{"author_link":"\/author\/georgebroussard\/","author_name":"GeorgeBroussard","author_uid":"8631","comments":[{"author_name":"madjackmcmad","author_uid":"5448","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 3:31am","epoch":1450063560,"text":"Beautiful homage to OoTW. Nailed the simple style too. And I love the heroic concept that even us folks with a little too much belly can still slay dragons."},{"author_name":"eigenbom","author_uid":"1695","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 3:41am","epoch":1450064160,"text":"Tough, stylish and entertaining. :D"},{"author_name":"dalbinblue","author_uid":"13960","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 4:16am","epoch":1450066260,"text":"Really nice homage to Another World. Definitely really nice looking, and the ground biters are certainly as tough as the original ones. The game is a bit frustrating tough, especially with the long distance between the checkpoints and the random boulders. Regardless of that, fine work for two days.\r\rAlso this went through my head after dying numerous times : https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pwNaJAH_8-U. It's Heart of Darkness not Another World, but the games are similar."},{"author_name":"Hjalte500","author_uid":"41033","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 4:21am","epoch":1450066560,"text":"FUUUUUU! Jumping is just like in the old days. Game feels amazingly whole and coherent. Also its beautiful! How did you make that screen effect?"},{"author_name":"GeorgeBroussard","author_uid":"8631","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 4:21am","epoch":1450066560,"text":"I wash checkpointing every level but it felt too easy. But I may revert it if people feel that way. really the 1st 4 levels are easy to get through (1st checkpoint). It can literally take 20 seconds. Levels 5\/6 are tougher but are in their own checkpoint. And level 7 (boss) is his own checkpoint. So really, the boulders are too hard. Maybe I will slow them a tad more or something to help. Thanks for the feedback."},{"author_name":"RadMcCool","author_uid":"56816","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 4:35am","epoch":1450067400,"text":"Really enjoyed that. Checkpoints were annoying a couple of times but i got into the flow of the game and got through to the end. :D"},{"author_name":"GeorgeBroussard","author_uid":"8631","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 4:47am","epoch":1450068120,"text":"@RadMcCool -glad you liked it. there's a thin line between challenge and annoyance :)"},{"author_name":"takemikazuchi545","author_uid":"29379","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 5:36am","epoch":1450071060,"text":"Wow that cave level is frustrating but the mood was spot on."},{"author_name":"edriavw","author_uid":"35576","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 6:02am","epoch":1450072620,"text":"love the graphics, stuck on the boulders T_T"},{"author_name":"GeorgeBroussard","author_uid":"8631","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 6:08am","epoch":1450072980,"text":"re: Boulders...patience usually wins. It's 2 shorts levels. Once you make it past 2 of them you are checkpointed.\r\rThanks for sticking with it. I hope most ppl finish the game."},{"author_name":"IAmSpencer","author_uid":"24919","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 6:09am","epoch":1450073040,"text":"You nailed the 'Another World' feel. Reminds me so much of that game, everything is spot on, the graphics, the challenge, the atmosphere. Perfect.\r\rShort, but due to it's difficulty, I think it was a very good length.\r\rOverall, this was the perfect little LudumDare game, I loved it, nice job!"},{"author_name":"sanojian","author_uid":"7542","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 7:52am","epoch":1450079220,"text":"The screen texture\/shimmer is stunning. A really challenging game. Those little mouthalumps are unpredictable buggers."},{"author_name":"Pikace","author_uid":"14855","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 10:58am","epoch":1450090380,"text":"Going throught the 1st checkpoint was challenging (not used to this kind of jump anymore :D), after that, finished it in one shot.\rNice hommage"},{"author_name":"esayitch","author_uid":"16000","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 12:35pm","epoch":1450096200,"text":"Falling boulders are a massive spike in difficulty, but the game is gorgeous and an amazing throwback to a bygone era. Really excellent entry, could have maybe used a sombre background tune.\r\rGood luck in the compo!"},{"author_name":"tanis","author_uid":"48604","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 3:57pm","epoch":1450108320,"text":"Beautiful homage to Another World! :D\rIt's tough but it's definitely fun. It took me a while to understand where the main character was colliding though ;)\rWell done!"},{"author_name":"rogual","author_uid":"771","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 5:35pm","epoch":1450114200,"text":"Beautiful. Couldn't get past the boulders\/eat-you bugs screen, but I would have loved to see the rest of it.\r\rWas expecting a similar control style to AW, but not really a bad thing that you diverged from it. controls work great as they are."},{"author_name":"George","author_uid":"14638","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 8:06pm","epoch":1450123260,"text":"Amazing graphics!"