{"author_link":"\/users\/rhewid","author_name":"rhewid","author_uid":"1074672","comments":[{"author_name":"johnnysix","author_uid":"1010272","time":"2019-04-29T02:54:11Z","epoch":1556506451,"modified":1556506451,"text":"Amazed at the amount of stuff you managed to cram in over two days.  Great work, would be cool to see it rounded out with the potion making. I couldn't find any gold sadly.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"kyavi","author_uid":"1152753","time":"2019-04-29T20:25:03Z","epoch":1556569503,"modified":1556569503,"text":"it's got some rough edges but there's a lot of groovy stuff going on :) the customer collection aspect is super neat, i think if there was a tighter use of space it would be really special.\n\nthe people animations are great! and the music is fantastic ^-^","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"rhewid","author_uid":"1074672","time":"2019-04-29T23:49:07Z","epoch":1556581747,"modified":1556581747,"text":"@johnnysix Thank you for playing! \nYeah it is a little bit too much, lost time for playtesting it properly. :( \nI uploaded a bugfixed version - you could try that one :)\n\n@kyavi Thank you also for playing!\nThanks for your suggestion to tighten the space! I actullay did that in the new bugfix version, as it was unnecessary large amount of unused space.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"kyavi","author_uid":"1152753","time":"2019-04-29T23:53:09Z","epoch":1556581989,"modified":1556581989,"text":"@rhewid awesome! i think being able to see the customers from the back room helps a lot ^-^","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Serious07","author_uid":"1081108","time":"2019-04-30T13:11:09Z","epoch":1556629869,"modified":1556629869,"text":"Pretty cool game, I'm like the idea about crafting a potions\nbusinessman :D Well done!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Seb Jones","author_uid":"1147663","time":"2019-04-30T18:45:33Z","epoch":1556649933,"modified":1556649933,"text":"Definitely one of the most polished and complete games I've played so far in LD44. A few technical things that could be improved:\n* *Please* don't make me install. It's such a pain. It should just be an exe that runs when you click it.\n* Fullscreen mode please!\n* I found some of the fonts were too small.\n\nAnyway, great work!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"rhewid","author_uid":"1074672","time":"2019-05-01T13:14:44Z","epoch":1556716484,"modified":1556716484,"text":"@serious07 Thanks! :)\n\n@seb-jones Thank you for your feedback!\n- True I'll check if Gamemaker supports that! \n- Yeah I will consider that for future entries.\n- That is true, I had the problem where either the small was too small or to blurry, I went with the first one. Will check on a better solution in the future.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Xankill3r","author_uid":"1142618","time":"2019-05-01T15:00:39Z","epoch":1556722839,"modified":1556722839,"text":"Cool game idea, really well executed. Glad to see a feature complete game - played to the end. :smile:","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Kaisean Games","author_uid":"1000275","time":"2019-05-01T15:02:03Z","epoch":1556722923,"modified":1556722923,"text":"Wow!\nVery well done.\nI never needed to make two of the potion types :shrug: but still, I managed to complete. \nAlthough, 4 customers were unhappy until I actually managed to do it. \n\nWith a bit more depth, this could easily be the speed running heaven :)\n\nGreat game for compo, keep up the good work.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"mrjoshuamclean","author_uid":"1003164","time":"2019-05-02T02:40:37Z","epoch":1556764837,"modified":1556764837,"text":"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/videos\/418002198?t=02h05m01s","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Webox","author_uid":"1012757","time":"2019-05-05T00:29:25Z","epoch":1557016165,"modified":1557016165,"text":"Good one!! I liked it!. It could be a bit faster to make a little harder, I felt some Overcooked vibes. If you follow that path you can even add multiplayer! Great work","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Madbarron","author_uid":"1138827","time":"2019-05-05T00:35:51Z","epoch":1557016551,"modified":1557016551,"text":"Cool idea! But a lot of the trades that customers were offering me would have actually set me back, so eventually I just used the blood pack -> health potion -> gain 3 xp -> convert to 3 blood packs loop, and won the game by converting blood into everything. The customers need to offer the player something they can't get anywhere else. But I had fun with the game!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Attala","author_uid":"1101245","time":"2019-05-05T11:37:10Z","epoch":1557056230,"modified":1557056230,"text":"Nice game. I liked the crafting mechanics and the element of customers. Well done.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Random Thoughts","author_uid":"1075405","time":"2019-05-05T11:43:55Z","epoch":1557056635,"modified":1557056635,"text":"Found a bug where after I spammed exchanging blood for a blood pack 3 times, every time I pressed F I would have to exchange 1 blood again for a blood pack, which essentially made me lose because if I wanted to talk to a customer, craft a potion, even pick berries, the exchange blood for blood pack popup will open too. Other than that though, pretty fun store management game :)","likes":0,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld44\/140477-07c869e4446e27148fc8d05f9cc09ccd.