{"author_link":"\/author\/spelchan\/","author_name":"Spelchan","author_uid":"15656","comments":[{"author_name":"martijn","author_uid":"20699","time":"Apr 28, 2013 @ 10:04pm","epoch":1367186340,"text":"Simple but fun"},{"author_name":"shaircast","author_uid":"23050","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 8:07am","epoch":1367222520,"text":"Wow. Is that text box? Impressive!"},{"author_name":"berkano","author_uid":"11027","time":"Apr 29, 2013 @ 11:10pm","epoch":1367276700,"text":"Brilliant. A pure expression of the theme. Played it to the end, nice job!!"},{"author_name":"Dew","author_uid":"11118","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 2:09am","epoch":1367287440,"text":"That eye test killed me!!!"},{"author_name":"messiano","author_uid":"22060","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 2:14am","epoch":1367287740,"text":"Great interpretation of the theme! It was fun for a while but then the controls kept me from playing more. PS: My eyes are OK!"},{"author_name":"haloflooder","author_uid":"18514","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 2:15am","epoch":1367287800,"text":"I lol'ed because it's just simply beautiful."},{"author_name":"itsZN","author_uid":"11627","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 5:07pm","epoch":1367341320,"text":"Very Nice! I like the ascii style"},{"author_name":"mort96","author_uid":"10534","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 5:09pm","epoch":1367341440,"text":"Loving how you used nothing but a text box and javascript!"},{"author_name":"FrozenCow","author_uid":"8435","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 5:34pm","epoch":1367342940,"text":"Nice use of a textbox!"},{"author_name":"voidstar69","author_uid":"18183","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 6:17pm","epoch":1367518320,"text":"An interesting twist on Text-based games, looking like a Roguelike but playing completely differently. I found myself dying a few times because it looks like you can jump high, but you cannot actually just very far (the ASCII characters are much taller than wide).\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The text cursor in the bottom right of the text box was slightly distracting, although I bet there is no way to turn that off.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Well done for an innovative interpretation of Minimalism.  :-)"},{"author_name":"ethankennerly","author_uid":"3040","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 4:52am","epoch":1367556420,"text":"I enjoyed to text and collecting the $$$ to start the game.  If you continue to develop this, on Windows Chrome at zoom 100% the textfield would produce a scroll bar until I widened it."},{"author_name":"mikeware","author_uid":"272","time":"May 6, 2013 @ 4:17pm","epoch":1367856720,"text":"It's really neat to see an ASCII platformer.  It was a little hard to tell where you started, maybe if you always started on the bottom-left?  And then it was a little hard to coordinate running and jumping at the same time.  Great job!"},{"author_name":"SecondDimension","author_uid":"14838","time":"May 6, 2013 @ 5:02pm","epoch":1367859420,"text":"There was some seriously good platforming design on show here, very old school, but you definitely knew what you were doing.  I liked that."},{"author_name":"Foxtacy","author_uid":"12398","time":"May 6, 2013 @ 5:48pm","epoch":1367862180,"text":"Impressively fun! Extra kudos for making it run on a text editor! :D"},{"author_name":"dremelofdeath","author_uid":"17159","time":"May 16, 2013 @ 7:42am","epoch":1368689820,"text":"very cool that you got this all running in a textbox, though I think there may be something wrong with my eyes cause I found myself losing track of my player a lot(maybe you're even poking fun of that with the eye test?). Still had a lot of fun with this one though, very well done!"},{"author_name":"GeorgeBroussard","author_uid":"8631","time":"May 20, 2013 @ 9:33pm","epoch":1369085280,"text":"ASCII platformer. Love it :) Reminded me of Jumpman for the C-64."}],"images":["ld26\/15656-d8de2ab90eb7f6ab2eb46f44fe0ec799.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/blazinggames.com\/gamejams\/ld26\/ludumDare26.php","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/blazinggames.blogspot.ca\/2013\/05\/loot-run-postmortem.html","text":"Postmortem"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"26870","g_author":"15656","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"26900","g_title":"Loot Run","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"447","g_commentcount":"16","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\/15656-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"To me minimalism when applied to a game is a game that has all the icing (graphics) and bells-and-whistles removed so you are left with just the bare gameplay. Using block graphics is certainly one path, but for me the pure path to a minimalist game was text. Text does not mean adventure game. To prove that point I decided to create a platform game. \r\n\r\nI took the theme to the limits by even incorporating the title and instructions directly into the gameplay. Unfortunately I did not have the full 2 days to work on this game, so was only able to finish 9.<\/p>","title":"Loot Run"}