{"author_link":"\/author\/deepnight\/","author_name":"deepnight","author_uid":"2982","comments":[{"author_name":"Danilo Bezerra","author_uid":"14104","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 2:41am","epoch":1460946960,"text":"Very good! I really like the games you make, this is no exception!"},{"author_name":"alvaromartin","author_uid":"60100","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 3:38am","epoch":1460950380,"text":"Once again great game!"},{"author_name":"01101101","author_uid":"5105","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 9:00am","epoch":1460969700,"text":"Nice work, I didn't know Saint Dragon but the concept works pretty well :)\rCool graphics and impressive result as usual!"},{"author_name":"Diman","author_uid":"49445","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 9:11am","epoch":1460970360,"text":"Awesome game!"},{"author_name":"Bemmu","author_uid":"13321","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 9:40am","epoch":1460972100,"text":"As always, a fantastic game. Gameplay is more fun than last year. The water transition is just beautiful, as is the palette with Amigaish gradients. Very juicy! 5\/5"},{"author_name":"Marcellus","author_uid":"26515","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 11:37am","epoch":1460979120,"text":"This is not your best entry, but this is not the worse."},{"author_name":"Sanguine","author_uid":"4159","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 12:30pm","epoch":1460982300,"text":"just a black screen :("},{"author_name":"deepnight","author_uid":"2982","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 12:33pm","epoch":1460982480,"text":"It takes some time to load (3.5mb), it should start after a few seconds :) If not, try using Chrome, it should work fine!"},{"author_name":"remiv","author_uid":"51869","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 3:42pm","epoch":1460993820,"text":"Very good game..."},{"author_name":"Sublustris","author_uid":"46239","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 4:16pm","epoch":1460995860,"text":"Great, as always :)"},{"author_name":"grayhaze","author_uid":"23957","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 4:24pm","epoch":1460996340,"text":"Amazing as always Sébastien! One day you'll have to give me the secret to how you produce such polished graphics, music and gameplay in such a short time. I suspect that you might be a machine. ;)\r\rI found this entry to be a lot more difficult than your past ones, but had no less fun trying. Good luck!"},{"author_name":"Aurel B\u00edl\u00fd","author_uid":"1645","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 6:17pm","epoch":1461003120,"text":"Always flashy with your particles :)"},{"author_name":"Cowa","author_uid":"44516","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 8:04pm","epoch":1461009540,"text":"Wow. Really love the graphics and everything!"},{"author_name":"Xaychru","author_uid":"16472","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 8:34pm","epoch":1461011340,"text":"I really dig the atmosphere, the gameplay was interesting as well!"},{"author_name":"Boatfan","author_uid":"93150","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 10:13pm","epoch":1461017280,"text":"Very nice graphics, cool game!"},{"author_name":"Idorrac","author_uid":"33933","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 10:29pm","epoch":1461018240,"text":"The graphics, sounds, and music are simply amazing! I wonder how you can create such beautiful sprites in such a short amount of time! The gameplay is incredibly fun as well! If I may make a small criticism, the collision detection of the snake is a bit glitchy, I managed to go inside walls, and even shoot enemies on the other side, a few times. :)"},{"author_name":"David Cookie","author_uid":"66030","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 1:16am","epoch":1461028260,"text":"How.. how did you make a game so perfect in 48h!!?? Easily the best entry I've played so far, so well polished in every aspect!"},{"author_name":"mike.cullingham","author_uid":"49890","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 3:55am","epoch":1461037800,"text":"Incredible graphics and sound. My xbox y-axis seemed to be inverted, so I had more luck with the keyboard, but a deceptively difficult yet still fun game. Nice job."