{"author_link":"\/users\/caramelcode","author_name":"CaramelCode","author_uid":"1012131","comments":[{"author_name":"MrPiedPiper","author_uid":"1075288","time":"2019-04-30T05:18:49Z","epoch":1556601529,"modified":1556610932,"text":"This was great!\nSaw you post that you were doing a family-team this Ludum Dare on the Feed a little while ago, and kept an eye open to try the game. You guys did great! \n\nLove the art style, and the the music fit the feel of the game perfectly.\n\nOnly noticed two things that you might want to fix:\n* When grabbing the bow, the \"Bow held in the air from your hand\" layer is behind the gate layer. So if you click on the bow while the gate is still opening, you can see it clip behind there.\n* I noticed sometimes the music tracts started playing when another was playing. Like, I'd get game over, and when I hit try again the game over music doesn't stop. \n* A few times, I had the wrong end picture appear? Not sure why though :\\\n* You can brute force through the knight by spam clicking\n\n\nAmazing different ending scenes by the way. Probably my favorite bits of the game; great details XP\n\nAwesome job!\n\nPost comment edit: I was testing something for the sake of bug hunting, and there's different art for being hurt at the end!?","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"CaramelCode","author_uid":"1012131","time":"2019-04-30T16:18:28Z","epoch":1556641108,"modified":1556641108,"text":"@mrpiedpiper Thank you so much for the feedback!!  Those bug reports were very helpful and should all be fixed now!  I'm looking forward to playing your game too! :D","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"moi93101","author_uid":"1137511","time":"2019-04-30T20:31:45Z","epoch":1556656305,"modified":1556656305,"text":"That's... really great ! I'm jalous of your kids who are waaaayy better artists than me !\nSo, there is an ending (three in fact :p ) and that's cool !\n\nI think your team can do good point & click","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Shunaky","author_uid":"1147632","time":"2019-04-30T20:32:37Z","epoch":1556656357,"modified":1556656357,"text":"I couldn't play, it says I need to have a controller to play :(","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"CaramelCode","author_uid":"1012131","time":"2019-04-30T20:35:13Z","epoch":1556656513,"modified":1556656513,"text":"@shunaky  you don\u2019t need a controller.   You just click the yes or no controller buttons with your mouse.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"DrSkort","author_uid":"1077752","time":"2019-04-30T20:44:28Z","epoch":1556657068,"modified":1556657068,"text":"Really great idea ^^ I'm really impressed how good the result is :)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"JKazuk","author_uid":"1143303","time":"2019-04-30T21:21:25Z","epoch":1556659285,"modified":1556659285,"text":"Great game! It's hilarious that you can just abandon your brother. Always love that kind of twist","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Shunaky","author_uid":"1147632","time":"2019-04-30T22:09:00Z","epoch":1556662140,"modified":1556662140,"text":"@caramelcode Oooohh, Now I can try it out","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Shunaky","author_uid":"1147632","time":"2019-04-30T22:15:44Z","epoch":1556662544,"modified":1556662544,"text":"I tried the game now, there are some issues on how the colliders work to damage you, but considering that you let the kids do all the work, that is awesome, I'm pretty sure they loved the experience.\n\nAbout the battle:\n- The Duck button should have a priority over the shooting, you can create a timer after shooting that you can't duck or jump, but if you are airborn or ducking you can't shoot.\n- Sometimes the enemy's spell hit me even when I already let it go, maybe reducing the hit area for behind the head will solve this issue.\n\nYour kids did an awesome job,\nI loved the Gameover for choosing not to help the brother hahahaha","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"daria-toni","author_uid":"1144203","time":"2019-05-01T15:12:48Z","epoch":1556723568,"modified":1556723568,"text":"Omg, I love it :) So sad that this game is so small, but this is a complete handmade! So cute and funny :)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Mags","author_uid":"1053618","time":"2019-05-03T13:44:03Z","epoch":1556891043,"modified":1556891044,"text":"Good job! Was the branstorming also something the boys participated in? I love that you did this with your family. I participated with my husband this year. :D Also I liked the game. It is short but I didn't feel it was unfinished. There are always things we would want to add but we run out of time. If you'll be working some more on the game I'd like to see it again. So tell me if there is a way to follow up on you guys. I hope you get enough reviews to be placed. Keep up the good work game-making-wise and parenting-wise. :wink: ","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Kaisean Games","author_uid":"1000275","time":"2019-05-03T14:46:04Z","epoch":1556894764,"modified":1556894764,"text":"My wife :point_up: told me about this game. Really nice thing to do with family. \nIt would be great if there was a hint that the end graphics is different depending on the damage you have taken, but it's great nonetheless.