{"author_link":"\/author\/maxamaden\/","author_name":"Max Amaden","author_uid":"62658","comments":[{"author_name":"Cerno_b","author_uid":"83463","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 2:34am","epoch":1460946540,"text":"Very beautiful and polished pixel art game. I love the presentation and all the details. Could do with a little more AI (of course hard to accomplish in 48hrs) and the music is really repetitive. But overall, I liked it a lot."},{"author_name":"Wevel","author_uid":"37277","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 4:39pm","epoch":1460997240,"text":"NOICE"},{"author_name":"AustinSpafford","author_uid":"84619","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 4:56pm","epoch":1460998260,"text":"Woot! The difficulty ramped up right when it needed to. Well done! (escaped with 1671 gold)"},{"author_name":"Elemental Zeal Games Studios","author_uid":"12839","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 5:13pm","epoch":1460999280,"text":"Nice and simple, good job!"},{"author_name":"Cowa","author_uid":"44516","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 5:14pm","epoch":1460999340,"text":"Very good! I finished with 1666 gold :D"},{"author_name":"dvdking","author_uid":"14173","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 5:16pm","epoch":1460999460,"text":"Nice, \rnot a lot of variety, buy the game feels complete and had just perfect length of gameplay.\rSmooth particles look kind of weird with together with pixel art though"},{"author_name":"KodingNights","author_uid":"33865","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 5:18pm","epoch":1460999580,"text":"Good stuff. A little odd that I could shapeshift right under the nose of the guard and it was none the wiser. Nice pixel art, and I liked that you actually wrote what I "found"\/stole everywhere."},{"author_name":"brainstorm","author_uid":"44355","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 5:47pm","epoch":1461001320,"text":"Great game! Only complaints are lack of checkpoints and repetitive music!"},{"author_name":"Dooskington","author_uid":"25167","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 5:47pm","epoch":1461001320,"text":"Nice game. I liked it. Music was a tad stale though."},{"author_name":"hijomo","author_uid":"57468","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 5:50pm","epoch":1461001500,"text":"this was a joy to play. great idea, cool art, nice sound effects."},{"author_name":"Crimson713","author_uid":"91320","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 5:50pm","epoch":1461001500,"text":"Nice game. I love the pixel art and its style."},{"author_name":"Gemberkoekje","author_uid":"5952","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 5:53pm","epoch":1461001680,"text":"The game looks very nice, though I found the gameplay only attractive for the first 2 loot items\/guards, then it became tedious (I still played until I died, so it wasn't that bad, it just became repetitive)\r\rI think I would've preferred a more puzzly element, for example that you needed to shapeshift to a specific item to fool different kinds of guards.\r\rThat said, overall it's still pretty nice."},{"author_name":"stefvanschie","author_uid":"69135","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 5:53pm","epoch":1461001680,"text":"The sounds and graphics were amazing. As said earlier the game gets harder when it needs to."},{"author_name":"SelfTitled","author_uid":"41490","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 5:56pm","epoch":1461001860,"text":"I think the guard squatted on me when I was a chair :P \rNice little game (score 1671)"},{"author_name":"Goutye","author_uid":"37076","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 5:59pm","epoch":1461002040,"text":"Very polished! I particularly loved the shifting effect into different items! Keep going! As Cerno_b said, a bit more of AI works and that would be a bit different after a while! Overall: I really liked it!"},{"author_name":"silkworm_sweatshop","author_uid":"47199","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 6:01pm","epoch":1461002160,"text":"Simple game but oh so fun. Screw those aristocrats!"},{"author_name":"pixzleone","author_uid":"44497","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 6:12pm","epoch":1461002820,"text":"Nice graphics and sound, could use more variety in terms of gameplay, but not too big of an issue. Good job!"},{"author_name":"Rakowu","author_uid":"91826","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 6:15pm","epoch":1461003000,"text":"Good idea for a story. And the presentation is nice too. I love shift into the empty armor xD"},{"author_name":"Elite_Flibble","author_uid":"66083","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 7:16pm","epoch":1461006660,"text":"Wow. It's going to be a great game."},{"author_name":"varuns","author_uid":"39012","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 7:42pm","epoch":1461008220,"text":"It's fun! It'll be even better if the guards chase you and you have to get them off-screen and shift to get them off your tail :D"},{"author_name":"Reallysketchy","author_uid":"56083","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 8:21pm","epoch":1461010560,"text":"This is definitely the best game I've played so far. The shapeshifting mechanic was great and I love the art. It was great how stupid the guard are, but maybe you can add some kind of feature to make them smarter and you have to disguise yourself a certain way in order to trick them. Either way, really great job!"},{"author_name":"Souperstrawer","author_uid":"45397","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 10:43am","epoch":1461062280,"text":"That was quite fun. Pixel art looks really nice and the music is good as well. Only problem I noticed was that the guards melded in with the background sometimes so that they were a bit hard to see. Other than that, this is a nice game."},{"author_name":"CoderDozer","author_uid":"21023","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 5:36pm","epoch":1461087060,"text":"Nice game with fun graphics, however i felt it could do with a bit more variety as if felt a bit repetitive as it went on, other than that I still enjoyed playing, well done."},{"author_name":"Max Elmore","author_uid":"66174","time":"Apr 25, 2016 @ 8:58pm","epoch":1461617580,"text":"Very nice game and art style. Simple, fun to play and the shape shifting mechanic is cool. Overall pretty good game"},{"author_name":"Rock Eaters","author_uid":"90519","time":"May 1, 2016 @ 5:33am","epoch":1462080480,"text":"great graphics and i love the idea"}],"images":["ld35\/62658-796e303dc72ccace7de84c741c2bf86d.jpg","ld35\/62658-9085e93c1d593457ede5588dba74e901.jpg","ld35\/62658-fac29be53c0d3485146a0126aec4d49e.jpg","ld35\/62658-c3fd8a61b4218f948630239bc317269a.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/maxamaden.itch.io\/shifting-shadows","text":"DOWNLOAD (Windows Build)"},{"url":"https:\/\/maxamaden.itch.io\/shifting-shadows","text":"DOWNLOAD (Source Code)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"3788","g_author":"62658","g_event":"LD35","g_eventkey":"33","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"3797","g_title":"Shifting Shadows","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"99","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\/\/542293\/62658-shot0-1461001792.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/62658-shot1-1461001792.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/62658-shot2-1461001792.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/62658-shot3-1461001792.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"\r\n SYNOPSIS:\r\n===========\r\n\r\nShifting Shadows is a side-scrolling adventure game. You are a thief tasked with stealing from a wealthy keep, using your rare 'Shifter' powers to hide from patrolling guards.\r\n\r\n CONTROLS:\r\n===========\r\n A and D - Move the player.\r\n Space - Shapeshift into an object to hide from guards.\r\n W - Steal loot, when the indicator is shown.\r\n\r\n PROGRAMS USED:\r\n================\r\n + Unity\r\n + Visual Studio\r\n + Photoshop\r\n + Beepbox\r\n\r\nNOTE: The web build for Unity is broken, all of the sprites become white boxes. Please comment below if you know how to fix this. Thank you in advance!","title":"Shifting Shadows"}