{"author_link":"\/author\/ulydev\/","author_name":"Ulydev","author_uid":"43753","comments":[{"author_name":"peterthehe","author_uid":"46596","time":"Aug 24, 2015 @ 10:25am","epoch":1440411600,"text":"I've got no idea how to play it in Windows. Smacking the keyboard doesn't even work!"},{"author_name":"trashmob","author_uid":"57908","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 1:14am","epoch":1440464940,"text":"Very great job :D"},{"author_name":"Markof","author_uid":"56490","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 1:14am","epoch":1440464940,"text":"nice copy bro"},{"author_name":"TurtleP","author_uid":"56107","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 1:16am","epoch":1440465060,"text":"Nice work, Ulydev! I feel like growling now."},{"author_name":"Ulydev","author_uid":"43753","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 1:23am","epoch":1440465480,"text":"@TurtleP : Because you're a monster ? :)"},{"author_name":"Azlen","author_uid":"18078","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 1:25am","epoch":1440465600,"text":"Hard to understand at first but I got the hang of it quick. It seems to get much harder after 30 seconds (or is it just the visual change that's throwing me off?)\r\rMy next goal is to get to 60 seconds, wish me luck"},{"author_name":"Pusty","author_uid":"55076","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 1:26am","epoch":1440465660,"text":"Great job"},{"author_name":"lebrokholic","author_uid":"52405","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 1:36am","epoch":1440466260,"text":"An alcoholic mixture of nice audio, visual effects and interesting gameplay. You're magicians!"},{"author_name":"MarekkPie","author_uid":"11038","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 2:33am","epoch":1440469680,"text":"A great spinoff of one of my favorite games ever!"},{"author_name":"grywhttl","author_uid":"52129","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 2:40am","epoch":1440470100,"text":"Good stuff!"},{"author_name":"facelesstheone","author_uid":"55673","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 11:40am","epoch":1440502500,"text":"Looks very nice but it's hard to understand how to play it. But the graphics is awesome! )"},{"author_name":"wesley werner","author_uid":"26303","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 11:51am","epoch":1440503160,"text":"Fun with dirty noise! I don't see the theme here, but love the assault on my ears!"},{"author_name":"Windmill Games","author_uid":"39002","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 1:50pm","epoch":1440510300,"text":"This entry stands out quite a bit to me, it is different in a positive way. The gameplay is simple to learn, but very addictive and fun. My record so far is 34 seconds :)\r\rGreat job!"},{"author_name":"steve","author_uid":"5178","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 3:02pm","epoch":1440514620,"text":"Fun game, I think the effects were a little too strong though as it made it hard to see what you were doing, perhaps you could dial the effects up over time so the start of the game is a little clearer so it's easier to see what you're doing"},{"author_name":"belva1234","author_uid":"23384","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 6:46pm","epoch":1440528060,"text":"now i can't see enymore"},{"author_name":"raducumiczzz","author_uid":"57049","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 10:51pm","epoch":1440542760,"text":"My mind is blown. Colors are amazing. Great work"},{"author_name":"Kuchalu","author_uid":"35850","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 12:30am","epoch":1440548700,"text":"Awesome style and music. Hard gameplay but fun!"},{"author_name":"Goutye","author_uid":"37076","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 1:09am","epoch":1440551040,"text":"Great job in trying to do an original version of Hexagon!"},{"author_name":"Wefiends","author_uid":"25830","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 2:28am","epoch":1440555780,"text":"Really really fun, obviously not on theme. Played it on our stream and you said there's something after 30 seconds, I plan on finding out what that is."},{"author_name":"Aumni","author_uid":"42308","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 3:44am","epoch":1440560340,"text":"I really enjoyed the gameplay. The art and music also goes really well with the game. Awesome work!!"},{"author_name":"Lynx","author_uid":"44477","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 4:27am","epoch":1440562920,"text":"As a fan of SH, this is a satisfying, my only complaint is it starts so zoomed in that the first obstacles hit me before I get a good view...but that maybe my fullscreen resolution of something. Well done."