{"author_link":"\/author\/vikingpotato\/","author_name":"Saf","author_uid":"27438","comments":[{"author_name":"Askbackwards","author_uid":"55174","time":"Aug 23, 2015 @ 11:28pm","epoch":1440372180,"text":"Awesome Game!\r<br\/>The only thing negative about it is the blatant mario rip off.\r<br\/>Good audio, flowed well with the game.\r<br\/>The Graphics were well drawn and the animations flowed well.\r<br\/>The Mechanics were flawless and new enough to keep things interesting.\r<br\/>The whole spin on the mario game is a need idea, the whole not being DK thing kinda threw me off, but it makes sense once I got started."},{"author_name":"Saf","author_uid":"27438","time":"Aug 24, 2015 @ 12:00am","epoch":1440374100,"text":"Thanks for playing the game. The game is a homage to the classic Donkey Kong. You also said you were disappointed by it not being like DK, but that contradicts with your first point of it being a blatant mario rip off..\r<br\/>Anyway, thanks a lot for the review, I have a lot planned and keep working on bringing the game it to its full potential. On a side note, be more careful when you are the first reviewer for anything creative. If you are giving reviews based on your own biases, they will still stay at the top and will affect any other who plays the game."},{"author_name":"Hyoga-3D","author_uid":"23927","time":"Aug 24, 2015 @ 3:20pm","epoch":1440429300,"text":"nice game, good take on the theme and good art, but I think that if you maked as sprites with the White outline, it would be even cooler."},{"author_name":"Saf","author_uid":"27438","time":"Aug 24, 2015 @ 4:26pm","epoch":1440433260,"text":"@Hyoga I get what you are saying! Puppet kinda slightly animated Kong! That would have been cooler yeah :)"},{"author_name":"ceosol","author_uid":"34411","time":"Aug 24, 2015 @ 6:28pm","epoch":1440440580,"text":"Awesome AI for the Mario's. I really liked how they changed directions even when they were close to the top. It made the game exciting when it could just as easily been boring and repetitive."},{"author_name":"Tselmek","author_uid":"48996","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 1:54pm","epoch":1440510540,"text":"Good take on the classic DK, nice graphics."},{"author_name":"DruhinM","author_uid":"54688","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 3:20pm","epoch":1440515700,"text":"Great game"},{"author_name":"tripleVisionGames","author_uid":"12495","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 3:25pm","epoch":1440516000,"text":"Great fun entry! Love the idea of switching Donkey Kong around and it works really well!"},{"author_name":"RHY3756547","author_uid":"7339","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 3:31pm","epoch":1440516360,"text":"Cool game, love the idea of reverse donkey kong. Graphics are very polished and the wee drum beat is definitely much better than having no music at all. Could have used a few more mechanics, but was pretty fun as is. Nice job!"},{"author_name":"ZzCalvinzZ","author_uid":"17290","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 3:36pm","epoch":1440516660,"text":"all in all, super fun game. Loved it!"},{"author_name":"stahlmanDesign","author_uid":"49932","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 3:42pm","epoch":1440517020,"text":"Excellent job for 48 hours. Well polished, good idea."},{"author_name":"ruerob","author_uid":"36728","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 4:10pm","epoch":1440518700,"text":"Nice well made entry with nice sounds, nice gameplay, nice graphics. The controls feel up to the point! The sounds are fitting too. Very well done!!!"},{"author_name":"Unept","author_uid":"25813","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 4:11pm","epoch":1440518760,"text":"Great job on theme tie-in, gameplay, graphics, sounds, (THAT voice). Very well put together."},{"author_name":"snakezito","author_uid":"45687","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 6:06pm","epoch":1440525660,"text":"A good game with some great graphics and sound. Not much in the ways of innovation but fits the theme well and overall a good game."