{"author_link":"\/author\/xrm0\/","author_name":"xrm0","author_uid":"25867","comments":[{"author_name":"mrbungle","author_uid":"4895","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 11:29am","epoch":1408965840,"text":"Ha, great concept - influenced by South Park per chance?"},{"author_name":"Posva","author_uid":"24637","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 11:38am","epoch":1408966380,"text":"Hey I just get a blank rectangle instead of your game :(\rLinux Mint, Chromium (latest)"},{"author_name":"xrm0","author_uid":"25867","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 11:39am","epoch":1408966440,"text":"Thanks mrbungle! But no, there's no South Park influence in the game."},{"author_name":"Yasho","author_uid":"20255","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 11:41am","epoch":1408966560,"text":"A really clever take on the theme and even though the gameplay is very simple, it actually hooked me in for a while! I guess the hit chance was a bit too low for eveybody (everyone kept missing, but that did add to the tension, so it's like a pro and con at the same time)"},{"author_name":"xrm0","author_uid":"25867","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 11:55am","epoch":1408967400,"text":"@Posva, the game was made in Unity, and there's no webplayer for Linux :(. The only solution I've know so far for the webplayer in Linux is using pipelight: http:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/articles\/unity3d-web-player-in-linux-browsers-thanks-to-pipelight-.2996 But I've heard that is slow.\r\r@Yasho The hit chance depends on the "Defense" ability, it both have a high number there will be a lot of misses."},{"author_name":"Pantelis Petsopoulos","author_uid":"34259","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 12:00pm","epoch":1408967700,"text":"I had sex with a flea while fighting it. 10\/10 would play again."},{"author_name":"Ryan Melmoth","author_uid":"27112","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 1:44pm","epoch":1408973940,"text":"Very silly! I like it!"},{"author_name":"mrspeaker","author_uid":"9199","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 2:09pm","epoch":1408975440,"text":""The theme is Connected Worlds... how about... head lice?!" Genius! I played it for an embarrassingly long time - coworker started asking me questions. Damn it. Had to explain the head lice game."},{"author_name":"xrm0","author_uid":"25867","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 2:30pm","epoch":1408976700,"text":"@Ryan, @mrspeaker thanks for playing!"},{"author_name":"bobrocks","author_uid":"41796","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 3:51pm","epoch":1408981560,"text":"Haha, this is interesting. Nice work."},{"author_name":"local minimum","author_uid":"24765","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 5:35pm","epoch":1408987800,"text":"Great, I must send this to a lice-researcher I know. The concept\/method of fighting wasn't super clear, but I enjoyed just being a lice enough that it didn't matter that I probably did some stupid decisions."},{"author_name":"Posva","author_uid":"24637","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 5:42pm","epoch":1408988220,"text":"Haha, funny game. It doesn't ever end right?"},{"author_name":"BuffaloPhil","author_uid":"8563","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 5:46pm","epoch":1408988460,"text":"If Shel Silverstein made RPGs, this would be it. I loved it!"},{"author_name":"xrm0","author_uid":"25867","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 5:48pm","epoch":1408988580,"text":"@Posva: Right, there's no end (well, that's if you doesn't get killed fighting or of old age).\r\r@localminimum: Thanks for playing"},{"author_name":"DDFranky","author_uid":"40812","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 5:58pm","epoch":1408989180,"text":"Nice game! Did you created a genetic algorithm for the breeding of the fleas? Or is just random?"},{"author_name":"xrm0","author_uid":"25867","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 6:34pm","epoch":1408991340,"text":"@DDFranky: Each attribute value is chosen by selecting the mother or the father own values. So the new individual is a mix of the parents attributes. So, I use randomness but each new generation inherits something from the previous one."},{"author_name":"Unravel Games","author_uid":"41091","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 12:09pm","epoch":1409054640,"text":"Nice game and one of the interesting games that I've played so far, at first you need to play it a bit more to understand what's going on with the breeding. and lice lol"},{"author_name":"Hypnohustla","author_uid":"20803","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 1:42pm","epoch":1409060220,"text":"What is this! :D Such a crazy game. Good thinking on the theme."},{"author_name":"sephyka","author_uid":"23770","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 1:49pm","epoch":1409060640,"text":"Hehe, amazing sounds.\rI love the idea of a bug who is changing head!"