},{"author_name":"Karai17","author_uid":"46460","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 5:45am","epoch":1440567600,"text":"Neat game, very challenging!"},{"author_name":"Tselmek","author_uid":"48996","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 1:00pm","epoch":1440593700,"text":"Too bad it doesn't show the score we've got at the end of the game, would have loved to screenshot and tweet about my 370 score :)\rNice game, the music is great and the mechanics interesting. The screen shake might be a bit too intense and repetitive after a certain time but it works, even though a diversity in the visual effects is more than welcome. Great game nontheless, good job!"},{"author_name":"Ulydev","author_uid":"43753","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 1:24pm","epoch":1440595140,"text":"@Tselmek, your highscore is displayed at the bottom of the screen :)"},{"author_name":"Geckoo1337","author_uid":"35835","time":"Aug 27, 2015 @ 3:46am","epoch":1440646860,"text":"A great Hexagon-inspired game. Reall y hard to play with it, but I like. Thank you ++"},{"author_name":"Strike","author_uid":"56894","time":"Aug 27, 2015 @ 11:06am","epoch":1440673260,"text":"Haha, nice reversed super hexagon ;)\rPretty fun to play. Good job."},{"author_name":"nassi","author_uid":"45156","time":"Aug 27, 2015 @ 3:21pm","epoch":1440688560,"text":"Even after maybe 20 rounds I have no idea how to play this. I can't see the logic behind the "notes" disappearing and it's driving me nuts. I have no idea how I should be spinning, but by some random change I still got to 20 seconds. Watched the gameplay video but that didn't really explain it either."},{"author_name":"voidstar33","author_uid":"55576","time":"Aug 27, 2015 @ 9:21pm","epoch":1440710160,"text":"Big fan of super hexagon. :) What you have done is cool. Visuals are cool. I dont know if its a bug or I miss understood, though I sweep through an arc till the end, It wont complete, and start to form as I sweep past the end."},{"author_name":"yokcos700","author_uid":"7500","time":"Aug 28, 2015 @ 11:52am","epoch":1440762420,"text":"48.2 seconds, fools!\rSo, you perhaps need to be a little better at explaining this game. I appreciate the sound play plays every time you complete a note, but it's not obvious at a glance whether or not a not is in range or not. When you complete one, it flashes again for a moment, which sometimes leads me to believe that it has not in fact been completed, and I need to go back to it. It also took me a while to figure out what the whole note-completion thing was about; I didn't fully understand how to play for a while.\r\rThat said, once understood, it's a very nice fun and compelling game. You've got a nice gem on your hands here. The vigorous shaking of the screen at all times, you would think would be distracting, but no. Instead it simply serves to make the whole experience more intense. I was urged to defeat my previous highscore before 48s, so it's definitely something that I like to play repeatedly. Fun stuff, sir."},{"author_name":"Ulydev","author_uid":"43753","time":"Aug 28, 2015 @ 12:47pm","epoch":1440765720,"text":"@yokcos700, that was some awesome feedback. Thank you for this comment."},{"author_name":"Ulydev","author_uid":"43753","time":"Aug 28, 2015 @ 12:49pm","epoch":1440765840,"text":"Thanks everyone for your comments as well !"},{"author_name":"nili","author_uid":"7156","time":"Aug 29, 2015 @ 6:35pm","epoch":1440873000,"text":"It's an interesting excercise getting over your hexagon-reflexes and adapting to the new mechanic. I like it."},{"author_name":"Omiya Games","author_uid":"20557","time":"Aug 30, 2015 @ 4:34am","epoch":1440908940,"text":"Very confusing, and with confused feedback, I find it hard to figure out which note I'm supposed to "swipe," and why. I often had a difficult time knowing why I died. A tutorial and better UI would have helped immensely."},{"author_name":"Ulydev","author_uid":"43753","time":"Aug 30, 2015 @ 11:40am","epoch":1440934500,"text":"Fuck. I knew it wasn't a good idea to let you try it. You obviously can't understand the game if you give up after 30 seconds because of your stream.\rThanks for the feedback anyways."},{"author_name":"Ulydev","author_uid":"43753","time":"Aug 30, 2015 @ 4:45pm","epoch":1440952800,"text":"Alright, people. All of these "I don't understand" comments made me very sad so far. It's like nowadays "gamers" quit playing if they don't understand the gameplay within the first 10 seconds.\rSo, in order to fix that, I finally solved a bug that used to display the wrong path for the next note -and thus getting people even more confused-. Please try it and tell me if there's anything other that confuses you (hopefully not).