{"author_link":"\/author\/nolanlabs\/","author_name":"Nolan C","author_uid":"7036","comments":[{"author_name":"DaGamesta","author_uid":"18923","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 3:56am","epoch":1367293860,"text":"Got to 107, haha.  Tough to keep up later on.  Definitely very minimalistic.  Well, at least it's simple anyways.  People are happy or sad, make them happy. XD Good job. :)"},{"author_name":"RARoadkill","author_uid":"13308","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 4:03am","epoch":1367294280,"text":"it is minimalistic indeed. Plays well though. controls are simple and gameplay works without any bugs that I can see. So good job."},{"author_name":"sP0CkEr2","author_uid":"7135","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 4:06am","epoch":1367294460,"text":"awesome -- totally retro -- i love when the game is over"},{"author_name":"LizEngland","author_uid":"22429","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 4:07am","epoch":1367294520,"text":"Saw the game title and had to play it. Not disappointed. Pretty good minigame tie-in for a great work of literature :)"},{"author_name":"Gungnir","author_uid":"15389","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 4:19am","epoch":1367295240,"text":"Smart use of theme. Pacification of the masses. I love how things &quot;conclude&quot; if you fail."},{"author_name":"syawqy","author_uid":"15312","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 5:11am","epoch":1367298360,"text":"I like when everything exploding"},{"author_name":"ilo","author_uid":"12377","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 5:47am","epoch":1367300520,"text":"To make an observation on the Brave New World theme, the game itself could be construed as a kind of soma pill for us players! :O"},{"author_name":"brookman32k","author_uid":"14127","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 4:32pm","epoch":1367339220,"text":"I played the game without reading the description... Was a bit puzzled at first about what's going on ;) I Like how you incorporated a complex and deep matter in such a simplistic game. The game bored me pretty quickliy but it also made me think, and I like it when games do that ;)"},{"author_name":"Leginar","author_uid":"21822","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 1:41am","epoch":1367372160,"text":"The game over scene was very well scripted. You've successfully touched on a larger theme here, and were able to do a lot with very little. Bravo."},{"author_name":"Filth and Money","author_uid":"23016","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 3:20am","epoch":1367378100,"text":"lol, that was awesome. Never thought I'd see this kind of game based on Brave new World haha. And holy poops, it's really hard at 146 lol"},{"author_name":"ethankennerly","author_uid":"3040","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 4:31am","epoch":1367382360,"text":"Elegant graphics and audio reminded me of 1970s videogames.  I laughed when the people exploded.  Cute concept.  If you continue to develop this, have you explored the rules that modulate each person's mood and exposing the internal state of each person's mood?"},{"author_name":"Pixelulsar","author_uid":"10737","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 7:40pm","epoch":1367436900,"text":"Graphics were minimalistic and it went well with the theme.  I liked how people just exploded if they weren't happy."},{"author_name":"PsenFilip","author_uid":"20764","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 11:37pm","epoch":1367537520,"text":"Solid little game. Simple and I like the retro-esque.\r<br\/>Some people really explode when they are not happy. Interesting thoughts on there :)"},{"author_name":"brantkings","author_uid":"7556","time":"May 10, 2013 @ 2:53pm","epoch":1368197280,"text":"That is society in a nutshell. Good job! This was very solid all-together."}],"images":["ld26\/7036-416431ff2d9317ea7cae53bdbd1edf28.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.newgrounds.com\/dump\/item\/d4ac3fd7bba4c396e865ec2a122b50a6","text":"Web"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"26332","g_author":"7036","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"26362","g_title":"Brave New World: The Game","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"362","g_commentcount":"14","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\/7036-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Ludum Dare and English class project overlapped, so I did both at the same time.\r\n\r\nBased on Aldous Huxley's 1932 classic \"Brave New World\".  Drop soma pills on people to keep the society happy.  If one person gets too unhappy, everything blows up.\r\n\r\nI'd say the art is pretty minimalistic.  Beyond that, it's up to your own interpretation.\r\n\r\nI'll be putting out a post-compo release tomorrow-ish, with some minor improvements.  Let me know if you'd like to see anything added.\r\n\r\nTools used: FlashPunk, FlashDevelop, Bfxr, GIMP<\/p>","title":"Brave New World: The Game"}