{"author_link":"\/author\/psychomonster\/","author_name":"psychomonster","author_uid":"17723","comments":[{"author_name":"Tyro","author_uid":"12708","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 9:56am","epoch":1367229060,"text":"Cool game that you could easily expand upon in the future (more enemy types, faster spawn rates, etc.)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Congrats on your first LD entry and good luck in the future!"},{"author_name":"SonnyBone","author_uid":"1365","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:28pm","epoch":1367266980,"text":"I felt like I was slaughtering Lemmings! Hahaha\r<br\/>Glad you had fun with LD. Please come back for more! This was my 8th. It has become on obsession now... lol"},{"author_name":"QXD-me","author_uid":"8819","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:37pm","epoch":1367267520,"text":"Pretty fun. Somewhat of a mess aesthetically, but mechanically solid (apart from being a bit easy). Nice first entry.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>p.s. that enemy death sound made me laugh way more than it should have - one of those &quot;so bad it's great&quot; moments"},{"author_name":"JohnnySix","author_uid":"20903","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:56pm","epoch":1367268660,"text":"Was a little incoherent on the style and gameplay front - a mix of pixel and particle fx with the graphics, and a bit too complex with the ammo buying part."},{"author_name":"hockeygoalie5","author_uid":"6528","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 9:01pm","epoch":1367268960,"text":"Good game, but it became boring quickly. There was little challenge or reward to motivate me to continue."},{"author_name":"lightsoda","author_uid":"19698","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 10:02pm","epoch":1367272620,"text":"Works well enough for what it is. Feels like a grind though, getting to $500 takes a good while, some change, like a different, harder enemy type with a bigger reward could have changed it up a bit."},{"author_name":"psychomonster","author_uid":"17723","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 10:25pm","epoch":1367274000,"text":"planed to put three diffrent types of enemy... but time ran out so quickly... this is why the remix of pixel art and particle fx... next time i know better how to use the time :D"},{"author_name":"Daisuke909","author_uid":"8522","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 10:35pm","epoch":1367274600,"text":"So many Wilhelm screams... congrats on you first game."},{"author_name":"psychomonster","author_uid":"17723","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 11:13pm","epoch":1367276880,"text":"@Daisuke909 :D thx... Thats was a really good weekend :D"},{"author_name":"howieV (binarygirl)","author_uid":"8824","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 12:02am","epoch":1367279820,"text":"hehe good job man.. and props on the wilhelm scream :)"},{"author_name":"Markavian","author_uid":"10967","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 12:08am","epoch":1367280180,"text":"Splat."},{"author_name":"KHANanaphone","author_uid":"14228","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 9:58pm","epoch":1367358780,"text":"I find it interesting how you can just run to the right immediately and win."},{"author_name":"psychomonster","author_uid":"17723","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 10:31pm","epoch":1367360760,"text":"damn... was setting the credits to 500 to test win-requirements :( Kinda noobish fail ... sorry for that... but please try to imagine how it could be if you had to grind all the money :D"},{"author_name":"jwolf","author_uid":"11073","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 11:02pm","epoch":1367362620,"text":"Decent concept.  I keep wanting to write that it needs more variety (weapons, enemy types, etc.), but that'd probably work against the theme.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I like the fact that you can accidentally destroy the rewards (makes for some tradeoffs in play decisions)."},{"author_name":"multitude","author_uid":"21762","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 11:43pm","epoch":1367365080,"text":"nice game, but it&acute;s basically the classic shoot and upgrade game"},{"author_name":"danpm","author_uid":"7622","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 11:45pm","epoch":1367365200,"text":"Nice game, congrats for your first LD entry!"},{"author_name":"Salamander3","author_uid":"20648","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 12:57am","epoch":1367369520,"text":"Gotta love the Willhelm Scream. interesting idea, though for a laptop user with a touch pad mouse I found the experience a bit exasperating. :P The graphics felt a bit mismatched, but otherwise it was an enjoyanble experience, more like a zombie shooter than a war 'sim'."},{"author_name":"argo15","author_uid":"11833","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 1:25am","epoch":1367371200,"text":"There's a bug where you can't get hurt if you don't move. Other than that it was really fun. Love the Wilhelm screams."},{"author_name":"sP0CkEr2","author_uid":"7135","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 1:25am","epoch":1367371200,"text":"nice job on your first ld -- pretty fun -- kinda like killing the lemming like creatured -- nice effort -- nice killing sound too"},{"author_name":"richtx","author_uid":"14045","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 1:26am","epoch":1367371260,"text":"Felt guilty at first, then I hit my stride. Liked it a lot."},{"author_name":"psychomonster","author_uid":"17723","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 1:29am","epoch":1367371440,"text":"yeah sorry for that non-alternative-controller-setting, time ran out so quickly :p... touch pad is really bad... But many other trippleA-Titles are requiring mouse too... a Laptop without an external mouse is not constructed for playing games ^^"},{"author_name":"Hayawi","author_uid":"20256","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 1:39am","epoch":1367372040,"text":"Very easy after you kill like 5 guys"},{"author_name":"Boi\u00fana","author_uid":"10602","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 3:00am","epoch":1367376900,"text":"Cool game and funny sounds. Very addictive. :)"},{"author_name":"fullmontis","author_uid":"21736","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 7:11am","epoch":1367391960,"text":"Very fun! My only conplaint is that it is too easy to entrench on my home. Also, more enemy variety would make this awesome. Very addicting."