{"author_link":"\/users\/lenon-kramer","author_name":"Lenon Kramer","author_uid":"1002426","comments":[{"author_name":"Scornz","author_uid":"1003205","time":"2017-05-02T12:15:15Z","epoch":1493727315,"modified":1493727315,"text":"Awesome game and the visuals are great for a Jam! Played for at least 30 minutes before I realized I had other things to do... nice work!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Florian van Strien","author_uid":"1014538","time":"2017-05-02T12:37:30Z","epoch":1493728650,"modified":1493728650,"text":"The game looks very nice and I think there may be good gameplay, but the experience for new players like me is rough.\n\nThe game is pretty hard to understand. I read the instructions and backstory but it was still hard to know what to do. The game also started immediately at a quick pace. Even when I did know what to do I was clicking around frantically and didn't know how well I was doing until the You Failed screen.\nThe graphics look good, although I think the user interface could have been prettier. Also, it could have been a bit easier to use. The clickboxes of the actions are pretty small, while you want to switch actions really quickly.\nThe theme has been used okay.\n\nTo end a bit more positively, I think that if you improve the interface and tutorial a bit, I think this may be a really good game!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"SvartTand","author_uid":"1014366","time":"2017-05-02T12:38:42Z","epoch":1493728722,"modified":1493728722,"text":"Quite a interesting game but it really lacked sounds. And I would recommend putting some images on this page and as a cover so that people can see the game before they download it. Because it really got nice artwork, its just a shame you don't show it on the site. At firs I didn't really understand what to do, because if you don't immediately start defending the rifts you lose in about 15 sec or something. But once you understood the game it started to get fun.\n\nA problem in the game was that I really didn't know which rift was which when they looked identical and they were not even in order. The furthest away was number 2 which was a little odd. You could also have shown some hp bars of your defenders, now you just had to rely on the small boxes on the sides on the screen. Almost the whole game depended on those boxes and the rest of the screen wasn't really necessary for the gameplay.\n\nWas it intentional that the researcher was able to cure and research at the same time or was it just a bug? \n\nBut all in all a good idea that could have had some last polishing to make the gameplay more fun and easier to play.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Lenon Kramer","author_uid":"1002426","time":"2017-05-02T13:24:32Z","epoch":1493731472,"modified":1493731575,"text":"@scornz, @florian-van-strien, and @svarttand. Thank you very much for your feedback!\n\nAbout having screenshots on the page, unfortunately I haven't been able to upload images, as the \"upload\" button doesn't work. I think maybe it's the browser, so later on today I'll try to install a more mainstream one just for that (I use Palemoon).\n\nAlso, there aren't health bars for the defenders because I didn't managed to do with the positioning, as they come back and forth (the enemy's health bars are anchored on a general \"Rift Canvas\" and only get visibility on\/off when there are or aren't enemies on the rifts). But I guess I just figured out how to do it. Yes, this is the second jam game I program all by myself on my life, and the first one I got something near playability, as I'm not a full programmer, just a Game Designer who like to try to code. :)\n\nI'll improve the rest of the UI on an \"off-jam update\" and leave it for the ones who want to try it. Expect something tonight (Brazilian time...).\n\nI'll also try, on that update, to make some form of ingame tutorial to ease the start of first-timers. :D\n\nEDIT: The researcher being able to cure and research at the same time is a bug. Nobody is supposed to multitask here. I'll adress that, also.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"cvetk0","author_uid":"1009396","time":"2017-05-02T16:16:18Z","epoch":1493741778,"modified":1493741784,"text":"Very nice game! First I had no idea how to gather resources and how to use them, but as time passed and one of my interns was wiped out I got the hang of it. With one down it was quite a struggle to get to 100% but I did it! :smile:.\n\nGraphics are very very good, there are some glitches in task assigning it seems (check box is checked but Nick is not curing for example, but I got around it just by disabling and enabling it again). Too bad you didn't manage to do the sounds and music. This game would definitely be much better with them. But overall I think you did an impressive work for such short time. Keep it up!!!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"SneakyDeagle","author_uid":"1010583","time":"2017-05-02T20:38:56Z","epoch":1493757536,"modified":1493757536,"text":"I died right at the start because I didn't understood it right away :D\n\nBut after you get into it it's quite fun, still not so easy to understand everything you can do imo.\n\nWith sounds the game would feel much better.\n\nWas still worth trying it out, nice entry :)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"kantieno","author_uid":"1025286","time":"2017-05-02T20:57:17Z","epoch":1493758637,"modified":1493758637,"text":"I enjoyed it after I got into the swing of things! It was a little confusing making sure I was sending everyone to the correct place so I think it would really benefit from having hotkeys for different actions and selecting specific units.