{"author_link":"\/author\/catman\/","author_name":"Catman","author_uid":"11589","comments":[{"author_name":"Madball","author_uid":"8370","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 1:04pm","epoch":1429534740,"text":"Lol, such a funny game! Why would we put a pencil in the cat's mouth, and a flashlight from the other side? Because, obviously, it make a very good weapon!\rThe game is too short, 6 levels isn't enough. But, if I play it twice, it has 12 levels!\rAfter several tries, I managed to get 605 earnings."},{"author_name":"Mimus","author_uid":"49652","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 4:08pm","epoch":1429545780,"text":"Fun, I do not understand everything, but fun.\r(Google Translate, I'm French)"},{"author_name":"BraindeadGeo","author_uid":"29444","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 4:11pm","epoch":1429545960,"text":"This was weeeeeird, why am i stuffing pencils into fish?! I quite liked it though!"},{"author_name":"Fenaer","author_uid":"50701","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 4:12pm","epoch":1429546020,"text":"Love it! Awesome music, fun concept."},{"author_name":"Catman","author_uid":"11589","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 4:17pm","epoch":1429546320,"text":"Thanks guys! \rMy highscore was around 580 area, so good job Madball there! I'm going to get a higher one soon ;)"},{"author_name":"swipefaststudios","author_uid":"24642","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 4:21pm","epoch":1429546560,"text":"Very cool! Interesting combinations ahah"},{"author_name":"PixelMind","author_uid":"35646","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 4:28pm","epoch":1429546980,"text":"Nice one. Took a little while to understand the concept but your gif video helped. After that it was a fun little discovery game :)"},{"author_name":"cicanci","author_uid":"52021","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 4:28pm","epoch":1429546980,"text":"Really fun game!"},{"author_name":"Sogomn","author_uid":"40005","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 4:34pm","epoch":1429547340,"text":"What the *** did I just play? :D\rREALLY cool idea and completely random (which is always good).\rNice music aswell.\rCan't find the theme, tho."},{"author_name":"OccamsRazor","author_uid":"32648","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 4:36pm","epoch":1429547460,"text":"Fantastic game, hilarious! And really well polished too, I'm thoroughly impressed!"},{"author_name":"Msquirrel","author_uid":"17911","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 4:38pm","epoch":1429547580,"text":"This was awesome, really funny, really enjoyable little game, great job man!"},{"author_name":"Catman","author_uid":"11589","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 4:39pm","epoch":1429547640,"text":"Thanks to everyone!\r\r@Sogomn: these are awesome weapons, it's just that you don't get to use them since they are for undercover spies as the description tells! :D"},{"author_name":"Borkleby","author_uid":"50895","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 4:41pm","epoch":1429547760,"text":"Even though I couldn't do what the blueprints told me to, and my high score was -9, I still found it unavoidably addictive. Awesome job. 5\/5 stars."},{"author_name":"Linus Lindberg","author_uid":"20066","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 4:41pm","epoch":1429547760,"text":"The graphics are great! The game mechanics could use some polish (of course, it's LD game after all), but I really love it! Well done!"},{"author_name":"longshorts","author_uid":"34312","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 4:42pm","epoch":1429547820,"text":"This was absolutely nuts. And I loved it."},{"author_name":"Shared","author_uid":"52719","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 4:48pm","epoch":1429548180,"text":"Very fun game, took time to understand the mechanics, but fun game"},{"author_name":"tripleVisionGames","author_uid":"12495","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 4:49pm","epoch":1429548240,"text":"I'm confused right now. That poor goldfish. It will take me years to get over that. \r\rI love this. Make more of this."},{"author_name":"ianburnette","author_uid":"44075","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 4:53pm","epoch":1429548480,"text":"Very silly. Basically my day job."},{"author_name":"Polyomino","author_uid":"51529","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 4:54pm","epoch":1429548540,"text":"Really nice take on the theme. Well done!"