{"author_link":"\/author\/mcc\/","author_name":"mcc","author_uid":"4987","comments":[{"author_name":"sclark39","author_uid":"15443","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 5:42am","epoch":1355809020,"text":"Ouch my shoulder. Kind of hard to move around with my clicky keyboard (need to tap the arrow keys a lot), but I love the look and feel of this game. I made it to what I think was the fake ending. I'll have to try this again some more later. Good work!"},{"author_name":"Milo","author_uid":"2934","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 3:06am","epoch":1355886060,"text":"This game does a good job with its mood. Its audio is certainly not pleasant to listen to, but I gave it a 5 because it's appropriately unnerving and builds a exotic mood."},{"author_name":"ripter","author_uid":"3640","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 3:08am","epoch":1355886180,"text":"I could slowly move around, but nothing else happened."},{"author_name":"canary40","author_uid":"11373","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 3:24am","epoch":1355887140,"text":"A crazy adventure! Took me a while to navigate the whole game, but quite unique. Code looks quite solid too."},{"author_name":"BNeutral","author_uid":"10889","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 3:27am","epoch":1355887320,"text":"Well that was weird."},{"author_name":"goulding57","author_uid":"18642","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 3:33am","epoch":1355887680,"text":"Not my type of game, but hit the theme dead-on. Way to go. Liked the character design."},{"author_name":"nathanj439","author_uid":"18590","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 3:40am","epoch":1355888100,"text":"Feels like an evil Earthbound."},{"author_name":"angrygeometry","author_uid":"5579","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 3:49am","epoch":1355888640,"text":"this is great!!"},{"author_name":"zatyka","author_uid":"14357","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 4:40am","epoch":1355891700,"text":"I honestly had no idea what was happening.  Nice visual style."},{"author_name":"haxpor","author_uid":"647","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 4:53am","epoch":1355892480,"text":"It really gives out the sense of &quot;responsibilities&quot; and sense of &quot;shame&quot; for humanity. Although it' just walking around, but that explores more story. My heart beats faster with this game, you know.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The atmosphere the game created can be treat as a child to slender man, amnesia, or even fibrillation. Congrats guys !\r<br\/>\r<br\/>PS. Just one thing for blocked path, I really want to see how this game ends but I don't have that much time to figure out which path is clear to work on. Especially in the dark level that you have to figure out the way yourself."},{"author_name":"Wan &amp; Manu","author_uid":"9172","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 12:00pm","epoch":1355918100,"text":"The atmosphere of the game is pretty interesting, but the clumsy controls\/camera\/text display (if you pass through a &quot;text tile&quot; while holding an arrow you don't even have the time to read) break the charm a bit."},{"author_name":"Grouflon","author_uid":"14480","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 12:40pm","epoch":1355920500,"text":"Atmosphere is really well done, great cohesion between graphics, music and gameplay, but I don't really see the point behind all this :("},{"author_name":"wademcgillis","author_uid":"3444","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 11:19pm","epoch":1355958840,"text":"This was great. I'm looking forward to a sequel or Director's Cut."},{"author_name":"mcc","author_uid":"4987","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 2:24am","epoch":1355969940,"text":"wade: (this is liz) i was obviously limited by time, but my plan is to add more areas to this so there's more branching paths and stuff to get lost in (sorta like Yume Nikki)"},{"author_name":"Porpentine","author_uid":"14425","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 3:02am","epoch":1355972220,"text":"download links are broken (at least right now) so i hosted the PC download here: http:\/\/aliendovecote.com\/uploads\/LD25.rar"},{"author_name":"mcc","author_uid":"4987","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 3:46am","epoch":1355974860,"text":"thanks, porpy! i edited the entry so people can download the windows version from there until the server problem gets fixed."},{"author_name":"mcc","author_uid":"4987","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 4:17am","epoch":1355976720,"text":"Download link is fixed. I am really sorry about that. I will try to stick in an extra mirror link with all 3 downloads."},{"author_name":"Gazok","author_uid":"6609","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 5:07am","epoch":1355979720,"text":"Wow, this game really oozes atmosphere. I'm afraid I couldn't rate you very highly on theme, as I have no idea what the theme of your game is, but whatever it is, I'm sure it's great. It seems like with more work it could be a really great interactive story. Oh, and I liked the space invader."},{"author_name":"mcc","author_uid":"4987","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 6:00am","epoch":1355982900,"text":"Update: In addition to Porp's link the post has been updated with a link to a mirror of all three platforms hosted by Erik, in case the main site goes down again.. Many thanks to Erik and Porpentine."},{"author_name":"bitwise-constructs","author_uid":"14345","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 6:33am","epoch":1355984880,"text":"I like the mood but the camera controls threw me off a bit."