{"author_link":"\/author\/hazzy\/","author_name":"Harrk","author_uid":"4626","comments":[{"author_name":"Verrazano","author_uid":"10665","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 3:08am","epoch":1355799780,"text":"The game looked great - The game sounded great. The concept was pretty good, and the second I walked over a town and saw [1] lower tax [2] raise tax; I felt evil. I was having fun trying to balance out taxing buying bosses and keeping the locals happy, however I felt that once a town turned on me it became less fun, because I couldn't get them to stop sending heroes to stop me even though I lowered everyone's taxes, I don't know if this was a mechanic or a bug, it was kind of unclear. Other wise the overall game and atmosphere was great."},{"author_name":"Harrk","author_uid":"4626","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 4:37am","epoch":1355805120,"text":"I never thought about making it possible to allow them to be happy again. Once you hate your ruler, hate him hard. Jokes aside, I really didn't have the time and there was so much I wanted to add when I started doing my final updates.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I planned to have heroes roaming around but I haven't done any pathfinding algorithms before - will get some practice with that before the next LD."},{"author_name":"emveyh","author_uid":"8574","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 8:58pm","epoch":1355863980,"text":"Neat concept :) The art and music are really fitting. I like that it has some &quot;dark&quot; feeling to it. It would be cool if you could see the heroes wandering around on the world instead of just a progress bar. Also, yay for Java :)"},{"author_name":"Jiggawatt","author_uid":"5551","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 9:31pm","epoch":1355865960,"text":"A direct approach for this theme. Who doesn't want to be an evil tyrant ruling the land? But I felt it lacks two things: pressure and control. Too much of the game consists of waiting around, and too many of the game's functions are invisible or abstracted away."},{"author_name":"Justin Kibbe","author_uid":"16155","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 9:38pm","epoch":1355866380,"text":"Excellent game, had a lot of fun playing it. I could definitely see this becoming a full game if you wanted it to be."},{"author_name":"strong99","author_uid":"8175","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 7:01pm","epoch":1355943360,"text":"Fun game. Would have been fun if we could have sent some guards to the towns and break them ;) lowering the amount of heroes send upon you."},{"author_name":"Hatscat","author_uid":"10471","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 7:04pm","epoch":1355943540,"text":"funny idea, to collect taxes ^^ really evil\r<br\/>nice art too"},{"author_name":"mcc","author_uid":"4987","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 4:17am","epoch":1355976720,"text":"great idea - i wish there was a bit more ways to be evil than raising and lowering taxes in terms of implementation though."},{"author_name":"dekart","author_uid":"14826","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 5:29am","epoch":1355981040,"text":"Unfortunately, neither web nor downloadable version work for me.  I get this error:\r<br\/>http:\/\/monosnap.com\/image\/2FN0hoctJMzsxyEzvhXQ8QVve"},{"author_name":"DaGamesta","author_uid":"18923","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 5:39am","epoch":1355981640,"text":"Very nice, very nice.  I like how innovative the concept is, and raising taxes is definitely one of the best ways to be evil, muahaha."},{"author_name":"moomoo112","author_uid":"11665","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 5:50am","epoch":1355982300,"text":"ditto on dekart's error here, and the .jar gives &quot;Could not find the main class: com.dw.ld25.Main. Program will exit.&quot;"},{"author_name":"Harrk","author_uid":"4626","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 1:00pm","epoch":1356008100,"text":"I have no idea why that error is appearing, it's usually due to the jars not being signed but since they have been :\/\r<br\/>Suppose the main jar file would have worked if all else...\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Thanks for mentioning it. I'm willing to throw a wild guess that Java 7 is the issue as that's what I compiled it for. I'll try throwing out a fix later.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Thanks :)"},{"author_name":"Rex Peppers","author_uid":"4914","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 8:50pm","epoch":1356036300,"text":"Couldn't get the game to load on mac.  :-("},{"author_name":"Neonlare","author_uid":"1913","time":"Dec 27, 2012 @ 7:33am","epoch":1356593280,"text":"Very innovative, creative and pretty darn fun!"}],"images":["ld25\/4626-a9221286babfb93a43984a3ccb437251.jpg","ld25\/4626-341a23d41df5c7e8ce4ff2b4ae87be60.jpg","ld25\/4626-8ff8e50a0f810e70299a68f3dd2a2cb5.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/23931032\/LD25_IWanaBeTheVillain.jar","text":"Windows\/Linux\/Mac"},{"url":"http:\/\/harrk.com\/applets\/LD25\/","text":"Web"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"27727","g_author":"4626","g_event":"LD25","g_eventkey":"14","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"27757","g_title":"I Wana Be The Villain","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"129","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\/\/201083\/4626-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/4626-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/4626-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"I Wana Be The Villain!\r\n\r\nThis was originally going to be my entry for the main contest but I let real-life have too much time.\r\nIt's my first game using Java so I'm proud of myself despite there being a few bugs.\r\n\r\nThe game hopefully runs on all platforms, I haven't tested it on anything other than Windows.\r\n\r\nUpdate:\r\nFinished work early, did some extra work on the game.<\/p>","title":"I Wana Be The Villain"}