{"author_link":"\/users\/fusionnist","author_name":"fusionnist","author_uid":"1010732","comments":[{"author_name":"Malarpuppet","author_uid":"1146911","time":"2019-04-30T06:53:32Z","epoch":1556607212,"modified":1556607212,"text":"Really cool. super punchy and fun.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"RyanJavanshir","author_uid":"1114276","time":"2019-04-30T17:57:55Z","epoch":1556647075,"modified":1556647075,"text":"What a great looking game, really love the rumble effect. Simple concept that can be expanded in loads of different ways and released on Steam! :D","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"z0rlog","author_uid":"1139496","time":"2019-04-30T18:00:19Z","epoch":1556647219,"modified":1556647219,"text":"So much fun in this game! Really awesome! Loved the music theme as well, great job.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Artyom Volkov","author_uid":"1145628","time":"2019-04-30T18:02:45Z","epoch":1556647365,"modified":1556647365,"text":"I like this game. Neat grathics and really smooth gameplay and pretty nice narrative!","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Don Fouts","author_uid":"1038102","time":"2019-04-30T18:06:36Z","epoch":1556647596,"modified":1556647596,"text":"This was great! I really liked the mechanic to lock hearts away after upgrading. Really solid submission, nice work!!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Someday Not Today","author_uid":"1104074","time":"2019-04-30T22:17:01Z","epoch":1556662621,"modified":1556665278,"text":"Wow, this game is perfect. Nice mechanics, well-done programmer part of this game. And art is beautiful. Good job!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"kadecgos","author_uid":"1154665","time":"2019-05-01T07:13:58Z","epoch":1556694838,"modified":1556694874,"text":"Surprisingly polished idea!  It's fun, it's delightfully complete given a 4-day dev cycle, and it's among my favorite for LD44 so far! ","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Essence","author_uid":"1127908","time":"2019-05-01T15:13:34Z","epoch":1556723614,"modified":1556723614,"text":"@kadecgos we are extremely glad you enjoyed our efforts!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"pcmaster","author_uid":"1000478","time":"2019-05-01T19:52:40Z","epoch":1556740360,"modified":1556740360,"text":"Pretty hardcore. Graphics, movement, tension, MUSIC, sound... congratz! Epic! Ship it! ;)","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Cikyt","author_uid":"1107490","time":"2019-05-01T21:59:50Z","epoch":1556747990,"modified":1556747990,"text":"looks fantastic! \n","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Rgarbati","author_uid":"1154886","time":"2019-05-02T11:57:32Z","epoch":1556798252,"modified":1556798252,"text":"Really enjoyed your game, great idea, great music, great graphs. GG to you","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Alienplay","author_uid":"1081491","time":"2019-05-02T12:13:21Z","epoch":1556799201,"modified":1556799201,"text":"Pixel art in this game looks really clean, color pallet is just perfect and music is very fitting for this art style. Very fun game overall. Great job!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Hygon","author_uid":"1022971","time":"2019-05-02T21:47:39Z","epoch":1556833659,"modified":1556833659,"text":"Amazing game !\nThe music is excellent, and the graphics are really good too (i liked the choices of color)\nThe controls are precise. i think that there could have been more audio feedback (when upgrades are obtained or used for example).\nGreat entry overall, congrats to the team !","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"gredgie","author_uid":"1001079","time":"2019-05-02T22:28:39Z","epoch":1556836119,"modified":1556836119,"text":"This was a solid game, really hectic but it's done so well. The minimalistic sprites are excellent, the narrative, enemy types, upgrade choices... I loved it all.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"ectucker1","author_uid":"1008294","time":"2019-05-02T22:34:48Z","epoch":1556836488,"modified":1556836488,"text":"Love this take on the theme! The game has an intensity to it, mostly sold by the music and narration. Great entry!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"IanLux","author_uid":"1123116","time":"2019-05-03T02:13:48Z","epoch":1556849628,"modified":1556849628,"text":"5\/5\nI absolutely adored it, the storytelling, gameplay, audio, visuals, everything is great.\nHard as heck, but satisfying as heck too.\nAbsurdly amazing job mates, well done;","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Alexascher","author_uid":"1138348","time":"2019-05-03T17:03:52Z","epoch":1556903032,"modified":1556903032,"text":"What a piece of pure fun! Everything is beautiful in this game.\nMy high-score was about 620.\nI hope there will be post-jam version with even more stuff and fun.