},{"author_name":"Evergreen Games","author_uid":"47043","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 6:43am","epoch":1461047880,"text":"Incredible as always. Very cool idea and very satisfying. Great graphics. It was a little hard though."},{"author_name":"sanojian","author_uid":"7542","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 8:28am","epoch":1461054180,"text":"Unreal visuals and sound as always. It was almost too hard though."},{"author_name":"xclementx","author_uid":"60284","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 11:36am","epoch":1461065460,"text":"Great game ! Very fun to play."},{"author_name":"Gamepopper","author_uid":"21252","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 12:49pm","epoch":1461069840,"text":"This is surprisingly challenging, the concept is really clever and requires a lot of strategy. The graphics look exceptional as well. Great job!"},{"author_name":"YinYin","author_uid":"64352","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 2:36pm","epoch":1461076260,"text":"Unfortunately the vertical axis for my xbox controller is inverted in this game :("},{"author_name":"Ramayana","author_uid":"87871","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 2:40pm","epoch":1461076500,"text":"Very cool game! Great concept, great execution. Just great!"},{"author_name":"Husky","author_uid":"17464","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 3:21pm","epoch":1461078960,"text":"A great game like always :)\r\rThis is full of challenging to me, I like the idea of freezing shape, it's fun when changing the strategy from attacking to defending.\r\rGood job!"},{"author_name":"RyanMan56","author_uid":"4006","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 4:25pm","epoch":1461082800,"text":"One of the best ones I've played!"},{"author_name":"fullmontis","author_uid":"21736","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 4:42pm","epoch":1461083820,"text":"Excellent game! I really like the design of this one, perfectly balanced risk reward! Well done."},{"author_name":"tentacode","author_uid":"60185","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 5:38pm","epoch":1461087180,"text":"Nearly perfect grats"},{"author_name":"MurderPunch","author_uid":"90233","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 6:33pm","epoch":1461090480,"text":"I love the pixel art in this game! And the game mechanic itself is really clever. Great job! 4 thumbs up from my fiancee and I!"},{"author_name":"Angry_cyboot","author_uid":"91790","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 7:26pm","epoch":1461093660,"text":"Coffee is friend !!"},{"author_name":"Afendar","author_uid":"54436","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 7:27pm","epoch":1461093720,"text":"Very good game as always ! Very good work !"},{"author_name":"rahulparihar","author_uid":"87964","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 7:40pm","epoch":1461094500,"text":"Exceptional game design, had a lot of fun playing this. Kudos ! :)"},{"author_name":"markusfisch","author_uid":"19466","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 8:11pm","epoch":1461096360,"text":"Very impressive, as always. Definitely another league :) I really like the idea with the two sides!"},{"author_name":"dustyroom","author_uid":"33150","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 8:22pm","epoch":1461097020,"text":"Great as always. Go robosnail!"},{"author_name":"psychomonster","author_uid":"17723","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 11:05pm","epoch":1461106800,"text":"Amazing artwork ... I'm happy that I played it. 5\/5 graphics!!!!!!"},{"author_name":"Roland M","author_uid":"88456","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 11:31pm","epoch":1461108360,"text":"It was a challenging and hard on pc, but I think it will be easier with a game pad"},{"author_name":"TravisChen","author_uid":"12204","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 12:25am","epoch":1461111600,"text":"DEEPNIGHT NEVER FAILS. YOU ARE MY HERO. Brilliant. Best game."},{"author_name":"pixelpotions","author_uid":"63064","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 2:00am","epoch":1461117300,"text":"Very addictive, awesome game! :)"},{"author_name":"howardcs","author_uid":"46880","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 2:20am","epoch":1461118500,"text":"Nice graphics. Fun."