{"author_link":"\/author\/gib\/","author_name":"Gib","author_uid":"3222","comments":[{"author_name":"uuav","author_uid":"4651","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 3:04pm","epoch":1355756340,"text":"That's awesome."},{"author_name":"Pitoum","author_uid":"7969","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 3:53pm","epoch":1355759280,"text":"Clearly a great, unique and unsuspected way to perfectly answer the theme!\r<br\/>Go CHARITY! Go!"},{"author_name":"Fonserbc","author_uid":"16828","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 4:01pm","epoch":1355759760,"text":"Interesting!"},{"author_name":"chribbe1","author_uid":"5016","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 4:05pm","epoch":1355760000,"text":"I like the interpretation of the theme, making one of the player (possibly) into a villain. The game itself could have been a bit more fun though. Nice clean design."},{"author_name":"timtipgames","author_uid":"15341","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 4:12pm","epoch":1355760420,"text":"Great great great idea. Agree that the game itself is quite repetitive. 5 Stars for Innovation anyways."},{"author_name":"Volpes","author_uid":"17718","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 4:12pm","epoch":1355760420,"text":"Very interesting idea!\r<br\/> Hope charity wins!"},{"author_name":"Jesse Freeman","author_uid":"6843","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 4:15pm","epoch":1355760600,"text":"I really like the art style and the multi-layered effect for layers you &quot;scratch off&quot; was interesting. A lot more interesting then I had thought. Not much of a &quot;game&quot; but I think there is a lot of potential here you can build upon."},{"author_name":"Luis Anton","author_uid":"12053","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 4:24pm","epoch":1355761140,"text":"Wait, what? When did Peter Molyneux enter LD48? :D Best part is that this version of Curiosity at least may end up donating something to charity! Or not, if we are villains..."},{"author_name":"Manest","author_uid":"4323","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 4:25pm","epoch":1355761200,"text":"More original game I've see here :)"},{"author_name":"Theorem","author_uid":"14473","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 4:26pm","epoch":1355761260,"text":"Brilliant!\r<br\/>Is earning points random? I can't seem to find a pattern."},{"author_name":"Corn\u00e9 Dorrestijn","author_uid":"4506","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 4:29pm","epoch":1355761440,"text":"I'm... curious..."},{"author_name":"MrOtton","author_uid":"14699","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 4:32pm","epoch":1355761620,"text":"This is a pretty interesting idea. Very unique! I like it :)"},{"author_name":"robashton","author_uid":"7112","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 4:41pm","epoch":1355762160,"text":"Haha, funny one - hope Unicef wins!"},{"author_name":"xgeovanni","author_uid":"11296","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 4:43pm","epoch":1355762280,"text":"This is the first game I've rated 5 for innovation. Pure awesomeness."},{"author_name":"Jiggawatt","author_uid":"5551","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 4:47pm","epoch":1355762520,"text":"Well, this is a fresh take on the theme."},{"author_name":"Dir3kt","author_uid":"12434","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 4:52pm","epoch":1355762820,"text":"Nice, looking forward for the results."},{"author_name":"Pierrec","author_uid":"1874","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 5:18pm","epoch":1355764380,"text":"Greed is now on my desktop."},{"author_name":"Harsay","author_uid":"17616","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 5:20pm","epoch":1355764500,"text":"The best thing I saw ever O_O"},{"author_name":"GFM","author_uid":"7375","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 5:23pm","epoch":1355764680,"text":"Okay this is awesome... and scary!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>(I'm not able to explain why... but I just don't fell like playing this... it seems wrong, somehow... &gt;_&lt;)"},{"author_name":"NinoScript","author_uid":"19566","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 5:27pm","epoch":1355764920,"text":"I like being a villain. :B"},{"author_name":"FrozenCow","author_uid":"8435","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 5:53pm","epoch":1355766480,"text":"Awesome idea! I'm intested to know what will happen 13th of Januari."},{"author_name":"bentog","author_uid":"17307","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 6:02pm","epoch":1355767020,"text":"Good idea."},{"author_name":"NinoScript","author_uid":"19566","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 6:25pm","epoch":1355768400,"text":"The game stopped working for me. I click the &quot;TO ME&quot; button and nothing happens :C\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Also, many buttons do weird things if pressed more than once before the animations stop."},{"author_name":"gritfish","author_uid":"10705","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 7:55pm","epoch":1355773800,"text":"Very clever entry. Would have been great for the fuckthisjam."},{"author_name":"Datw","author_uid":"11318","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 8:23pm","epoch":1355775480,"text":"Not really a game, but very interesting. I should warn you, though, to autoclick user."},{"author_name":"gameXcore","author_uid":"7049","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 12:24am","epoch":1355789940,"text":"Curiosity Plane?"},{"author_name":"01010111","author_uid":"11474","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 1:39am","epoch":1355794440,"text":"It would be interesting to serve ads during gameplay that would add cash to a global pot to be divvied out monthly. The visual aesthetic is awesome as well. Great work!"},{"author_name":"Faust","author_uid":"18319","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 3:22am","epoch":1355800620,"text":"When I first see the title, I thought you approached from a similar perspective as I do, but I'm totally wrong. This is definitely one of the most meaningful challenge I've seen so far in this LD, great work."