{"author_link":"\/users\/ret44","author_name":"ret44","author_uid":"1003922","comments":[{"author_name":"edj99","author_uid":"1079929","time":"2018-04-24T04:41:02Z","epoch":1524544862,"modified":1524544862,"text":"Seriously professional and high quality game! Every aspect done really well, especially the art, sound and music.  ","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Dekobii","author_uid":"1078261","time":"2018-04-24T08:10:04Z","epoch":1524557404,"modified":1524557404,"text":"High quality, but i struggled with the game. It felt like (and was) playing 2 games at once, which was discordant to my experience. Perhaps the theme came through too literally. Awesome graphics and sound, creates a good sense for the game. ","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"TheMoonrise","author_uid":"1081770","time":"2018-04-24T10:12:24Z","epoch":1524564744,"modified":1524564744,"text":"Hey, I really like your game. The art style is lovely and the music is just great. Only the blend between the games could go a bit further. I quickly found myself just playing the match 3 while placing a tower every now and then. Overall definitive an impressive entry!","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"nidup","author_uid":"1000962","time":"2018-04-24T11:47:44Z","epoch":1524570464,"modified":1524570464,"text":"Wow, very solid entry, overally the best I tested up to now, congratz :thumbsup: From lovely arts to good game-play and appropriate music, you guys built a great game, wish you the best for the final ranking :rocket: :fingers_crossed: ","likes":4,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Leonard","author_uid":"1081294","time":"2018-04-24T12:14:33Z","epoch":1524572073,"modified":1524572073,"text":"The game is really cool! Graphics are good and the mix genre works :)","likes":4,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"EkkoEkko","author_uid":"1078025","time":"2018-04-24T12:14:35Z","epoch":1524572075,"modified":1524572075,"text":"Most thing that i like is the title of your game. Its attractive to the users","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Chema Esteo","author_uid":"1083479","time":"2018-04-24T12:23:18Z","epoch":1524572598,"modified":1524572598,"text":"I didn't get how to make turrets to react or something, but I lost just in wave 3. Although, funny game. Good job!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"achebit","author_uid":"1001851","time":"2018-04-24T12:27:40Z","epoch":1524572860,"modified":1524572860,"text":"Interesting concept with professional polish (dare I say you guys do this for a living).\n\nNot really sure what all my buildings were supposed to be doing? You should put up some instructions =)","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"ret44","author_uid":"1003922","time":"2018-04-24T12:47:29Z","epoch":1524574049,"modified":1524574049,"text":"@achebit, @Chema Esteo, everything should be explained during intro, unfortunately it's easy to skip it. I'll post instructions to entry description later today.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"digitaldude555","author_uid":"1007759","time":"2018-04-24T13:31:43Z","epoch":1524576703,"modified":1524576791,"text":"You just buy the towers and then play match 3 section to get the bullets for the tower guys.\n\nI really really like the the music and sound effects 5\/5.\n\nGraphics 4\/5 are great too.\n\nMy biggest problem was the theme, it just feels like two games independently rather than a combined one, 95% of the time playing I was looking at the match 3 section. 2\/5.\n\nInnovation 3\/5 nothing really innovative here just standard tower defense and match 3 game.\n\nHumor 4\/5 just because of the intro.\n\nFun 3\/5 tough one to judge, I love match 3 and tower defense, but it got hard very quickly by wave 4 the monsters over ran me and I was constantly short of bullets. The tower defense section needs balancing.\n\noverall 3\/5.\n ","likes":4,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"badpaul34","author_uid":"1000390","time":"2018-04-24T13:56:20Z","epoch":1524578180,"modified":1524578180,"text":"Greatly made but we really need to know what the turrets do, on hover or on long press. It reduces so much the stakes of the game.","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"ragnta","author_uid":"1001150","time":"2018-04-24T18:51:59Z","epoch":1524595919,"modified":1524595919,"text":"It's a great game, for a gamejam. The audio is fine, the two game logic is good, but I think it's a little bit hard. Good job!","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"MacDoom","author_uid":"1078881","time":"2018-04-24T19:50:00Z","epoch":1524599400,"modified":1524599400,"text":"Great game! It combines the genres in a very practical way!