{"author_link":"\/author\/hulahulahest\/","author_name":"hulahulahest","author_uid":"528","comments":[{"author_name":"Sanguine","author_uid":"4159","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 4:39pm","epoch":1314030840,"text":"You succeeded in making this game really hard. I love the artwork!"},{"author_name":"Hempuli","author_uid":"491","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 6:01pm","epoch":1314035760,"text":"Really sweet! My only problem is that several tiles resemble a tad too much ones from La-Mulana."},{"author_name":"tgijsola","author_uid":"5391","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 7:19pm","epoch":1314040440,"text":"Best game I've played so far. Wonderfully realized world, great level layout, good difficulty level, and excellent artwork and style. Haven't finished it yet but I absolutely intend to come back and beat it. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>One thing, is there really no audio or is that just on my end?"},{"author_name":"vandriver","author_uid":"4241","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 7:39pm","epoch":1314041640,"text":"i love these kinds of games and the art style is awesome.  there are some just annoying mechanics, though.  there are a couple of room where if you walk into them you will likely just immediately die from having held the 'walk forward' key.  and more frustrating was that grabbing a rope was pressing up instead of holding up."},{"author_name":"Mstrp2ez","author_uid":"1881","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 7:44pm","epoch":1314041940,"text":"Great game! Good difficulty level, with a good level design and with sweet, sweet graphics makes for an overall pleasant experience. To bad you dont have any sound at all(?)"},{"author_name":"Bleck","author_uid":"418","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 11:22pm","epoch":1314055020,"text":"Hard. So hard."},{"author_name":"vitae","author_uid":"1653","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 3:59am","epoch":1314071640,"text":"Difficult, fun, but difficult"},{"author_name":"cornedor","author_uid":"4506","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 6:58am","epoch":1314082380,"text":"Pff hard"},{"author_name":"arielsan","author_uid":"2034","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 8:52pm","epoch":1314132420,"text":"Really love the graphics, it would be great to have audio too.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>There is no feedback the talisman hits the enemies.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Some times it double jumps when I touch only once.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>It was a bit hard, mainly because checkpoints are far away from each other, that sucked a bit.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Good work and good luck with the game."},{"author_name":"Jhelle","author_uid":"2232","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 9:02pm","epoch":1314133020,"text":"I thought I was into hard platformers but this is driving me mad :p. Very well build game, awesome job building this in 48 hours. Im missing sound and epic music though :("},{"author_name":"redwater","author_uid":"5751","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 9:26pm","epoch":1314134460,"text":"epic music is definately amiss, it would ease the pain of failing all the time :D\r<br\/>good work!"},{"author_name":"bushmango","author_uid":"5852","time":"Aug 24, 2011 @ 12:32am","epoch":1314145620,"text":"If you are going to make a game that's so beautiful and has such potential, please be kind enough (especially to us reviewers) and have an easy difficulty! i.e. a lot more checkpoints or being able to try over from the same room. Frustration (due to my non-Godlike-reflexes) caused me to abandon the game when I'd rather keep playing :( Other than that, very solid! Controls were good, graphics were awesome, the Metroid style gathering of items and free-form exploration of the castle were awesome! Similar to notch's game but a lot better as it was in 2d :)"},{"author_name":"Knighty","author_uid":"3733","time":"Aug 24, 2011 @ 2:24am","epoch":1314152340,"text":"Great game, although very frustrating in some parts. Would've been nice to have some sound. I managed to beat it with 11\/12 secret coins and 213 deaths :D"},{"author_name":"AndyBrown","author_uid":"5699","time":"Aug 24, 2011 @ 11:27am","epoch":1314184920,"text":"Very impressive entry! You really got a lot done with your time and did a great job prioritizing gameplay. Sadly, I didn't actually beat the game as the difficulty was just a bit too much for me to do while half asleep, bookmarked so I can play it again at a later time though!"},{"author_name":"Hempuli","author_uid":"491","time":"Aug 24, 2011 @ 4:08pm","epoch":1314201780,"text":"Now if I could figure out how to get that orb\/coin in the belltower...