\r\rThanks in advance for all the comments and criticism -I realise you do this to help me improve myself-."},{"author_name":"NickMakesGames","author_uid":"29805","time":"Aug 30, 2015 @ 4:54pm","epoch":1440953340,"text":"pretty cool. The mechanic actually feels more unique than I was expecting it to. My only real gripe is that it often felt like the game had some overly strict requirements for triggering a note, which weren't incredibly clear. Sometimes it felt like I needed to pause movement for a brief moment for a note hit to register, while other times it seemed like the game just wanted me to get closer to the note than what felt reasonable. If the player's goal was made just a little bit clearer, I think this would actually be an excellent entry into the twitchy high-speed skill avoidance genre."},{"author_name":"Literal Games","author_uid":"26056","time":"Aug 30, 2015 @ 5:01pm","epoch":1440953760,"text":"Great entry, consistently fun!"},{"author_name":"chuckeles","author_uid":"33094","time":"Aug 30, 2015 @ 5:37pm","epoch":1440955920,"text":"Cool game, very hard at first, but once I got the hang of it, made it to 60.5 seconds :P. Nice visuals and soundtrack."},{"author_name":"Evergreen Games","author_uid":"47043","time":"Aug 30, 2015 @ 6:28pm","epoch":1440958980,"text":"Awesome! Super fun!!! It did take a little bit to understand how to play but it wasn't a problem. Made it to 45s. My only complaint is that the camera swings around too much."},{"author_name":"Tuism","author_uid":"35114","time":"Aug 30, 2015 @ 6:45pm","epoch":1440960000,"text":"The fact that you have to watch a gameplay video to understand a two-button game is some indication of something being pretty wrong :\/\r\rTop-notch production values. TOP NOTCH. Great effects and music. REALLY COOL.\r\rBut your game communication is terrible, sorry. The goal isn't to "complete notes", it's just to line up the red rectangle with the circle. That's all. Everything else is visual and gameplay clutter. So you should have visually linked the thing that is the red rectangle and the things that are the the circles at the end of each of the lines. That is all, really.\r\rThe theme is also utterly unrelated :\/\r\rThe fact that you can be in a state where your red rectangle has become impossible to hit the circle because it's gone past it is frustrating. The game is over but you have to wait to die. The wait's not long, but you KNOW it's happening and it really should just end it there. Or you change the mechanic to prevent that."},{"author_name":"Ulydev","author_uid":"43753","time":"Aug 30, 2015 @ 7:27pm","epoch":1440962520,"text":"Thank you everyone for your feedback! It seems like there's been some improvement with how people understand the mechanics."},{"author_name":"ChuiGum","author_uid":"22408","time":"Aug 30, 2015 @ 8:02pm","epoch":1440964620,"text":"Even though it was inspired by Super Hexagon, it was still pretty innovative! Great visuals and nice audio. Great job!"},{"author_name":"Ulydev","author_uid":"43753","time":"Aug 30, 2015 @ 8:04pm","epoch":1440964740,"text":"Thanks, ChuiGum! This motivates me so much."},{"author_name":"Insality","author_uid":"43734","time":"Aug 30, 2015 @ 8:37pm","epoch":1440966720,"text":"wow! great job\rlove the hexagon game and other for it's great gameplay difficulty. You have a very nice gameplay too\rGot 80s with first time :D\rGlad to see hard games on LD"},{"author_name":"hexagore","author_uid":"34027","time":"Aug 30, 2015 @ 11:11pm","epoch":1440975960,"text":"So at the heart of this seems to be a pretty fun concept and I could see myself wanting to keep playing this but honestly I think the presentation is way too over the top for me. The colours and the vibrations, it's like it's deliberately trying to be as unpleasant as possible, but maybe that's a matter of personal taste. The effects are impressive though and it's at least a consistent and coherent style.\r\rI had to read the instructions to figure out how to play this and even now I'm not *100%* convinced I understand it exactly. It seems like you can destroy lines if the laser sweeps paste the circle on the end, but only if they're within a certain range and only if you're going a specific direction? \r\rI'm giving you detailed feedback cos honestly I feel like this is really promising. I'd actually really love a more basic down to earth version of this with raw gameplay at its heart rather than flashy effects. :)"},{"author_name":"Antonio Elizio","author_uid":"45057","time":"Aug 31, 2015 @ 12:49am","epoch":1440981840,"text":"Very interesting! nice art and game feel! But, kind hard to understand how to destroy walls. Overall well done entry!"