{"author_link":"\/author\/thenumberguy\/","author_name":"The Number Guy","author_uid":"37986","comments":[{"author_name":"Quetzakol","author_uid":"39954","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 10:05am","epoch":1408960800,"text":"Interesting idea, but it should be more developed. Maybe I didn't understand something, but I think there is too much randomness. I clicked on towns without really knowing if it was good or not, but I came to the end.\rHowever, I like the music. Did you compose it yourself ?"},{"author_name":"The Number Guy","author_uid":"37986","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 11:27am","epoch":1408965720,"text":"I had many other ideas, but didn't have enough time to make them. Also I feared that on such a small map, people would get confused by many different things. My friends have suggested I make a full game out of this, and I will probably include more features there.\r\rThe number on the town shows after how many days Europeans will reach that town. When that number becomes 0, it means that they have reached the town. So you have to avoid entering "0" towns, while at the same time stay in towns to get more gold. I probably have to make a larger map, add more features and improve the algorithm, so the whole gameplay seems more realistic.\r\rBasically: look at the green numbers which indicate how much gold you have, and try to get as much gold as possible.\r\rAnd yes, I made the music myself in FL Studio, at 1 AM, but I hope it sounds good enough. Thank you for your feedback anyway!"},{"author_name":"Foofur","author_uid":"37074","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 12:50pm","epoch":1408970700,"text":"The graphics and sounds are really nice, but the gameplay could use some more development. well done"},{"author_name":"hungyg","author_uid":"8391","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 12:51pm","epoch":1408970760,"text":""Europeans"? Seriously?"},{"author_name":"LaFleur","author_uid":"40030","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 12:52pm","epoch":1408970820,"text":"Music is wonderful! Perfect for this game."},{"author_name":"gardenhead","author_uid":"40724","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 12:53pm","epoch":1408970880,"text":"I really like the idea, but the game is too easy now. I'm sure you can turn it into something really great with more time though. 5 stars for audio!"},{"author_name":"holgk","author_uid":"32032","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 12:57pm","epoch":1408971120,"text":"I always had 50 Gold. Is that a bug or a coincidence?"},{"author_name":"The Number Guy","author_uid":"37986","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 1:23pm","epoch":1408972680,"text":"At the beginning you have 50 gold, but that changes when you stay in town and meet new people (you get more gold) or you enter a captured town (you lose gold).\r\rI didn't have time to emphasize this in the game, but the goal is to bring more gold home, not just avoid getting captured. You get more gold by staying in a town.\r\rThanks for all the feedback by the way!"},{"author_name":"Sanguine","author_uid":"4159","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 1:42pm","epoch":1408973820,"text":"Neat game! It was a fun challenge to try to get the highest score as possible."},{"author_name":"Lokiman","author_uid":"16285","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 6:24pm","epoch":1408990740,"text":"Good start but I begs for more development. I can imagine this being a "minigame" in some bigger Civilization-like game :D"},{"author_name":"micahcowan","author_uid":"38013","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 10:22am","epoch":1409048220,"text":"Good idea, great music, fun. But over way too quickly, and there's basically zero challenge to it as it currently stands. You can't really gain much gold (I got as high as 70), as you have to keep moving if you want to avoid hitting a "zero" town, so you can really only stay somewhere a few times total if you want to make maximum profit.\r\rVery nice for a first LD (this was my first too)."},{"author_name":"madmaw","author_uid":"5068","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 10:53am","epoch":1409050080,"text":"I like it. Would be nice to have random events at each town, or hints on what to expect along the road"},{"author_name":"gnx","author_uid":"8333","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 1:42pm","epoch":1409146620,"text":"Short game. Mechanics work well and the visual presentation is nice and clean. Background music fits well in it too."},{"author_name":"pjimmy","author_uid":"40339","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 4:51pm","epoch":1409157960,"text":"nice puzzle game"},{"author_name":"liquidminduk","author_uid":"37631","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 9:38am","epoch":1409218380,"text":"great music on this one, I left it running in the background for a while as ambient sound while I work!\rGameplay wise it was a little lacking, but i see the direction you're trying to go"},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"27744","time":"Aug 30, 2014 @ 12:09am","epoch":1409357040,"text":"I died :( Cool game though! I included it in part 11 of my Ludum Dare 30 compilation video series :) http:\/\/youtu.be\/1LqxxVg5Vuk"},{"author_name":"silentlamb","author_uid":"40102","time":"Sep 14, 2014 @ 8:33am","epoch":1410683280,"text":"Intresting idea on the theme! I agree with the opinion that it could have more features. The great thing is audio. I love the music, it adds a nice mood to the game!"},{"author_name":"teamawesome","author_uid":"42370","time":"Sep 15, 2014 @ 7:52pm","epoch":1410810420,"text":"Nice idea, but it's really hard to lose and there could be more to the gameplay. Music is great though!"}],"images":["ld30\/37986-d37d36431dcd8bcc5563f550902cb0d0.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/thenumberguy.itch.io\/travel-escape","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/p08d09744800a7h\/content.zip?dl=0","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"16519","g_author":"37986","g_event":"LD30","g_eventkey":"24","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"16548","g_title":"Travel Escape","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"940","g_commentcount":"18","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\/\/375043\/37986-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"The Old World has connected with the New World. European settlers have arrived in Central America, and you, along with other natives, have to escape their colonization by traveling to your tribe's home in jungle.\r\n\r\nThis is my first Ludum Dare entry, and I hope it's a good one :)\r\n\r\nThis game was created in pure HTML5, CSS and JavaScript.\r\n\r\n--The Number Guy","title":"Travel Escape"}