},{"author_name":"nicotuason","author_uid":"21669","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 3:15am","epoch":1461121800,"text":"Amazing as always! Beautiful graphics and particle effects. Love the variety of bullet patterns. I like how the gameplay balances between careful thought and quick reflexes. My main strategy is to do strafing circles for most enemies, and freeze my shape for the tough entrenched enemies. Love the easter egg at the end also :p"},{"author_name":"Ithildin","author_uid":"15664","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 3:16am","epoch":1461121860,"text":"Top marks as usual. I dig the way the dragon links move together, it looks so natural. The core mechanics are very original and well executed (I had some problems manoeuvring with the gamepad, though, so I went back to mouse and keyboard), and graphics and music could almost pass for final assets on a full-fledged indie game. \r\rConsidering that we're talking about a compo game, that's impressive (it could easily rival with the bet entries on the jam, too). \r\rI'm terrible at it, but I've had a lot of fun so far. \r\rBrilliant job!"},{"author_name":"KunoNoOni","author_uid":"6464","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 4:01am","epoch":1461124560,"text":"Absolutely beautiful! I expected nothing less :) Always look forward to playing your games."},{"author_name":"starpixie","author_uid":"12750","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 5:17am","epoch":1461129120,"text":"Beautiful!"},{"author_name":"Saiodin","author_uid":"53626","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 8:06am","epoch":1461139260,"text":"Awesome gameplay and amazing graphics, I really love it! I wished the music would be more action-y ;)"},{"author_name":"Jin47","author_uid":"29469","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 1:44pm","epoch":1461159540,"text":"Awesome entry. Super concept and mastered and dynamic gameplay.\rThe sound design is perfect too. Congrats !!"},{"author_name":"pythong","author_uid":"717","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 2:47pm","epoch":1461163320,"text":"smilie rocks at the end ;) good job! one of the few games i really enjoyed"},{"author_name":"LeReveur","author_uid":"7170","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 7:18pm","epoch":1461179580,"text":"I always wait for your entries, and again, I'm not disappointed ! Very good job !"},{"author_name":"mitkus","author_uid":"12293","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 9:22am","epoch":1461230220,"text":"Great idea and amazing implementation, good job!"},{"author_name":"oxysoft","author_uid":"25340","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 11:15am","epoch":1461237000,"text":"just excellent, all I can say"},{"author_name":"pixel_maniacs","author_uid":"52509","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 2:03pm","epoch":1461247080,"text":"Heyho, that's a very cool game. I like how the snake moves and shoots, really cool game for such a short time!"},{"author_name":"Four Quarters","author_uid":"40789","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 4:23pm","epoch":1461255480,"text":"Another great game, you rock!\rWater art is beautiful, gameplay very polish, music nice too\r5\\5 stars in all"},{"author_name":"MiniBobbo","author_uid":"22584","time":"Apr 22, 2016 @ 1:05pm","epoch":1461330000,"text":"Lots of fun. Frustrating at times, but in a good way."},{"author_name":"Leon M\u00f6hring","author_uid":"63620","time":"Apr 22, 2016 @ 4:41pm","epoch":1461342960,"text":"I love the graphics, the contrast between water and orange sky is great and erverything looks so nice, but its hard and the shape freeze was not very helpful for me..."},{"author_name":"SteveSalmond","author_uid":"24965","time":"Apr 22, 2016 @ 11:13pm","epoch":1461366480,"text":"Genius! So impressed with your ability to come up with a innovative mechanic every time - props."},{"author_name":"Mixer","author_uid":"16241","time":"Apr 23, 2016 @ 5:36am","epoch":1461389460,"text":"Amazing! (Of course, it's by deepnight :D) Huge amount of polish, great theme interpretation, stunning graphics, brilliant gameplay."