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Korteh","author_uid":"1072604","time":"2019-05-03T19:42:46Z","epoch":1556912566,"modified":1556912566,"text":"i absolutely love this game, it's pretty simple, but graphics and sound are amazing, especially voice acting, and it fits theme quite well.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"OwlyCode","author_uid":"1123011","time":"2019-05-03T22:03:20Z","epoch":1556921000,"modified":1556921000,"text":"Awesome! It's one of the best entries I've seen so far. It's fun and fast paced, with a die and retry feel.\n\nOnly issue I had: I didn't realize the first upgrade that I had to go on the center platform. Maybe a visual effect should point to it the first time. Like a short blink effect?","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"SnowTV","author_uid":"1128110","time":"2019-05-04T03:26:58Z","epoch":1556940418,"modified":1556940418,"text":"This is one of the most polished I've played in this jam! The graphics is simple but stylish, especially the melee enemy's animation, really well done!\n\nThe soundtrack is also dope.\n\nOverall very polished jam. Congratz!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"puppetmaster","author_uid":"1001122","time":"2019-05-04T11:19:00Z","epoch":1556968740,"modified":1556968798,"text":"Great mood, very good control especially with the abilities.\nWhat disturbed me personally was the room image, I always thought I could move more to the left.\nHighscore 856","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"stevenjmiller","author_uid":"1000147","time":"2019-05-04T21:22:51Z","epoch":1557004971,"modified":1557004971,"text":"Amazing game, my best score was 1076.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Anion_Z","author_uid":"1080999","time":"2019-05-04T21:38:52Z","epoch":1557005932,"modified":1557005932,"text":"Holy f....\nThis is absoloutely amazing, highest score - 1080.\n\nThe music together with Voice makes it that much more fun, the game is very polished and upgrades that cost life are balanced well. \n\nOne thing though is you cant hear other sounds apart the music maybe you want to adjust that. Besides that the gameplay is extremely fun and I wanted to keep going! Definitely would love to see this game with more upgrades and enemies, keep it up guys!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"CodeKoto","author_uid":"1080608","time":"2019-05-04T21:43:54Z","epoch":1557006234,"modified":1557006234,"text":"I loved the concept of the game! The irony of wanting to stay the only human, but eventually you succumb to power and slowly join the machine. You end up being a hypocrite to yourself, and i was always curious what the next upgrade is.\n\nAs far as gameplay goes, i think the space given is a bit too small but at the start it was hard, though, when i got an upgrade everything became much easier and easier so maybe the more upgrades you get the more space but also monsters you see. \n\nGood job on the game though!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"fusionnist","author_uid":"1010732","time":"2019-05-05T08:44:13Z","epoch":1557045853,"modified":1557045853,"text":"@owlycode\n Thanks for the feedback - we were fairly concerned about that, I placed tip text that somewhat instructs as well as an extra sprite for when the upgrade machine is stepped on... but in the midst of action, that wasn't entirely fool-proof, I agree.\n\n@puppetmaster\n Indeed, I (as the coder for room bounds) didn't want to bother making some funky trapezoid bounds, so the small rectangle is what fit best and helped with the time constraints - hence the greyed area. I suppose you all figured that out after a game or two, but for the past days I've been wondering when anyone would bring that up! haha :D If we ever remake this, I'll ditch weird bounds for sure ;)\n@anion-z \n For sure! I somewhat took a safe shot at balancing in order to make sure that the music and speech would be heard, but the best is always to let the player adjust. It's noted, thanks!\n@codekoto \n I'm glad you got that part of the narrative! As for room bounds, I answered that earlier in this comment - it's really just something born out of time restrictions :)\n\nFeedback has been pretty awesome overall! It's a pretty big step-up from previous games, so  I'm glad! (no one beat the dev highscore yet though, muahahahaha)","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"HAUO","author_uid":"1091668","time":"2019-05-05T14:41:44Z","epoch":1557067304,"modified":1557067304,"text":"One of my favorites so far! Its just a awesome package. The mood is great, great art, and especially love the voice recordings really just puts it one level higher. The controls are tight, and the pace is also great. You also managed to add the power-ups at good intervals before the combat started feeling boring, giving me new options and basically changing how you play at every step. Really just a fun jam-sized experience all around.