{"author_link":"\/author\/rjhunter\/","author_name":"rjhunter","author_uid":"16057","comments":[{"author_name":"echa","author_uid":"15601","time":"Aug 28, 2012 @ 4:34pm","epoch":1346171340,"text":"Good conception. \r<br\/>\r<br\/>Is it possible that the game would be in other languages?"},{"author_name":"rjhunter","author_uid":"16057","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 3:46am","epoch":1346211660,"text":"Right now the game is English-only, but I would like to add support for other languages after the competition.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Some languages will work better than others -- for example, Chinese would probably be a completely different game!"},{"author_name":"chas","author_uid":"8439","time":"Aug 29, 2012 @ 2:42pm","epoch":1346251020,"text":"BRAVO, rjhunter.  At the outset I was like &quot;oh, it's broken.  How can I connect hail and worm?&quot;..and a few minutes later, it was so gratifying to get it!  It's very cool and it makes us use brain-muscles that we use rarely use.  Great job.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I have a huge interest in developing new gameplay mechanics using words.  For a different jam, I did a very similar game but instead of linking the words by spelling-similarity, I used an MIT-supplied concept net and linked them via concept\/meaning. You can try it at argumentchampion.com if you want.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Congrats!"},{"author_name":"matheod","author_uid":"4423","time":"Aug 30, 2012 @ 5:31pm","epoch":1346347560,"text":"Take me time to understand, and as not in my languages more difficult, but good game."},{"author_name":"Teknik","author_uid":"15737","time":"Sep 1, 2012 @ 3:38pm","epoch":1346513580,"text":"doesn't seem to work for me. game loaded but it would let me click or type any where. all i could do was highlight the text in the choices."},{"author_name":"kibertoad","author_uid":"7122","time":"Sep 15, 2012 @ 5:49pm","epoch":1347731040,"text":"Amazing :)"},{"author_name":"ratking","author_uid":"3663","time":"Sep 17, 2012 @ 1:47pm","epoch":1347889320,"text":"Very nice idea!"}],"images":["ld24\/16057-e943f1cebcfa267cb00a36d9b8375c7d.jpg","ld24\/16057-cb0ccf8d2b1b3948b68f3949eaf29e97.jpg","ld24\/16057-3e47e42b96f0c2cfe31fc69e7719f2cf.jpg","ld24\/16057-03c976aab6f99b0dd2c5aab654591707.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/evolving-words.herokuapp.com\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/rhunter\/evolving-words","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"29388","g_author":"16057","g_event":"LD24","g_eventkey":"12","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"29418","g_title":"Evolving Words","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"7","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\/\/163678\/16057-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/16057-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/16057-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/163678\/16057-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"A web-based word game. Evolve from a CELL to a WORM, from a FISH to a FROG, one letter at a time.\r\n\r\nNeeds a pretty modern browser. Tested mostly in Chrome and Safari, should work on recent Firefox too. Internet Explorer is unlikely to deal. It'd be fun to try on a mobile device.\r\n\r\nThe game didn't wind up at all where I wanted it, but I figure since I've come this far, I might as well go the distance... :-)\r\n\r\nFor build and develop, I used Ruby's MiddleMan gem. I wrote my code in CoffeeScript, and built some offline precalculation using Node.js.\r\nAt run-time, I'm using: d3.js, jQuery, Mustache\r\n\r\n\r\n- Images are all photographs I took during the compo.\r\n- Sounds are, naturally, bfxr\/cfxr.\r\n- No music this time.\r\n- The HTML and CSS was the default boilerplate generated by the Middleman, but has since been completely replaced.\r\n- POTENTIAL RULE-BEND: The word list was generated from the ispell English dictionary wordlist <http:\/\/wordlist.sourceforge.net\/>. A couple of IRC people said it should be fine to use a dictionary but a word list isn't explicitly covered by the exemptions like fonts and drum loops.\r\n\r\n<\/p>","title":"Evolving Words"}