},{"author_name":"Dungeonation","author_uid":"52223","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 4:55pm","epoch":1429548600,"text":"It's a pretty good and funny game, but it's kind of annoying and tedious. I gave up after awhile. Nice job!"},{"author_name":"stuffedgravy","author_uid":"50139","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 5:00pm","epoch":1429548900,"text":"I got 480 :)\r\rAs for the game itself, it's pretty fun! I think some more interesting objects would have been good, and possibly collision detection (I'm pretty sure I made one of my weapons just loop around itself) Great audio and graphics though! And a really cute idea!"},{"author_name":"Cheshyr","author_uid":"20497","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 5:07pm","epoch":1429549320,"text":"this is amazing and highly disturbing. O.o great submission."},{"author_name":"Hatsome","author_uid":"44151","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 5:22pm","epoch":1429550220,"text":"Loved it, the only thing thats left is a game where you can use all these weapons"},{"author_name":"Nysten","author_uid":"34563","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 5:36pm","epoch":1429551060,"text":"One of the top submissions! This could have been an endless game too. Funny, simple and very enjoyable. Funny combinations and the names get pretty weird, I made a thing called "Peanases"or something like that. ~430 was my best score. Thank you for this game."},{"author_name":"Darkgoon","author_uid":"45418","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 5:57pm","epoch":1429552320,"text":"It took me a while to start up but it's really funny, nice idea!"},{"author_name":"FungalCactus","author_uid":"51231","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 6:51pm","epoch":1429555560,"text":"I can't figure out how to connect things."},{"author_name":"torcado194","author_uid":"5839","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 7:04pm","epoch":1429556340,"text":"This was hilarious! i was pretty confused at first but after figuring out the connection points it became pretty clear. awesome job!"},{"author_name":"DKoding","author_uid":"33865","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 7:05pm","epoch":1429556400,"text":"Excellent job, great concept and so funny to create new items! But are you making weapons?"},{"author_name":"drludos","author_uid":"29773","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 8:52pm","epoch":1429562820,"text":"Nice idea!\r\rIt seems there is a problem with your Windows build archive - I've downloaded it and when launching the game I have the "this program is not a valid Win32 application" error message (I'm using WinXP)"},{"author_name":"Anikki","author_uid":"46696","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 9:24pm","epoch":1429564740,"text":"Weird."},{"author_name":"HayBee05","author_uid":"51525","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 12:17am","epoch":1429575120,"text":"It was so random and funny. My highest score is 209 but I'll most likely play it some more."},{"author_name":"flyingbear","author_uid":"16232","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 2:28am","epoch":1429582980,"text":"I just love how ridiculous this game is. It's one of those games where you can be so focused on the matter at hand (in this case connecting a pencil to a cat) until you take a step back and think "What on earth am I doing??""},{"author_name":"LukeZaz","author_uid":"36267","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 3:35am","epoch":1429587000,"text":"I don't even know how to pronounce what I'm making. This is great."},{"author_name":"pavel_insight","author_uid":"46567","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 9:57am","epoch":1429609920,"text":"I've seen your post on Saturday about the cat, it was rememberable))) Funny game)"},{"author_name":"dix","author_uid":"30021","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 11:36am","epoch":1429615860,"text":"Very nice funny game :D Some of those puzzles are impossible XD"},{"author_name":"orukinawa","author_uid":"34628","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 12:40pm","epoch":1429619700,"text":"brb gonna go make a real life phtinguischligh"},{"author_name":"SecondDimension","author_uid":"14838","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 8:22pm","epoch":1429647420,"text":"This was super fun to play around with, great sense of humour and fits the theme well. Awesome stuff!"},{"author_name":"Nanolotl","author_uid":"4470","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 1:48am","epoch":1429666980,"text":"It seemed like a good idea, but I could hardly ever get anything to work. The graphics and music were good, but the gameplay didn't seem to work very well..."