},{"author_name":"psychopsam","author_uid":"12354","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 6:36am","epoch":1355985060,"text":"Great music and sound, but I couldn't get anywhere.  Got to a zoomed in view and it would no longer scroll.  Looked promising."},{"author_name":"mcc","author_uid":"4987","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 6:46am","epoch":1355985660,"text":"psychopsam: the weird camera control is a part of that particular area. there are lots more areas to explore."},{"author_name":"mcc","author_uid":"4987","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 6:47am","epoch":1355985720,"text":"er, by that i meant that it's intentionally that way."},{"author_name":"recursive frog","author_uid":"8342","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 8:20am","epoch":1355991300,"text":"What did I just play?\r<br\/>\r<br\/>You guys did a great job building up that sense of dread about the mundane workaday world, and as I progressed further and further into the game it became more and more apparent what some of the really abstract, early stages were.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>It sure was difficult to keep the arrow keys straight in my head, though."},{"author_name":"OxyOxspring","author_uid":"19104","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 5:05pm","epoch":1356022800,"text":"A certainly odd but very unique game!"},{"author_name":"Tom 7","author_uid":"1984","time":"Dec 24, 2012 @ 2:58am","epoch":1356317580,"text":"Man, this game is super weird. The graphics and music are great. In addition to the difficulty that seems purposeful (invisible mazes), I had a hard time because I think it assumes my full screen resolution is a different aspect ratio than it actually is, so I often had my character off-screen and couldn't figure out how to get him back. That would be worth fixing! I would also usually miss text because it only displayed on a single cell, but most of the time I was tap tap tapping away to move more quickly."},{"author_name":"Alex Shestakov","author_uid":"15811","time":"Dec 24, 2012 @ 3:53pm","epoch":1356364080,"text":"Sorry, but I don't get what to do here :(\r<br\/>I've approached the eye, then made a couple of steps on the platform and after that the camera zoomed in heavily and I've started moving on giant psychedelic ladder back and forth and... nothing else, I even can't get back into the view &ndash; the character walks out of the camera view.\r<br\/>Anyway, shoegaze music's really nice and I like graphics!"},{"author_name":"Dir3kt","author_uid":"12434","time":"Dec 25, 2012 @ 10:09am","epoch":1356429840,"text":"Weird mood (in the good sense) :D\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Got stuck on the white 'Space Invader like' buddy :("},{"author_name":"MrEvilGuy","author_uid":"11072","time":"Dec 29, 2012 @ 3:33am","epoch":1356751680,"text":"Loved it! The weird controls and camera during the zoomed in level was the highlight. It felt like I was on the edge of discovering something indiscoverable. I interpreted the ending as if I had just forced the character to commit suicide. Dreary. :)"},{"author_name":"eli","author_uid":"1395","time":"Jan 5, 2013 @ 8:32am","epoch":1357374420,"text":"Innovative, beautiful, moody as heck. Trial-and-error play made it quite aggravating, but I guess that only adds to the Mood score? I feel this is an extremely personal game that I can only see the surface of. Thank you for sharing this intimate experience."},{"author_name":"fishbrain","author_uid":"3007","time":"Jan 6, 2013 @ 12:48pm","epoch":1357476180,"text":"creepy."},{"author_name":"Pierrec","author_uid":"1874","time":"Jan 7, 2013 @ 1:29pm","epoch":1357565040,"text":"I felt totally lost...which I think is a good thing. Some features were really disturbing...like the camera not always following the protagonist, but once again, it sets a mood. I got stuck in the black and white maze :\/"},{"author_name":"rylgh","author_uid":"15833","time":"Jan 7, 2013 @ 8:37pm","epoch":1357590720,"text":"Very cool style and mood... loved the little dog-monster... got to work, haven't tried a different path yet."}],"images":["ld25\/4987-5b1f684aa4d29bc9ee4acc98b88389d7.jpg","ld25\/4987-2e49650ed3b0c1041bcec9fd21fce4eb.jpg","ld25\/4987-8455c106793e93177efa9d3bffe4b954.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/vote.grumpybumpers.com\/j\/ld\/25\/1\/LD25_win.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/vote.grumpybumpers.com\/j\/ld\/25\/1\/LD25_mac.zip","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"http:\/\/vote.grumpybumpers.com\/j\/ld\/25\/1\/LD25_lin.zip","text":"Linux"},{"url":"http:\/\/vote.grumpybumpers.com\/j\/ld\/25\/2\/","text":"POST-COMPO (win and mac)"},{"url":"https:\/\/bitbucket.org\/runhello\/iso\/commits\/all","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"27351","g_author":"4987","g_event":"LD25","g_eventkey":"14","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"27381","g_title":"Responsibilities","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"176","g_commentcount":"33","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\/\/201083\/4987-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/4987-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/4987-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Made by Liz Ryerson\r\nProgrammed by Andi McClure\r\nProtagonist sprite by Erik Osheim\r\n\r\nNote: The Linux version was uploaded after the deadline.\r\nA post-compo version is linked above, this fixes some small camera-related problems.\r\nIf you can't get the download links above to work, Erik has a mirror of the LD version here: http:\/\/plastic-idolatry.com\/erik\/mcc\/<\/p>","title":"Responsibilities"}