{"author_link":"\/author\/johnhattan\/","author_name":"johnhattan","author_uid":"56862","comments":[{"author_name":"kakarotsan","author_uid":"56824","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 2:47am","epoch":1440470520,"text":"This was very enjoyable!  I like the evil &quot;Mary Had a Little Lamb&quot; intro."},{"author_name":"Monkokio","author_uid":"6158","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 3:06am","epoch":1440471660,"text":"This is a really interesting idea. A chess-inspired game where you an objective to complete while avoiding combat.\r<br\/>but unfortunately it didn't end up being too fun. \r<br\/>It just devolves into alternating between running away and eating ships. \r<br\/>Overall package is very solid and complete. Really happy to see people trying to original ideas. Congrats on finishing a game!"},{"author_name":"retrogradeorbit","author_uid":"40126","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 2:11pm","epoch":1440511560,"text":"Highly polished. Enjoyed exploring the degrees of freedom in the game rules, but soon worked out the hook to winning constantly. Very nice."},{"author_name":"Tuism","author_uid":"35114","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 5:02pm","epoch":1440521820,"text":"It's interesting, works as a boardgame, but ultimately the ruleset seems too easy to handle - the queen seems to always have an advantage. Hmmmm, a really well polished game otherwise!"},{"author_name":"joh","author_uid":"17529","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 6:18pm","epoch":1440526380,"text":"Pretty cool, was it normal there was no music? it had some at first then stopper.\r<br\/>Otherwise clever mechanic and quite fun. not sure if fair though."},{"author_name":"ZzCalvinzZ","author_uid":"17290","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 9:08pm","epoch":1440536580,"text":"pretty fun game"},{"author_name":"WubAlliance","author_uid":"54258","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 9:12pm","epoch":1440536820,"text":"Fun game, like the style choice. The music and graphics really helped the humor. Not sure if this was an accident or on purpose, but the voice always sounds like &quot;release the kraken&quot; :P (maurice and denice both fit). Could use a bit of rebalancing and more explanation, but very well done overall!"},{"author_name":"johnhattan","author_uid":"56862","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 9:34pm","epoch":1440538140,"text":"Yes, &quot;Denise The Kraken&quot; and &quot;Maurice The Kraken&quot; were intended to sound like &quot;Release The Kraken&quot;. That's why I got a real live semi-professional voice actor to do them :)"},{"author_name":"tweedle","author_uid":"44218","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 12:59am","epoch":1440550440,"text":"i tweeted my score, need to add that in our next jam, nice work! -t"},{"author_name":"Shaw","author_uid":"30127","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 2:41am","epoch":1440556560,"text":"I love this game. It's original, it's cute and it's tons of fun to play. Excellent job."},{"author_name":"ChrisFagan","author_uid":"46551","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 5:06pm","epoch":1440608460,"text":"Very cute art!"},{"author_name":"axoona","author_uid":"56919","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 6:23pm","epoch":1440613080,"text":"it's quite entertaining, an interesting idea and nicely executed as well!"},{"author_name":"nassi","author_uid":"45156","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 7:24pm","epoch":1440616740,"text":"Would've loved to play this against a friend. The AI (especially for Maurice) just didn't think far enough in advance to make it challenging. Looks good and plays pretty smoothly although it was somewhat annoying that mouse dragging stopped if your cursor left the window.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Solid entry, but the gameplay got a bit boring as is."},{"author_name":"Justo Delgado","author_uid":"25271","time":"Aug 27, 2015 @ 1:07am","epoch":1440637320,"text":"Nice idea, the game was fun and the graphics were cute :D"},{"author_name":"psychonull","author_uid":"31386","time":"Aug 27, 2015 @ 8:12pm","epoch":1440706020,"text":"Good job. The rules are simple yet resulting in a satisfying experience. I would love an option to play against a friend!"