},{"author_name":"dvdking","author_uid":"14173","time":"Aug 31, 2015 @ 6:23pm","epoch":1441045080,"text":"Pretty good. The game feels finished. But somehow lucks feedback, as I am not really sure if I am moving in the right direction or not. It would be better if there was some specific sound when moving in the right direction, or more noticable visual effect, or camera shake only if you do something right.\rAlso in my opinion camera shake was to violent and redundant.\r\rif these things would be there it would be a really good game."},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"27744","time":"Aug 31, 2015 @ 7:41pm","epoch":1441049760,"text":"Fun, hectic game. I included it in part 13 of my Ludum Dare 33 Compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https:\/\/youtu.be\/1VzFVc1MuWc"},{"author_name":"Erkberg","author_uid":"24534","time":"Sep 1, 2015 @ 6:26pm","epoch":1441131660,"text":"I suck at Super Hexagon. :)\rThis game is, as you already mentioned, pretty similar. You managed to nail the visual style, it is gorgeous. The music and sounds are also really neat. Gameplay-wise it is a nice variation of Hexagon and just as hard, I barely made it to 30s. :)\rOverall, it is a very enjoyable game, good job!"},{"author_name":"Ulydev","author_uid":"43753","time":"Sep 1, 2015 @ 7:48pm","epoch":1441136580,"text":"Thanks you guys for the awesome feedback!"},{"author_name":"HThomson","author_uid":"56198","time":"Sep 5, 2015 @ 12:33pm","epoch":1441456080,"text":"I love super hexagon so this was fun to play, but as I've seen mentioned before it was quite confusing at the start, especially given all the screen shake and vibrations. Making the game less hectic at the start would help. Maybe have one bar approaching at a time so that it's clear to the player what happens each time they swipe a bar and under what conditions they die.\r\rI liked the bright, neon, shaky graphics but the shake might just be slightly too over the top, tone it down just a little bit and it'll be perfect :)"},{"author_name":"Zupoman","author_uid":"34292","time":"Sep 6, 2015 @ 8:56pm","epoch":1441572660,"text":"It was hard to understand the gameplay mechanics, but I guess I just didn't RTFM well enough. I managed to reach 61.0, that is after 60, but I always get killed just then, before I notice new thing happening. I'll try again some other day, my eyes feel raped too hard for now."},{"author_name":"LukeZaz","author_uid":"36267","time":"Sep 10, 2015 @ 5:19am","epoch":1441862040,"text":"Excellent game - one of my favorites so far. Loved the audio, graphics, and gameplay - extremely fun, even after playing through the same part over and over."},{"author_name":"Ulydev","author_uid":"43753","time":"Sep 13, 2015 @ 6:46pm","epoch":1442169660,"text":"Thanks for your comments!\rLukeZaz, that's very appreciated :)"}],"images":["ld33\/43753-edc03ab788ea273085ed222ab92d294d.jpg","ld33\/43753-eae25cfff88e010f9e926f017edc2e67.jpg","ld33\/43753-963c7176af2b0bb9d835740a34f7e7e9.jpg","ld33\/43753-3aa63e6877b0bc13a34fde44f45dd464.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/NruJQ6EDWOw","text":"Gameplay Video"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/5mr4iyc5os64qp1\/GROWL_x32.zip?dl=1","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/6383dtxyyl5iga3\/GROWL_OSX.zip?dl=1","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/4afthw1rknu07vn\/GROWL.love?dl=1","text":"Linux \/ Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"9620","g_author":"43753","g_event":"LD33","g_eventkey":"29","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"9654","g_title":"GROWL","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"288","g_commentcount":"54","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\/43753-shot0-1440509163.gif-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/479518\/43753-shot1-1440509163.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/479518\/43753-shot2-1440509163.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/479518\/43753-shot3-1440509163.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"How monstrously hard can a game be ?\r\n\r\nGROWL is a clearly Hexagon-inspired game (no need to point it out!) that focuses on hard gameplay and visual experimentations.\r\n\r\nUsing the arrows keys (or the shoulder buttons for a 360 gamepad), you have to rotate your laser and line up the red rectangle on it with the circle at the end of each note. The note you currently need to complete is represented in green.\r\nYou can check out the gameplay video before playing, so that you know how the game works.\r\n\r\n\"PRACTICE MODE\" : Press Left Shift (or Select\/Back on controller) to make the game go slower. Your score won't be saved.\r\n\r\n\/Get to 30s, then 60s and you'll be rewarded with some visual changes\/\r\n\r\nSHARE YOUR SCORE ON TWITTER #GROWL","title":"GROWL"}