{"author_link":"\/author\/madball\/","author_name":"Madball","author_uid":"8370","comments":[{"author_name":"morgondag","author_uid":"51821","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 10:51am","epoch":1429526760,"text":"Wonderful concept and use off words!"},{"author_name":"strega","author_uid":"5269","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 10:57am","epoch":1429527120,"text":"Interesting grammar game. I was able to get a silver metal praising my friend. I like the different scenarios. and animations."},{"author_name":"j_peeba","author_uid":"5503","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 11:01am","epoch":1429527360,"text":"Neat! A very creative puzzle game and fun too. I think a system like this would be very suitable as a mechanic for an adventure game or similar."},{"author_name":"freaknarf","author_uid":"46874","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 11:35am","epoch":1429529400,"text":"Nice that was fun :) Sometimes some quotes that seems like insult (to me) are unrecognized :\/ (ex "You are small and stupid" ==> what ?) that's fun :)"},{"author_name":"Cherno","author_uid":"14133","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 12:49pm","epoch":1429533840,"text":"This... this is great."},{"author_name":"PaperBlurt","author_uid":"26530","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 12:52pm","epoch":1429534020,"text":"Oh crap this was fresh.\rAnd the theme was well implemented."},{"author_name":"Catman","author_uid":"11589","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 2:14pm","epoch":1429538940,"text":"Cool idea and cool implementation, I liked the scoring method very much!! :D"},{"author_name":"SiENcE","author_uid":"10298","time":"Apr 20, 2015 @ 2:16pm","epoch":1429539060,"text":"Very original idea!\r\rMy wish for post-compo is a two player game :)."},{"author_name":"mortus","author_uid":"20884","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 8:38am","epoch":1429605180,"text":"Cool idea and quite a lot of nice possible phrases! Word-based games usually lack diversity but you've nailed it!"},{"author_name":"Conk","author_uid":"40797","time":"Apr 21, 2015 @ 11:14am","epoch":1429614540,"text":"Very nice puzzley game, got some pretty funny sentences together, good job! :D"},{"author_name":"Hammers","author_uid":"45416","time":"Apr 22, 2015 @ 12:39pm","epoch":1429706040,"text":"Lovely stuff. I was worried it would just be randomly stringing words together, but it actually had a bit more depth to it than I thought."},{"author_name":"Horsed","author_uid":"49897","time":"Apr 23, 2015 @ 9:52am","epoch":1429782420,"text":"I think I get the game but it's just not appealing to me. I don't see a challenging mechanic. The graphics are sweet though."},{"author_name":"Fluffy Tigers in the Sky","author_uid":"26553","time":"Apr 23, 2015 @ 8:23pm","epoch":1429820280,"text":"This game was a lot of fun for me... I'm definitely gonna tell my friends about this ;)"},{"author_name":"yuigoto","author_uid":"50909","time":"Apr 25, 2015 @ 2:05am","epoch":1429927200,"text":"The mechanics are quite interesting! The sentence builder, scoring (sarcasm! \/o\/) and the sentences itself are really fun!\r\rIf this game had audio, I'd be rolling even more on the ground! XD Great idea!"},{"author_name":"Blobo","author_uid":"52667","time":"Apr 25, 2015 @ 2:16am","epoch":1429927860,"text":"Great game! my insults were stupid, yet hilarious. i love the bachgrounds too."},{"author_name":"Pietro Ferrantelli","author_uid":"30677","time":"Apr 25, 2015 @ 7:35pm","epoch":1429990200,"text":"Haha ! That's fun and hilarious :D Loved your interpretation of the theme and its execution. Nice job !"},{"author_name":"steboots","author_uid":"51802","time":"Apr 26, 2015 @ 8:43pm","epoch":1430080680,"text":"All right, just threw out some burns, nice"},{"author_name":"thaaks","author_uid":"3382","time":"Apr 30, 2015 @ 4:35pm","epoch":1430411400,"text":"Great idea to harm or praise people using words in a game! Good reflection of real life!"},{"author_name":"SimianLogic","author_uid":"15570","time":"Apr 30, 2015 @ 7:15pm","epoch":1430421000,"text":"Structurally it's pretty interesting but it needs a LOT more grammar units to make it feel less repetitive.\r\rYou should make the speech balloon a selectable text field so people can copy their insults and paste them down here as comments!"},{"author_name":"iceburg7","author_uid":"43569","time":"May 1, 2015 @ 7:18pm","epoch":1430507580,"text":"This was great! The engine is smart enough that combining words is a lot of fun!"},{"author_name":"eddynardo","author_uid":"49260","time":"May 4, 2015 @ 7:39pm","epoch":1430768040,"text":"Very nice job with the phrace mechanics!I really liked how the game didnt let you chose whatever word you want.Really innovative idea."},{"author_name":"Marcos Rodrigues","author_uid":"16988","time":"May 5, 2015 @ 6:09pm","epoch":1430849040,"text":"I'm LMFAO! Excellent job, loved it, 5 stars! The options available to the player and the feedback to his\/her actions is perfect, there's nothing to add. I'm curious about the score engine, which data structure did you use to represent the connections between different words\/sentences? I'm specially curious about the sarcasm mechanic! :)"},{"author_name":"crazya02","author_uid":"51023","time":"May 6, 2015 @ 1:13pm","epoch":1430917680,"text":"Fun concept! I'd love to see a competitive mode in a post-compo version."},{"author_name":"01101101","author_uid":"5105","time":"May 6, 2015 @ 3:50pm","epoch":1430927100,"text":"Cool concept, reminded me of the Monkey Island insults battles ^^ It was not easy though, but it's all right."}],"images":["ld32\/8370-8e0b3de424cdf10118324cf93640e845.jpg","ld32\/8370-04792e251e18bd574f9d0e707b5f8e93.jpg","ld32\/8370-95d52118d6a97b22d17d66fb52dafe5b.jpg","ld32\/8370-94cf4ed4f1f3c81bf6a434a591b18f90.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.phyard.com\/design\/Madball\/39","text":"Web"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"10511","g_author":"8370","g_event":"LD32","g_eventkey":"27","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"10545","g_title":"Wordskill","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"281","g_commentcount":"24","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\/8370-shot0-1429470337.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/444368\/8370-shot1-1429470337.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/444368\/8370-shot2-1429470337.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/444368\/8370-shot3-1429470337.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"\"Wordskill\" can be \"Word skill\" or \"Words kill\".\r\nDid your forget your most conventional weapon? Use words to praise and insult other people! Combine them into sentences, and sentences into various forms: plain text, political speech, poem...\r\n\r\nIf pixels look messed up and window is smaller than 640x480, adjust you browser's zoom.\r\n\r\nPlease tell if you had difficulties understanding the game.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHere is some more help about the gameplay in case the in-game tutorial isn't enough:\r\n\r\n*The sentence consists of a beginning: \"You are\" or \"Your something is\", a middle part \"adjective\", \"adjective and adjective\" or \"as adjective as noun\" and an exclamation point.\r\n\r\n*\"Total insult\" at the bottom means that you get points for insulting and lose them for praising, \"Total praise\" means the opposite.\r\n\r\n*If you use both praising and insulting in one sentence, you lose 2 points, but your total score gets increased, not depending on whether you need to insult or praise.\r\n\r\n*If you use a noun, you get an extra point by default. If it's fitting, you get one more point.\r\n\r\n*If you use two similar adjectives in a sentence, it counts as a tautology and you lose 2 points.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n(Source via right-click)","title":"Wordskill"}