\n\nI was  able to get over 50% research completed before I accidentally got one of my workers killed. I enjoyed it though, I think a little bit more progression during a run such as researching or building various upgrades could be really nice, good job!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Lenon Kramer","author_uid":"1002426","time":"2017-05-03T12:15:57Z","epoch":1493813757,"modified":1493813827,"text":"@cvetk0, @sneakydeagle, @kantieno, Thank you very much for your feedback! It was awesome and very important.\n\nI'm glad you enjoyed the game. I adressed some of your feedbacks on an off-jam update I just released - including the glitches on Nick's checkboxes. Still without sounds, sadly, maybe I'll come up with something on the weekend.\n\nI wanted to have some things added, like different resources, weapon and defenses upgrading, and char progression, but that wasn't possible on the Jam. But I built up the code with that in mind so there are variables which weren't useful on the jam (like the weapon and skill ones), but leave the field open for expanding. Do you people who played the game (and that question is for @scornz, @florian-van-strien, and @svarttand also) think that this is worth expanding and maybe bringing up to steam (or other selling platform, whatever)?","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"huynq","author_uid":"1024359","time":"2017-05-03T17:39:06Z","epoch":1493833146,"modified":1493833146,"text":"I could not figure out how to play it after 2 attempts :'(","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Khorm","author_uid":"1013156","time":"2017-05-03T17:53:20Z","epoch":1493834000,"modified":1493834000,"text":"Some really sweet graphics on display here, I had some issued reading the black text due to contrast and I would really have liked to click the person I wanted to reassign instead of having to find it in the left sidebar(that I had problem reading anyway, maybe I'm just old). I do really like the idea and the execution + style is really nice. Also some sound to indicate different events would have been really helpful + made it a better experience. I did enjoy this and is one of the few entries I look forward to a postjam version, lots of potential.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Lipsch","author_uid":"1014467","time":"2017-05-03T17:59:04Z","epoch":1493834344,"modified":1493834344,"text":"The game looks good. But theres no sound which doesn't allow a good mood to come up. The controls are very unsatisfying. I really couldn't control the game as i wanted to.\nOther then that. I think the game would be really fiun to play. I like the multiple things you got to do in order to win.. Mine, defend, etc..\n","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"DiegoCTorguet","author_uid":"1012898","time":"2017-05-03T23:26:39Z","epoch":1493853999,"modified":1493853999,"text":"I died as I started playing but with some work I started to catch what to do. It could be more intuitive with some sounds and the font is not easy to read fast in the UI. But the main problems with the game is the lack of polish. Keep working on it and you can have a funny game here.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"SleepyStudios","author_uid":"1013508","time":"2017-05-07T20:28:06Z","epoch":1494188886,"modified":1494188886,"text":"Looks really good aesthetically but it's very overwhelming to start off with. Feel like the tutorial didn't really say too much but maybe that was just me.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"cybek","author_uid":"1016454","time":"2017-05-09T14:13:03Z","epoch":1494339183,"modified":1494339183,"text":"It looks like chaos at the first sight. But after a while it looks like nice, but complicated game with micro management. Keyboard shortcuts would be great.\nBut game is playable and quite interesting. Good luck!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Alexandr Rum","author_uid":"1014322","time":"2017-05-17T16:52:15Z","epoch":1495039935,"modified":1495039935,"text":"Unfortunately I did not understand what to do (","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"novodantis","author_uid":"1001502","time":"2017-05-17T17:50:51Z","epoch":1495043451,"modified":1495043451,"text":"As others have said, it's a very overwhelming game at first. I died a few times before figuring things out, but it seems like there's a lot of potential for strategic nuance here. 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Jessica Barros - Game Art, Game Design;\n\n. L\u00eanon Kramer - Game Design, Programming;\n\n:::\n\n[OFF-JAM UPDATE] - UX Improvement + Beginner-Friendliness + Bug Fixing\n\nThis update was done on the basis of feedbacks from the comments. On the link below there are the options to download both the Jam version and the Updated version. Please rate the game based solely on the Jam version. The updated one is there only for the people who had trouble with the kind-of-steep learning curve but still wanted to enjoy the game.