{"author_link":"\/author\/methylenblub\/","author_name":"methylenblub","author_uid":"87397","comments":[{"author_name":"rogberth","author_uid":"8913","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 8:43am","epoch":1461055080,"text":"Small but cute little puzzle game : D I really enjoyed trying to guess what does it take to become a proper whale haha"},{"author_name":"TheCain","author_uid":"87568","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 3:57am","epoch":1461210720,"text":"Was there any way to actually win? or just get 'Congrats?'\rAnyways, interesting meld of puzzles."},{"author_name":"Garr","author_uid":"93950","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 12:44pm","epoch":1461242340,"text":"I really wanted to play this, but I DL the windows exe and ran it and it just froze at the title screen. :("},{"author_name":"medidog","author_uid":"89905","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 5:57pm","epoch":1461261120,"text":"the same happened to me exactly like @Garr said :("},{"author_name":"methylenblub","author_uid":"87397","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 6:33pm","epoch":1461263280,"text":"@TheCain There's actually 3 endings!\r@Garr & @medidog you have to press enter, unless it really froze the app, then sorry :("},{"author_name":"erikkire","author_uid":"42738","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 6:34pm","epoch":1461263340,"text":"Please no installers in the future"},{"author_name":"Humorcet","author_uid":"89791","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 6:51pm","epoch":1461264360,"text":"fun little game, i liked the whale"},{"author_name":"runvs","author_uid":"29172","time":"Apr 22, 2016 @ 1:54pm","epoch":1461332940,"text":"Nice puzzle game. Well done for a gamejam! :)"},{"author_name":"Crowbeak","author_uid":"16689","time":"Apr 26, 2016 @ 9:43am","epoch":1461663480,"text":"It's frustrating that the game shuts down when you fail. It would be nice to be able to just loop back in and try again. The exploratory nature of it is cool, though."},{"author_name":"dcolgan","author_uid":"2293","time":"Apr 29, 2016 @ 1:17am","epoch":1461892320,"text":"Could not get the title screen to run."},{"author_name":"blob","author_uid":"12252","time":"Apr 29, 2016 @ 3:49am","epoch":1461901440,"text":"I... I don't understand."},{"author_name":"Stending","author_uid":"25361","time":"Apr 30, 2016 @ 1:35pm","epoch":1462023000,"text":"Pretty cute, loved the little storyline behind!\rWell made, congrats! :)"},{"author_name":"Mantlair","author_uid":"49861","time":"Apr 30, 2016 @ 1:44pm","epoch":1462023540,"text":"Ummmm. I couldnt find any other ending then the wikipedia one. So i am not voting now. I will if i get the point."},{"author_name":"Ironhead","author_uid":"89786","time":"Apr 30, 2016 @ 3:05pm","epoch":1462028400,"text":"I tried a few times and I successfully became a whale. Cool little puzzle game."},{"author_name":"Alphish","author_uid":"39564","time":"Apr 30, 2016 @ 4:06pm","epoch":1462032060,"text":"Yay, apparently I've managed to become a super-whale. Pretty cute puzzle game, but the exploration part seems rather unnecessary to me (in fact, with all that random generation means sometimes items end up in configuration where a perfect victory is impossible), and I wasn't really fond of slow walking and having to *press* button to move to the next field.\r\rMaybe you can expand upon that general idea, somehow...?\r\r(I just wonder, what exactly happens to player character once they successfully turn into proper whale...?)"},{"author_name":"jakass","author_uid":"50879","time":"Apr 30, 2016 @ 4:11pm","epoch":1462032360,"text":"Nice game!"},{"author_name":"Yumeito","author_uid":"79623","time":"May 6, 2016 @ 8:53pm","epoch":1462567680,"text":"Nice little game :)"},{"author_name":"Chaserbrown","author_uid":"61940","time":"May 7, 2016 @ 6:03pm","epoch":1462643880,"text":"Fun little game! It was kind of confusing, but I assumed that you were trying to collect the items that you thought a whale needed in order to become a whale?"},{"author_name":"dcRfj15","author_uid":"49644","time":"May 8, 2016 @ 12:52am","epoch":1462668420,"text":"Very short game, but the idea and implementation was nice. I had trouble finding the alternate endings in the game, I kept getting the wiki pedia one. It would be nice if there was a small hint about how to win the game, I tried getting all the items, covering all of the tiles, avoiding all the items, and all of them seemed to give me the same ending.\rAlso, there should be a little more contrast between the tiles the player has visited and the tiles the player hasn't visited, unless the player was looking carefully it was kind of hard to tell them apart.\rGood job!"},{"author_name":"hazzahazzam","author_uid":"40538","time":"May 8, 2016 @ 2:48am","epoch":1462675380,"text":"Ah! I can only find two endings. Puzzle games are fun when executed well. And this was fun!"},{"author_name":"xxdos","author_uid":"96979","time":"May 9, 2016 @ 12:16am","epoch":1462752660,"text":"Done! ;)\rGreat Job!"},{"author_name":"ayesh","author_uid":"97073","time":"May 9, 2016 @ 5:42pm","epoch":1462815420,"text":"simple and entertaining\rnice game!"},{"author_name":"Tanton-H2X","author_uid":"55854","time":"May 9, 2016 @ 6:19pm","epoch":1462817640,"text":"just too short!ToT but these great design symbol graphic really attract me alot~ (theme was too hidden let me feel ToT)"}],"images":["ld35\/87397-49ea0ab1179d001db7e9ac3858a79fc7.jpg","ld35\/87397-e59b1824dab5a24d2f185df0902aa353.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B7KvavWO_oG5V1V0azNwcHFER0k\/view?usp=sharing","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-35\/?action=preview&uid=87397","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"2841","g_author":"87397","g_event":"LD35","g_eventkey":"33","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"2867","g_title":"Whale quest!","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"957","g_commentcount":"23","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\/\/542293\/87397-shot0-1461029487.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/87397-shot1-1461029487.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"You are a shapeshifter, and after all those college and shapetraining years you finally got your 1st mission!\r\nFor shapeshifting you need to \"fuse\" with diverse item you will find through your way to the town.\r\n\r\nCONTROLS\r\nPlease use the arrows to move, keep in mind that you can't move to a position you've been before. \r\nFor restarting the game you can use R\r\n**PRESS ENTER AFTER THE TITLE SCREEN**","title":"Whale quest!"}