\nSuperb atmosphere. Congratulations!","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Brendan Toy","author_uid":"1080567","time":"2018-04-24T23:00:38Z","epoch":1524610838,"modified":1524610838,"text":"HAHA loved the intro, the humour was really good, i like the mix of puzzle and tower defense, but i had a problem, playing on Chrome the waves were invisible!!!! so i couldnt see what was coming. so i died a few times ont he first wave :( but despite that, the potential is strong in this one so it gets a high rating from me :) ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Albuquerque","author_uid":"1071843","time":"2018-04-25T03:35:30Z","epoch":1524627330,"modified":1524627330,"text":"Amazing graphics and polishing! Your tutorial was amazing and it REALLY feels like a finished game with tons of polishing. I really admire your production cycle during this jam!","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Togis","author_uid":"1013060","time":"2018-04-26T02:58:13Z","epoch":1524711493,"modified":1524711493,"text":"\nI played this game on stream last night, here is the VOD:\n\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t5bAc1yp78Q\n\nThanks for making this game!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"topbraj","author_uid":"1078755","time":"2018-04-26T13:01:29Z","epoch":1524747689,"modified":1524747689,"text":"I really enjoyed this! It got VERY hard VERY quickly though, and I found myself mostly focusing on generating mana. No need to buy more towers because I didn't have any mana anyway... However, this was really enjoyable, a great idea and amazing polish!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Talonos","author_uid":"1052091","time":"2018-04-27T02:55:18Z","epoch":1524797718,"modified":1524797718,"text":"Glad I got to play this for you live on stream! Really like the audio and intro, it made the game feel polished. I think you have a foundation for something great here! As others have said it gets hard pretty quick, so some balancing is needed, but for a Ludum Dare game I certainly don't expect perfect balance. Nice job!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Rebecca Kremer","author_uid":"1068631","time":"2018-04-27T02:58:33Z","epoch":1524797913,"modified":1524797913,"text":"This was very fun! Had a great time playing it on the stream ^_^ The humor and graphics were on point and I really appreciated the opening cinematic. :D The cyclopses got really tough in wave 4 and I don't think I would have been able to beat them, but I aws so into it I didn't even notice until Zues started getting hit haha. :P","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Sam Machell","author_uid":"1012083","time":"2018-04-27T18:18:43Z","epoch":1524853123,"modified":1524853123,"text":"very tricky! lovely art style absolutely beautiful, felt really great and the audio was immersive! i like the idea of combining the two genres and i think theres a lot of potential in it. i especially like at the beginning the way the dialogue flowed and read (but that's just a weird small thing i like in games) good job!!!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"ultrarat","author_uid":"1007025","time":"2018-04-28T18:27:52Z","epoch":1524940072,"modified":1524940072,"text":"Very cute sprites and sound.\nIt is unexpectedly missing some conversions of the genres like the towers not prioritizing the creeper closest to the end of the path and the match 3 part not allowing input by clicking on one piece then another and instead forcing you to always drag. I suppose problems like this are the issue when needing to do twice as much for two types of games in a short timeframe.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Robber","author_uid":"1009483","time":"2018-04-29T12:22:20Z","epoch":1525004540,"modified":1525004540,"text":"very cool theme combination, i think it was a bit weird that i could only swap if that would actually end up with a connect 3, i couldn't swap in between..at a point i think i had no possibility to swap any more..\nthe Greek theme is funny. the game overall is very well implemented and polished! nice entry!\n","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"morrilet","author_uid":"1008606","time":"2018-04-30T02:22:48Z","epoch":1525054968,"modified":1525054968,"text":"The art and audio were great, and the intro was super cute. It took me a while to figure out that I needed to keep the towers stocked with ammo, but once I did I got a little further. This was still really hard, though! I'm not great at match-3 games to start, so you can probably guess how I did. I also feel like the cursor was a little difficult to work with, and I can't help but think that using the usual cursor would've fixed some of that awkwardness. Either way, the game was solid. Nice work!