{"author_link":"\/author\/atrodo\/","author_name":"atrodo","author_uid":"17766","comments":[{"author_name":"Neten","author_uid":"22854","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 2:39am","epoch":1367202840,"text":"I would argue that the core of the game is not the raw data, but the gameplay."},{"author_name":"tiffi","author_uid":"21552","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 3:00am","epoch":1367204100,"text":"interesting idea, liked it"},{"author_name":"daniel","author_uid":"12606","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 3:10am","epoch":1367204700,"text":"I love it! Spreadsheet sim :D Also apparently dragon > potato :("},{"author_name":"uprightpath","author_uid":"10562","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:34am","epoch":1367209740,"text":"I played around with it a bit. However, I kept dying suddenly (Negative HP) while exploring. Nothing seemed to have attacked. No clue what was happening there."},{"author_name":"Scott McBee","author_uid":"17423","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 5:00am","epoch":1367211300,"text":"Excellent take on the theme"},{"author_name":"Mark Hildreth","author_uid":"13982","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:13am","epoch":1367215680,"text":"I think I'll save playing this one for when I'm at work tomorrow and need to look busy :)"},{"author_name":"Uhfgood","author_uid":"53","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 6:33am","epoch":1367216880,"text":"Did not understand."},{"author_name":"atrodo","author_uid":"17766","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 1:57pm","epoch":1367243520,"text":"Neten: I agree to point. The mechanics are certainly part of the core of a game, but useless without data. And data is not a game without the application of mechanics on it. After thinking about it for a bit, my position is that the core of a game is the application of mechanics on the data."},{"author_name":"swizzcheez","author_uid":"16129","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 2:01pm","epoch":1367243760,"text":"Feels like pen and paper D&D -- an excellent application of the theme's spirit."},{"author_name":"corrigan_sam","author_uid":"16490","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:28pm","epoch":1367252580,"text":"Very good idea, A little repetitive, but really cool!"},{"author_name":"Lucas Tiridath","author_uid":"5505","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:39pm","epoch":1367253240,"text":"Very interesting take on the theme. I got one guy out but I quite forgot about my other squad members first time through!"},{"author_name":"cahman","author_uid":"20494","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:42pm","epoch":1367253420,"text":"Fun game! Equipped with shotguns and potato sacks, my party made an alluring target for the local rat populace... \rIt would have been nice to get some detailed battle reports each round (i.e. rat gnaws member 2 in half for 15 pts of damage)"},{"author_name":"William Bundy","author_uid":"8500","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 5:35pm","epoch":1367256600,"text":"It's very hard to figure out exactly what's going on, which is impressive when there's so little to do. On the other hand, it's an excellent representation of the theme: a role playing game at just its numbers. Unfortunately, the spacial side of CRPGs really helps to convey the current state of the game world. Also, the excel spreadsheet theme would be vastly improved if you used the Windows UI font (Segoe UI, or even Tahoma)."},{"author_name":"caasi","author_uid":"17875","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 7:33pm","epoch":1367263680,"text":"You see: a Potato."},{"author_name":"Jarcas Studios","author_uid":"20322","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:48pm","epoch":1367268180,"text":"Very clever and interesting idea!\r\rHowever, I think it's a bit cumbersome\/unintuitive to use, especially considering that modern spreadsheets always support mouse input. Also, the tab system was confusing. I didn't know when things changed on other tabs or what those tabs represented."},{"author_name":"Exclamation Mark","author_uid":"22286","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:49pm","epoch":1367268240,"text":"Well I hadn't seen anything like this before o,O Too bad it's not working very well. I'd expect at least a "GO NORTH" kind of experience in the action field. But it's better then another pixelated platformer pretending to be minimalistic because pixels :)"},{"author_name":"Shugor","author_uid":"14284","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 3:11am","epoch":1367291160,"text":"This is a very interesting take on the theme, and it looks well thought out. It gets somewhat repetitive, however; there's not much to do between encounters apart from switching armor. It's also hard to tell what some of the cells are for, like "Exit" and the Location number. The game's pretty well done, and it is undeniably minimal~"},{"author_name":"Dark Acre Jack","author_uid":"2947","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 4:34am","epoch":1367296140,"text":"Clever."},{"author_name":"richtx","author_uid":"14045","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 4:34am","epoch":1367296140,"text":"Fits the theme very well. Narrows down the dynamic to the most basic elements. Liked it."},{"author_name":"AaronYip","author_uid":"4897","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 3:17am","epoch":1367377920,"text":"Clever concept. (:"},{"author_name":"dreamlogician","author_uid":"23224","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 12:18pm","epoch":1367410380,"text":"Amusing use of theme. Actually playing it felt a bit too close to my day job to really be "fun", but I think that's probably a sign that the concept was successfully executed. ;)"},{"author_name":"zatyka","author_uid":"14357","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 3:28am","epoch":1367464980,"text":"Kudos to you on the creative idea and use of the theme). This type of interesting game is why I love LD."},{"author_name":"domrein","author_uid":"12960","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 3:45am","epoch":1367466000,"text":"Interesting game idea. Somehow I ended up with negative hp. Maybe one of the potatoes killed me? This is probably the first game I've played that made me feel like I was doing homework."},{"author_name":"Arcana","author_uid":"22457","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 3:45am","epoch":1367466000,"text":"Clever but I couldn't get it to "feel" like a game, I didn't understand what all of the numbers were saying to me. I pressed enter a lot and didn't seem to get anywhere. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something?"},{"author_name":"kyru","author_uid":"3377","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 3:50am","epoch":1367466300,"text":"Strange game, not sure what I think of it. I like the use of the theme though."},{"author_name":"LTyrosine","author_uid":"6633","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 4:01am","epoch":1367466960,"text":"Nice fit on theme but more help would make it a lot better. Sometimes random values go crazy and I cant figure out why. \rOverall, highly innovative."},{"author_name":"mrexcessive","author_uid":"20788","time":"May 8, 2013 @ 4:24am","epoch":1367986740,"text":"Cool! Original !! Potato weapon!!! Win first encounter using only root vegetable kit... Seemed to run out of encounters after second one."},{"author_name":"csanyk","author_uid":"10473","time":"May 19, 2013 @ 4:20am","epoch":1368936900,"text":"lol."}],"images":["ld26\/17766-b973f74014034f2d94e42894ee8ddd61.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/ludum.tarshish.us\/ld26\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/atrodo\/ld26","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"25536","g_author":"17766","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"25566","g_title":"Tactical Spreadsheet","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"1111","g_commentcount":"28","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\/\/233892\/17766-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"This will most likely not work on IE. Sorry.\r\n\r\nMinimalism is the attempt to strip out all the unnecessary and leave only the essence or core of something. In games, this is done by removing all visual and technical hiding of the game and exposing the core, the raw data, of the game to the user. And when you think of raw data, people will tend to think of excel. Enjoy.<\/p>","title":"Tactical Spreadsheet"}