{"author_link":"\/author\/tompudding\/","author_name":"tompudding","author_uid":"12467","comments":[{"author_name":"gilmore606","author_uid":"22003","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 5:32am","epoch":1367213220,"text":"Holy crap you made a game out of Max\/MSP.  Combined with SpaceChem.  I'm in awe of this as a 48 hour project, fantastic.  At first I forgot it was a game and was just making music with it. :)"},{"author_name":"manabreak","author_uid":"11177","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 5:50am","epoch":1367214300,"text":"Fun idea, but for someone not familiar with modular audio software, this may get a bit weird at first. Neat game, nevertheless, nice to see a music game. :)"},{"author_name":"hnjslater","author_uid":"16286","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 9:11am","epoch":1367226360,"text":"Good game, reminds me of myself: sounds like an angel, looks like devil, entirely monochrome."},{"author_name":"howieV (binarygirl)","author_uid":"8824","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 2:18pm","epoch":1367244780,"text":"quite liked it ..struggled to get going a little bit at first tho heh..good job tho :)"},{"author_name":"JimmyLord","author_uid":"23245","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 2:31pm","epoch":1367245560,"text":"Very cool, I think that's the first time I broke out a calculator to play a game.  I failed at level 4, figure I could divide and throw in 80 inc's, but that can't be the answer :)"},{"author_name":"bushmango","author_uid":"5852","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 2:33pm","epoch":1367245680,"text":"Sometimes the graphics tweak out and I can't connect outputs to inputs :( Took me a while to figure out what the goal was, but then it was fun :)"},{"author_name":"josefnpat","author_uid":"11249","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 2:38pm","epoch":1367245980,"text":"For arch linux: `pacman -S python2-opengl python2-numpy` and run with `python2 ordinal.py`"},{"author_name":"caranha","author_uid":"7847","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 2:45pm","epoch":1367246400,"text":"That is a very unique game - a programming challenge, I like it! The game also has a very consistent &quot;feel&quot;, which is a plus.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>One thing to note, is that it would be good to have an automatic &quot;zoom&quot; at the start of each level. On the start of the &quot;tricky&quot; level I did not realize that there were 4 sources, until I zoomed out a bit.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Also, it is not very clear whether you have to connect ALL sources to the sinks, or if just satisfying the sink counts as clearing the puzzle.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Anyway, thanks for the cool game!"},{"author_name":"HelkeGames","author_uid":"20522","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:16pm","epoch":1367266260,"text":"Nice game, well done! :)"},{"author_name":"semi","author_uid":"6429","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:46pm","epoch":1367268060,"text":"A game for the heart of every programmer :) Very fun to tinker with, and I like that you can do so much with bitwise operators. Bookmarking!"},{"author_name":"tankete","author_uid":"21907","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 9:47pm","epoch":1367271720,"text":"Wow! Really liked the idea. Though it got hard, fast. At least for me. Will definitely come back to this one."},{"author_name":"JustinMullin","author_uid":"3128","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 9:51pm","epoch":1367358360,"text":"Pretty fun - I like the concept.  The interface was very clunky, which kept me from playing farther, but I enjoyed it."},{"author_name":"Joror","author_uid":"15925","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 10:12pm","epoch":1367359620,"text":"Math games! Fun, but a bit bland, more hints for noobs would be nice. ;) Game was a bit funky\/buggy after I had placed a few blocks."},{"author_name":"f7f5","author_uid":"21437","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 10:21pm","epoch":1367360160,"text":"It took me a while to understand what I was supposed to do,  and the boxes with the numbers sometimes cover the output\/input connectors and it's hard to make a line. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>But I'm glad I stuck with it, because in the end it's a very original and cool idea for a math-music-puzzle game!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I have to comeback to this later to clear level 4"},{"author_name":"kreischweide","author_uid":"21493","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 9:42pm","epoch":1367444220,"text":"Oh something unexpected :) Great idea and execution, like the approach!"},{"author_name":"MRvanderPants","author_uid":"20836","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 9:04am","epoch":1367485140,"text":"The game is pretty hard to understand for people who don't use these kinds of audio software. But it is amazing you created this in just 2 days."},{"author_name":"whitetigle","author_uid":"2966","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 11:47am","epoch":1367494920,"text":"My first impression : WTF??!! And then enlightenment came to me and then I just remembered how lucky I am to particate to Ludum Dare and test real innovative games. Thanks for this game. It's good (once you figure what you're supposed to do that is ;) )"},{"author_name":"Hume","author_uid":"11218","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 3:00pm","epoch":1367592900,"text":"I finished it. The jump in difficulty was pretty severe in that level, but it was satisfying to finally figure out how to get the bit pattern I knew I needed.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Mild spoilers follow:\r<br\/>I think I found a timing bug in an earlier level. I hope my notation makes sense:\r<br\/>\r<br\/>out = sub(inc(inc(source(k=0, k+=2))), pass(pass(source(k=0, k+=2))))\r<br\/>\r<br\/>This gave [65534, 4, 4...]. Obviously a stupid solution given that a one-module solution exists, but I think it should have given [2, 2, 2...]"},{"author_name":"Prudiiarca","author_uid":"19692","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 3:03pm","epoch":1367593080,"text":"Thats interesting... Really"},{"author_name":"Cosmologicon","author_uid":"1151","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 5:39pm","epoch":1367688840,"text":"Fun. I think the puzzles could have benefited from some more restrictions, eg you only have X incs and Y muls or whatever. I feel like I cheated on the last level, since you can turn 0 into anything with a few incs and lsls."},{"author_name":"namuol","author_uid":"12236","time":"May 5, 2013 @ 3:19pm","epoch":1367766840,"text":"The sort of game I love to play.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I would've liked to see it be more rhythm-oriented\/musical in the sense of producing actual melodies, but it's fun enough thinking about the puzzles. I think if there were specific bounds\/limitations set the puzzles would feel more like puzzles and less like programming -- but that's more of an observation than a criticism; I kinda like the openness of it."},{"author_name":"goerp","author_uid":"14225","time":"May 6, 2013 @ 4:47pm","epoch":1367858520,"text":"OOOH! another programming game, nice!\r<br\/>Although after a while it became a bit buggy (some graphical corruption and some elements where impossible to connect anymore) it was nice and addictive. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>The music is a nice touch and the speeding up possibility is very good, because when you know you have the sollution, you don't want to wait.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>An extra plus for the simplicity of the user interface and the ease of which you can understand this game (I also made a programming game, but the UI was terrible and it was NOT easy to understand).\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I will tell my friends about this game."},{"author_name":"SuperDisk","author_uid":"11035","time":"May 7, 2013 @ 12:30am","epoch":1367886300,"text":"I liked the Cancel Christmas game, so I decided to try out this. I was not disappoint."}],"images":["ld26\/12467-71eafe12175755c3ce5f60bcbf5ff17e.jpg","ld26\/12467-b9bc39fa16c79c58c9ab90b52aeb01df.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/o9tcj4nvk1mw3vv\/ordinal_win32_1.1..zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/tompudding\/ordinal","text":"Linux"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/tompudding\/ordinal","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"25697","g_author":"12467","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"25727","g_title":"Ordinal","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"267","g_commentcount":"23","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\/12467-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/12467-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Ordinal is a logic based puzzle game set in the harsh and dangerous world of numbers!\r\n\r\nWindows:\r\n--------\r\nDownload the zip file and run the batch file\r\n\r\nLinux\r\n-----\r\nFor Debian based Linux distributions, just do a \"sudo apt-get install python-pygame python-opengl\", then you can run the source code from github directly with \"python ordinal.py\"<\/p>","title":"Ordinal"}