},{"author_name":"Midnight Creators","author_uid":"26722","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 3:55pm","epoch":1429717800,"text":"Funny game and nice artwork haha But the gameplay seems confuse."},{"author_name":"Smirnov48","author_uid":"11028","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 8:38pm","epoch":1429734780,"text":"Nice game. Good mechanics of combine things. I like it."},{"author_name":"yuigoto","author_uid":"50909","time":"Apr 23, 2015 @ 10:56am","epoch":1429786260,"text":"This gane's so fun, it's harmful! My cheeks hurt from laughing hahaha! "Catasebencil"? Hahahaha\r\rThe graphics style, audio and the concept, they fit too well and the way the game mixes the names of the objects was really well done! :D Loved it! :)"},{"author_name":"marinalucio","author_uid":"45037","time":"Apr 25, 2015 @ 8:01am","epoch":1429948560,"text":"This is a great idea! Really original. I still had problems figuring out how to connect things, the gif helped, but i guess your game is too difficult for me. :) I guess if i could see more of how all these crazy things i was creating could be used as a weapon the game would be perfect. Nice game! :)"},{"author_name":"SledKnight","author_uid":"52123","time":"May 10, 2015 @ 5:53pm","epoch":1431280080,"text":"I couldn't get anything to connect. Not sure what I was doing wrong... :("}],"images":["ld32\/11589-12307ac68b6dd431f012b35f2ae72661.jpg","ld32\/11589-3f6816d12e0a80f8f0250ed6c967081d.jpg","ld32\/11589-f1445a8f80c83e419dc78da5095c225d.jpg","ld32\/11589-77485047769ae26284da07a5dd0d0df8.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.michelepirovano.com\/games\/randomsmith\/webplayer\/webplayer.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.michelepirovano.com\/games\/randomsmith\/Win.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.michelepirovano.com\/games\/randomsmith\/Mac.zip","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.michelepirovano.com\/games\/randomsmith\/Linux.zip","text":"Linux"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.michelepirovano.com\/games\/randomsmith\/UnconventionalWeapon2.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"10430","g_author":"11589","g_event":"LD32","g_eventkey":"27","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"10464","g_title":"Randomsmith","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"129","g_commentcount":"43","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\/\/444368\/11589-shot0-1429485616.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/444368\/11589-shot1-1429485616.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/444368\/11589-shot2-1429486355.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/444368\/11589-shot3-1429486355.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"You are the Randomsmith: the go-to weapon dealer for all the spy agencies in the world. Given any set of items, you can fabricate a very powerful weapon, and your wages are also really competitive!\r\n\r\nConnect the given objects and make your clients happy by creating awesome weapons in a matter of seconds!\r\n\r\nTHE GAME IS PROCEDURAL, RETRY IT TO SEE DIFFERENT ITEMS (some are rare!)\r\n\r\n----------------------\r\nGoal:\r\n- Connect as much items as you can to form a weapon.\r\n- Get money as score!\r\n- 6 levels, then you are given your final score.\r\n\r\n----------------------\r\nControls:\r\n- left mouse click to move an item\r\n- right mouse click to rotate an item\r\n- get two items close (and correctly oriented) to connect them\r\n\r\nNOTE: The 'base' item (with the green pulsing sign) is the final weapon's handle, everything else MUST be connected to it someway, and you can drag and rotate the whole weapon by dragging it!\r\n\r\nSEE THIS GIF: http:\/\/i.gyazo.com\/17671ddb5e5a56e1c40613c10aeb6ad9.gif\r\n\r\n----------------------\r\nScore (money):\r\n- You get points for each item you connect\r\n- You get (more!) points for following blueprints (just connect the two shown items, no need to check orientation)\r\n- You get less points for elapsed time! Be fast!\r\n\r\n----------------------\r\nNote for source code: you need DOTWEEN free version to build it!\r\nGet it at http:\/\/dotween.demigiant.com\/\r\n\r\n\r\nNote: if you are using google Chrome, you need to enable the NPAPI plugins by opening a new tab and writing chrome:\/\/flags\/#enable-npapi in the URL!\r\n\r\nNote: I'll try to get a WebGL build running later.\r\n\r\nNote: Mac and Linux builds were not tested! Let me know if something is wrong!\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nPost here your highscore!!!!! :D","title":"Randomsmith"}