{"author_link":"\/author\/danik\/","author_name":"Danik","author_uid":"2311","comments":[{"author_name":"pekuja","author_uid":"110","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 3:18am","epoch":1313982780,"text":"Wow, it's really hard to survive once you've upgraded everything since the enemies also get tougher."},{"author_name":"Danik","author_uid":"2311","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 11:15am","epoch":1314011400,"text":"Good! I made it a lot harder right before the deadline since I was afraid it was too easy."},{"author_name":"Sanguine","author_uid":"4159","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 3:29pm","epoch":1314026640,"text":"Danik, you did a great job! I think it would be even better with some other audio and other graphics!"},{"author_name":"Danik","author_uid":"2311","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 3:35pm","epoch":1314027000,"text":"After playing it more, maybe they get a little too tough. :3"},{"author_name":"Surrealix","author_uid":"215","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 7:33pm","epoch":1314041280,"text":"I like the upgrading mechanism, it was fun to replay the same levels when feeling more powerful. I don't think it's too tough - although it seems a little random whether jumping on an enemy will kill you or them. I got a high score of 702! Pity the leaderboards aren't working."},{"author_name":"ToxicLogic","author_uid":"4898","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 10:49pm","epoch":1314053040,"text":"Upgrade mechanic = genius. So much fun getting more and more powerful, even if you're just a pink square. xD Great job."},{"author_name":"KevinWorkman","author_uid":"5364","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 3:09am","epoch":1314068640,"text":"This is my favorite game on LD21 so far. The upgrade thing makes this really addicting!"},{"author_name":"Andrew","author_uid":"5432","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 11:21am","epoch":1314098160,"text":"They come from behind in front and above, you really feel like it's personal sometimes"},{"author_name":"Danik","author_uid":"2311","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 4:41pm","epoch":1314117360,"text":"Thanks for the comments guys! I'm continuing to work on the game, if you have any criticism it's appreciated!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Pekuja: I see what you meant now, that is a bug! The enemies difficulty is not reset when you die."},{"author_name":"mikolalysenko","author_uid":"5670","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 11:44pm","epoch":1314142740,"text":"This was a lot of fun, very Diamond Hollow-esque.  I'm always impressed by how well the die-then-level-up mechanics works in games like this.  Overall great job!"},{"author_name":"tcstyle","author_uid":"4834","time":"Aug 24, 2011 @ 4:32pm","epoch":1314203220,"text":"That would make a very good postcompo game. Add some nice sprites and check the jump controls. They somehow seemed quite unprecise. But the basic idea is fun even now."},{"author_name":"Basilios","author_uid":"5456","time":"Aug 25, 2011 @ 1:23am","epoch":1314235080,"text":"Just great.  I actually played this for long enough that everything I look at is now moving sideways.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>At first I found it a little odd that the only way to access the upgrade shop was by dying, but it grew on me.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The enemies became a lot tougher to avoid the more I played (often, enemies would spawn on the right hand side of the screen whilst I was trapped in a sort of tunnel) -- some way to avoid these, or to replenish lost health would have kept me playing this for much much longer."},{"author_name":"d_m","author_uid":"4106","time":"Aug 26, 2011 @ 4:48am","epoch":1314333780,"text":"Fun game, I didn't realize why the game got so hard after I died over and over again. There seemed to be some glitches\/inconsistencies with how fast the screen moved. That said, collecting the coins and killing the enemy squares was definitely fun, and the controls were pretty smooth."},{"author_name":"Shigor","author_uid":"5242","time":"Aug 27, 2011 @ 3:54pm","epoch":1314460140,"text":"Wow... At first I was like... WTF ANOTHER STUPID PLATFORMER...\r<br\/>Then I died...\r<br\/>Then I played and played and played :)\r<br\/>Congratulation, excellent idea, excellent work. I'm starting to hate platformers, but I really loved yours.\r<br\/>Now for some criticism: edge climbing is more trouble then it's worth (but maybe I just need to play with it more).\r<br\/>I'm pretty sure that more then once I've run into a fully vertical wall and there was (seemingly) no way through it.\r<br\/>And it could really use some art for the blocks (but this is mostly nitpicking, you've concentrated on the game, even added quite good audio)."},{"author_name":"Dark Acre Jack","author_uid":"2947","time":"Aug 28, 2011 @ 4:23pm","epoch":1314548280,"text":"I wish I could get to the fun that everyone else seems to be having :(\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I didn't understand why sometimes the pursuers stopped after beating me, and sometimes (like, 5 games in a row) a single dude just kept bum-rushing me to the point where I wouldn't even have enough coins for the first upgrade.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I can see the concept here, though, just punished me way too much."},{"author_name":"Danik","author_uid":"2311","time":"Aug 28, 2011 @ 9:58pm","epoch":1314568380,"text":"Dark Acre Jack: Yea, it's a bug... the difficulty is not reset properly when you die. Just refresh the page to reset it. (I should have learned to be careful with static variables by now :P) I should add a note about that.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Thanks for the feedback everyone!"},{"author_name":"stigrv","author_uid":"3796","time":"Aug 29, 2011 @ 7:23pm","epoch":1314645480,"text":"I was sitting here thinking that this would make a really great game with some more graphics. But you know what? It's already awesome..."},{"author_name":"matthias_zarzecki","author_uid":"3880","time":"Aug 30, 2011 @ 7:31pm","epoch":1314732360,"text":"Nice work. Music is quite fitting."},{"author_name":"alexlarioza","author_uid":"3079","time":"Sep 12, 2011 @ 5:53pm","epoch":1315849680,"text":"I was playing this for quite awhile... ;]"}],"images":["ld21\/2311-feba2212324770473f16f2c9a02468a7.jpg","ld21\/2311-867cb0c950864b722cd6e2b219e16c38.jpg","ld21\/2311-393c221b093c323a118528777f21a0cc.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/danikgames.com\/stuff\/LD21\/index.html","text":"Web (Flash)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XI3k4yqRSVM","text":"Timelapse"},{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/4785344\/ludumdare\/LD21source\/LD21_CoinRunner_Source.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"32622","g_author":"2311","g_event":"LD21","g_eventkey":"7","g_subevent":"-","g_urlkey":"32652","g_title":"Coin Runner","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"18","g_commentcount":"19","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\/2311-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/62148\/2311-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/62148\/2311-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Run from the purple squares and collect coins as you go. \r\nBuy upgrades to get further and submit you score to the leaderboard.\r\n\r\n*** Note: The difficulty of the enemies are not reset when you die. Please refresh the page occasionally or they will get really hard!! ***\r\n\r\nAlso note: The leaderboard times out when loading sometimes.\r\nScores seem to get submitted properly though. \r\nAlso there's a bug making you restart with R if you write it in the highscore name box. Your best score is saved though, so just die and enter your name again. Copy and paste an r from somewhere. :P\r\n\r\nUpdate: Apparently Playtomic leaderboards are disabled at the moment. Should be working soon.\r\nUpdate: The leaderboard seems to be working now!\r\nUpdate: Not yet. :(\r\nUpdate: Mostly working now!<\/p>","title":"Coin Runner"}