{"author_link":"\/author\/cheeseybob\/","author_name":"CheeseyBob","author_uid":"37127","comments":[{"author_name":"Infraviolet","author_uid":"31274","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:38pm","epoch":1398699180,"text":"game pauses and stops responding after pressing enter\r<br\/>running on windows xp"},{"author_name":"ccglp","author_uid":"34494","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:50pm","epoch":1398699900,"text":"Reminds me a lot to a game in what you control a fish and have to eat other fishes to grow, but this it's a good rework, nice job!"},{"author_name":"CAT_IN_THE_DARK_WOOD","author_uid":"27523","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:52pm","epoch":1398700020,"text":"Nice idea. On Linux works fine. Pleasant graphics"},{"author_name":"CheeseyBob","author_uid":"37127","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 4:09pm","epoch":1398701040,"text":"@Infraviolet this may be caused by\r<br\/>1) running the execuable without extracting it from the zip.\r<br\/>2) not having the 'img' folder extracted to the same location as the executable.\r<br\/>If it's neither of these, then I'm afraid I can't help.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@Others: Thanks for the positive feedback :)"},{"author_name":"SuperIzzo","author_uid":"34828","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 4:27pm","epoch":1398702120,"text":"I've played a couple of variations of this game before. None involved mining though :D \r<br\/>It simple, but fun.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>P.S: Do you grow hungry faster when you are bigger?"},{"author_name":"CheeseyBob","author_uid":"37127","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 4:56pm","epoch":1398703860,"text":"@SuperIzzo\r<br\/>Thanks :D\r<br\/>Yes, you do get hungry faster when you are bigger. Also, the food increase you get from eating is proportional to the ratio of your size to the other fish's size. The balance of these are the things I'm least happy with. I didn't want it to be too easy, but I think it's ended up being a bit too hard."},{"author_name":"LewisG0400","author_uid":"35207","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 5:08pm","epoch":1398704580,"text":"Good idea fun to play."},{"author_name":"sensenmann666","author_uid":"31079","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 5:46pm","epoch":1398706860,"text":"funny game :)"},{"author_name":"Zolkren","author_uid":"35151","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 6:56pm","epoch":1398711060,"text":"Fun to play, this is a good idea for a gameplay."},{"author_name":"kbm","author_uid":"20498","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 7:24pm","epoch":1398712740,"text":"Pretty fun game-concept, graphics could use some more polish, though. All in all quite well done!"},{"author_name":"Seme","author_uid":"27684","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 7:31pm","epoch":1398713160,"text":"This reminded me of Osmos. Nice game! And this was done in Java! Nice. I'm definitely checking the source code how you have done this."},{"author_name":"Kragnir","author_uid":"26709","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 9:25pm","epoch":1398720000,"text":"The fun for me with these kind of games have always been when you can just swim around and eat everything. In this game it seems that the extra hunger from increased size make it a bad idea to try and actually become big.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Avoiding the fish is too easy , not dying from hunger is too hard."},{"author_name":"bvanschooten","author_uid":"14520","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 9:33pm","epoch":1398720480,"text":"I think the graphics are simplistic, but the game is good fun.  There is quite a bit of strategy involved in this game.  Maybe it's better to have the mineable blocks in other places than just at the bottom."},{"author_name":"stenol","author_uid":"24796","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 5:16pm","epoch":1398791460,"text":"Good Idea. Good Work :-)"},{"author_name":"xensky","author_uid":"27267","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 5:16pm","epoch":1398791460,"text":"great idea, crazy fun and silly. who knew fish would be so good at mining?"},{"author_name":"badlydrawnrod","author_uid":"745","time":"Apr 30, 2014 @ 9:41pm","epoch":1398893760,"text":"I liked the dual mechanic of mining and eating."},{"author_name":"tehryanx","author_uid":"34623","time":"May 3, 2014 @ 6:00pm","epoch":1399139700,"text":"lol this was fun. good work!"},{"author_name":"sknoslo","author_uid":"14586","time":"May 4, 2014 @ 7:36pm","epoch":1399231860,"text":"This game was a lot of fun! Could definitely use some balancing. The mining was a really funny\/fun addition to the game play. Nice work!"}],"images":["ld29\/37127-2121632c114b69ff10f749e09116dde9.jpg","ld29\/37127-89c9a0ae0a1da52bfba783c588955e5b.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/?go6zy5zb4kemfx3","text":"Download (Java 7)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cheeseybobdev.blogspot.co.uk\/","text":"Website"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"19961","g_author":"37127","g_event":"LD29","g_eventkey":"22","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"19990","g_title":"Miner Fish","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"928","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\/\/342546\/37127-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/342546\/37127-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"A simple, arcade-style game where you play as a gold-mining goldfish trying to survive in a fish-eat-fish fishpond.    Controls are shown in game.    Download is a zip with both the game and source. Should work on all platforms, but if it doesn't work for you then leave a comment.","title":"Miner Fish"}