{"author_link":"\/author\/31eee384\/","author_name":"the31","author_uid":"1712","comments":[{"author_name":"ix","author_uid":"18837","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:21am","epoch":1377490560,"text":"The look and feel of this is quite polished. I especially like how the words push each other aside."},{"author_name":"OldPeculier","author_uid":"25979","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:23am","epoch":1377490680,"text":"Brilliant concept, beautifully executed. That said, ten seconds is just no way long enough to count the syllables in long words and form a Haiku. I did see you had a second version, but then that breaks the theme. \r\rBit of a pickle\rMake your game *good* or *correct*?\rA real conundrum"},{"author_name":"31eee384","author_uid":"1712","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 4:32am","epoch":1377491220,"text":"Thanks! I tried to add\rlines that show the syllables\rToo dark I suppose"},{"author_name":"KristinnEs","author_uid":"25925","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 1:07pm","epoch":1377522120,"text":"Interesting game.\rHad a bit of trouble making the words stick to the text-bars."},{"author_name":"dekart","author_uid":"14826","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 1:12pm","epoch":1377522420,"text":"It's the first poetry game I ever saw. Cool concept!"},{"author_name":"Riley Hume","author_uid":"25263","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 1:25pm","epoch":1377523200,"text":"Very hard, not a lot of fun but a great concept."},{"author_name":"PackSciences","author_uid":"19578","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 2:04pm","epoch":1377525540,"text":"Very good.\rA little fast for non-English player."},{"author_name":"Spotline","author_uid":"11703","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 2:04pm","epoch":1377525540,"text":"Cool idea, clean presentation but it's really too hard!"},{"author_name":"TakeNapEveryday","author_uid":"18126","time":"Aug 26, 2013 @ 3:48pm","epoch":1377531780,"text":"This is a cool game that I will never win."},{"author_name":"Nick Weihs","author_uid":"21927","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 3:56pm","epoch":1377618660,"text":"Never would have thought of a haiku challenge. Interesting idea."},{"author_name":"Shmarah","author_uid":"15672","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 3:58pm","epoch":1377618780,"text":"noxiously snouted\rconsecutives protectors\rcaddie matronhood\r\rI think the silliness of this haiku is very descriptive of how short and sweet this game is. Pretty font! :)"},{"author_name":"darkshadow","author_uid":"15698","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 5:09pm","epoch":1377623040,"text":"Nicely done, I was struggling to manage in the time until I saw the boxes were sub-divided into the number of syllables the word has!"},{"author_name":"Diventurer","author_uid":"7567","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 5:10pm","epoch":1377623100,"text":"The text is a bit hard to read, and the game is surprisingly difficult."},{"author_name":"johnl","author_uid":"8858","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 5:24pm","epoch":1377623940,"text":"Really interesting idea. I think it might have been better to use a different font, as that one is kind of hard to read. \r\rI'm not sure whether I like the way the number of syllables in a word is shown, as that removes any real thinking from the game, but that said there would be absolutely no way anyone could actually count the number of syllables within just 10 seconds."},{"author_name":"motty","author_uid":"25335","time":"Aug 27, 2013 @ 5:44pm","epoch":1377625140,"text":"Great execution of an interesting idea: shame the idea turns out to be way too hard to pull off in ten seconds (for me at least). Managed to get a haiku once on twenty second mode - don't think I'd ever manage it in ten."},{"author_name":"LegacyCrono","author_uid":"3093","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 1:56am","epoch":1377741060,"text":"Not touchpad friendly\rBut is rather interesting\rHippopotamus"},{"author_name":"Jimanzium","author_uid":"24428","time":"Aug 29, 2013 @ 12:35pm","epoch":1377779400,"text":"Very fluid in how everything moves or pushes the other words. This must have been well polished. And a nice idea."},{"author_name":"larb","author_uid":"17860","time":"Sep 1, 2013 @ 3:30am","epoch":1378005900,"text":"Cool idea. 10 seconds is not enough for me. It's really hard and frustrating. (The LD theme is the problem, your game is cool.)"},{"author_name":"alts","author_uid":"18267","time":"Sep 3, 2013 @ 5:08am","epoch":1378184580,"text":"Wow, never would have expected a haiku generator. Really appreciated that all of the menu elements were themselves haiku, and that the countdown was a usable element. The game, unfortunately, isn't very fun until you finally do manage to succeed, and that's not an easy feat. "Phenomenology dog" indeed."}],"images":["ld27\/1712-8878f08d57c2499a5a6d9ae651fa4ea1.jpg","ld27\/1712-0f4e23894ba8805ff9a91401f2525ea7.jpg","ld27\/1712-37ff814e09b857d256175690b7fa0ca2.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.galacticgaming.net\/hosting\/ld27-575\/","text":"Web (Flash)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.galacticgaming.net\/hosting\/ld27-575\/575_src.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"24221","g_author":"1712","g_event":"LD27","g_eventkey":"18","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"24251","g_title":"575","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"820","g_commentcount":"19","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\/\/273708\/1712-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/1712-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/273708\/1712-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"For my LD game\r\nI decided on haiku\r\nmade in ten seconds.\r\n\r\nLook inside to find\r\ncontrols (even easy mode)\r\nand the game itself.\r\n\r\nThis game was written\r\nin AS3's native libs.\r\nThank you for your votes!","title":"575"}