\n\nWith that said, while I really like both the mechanic and lore of becoming more robotic, the \"price\" that needed to be paid to essentially level-up was with-out much choice and it did not really feel like a currency? I think I would have liked to have a bit more control over how my health is spent. At the same time it's difficult, as more choice would slow the game down, something I don't think would do it any favors, so I'm uncertain of my own critique.\n\nIn the end, I like how \"compact\" it is, and has a good feel of \"speed\", the lowering of the health is a great representation in the end of both your humanity and keeping the game hard even with the OP-weapons you gain in exchange.\n\nGreat work!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"fusionnist","author_uid":"1010732","time":"2019-05-05T16:41:55Z","epoch":1557074515,"modified":1557074515,"text":"@hauo Indeed - we didn't explore the theme as a mechanic as much as we explored it <<as a theme>>, so to speak; in this context, you \"pay the price\" of your life in exchange for more kills. By the time we had this idea, even acknowledging that we weren't quite bringing forward the notion of currency, we decided to roll with it haha. I do agree though! I always had that thought on the back of my mind while programming :)\nThanks for the kind words too! We've all been blown away by the reception we got :D","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"geist_191","author_uid":"1142365","time":"2019-05-05T18:18:53Z","epoch":1557080333,"modified":1557080333,"text":"For a 72 hour gamejam game this is very impressive. The polishing of this feels very good! The music and the vocals really underline the story. Maybe replace the title screen and the game would be perfect! \n\nAlso the waves feel very \"realistic\" and \"natural\". If you decide to make a whole game out of it, let me know!! 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The more you fight and are overwhelmed, the more you will need to sacrifice a part of your humanity - of your life - for a stronger, mechanical body. That is the price to pay for you to one day, across multiple lives, wipe the machines off your world. But it will not happen today.\n\n\n\nThe game is a highscorer! Kill as many enemies as you can, bam bam bam!\n\nAs you upgrade, you trade your maximum health! Be careful as you progress - power comes at the price of your life.\n\n\n[there is only a windows build]\n\n\n\nInspired by the music of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard\n\nTo compete, just send a screenshot of your own achievement! :D\n\n\n\nTeam:\n\nArt -> Essence https:\/\/twitter.com\/EssenceArtThing\n\nCode - Distorter https:\/\/twitter.com\/theDistort\n\nMusic + Code -> Fusionnist https:\/\/twitter.com\/Fusionnist","meta":{"author":[10732,127908,16682],"cover":"\/\/\/content\/ce9\/2\/z\/24180.png","link-01":"https:\/\/fusionnist.itch.io\/digital-grey-ld44","link-01-tag":"42337"},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/44\/digital-grey","parents":[1,5,9,139254],"love":0,"notes":29,"notes-timestamp":"2019-05-05T20:38:18Z","grade":{"grade-01":35,"grade-02":35,"grade-03":35,"grade-04":35,"grade-05":36,"grade-06":35,"grade-07":34,"grade-08":35},"magic":{"cool":98.331671637671,"feedback":35,"given":32.875,"grade":35,"smart":19.122377599972}},"text":"CURRENT HIGH SCORE: 1102 (Devs)\n\nYou are the only one left.\n\nThe last drop of light in a dark world.\n\nThe last human among machines.\n\nDigital gray.\n\n\n![GIF.gif](\/\/\/raw\/ce9\/2\/z\/22a77.gif)\n\n\nControls: \n\nWASD to move (press K and L to toggle ZQSD)\n\nMouse + Left click to aim and shoot\n\nRight click to dash (once unlocked)\n\nSpace when standing on the upgrade station to... upgrade\n\n(Note: you need full energy to do so)\n\nE: Toggle screenshake\n\nR: Start game\n\nEsc: close game\n\n\n![gif2.gif](\/\/\/raw\/ce9\/2\/z\/22a7c.gif)\n\n\n\nYour objective: destroy all the machines. The more you fight and are overwhelmed, the more you will need to sacrifice a part of your humanity - of your life - for a stronger, mechanical body. That is the price to pay for you to one day, across multiple lives, wipe the machines off your world. But it will not happen today.\n\n\n\nThe game is a highscorer! Kill as many enemies as you can, bam bam bam!\n\nAs you upgrade, you trade your maximum health! Be careful as you progress - power comes at the price of your life.\n\n\n[there is only a windows build]\n\n\n\nInspired by the music of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard\n\nTo compete, just send a screenshot of your own achievement! :D\n\n\n\nTeam:\n\nArt -> Essence https:\/\/twitter.com\/EssenceArtThing\n\nCode - Distorter https:\/\/twitter.com\/theDistort\n\nMusic + Code -> Fusionnist https:\/\/twitter.com\/Fusionnist","title":"Digital Gray"}