{"author_link":"\/author\/v01pe\/","author_name":"v01pe","author_uid":"44402","comments":[{"author_name":"Elenesski","author_uid":"57748","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 7:43am","epoch":1450078680,"text":"Great idea.  Grow slow :)  Minimalistic graphics, but still looks good."},{"author_name":"v01pe","author_uid":"44402","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 1:37pm","epoch":1450099920,"text":"Thanks!"},{"author_name":"AwesomeAlliterationAlliance","author_uid":"46957","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 2:38am","epoch":1450146780,"text":"Really nice idea, but still very minimalistic"},{"author_name":"Ingon","author_uid":"5130","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 4:14am","epoch":1450152540,"text":"Minimalistic, but full of possibilities. Good job."},{"author_name":"David Cookie","author_uid":"66030","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 5:03pm","epoch":1450198680,"text":"Hey, I didn't fall and the game over showed up anyway! I was killing... ^^\r<br\/>Otherwhise the idea is pretty good and the theme is respected. Well done :)"},{"author_name":"v01pe","author_uid":"44402","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 5:11pm","epoch":1450199160,"text":"Thanks everyone :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>As I was pinched for time, I only jammed for ~8 hours, thus decided for something minimalistic, doable in the short time.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@David: There's a bug, that the new branches sometimes don't spawn in place and when one of them collides with the floor, is's game over&hellip;"},{"author_name":"demogorgon","author_uid":"54467","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 8:08pm","epoch":1450209780,"text":"I don't know why I enjoyed this so much but I did. I really like the concept."},{"author_name":"DeanoC","author_uid":"4322","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 9:57am","epoch":1450259520,"text":"Really liked it, though the exploding tree bug meant it was over too randomly a lot of the time but still very fun!"},{"author_name":"v01pe","author_uid":"44402","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 10:45am","epoch":1450262400,"text":"Thanks, I might even fix that collision bug&hellip; does anyone know if that's &quot;against the rules&quot;?"},{"author_name":"zedutchgandalf","author_uid":"18216","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 12:34pm","epoch":1450268940,"text":"My highscore is 4349. Neat little game! A simple yet very fun concept. Performance isn't the best in Firefox 42, though...\r<br\/>Fixing big bugs (or platform-specific bugs) isn't against the rules, but it is recommended to disclose it in the description or something if you do, and to also still include the original version as a download :)"},{"author_name":"Knowledge","author_uid":"34045","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 10:28pm","epoch":1450304580,"text":"Nice little game! But soon becomes boring."},{"author_name":"OrangeeZ","author_uid":"12415","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 2:36pm","epoch":1450362660,"text":"Hard but I like it."},{"author_name":"v01pe","author_uid":"44402","time":"Dec 19, 2015 @ 6:59pm","epoch":1450551240,"text":"THanks for the feedback! I made a little hotfix today fixing the physics problem that caused the game to end early&hellip; will post the original version in the description."},{"author_name":"v01pe","author_uid":"44402","time":"Dec 19, 2015 @ 7:11pm","epoch":1450551960,"text":"&hellip;if you played it before you may have to empty your cache first (for the web version) in order to play the fixed version!"},{"author_name":"JoseArias","author_uid":"55992","time":"Dec 23, 2015 @ 4:40pm","epoch":1450888500,"text":"5911 was my best. Nice game!"},{"author_name":"chrizdekok","author_uid":"43930","time":"Jan 4, 2016 @ 8:40pm","epoch":1451939700,"text":"Great simple game. Like it a lot. The only thing that I missed was a faster restart when crashing."}],"images":["ld34\/44402-d319cfc2d8eb786d064922866ba4c4d8.jpg","ld34\/44402-19f69c7882e8afb0cf726e115ede6c86.jpg","ld34\/44402-a4c8faf4ecb72c8fdbbfde61dc92d84c.jpg","ld34\/44402-e5f173aecbd6a2d5d7360b1c51b5df2f.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/v01pe.github.io\/LD34\/","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/v01pe.github.io\/LD34\/Build\/Win.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/v01pe.github.io\/LD34\/Build\/OSX.zip","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"http:\/\/v01pe.github.io\/LD34\/Build\/Linux.zip","text":"Linux"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/v01pe\/LD34\/archive\/master.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"4914","g_author":"44402","g_event":"LD34","g_eventkey":"31","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"4895","g_title":"Growth Needs Balance","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"16","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\/\/511439\/44402-shot0-1450062004.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/44402-shot1-1450062004.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/44402-shot2-1450062004.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/44402-shot3-1450062004.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"It's important to keep the balance\r\nOtherwise everything will break apart!\r\n\r\nGrowing will cause everything to totter\r\nBalance can never be restored, but striven for!\r\n\r\nGreed causes the equilibrium to collapse\r\nAlways maintain reasonability!\r\n\r\n\r\nThe game was made in ~8 hours, have fun!\r\nUse arrow keys\u2026\r\n\r\nI made a small hotfix after the jam that prevents the physic to freak out causing an early end of the round.\r\nThe original submission can be found here: https:\/\/github.com\/v01pe\/LD34\/releases\/tag\/originalSubmission","title":"Growth Needs Balance"}