{"author_link":"\/author\/sketchygalore\/","author_name":"SketchyGalore","author_uid":"30014","comments":[{"author_name":"greenscreen","author_uid":"65503","time":"Dec 13, 2015 @ 10:17pm","epoch":1450044720,"text":"Great, entertaining game.\r<br\/>Thanks for cheats :D"},{"author_name":"SayRafon","author_uid":"64874","time":"Dec 13, 2015 @ 10:19pm","epoch":1450044840,"text":"This is a really really good game, I love it ! Good work ! (maybe a music could have been ^perfect to add) :D"},{"author_name":"Cluster Parable","author_uid":"65289","time":"Dec 13, 2015 @ 11:35pm","epoch":1450049400,"text":"I love it too really comical!! good job"},{"author_name":"Cluster Parable","author_uid":"65289","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 3:22am","epoch":1450063020,"text":"Good job, love the cheats!"},{"author_name":"OccamsRazor","author_uid":"32648","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 3:27am","epoch":1450063320,"text":"Very fun! Enjoyed this one a lot!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Also, providing hats without charging us $1.99 each, you spoil us :P"},{"author_name":"illblew","author_uid":"52590","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 3:27am","epoch":1450063320,"text":"Fun!"},{"author_name":"Dooskington","author_uid":"25167","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 3:29am","epoch":1450063440,"text":"I quite enjoyed this one, played it for a while. Nice job!"},{"author_name":"xWarZonex","author_uid":"39237","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 3:30am","epoch":1450063500,"text":"This game is great! I love the gameplay an the hats are a awesome touch!"},{"author_name":"jerry111zhang","author_uid":"55229","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 3:31am","epoch":1450063560,"text":"Great handling for jumping and digging! It would be great if difficulty increases with time faster."},{"author_name":"brandloose","author_uid":"61685","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 3:34am","epoch":1450063740,"text":"Seemed very familiar to other games I've played. But otherwise, pretty fun and addicting. (Also comparing the snake's sprite to the boxes and tubes, there was quite a difference in quality)"},{"author_name":"mukult","author_uid":"65633","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 3:34am","epoch":1450063740,"text":"Nice game! Had a nice time playing it! :) The mechanics are pretty smooth... the art style could improve i guess!"},{"author_name":"sharpfrog4","author_uid":"60660","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 3:37am","epoch":1450063920,"text":"I could play this for hours.  You just beat out TF2 for best hat simulator :')"},{"author_name":"rockybdubs","author_uid":"64651","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 3:37am","epoch":1450063920,"text":"Super fun game play! Unicorn hat!  Web version was reallllly slow though."},{"author_name":"Kakureta","author_uid":"50287","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 4:24am","epoch":1450066740,"text":"Very fun game! The huge score is oddly satisfying and I love the completely unnecessary hats. graphics could have been better and a some sound would have been cool. good work!"},{"author_name":"graceavery","author_uid":"49147","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 6:48am","epoch":1450075380,"text":"I found this oddly fun, the physics were pretty enjoyable and the hats made me happy. :D"},{"author_name":"TheFumelgo","author_uid":"30000","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 8:19am","epoch":1450080840,"text":"Can't finish. No end. Intended ?"},{"author_name":"sanojian","author_uid":"7542","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 11:33am","epoch":1450092480,"text":"Loved this game.  It is just about perfect.  The only thing I would change is don't slow down when you lose snake pieces.  Gets a bit boring and slow."},{"author_name":"dekart","author_uid":"14826","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 12:11pm","epoch":1450094760,"text":"Very well done!"},{"author_name":"Catblocker","author_uid":"64551","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 8:40pm","epoch":1450125300,"text":"Really good and entertaining game."},{"author_name":"danidre14","author_uid":"32791","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 1:27am","epoch":1450142520,"text":"Really great game, had me playing for minutes. Took a while to realise you cant actually die. xD"},{"author_name":"Jan Peter (jpdev)","author_uid":"34367","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 9:31pm","epoch":1450214760,"text":"Cool sound effects, and as of yet absolutly the best hats.\r<br\/>Plane on a snake. NICE :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>What I didn't like is that you don't die even if you are only the head and bump into things. That made it too easy I think.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Otherwhise great game!"},{"author_name":"danielsann7","author_uid":"56331","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 4:53pm","epoch":1450284480,"text":"excellent game, simple and fun, the physics are very comfortable and the humor is on shape, good job!"},{"author_name":"suppi","author_uid":"29243","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 8:49pm","epoch":1450298640,"text":"pretty fun. nice work!"},{"author_name":"BoltKey","author_uid":"50511","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 12:57am","epoch":1450313520,"text":"It is smooth and just works. Also look quite good."},{"author_name":"bazkur98","author_uid":"63572","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 6:12pm","epoch":1450375620,"text":"I really liked this one!  Quill18 also got influenced my decision to give it a shot."},{"author_name":"thebrickanator","author_uid":"50329","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 3:34am","epoch":1450582140,"text":"awesome game for an LD compo entry! awesome work"},{"author_name":"fishbrain","author_uid":"3007","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 5:49am","epoch":1450590240,"text":"Simple &amp; fun!"},{"author_name":"aemiliu5","author_uid":"60212","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 1:39pm","epoch":1450618440,"text":"really nice!\r<br\/>i would appreciate if you could somehow lose when you hit too many objects... :P\r<br\/>but the animations of the movement of the snakes are perfect! :D\r<br\/>i enjoyed it!"},{"author_name":"knason","author_uid":"65229","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 8:12pm","epoch":1450642020,"text":"Terrific game! I played it for quite a while. Thanks!"