{"author_link":"\/author\/blahoink\/","author_name":"blahoink","author_uid":"4932","comments":[{"author_name":"Marco Jonkers","author_uid":"3115","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 3:04am","epoch":1313981940,"text":"This was fun :) Certainly interested in a post-LD version!"},{"author_name":"thonk","author_uid":"4762","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 4:25am","epoch":1313986800,"text":"That WAS fun."},{"author_name":"DecsterB","author_uid":"4425","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 4:46am","epoch":1313988060,"text":"Good stuff. :)"},{"author_name":"jonbro","author_uid":"1187","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 9:04am","epoch":1314003540,"text":"nice man. I got stuck on the &quot;build a tower to escape&quot; level. Really good concept though!"},{"author_name":"MadrMan","author_uid":"5490","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 9:12am","epoch":1314004020,"text":"Haha I love it."},{"author_name":"Chinchilla","author_uid":"5017","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 12:06pm","epoch":1314014460,"text":"Good fun! I completed it. I'm awesome."},{"author_name":"Daniel X. Moore","author_uid":"2816","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 4:57pm","epoch":1314031920,"text":"Pretty cool, the building\/destroying mechanic is good though I wish there were an auto-file."},{"author_name":"FireSlash","author_uid":"3130","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 5:49pm","epoch":1314035040,"text":"Had a lot of fun with this. Collision was a bit frustrating at times due to the block size in relation to the character, but still played it to the end and enjoyed it."},{"author_name":"thealchemist","author_uid":"5121","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 10:11pm","epoch":1314050760,"text":"Haha, major bug on the first sumo wrestler level, after each death they seem to double. Anyway, great game."},{"author_name":"Almost","author_uid":"1168","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 11:02pm","epoch":1314053820,"text":"Wow I died a bunch against the sumowrestlers now they kill me as I spawn."},{"author_name":"uncade","author_uid":"3294","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 3:53am","epoch":1314071280,"text":"Really love this concept, kept getting killed by the sumo wresters though :("},{"author_name":"kavs","author_uid":"5586","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 7:20am","epoch":1314083700,"text":"Would have loved to see an auto-fire feature, as it was nearly impossible to play this without a mouse (using laptop touchpad). Level 3 kept murdering me! It feels like they kept spawning more the more I died.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Anyway, love the style and what you had going. I had fun. :D"},{"author_name":"maxx","author_uid":"5660","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 9:00am","epoch":1314089700,"text":"I loved the idea. In the second level it got stuck dying because of infinite sumo-wrestlers. Funny graphics."},{"author_name":"lilserf","author_uid":"5800","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 3:16pm","epoch":1314112260,"text":"The sumo wrestler part was seemingly impossible and incredibly frustrating.  They spawn quickly and aiming the fireballs to make a big enough space to escape is too hard."},{"author_name":"PaulWagener","author_uid":"5004","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 5:52pm","epoch":1314121620,"text":"Love the game, especially his facial expressions and the introduction of new mechanics."},{"author_name":"blahoink","author_uid":"4932","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 6:27pm","epoch":1314123720,"text":"Thank you everyone for the support on my first LD! I wasn't aware of the spawn-killing bug after release, sorry. It t'was some data clearing issue, and i'm sure to fix it for the post-LD release!"},{"author_name":"mikolalysenko","author_uid":"5670","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 10:08pm","epoch":1314136980,"text":"Neat little game, I made it through once, though the second time I got stuck at the sumo level.  There seems to be a bug where if you die there, the sumos don't ever stop coming in."},{"author_name":"Milo","author_uid":"2934","time":"Aug 24, 2011 @ 12:16am","epoch":1314144660,"text":"Fun game &amp; concept, although the sumo wrestlers seem way too difficult (on my trackpad anyways), and I haven't been able to get past 'em."},{"author_name":"speciesUnknown","author_uid":"865","time":"Aug 24, 2011 @ 2:06am","epoch":1314151260,"text":"LIke the graphics, like the gameplay and the concept.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>IF you die, the sumo's continue to spawn right on top of you making it too hard to continue. It was fun up to that point.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Graphics are nice, no sound though (or did my sound just not work)"},{"author_name":"Geroro","author_uid":"5697","time":"Aug 25, 2011 @ 6:20am","epoch":1314252900,"text":"I really liked it!, looking forward to more."},{"author_name":"Cirrial","author_uid":"1620","time":"Aug 26, 2011 @ 6:28pm","epoch":1314382980,"text":"I loved this game so much. The humour is amazing, timing of pop-up messages is spot on and with a new element each level this is an amazingly solid entry into the competition. Astonishing work."},{"author_name":"Shigor","author_uid":"5242","time":"Aug 26, 2011 @ 7:13pm","epoch":1314385680,"text":"Some more challenging ideas for levels would be welcome (by challenging I mean something other than trying to outbuild \/ outdig those sumo wrestlers, otherwise nice &quot;minecraft2d&quot;. Platformer + block building and destroying was used by few other games in compo, i'd guess your version is probably best, even unpolished like this."},{"author_name":"matthias_zarzecki","author_uid":"3880","time":"Aug 27, 2011 @ 10:05am","epoch":1314439200,"text":"This is great. Especially the gag where you break out of the game-window.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>And suddenly there are sumo-wrestlers (makes perfect sense)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>(seriously. Remember how games were about italian plumbers taking halluzinogenic mushrooms and riding dinosaurs through pipes?)"},{"author_name":"Rudy","author_uid":"4807","time":"Sep 1, 2011 @ 7:06pm","epoch":1314903660,"text":"Cool mechanic, like it. It needs polish, but overall pretty cool. Graphics are a bit minimalistic."}],"images":["ld21\/4932-8d0d5119b4a9e0dc062b3d5fb989ce2b.jpg","ld21\/4932-8d9e9545087e2c42ce4966d8b9a268e0.jpg","ld21\/4932-4facd20e0d1c0e48dbdaec0b875797e8.jpg","ld21\/4932-9f5012feaa42e20589965190374d50b9.jpg","ld21\/4932-82ffda648c2453d9603fe019d8a5e2f4.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/34536463\/LD212.swf","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/34536463\/LD212.swf","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/34536463\/Ludum%20Dare%2021-Blahoink.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"32882","g_author":"4932","g_event":"LD21","g_eventkey":"7","g_subevent":"-","g_urlkey":"32912","g_title":"Asplosions!","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"60","g_commentcount":"24","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\/4932-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/62148\/4932-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/62148\/4932-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/62148\/4932-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/62148\/4932-shot4.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Yay! My first Ludum Dare entry. No sound or music though, not enough time :(. You are escaping from... something along the lines of bloodthirsty sumo-wrestlers and soldiers. I had other ideas and level designs, so i guess i will make a post-LD version. Hope you enjoy!<\/p>","title":"Asplosions!"}