{"author_link":"\/author\/legacycrono\/","author_name":"LegacyCrono","author_uid":"3093","comments":[{"author_name":"Josh @ Dreamland","author_uid":"5818","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 5:09pm","epoch":1314032640,"text":"Wonderfully creative, with a great plot. The spriting was largely good (characters, mostly--the terrain was flat but did the trick for the time limit). Massive points for innovation."},{"author_name":"stoz","author_uid":"5677","time":"Aug 22, 2011 @ 8:18pm","epoch":1314043980,"text":"I really like the concept, though the difficulty is extremely high right up front."},{"author_name":"jplur","author_uid":"1066","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 12:20am","epoch":1314058500,"text":"Great intros and cutscenes, from the characters down to the text effects and timing. For a platformer, it had a lot of immersion!"},{"author_name":"Zed","author_uid":"4687","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 12:32am","epoch":1314059220,"text":"This is a ridiculously high quality game for 48 hours."},{"author_name":"Redbone","author_uid":"845","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 12:55am","epoch":1314060600,"text":"Pretty darn good for 48 hours."},{"author_name":"ToxicLogic","author_uid":"4898","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 5:28am","epoch":1314076980,"text":"This game is epic! I was hooked from the very beginning, so didn't give up when it ended up being rather challenging. Play through to the end, everyone - it's worth it!"},{"author_name":"JohanAR","author_uid":"4989","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 6:58am","epoch":1314082380,"text":"Well written platformer! The intro level combined with the ghosts really works to convey the feeling that you're trapped somwhere you don't belong (which implies that you want to escape :D)"},{"author_name":"Jigxor","author_uid":"3289","time":"Aug 23, 2011 @ 7:19am","epoch":1314083640,"text":"Great game! It was really really hard, but I persevered and finished it. Having instant-respawn was what made it easy to keep playing, despite the challenges. Good decision! \r<br\/>\r<br\/>The platform mechanic had quite a lot of depth with all the controls in the end. Nice level design too."},{"author_name":"jonnopon3000","author_uid":"4856","time":"Aug 24, 2011 @ 1:17pm","epoch":1314191520,"text":"I absolutely loved this game :D\r<br\/>The gameplay is very different - being able to float and hover is nothing new, but integrating a conditional double jump and &quot;ability bar&quot; was a nice touch. Well done. Probably the best game I've played yet...probably :P"},{"author_name":"Andrew","author_uid":"5432","time":"Aug 24, 2011 @ 1:30pm","epoch":1314192300,"text":"Amazing music, definitely one of the better soundtracks, the hover controls proved interesting, I got stuck somewhere but that's mostly my fault as I've never been great at dodging while falling."},{"author_name":"Rudy","author_uid":"4807","time":"Aug 24, 2011 @ 1:33pm","epoch":1314192480,"text":"Good platformer idea, but too frustratingly hard."},{"author_name":"ointment","author_uid":"5551","time":"Aug 24, 2011 @ 2:09pm","epoch":1314194640,"text":"A solid game with a neat mechanic. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>I didn't think it was particularly hard. The only thing that caused frustration was the way you keep moving left or right while jumping, even after you let go of the key."},{"author_name":"Shigor","author_uid":"5242","time":"Aug 24, 2011 @ 3:21pm","epoch":1314198960,"text":"Damn, I just don't have reflexes for this, or i'm doing something wrong, because I just can't get over the part where I'm supposed to use hovering to fall down and don't hit the spikes directly under the platform. It really annoys me, because I'd love to play more (music got me hooked :)"},{"author_name":"jonbro","author_uid":"1187","time":"Aug 24, 2011 @ 6:24pm","epoch":1314209940,"text":"holy crap, what a game. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>Super punishing, but a really nice progression of difficulty as well. I liked \/ hated the blind jumps at the end.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The only two quibbles I have were the hitbox seemed about 3 pixels too big (that may have just been the difficulty though) and I couldn't figure out the difference between the down and up keys."},{"author_name":"Sos","author_uid":"1405","time":"Aug 24, 2011 @ 8:05pm","epoch":1314216000,"text":"Awesome! I loved the cutscenes!"},{"author_name":"TellusE","author_uid":"749","time":"Aug 24, 2011 @ 10:37pm","epoch":1314225120,"text":"Shrugging off the last vestiges of my testosterone I have to admit that I was almost teary-eyed when reading the various comments and the music kept reminding me of my best times at LAN parties during the late nineties.