\n\nUX Improvement:\n- bigger toggle checkboxes\n- label of rifts (and logical naming)\n- hp bar of defenders\n\nBeginner-Friendliness:\n- Ease starting wave (build-up of pacing)\n- ingame tutorial\n\nBug Fixing:\n- Researcher toggle bug fix\n\n:::\n\nOpt Out: Sound (didn't had time to make sfx and music)\n\n:::\n\nLink: https:\/\/lenon-kramer.itch.io\/rift-world\n\n::\n\nBackstory:\n\nThe interns of a time travel agency tried to prove themselves while the boss was away\u2026 and got stranded on a tiny dimension. Their entrance there made the place unstable, and some time rifts started to crack around, through which some monsters are trying to invade and eat the interns. Now it\u2019s in your hands to help them defend themselves and repair the time machine to get back to the agency HQ\u2026 before Jack finds out, preferably.\n\nThe quadruple twins are strong and able combatants. They may defend the rifts against the monsters. They may also mine the crystal necessary to repair the Time Machine (luckily those are abundant on the Rift World!). Be careful to make them Rest a bit if they get too injured, so they can recover.\n\nThe impetuous Alja is the leader of the team, because she is the only one with more than two months of experience on the agency. She will provide valuable help on mining and repairing.\n\nThe shy Nick is the genius of the team. He will research the way of getting out of Rift World. Also, he can repair the Rifts if the monsters are close to getting in, and also medics the injured combatants.\n\nIf the Rifts don\u2019t get defended the monsters will start ripping them open apart. That will allow them to enter the dimension and then nothing will be able to stop them eating our little interns as a hard-to-digest lunch. Don\u2019t let that happen, by defending and repairing them.\n\nTo win you need to repair the Time Machine and get out! Setting Nick to Research will do the job, but it takes time and resources\u2026 and sometimes Nick will be needed somewhere else.\n\nMining is important - the crystal is used for repairing the Rifts and for the Research to get out of that damn place. Do not forsake it.","meta":{"grade-06-out":"1","cover":"\/\/\/content\/a79\/z\/36e3.jpg","author":[2426,13396]},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/38\/rift-world","parents":[1,5,9,9405],"love":0,"notes":16,"notes-timestamp":"2017-05-17T17:50:51Z","grade":{"grade-01":21,"grade-02":21,"grade-03":21,"grade-04":21,"grade-05":20,"grade-07":21,"grade-08":21},"magic":{"cool":88.054660231051,"feedback":22,"given":13.375,"grade":20.857142857143,"grade-01-average":3.053,"grade-01-result":575,"grade-02-average":2.737,"grade-02-result":600,"grade-03-average":2.684,"grade-03-result":606,"grade-04-average":2.895,"grade-04-result":606,"grade-05-average":3.333,"grade-05-result":444,"grade-07-average":2.474,"grade-07-result":423,"grade-08-average":2.789,"grade-08-result":596,"smart":6.8318467417879}},"text":"![Print Game Screen 07.png](\/\/\/raw\/a79\/z\/3c57.png)\n![Interface_Creditos.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/a79\/z\/3c58.jpg)\n\n\nThis little Tower Defense game was made by: \n\n. Jessica Barros - Game Art, Game Design;\n\n. L\u00eanon Kramer - Game Design, Programming;\n\n:::\n\n[OFF-JAM UPDATE] - UX Improvement + Beginner-Friendliness + Bug Fixing\n\nThis update was done on the basis of feedbacks from the comments. On the link below there are the options to download both the Jam version and the Updated version. Please rate the game based solely on the Jam version. The updated one is there only for the people who had trouble with the kind-of-steep learning curve but still wanted to enjoy the game.\n\nUX Improvement:\n- bigger toggle checkboxes\n- label of rifts (and logical naming)\n- hp bar of defenders\n\nBeginner-Friendliness:\n- Ease starting wave (build-up of pacing)\n- ingame tutorial\n\nBug Fixing:\n- Researcher toggle bug fix\n\n:::\n\nOpt Out: Sound (didn't had time to make sfx and music)\n\n:::\n\nLink: https:\/\/lenon-kramer.itch.io\/rift-world\n\n::\n\nBackstory:\n\nThe interns of a time travel agency tried to prove themselves while the boss was away\u2026 and got stranded on a tiny dimension. Their entrance there made the place unstable, and some time rifts started to crack around, through which some monsters are trying to invade and eat the interns. Now it\u2019s in your hands to help them defend themselves and repair the time machine to get back to the agency HQ\u2026 before Jack finds out, preferably.\n\nThe quadruple twins are strong and able combatants. They may defend the rifts against the monsters. They may also mine the crystal necessary to repair the Time Machine (luckily those are abundant on the Rift World!). Be careful to make them Rest a bit if they get too injured, so they can recover.\n\nThe impetuous Alja is the leader of the team, because she is the only one with more than two months of experience on the agency. She will provide valuable help on mining and repairing.\n\nThe shy Nick is the genius of the team. He will research the way of getting out of Rift World. Also, he can repair the Rifts if the monsters are close to getting in, and also medics the injured combatants.\n\nIf the Rifts don\u2019t get defended the monsters will start ripping them open apart. That will allow them to enter the dimension and then nothing will be able to stop them eating our little interns as a hard-to-digest lunch. Don\u2019t let that happen, by defending and repairing them.\n\nTo win you need to repair the Time Machine and get out! Setting Nick to Research will do the job, but it takes time and resources\u2026 and sometimes Nick will be needed somewhere else.\n\nMining is important - the crystal is used for repairing the Rifts and for the Research to get out of that damn place. Do not forsake it.","title":"Rift World"}