},{"author_name":"BuffaloPhil","author_uid":"8563","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 8:48pm","epoch":1450125780,"text":"6o's Trek meets Out of this World. Loved it"},{"author_name":"veverichka","author_uid":"32042","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 10:08pm","epoch":1450130580,"text":"Nailed the graphics!"},{"author_name":"hexagore","author_uid":"34027","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 11:02pm","epoch":1450133820,"text":"This is a really nice homage. Probably slightly depressing for Eric to think how much of Another World you implemented in 2 days in 2015 versus how long it took him to make that game :) Ridiculous really. \r\rShares the same brutal difficulty too. Love the visuals, sounds are spot on too."},{"author_name":"dos","author_uid":"52499","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 11:14pm","epoch":1450134540,"text":"Fell in love with jumping animation <3"},{"author_name":"daveh","author_uid":"55246","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 1:54am","epoch":1450144140,"text":"Really enjoyed it. It's very polished. I found the checkpointing to be fine. The first section was the hardest for me; took me a couple dozen tries. I managed the cavern on the first try, and the dragon in two tries. Loved the atmosphere; you managed to capture that AW feeling perfectly."},{"author_name":"LandoSystems","author_uid":"18212","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 5:07am","epoch":1450155720,"text":"I like the style and the way it builds anticipation, its a clever use of the theme. I died a lot though, the forward velocity of the jump feels a little stunted and took a while to get used to. It was really satisfying to see the blob creatures get smashed by the rocks, because fuck those guys. The end fight was solid too. Great work overall!"},{"author_name":"sP0CkEr2","author_uid":"7135","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 5:59am","epoch":1450158840,"text":"very well done - love the vintage tv look - nice simple mini game"},{"author_name":"SteveSalmond","author_uid":"24965","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 8:27am","epoch":1450167720,"text":"Wow, you really nailed it this time George! Awesome work all round :D"},{"author_name":"commodoreKid","author_uid":"39580","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 9:34am","epoch":1450171740,"text":"My favorite part is the retro visual style. Other than that difficulty of challenge is right. I think it could be longer though but I realize you had to polish it to look nice like this. Clean entry, I like it!"},{"author_name":"TeamEagle","author_uid":"23493","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 12:46pm","epoch":1450183260,"text":"Another world much? Haha, it was a bit hard tho."},{"author_name":"maunovaha","author_uid":"41499","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 1:36pm","epoch":1450186260,"text":"Well made game, I was a bit scared at first when I noticed that dying goes back to the start. But luckily it switched as the game progressed.. other than that, good mood\/audio\/graphics.. fighting the dragon was a bit easy, but fun. good job! :)"},{"author_name":"local306","author_uid":"55445","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 10:11pm","epoch":1450217160,"text":"Nice use of shaders to give it the retro feel. Controls could be a little more responsive though."},{"author_name":"Drtizzle","author_uid":"32775","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 1:04am","epoch":1450227540,"text":"Really nice presentation! Controls are hard but you will get used to it after a while.\rI don't know if this is intended to be a 100% homage to Another World, but the difficulty curve is too steap in my opinion. It might scare players off.\r\rGreat graphics, a bit too hard.\r\rWell done!"},{"author_name":"Jesse Freeman","author_uid":"6843","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 1:50am","epoch":1450230300,"text":"Really love the graphics. Once you get used to the way the character jumps it's good but I died a lot. I really like the multi-screen approach, very nice!"},{"author_name":"salmonmoose","author_uid":"11416","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 1:59am","epoch":1450230840,"text":"Loved the original Another World, and this captured a lot of the style."},{"author_name":"Anshul Goyal","author_uid":"18701","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 3:49am","epoch":1450237440,"text":"Not bad. I think the collision boxes can be reduced :)"},{"author_name":"GoodwolfStudio","author_uid":"59750","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 10:35am","epoch":1450261800,"text":"great retro-style game. Good feeling too it. But why kill the dragon? It didn't do anything :("},{"author_name":"GeorgeBroussard","author_uid":"8631","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 10:37am","epoch":1450261920,"text":"@GoodwolfStudio...because it's there and for any video game to be good, something needs to die! :) I only regret I ran out of time to put in blood splatter."},{"author_name":"SecondDimension","author_uid":"14838","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 6:20pm","epoch":1450289700,"text":"Really tough but still fun to play, great graphics."