{"author_link":"\/author\/nuz\/","author_name":"Nuz","author_uid":"3990","comments":[{"author_name":"Cosr","author_uid":"1454","time":"May 4, 2011 @ 4:23am","epoch":1304482680,"text":"It's a little bit annoying to start all the way back at the beginning when you die, though the game isn't really very long. The movement speed seems a bit sluggish for a platformer, to me."},{"author_name":"TellusE","author_uid":"749","time":"May 4, 2011 @ 11:06am","epoch":1304506860,"text":"I agree with Cosr on both points, especially since the movement speed of the character meant me sweating hard every time I had to jump a chasm of three blocks :P I like tight jumps, but it seemed just a tad too much.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>On the plus side, however, I kind of liked the blocky graphical style. If you made the colour choice a bit grubbier or simplified the complete impression (think &quot;Atari simple&quot;) it could stand well on its own.\r<br\/>There was obviously also the makings of a proper platformer. Tweaking movement and jumping a bit, add perhaps a few more items, and then the rest of the story - this could become a nice little gem."},{"author_name":"Adramalech","author_uid":"4018","time":"May 5, 2011 @ 5:59pm","epoch":1304618040,"text":"The movement could be somewhat faster yes, but the 3 block gaps were not hard to jump (You could use the a-d buttons and the arrow buttons at the same time for 2x speed, bug?))\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I lol'd about the character looking like doors though :P\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The game itself isn't very challenging, but you have a good engine and a working game."},{"author_name":"matthias_zarzecki","author_uid":"3880","time":"May 5, 2011 @ 7:05pm","epoch":1304622000,"text":"&quot;Now it is less dangerous to go alone&quot; and &quot;spaaaaaaaccceee&quot; made me smile :-)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Also, that improved movement-speed by pressing d and right together makes it a lot better."},{"author_name":"Dark Acre Jack","author_uid":"2947","time":"May 5, 2011 @ 7:31pm","epoch":1304623560,"text":"Love noised textures, love 'em.  Minimalism is great, too.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Don't like not being able to sprint, or getting tossed back to the start.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Congrats on submitting to Ludum Dare!"},{"author_name":"Endurion","author_uid":"103","time":"May 8, 2011 @ 5:39am","epoch":1304832840,"text":"It's a good start but there's a few things that break it:\r<br\/>For one, the player speed is annoyingly slow. Two, starting at the very beginning if dying is nasty.\r<br\/>It is a solid base for a bigger game though!"},{"author_name":"nilstastic","author_uid":"2443","time":"May 8, 2011 @ 3:43pm","epoch":1304869080,"text":"The thing that makes this game break is the slow speed combined with starting over wayyy at the beginning when dying. It would also be nice if the tiles where a bit prettier =)\r<br\/>So, speedup + newtiles + checkpoint = good platformer =)"},{"author_name":"tzachs","author_uid":"3877","time":"May 13, 2011 @ 8:30am","epoch":1305275100,"text":"It seems that I'm just repeating what everybody else has already said:\r<br\/>- Simplistic graphics: Nice!\r<br\/>- Character speed: Too Slow!\r<br\/>- Restarting at beginning: Annoying!"},{"author_name":"ACodeGerm","author_uid":"3457","time":"May 16, 2011 @ 2:26am","epoch":1305512460,"text":"Odd that I'm the only one getting this problem, but once I get to the third screen it seems as if the screen buffer stops clearing.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Yay for the timelapses!"}],"images":["ld20\/3990-a2af14ddfbc879270d6d760422335cee.jpg","ld20\/3990-f21ffcf464fb42f1d12eb3dcd246b04d.jpg","ld20\/3990-787f80fff461310cad2bdf2c1f26d596.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/3000172\/LD20.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/3000172\/LD20.tar.bz2","text":"Linux"},{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/3000172\/LD20_src.tar.bz2","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"33217","g_author":"3990","g_event":"LD20","g_eventkey":"6","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"33247","g_title":"Boomerang !","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"262","g_commentcount":"9","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\/3990-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/45257\/3990-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/45257\/3990-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Boomerang is a 2d sidescroller\/platformer. Also it is my first Ludum Dare entry.\r\nMade of:\r\nC\/C++\r\nSDL, SDL_image, SDL_ttf, SDL_mixer\r\nsfxr\r\ngimp\r\nDejaVu fonts<\/p>","title":"Boomerang !"}