{"author_link":"\/author\/petey\/","author_name":"Peter","author_uid":"13213","comments":[{"author_name":"Crynix","author_uid":"18900","time":"Apr 27, 2013 @ 4:33am","epoch":1367036880,"text":"It'd be nice if you built this for OS X and Linux too."},{"author_name":"Peter","author_uid":"13213","time":"Apr 27, 2013 @ 5:01am","epoch":1367038560,"text":"Very well, good sir. It shall be done."},{"author_name":"Peter","author_uid":"13213","time":"Apr 27, 2013 @ 5:08am","epoch":1367038980,"text":"So, my mother won't let me boot into debian. If any of you has linux, you can download the source file I included with the project, you just need to build the project with SDL 1.2; I'd appreciate it."},{"author_name":"Eternal_Rest","author_uid":"21324","time":"Apr 27, 2013 @ 1:59pm","epoch":1367070840,"text":"So can you do anything other than move that ant around the screen?"},{"author_name":"Peter","author_uid":"13213","time":"Apr 27, 2013 @ 6:56pm","epoch":1367088660,"text":"Nope! I hope you enjoyed the game, sir."},{"author_name":"feyleaf","author_uid":"3375","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:59pm","epoch":1367254440,"text":"I've spent so much time on this RPG. It's tough to put down :)"},{"author_name":"ocmu","author_uid":"20933","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 1:34am","epoch":1367371740,"text":"Well, it's a starting point!"},{"author_name":"NiceAlexanderAS","author_uid":"7045","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 1:37am","epoch":1367371920,"text":"Very funny on the minimalism concept xD hahahahaha"},{"author_name":"Scott McBee","author_uid":"17423","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 1:47am","epoch":1367372520,"text":"A game generally has some sort of goal or failure condition..."},{"author_name":"lekochen","author_uid":"12928","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 1:51am","epoch":1367372760,"text":"I don't know why, but I laughed."},{"author_name":"nathanj439","author_uid":"18590","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 1:57am","epoch":1367373120,"text":"I like the &quot;eh&quot; comment."},{"author_name":"AaronYip","author_uid":"4897","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 2:03am","epoch":1367373480,"text":"The simplicity is almost artistic, I would say. There's a strong postmodern feel to it, as suggest by the violet square background, the simple ant. The title supports this perspective--the explicit &quot;RPG&quot; label without any traditional gameplay elements associated with RPGs. It's asking: What is the RPG? What are RPG elements? And that's a very fitting question for the current industry climate; almost all modern games have taken to leveling aspects and there's even the gamification of not-gaming apps, challenging that either all of these ideas are RPGs or that maybe RPGs must involve other elements--but what? And that's just one side to this game; the purple square casts obvious allusions to Kazimir Malevich's famous Black Square on a White Ground. It states bluntly and plainly: &quot;This is whatever you want it to be. The message is of the viewers'.&quot; \r<br\/>\r<br\/>So, yeah, not sure that something of that depth quite fits the theme though. :\/"},{"author_name":"argo15","author_uid":"11833","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 2:20am","epoch":1367374500,"text":"All the fun of being an ant, without all the feet stepping on you."},{"author_name":"invaderJim","author_uid":"2117","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 2:53am","epoch":1367376480,"text":"Playing this game made me feel like I could carry 50 times my body weight in pixels."},{"author_name":"LoneStranger","author_uid":"203","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 2:54am","epoch":1367376540,"text":"It's not much of anything."},{"author_name":"LizEngland","author_uid":"22429","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 2:59am","epoch":1367376840,"text":"Well, you get high marks for the theme, that's for sure."},{"author_name":"Jod","author_uid":"20442","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 12:28pm","epoch":1367410980,"text":"Well, the any moves when I press the directional keys! That's pretty cool, but some additional gameplay would be nice :)."},{"author_name":"gregdevice","author_uid":"8124","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 6:25am","epoch":1367475600,"text":"I guess it makes sense the arrow keys don't repeat."},{"author_name":"Kashi","author_uid":"22293","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 1:36pm","epoch":1367501460,"text":"dafuq did i just ... 5\/5"},{"author_name":"Orni","author_uid":"10771","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 2:09pm","epoch":1367589840,"text":"I'm lost for words here - so I have to give you some credit for that."},{"author_name":"sudorossy","author_uid":"7905","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 12:37am","epoch":1367627520,"text":"There's minimal everything in this game. Including minimal gameplay!"},{"author_name":"baldwinthree","author_uid":"11948","time":"May 5, 2013 @ 8:50pm","epoch":1367786700,"text":"Good start. Magenta background hurts the brain though"},{"author_name":"SuperDisk","author_uid":"11035","time":"May 11, 2013 @ 5:17am","epoch":1368249120,"text":"Not really an RPG. You could have spent more time on it (if I recall, you actually finished on the first day)"},{"author_name":"dalbinblue","author_uid":"13960","time":"May 13, 2013 @ 2:19am","epoch":1368411240,"text":"A good start to get your hand in programming; though a shame you didn't go further.  You should continue with it (leaving the extreme minimalism behind) and work on making it a game with a proper lose\/win condition."},{"author_name":"Norgg","author_uid":"5283","time":"Apr 10, 2014 @ 10:42pm","epoch":1397169420,"text":"Still a classic."}],"images":["ld26\/13213-9c1946e1658b39f3f6a833d84ccfe9b7.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/iron-will.ca\/games\/Ant.tar","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/iron-will.ca\/games\/Ant.tar","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"26480","g_author":"13213","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"26510","g_title":"Anthead RPG","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"1349","g_commentcount":"25","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\/13213-shot0.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"This is my very first LD entry, I made the game in SDL. I did my best to maintain the theme of minimalism.<\/p>","title":"Anthead RPG"}