},{"author_name":"newbeings","author_uid":"65418","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 7:27pm","epoch":1450293720,"text":"Awesome graphics - really nice. Made me think of Another world and Don't look Back. Loved the boss battle!"},{"author_name":"Split82","author_uid":"15279","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 11:21pm","epoch":1450307760,"text":"Awesome job. Really enjoyed your game. Nice game design!"},{"author_name":"Paul Sinnett","author_uid":"11312","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 12:04am","epoch":1450310340,"text":"Great work! I love the fuzzy TV effect!"},{"author_name":"KunoNoOni","author_uid":"6464","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 4:16am","epoch":1450325460,"text":"I finished it and it was really good. I did like the homage to AW(OoTW), one of my favorite games from back in the day. You really should create an extended version of this game and put it on steam for a couple of bucks. I really think your LD games are getting better and better with each LD. :D"},{"author_name":"andyman404","author_uid":"45696","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 6:39am","epoch":1450334040,"text":"Awesome pixelart. Great work for 27 hours!"},{"author_name":"blackmagic","author_uid":"16703","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 8:06am","epoch":1450339260,"text":"Yeah, i kill the dragon! Wouhou! Great hommage to Mr Chahi! The respawn was a good idea and the boss battle also! With better graphics and animations this game might have been a true roller coaster !"},{"author_name":"pjimmy","author_uid":"40339","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 1:49pm","epoch":1450359840,"text":"awesome, the visuals are super, and you've emulated the spirit of Another World superbly, well done :)\rhowever, the theme gets a little lost. I understand the concept of the dragon growing nearer, but still, I would have liked something less ethereal. I grew up playing your games, it's awesome you're still making them! keep it up ;)"},{"author_name":"publicidadeba","author_uid":"63879","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 10:24pm","epoch":1450390740,"text":"Gave 5\/5 for almost everything! Had so much fun playing this, especially slaying the dragon. Thank you!"},{"author_name":"Evgenii Petrov","author_uid":"60189","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 11:00am","epoch":1450436100,"text":"Absolutely great job!"},{"author_name":"ajopart","author_uid":"40976","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 11:53am","epoch":1450439280,"text":"Well made game. Nice graphics. Must be tired but I don't see the link with the theme "growing". Never mind, congrats"},{"author_name":"recursor","author_uid":"1105","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 12:32pm","epoch":1450441620,"text":"This is a very enjoyable game that is not too hard but not too easy. The old school graphics and screen look is great and everything goes together very nicely. Best thing I've played so far. Excellent work!"},{"author_name":"Crowbeak","author_uid":"16689","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 1:09pm","epoch":1450443840,"text":"I really like the visuals. The filter over everything gave it a nice texture."},{"author_name":"Clavus","author_uid":"18043","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 1:11pm","epoch":1450443960,"text":"Short, but polished. Didn't do much with the theme but it was pretty nice."},{"author_name":"Gamepopper","author_uid":"21252","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 1:41pm","epoch":1450445760,"text":"Brilliant tribute to Another World, great artstyle and clever strategy to beat the final boss! Great job!"},{"author_name":"Yakka","author_uid":"13985","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 6:57pm","epoch":1450464720,"text":"Just awesome! Tintin x Another World, what could possibly go wrong? Not related to the themes, but who cares? :p"},{"author_name":"scorched","author_uid":"48268","time":"Dec 19, 2015 @ 9:20am","epoch":1450516500,"text":"Really reminded the Another World, well done!\rWish there was music and the dragon death animation was more vivid :-)"},{"author_name":"GeorgeBroussard","author_uid":"8631","time":"Dec 19, 2015 @ 9:42am","epoch":1450517820,"text":"@scorched - Gotta save something for the sequel! :)"},{"author_name":"wilbefast","author_uid":"14535","time":"Dec 19, 2015 @ 5:43pm","epoch":1450546680,"text":"I slew the Dragon, yay ^^ Only died like a million times :P\r\rNice homage :) The graphical effect is nice too. I really think the rocks need to follow some sort of pattern though. Another World was super hard but you could learn it by rote eventually. I felt in the cave sections that I made it through mainly because I just got lucky with the random number generator. I did play it till the end though :)"},{"author_name":"zenmumbler","author_uid":"17143","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 3:00pm","epoch":1450623300,"text":"I like the 80s screen effect and the retro movement was no problem for me as I'm old. Dem kids clamoring for more checkpoints just don't know...\rGreat mood and sound effects were great, how did you make the dragon squeal?"