{"author_link":"\/author\/davidllanos22\/","author_name":"davidllanos22","author_uid":"10692","comments":[{"author_name":"Jigxor","author_uid":"3289","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 8:31am","epoch":1335169560,"text":"Unique idea, great graphics, fun little game. Congratulations on your first LD! I wasn't able to beat it though. My best score was 7\/10 :P"},{"author_name":"jeroenimooo","author_uid":"9361","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 11:11am","epoch":1335179160,"text":"Looks really good! i would like a way to kill the pigs though, couldn't get past 6\/10. i still wonder what would happen if i got til 10\/10 :D"},{"author_name":"the8donut","author_uid":"10453","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 11:37am","epoch":1335180720,"text":"I really appreciate the effort you've put into making a polished and complete game. Neat graphics and smooth controls."},{"author_name":"Cyboot","author_uid":"10242","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 11:54am","epoch":1335181740,"text":"Nice Game, good job! :)"},{"author_name":"marudziik","author_uid":"5431","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 12:16pm","epoch":1335183060,"text":"Looks awesome, but I wish there was a better way to deal with those Pigz! ;) Great graphics."},{"author_name":"Andrew Marsh","author_uid":"2437","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 12:16pm","epoch":1335183060,"text":"Really enjoyed this game, fun and challenging, still haven't beaten it yet, best is 9\/10 so far."},{"author_name":"NiallM","author_uid":"785","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 12:36pm","epoch":1335184260,"text":"This is pretty neat. I liked the mechanic of trying to lure the pigs away from the houses so you could get the NPCs there safely :)"},{"author_name":"Tifu","author_uid":"7793","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 12:40pm","epoch":1335184500,"text":"Fun game :D\r<br\/>Achieved 10\/10 saved once I realised a good strategy for keeping people safe\/trapping pigs :D"},{"author_name":"steamgirl","author_uid":"12097","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 12:49pm","epoch":1335185040,"text":"Have you got any advice on how to beat the game?\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I use villagers as food for the pigs to lure them into &quot;good&quot; places, but for the part on the right side of the river, I can't seem to find &quot;good&quot; places. &gt;_&lt;"},{"author_name":"unicornpooping","author_uid":"12751","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 2:14pm","epoch":1335190140,"text":"Dude, what are you telling me that I have great graphics? Your graphics are way better! Enjoyed your game, it's hard, but in a good way. Good job."},{"author_name":"matheus23","author_uid":"10728","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 4:01pm","epoch":1335196560,"text":"oh noooo! java game, made in LWJGL, but no linux so's!!! oh come on!"},{"author_name":"angrygeometry","author_uid":"5579","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 6:35pm","epoch":1335205800,"text":"interesting idea, and i found it pretty difficult. still yet to reach 10\/10, the pigz kill me super quick! congrats on your first LD!"},{"author_name":"howieV (binarygirl)","author_uid":"8824","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 10:10pm","epoch":1335218700,"text":"good little game ..found it abit hard but then im an eejit ;p  im glad its in java aswell :)"},{"author_name":"HeuGamer","author_uid":"10826","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 10:51pm","epoch":1335221160,"text":"I liked it! :)"},{"author_name":"mattchu","author_uid":"8693","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 10:55pm","epoch":1335221400,"text":"Interesting idea, nice graphics, and fluid gameplay. I had fun with it. :D\r<br\/>Damn those pigs, though. The first one kept getting me. &gt;.&gt;\r<br\/>\r<br\/>4\/10 was my best score. &gt;.&gt;"},{"author_name":"AlwaysGeeky","author_uid":"11531","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 11:19pm","epoch":1335222840,"text":"I love the art style of this one :P"},{"author_name":"ben","author_uid":"11355","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 11:19pm","epoch":1335222840,"text":"Damn those pigz! Cute game : ]"},{"author_name":"Kevin_R_K","author_uid":"11967","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 11:34pm","epoch":1335223740,"text":"Very nice, very hard. Best score was 8\/10"},{"author_name":"Fireblend","author_uid":"10166","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 4:22am","epoch":1335241020,"text":"Fun little game, nicely done!"},{"author_name":"Drabiter","author_uid":"8337","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 10:46am","epoch":1335264060,"text":"Love the graphics. I find it hard to avoid the pigz. Good job!"},{"author_name":"bms","author_uid":"7087","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 6:44pm","epoch":1335292740,"text":"I really like the concept &amp; graphics. Well done!"},{"author_name":"Terra","author_uid":"2414","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 10:24pm","epoch":1335305940,"text":"Those pigs were terrifying, I loved it :D\r<br\/>\r<br\/>At first I was trying to find a way to 'play dead' like the person at the start tells us, but after a little while I figured out that it referred to the NPCs.