/4336-a74baa6c554dc454e7de19f19efa86ac.jpg","ld21\/4336-5d1e4375fe768afae3d3af9c80d39744.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.kongregate.com\/games\/IncredibleApe\/escape","text":"Web (Latest)"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/schonstal\/ld21","text":"Source"},{"url":"http:\/\/incredibleape.com\/ludum-dare\/EscapeGame.swf","text":"Web (Old)"},{"url":"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/28047335","text":"Timelapse"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2011\/08\/25\/escapeapostmortem\/","text":"Postmortem"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"32449","g_author":"4336","g_event":"LD21","g_eventkey":"7","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"32479","g_title":"\/ ESCAPE \\","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"1","g_commentcount":"39","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\/\/62148\/4336-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/62148\/4336-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/62148\/4336-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/62148\/4336-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Programming - Josh Schonstal (me)\r\nGraphics - Ian Brock\r\nMusic - Guerin McMurry (aka spamtron)\r\n\r\nWe've gotten a lot of positive feedback on Kongregate, so we'll be fixing some small issues.  If you still want to play the official jam version, play Web (Old).  To play the up-to-date version, play Web (Latest).\r\n\r\nAnd if you liked the soundtrack, you can download it here: https:\/\/8bc.org\/music\/spamtron\/Escape+OST++Gameplay\/<\/p>","title":"\/ ESCAPE \\"}