},{"author_name":"Ithildin","author_uid":"15664","time":"Aug 30, 2015 @ 10:49pm","epoch":1440974640,"text":"Very nice puzzle game, I really liked the different movement pattern for each sibling. It would be cool to see it further developed as a full fledge game.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Good work!"},{"author_name":"divillysausages","author_uid":"12486","time":"Sep 1, 2015 @ 9:58pm","epoch":1441144380,"text":"This is actually a pretty fun game; very strategic - excellent work!"},{"author_name":"Vereos","author_uid":"55347","time":"Sep 3, 2015 @ 12:57pm","epoch":1441284720,"text":"I found it a bit easy, but it's a really nice game :)"},{"author_name":"DDRKirby(ISQ)","author_uid":"7285","time":"Sep 12, 2015 @ 8:45pm","epoch":1442090400,"text":"Haha, cute!"},{"author_name":"team_ftlol","author_uid":"58146","time":"Sep 12, 2015 @ 9:53pm","epoch":1442094480,"text":"Nice work! The graphics look great, the game feels complete. The &quot;one-move queen&quot; versus &quot;two-move king&quot; movement feels pretty balanced; Maurice has a bit of an advantage, I think. Showing each character's available movement on mousedown was a really helpful feature. I liked the combined scoring for the player taking a turn as each of the krakens, too.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>-mildmojo"}],"images":["ld33\/56862-b6b94a005a491ca6d3245c1a79cf0bc9.jpg","ld33\/56862-1a786c3f7820ab3a3a14a401c759a44f.jpg","ld33\/56862-ac6aac44ec8e3185b06d052211c4f962.jpg","ld33\/56862-5d00f16c19a87c7b495765ae7d6852b6.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/1466624\/KrakenBabies.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/1466624\/KrakenBabies_desktop_captive.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/1466624\/KrakenBabiesMac.zip","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/1466624\/KrakenBabies.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"9121","g_author":"56862","g_event":"LD33","g_eventkey":"29","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"9154","g_title":"Kraken Babies","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"330","g_commentcount":"20","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\/56862-shot0-1440460247.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/479518\/56862-shot1-1440460247.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/479518\/56862-shot2-1440460247.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/479518\/56862-shot3-1440460247.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"This is a cute little puzzle game. You play as a Kraken.\r\n\r\nThe boy Kraken is Maurice The Kraken, and he moves like a queen in chess.\r\n\r\nThe girl Kraken is Denise The Kraken, and she moves like a king in chess. To make up for the smaller movement, she can take two moves at a time.\r\n\r\nTo start a game, choose the Kraken you want to play as. You must move around the level destroying boats and avoiding being tagged. Once your opponent tags you, then you are 'it' and you must now play as your sibling.\r\n\r\nThis was done in Haxe and OpenFL, The Krakens were hand-drawn (except for the hats) and animated with Spine. TexturePacker was used for the spritesheets. I have a pretty extensive library of game utility classes, but I wanted to do this as more of a \"ground up\" project, so I only used two of them. One is some code to load Sparrow spritesheets, and the other is a little library that makes the OpenFL listeners a little more coherent for a C-addled brain like mine. Check out the source if you want to see it.\r\n\r\nI also have HTML5, Windows, Mac, and Linux exports. Unfortunately, I use a lot of bitmap filters for the text and shadows, and OpenFL doesn't yet support those filters on all platforms, so I'm just releasing the Flash version right now. It doesn't run on everything, but it looks the best :)\r\n\r\nThanks to my G+ peeps for the encouragement, and thanks to Joseph Burchett for the \"DENISE THE KRAKEN\" sound effects. Listen to his radio-friendly voice on the Game Developers Radio weekly podcast.\r\n\r\nEDIT: Added a Windows version. It's still the Flash version wrapped in Adobe AIR (for now). And don't worry about having to install AIR, as the runtime is all bundled in.\r\n\r\nEDIT 2: Added the Mac version.","title":"Kraken Babies"}