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>When I got the last person to the house I was on 1 heart and had a pig right next to me... I guess I sacrificed myself to save them, how sad :'(\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Anyway, I really enjoyed this one!"},{"author_name":"demonpants","author_uid":"531","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 11:39pm","epoch":1335310440,"text":"Why make it in Java if you only have a Windows version? Release a JAR or a Mac version please. :-) Or an applet."},{"author_name":"sampyxis","author_uid":"6533","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 3:45am","epoch":1335411600,"text":"Ha!  Loved this - great game play, love the graphics and music too."},{"author_name":"Raptor85","author_uid":"7131","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 3:55pm","epoch":1335455400,"text":"can't test this since i'm on linux and you didn't copy the linux or mac versions of lwjgl into the folder :\/"},{"author_name":"schattenkind.net","author_uid":"13106","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 7:52am","epoch":1335512820,"text":"Great graphics, interesting idea. The game is a way too fast."},{"author_name":"levelbylevel","author_uid":"12013","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 7:57am","epoch":1335513120,"text":"Great game, love the look and feel, controls feel responsive :)"},{"author_name":"Robert Swan","author_uid":"1845","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 4:21pm","epoch":1335543360,"text":"Excellent music and good (if hard) gameplay. Looks nice too!"},{"author_name":"AdventureIslands","author_uid":"11391","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 8:55pm","epoch":1335559800,"text":"Pretty good job! Great graphics and gameplay! Had to ragequit though because this game is damn hard. You could have added some way to heal or atleast slow the pigs down."},{"author_name":"summaky","author_uid":"1885","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 9:37pm","epoch":1335562320,"text":"7\/10 is my best score.  The graphics are really great; I love them.  The idea is original and well implemented, which makes the game fun."},{"author_name":"JaJ","author_uid":"5496","time":"Apr 29, 2012 @ 3:34pm","epoch":1335713340,"text":"I wasn't able to save everyone because the enemies were too fast. But it looks great and the audio was good, and it was pretty fun as well."},{"author_name":"dokidoki","author_uid":"12261","time":"Apr 30, 2012 @ 4:38am","epoch":1335760380,"text":"I found it really hard to evade the pigs, but liked the whole escort mission vibe."},{"author_name":"robcozzens","author_uid":"10944","time":"May 2, 2012 @ 9:14am","epoch":1335949740,"text":"I would play if you had a Web or OSX version."},{"author_name":"rvmook","author_uid":"8418","time":"May 8, 2012 @ 6:12pm","epoch":1336500420,"text":"Quite an addictive game. Three hearts was just right. Funny how the villagers can't die but just pretend to be dead. I really enjoyed playing it. Got 9\/10, will try to get 10 later this week"},{"author_name":"ehtd","author_uid":"11246","time":"May 12, 2012 @ 6:23pm","epoch":1336846680,"text":"7\/10 damn pigz. They need a way to attack or something."}],"images":["ld23\/10692-927ce8245ebcb507afca6f3c6025ae35.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/44303246\/Save%20the%20tiny%20world%21-LD23.rar","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/44303246\/LD23.rar","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"30319","g_author":"10692","g_event":"LD23","g_eventkey":"10","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"30349","g_title":"Save the tiny world!","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"328","g_commentcount":"35","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\/\/123793\/10692-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"First of all sorry for any grammatical\/spelling error, I'm spanish :)\r\n\r\nI'm pretty happy with the result, finally my main focus was the art...never expect that haha It's the second game I finished, and I've just started learning programming 5 months ago! so everything went so well using the things I learned on that time!\r\n\r\nIt was my first LD and it was amazing, sometimes I tought about surrender, but finally I managed to came up with something playable :D I will be in the next LD FOR SURE!\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe gameplay and the controls are explained in the game, so you just have to follow the instructions :D\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nKnown bugs: \r\n\r\n-The Pigz and the Npcs don't collide with each other..so they are collapsing all the time...\r\n\r\n-The animation of the boy and the woman sometimes don't correspond to the direction the are walking to...\r\n\r\n-The animation of the Pigz works so bad, dunno why!\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nTools used:\r\n\r\n-Eclipse with Java and Slick 2D\r\n\r\n-Paint.NET, GraphicsGale and Paint\r\n\r\n-Ableton live , BFXR\r\n\r\n\r\nPlease, rate and comment :)\r\n<\/p>","title":"Save the tiny world!"}