{"author_link":"\/author\/fishbrain\/","author_name":"fishbrain","author_uid":"3007","comments":[{"author_name":"zzorn","author_uid":"2534","time":"May 2, 2011 @ 4:03pm","epoch":1304351880,"text":"Start screen was fun, as well as the flying giant ape and other small details :)  Gameplay a bit too easy, and not very captivating.  Would have been interesting as a visual novel about apes :)"},{"author_name":"fishbrain","author_uid":"3007","time":"May 2, 2011 @ 7:15pm","epoch":1304363400,"text":"hehe.... cheers,\r<br\/>yes - unfortunately i ran out of time and didn't quite get to polish the original concept as much as i wanted."},{"author_name":"lingmops","author_uid":"3712","time":"May 2, 2011 @ 7:26pm","epoch":1304364060,"text":"A point for monkeys, and a point for sheer weirdness :)"},{"author_name":"Dark Acre Jack","author_uid":"2947","time":"May 3, 2011 @ 1:52am","epoch":1304387220,"text":"I went monkies for this one.  Ook ook ook!\r<br\/>Reminds me of KA-BOOM!\r<br\/>Congrats on clearing LD48!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>P.S. What is in that a pipe?"},{"author_name":"crackerblocks","author_uid":"505","time":"May 3, 2011 @ 3:43am","epoch":1304393880,"text":"this is silly. there isn't even a trumpet in the soundtrack."},{"author_name":"fishbrain","author_uid":"3007","time":"May 3, 2011 @ 4:41am","epoch":1304397360,"text":"hahaha... well spotted, i actually tried out some really dodgy trumpet-synth sounds ...but it just didn't work"},{"author_name":"Winterblood","author_uid":"4051","time":"May 3, 2011 @ 11:06pm","epoch":1304463660,"text":"Weird. Gameplay works, but it takes so long to ramp up to anything approaching a challenge I had to give up.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>And not to nitpick, but I suspect you didn't strictly paint all the art yourself. Collage is a legitimate art style but I dunno if it fits with the LD48 rules. Maybe I'm just sore 'cos someone marked me down for using a stock skydome :)"},{"author_name":"Little Angel","author_uid":"1740","time":"May 4, 2011 @ 11:06am","epoch":1304506860,"text":"Ignoring the fact that I doubt that the clip are was created during the 48 hour period (oops) it was weird. I second the thought that it should have been a wierd interactive clip are story, as the the intro far outshone the gameplay."},{"author_name":"fishbrain","author_uid":"3007","time":"May 4, 2011 @ 1:14pm","epoch":1304514540,"text":"yeah, someone posted about using CC\/royalty free images(?), and there was a bit of a discussion, with no definitive answers... i decided it was OK, and i don't see it as cheating."},{"author_name":"fishbrain","author_uid":"3007","time":"May 5, 2011 @ 4:58pm","epoch":1304614380,"text":"@little angle:\r<br\/>yeah, the thing is I spent a lot of time constructing a story, a fantasy, a world in my head (which obviously involved monkeys in an a la Planet of the Apes type scenario) that I hoped a game would emerge from that... but it didn't really take on a complete form."},{"author_name":"stigrv","author_uid":"3796","time":"May 5, 2011 @ 6:33pm","epoch":1304620080,"text":"That was truly psychedelic. I want some of what you were smoking..  :)"},{"author_name":"Cirrial","author_uid":"1620","time":"May 5, 2011 @ 8:39pm","epoch":1304627640,"text":"What am I even seeing here?! Points for confusing the hell out of me!"},{"author_name":"someone","author_uid":"1207","time":"May 8, 2011 @ 7:18pm","epoch":1304881980,"text":"That was weird.\r<br\/>There is a page for competition rules (under the title), all content must be made by you."},{"author_name":"Endurion","author_uid":"103","time":"May 12, 2011 @ 4:17pm","epoch":1305216720,"text":"Yay, 87 points :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>It takes quite a while to get challenging. And then there are some unfair formations with notes left and right with the same height.\r<br\/>Getting difficul faster and some code to avoid unfair positioning would work wonders ;)"},{"author_name":"mwest","author_uid":"24","time":"May 15, 2011 @ 11:32am","epoch":1305458820,"text":"Interesting start screen, but the gameplay was boring... it took way too long to ramp up the difficulty and then just ramped it up too much too fast.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Weirdest game I've played so far :P... well done on finishing something at least - keep trying!"}],"images":["ld20\/3007-89a703e017c70ef27b81f42a6e314bfe.jpg","ld20\/3007-047c98d38fcf03300a8d4133829cc236.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.pellenproductions.com\/LD20\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.pellenproductions.com\/LD20\/LD20_main.fla","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"33193","g_author":"3007","g_event":"LD20","g_eventkey":"6","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"33223","g_title":"Brass Monkey","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"273","g_commentcount":"15","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\/\/45257\/3007-shot0.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/45257\/3007-shot1.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Damn... I ran out of time on this one... I would have liked to have done some more work.\r\n\r\nBut there IS a simple, playable game here.\r\n(Note: the game difficulty does increase as you play)<\/p>","title":"Brass Monkey"}