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I think when you hit spikes it should bring you back to where you fell from or maybe boost you up so you don't take continuous damage.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":648641,"author_name":"2bitcrook","author_uid":"2bitcrook","epoch":1619543828,"text":"Cute game! I really liked the intro story of losing our dog down a well, gives us a nice short and good reason to go down there! Movement felt pretty solid, the graphics were nice and readable. I love the main characters design, their head reminds me of the aseprite logo haha :D. \n\nThe end boss was really a nice surprise, I love that you had it have multiple attacks. I thought when I got below it I could cheese it\/avoid the laser super easy but then it drilled down! And then it let out that whirlwind attack made it really intense. Great stuff, good job finishing your first jam! 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Maybe it will be easier if adding some checkpoints.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":648706,"author_name":"Letsgall","author_uid":"letsgall","epoch":1619544021,"text":"Good job for your first Jam !\nWork well and indeed the level is a bit to short to appreciate.\nnice sounds, animations and graphcis","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":648760,"author_name":"Rawb","author_uid":"rawb","epoch":1619544187,"text":"Fun game a really love the art","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":648820,"author_name":"GodKnows","author_uid":"godknows","epoch":1619544383,"text":"Very hard controls. Maybe it would be good on gamepad.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":648865,"author_name":"drollShark","author_uid":"drollshark","epoch":1619544511,"text":"Good job\nPrety art and interesting geamplay. I like it!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":648906,"author_name":"Drew Long","author_uid":"drew-long","epoch":1619544631,"text":"A face of the main character in the beginning is Lol :smile: ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":668524,"author_name":"DoctorTM","author_uid":"doctortm","epoch":1619653533,"text":"Great jam, cute graphics, nice mechanics! ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":672464,"author_name":"Johnsensei","author_uid":"johnsensei","epoch":1619702496,"text":"The opening cutscene was great. Is there controller support? (I forgot to test this myself before closing the game). If yes, that'd be great for a game like this. I found the keyboard-mouse controls hard to get used to.\n\nGreat job on the project.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":679756,"author_name":"armytag","author_uid":"armytag","epoch":1619798160,"text":"Great game!  It's feels very complete and polished.  My only complaint would be that the boss didn't seem to have feedback when it was damaged, I was actually surprised when I suddenly won because I didn't know if I'd even hurt it yet.  Overall well done!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":680500,"author_name":"Daniel Whittaker","author_uid":"daniel-whittaker","epoch":1619809108,"text":"This is really nice! Feels very polished, think its got a lot of potential. I found the dashing a little hard to get to grips with using mouse although i didnt give controller a try","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":681172,"author_name":"Scowling Pastry","author_uid":"scowling-pastry","epoch":1619818447,"text":"@armytag that was unfortunately due to a lack of time lmao. The boss is also very buggy since it was implemented in a panic in the last couple hours.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":690759,"author_name":"fxydev","author_uid":"fxydev","epoch":1620069361,"text":"Got a time of 66 seconds, pretty game. More feedback when attacking enemies would be appreciated, like a sound effect. Didn't have much of a reason to attack the slimes as they didn't drop anything nor were they in the way. The boss's hitbox is much larger than its sprite which led to some annoying deaths. I ended up standing on the platform above them and attacking when it tried to fly up.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ldjam-media\/sha256\/8f\/8f31c1e738388289816c164c48ca6bf34b38611ba8c8f81442872c73cd78679b.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/David-D-White\/Down-Dog","text":"Source"},{"url":"https:\/\/gamejolt.com\/games\/DownDog\/610823","text":"Windows (x32\/x64)"},{"url":"https:\/\/gamejolt.com\/games\/DownDog\/610823","text":"Mac"},{"url":"https:\/\/gamejolt.com\/games\/DownDog\/610823","text":"Linux"},{"url":"https:\/\/gamejolt.com\/games\/DownDog\/610823","text":"Web"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"76231","g_author":"1055332","g_event":"LD48","g_eventkey":"109","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"370947","g_title":"Down Dog","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"833","g_commentcount":"19","g_site2_node_id":"242191","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"242191","n_urlkey":"370947","n_parent":"233335","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/48\/down-dog","n_slug":"down-dog","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"55332","n_created":"1619103426","n_modified":"1778614530","n_version":"783940","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD48","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":1,"author":55332,"body":"Your dog jumped into a hole and you've got to rescue him! 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