{"author_name":"Dathgale","cat":"LD #11 - Minimalist - 2008","comments":[{"author_name":"HybridMind","time":"April 25, 2008 11:10 am","epoch":1209139800,"text":"I was able to survive for almost a full minute now, yah!  \ud83d\ude09","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"April 25, 2008 4:37 pm","epoch":1209159420,"text":"Ahaha, well things make a little more sense now. You really needed some textured background in there.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Dathgale","time":"April 27, 2008 5:02 am","epoch":1209290520,"text":"I&#8217;m glad the movement makes sense now, and I&#8217;m very pleased that you had fun, HyrbridMind.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"HybridMind","time":"May 3, 2008 5:59 pm","epoch":1209855540,"text":"Ok- that makes more sense now that you&#8217;ve explained how the mechanics work under the hood.  Thanks!","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1209106500,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"75013","p_author":"Dathgale","p_authorkey":"0","p_urlkey":"110845","p_title":"Some hints \u2013 because great minds don\u2019t always think alike","p_cat":"LD #11 - Minimalist - 2008","p_event":"LD11","p_time":"1209106500","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"4","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":null,"us_name":null,"us_username":null,"event_start":"1208476800","event_key":"87","event_name":"LD11"},"text":"<p>I&#8217;m realizing as I read through the feedback on my game that it isn&#8217;t exactly obvious that your character is actually moving, instead of just waiting for rats to run into his blade.\u00a0 Notice how if you point your mouse away from the rats, the rats appear to slow down and move backwards relative to you?\u00a0 And when your character turns the wrong way, that&#8217;s because of the way the vector addition works out&#8211; try moving the mouse further clockwise or counter-clockwise and see if that makes him do what you want.\u00a0 And those big white things are walls.\u00a0 My game simply fails to communicate a sense of movement because none of the terrain is textured.<\/p>\n \n <p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/tag\/omnihunter\/\" rel=\"tag\">Omnihunter<\/a><\/p>","time":"April 25th, 2008 1:55 am","title":"Some hints \u2013 because great minds don\u2019t always think alike"}