{"author_link":"\/author\/mchnzr\/","author_name":"mchnzr","author_uid":"4007","comments":[{"author_name":"jsmars","author_uid":"3933","time":"May 2, 2011 @ 4:00pm","epoch":1304351700,"text":"Good start for a game but it feels a bit incomplete, and it's hard to understand when you are damaged or not"},{"author_name":"mchnzr","author_uid":"4007","time":"May 2, 2011 @ 5:37pm","epoch":1304357520,"text":"I agree :) Unfortunately I just got it all working right before the deadline, so I didn't have a chance to fix a lot of the small things that are really important for user experience. There are many things I plan on fixing over the next week, including having an energy bar, and a different animation for when the ghasts are fleeing so you know when you can run by them."},{"author_name":"zlash","author_uid":"2503","time":"May 3, 2011 @ 6:00pm","epoch":1304445300,"text":"Nice graphics and color palette :)\r\rSometimes I died without even having ghasts near."},{"author_name":"Dark Acre Jack","author_uid":"2947","time":"May 3, 2011 @ 10:38pm","epoch":1304461980,"text":"Link, or Tingle? Nice work!\r\rNothing like getting mushrooms at the end of a hard level's work.\r\rGrats on clearing the LD48! :)"},{"author_name":"Daniel X. Moore","author_uid":"2816","time":"May 4, 2011 @ 4:45am","epoch":1304484000,"text":"I like the sprites. Having the music restart is a bit jarring, it may be better if it just played continuously.\r\rIt's a bit short, but congrats on getting something that works."},{"author_name":"Hamumu","author_uid":"11","time":"May 4, 2011 @ 3:52pm","epoch":1304524020,"text":"I seemed to just die at random (assuming that's what teleporting back to start is), regardless of nearby ghasts. That made hiding seem very ineffective. I did eventually get some shrooms though! I like stealth games, you should make this one work as advertised."},{"author_name":"mchnzr","author_uid":"4007","time":"May 4, 2011 @ 7:54pm","epoch":1304538540,"text":"Thanks for your comments! I'm hunkering down tonight to fix the problems you've mentioned, specifically making it much more clear how much energy you have, and when a ghast hits you.\r\rI'll let you know when it's more playable!\r\r@Dark Acre Jack: Neither, but I definitely noticed Tingle while I was spriting and changed the hood to be less triangular. It's no particular character, just a boy in a hoodie. I would have liked to do a cloak, but did not think animating a cloak was worthwhile.\r\r@Daniel X. Moore: I'll also be adding several more levels, and more terrain options to make it more interesting.\r\r@Hamumu: That teleport is indeed death, or level completion if it happens when you touch mushrooms."},{"author_name":"Winterblood","author_uid":"4051","time":"May 4, 2011 @ 9:25pm","epoch":1304544000,"text":"Short, but what's there is pretty slick - well worth fleshing out after LD48..."},{"author_name":"mchnzr","author_uid":"4007","time":"May 5, 2011 @ 2:03am","epoch":1304560680,"text":"Thanks for the kind words, Winterblood. Currently doing so now!"},{"author_name":"Grungi Ankhfire","author_uid":"3168","time":"May 5, 2011 @ 10:44pm","epoch":1304635140,"text":"Really short, but sweet graphics nonetheless! I found it a bit confusing that getting to the mushrooms and getting killed mostly ended up giving the same result. But anyway, cool first game, congrats !"},{"author_name":"johanp","author_uid":"608","time":"May 10, 2011 @ 12:15pm","epoch":1305029400,"text":"Cute but way too short and incomplete. A good start!"},{"author_name":"FredericRP","author_uid":"4277","time":"May 12, 2011 @ 9:18pm","epoch":1305234780,"text":"Good start, I like the colors ! but without reading the explanation, it's quite hard to understand how to avoid the "Ghasts"."},{"author_name":"Endurion","author_uid":"103","time":"May 15, 2011 @ 5:13pm","epoch":1305479280,"text":"It looks very nice and also has music.\rHowever the random dying is annoying, I never made it to the mushrooms, always suddenly died before."}],"images":["ld20\/4007-e60f0303a336f16d2f7413d0b8de41ad.jpg","ld20\/4007-96942b74d2e4274c9950d3b7eb554eb2.jpg","ld20\/4007-06e63fbe7025d5beabb41dbd60b7c3a5.jpg","ld20\/4007-2ef0beaf249bbfb00be075a032e73ae8.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.mchnzd.com\/ludum.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/kaunartist\/ghast","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"32910","g_author":"4007","g_event":"LD20","g_eventkey":"6","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"32940","g_title":"Ghast","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"257","g_commentcount":"13","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\/\/45257\/4007-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/45257\/4007-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/45257\/4007-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/45257\/4007-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"My first game, barely finished it and of questionable fun-ness. Arrow keys to move, up to jump, down to crouch. You can hide behind rocks and bushes. Your aura has 5 energy points. Ghasts will wander until they see you, at which point they'll come after you. If a Ghast touches you, it will deplete 1 energy point and then fly away. If your energy is depleted, you lose. The goal is to make it to the fairy mushrooms at the end of the level.<\/p>","title":"Ghast"}