},{"author_name":"dix","author_uid":"30021","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 5:09pm","epoch":1409072640,"text":"Hahah the concept is very funny, nice job :D"},{"author_name":"stasss","author_uid":"31999","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 8:42pm","epoch":1409085420,"text":"A very interesting ideaand the real evolution! but I think that the lice configuration should be something like bricks( it will give the endless opportunities and interesting aproaching for gameplay (like big powerfull lice, small and stealth lice)) instead og built in configuration with numbers (atack , stealth etc.). Keep going on!! Great work"},{"author_name":"AnnaGavaldaKedavra","author_uid":"17388","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 3:34am","epoch":1409110140,"text":"funny game, good interpretation of the theme, nice arts. But, to be frank, quite repetitive to be fun to play."},{"author_name":"ploogle","author_uid":"25844","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 6:09am","epoch":1409119440,"text":"5 stars for audio and humor; I died laughing.\r\rAmazingly complex for a 48 hour title. Great work!"},{"author_name":"Jupitron","author_uid":"35249","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 11:03am","epoch":1409137080,"text":"Haha, you rock! Amazing game!"},{"author_name":"vctr_seleucos","author_uid":"40130","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 3:22pm","epoch":1409152620,"text":"Love the interpretation of the theme, funny game!"},{"author_name":"wdebowicz","author_uid":"29762","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 3:37pm","epoch":1409153520,"text":"Great idea! Each LD I think about, how people can surprise me, and that's what I was waiting for."},{"author_name":"dickpoelen","author_uid":"34953","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 11:05am","epoch":1409223600,"text":"Haha, that was great"},{"author_name":"JNyknn","author_uid":"26965","time":"Aug 29, 2014 @ 11:13am","epoch":1409310480,"text":"I don't know why, but I found this game pretty... disturbing."},{"author_name":"DustyStylus","author_uid":"15902","time":"Aug 29, 2014 @ 8:33pm","epoch":1409344080,"text":"Hehe, that was very random! You have a good imagination. :D (scratchy head while playing this, I hope it's not contagious!)"},{"author_name":"swich","author_uid":"42366","time":"Sep 2, 2014 @ 1:13pm","epoch":1409663280,"text":"Fits the theme in a really smart way :) However, I didn't get what the atributes do exactly or what "configuration" I should try to achieve."},{"author_name":"jimmypaulin","author_uid":"6965","time":"Sep 5, 2014 @ 5:48pm","epoch":1409938980,"text":"This was totally hilarious thanks for the laughs! It took a while to work out what the heck was going on but once I got in the lice mindset things flowed well. The sounds totally make it, I love the human animalistic babbling while the anthropomorphic lice steal the show with their intricate (overly, deliberately so?) fights. I think it lacked a clear sense of progression and I didn't really know how well I was doing, but it did make me laugh"},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"27744","time":"Sep 5, 2014 @ 6:18pm","epoch":1409940780,"text":"Funny game! I included it in part 15 of my Ludum Dare 30 Compilation video series, if you’d like to check it out :) http:\/\/youtu.be\/oHxpkDX49XQ"},{"author_name":"cstudios","author_uid":"38824","time":"Sep 6, 2014 @ 12:29pm","epoch":1410006240,"text":"I love evolutionary algorithm. I had a very similar idea about a game what would simulate breeding somehow, but its a longer story. So I like the idea. I did not understood what pheromones are good for..."},{"author_name":"xrm0","author_uid":"25867","time":"Sep 8, 2014 @ 11:22pm","epoch":1410218220,"text":"@cstudios The fight screen serves two purposes. When the lice are of the opposite sex, it's a fight to death. When they are of opposite sex, it's a test to check whether the'll breed or not. In this last case, the pheromones are a bonus to the attack skill."},{"author_name":"thecolorhacker","author_uid":"40333","time":"Sep 12, 2014 @ 2:52pm","epoch":1410533220,"text":"Very humorous game! I spent too much time on it. I bred my lice to the 10th generation!"}],"images":["ld30\/25867-83b8096ed21f0da44a1d7152d07cafc2.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/mulitasoft.com\/lab\/ld-30\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/mulitasoft.com\/lab\/ld-30\/_src_.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"17139","g_author":"25867","g_event":"LD30","g_eventkey":"24","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"17168","g_title":"Lice evolutions","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"565","g_commentcount":"35","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\/25867-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Live, breed, and die in the connected worlds of humans and lice.\r\n\r\nStealth is not used in the game. Forgot to use it and forgot to remove it from the game.","title":"Lice evolutions"}