},{"author_name":"ethankennerly","author_uid":"3040","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 7:22pm","epoch":1450639020,"text":"When I saw the pixelated dragons, hero, and monsters with hexagonal pixel filter, I felt intrigued. If you continue to develop this, on the Chrome with an older Windows AlienWare M11x, when the frame rate was choppy and I couldn't jump the second maw on the ground in the second screen after a dozen attempts, I felt discouraged."},{"author_name":"ButtonMasherBros","author_uid":"11937","time":"Dec 21, 2015 @ 5:11pm","epoch":1450717560,"text":"Pssst - you are in today's LUDUM DARE TO BELIEVE! - https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KW3u_aFLXVA"},{"author_name":"wdebowicz","author_uid":"29762","time":"Dec 22, 2015 @ 11:06pm","epoch":1450825260,"text":"The screen effect is great, I appreciate that there were checkpoints!"},{"author_name":"gokottastudio","author_uid":"62062","time":"Dec 23, 2015 @ 5:57pm","epoch":1450893120,"text":"Great look!"},{"author_name":"Smirnov48","author_uid":"11028","time":"Dec 24, 2015 @ 12:35am","epoch":1450917000,"text":"The end is epic! A lot of fun and humor! Good job!"},{"author_name":"Frenchie","author_uid":"43979","time":"Dec 24, 2015 @ 2:05am","epoch":1450922400,"text":"Game looks fantastic! I'm glad there were checkpoints or I'd be here all night!"},{"author_name":"davekalina","author_uid":"29240","time":"Dec 24, 2015 @ 4:55pm","epoch":1450975800,"text":"Super cool tribute to one of the all-time great adventure games; really nails the mood of the original."},{"author_name":"FiSilva","author_uid":"56232","time":"Dec 27, 2015 @ 10:58am","epoch":1451213580,"text":"Nice game, I liked the different challenges and the mechanics for the boss fight. I think the difficulty was just right, not too hard, not too easy.\rAlso nice visuals."},{"author_name":"Jezzamon","author_uid":"10217","time":"Dec 27, 2015 @ 11:59pm","epoch":1451260440,"text":"Interestingly I didn't really like this game much at all. Dodging randomly appearing boulders and jumping over monster things didn't really seem very interesting.\r\rAnd the theme?\r\rMaybe I need to have played Another World to understand this game?"},{"author_name":"Docjekyll","author_uid":"41650","time":"Dec 29, 2015 @ 4:47am","epoch":1451364120,"text":"Nice, short experience. Very satisfying. :-D"},{"author_name":"Jeasonfire","author_uid":"29941","time":"Dec 30, 2015 @ 7:57pm","epoch":1451505120,"text":"The game looks very nice and seems quite polished, but the controls are a bit iffy. I imagine I'm missing some throwback to a very old game where the controls were clunky or something, but such are the woes of young people."},{"author_name":"managore","author_uid":"3479","time":"Jan 4, 2016 @ 7:55pm","epoch":1451937000,"text":"Gorgeous homage to Another World with a nice variety of challenges and a challenging but rewarding difficulty! There is a heck of a lot of polish in this game and it was a joy to play!"},{"author_name":"ViKing Games","author_uid":"30758","time":"Jan 5, 2016 @ 1:16am","epoch":1451956260,"text":"Loved the graphics, especially the little details like the screen effects, enemies being squished by the boulders, and spears staying in the dragon. The sound effects were great, and for some reason I didn't mind the lack of music, not even noticing until I started typing this.\r\rI haven't played Another World (unlike every other commenter here, haha), but I enjoyed it anyway. Good job!"}],"images":["ld34\/8631-3ca572b7fdde47ffa6a78a3c5ab49947.jpg","ld34\/8631-c50bcf2379ad8ec8e78b76fce479ebf7.jpg","ld34\/8631-ee92b4defea18b7822eac6d3a5874699.jpg","ld34\/8631-c74e1107c34f797306c9087c683b640d.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/2926749\/LD34\/html5\/index.html","text":"Web (Unity WebGL)"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/2926749\/LD34\/AnotherDragon_Windows.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/2926749\/LD34\/AnotherWorld_Mac.zip","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/2926749\/LD34\/Broussard_LD34_Source.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"7158","g_author":"8631","g_event":"LD34","g_eventkey":"31","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"7190","g_title":"Another Dragon","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"292","g_commentcount":"68","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\/8631-shot0-1450060900.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/8631-shot1-1450061853.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/8631-shot2-1450061853.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/8631-shot3-1450061853.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"On an alien planet you must fight the dragon that grows ever nearer.\r\n\r\n--\r\n\r\nCONTROLS: Left\/Right arrows + Space\r\n\r\nThe game checkpoints at 3 places (start, mid point where it gets hard, and boss). There are only 7 screens to play through.\r\n\r\nAs always I wish I had more time for polish. It's not a deep or complex game but it has a lot of variety and is a complete thought. The game doesn't handhold you and I deliberately tried to keep interface and text off screen. It doesn't tell you to his Space to restart a level, for example, because I feel that's obvious and intuitive. Your controls change up slightly for the boss. Shouldn't be hard to discover.\r\n\r\nI put about 27 hours of work into this (Fri (midnight-6am), Saturday (6pm-8am), Sun (2pm-8pm).\r\n\r\nObviously influenced by the great Eric Chahi and his seminal work, Another World (Out of this World).\r\n\r\nHope you enjoy it.","title":"Another Dragon"}