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I like this a lot.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1032929,"author_name":"LDJam user 385671","author_uid":"385671","epoch":1713158182,"text":"Good job on this!\nGame fitted really well with the theme and the main character was very cute.\nmusic was quite simple but it fitted the art style.\n\nOverall Awesome job!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1035948,"author_name":"stellarnightmare","author_uid":"stellarnightmare","epoch":1713212678,"text":"I'm not sure if anyone else experienced it but I had the game start lagging in the middle of the play through.\n\nOther than that it was good, I personally found the music rather jarring though.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1037116,"author_name":"Pimeko","author_uid":"pimeko","epoch":1713226546,"text":"Cute character, the music fits the mood properly and it's always nice to summon stuff on a satanic diagram I guess haha\nGood job!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1051573,"author_name":"LDJam user 373623","author_uid":"373623","epoch":1713322015,"text":"Reminds me of Yume Nikki in both the good and bad ways. Very nice aesthetic, but the puzzles can be unintuitive.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1052935,"author_name":"PieRo_PBeS_studio","author_uid":"piero-pbes-studio","epoch":1713343704,"text":"On the basic idea of gathering objects it would be cool to help the player a little to understand what he should do and why. The character has a good face, it would be nice to add an animation when he moves upwards so that we can see him from behind.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1055771,"author_name":"Vladimik","author_uid":"vladimik","epoch":1713372870,"text":"Nice game and also interesting game idea! I really love that type of games, but when I put an apple my fps dropped really low =D","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1066721,"author_name":"dvdagames","author_uid":"dvdagames","epoch":1713616025,"text":"Sound track could use just a little more variety, but there's some solid retro tones going on. The movement felt a bit off, like most of the time the character would move a fixed amount in any given direction, but then sometimes they would move just a little bit. It made it hard to actually interact with some of the items on the ground because it was hard to line up with them.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1069344,"author_name":"Shrillwhip","author_uid":"shrillwhip","epoch":1713716434,"text":"For whatever it's worth it's kind of fun, but the game crashed as I was finishing the puzzle :(","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1071740,"author_name":"joe40001","author_uid":"joe40001","epoch":1713849486,"text":"Fun game but very challenging, because my true form moved so fast I didn't feel up for grinding out a win, but still I liked the idea a lot. Maybe could have used a slightly longer music loop :P. Still surprisingly fun for what it is.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1073995,"author_name":"osh.studio","author_uid":"osh-studio","epoch":1714099912,"text":"Fun submission! Unfortunately it crashed while I was trying to light the candles for the first time. It didn't feel immediately intuitive to place the candles on the triangles, especially because there was no visual feedback that they were in the right place, whereas the apples showed the black mass growing. I really liked the little guy's graphics, very cute","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1074246,"author_name":"Langotriel","author_uid":"langotriel","epoch":1714140663,"text":"Solid interpretation of the theme and good job on covering all bases in just 31 hours (audio, visuals, etc). Good job!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1075962,"author_name":"GoldyXEN","author_uid":"goldyxen","epoch":1714385985,"text":"This could've been fun but at least for me the game lags so much that its impossible to play. This is a very good idea for a game and i wish i could play it.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1076065,"author_name":"LDJam user 371030","author_uid":"371030","epoch":1714407259,"text":"This is a *beautiful* idea! Very well fitting the theme. BTW cheers from another JS dev (I don't do plain JS though XD).\n\nThe complaint is that it starts to lag very quickly.. cannot finish anything that way. : \/\n\nGood luck!\n","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld55\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/ZeroByter\/LDJam55","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"93547","g_author":"1382832","g_event":"LD55","g_eventkey":"120","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"439858","g_title":"Hello, Me","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"305","g_commentcount":"14","g_site2_node_id":"386663","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"386663","n_urlkey":"439858","n_parent":"383062","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/55\/hello-me","n_slug":"hello-me","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"382832","n_created":"1712840494","n_modified":"1778389472","n_version":"1206365","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD55","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":1,"author":382832,"body":"**Hello, Me** is a simple top-down game where you must explore and collect items around the level to complete your summoning ritual...\n\nBut beware of what adventure lies for you ahead, once you complete the ritual! 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