},{"author_name":"ETHproductions","author_uid":"44122","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 9:38pm","epoch":1440538380,"text":"Excellent, excellent work! The gameplay is nearly perfect, and the art and audio are awesome. It got a little hectic in the later levels, but then again, that's the point. ;) I'm glad you're planning to continue with this idea! 5\/5"},{"author_name":"ArchBang","author_uid":"56395","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 11:45pm","epoch":1440546000,"text":"Very neat! Reversal of a classic - anti-mario games are clearly the way to go. Looks good, plays well, good idea to force the player to dodge barrels too. Nice and complete for 48h effort."},{"author_name":"t4u","author_uid":"34334","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 11:02am","epoch":1440586620,"text":"Very nice, graphic, audio and gameplay. Everything is at high level. I dont really sure what am I playing (some kind of slime ghost?)."},{"author_name":"squarepug","author_uid":"56811","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 1:05pm","epoch":1440594000,"text":"Really nice graphics, like the sounds too. Definitely one of the most polished looks to it of all the entries Ive seen so far."},{"author_name":"DragonGino","author_uid":"56933","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 10:15pm","epoch":1440627000,"text":"awesome game. it is really smooth.the graphics are great.the audio is relaxing. i hope you make more levels in the future."},{"author_name":"Sparrow","author_uid":"7423","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 10:36pm","epoch":1440628260,"text":"Fun game, the graphics and the audio were exceptionally well."},{"author_name":"echokain","author_uid":"15156","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 11:05pm","epoch":1440630000,"text":"Very nicely polished little game. I found the jump a little heavy though."},{"author_name":"LMT","author_uid":"25578","time":"Aug 27, 2015 @ 3:05pm","epoch":1440687600,"text":"That was awesome. I loved the graphics, the mood, and it also had enough content to keep me playing for ages."},{"author_name":"ChuiGum","author_uid":"22408","time":"Aug 28, 2015 @ 5:27am","epoch":1440739320,"text":"Awesome, awesome idea. Very fun! Addictive. It was really cool that I was &quot;Donkey Kong&quot;'s little minion. Awesome job! :D"},{"author_name":"Antonio Elizio","author_uid":"45057","time":"Aug 28, 2015 @ 6:00pm","epoch":1440784500,"text":"Really fun! The art is awesome too!"},{"author_name":"dunin","author_uid":"32902","time":"Aug 29, 2015 @ 8:11pm","epoch":1440878760,"text":"funny idea. and well done!"},{"author_name":"ReddogStone","author_uid":"12333","time":"Aug 29, 2015 @ 8:59pm","epoch":1440881640,"text":"Wow, an amazing entry. Believe it or not, but that was my first idea, which I ended up abandoning. I couldn't see a good way to reverse Donkey Kong. Haven't thought about waves of heroes.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>But you went even farther with introducing the barrels which can hurt the player-monster as well. I also loved the physics that added possibilities and complexity.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The best game I played in LD33!"},{"author_name":"Saf","author_uid":"27438","time":"Aug 30, 2015 @ 3:42am","epoch":1440905820,"text":"@ReddogStone: the physics was added later, to allow for skill shots. This would allow the players to stay closer to the vending machine and still cover a larger area. I am glad you too gave the idea a thought, I was hoping for more DK demakes :) Thanks"},{"author_name":"magenta","author_uid":"27434","time":"Aug 30, 2015 @ 5:37pm","epoch":1440955920,"text":"A cheeky homage to a retro classic. Cute graphics with plenty to do in the later levels!"},{"author_name":"Schrodinger Games","author_uid":"39357","time":"Aug 31, 2015 @ 6:46pm","epoch":1441046460,"text":"Really nice compo entry! congrats!"},{"author_name":"Brightstar","author_uid":"46680","time":"Sep 1, 2015 @ 5:06am","epoch":1441083660,"text":"A neat twist on Donkey Kong. I like it."},{"author_name":"Crefossus","author_uid":"23130","time":"Sep 1, 2015 @ 7:44am","epoch":1441093140,"text":"very polished entry. I love the feedback for all actions like picking up barrel, mario destroyed, and juice added animations. It's like a jam entry level of polish but you did it yourself...impressive!