{"author_link":"\/users\/codescapade","author_name":"codescapade","author_uid":"1015910","comments":[{"author_name":"Jimbly","author_uid":"1000989","time":"2018-04-27T17:34:27Z","epoch":1524850467,"modified":1524850467,"text":"I love it!  Wow, what a brilliant combination that works so very, very well.  I love caring about the color of my snake's head.  I love figuring out weird ways to ram my snake into a wall to have it fall in the right pose onto the other blocks.  I really like being able to spin my snake in circles for a bit to give myself some time to figure out a clever placement.  I also love that just from the title and 4 color picture I could guess almost exactly what the gameplay was going to be like, yet it felt so fresh.  I managed to get through two levels, this is quite challenging!  Only thing that felt a little frustrating was having no way to speed things up, not sure how that should be done, perhaps just a button to press to immediately jump forward a space, or even a \"freeze\" button that would drop the snake, but I think that would ruin the elegance and trickiness of finding a place to get in the right position.  Really tempted to throw together a competitive local multiplayer version of this before my next game day...","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"amras0000","author_uid":"1006459","time":"2018-04-28T19:25:38Z","epoch":1524943538,"modified":1524943538,"text":"It took me far too long to figure out that the 4 same-colored blocks had to be in a line, not just adjacent. I also needed a bit to work out when blocks would fall, and when they'd stick around. Once I had that down though, this game proved to have a lot of depth and strategy to it. I don't think I ever felt like I needed a speed button; the game's slow but not unreasonably so. Wouldn't hurt to have one though.\n\nOne issue I had with the gameplay is that it was difficult to judge distances. I had to do a lot of mental arithmetic to figure out where my snake would fit, and how. I think a visible grid (both on the map and on the snake) might have helped with that, but I'm not sure.\n\nAlso, I'd have liked to have a restart button (or known what it is if you have one), since I had to restart the game after every game over and had to return to level 1.\n\nI definitely enjoyed my time with this title. It's got a good idea behind it, with good execution and a fair bit of depth. Good work.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"torcado","author_uid":"1001561","time":"2018-05-04T02:53:15Z","epoch":1525402395,"modified":1525402395,"text":"ooh this is cool! i really love the combination of these two puzzle ideas. The gameplay felt really slow, even if it would have made it harder i think i would have liked if the snakes moved a little faster, eventually i lost just from getting impatient. otherwise i thought it was cool! i like the art :grin: ","likes":1,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld41\/83785-0ef58b4f1ad21fb0600ce50fe178becf.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/codescapade.github.io\/LD41\/","text":"HTML5 (web)"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/codescapade\/LD41","text":"Source code"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"46505","g_author":"1015910","g_event":"LD41","g_eventkey":"72","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"244392","g_title":"Dr. Snake","g_status":"USEAR3","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"3","g_site2_node_id":"83785","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"83785","n_urlkey":"244392","n_parent":"73256","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/41\/dr-snake","n_slug":"dr-snake","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"15910","n_created":"1524253653","n_modified":"1524996538","n_version":"281492","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":83785,"parent":73256,"superparent":9,"author":15910,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"compo","published":"2018-04-23T00:50:51Z","created":"2018-04-20T19:47:33Z","modified":"2018-04-29T10:08:58Z","version":281492,"slug":"dr-snake","name":"Dr. Snake","body":"Dr. Snake is a combination of snake with Dr. Mario. You control the snake until you hit something and then the snake falls down in its current shape.\n\nThe goal is to match 4 or more of the same color horizontal or vertical in a line to remove all the targets.\n\nControls: Arrow keys to move the snake. M to Mute the sound.\n\n\n\n![Screen Shot 2018-04-23 at 01.38.59.png](\/\/\/raw\/62e\/3\/z\/10aa5.png) \n\n\n![Screen Shot 2018-04-23 at 01.46.20.png](\/\/\/raw\/62e\/3\/z\/10ada.png)\n\n\n![Screen Shot 2018-04-23 at 01.39.17.png](\/\/\/raw\/62e\/3\/z\/10ae9.png)","meta":{"author":[15910],"cover":"\/\/\/content\/62e\/3\/z\/10a62.png","link-01":"https:\/\/codescapade.github.io\/LD41\/","link-01-tag":"42336","link-02":"https:\/\/github.com\/codescapade\/LD41","link-02-tag":"42332"},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/41\/dr-snake","parents":[1,5,9,73256],"love":0,"notes":3,"notes-timestamp":"2018-05-04T02:53:15Z","grade":{"grade-01":6,"grade-02":6,"grade-03":6,"grade-04":6,"grade-05":6,"grade-06":6,"grade-07":6,"grade-08":6},"magic":{"cool":85.146931829632,"feedback":1,"given":3.625,"grade":6,"grade-01-average":3.25,"grade-02-average":3,"grade-03-average":3.875,"grade-04-average":4,"grade-05-average":3,"grade-06-average":2.375,"grade-07-average":1.875,"grade-08-average":2,"smart":-23.235052642126}},"text":"Dr. Snake is a combination of snake with Dr. Mario. You control the snake until you hit something and then the snake falls down in its current shape.\n\nThe goal is to match 4 or more of the same color horizontal or vertical in a line to remove all the targets.\n\nControls: Arrow keys to move the snake. M to Mute the sound.\n\n\n\n![Screen Shot 2018-04-23 at 01.38.59.png](\/\/\/raw\/62e\/3\/z\/10aa5.png) \n\n\n![Screen Shot 2018-04-23 at 01.46.20.png](\/\/\/raw\/62e\/3\/z\/10ada.png)\n\n\n![Screen Shot 2018-04-23 at 01.39.17.png](\/\/\/raw\/62e\/3\/z\/10ae9.png)","title":"Dr. Snake"}