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/odwosgaknq64jwk\/LD44-Bloodalchemist_bugfix_final_noinstall.exe?dl=0","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/4hu4czqw3tds3nn\/LD44-Bloodalchemist.exe?dl=0","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/usb1mmlzs8i7n8i\/LD44-Bloodalchemist_final_bugfix.gmx.zip?dl=0","text":"Source code"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/ps4ozrpzbh1o8o4\/LD44-Bloodalchemist.gmx.zip?dl=0","text":"Source code"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/zremy28l9i8tsxy\/LD44-Bloodalchemist_final_bugfix.exe?dl=0","text":"Windows"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"38171","g_author":"1074672","g_event":"LD44","g_eventkey":"75","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"256982","g_title":"Bloodalchemist","g_status":"USEAR3","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"14","g_site2_node_id":"140477","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0.805524"},"nds":{"n_key":"140477","n_urlkey":"256982","n_parent":"139254","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/44\/bloodalchemist","n_slug":"bloodalchemist","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"74672","n_created":"1554055795","n_modified":"1556582957","n_version":"455524","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":140477,"parent":139254,"superparent":9,"author":74672,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"compo","published":"2019-04-29T01:48:47Z","created":"2019-03-31T18:09:55Z","modified":"2019-04-30T00:09:17Z","version":455524,"slug":"bloodalchemist","name":"Bloodalchemist","body":"You are doomed to be a blood alchemist. To free yourself, you need to make a special tribute to the trophy statue. But aware the customers! Dont ignore them or you will pay with blood.\n\n\n# Controls\nMove - WASD\nConfirm - F\nSwitch Left - Q \nSwitch Right - E\n\n# How To Play\n\nCreate Potions, gather items to pledge your tribute to the trophy statue and make the customers happy - or give them a potion!\n\nOh and its sometimes worth to give your customer either a potion of luck, potion of royal or potion of richness. ;)\n\n![test3.gif](\/\/\/raw\/0b3\/21\/z\/21a39.gif)\n![test2.gif](\/\/\/raw\/0b3\/21\/z\/21a3e.gif)\n![test4.gif](\/\/\/raw\/0b3\/21\/z\/21a41.gif)\n\n## Bugfixes\n\n- Player would sometimes get stuck in walls (was issue with mask)\n- Mushrooms wouldnt spawn properly after first time\n- Depthsorting for one machine was off\n- NPCs would hide in wall\n- Decreased overall difficulty\n- Made the description more clear\n- Items would get stuck in objects, where the player wouldnt be able to retrieve them\n- Endscreen was set to Startscreen\n- NPCs would request items, that the player couldn't get\n- Adjusted hp recovery for heal potion (now you can regain hp)\n","meta":{"author":[74672],"cover":"\/\/\/content\/0b3\/21\/z\/21957.png","link-01":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/odwosgaknq64jwk\/LD44-Bloodalchemist_bugfix_final_noinstall.exe?dl=0","link-01-tag":"42337","link-01-name":"Bugfix 1_no install needed (play this)","link-02":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/4hu4czqw3tds3nn\/LD44-Bloodalchemist.exe?dl=0","link-02-tag":"42337","link-02-name":"Game_old","link-03":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/usb1mmlzs8i7n8i\/LD44-Bloodalchemist_final_bugfix.gmx.zip?dl=0","link-03-tag":"42332","link-03-name":"Source_Bugfix","link-04":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/ps4ozrpzbh1o8o4\/LD44-Bloodalchemist.gmx.zip?dl=0","link-04-tag":"42332","link-04-name":"Source_noBugfix","link-05":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/zremy28l9i8tsxy\/LD44-Bloodalchemist_final_bugfix.exe?dl=0","link-05-tag":"42337","link-05-name":"Bugfix 1_with install"},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/44\/bloodalchemist","parents":[1,5,9,139254],"love":0,"notes":14,"notes-timestamp":"2019-05-05T11:43:55Z","grade":{"grade-01":21,"grade-02":21,"grade-03":21,"grade-04":21,"grade-05":21,"grade-06":21,"grade-07":19,"grade-08":20},"magic":{"cool":83.704058603819,"feedback":11,"given":13.75,"grade":20.625,"smart":-3.3908216920704}},"text":"You are doomed to be a blood alchemist. To free yourself, you need to make a special tribute to the trophy statue. But aware the customers! Dont ignore them or you will pay with blood.\n\n\n# Controls\nMove - WASD\nConfirm - F\nSwitch Left - Q \nSwitch Right - E\n\n# How To Play\n\nCreate Potions, gather items to pledge your tribute to the trophy statue and make the customers happy - or give them a potion!\n\nOh and its sometimes worth to give your customer either a potion of luck, potion of royal or potion of richness. ;)\n\n![test3.gif](\/\/\/raw\/0b3\/21\/z\/21a39.gif)\n![test2.gif](\/\/\/raw\/0b3\/21\/z\/21a3e.gif)\n![test4.gif](\/\/\/raw\/0b3\/21\/z\/21a41.gif)\n\n## Bugfixes\n\n- Player would sometimes get stuck in walls (was issue with mask)\n- Mushrooms wouldnt spawn properly after first time\n- Depthsorting for one machine was off\n- NPCs would hide in wall\n- Decreased overall difficulty\n- Made the description more clear\n- Items would get stuck in objects, where the player wouldnt be able to retrieve them\n- Endscreen was set to Startscreen\n- NPCs would request items, that the player couldn't get\n- Adjusted hp recovery for heal potion (now you can regain hp)\n","title":"Bloodalchemist"}