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>In 48 hours you've managed to compile the struggle of so many desperate existences through clear graphical silhouettes, trance-inducing music and hauntingly telling platforming mechanics.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>All that does sound lofty, but sir: I tip my hat to you."},{"author_name":"8bitmuse","author_uid":"4023","time":"Aug 25, 2011 @ 6:04am","epoch":1314251940,"text":"Very nice, the pixel art looks great. I enjoyed playing around with the different mechanics, it was refreshing to see a spin put on something so ubiquitous as jumping. One small critique would be perhaps to lower the difficulty but I understand that that could have been an aesthetic choice. Overall a great game!"},{"author_name":"ratking","author_uid":"3663","time":"Aug 25, 2011 @ 8:57am","epoch":1314262320,"text":"Really, this is better than VVVVVV!"},{"author_name":"Folis","author_uid":"2494","time":"Aug 25, 2011 @ 10:14am","epoch":1314266940,"text":"This is one great game, with lots of atmosphere! You managed to make me play it three times: 60%, 100% and 0%, and normally I am not a big fan of platformers ;)"},{"author_name":"TurboDindon","author_uid":"5611","time":"Aug 25, 2011 @ 10:50am","epoch":1314269100,"text":"woah great gameplay ! :) hovering\/floating\/double jumping mechanics fit very well with each others, they provide a lot of control and skills to the player movements... nice !"},{"author_name":"recursor","author_uid":"1105","time":"Aug 25, 2011 @ 8:59pm","epoch":1314305640,"text":"Where are the cheat codes? Seriously though this game is pretty hard. I managed to get the 'bad' ending but that was as far as I got. Even with the difficulty level I enjoyed it. Nicely done."},{"author_name":"wally2069","author_uid":"5461","time":"Aug 27, 2011 @ 2:16am","epoch":1314411060,"text":"Awesome game. You may want to reduce the difficultly on future version though. Overall great work. Good checkpoints too."},{"author_name":"matthias_zarzecki","author_uid":"3880","time":"Aug 27, 2011 @ 10:01am","epoch":1314438960,"text":"The funny thing is, since it's a game, it makes perfect sense :-).\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The intro is also quite great. Funny. To the point. Doesn't sacrifice playability."},{"author_name":"Kayamon","author_uid":"2658","time":"Aug 27, 2011 @ 11:12am","epoch":1314443220,"text":"I gave up once I got to the invisible platforms, too damn bastard hard :-)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>But well done though, this game rocked!"},{"author_name":"Six","author_uid":"1190","time":"Aug 30, 2011 @ 9:30am","epoch":1314696300,"text":"Very solid, though the sides of the hitting the spikes was perhaps a little too unforgiving. Good distribution of checkpoints though, those are what tend to make a damn hard platformer playable.  Also nice job working in the interesting jumping mechanics while still keeping the controls easy and intuitive.  I have to say as soon as I beat it and saw the 'Bad End' along with the 'x \/ 5' I jumped right back in as I knew exactly what I had missed (which is rare with bad vs good ends).\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Only real complaints would be the spikes hitbox, maybe a want for a bit more variation in the tiles and a few spelling\/grammar problems in the dialogue. Nice work."}],"images":["ld21\/3093-a670bf3d0f25cad82c8cc4e9a8849bf8.jpg","ld21\/3093-def54bf09ed424f145aead423ae2a500.jpg","ld21\/3093-d9d502f4d3d022b230ce0c07620e1cdd.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/leonmillan.com\/mindbane\/download.php","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/?rte93be0b0quk0r","text":"Mirror"},{"url":"http:\/\/leonmillan.com\/mindbane\/MindbaneSrc.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"32897","g_author":"3093","g_event":"LD21","g_eventkey":"7","g_subevent":"-","g_urlkey":"32927","g_title":"Mindbane","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"10","g_commentcount":"25","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\/3093-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/62148\/3093-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/62148\/3093-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Mindbane is a 2D action platform game. Manipulate physics and try to escape from the dangerous mind maze.\r\nDeveloped with GameMaker Standard 8.1.\r\n\r\nA post mortem is available here:\r\nhttp:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2011\/08\/25\/mindbane-post-mortem\/<\/p>","title":"Mindbane"}