},{"author_name":"saggiosoft","author_uid":"21198","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 9:39am","epoch":1367400840,"text":"There's some work to do in order to make it a refined game but the basis is very good. Great and fun!"},{"author_name":"kreischweide","author_uid":"21493","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 3:54pm","epoch":1367423340,"text":"Nice first entry! Had fun grinding, but could really use some kind of bait for the mind to stay focused."},{"author_name":"HelkeGames","author_uid":"20522","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 6:14pm","epoch":1367431740,"text":"Nice game, like the concept very minimalist :D"},{"author_name":"badlydrawnrod","author_uid":"745","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 7:31pm","epoch":1367436360,"text":"Congratulations on your first Ludum Dare. Good effort."},{"author_name":"someone","author_uid":"1207","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 9:39pm","epoch":1367444040,"text":"Nice game. Could do with different enemies or bosses to keep it interesting.\r<br\/>Perhaps I should have read the mission, I ended up with a score of 11000 waiting for something to happen."},{"author_name":"psychomonster","author_uid":"17723","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 9:57pm","epoch":1367445120,"text":"@someone ... hehe read first ^^"},{"author_name":"Tifu","author_uid":"7793","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 2:01pm","epoch":1367589360,"text":"Right click to restart without any confirmation message!?! aghhh\r<br\/>Good job completing your first LD.  I do believe if you look at the rules fixing minor bugs like the debug $500 thing is actually allowed after the deadline, just no major changes."},{"author_name":"TuxedoFish","author_uid":"15456","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 8:20pm","epoch":1367698500,"text":"It was quite fun for a while and the graphics were quite nice however the audio for the enmies dying became irratating because they didnt reward you enough so you could mow through them for ages and only have like 100 dollars so it felt kind of unfair.  But overall it was quite fun(:"},{"author_name":"naufr4g0","author_uid":"4310","time":"May 5, 2013 @ 7:48pm","epoch":1367782980,"text":"They are lemmings with a different hair style! :D\r<br\/>Quite fun in the first minutes, a bit boring after a while.\r<br\/>Why bullets don't rotate along with the gun?\r<br\/>Game needs different kind of enemies, too.\r<br\/>Anyway good game for a first entry. =)"},{"author_name":"psychomonster","author_uid":"17723","time":"May 5, 2013 @ 9:29pm","epoch":1367789040,"text":"@TuxedoFish :Yeah I think 500$ is a little bit to much... 150$ would have been enough :) Thx for playing...\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@naufr4g0 : Oh yeah this little guys are inspired of Lemmings... but this hairstyle is no hairstyle... that are helmets :D yeah The Bullets... There was not enough time to plish the that much... next time at LD27 I will have to change my stratigy a little bit :D Thx for playing"},{"author_name":"dannycalleri","author_uid":"18240","time":"May 7, 2013 @ 12:42pm","epoch":1367930220,"text":"Nice, but probably you should work to vary the gameplay a little bit. I read it's your first LD, so congratulations ;)"},{"author_name":"MinionStudios","author_uid":"22273","time":"May 13, 2013 @ 1:34pm","epoch":1368451740,"text":"Fun, but really short..."}],"images":["ld26\/17723-abb8528f8d889da28eee55d2dd975817.jpg","ld26\/17723-8d2c1b4e1ef172d134b98803b4acf1a2.jpg","ld26\/17723-3ddd55a6bcd131e7d27a7f7ed9f46e44.jpg","ld26\/17723-57510312a5ec12b1fe177989905b8985.jpg","ld26\/17723-a31ef976bda34f8462c8f44becd6b61b.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/dev.psychomonster.com\/ld26\/another_minimal_war.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/dev.psychomonster.com\/ld26\/another_minimal_war_inc_source.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"26428","g_author":"17723","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"26458","g_title":"Another Minimalistic War","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"987","g_commentcount":"36","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\/17723-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/17723-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/17723-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/17723-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/17723-shot4.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Hello World! SO here is my first submission at a compo ever... Hope you had a lot of fun this weekend... I had a lot of fun. Now lets see:\r\n\r\nGame by Benjamin Vockenberg (psychomonster.com)via GameMakerStudio\r\n\r\nGame \"Another Minimalistic War\" has been created for Ludum Dare #26.\r\n\r\nInstructions:\r\nMovement      : W,A,S,D or Arrow-Keys\r\nAiming        : Mouse\r\nShoting       : left mouse\r\nrestart Level : right mouse\r\nExit Game     : ESC\r\nStart GAme    : space\r\nBuy Ammo      : dodge the Ammo-Shop-Icon near the Spawn\r\nBuy Life      : dodge the Life-Shop-Icon near the Spawn\r\n\r\nMission:\r\nKill the purple Guys and gather the Money!\r\nYou need 500$ to open the Gate at the right...\r\nBe Careful with the ammo... If you are out of Ammo\r\nyou need to rebuy ammo near the Spawn at the shop... \r\nammo prize is 20$... You only have three life \r\npoints... If you need more life you can buy life at \r\nthe shop near the spawn.\r\nKill them all :D\r\n\r\n\u20ac: Sorry for the little debuggin-Bug :D I was setting the players credits to 500$ to test the win-requirements... I will not update... compo ends and I will stay fair :) No you can see the Winner Highscore without grinding 500$ :D\r\n\r\nYou can find me at twitter: @technokrat\r\nYou can find me at my Blog: www.psychomonster.com\r\nAnd you can E-Mail me to  : benjamin.vockenberg@gmail.com<\/p>","title":"Another Minimalistic War"}