\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Had great fun, completed the game a couple times and I'm now trying to get a 100% run."},{"author_name":"Hempuli","author_uid":"491","time":"Aug 24, 2011 @ 4:09pm","epoch":1314201840,"text":"Figured it out literally seconds after posting that!"},{"author_name":"none","author_uid":"5001","time":"Aug 25, 2011 @ 12:43am","epoch":1314232680,"text":"When you jump off the cliff right at the beginning of the game and move to the left you can get trapped in a cliff to the point where you can't kill yourself or move. Was that intentional because I find it funny to do? :D"},{"author_name":"syrup","author_uid":"3723","time":"Aug 25, 2011 @ 3:36am","epoch":1314243060,"text":"excellent graphics"},{"author_name":"d_m","author_uid":"4106","time":"Aug 25, 2011 @ 5:32am","epoch":1314250020,"text":"Great game... love the (insidious) level design, graphics, feel, etc.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>If you check out my game (Red Rover) and like the music, I'd be willing to write some music for your game. That's my biggest gripe.... no sounds or music. Especially for when ghosts appear, fire shoots out, etc would be nice to have sounds. But overall great game, fun, fleshed-out, etc!"},{"author_name":"Mark Overmars","author_uid":"1566","time":"Aug 25, 2011 @ 9:04pm","epoch":1314305940,"text":"I am really impressed by this entry. I wouldn't say that it's hard, but it's really unclear how to progress at times."},{"author_name":"Shigor","author_uid":"5242","time":"Aug 26, 2011 @ 12:16pm","epoch":1314360660,"text":"Art's perfect and level design seems to be done well, although I got frustrated too quickly on some places and hadn't finished... difficulty is a bit too high (but I might get back to it and try it again, it really seems as one of the few entries worth playing. 8 bit style audio is sorely missing :("},{"author_name":"KevinWorkman","author_uid":"5364","time":"Aug 26, 2011 @ 10:24pm","epoch":1314397140,"text":"Nice work, although on your page you say you fixed a minor oversight after the competition ended. Isn't that not allowed?"},{"author_name":"K1NET1K","author_uid":"5405","time":"Aug 26, 2011 @ 10:27pm","epoch":1314397320,"text":"this game took me back to an era with less bits. charming graphics, and smooth gameplay."},{"author_name":"Doft","author_uid":"5451","time":"Aug 28, 2011 @ 6:08am","epoch":1314511380,"text":"I really wanted to play the game. But you made it stupidly difficult. Too bad."},{"author_name":"Orz","author_uid":"5282","time":"Aug 28, 2011 @ 5:30pm","epoch":1314552300,"text":"Love the graphics and level design.  It would have been more fun without so many jumping puzzles, IMHO. :)"},{"author_name":"angrygeometry","author_uid":"5579","time":"Aug 29, 2011 @ 1:39am","epoch":1314581640,"text":"very difficult, but polished gameplay and graphics make up for it."},{"author_name":"chamberlainpi","author_uid":"4398","time":"Sep 1, 2011 @ 4:50pm","epoch":1314895500,"text":"how the hell do you get passed the two moving rotary blades in room D-3 ? The gap is way too narrow to squeeze your character between the two blades (especially the vertical one).\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Was anyone able to get passed it?"},{"author_name":"Marach","author_uid":"1555","time":"Sep 10, 2011 @ 5:33pm","epoch":1315675680,"text":"Amazing game. The difficulty is just right and very fair to the player. And the main character IS Reimu :D"},{"author_name":"Tommislav","author_uid":"2393","time":"Sep 12, 2011 @ 7:06pm","epoch":1315854060,"text":"Wow, this game really reminded me of some of the best platformers on my old c64 - the graphics, the controls... and the difficulty! Well done!!!"},{"author_name":"elbowroom","author_uid":"3590","time":"Sep 24, 2011 @ 6:30pm","epoch":1316888700,"text":"I am not sure I know what to do in room d3.. is it possible to got through that narrow area without being sliced?"}],"images":["ld21\/528-864e125e67e7d481b6689b82ea258f09.jpg","ld21\/528-4ee62f231bfaece7ead8b949c8e2051f.jpg","ld21\/528-d469aa960faba13147b304c00aedd6e0.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/17039075\/LD21\/index.html","text":"Web\/Flash"},{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/17039075\/LD21\/LD21-Source.7z","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"32462","g_author":"528","g_event":"LD21","g_eventkey":"7","g_subevent":"-","g_urlkey":"32492","g_title":"Hell Fortress Escape","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"32","g_commentcount":"30","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\/528-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/62148\/528-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/62148\/528-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"A (hopefully) challenging retro-style platformer. 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