},{"author_name":"KWL_TW","author_uid":"18962","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 4:26am","epoch":1355804460,"text":"Such a special idea...WOW"},{"author_name":"caasi","author_uid":"17875","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 6:57am","epoch":1355813520,"text":"When I found a click with 30pt, I know you are a genius!\r<br\/>Well, you are the villain, although normally we don't call people villain when they make rules. :p"},{"author_name":"Gib","author_uid":"3222","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 4:54pm","epoch":1355849340,"text":"Thx everybody for the kind words.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>01010111 -&gt; I've considered ads, but it will ultimately make so few money it wasn't worth degrading the clean look of the page :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Datw -&gt; I can track them. Dunno what to do with them though.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I can't make an improved version yet, as I need to wait for the voting round to end. If I can have some free time, I'll put together an new version that will go live at the end of the contest."},{"author_name":"Robotic","author_uid":"8502","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 5:36pm","epoch":1355851860,"text":"This is a powerful idea and probably the most interesting take on the theme I've seen."},{"author_name":"loren","author_uid":"17687","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 7:17pm","epoch":1355857920,"text":"Nice idea, good luck with this!"},{"author_name":"allinlabs","author_uid":"2908","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 7:50pm","epoch":1355859900,"text":"Gib is the anonymous account of Peter Molyneux, yup.\r<br\/>5 stars for innovation, very original and unique answer to the theme."},{"author_name":"pereubu","author_uid":"16143","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 9:53pm","epoch":1355867280,"text":"Disturbing concept, i wanna see the results now 3:"},{"author_name":"lucasncv","author_uid":"10289","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 4:35pm","epoch":1355934600,"text":"Neat idea! 5\/5 innovation"},{"author_name":"YopSolo","author_uid":"16503","time":"Dec 22, 2012 @ 3:13pm","epoch":1356188880,"text":"Benetnuts is the villain :)"},{"author_name":"daredevildave","author_uid":"5182","time":"Dec 23, 2012 @ 7:20pm","epoch":1356290100,"text":"Nice idea. I suspect the LD crowd will give the money to charity ;-)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I had a bug where &quot;0 points&quot; was visible all the time."},{"author_name":"Claite","author_uid":"18425","time":"Dec 23, 2012 @ 7:49pm","epoch":1356291840,"text":"I took it upon myself to raise the UNICEF rating by at least .2% :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Very interesting game."},{"author_name":"recursive frog","author_uid":"8342","time":"Dec 29, 2012 @ 6:46am","epoch":1356763260,"text":"I fail at villainy, apparently. :)"},{"author_name":"Jeremias","author_uid":"7211","time":"Dec 29, 2012 @ 7:03pm","epoch":1356807480,"text":"Very interesting use of the theme. I'm waiting for the results!"},{"author_name":"Cake&amp;Code","author_uid":"10976","time":"Dec 30, 2012 @ 8:52am","epoch":1356857220,"text":"Amazing entry! I really like the thought and idea of either being a villain or donating. I had a lot of fun fiddling with it. :)"},{"author_name":"moomoo112","author_uid":"11665","time":"Dec 30, 2012 @ 11:54am","epoch":1356868140,"text":"rather addictive, and I don't want any money, just the leaderboard..\r<br\/>Also I like how rare the 30's are, makes getting one always exciting, and getting 2 on the same board thrilling"},{"author_name":"SamoojaMies","author_uid":"11043","time":"Dec 30, 2012 @ 7:49pm","epoch":1356896640,"text":"Cool idea :D. Good job."},{"author_name":"Van Merwan","author_uid":"17310","time":"Dec 31, 2012 @ 6:44pm","epoch":1356979140,"text":"Genius!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I clicked. I clicked a lot.\r<br\/>Why ? It's repetitive, it's not especially funny...\r<br\/>But I clicked. I clicked for charity.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Now I'm sure, I'm a good guy. This game demonstrates it.\r<br\/>This is one of my definition of gaming : helping the player to discover himself.\r<br\/>Who need fun when you have this?"},{"author_name":"GeorgeBroussard","author_uid":"8631","time":"Jan 3, 2013 @ 10:44am","epoch":1357209540,"text":"Clearly inspired by Molyneux's Curiosity. I didn't particularly think clicking the blocks was fun\/flashy enough so I just did one round."},{"author_name":"tompudding","author_uid":"12467","time":"Jan 7, 2013 @ 10:03pm","epoch":1357595880,"text":"Beautiful aesthetic and a fantastic take on the theme."}],"images":["ld25\/3222-cafc93b3cc5be483334ee0f2b3acda43.jpg","ld25\/3222-cfa94496f1a7273de019e4d607262c23.jpg","ld25\/3222-e528c76ef66dc42adf639bbf990ddd26.jpg","ld25\/3222-973e27be907c9b3b3c891e8169047141.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/armeljgibson.com\/LD25\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/armeljgibson.com\/LD25\/Greed.rar","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"27843","g_author":"3222","g_event":"LD25","g_eventkey":"14","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"27873","g_title":"Greed","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"107","g_commentcount":"47","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\/3222-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/3222-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/3222-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/3222-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"***********************\r\n\r\nGreed is a social experiment. I wanted to take a different approach on the theme, by not making you play a villain, but instead by making YOU the villain.\r\n\r\nI've put 50$ at stake. In one month, on January 13th, I'll give those 50 bucks to someone. \r\n\r\nYou break blocks, you earn points. You can keep those points, or give them to a charity. The more points you have, the more likely to be selected at the end you are. Easy maths.\r\n\r\nI plan to post some statistics on the experiment after it ends.\r\n\r\nMade with a fine blend of FlashPunk\/Adobe Flash. Source coming shortly, sorry for the delay. \r\n\r\n\r\n***********************\r\n\r\n<\/p>","title":"Greed"}