{"author_link":"\/author\/wet-heads\/","author_name":"Wet Heads","author_uid":"18353","comments":[{"author_name":"Ed Okonik","author_uid":"17164","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 1:42pm","epoch":1355837820,"text":"Interesting idea, but I kept dying!"},{"author_name":"MaTX","author_uid":"8087","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 1:45pm","epoch":1355838000,"text":"Cool music and decent graphics.\r<br\/>The gameplay is quite broken though, due to bad controls and lack of feedbacks. I am sure that this all stuff that you can fix later though ;)"},{"author_name":"master4523","author_uid":"2668","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 1:56pm","epoch":1355838660,"text":"The controls were a bit confusing, it took me few minutes to understand how they worked. You should have added more feedbacks (audio\/graphic effects) for the player when he's using the mouse controls. However, I did enjoy this game. It was smooth, and the pixelish graphics kinda fit well here, it was interesting. Also, the music was too great but too short, maybe you should have looped it"},{"author_name":"Wet Heads","author_uid":"18353","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 2:07pm","epoch":1355839320,"text":"Thanks for comments.\r<br\/>Yep, We're going to balance it, add missing arts and do much more stuff later, outside the LD. Loop music too)\r<br\/>About feedback. What it could be? Cursor changing maybe?"},{"author_name":"Wet Heads","author_uid":"18353","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 2:09pm","epoch":1355839440,"text":"..or maybe tips? Small training lessons?"},{"author_name":"Rex Peppers","author_uid":"4914","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 4:02pm","epoch":1355846220,"text":"Cant play windows games :-("},{"author_name":"carrymove","author_uid":"18626","time":"Dec 21, 2012 @ 4:06pm","epoch":1356105660,"text":"Rex Peppers, it is JAR. You can launch this also on Linux and OS X."},{"author_name":"pfirsich","author_uid":"14778","time":"Dec 21, 2012 @ 4:19pm","epoch":1356106440,"text":"As the guys before me: The idea is really cool! It's just a bit too hard though. I don't seem to progress very far and I struggle a lot with getting as far as I get now. Maybe you could make a little youtube-tutorial or something? (So you won't have to change the game)"},{"author_name":"mokujin","author_uid":"14120","time":"Dec 21, 2012 @ 4:20pm","epoch":1356106500,"text":"wow, interesting gameplay"},{"author_name":"schnerble","author_uid":"11560","time":"Dec 29, 2012 @ 3:17pm","epoch":1356793920,"text":"Very unique - I like the idea and the style.  It is a bit confusing, though :)  Maybe some display would help, like a number of attack minions, floating minions, etc.  The music is very cool, though it should probably loop :)  Oh, and the About button didn't work for me."},{"author_name":"Madball","author_uid":"8370","time":"Dec 29, 2012 @ 6:35pm","epoch":1356805800,"text":"It's like a tech demo, but a very interesting one. You need to loop the music, make checkpoints, make in-ground text collidable (some minions got stuck there), etc etc etc. Then it'll be great."},{"author_name":"Wet Heads","author_uid":"18353","time":"Dec 30, 2012 @ 8:41am","epoch":1356856560,"text":"I could, but it's too late, no?"},{"author_name":"Wet Heads","author_uid":"18353","time":"Dec 30, 2012 @ 9:15am","epoch":1356858600,"text":"*can\r<br\/>Gosh, my english is bad so far"},{"author_name":"PIXEL^3","author_uid":"10948","time":"Dec 30, 2012 @ 12:21pm","epoch":1356869760,"text":"Didn't run.  I'm on Ubuntu 12.10, 64bit.  I'm using OpenJDK 7 runtime.  The main menu showed up, nothing really all that fancy, but when I click 'Start game' it doesn't run, it just turns into a blank screen."},{"author_name":"zenmumbler","author_uid":"17143","time":"Dec 30, 2012 @ 6:42pm","epoch":1356892620,"text":"same problem as Pixel^3 on Ubuntu 12 with Oracle Java 7. On Mac OS X 10.8.2 the Jar can't be launched (Java 6).. sorry."