},{"author_name":"ethankennerly","author_uid":"3040","time":"Apr 23, 2016 @ 9:00pm","epoch":1461444900,"text":"When I blocked bullets and planned a route through the stunning graphics and active music, I felt amazed! If you continue to design this, I died early and often. Sometimes I wanted to make a cocoon, and wanted to rotate relatively to my current facing, instead of pick an absolute direction by the arrow keys.\r\rI played on Windows FireFox. On Chrome, the black window appeared but the rest of the game did not load."},{"author_name":"dj_pale","author_uid":"9921","time":"Apr 24, 2016 @ 5:27pm","epoch":1461518520,"text":"Great execution - as always. Nice mechanics, nice details with the level progression. A tad hard in the beginning."},{"author_name":"Freank","author_uid":"94168","time":"Apr 24, 2016 @ 6:07pm","epoch":1461520920,"text":"Hi, nice game ! We're realizing a video with several games of the Ludum Dare #35.\rCan you add your game on indiexpo.net ? (it's free)\rSo we can include also your game in the video ;)\rp.s. write #LDJAM in the game's description"},{"author_name":"SHLFStudios","author_uid":"20984","time":"Apr 24, 2016 @ 8:44pm","epoch":1461530340,"text":"amazing, completely amazing. how do you do it!?"},{"author_name":"AtomicPair","author_uid":"89547","time":"Apr 24, 2016 @ 9:49pm","epoch":1461534240,"text":"One of the most beautiful looking games I've seen in LD35 to date. Very well done!"},{"author_name":"Franklin's Ghost","author_uid":"35424","time":"Apr 25, 2016 @ 12:03pm","epoch":1461585480,"text":"One of the best looking entries I've played so far, such great graphics. Only issue I had was the walls you can't go through should probably stand out a bit more. Another LD though and another amazing polished entry, nice job."},{"author_name":"knason","author_uid":"65229","time":"Apr 25, 2016 @ 6:30pm","epoch":1461608700,"text":"Great game! I liked the graphics a lot, the game was a bit hard but fun as always. Good job!"},{"author_name":"derr","author_uid":"55643","time":"Apr 26, 2016 @ 8:06am","epoch":1461657660,"text":"Incredible game from controls, to graphics to audio. Well done!"},{"author_name":"Digitalduck","author_uid":"10446","time":"Apr 27, 2016 @ 10:14am","epoch":1461751740,"text":"Game looks cool as always, but I feel you should be disqualified, since you did not release the source.\r\rIn fact, the last 2 ludumdares you didn't release source, which is part of the rules..\r\rLudumdare 34: http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-34\/?action=preview&uid=2982\rLudumdare 33: http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-33\/?action=preview&uid=2982"},{"author_name":"deepnight","author_uid":"2982","time":"Apr 28, 2016 @ 5:40pm","epoch":1461864900,"text":"@DigitalDuck> I'm really sorry that not disclosing the source in time to be such big issue. I mean, there are so many other entries where people don't do it. Anyway, I just posted the SubDragon source code, feel free to download\/check it :) Didn't have time earlier and I just totally forgot about the source code of my previous LD game."},{"author_name":"General","author_uid":"16507","time":"Apr 30, 2016 @ 5:39pm","epoch":1462037640,"text":"Video: https:\/\/youtu.be\/OC2Isnqi0nY\rCreative approach to shape shifting! Good combination with shooter game"},{"author_name":"Rock Eaters","author_uid":"90519","time":"May 1, 2016 @ 5:29am","epoch":1462080240,"text":"impressive stuff !"},{"author_name":"domrein","author_uid":"12960","time":"May 1, 2016 @ 6:38pm","epoch":1462127580,"text":"Awesome game. Best one I've played so far. It'd be cool if you had mouse controls too."},{"author_name":"Zyow","author_uid":"44575","time":"May 2, 2016 @ 11:26am","epoch":1462188060,"text":"Excellent graphics and sound! Good job!"},{"author_name":"commanderstitch","author_uid":"14366","time":"May 4, 2016 @ 3:52am","epoch":1462333620,"text":"very cool game You are very very talented. :D"},{"author_name":"retrogradeorbit","author_uid":"40126","time":"May 4, 2016 @ 10:34am","epoch":1462357740,"text":"First game of yours that doesn't work for me. Just a black screen. Checked my flash is working... all your old games still work. So something has changed..."},{"author_name":"retrogradeorbit","author_uid":"40126","time":"May 4, 2016 @ 12:12pm","epoch":1462363620,"text":"Just to provide more info. I've checked the network tab in chrome and the .swf is loading successfuly. It just doesn't start once it's loaded. The console doesn't report any errors. No idea what's happening."