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Good music volume, it just needs a little dancy boombox at the top :D The movement physics seem a little slippery at first, but I got used to it. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>I like how new elements are introduced each level (jump over enemy, two barrel dispensers), yet the gameplay is mostly the same (get barrel, throw barrel down at bottleneck (ladders) - repeat). I think you could look at tower defense games that introduce a hero (I can only think of warcraft 3 maps off the top of my head) for gameplay inspiration. I can see how this could be tricky to pull off while staying in the mario universe though.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Also - have you tried leaving the barrel active after destroying a mario so you can time it to kill two marios with one throw? Could make the player feel smart."},{"author_name":"Franklin's Ghost","author_uid":"35424","time":"Sep 1, 2015 @ 10:32am","epoch":1441103220,"text":"Liked the take on Donkey Kong and thought it was cleverly done. The art style was polished and the gameplay with the different levels was fun."},{"author_name":"AuthorX","author_uid":"56526","time":"Sep 2, 2015 @ 9:27pm","epoch":1441228920,"text":"A lot of fun, really cute and satisfying sound effects and graphics. It's always fun to see a bunch of little characters running around in different directions at once. It seemed too simple in some cases, though, because of having one ladder they'd all have to climb at some point (in level 3, right at the beginning)."},{"author_name":"Zambini","author_uid":"29047","time":"Sep 3, 2015 @ 4:44pm","epoch":1441298340,"text":"Very fun! Clever idea and well executed. The gameplay was pretty solid. The sound effects that weren't VO were very satisfying (especially the barrel hit!).\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Overall excellent entry :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>\r<br\/>(Also yay for web game!)"},{"author_name":"bombjack","author_uid":"18768","time":"Sep 8, 2015 @ 6:50pm","epoch":1441737900,"text":"good take on classic donkey kong."},{"author_name":"jsmars","author_uid":"3933","time":"Sep 14, 2015 @ 11:11pm","epoch":1442271960,"text":"Great use of the theme! There are some good classics-reversed like this and I love them!"},{"author_name":"dollarone","author_uid":"45147","time":"Sep 14, 2015 @ 11:32pm","epoch":1442273220,"text":"Great game. It took me some time to realise I wasn't playing as DK. Cool and challenging gameplay. How many levels did you make?"}],"images":["ld33\/27438-14a9c36e0076a08b7dc8e4fb3eb6a0c2.jpg","ld33\/27438-11ec3f6ebcd578c4d76ff307fc8f0a3b.jpg","ld33\/27438-4a653f37ea4f8de2a4278022023f8724.jpg","ld33\/27438-ec38c743ac94eb53ae82098310a2fc85.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/gamejolt.com\/games\/barrel-roll-ultra\/88205","text":"Web (Browser)"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VIDl-VEWQFc","text":"Youtube (Gameplay)"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/wrsctynfj8656a0\/Kong_ludumdare331.stencyl?dl=0","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"8845","g_author":"27438","g_event":"LD33","g_eventkey":"29","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"8878","g_title":"Barrel Roll Ultra!","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"93","g_commentcount":"37","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\/\/479518\/27438-shot0-1441143903.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/479518\/27438-shot1-1440369112.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/479518\/27438-shot2-1440369112.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/479518\/27438-shot3-1440509549.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Join the apes as they fool the plumbers in believing the myth of a great Kong! (and blow their heads)\r\n\r\nRight,Left arrow keys -------> Move.\r\nUp arrow key --------------> Jump\r\nDown arrow key -----------> Throw Barrel\r\n\r\n\r\nGet to a barrel vending machine to grab a barrel!\r\nAim it at the heads of the plumbers to stop them!\r\n\r\nIf you run out of lives, you lose.\r\nIf the Plumbers destroy the Kong statue, then also you lose.\r\nDestroy all plumbers for the win!!!\r\n\r\nMy solo entry for Ludum dare 33! Improvements on the way with a post Jam entry.","title":"Barrel Roll Ultra!"}