{"author_link":"\/author\/wlovas\/","author_name":"wlovas","author_uid":"2099","comments":[{"author_name":"LrdKzrth","author_uid":"22257","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 1:59pm","epoch":1367243640,"text":"I don't know what I'm meant to be doing. Nothing I typed seem to work."},{"author_name":"wlovas","author_uid":"2099","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 4:14am","epoch":1367294940,"text":"Keep trying! :)"},{"author_name":"heuermh","author_uid":"1864","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 4:17am","epoch":1367295120,"text":"I was able to get farther than the first commenter but I still don't know what is happening."},{"author_name":"wlovas","author_uid":"2099","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 10:27pm","epoch":1367360520,"text":"Well, I hesitate to give too much away, but I suspect a common failure mode is overthinking it.  Try pretending that you don't know anything about how games work."},{"author_name":"raoz","author_uid":"16059","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 2:22pm","epoch":1367417820,"text":"I don't understand!"},{"author_name":"Tom 7","author_uid":"1984","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 6:00pm","epoch":1367603700,"text":"I liked it. A good, satisfying abstract question &amp; answer game."},{"author_name":"titi987","author_uid":"19827","time":"May 13, 2013 @ 5:27pm","epoch":1368465720,"text":"I can't play on Linux.\r<br\/>Unable to launch binairy file."},{"author_name":"dick_claus","author_uid":"11148","time":"May 18, 2013 @ 4:53am","epoch":1368852480,"text":"Nice exloration and logic game. I managed to finish it. At first it was not obvious, but later I figure out the logic and learn it. It is interesting how our brain will learn and start teach somebodies different logic."}],"images":["ld26\/2099-2d5058d5a10d317adeb54fc5d65260a6.jpg","ld26\/2099-dd040f903a3056da3a5dde35e9eb4cfc.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~wlovas\/ludumdare\/austerity-win.exe","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~wlovas\/ludumdare\/austerity-osx","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~wlovas\/ludumdare\/austerity-linux","text":"Linux"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~wlovas\/ludumdare\/austerity.sml","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"26096","g_author":"2099","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"26126","g_title":"austerity","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"8","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\/2099-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/2099-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"This is an exploration of minimalism in game design, loosely in the tradition of text adventures, offering one personal perspective -- the author's -- on an answer to the question, \"What is a game?\"  It strives to retain an austerely minimal aesthetic while incorporating many classic elements seemingly essential to game design: interactivity, discover, surprise, rewards, ... and a twist!\r\n\r\nAlso, speed runs.\r\n\r\nWritten as a console app using pure SML '97 with no libraries or nothin'.  The source should compile under pretty much any SML compiler; i used SML\/NJ and MLton to develop.  Binaries are available for ancient OS X, antique Windows, and quasi-modern Linux.<\/p>","title":"austerity"}