},{"author_name":"Riftpoint","author_uid":"56172","time":"May 4, 2016 @ 4:34pm","epoch":1462379340,"text":"Very nice gameplay mechanic, really creative. The graphics are amazing too. Congratulations!"},{"author_name":"team_disposable","author_uid":"91303","time":"May 4, 2016 @ 8:50pm","epoch":1462394700,"text":"Loved it! Excellent music and the death sound is soooo good. It also plays so smoothly! Congratulations."},{"author_name":"tanis","author_uid":"48604","time":"May 5, 2016 @ 4:32pm","epoch":1462465620,"text":"Awesome as usual! :)"},{"author_name":"SaintHeiser","author_uid":"14848","time":"May 8, 2016 @ 11:10am","epoch":1462705500,"text":"Not working on linux."},{"author_name":"davidB","author_uid":"20693","time":"May 8, 2016 @ 7:34pm","epoch":1462735740,"text":"Super!"},{"author_name":"Geckoo1337","author_uid":"35835","time":"May 8, 2016 @ 9:10pm","epoch":1462741500,"text":"Great game with a frenetic gameplay and a beautiful aesthetic. Well done ++"},{"author_name":"BrainSlugs83","author_uid":"22701","time":"May 8, 2016 @ 10:29pm","epoch":1462746240,"text":"That was fucking awesome. Not to mention beautiful. Thank you for supporting the gamepad, btw. :-)"},{"author_name":"Tanton-H2X","author_uid":"55854","time":"May 9, 2016 @ 8:07am","epoch":1462780920,"text":"subdragon very awesome~! detail so rich! rhythm very balance!and the music also that, very smooth and genki,let me immerse it so easy and also so charmful.. \r the final challenge's second part(upward area to island) ,i found that i could runsh direclty up-ward, and then clear the part-1 area enemies! (very exiciting!) although this final part really hard but also give me so deep impression ! well done and this entry worth high vote!\r(btw, flying like a snake feels very great!)"},{"author_name":"Weeping Rupee","author_uid":"60016","time":"May 9, 2016 @ 1:37pm","epoch":1462800720,"text":"Awesome. \r\rVery well executed without being too high concept. Thats the nice thing about video games being associated with a style of 8 or 16 bit art-- all the early games needed to have recognizable characters with such a limited resolution... so you can tell me "ok you're a snake whose red side shoots lasers and whose white side absorbs rockets and bullets" and I'll be like "yeah, ok lets do this."\r\rNice tutorial too.\r\rVery very well executed from conception to implementation."},{"author_name":"Acuity","author_uid":"34803","time":"May 9, 2016 @ 7:45pm","epoch":1462822800,"text":"This is a really cool concept! It's hard for me to control the dragon the way I want it to though - I think my head wants to operate in tangential coordinates instead of absolute (as in W always moves forwards and A and D would "turn")"}],"images":["ld35\/2982-19a52caccd786a99b816aa84a6c0e961.jpg","ld35\/2982-b0b66d782a741be2b876fb76baeaf0ad.jpg","ld35\/2982-5e7d6154887bd74761037a80c0120348.jpg","ld35\/2982-5c4772c95080a1efaad2be38b7c52744.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/deepnight.net\/games\/subdragon\/","text":"Play (flash)"},{"url":"http:\/\/deepnight.net\/files\/games\/ld35-subdragon\/source.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"4291","g_author":"2982","g_event":"LD35","g_eventkey":"33","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"4400","g_title":"Sub Dragon","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"14","g_commentcount":"82","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\/2982-shot0-1460982596.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/2982-shot1-1460982596.gif-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/2982-shot2-1460982596.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/2982-shot3-1460982596.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"VERY IMPORTANT: use the shape freezing mechanic (hold SPACEBAR)!!! It's essential :)\r\n\r\nUsing a XBOX controller is recommended.\r\n------\r\n\r\nSUBDRAGON is a shooter inspired by Saint Dragon on Atari ST. Your ship has 2 sides: the white one (left) is invulnerable and can stop enemy bullets. The red one is heavily armed but very fragile!\r\n\r\nMove around like a snake, change shape and use both sides wisely to eradicate every opponents! :)\r\n\r\n","title":"Sub Dragon"}