{"author_link":"\/author\/pkdawson\/","author_name":"pkdawson","author_uid":"11448","comments":[{"author_name":"Truce","author_uid":"12082","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 2:08pm","epoch":1335189780,"text":"Easily the best game I've played so far (out of three). It's well rounded and complete, if a little easy and out of balance. Enjoyed playing, thanks!"},{"author_name":"Per","author_uid":"6781","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 2:09pm","epoch":1335189840,"text":"Quite fun! I played it til the end. Nicely weighted difficulty.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>You should reduce the size of the game window though, it doesn't fit all screens well."},{"author_name":"pkdawson","author_uid":"11448","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 3:02pm","epoch":1335193020,"text":"Thanks for the positive comments! I did struggle with the balance, and wound up erring on the side of making it too easy. There were a few too many variables with all the costs, and the timing and size of attack waves."},{"author_name":"ilo","author_uid":"12377","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 3:07pm","epoch":1335193320,"text":"Could do with more things to upgrade - for quite a few weeks I had no use for wood - but apart from that I really liked it!"},{"author_name":"AlwaysGeeky","author_uid":"11531","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 8:14pm","epoch":1335211740,"text":"Reminds me of the old style zelda games. which is a good thing... might just be the tress and green colour though"},{"author_name":"mikolalysenko","author_uid":"5670","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 8:25pm","epoch":1335212400,"text":"No linux version :("},{"author_name":"davidllanos22","author_uid":"10692","time":"Apr 23, 2012 @ 10:25pm","epoch":1335219600,"text":"Nice game! I beat it easyly :)"},{"author_name":"KevinZuhn","author_uid":"8695","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 12:20am","epoch":1335226500,"text":"I had fun building up the little town and defending it, and I liked the simplified system! \r<br\/>The 'miss' noise really started to get on my nerves, especially towards the end when the battles involved a lot of it. I also felt like the characters missed way too often, but that could just be bad luck."},{"author_name":"Sodaware","author_uid":"10712","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 2:11am","epoch":1335233160,"text":"Just the right amount of challenge to keep it interesting, and it took me a few tries to make progress. A little audio\/visual polish would be nice, but it's still fun to play."},{"author_name":"Cosmologicon","author_uid":"1151","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 2:49am","epoch":1335235440,"text":"It ran great in Linux. I just had remove line 2 &quot;import pygame._view&quot; from Fort.py.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Not bad once I got the hang of it. When I got to where I was building an infantry and an archer every week (around week 12) it was pretty easy to build up a powerful army."},{"author_name":"Gremlin","author_uid":"12047","time":"Apr 24, 2012 @ 1:46pm","epoch":1335274860,"text":"Interesting: it's a turn based strategy game with real-time-strategy mechanics. More uses for wood would be nice, and the battles were a little slow, but I enjoyed myself."},{"author_name":"devwil","author_uid":"7526","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 12:28am","epoch":1335313380,"text":"***I'm posting this on all non-browser games I bring up in an attempt to encourage folks to make browser games next time around. Do not take it personally.***\r<br\/>\r<br\/>When hundreds of people make non-browser games, that means that, to play all of the entries, I would need to download hundreds of games to my computer. I typically use OS X, so Windows-only entries are particularly inconvenient.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Please consider making a browser game next time."},{"author_name":"KingKay","author_uid":"9322","time":"Apr 25, 2012 @ 3:06am","epoch":1335322860,"text":"Not terribly deep, but entertaining and clever. It's a little sad that there isn't any strategy other then &quot;build everything!&quot;. I'm not entirely sure how you can lose unless you go out of your way to not build anything."},{"author_name":"LukeRissacher","author_uid":"10956","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 5:02am","epoch":1335416220,"text":"Nice little game - pretty cool that you got so many strategic elements worked in in the timeframe."},{"author_name":"Jhelle","author_uid":"2232","time":"Apr 26, 2012 @ 6:09pm","epoch":1335463440,"text":"Liking it a lot. Very easy to understand and play. Good job!"},{"author_name":"jwolf","author_uid":"11073","time":"Apr 27, 2012 @ 7:26pm","epoch":1335554460,"text":"Pretty fun strategy game.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I'd second or third the comment about the window size.  It didn't interfere too much, but the reset and end turn buttons were mostly underneath my taskbar.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Possibly a bug:  should infantry be able to hit archers-on-the-wall when there are piles of my infantry for them to hit?"},{"author_name":"caranha","author_uid":"7847","time":"Apr 29, 2012 @ 3:27pm","epoch":1335712920,"text":"I really really like the idea of this game: prepare your fort, and then let the combat run automatically. It was a bit easy, maybe you should have more enemies attack more often. Also, it should be possible to speed up combat for those bigger fights. But all in all, I liked this game."},{"author_name":"Alexandre","author_uid":"11209","time":"May 3, 2012 @ 2:10pm","epoch":1336053900,"text":"Simple but fun!\r<br\/>It's a bit too easy and the fights get a bit long once you have too many units, but otherwise it's nice."},{"author_name":"robcozzens","author_uid":"10944","time":"May 6, 2012 @ 1:02am","epoch":1336265820,"text":"I would play it, but I'm on an iMac."}],"images":["ld23\/11448-1263909aaa5f23eadbd82f72a84e6e1e.jpg","ld23\/11448-eedbb06c3cbbb15ab40dc5e8246bde58.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/bitbucket.org\/pkdawson\/ld23\/downloads\/Fort-win32.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/bitbucket.org\/pkdawson\/ld23\/get\/final.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"31129","g_author":"11448","g_event":"LD23","g_eventkey":"10","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"31159","g_title":"Fort in the Woods","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"134","g_commentcount":"19","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\/11448-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/123793\/11448-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"A turn-based game where you build up a fort and defend from attacks.\r\n\r\nWindows - Extract the .zip and run Fort.exe.\r\n\r\nOther platforms - Not tested, but if you have Python 2.7 and PyGame installed, you should be able to download the source and run Fort.py.\r\n\r\n\r\nTIPS\r\n\r\n    Farms produce 5 Food per turn.\r\n\r\n    You need a Barracks to train one military unit. Two Barracks let you train\r\n    two units per turn, etc.\r\n\r\n    Walls give archers a bonus to attack and defense.\r\n\r\n    Combat is automated; you can only watch.\r\n\r\n\r\nADDITIONAL CREDITS\r\n\r\n    Tools used:\r\n    - Editra\r\n    - Paint.NET\r\n    - sfxr\r\n\r\n    Libraries used:\r\n    - PyGame <http:\/\/pygame.org>\r\n    - sgc <https:\/\/launchpad.net\/simplegc>\r\n\r\n    Other:\r\n    - combat rules inspired by Basic Fantasy RPG <http:\/\/basicfantasy.org\/><\/p>","title":"Fort in the Woods"}