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Ludum Dare 30: August 22-25, 2014

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TaoPhoenix:
Well, an easy cop-out is just use a couple of the regular images of Cody, and a horizontal flip and just stick him as background art somewhere conspicuous.

I just like inside jokes. But in the writeup afterward, you get to say "oh, that white bird? That's Cody from DonationCoder!"
:)

Deozaan:
Not a bad idea. :)

TaoPhoenix:
I'm going to play a couple more LD games. Just because their site is a bit strange, this is a raw post to the master list of LD 30 games:

http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview

Deozaan:
I prefer to browse the entries through this portal:

http://ludumdare.itch.io/

TaoPhoenix:
Okay, while hanging out in the chat room, it became another LD day!

First up:
Anima et Corpus
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=30283
http://www.amateurlabs.com/games/ld30/play/

You are disembodied, having entered a tragic zombie-esque state, and you need to re-unite your physical and spirit states in the "scroll room". It's pretty simple per se - you need to move your body half and your ghost half into the room with the scroll, sometimes they need to touch or merge.

It's neat that the body half walks (spacebar jumps), and the spirit half floats with a delay like the ship in asteroids.

Using the "e" key, you toggle between your body state and your ghost state.

It really is Phoenix Easy, which I always find pleasant! But here's just a couple of tips just to help prevent minor frustrations to really get you going.

- There's no time limit, so for example on levels 3 and 6, take your time. If you trap yourself and get an impossible position, just reload the page. It's really generous letting you pick levels.

- As I write this "live" while I am playing, it goes really slowly introducing you to world elements, so you don't have to madly try to solve five things at once.

- The Body form has sorta "flying samurai" physics, and everything is pretty generous - I don't see much of the "pixel accuracy" that tends to sometimes push games into one of the hard categories. (Though Level 10 seems to have a little.)

Here's the start of Level 10:
Ludum Dare 30: August 22-25, 2014

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