{"author_link":"\/author\/seledorn\/","author_name":"seledorn","author_uid":"44229","comments":[{"author_name":"wandersenus","author_uid":"44802","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 9:05am","epoch":1418029200,"text":"nice game!"},{"author_name":"paperweight","author_uid":"45454","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 9:06am","epoch":1418029260,"text":"Web version doesn't appear to load."},{"author_name":"Alter","author_uid":"44845","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 9:06am","epoch":1418029260,"text":"Show, Cookie, Elves... \r<br\/>Thank you for the Christmas mood and good game!"},{"author_name":"talecrafter","author_uid":"3707","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 9:11am","epoch":1418029560,"text":"Nastly little elves. I hate those buggers. :)\r<br\/>Good job.\r<br\/>Controls felt 'off' for me. I expected to move with WASD and shoot or build with the mouse."},{"author_name":"ajopart","author_uid":"40976","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 9:19am","epoch":1418030040,"text":"Nice game. You shuld maybee give the plyaer more time to build his castle before sending an entire army (4) of elves ! But original. Keep going"},{"author_name":"indigofiz","author_uid":"35801","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 10:50am","epoch":1418035500,"text":"It's a bit hard for me, but the concept is great. It really feels like a snowball fight!"},{"author_name":"Catwheel","author_uid":"46337","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 10:51am","epoch":1418035560,"text":"Cool Game. Pun not intended :3. I didn't read the instructions at first and was really confused on the controls. Learning curve seemed a bit sharp, and not being able to attack someone already in your square was kind of aggravating."},{"author_name":"hexagore","author_uid":"34027","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 10:53am","epoch":1418035680,"text":"Nice presentation on this. I'm afraid I couldn't build though, I got stuck throwing snowballs until I ran out of snow. When I picked up more snow it just started throwing them immediately! Would have been nice to see if I could actually build a snow fort, seems like a cool idea :)"},{"author_name":"seledorn","author_uid":"44229","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 11:00am","epoch":1418036100,"text":"@hexagore Weird, are you sure you didn't accidentally press wsad? Because the getKey event in unity should be quite solid."},{"author_name":"reheated","author_uid":"15514","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 11:11am","epoch":1418036760,"text":"A clever arcade\/strategy!"},{"author_name":"anokta","author_uid":"13553","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 12:44pm","epoch":1418042340,"text":"looks nice! seems like it needs more attractions for the gameplay though."},{"author_name":"hectorhon","author_uid":"46182","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 12:44pm","epoch":1418042340,"text":"Good concept, but the controls are too &quot;slow&quot; - I can't even kill the first elf without losing hp if I idle for a moment."},{"author_name":"lisac","author_uid":"43891","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 12:47pm","epoch":1418042520,"text":"Good idea the controls are a bit difficult though."},{"author_name":"hadesfury","author_uid":"10263","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 1:14pm","epoch":1418044140,"text":"Thanks very much to warm me about categories I choose .. It was a mistake\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I dit not really catch the commands"},{"author_name":"hadesfury","author_uid":"10263","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 1:14pm","epoch":1418044140,"text":"Thanks very much to warm me about categories I choose .. It was a mistake\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I dit not really catch the commands of your game"},{"author_name":"fierysquirrel","author_uid":"5379","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 2:41pm","epoch":1418049360,"text":"Love the animation of the gingerbread man xD"},{"author_name":"woodecker","author_uid":"6641","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 5:09pm","epoch":1418058240,"text":"Interesting mechanics, it would be more fun with better controls."},{"author_name":"ShellfishGames","author_uid":"23164","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 11:23pm","epoch":1418080680,"text":"The whole game ran really slow here, not sure if that was intended. But I still found it rather difficult, and at times unresponsive or the controls just didn't work properly.\r<br\/>Other than that, a very nice idea, a lovely protagonist and the snow effect adds quite a bit to the atmosphere. :)"},{"author_name":"andrewkennedy","author_uid":"20990","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 8:56pm","epoch":1418158260,"text":"Pretty fun idea, I especially enjoy being able to put up a wall barrier and throw across it. Take that elves!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The movement\/throwing\/gathering felt a little too slow or unresponsive to actually stand a chance against the elves. In the future, it might be better to speed up these actions that the player is going to repeat a lot.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Overall, good job!"},{"author_name":"friken","author_uid":"35030","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 6:56pm","epoch":1418323860,"text":"seemed like a long time to wait for another elf. not much fun for first minute"},{"author_name":"gre","author_uid":"18803","time":"Dec 12, 2014 @ 1:59pm","epoch":1418392440,"text":"I would prefer keyboard controls over mouse.\r<br\/>interesting mecanism."},{"author_name":"Crosstales","author_uid":"32967","time":"Dec 21, 2014 @ 2:36am","epoch":1419129060,"text":"Liked it, but it took some time to figure out the controls :) also it was pretty hard after the first wave. good job though!"},{"author_name":"MintArcade","author_uid":"35966","time":"Dec 23, 2014 @ 11:07pm","epoch":1419375720,"text":"Really nice game. Very naughty elves :)"}],"images":["ld31\/44229-f5c36cee109629651970a57b29edc5bc.jpg","ld31\/44229-291e36ac875dd1247c7879667c2249f9.jpg","ld31\/44229-d022270926746c4e70382515789fe975.jpg","ld31\/44229-565b539bb7b862ce9ad5c766d53fea04.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.kongregate.com\/games\/DanielHes\/gingerbread-castle","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/lraruk7sc3e5zyp\/WinBuild.zip?dl=0","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/v5zzm4saym5v8au\/Gingerbread%20Castle.app.zip?dl=0","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/asockmvvkg7970m\/Linux.zip?dl=0","text":"Linux"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/3b60fael3mse9is\/Scripts.zip?dl=0","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"14664","g_author":"44229","g_event":"LD31","g_eventkey":"26","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"14694","g_title":"Gingerbread Castle","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"990","g_commentcount":"23","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\/\/407933\/44229-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/44229-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/44229-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/44229-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"The elves are trying to eat you. Throw snowballs and build castles to stop them!\r\n\r\nAUDIO IS AVAILABLE, turn it on in the settings menu. I noticed that the default setting was off during the submission hour, to late :(\r\n\r\nIf you don't wan't to wait for more elves, hit enter and they'll come in a sec I put it in for debugging but since it's still there, use it as you wish!\r\n\r\nPlease enjoy :) ","title":"Gingerbread Castle"}