{"author_link":"\/author\/vids\/","author_name":"vids","author_uid":"18079","comments":[{"author_name":"monomanio","author_uid":"14511","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 4:59am","epoch":1355720040,"text":"The queen didnt get her flower :( Nice game, good job :)"},{"author_name":"vids","author_uid":"18079","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 6:37am","epoch":1355725920,"text":"Hey thanks a lot! Does this comment system have spoiler tags? :-)"},{"author_name":"joyboxed","author_uid":"18706","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 6:55am","epoch":1355727000,"text":"jumping over angry mob is fun! =D"},{"author_name":"Falkreon","author_uid":"5762","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 7:02am","epoch":1355727420,"text":"I can't seem to get teleport working reliably, and sometimes the canvas doesn't accept my mouse input (maybe if something else on the page is selected... not sure yet) but definitely one to go back and mess around with to find more spells.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>..cause without more spells, that queen is NOT getting her flower X)"},{"author_name":"amassingham","author_uid":"1282","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 7:47am","epoch":1355730120,"text":"I had a bit of trouble with the gestures, but I love the idea.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Why are those villagers so down on me givin' the queen some flowers? Killjoys."},{"author_name":"chribbe1","author_uid":"5016","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 7:55am","epoch":1355730600,"text":"Cool idea! It was pretty hard to get the attack gestures right for me. Great job"},{"author_name":"Meep","author_uid":"2629","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 8:03am","epoch":1355731080,"text":"Interesting concept, but it was hard for me to get the gestures right. ):"},{"author_name":"vids","author_uid":"18079","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 8:10am","epoch":1355731500,"text":"Gestures cheat sheet if you must:-\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Short Horizontal Swipes : Hit\r<br\/>Upward Swipe : Turn trees\/bushes into mana\/speed fruits\r<br\/>Downward Swipe : Turn plants into health fruits\r<br\/>Diagonal Long Upwards : TP\r<br\/>Diagonal Long Downwards : Fimiliar using plants\r<br\/>Circle Large : Hex\r<br\/>8 Symbol (start and end at the center) : +Time\r<br\/>Horizontal Swipe Long (while moving) : Heal\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Exaggerate the gestures if they're not responding. Will fix it in the next build. Thanks for the feedback!"},{"author_name":"h.attila","author_uid":"8403","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 9:07am","epoch":1355734920,"text":"I like games with mouse gestures, it is also nicely drawn. The sound effects could be better, though."},{"author_name":"Edocentrique","author_uid":"18304","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 9:47am","epoch":1355737320,"text":"Nice work with the gestures"},{"author_name":"Vic","author_uid":"7283","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 10:16am","epoch":1355739060,"text":"Hi! I wanted to play the web version. But I think the link is dead, can you check it?"},{"author_name":"munchor","author_uid":"7348","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 10:54am","epoch":1355741340,"text":"Great entry, I loved the mouse gestures thing!"},{"author_name":"ParaPup","author_uid":"18322","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 11:03am","epoch":1355741880,"text":"Good job with the gameplay I liked playing :)"},{"author_name":"rasmusrn","author_uid":"15543","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 1:15pm","epoch":1355749800,"text":"The web link is dead :("},{"author_name":"BlockBrains","author_uid":"17970","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 3:08pm","epoch":1355756580,"text":"Had to take a look at the gestures sheet cause i was pretty lost! Great concept, and love the gameplay, needs a little bit of polish. Cheers! :)"},{"author_name":"vids","author_uid":"18079","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 7:49pm","epoch":1355773440,"text":"Oh man, my server guy promised me no downtime. I'm extremely sorry for the inconvenience but you might have to do with the link to Dropbox for now. Thanks again for trying it out!"},{"author_name":"cardboard","author_uid":"16294","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 8:06pm","epoch":1355774460,"text":"I made it to the queen! Fairly short, but unique. The mouse gestures are neat, but there are a few that I did that I am not sure how I did."},{"author_name":"ilo","author_uid":"12377","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 8:55pm","epoch":1355777400,"text":"It's great that it rewards players who experiment with the gestures and allows for different strategies. I couldn't attack reliably, but I discovered I could just turn everyone into trees and then turn those trees into more mana. :)"},{"author_name":"soupy","author_uid":"18230","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 11:19pm","epoch":1355786040,"text":"The mouse gestures are really cool, but could use slightly better implementation. Once you lose once or twice the prospect of playing again doesn't feel that interesting or compelling.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I don't get what the point of NOT teaching the player the gestures. It may make sense to hide certain interactions, but leaving me totally in the dark wasn't particularly compelling."},{"author_name":"Patrick64","author_uid":"18563","time":"Dec 24, 2012 @ 1:07pm","epoch":1356354120,"text":"Nice to a see a HTML5 game - it looks good and the idea is quite innovative. Unfortunately it doesn't run well on my crappy PC. Check out this article about having a game loop with updates at fixed steps: http:\/\/nokarma.org\/2011\/02\/02\/javascript-game-development-the-game-loop\/index.html"},{"author_name":"Drabiter","author_uid":"8337","time":"Dec 24, 2012 @ 2:15pm","epoch":1356358200,"text":"Nice gesture mechanism."},{"author_name":"soy_yuma","author_uid":"7620","time":"Jan 6, 2013 @ 10:45am","epoch":1357468800,"text":"Wow, spoiling me with the comments changed completely my concept of the game. I think it's a very good idea to use the gestures! Unfortunately it is too complicated to perform them..."}],"images":["ld25\/18079-71ec68c80e0188c064157763a8716961.jpg","ld25\/18079-36e96e80be81b092078cae9b02292bb7.jpg","ld25\/18079-6c088c9dee59c7b122e265c97a6e297f.jpg","ld25\/18079-2fba45a499f57d1389c917563c91fa64.jpg","ld25\/18079-7a5e02715b617748d3055898b7405c7f.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/mdnngq7mra9b98b\/GN3U-LGuAK","text":"Zip on Dropbox"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.vidhvat.com\/TheMuteKing\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.vidhvat.com\/TheMuteKing\/TMK.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"28332","g_author":"18079","g_event":"LD25","g_eventkey":"14","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"28362","g_title":"The Mute King","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"519","g_commentcount":"22","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\/18079-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/18079-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/18079-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/18079-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/18079-shot4.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Get your queen some flowers on her birthday before sunrise. Stay clear of the villagers, they don't agree with the whole idea.\r\n\r\nUse W,A,S,D and Space to move around, use mouse gestures to experiment with spells\/actions.\r\n\r\nGet to the queen before the villagers stop you!\r\n\r\nEDIT : Changed Windows download to an alternate link to Dropbox, for those who are having issues viewing it online.<\/p>","title":"The Mute King"}