},{"author_name":"jmaasing","author_uid":"10838","time":"Dec 30, 2012 @ 8:58pm","epoch":1356900780,"text":"My Mac can't uncompress rar-files, sorry :("},{"author_name":"Freakill","author_uid":"14167","time":"Dec 31, 2012 @ 8:17am","epoch":1356941520,"text":"I really liked the concept and the flocking of the circles around the player or where you indicate them with the mouse. Felt a little bit confusing and never finished to fully master how to control yellow ones though :(. Despite of that, I really like the art and the concept of the game! I have been playing a lot! Sometimes circles got stuck inside the text in the land hehe, I guess that is not white but &quot;empty space&quot; :P. The song is too fast for my taste, dunno but the mood of the game was way more relaxed than the song played. I can really see this game being increased by better looking effects (like each minion leaving particles behing it), and adding more minion types, like ones that lighted around you in the dark, that allowed to create bridges on lava, etc... Really nice start and entry for the Jam! :D"},{"author_name":"Amos Wenger","author_uid":"4598","time":"Jan 5, 2013 @ 11:13am","epoch":1357384080,"text":"I did enjoy playing through, but found that my only strategy was to run for my life :D Having arrow keys + mouse is not really convenient for playing though, WASD + mouse would've been easier.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Nice one, looking forward to your next LD entry!"},{"author_name":"Neonlare","author_uid":"1913","time":"Jan 5, 2013 @ 1:19pm","epoch":1357391640,"text":"Kept dying, repeatedly :(. The gameplay seems to fight against itself at points but the concept was pretty darn intriguing. Would love to see this fleshed out some more."}],"images":["ld25\/18353-1eed3a1c3cf26c6d7a42f5e325bdeb56.jpg","ld25\/18353-a361b5d0a4cb718347047b52d647e2e1.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/uc?export=download&amp;confirm=no_antivirus&amp;id=0BzNJTaHSUj_Ib05BckM0RlAxOG8","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/uc?export=download&amp;confirm=no_antivirus&amp;id=0BzNJTaHSUj_Ib05BckM0RlAxOG8","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/uc?export=download&amp;confirm=no_antivirus&amp;id=0BzNJTaHSUj_Ib05BckM0RlAxOG8","text":"Linux"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"27791","g_author":"18353","g_event":"LD25","g_eventkey":"14","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"27821","g_title":"Cursed","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"228","g_commentcount":"19","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\/18353-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/18353-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"There was no artist, so... That still not ready. You'll see rectangels - it is angels, actually.\r\n\r\n-------------------- HELP -------------------\r\n\r\nI see, it's hard to understand how to play it for the first time. I'm sorry about it.\r\n\r\nBUT It's pretty simple, actually. Let me explain...\r\n\r\nThese little circles - minions. They are the main idea of the game. They are the main (and only) tool of player. They are minions.\r\n\r\nRED minions are cause damage. How to manage them?\r\nHOLD RMB and they would follow to the cursor (actually to the character, too, but... no matter).\r\n\r\nWHITE minions are cause damage too, but only to the character. They are Light's weapon... When you kill their owners, they become dark minions and you could take it to your swarm.\r\n\r\nDARK minions are unuseful. But they are nicely look.\r\nMaybe one day they will become the main goal of game (which will evolve, I hope). You are the villian, yeah? So let's curse all light minions!\r\n\r\nYELLOW minions is for big jumps and, if you have enough, for air-walking. \r\nCLICK LMB to instruct one of free to stay on the choosen place.\r\nPRESS THE SPACE to return all of them to the swarm.\r\n\r\nAlso, pick boxes! It gives more minions.\r\n\r\nAlso, you can jump over volcano with yellow minions.<\/p>","title":"Cursed"}