},{"author_name":"Evergreen Games","author_uid":"47043","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 9:39pm","epoch":1450647240,"text":"Most fun I've ever had with 2 buttons. The more I play the more I see lot of care was taken to make this game engaging. Like hazard warnings, entertaining accomplishments, and those big rainbow jumps."},{"author_name":"sP0CkEr2","author_uid":"7135","time":"Dec 21, 2015 @ 5:56am","epoch":1450677060,"text":"that was a very well done game - although it would be nice to have it end at some point - good work"},{"author_name":"hpearson2","author_uid":"64684","time":"Dec 22, 2015 @ 3:33am","epoch":1450754880,"text":"Death worm?\r<br\/>http:\/\/sandbox.yoyogames.com\/games\/72097-death-worm\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Very close game to death worm enough for me to be suspicious and cynical. Besides that I want to give a fair balanced review of what I see. Lets give this game a go\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Nice tie in with two button controls. I like the humor with the hats and gives the game some sensitive to play. I was wrong and the game-play is closer to flappy bird then death-worm. Sound is nice."},{"author_name":"SketchyGalore","author_uid":"30014","time":"Dec 23, 2015 @ 6:50pm","epoch":1450896300,"text":"@hpearson2 Never heard of Death Worm before, for the record, but thank you for not judging a book by its cover! To be fair, worm-like things digging through the earth isn't exactly something nobody's thought of before :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Thank you to everyone else for the kind words, as well! I'm pretty satisfied with how this one turned out. I do regret not putting a failure state in the game, as that does seem to be the biggest complaint. Unfortunately it would have been quite easy to at least do a time trial or something. Still! I'm glad people are having some fun.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Thanks!"},{"author_name":"CMLSC","author_uid":"86097","time":"Mar 28, 2016 @ 9:35pm","epoch":1459200600,"text":"Got to 1,000,000 then got bored. .-. Other than that, good. :P"}],"images":["ld34\/30014-dca2fd0d1a1f5572215a83363a77c168.jpg","ld34\/30014-ed9d697c02fbd5b675d215e0cc60b11b.jpg","ld34\/30014-568daa31b357cd56873e5e1540565783.jpg","ld34\/30014-8a6e2d93964b20330c889b878eab2d67.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/45288084\/LD%2034\/index.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/45288084\/LD%2034\/LD34%20-%20Snake%20Runner.exe","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/45288084\/LD%2034\/LD34%20-%20Snake%20Runner.gmx(Source).zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"6769","g_author":"30014","g_event":"LD34","g_eventkey":"31","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"6801","g_title":"Snake Runner","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"74","g_commentcount":"34","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\/\/511439\/30014-shot0-1450046028.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/30014-shot1-1450044463.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/30014-shot2-1450044463.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/30014-shot3-1450044463.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"-----\r\nIMPORTANT NOTE: The web version of this game has been tested for Chrome! Other browsers may work, but there may be visual glitches. Please use Chrome, or download the Windows binary for the smoothest experience!\r\n-----\r\n\r\nSnake Runner, a Snake's Endless Journey for Apples!\r\n\r\nSnake Runner is a 2D \"endless runner\". Avoid obstacles and collect apples by jumping into the air and burrowing into the ground. The larger you grow, the faster you go! More points are awarded the longer you can survive without hitting an obstacle.\r\n\r\nControls:\r\nUp - Jump\r\nDown - Dig\r\n\r\nFeatures:\r\n- A remarkably acrobatic snake!\r\n- Over 8 silly hats to unlock for some reason!\r\n- Digging holes!\r\n- 9 silly hats to unlock for some reason!\r\n\r\nSnake Runner was made by Evan Good for the double-themed LD 34: \"Two button controls\" and \"Growing\". This is my forth LD entry, and my first after a year long break. The theme of \"growing\" made me think of the classic game \"Snake\", where a snake grows longer and longer while moving around a playing area, eating randomly spawning apples. Of course, Snake is a game with four-directions (and therefore four buttons), so my idea was to make a game with only two. This was the result!\r\n\r\nSnake Runner was developed using the following tools\/resources:\r\nGameMaker Studio Pro 1.4 (with HTML5 export)\r\nBFXR sound generator\r\nAudacity audio editor (fun fact: most sound effects came from heavily edited recordings of a box of cereal! Crunchy!)\r\nColorZilla Gradient Editor\r\n\r\nNo pre-existing code, art, or sound assets were used.\r\n\r\n- TIPS -\r\n- Gold Apples and Bomb Apples will allow you to hit one obstacle without losing part of your snake. Additionally, Gold Apples make jumping high a little easier while you're holding one, and Bomb Apples make it easier to dig deep. You can combine their effects if you have both.\r\n- Jumping extra high or digging low awards lots of points, but you'll have to get in a rhythm of jumping diving to go fast enough to reach them. Try to gather as many apples as you can before focusing on jumps and you'll really rake in the points!\r\n- You gain new hats for reaching certain point levels. The final one requires 200,000 points! Don't want to wait or want to try a specific hat? Check the cheat section below!\r\n- \"Dig Jumping\" (pressing up while underground) is not only good for higher jumps: do it under a box for extra smashing points!\r\n- You bounce off of the top of boxes and pillars normally, but if you hold the up key you can use them for a small jump boost!\r\n\r\n- CHEATS! -\r\nFor those looking to mess around with things a little, I added the following cheat keys:\r\nB - Become bomb snake (as if you just picked up a Bomb Apple)\r\nP - Become gold snake (as if you just picked up a Golden Apple)\r\nL - Add a segment\/speed to your snake\r\nH - Cycle through the strange hats that I inexplicably took the time to put into this game\r\n\r\nThanks for playing and good luck to all the other Darers! Also a shout-out to Quill18, who encouraged watchers (including me!) to participate a week ago during a livestream. I probably would have skipped it otherwise!","title":"Snake Runner"}