\n\nUnlike many other games this LD, this one has a soul. :smile: \nA brother sacrificing himself for his brother. Nicely done :smile: ","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"CaramelCode","author_uid":"1012131","time":"2019-05-03T16:45:41Z","epoch":1556901941,"modified":1556901941,"text":"@mags Thanks! Yes Rowen and Elliott were absolutely involved in the brainstorming.  That was the first thing we did friday night.  Was all of us brainstorming.  Here is a screenshot of our brainstorm notes:\n\n![Screenshot from 2019-05-03 12-43-28.png](\/\/\/raw\/36f\/2\/z\/247cb.png)\n\nThat's awesome that you participated with your husband.  I can't wait to check out your game!","likes":0,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld44\/147737-3b797ae0866d0fd7e749935c29c32bcb.png"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/jaredsprague.com\/ransom\/","text":"HTML5 (web)"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/Jared-Sprague\/ransom","text":"Source code"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"43883","g_author":"1012131","g_event":"LD44","g_eventkey":"75","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"256142","g_title":"Ransom","g_status":"USEAR3","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"13","g_site2_node_id":"147737","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0.343686"},"nds":{"n_key":"147737","n_urlkey":"256142","n_parent":"139254","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/44\/ransom","n_slug":"ransom","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"12131","n_created":"1556303350","n_modified":"1556648308","n_version":"464879","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":147737,"parent":139254,"superparent":9,"author":12131,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"jam","published":"2019-04-30T00:58:02Z","created":"2019-04-26T18:29:10Z","modified":"2019-04-30T18:18:28Z","version":464879,"slug":"ransom","name":"Ransom","body":"![Screenshot from 2019-04-29 20-53-31.png](\/\/\/raw\/36f\/2\/z\/23dac.png)\n\n# Ransom\nAn quick adventure game about two friends, a ransom, and life force as currency.  This is my kids first game and first Ludum Dare!\n\n# Play the game\nThis is an HTML5 and can be played in any modern browser. Just click on the HTML5 link below to play.\n\n# The Team\n- Jared Sprague - Coding (Dad)\n- Rowen Sprague - Art (age 14)\n- Elliott Sprague - Music (age 13)\n\n# About the game\nThis was my kids first game and I gave them complete creative control just to see what they came up with.\nI was very impressed with their creativity in art, music, and story.  Rowen created all the art assets using\na Wacom draw tablet and my Son composed all the original music from sheet music using noteflight.com.\n\nThere was more that we wanted to add like the ability to move the character around with a walking animation\nbut we ran out of time.  We'll definitely be creating a post jam version.\n\nThis was also my first time using Phaser 3 and I really loved the experience compared to Phaser 2.\n\n# All original soundtrack\nAll the music and sound effects are completely original and were composed by Elliott from scratch sheet music.\n\n# Tools used\nWe tried to use as many open source tools as possible creating this game.  Here is a complete list of tools used.\n\n- Phaser 3\n- Firealpaca\n- noteflight.com\n- Gimp\n- Audacity\n- Google Chrome\n- Webstorm\n- Fedora Linux\n","meta":{"author":[12131,144673,150414],"cover":"\/\/\/content\/36f\/2\/z\/23023.png","link-01":"http:\/\/jaredsprague.com\/ransom\/","link-01-tag":"42336","link-02":"https:\/\/github.com\/Jared-Sprague\/ransom","link-02-tag":"42332"},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/44\/ransom","parents":[1,5,9,139254],"love":0,"notes":13,"notes-timestamp":"2019-05-03T16:45:41Z","grade":{"grade-01":11,"grade-02":11,"grade-03":11,"grade-04":11,"grade-05":11,"grade-06":11,"grade-07":11,"grade-08":11},"magic":{"cool":94.868329805051,"feedback":8,"given":9,"grade":11,"smart":4.0832999733066}},"text":"![Screenshot from 2019-04-29 20-53-31.png](\/\/\/raw\/36f\/2\/z\/23dac.png)\n\n# Ransom\nAn quick adventure game about two friends, a ransom, and life force as currency.  This is my kids first game and first Ludum Dare!\n\n# Play the game\nThis is an HTML5 and can be played in any modern browser. Just click on the HTML5 link below to play.\n\n# The Team\n- Jared Sprague - Coding (Dad)\n- Rowen Sprague - Art (age 14)\n- Elliott Sprague - Music (age 13)\n\n# About the game\nThis was my kids first game and I gave them complete creative control just to see what they came up with.\nI was very impressed with their creativity in art, music, and story.  Rowen created all the art assets using\na Wacom draw tablet and my Son composed all the original music from sheet music using noteflight.com.\n\nThere was more that we wanted to add like the ability to move the character around with a walking animation\nbut we ran out of time.  We'll definitely be creating a post jam version.\n\nThis was also my first time using Phaser 3 and I really loved the experience compared to Phaser 2.\n\n# All original soundtrack\nAll the music and sound effects are completely original and were composed by Elliott from scratch sheet music.\n\n# Tools used\nWe tried to use as many open source tools as possible creating this game.  Here is a complete list of tools used.\n\n- Phaser 3\n- Firealpaca\n- noteflight.com\n- Gimp\n- Audacity\n- Google Chrome\n- Webstorm\n- Fedora Linux\n","title":"Ransom"}