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Hisfantor","author_uid":"1006925","time":"2018-05-05T09:56:47Z","epoch":1525514207,"modified":1525514207,"text":"your game seems to be very interesting but I can't see the enemies :\/\n(using chromium)\n\n![1525514096_1154_05052018_981x571.png](\/\/\/raw\/d0b\/1\/z\/14a59.png)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"LooksLikeSomething","author_uid":"1000496","time":"2018-05-09T18:51:27Z","epoch":1525891887,"modified":1525891887,"text":"Very polished game!\nI died at wave 4 on second play ^^\n\nIt's kind of hard to see where the cursor is, maybe with another one, or the default it would be better.\nMy first attempt at playing it, I didn't realize the match 3 section was made to resupply the towers so I died pretty quickly haha.\nLoved the intro, and the graphics are great!","likes":2,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld41\/91073-e6844e911cdb6644d7f964f10ee88b29.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/insecureshark.itch.io\/zeus-fever","text":"Windows"},{"url":"Coming soon...","text":"macOS"},{"url":"https:\/\/insecureshark.itch.io\/zeus-fever","text":"HTML5 (web)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"46538","g_author":"1003922","g_event":"LD41","g_eventkey":"72","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"244566","g_title":"Zeus Fever","g_status":"USEAR3","g_place":"325","g_commentcount":"25","g_site2_node_id":"91073","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"91073","n_urlkey":"244566","n_parent":"73256","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/41\/zeus-fever","n_slug":"zeus-fever","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"3922","n_created":"1524512867","n_modified":"1524569609","n_version":"270753","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":91073,"parent":73256,"superparent":9,"author":3922,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"jam","published":"2018-04-24T00:43:24Z","created":"2018-04-23T19:47:47Z","modified":"2018-04-24T11:33:29Z","version":270753,"slug":"zeus-fever","name":"Zeus Fever","body":"![2018-04-24 02_37_08-Zeus Fever.png](\/\/\/raw\/25f\/z\/128f3.png)\n**Gods might have messed up when they took Zeus guarding Olympos for granted. Zeus gets a divine cold (not common) and no one is defending the mountain!**\n\nGather mana and coins from match-3 and use them to build and power your shrines in tower defense. Don't let bouncy cyclops reach the end or Zeus will be really upset!\n\nMade for Ludum Dare 41 in 3 days.\nby\nRet (@ret44)\n\nEstefan\u00eda R-C. A. (@zotapianola)\n\nAn\u0131l Demir (@nettleflap)\n\n**There might be some issues with WebGL version, like input lagging and sound glitches. We recommend downloading standalone build.**","meta":{"author":[3922,11341,1052],"cover":"\/\/\/content\/25f\/z\/1288b.png","link-01":"https:\/\/insecureshark.itch.io\/zeus-fever","link-01-tag":"42337","link-02":"Coming soon...","link-02-tag":"42339","link-03":"https:\/\/insecureshark.itch.io\/zeus-fever","link-03-tag":"42336"},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/41\/zeus-fever","parents":[1,5,9,73256],"love":0,"notes":25,"notes-timestamp":"2018-05-09T18:51:27Z","grade":{"grade-01":43,"grade-02":43,"grade-03":43,"grade-04":43,"grade-05":43,"grade-06":43,"grade-07":42,"grade-08":43},"magic":{"cool":63.481105427274,"feedback":18,"given":16.875,"grade":42.875,"grade-01-average":3.695,"grade-01-result":325,"grade-02-average":3.549,"grade-02-result":350,"grade-03-average":3.098,"grade-03-result":807,"grade-04-average":3.793,"grade-04-result":429,"grade-05-average":4.22,"grade-05-result":160,"grade-06-average":3.841,"grade-06-result":134,"grade-07-average":3.763,"grade-07-result":150,"grade-08-average":3.537,"grade-08-result":357,"smart":-24.065707923943}},"text":"![2018-04-24 02_37_08-Zeus Fever.png](\/\/\/raw\/25f\/z\/128f3.png)\n**Gods might have messed up when they took Zeus guarding Olympos for granted. Zeus gets a divine cold (not common) and no one is defending the mountain!**\n\nGather mana and coins from match-3 and use them to build and power your shrines in tower defense. Don't let bouncy cyclops reach the end or Zeus will be really upset!\n\nMade for Ludum Dare 41 in 3 days.\nby\nRet (@ret44)\n\nEstefan\u00eda R-C. A. (@zotapianola)\n\nAn\u0131l Demir (@nettleflap)\n\n**There might be some issues with WebGL version, like input lagging and sound glitches. We recommend downloading standalone build.**","title":"Zeus Fever"}