{"author_link":"\/author\/monkeymad2\/","author_name":"monkeymad2","author_uid":"7386","comments":[{"author_name":"Tanner","author_uid":"26780","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 2:54pm","epoch":1387205340,"text":"I like the concept of drawing map."},{"author_name":"hnjslater","author_uid":"16286","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 12:41am","epoch":1387240560,"text":"Really pretty, but I didn't really know what was going on. I saw a tree once. It was a nice tree."},{"author_name":"sanojian","author_uid":"7542","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 5:58pm","epoch":1387302780,"text":"Cool concept.  Can't draw in Firefox but works in Chrome."},{"author_name":"Lyje","author_uid":"29064","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 1:24am","epoch":1387329540,"text":"Great idea, very original. IMO your character moves slowly enough to verge on frustrating, but while the game is pretty difficult it's very rewarding to find the treasure. Feels like a real achievement!"},{"author_name":"ratboy2713","author_uid":"5162","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 2:02am","epoch":1387331820,"text":"I like the concept, but the character needs to move a lot faster. Though I assume this is the point, I wish there were more cues as to how far you've moved. I'm sure I walked right past my landmark because I couldn't tell if I was moving at all."},{"author_name":"Switchbreak","author_uid":"2645","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 12:48am","epoch":1387500180,"text":"I found the treasure! That was a cool idea, would have been nicer if the map was more figurative so we could try to copy that on our map."},{"author_name":"PlayHabit","author_uid":"31230","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 12:51am","epoch":1387500360,"text":"Going with what some others have said, I also felt the movement was too slow, and it was hard to use the landmarks to my advantage.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I love the map drawing concept. It gave me a bit of nostalgia of drawing maps in maze zones in 80s-90s adventure games. and that you save and upload the player maps so they can be used outside the game. I also thought the desert storm particles were great.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I won a few times just because I was close enough to use the distance counter: I managed to find the treasure in #TabulaQuondam by following my map http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/JGM4bJ2.jpg"},{"author_name":"Moosefly","author_uid":"25343","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 12:51am","epoch":1387500360,"text":"The map drawing does not indeed work on Firefox (well, Pale Moon). Had to download Chrome to play it (the concept was really intriquing!).\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Once inside the game, the map was pretty much useless. The fact that you could only see something like 6 meters to each of your sides horizontally, 5 meters vertically and move at a pace of &lt;1m\/s didn't really help the experience either. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>Haven't been in a sandstorm, it might be somewhat true to real life now that I think about it :P."},{"author_name":"Fervir","author_uid":"20857","time":"Dec 25, 2013 @ 5:36am","epoch":1387949460,"text":"This was a really cool idea for a game.\r<br\/>Drawing out a map was neat.\r<br\/>I enjoyed this, great job!"},{"author_name":"philhassey","author_uid":"2","time":"Dec 31, 2013 @ 4:59pm","epoch":1388508840,"text":"It'd probably be super helpful if the map showed where you were."},{"author_name":"plancien","author_uid":"25374","time":"Jan 6, 2014 @ 2:46pm","epoch":1389019260,"text":"+ an original and interesting idea.\r<br\/>+ nice animations\r<br\/>- character moves too slow\r<br\/>- sound is soon annoying"}],"images":["ld28\/7386-a0ba25ed83a4197c9f774de0f04db9c9.jpg","ld28\/7386-f9cf81a12ac1527bce3eff572c2e7766.jpg","ld28\/7386-9944cc0a19281d4f79a7b77319acfdd8.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/1482003\/LD28\/index.html","text":"Web (HTML5)"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/1482003\/LD28\/index.html","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"22054","g_author":"7386","g_event":"LD28","g_eventkey":"20","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"22083","g_title":"TabulaQuondam","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"539","g_commentcount":"11","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\/\/308734\/7386-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/7386-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/7386-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Tabula - board, plaque, tablet, plank, picture, map\r\nQuondam - Once\r\n\r\nYou're in a desert hunting treasure, but you only get one chance to look at the map and attempt to draw a copy within 60 seconds before you're thrown out into the wilderness to fend for yourself with only your crude drawing as reference.\r\n\r\nHas only been tested in Chrome.\r\n\r\nYou'll get a kick from the \"Tweet\" feature at the end.\r\n\r\nUsed the following:\r\nTech: HTML5 Canvas, CSS, Javascript & jQuery\r\nImages: Pixelmator\r\nCode: Sublime Text 2\r\nDebugging: Chrome\r\nMusic: http:\/\/www.earslap.com\/projectslab\/otomata","title":"TabulaQuondam"}