{"author_link":"\/author\/bio-bob\/","author_name":"Rob Glen","author_uid":"39992","comments":[{"author_name":"kabel","author_uid":"53077","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 7:35pm","epoch":1450207800,"text":"I wouldn't call this a game. You just press W and the game plays itself. It appears to be an idle game but lacks any motivation or gameplay."},{"author_name":"publicidadeba","author_uid":"63879","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 11:50pm","epoch":1450309500,"text":"There is something microscopic beautiful about this."},{"author_name":"Rob_Haines","author_uid":"32569","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 11:59pm","epoch":1450310040,"text":"This is an interesting concept; however, the two-button controls end up a little tedious once you have a moderately-large network (especially whenever I accidentally went one node past the one I wanted).\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I'm afraid I also didn't really understand what the fuel was for, or why I would buy it. It seemed to be linked to the green bars on each node, but beyond that I was stumped."},{"author_name":"qwetro","author_uid":"59778","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 3:15am","epoch":1450321800,"text":"I'm not gonna rate this, cuz I just don't understand.. Maybe you could write more words to describe something."},{"author_name":"tantumgames","author_uid":"60654","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 4:02pm","epoch":1450367820,"text":"Not a bad idea and gameplay. Good job."},{"author_name":"DrTeaSpoon","author_uid":"60315","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 4:41pm","epoch":1450456560,"text":"The two button scheme does not benefit the game play, only restricts it. But you did do both so it's ok.\r<br\/>This would work with ai or second player where you could compete for the nodes. As single player game there is no real condition to lose. Sure some patterns might be more efficient but you will eventually win if you keep playing."},{"author_name":"sergicollado","author_uid":"56825","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 4:41pm","epoch":1450456560,"text":"hard to play, good idea :)"},{"author_name":"Blobo","author_uid":"52667","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 5:10pm","epoch":1450631100,"text":"Pretty difficult, but i like it."},{"author_name":"Hot Box Games","author_uid":"39707","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 5:22pm","epoch":1450631820,"text":"It was a nice idea, but I found that cycling through all of the available node positions each time I wanted to place a new node very tedious, and it didn't seem like I would be penalised by spamming w - to just spawn nodes everywhere in all directions, I managed to get all 8 nodes by doing this.\r<br\/>Good job nonetheless!"},{"author_name":"pcmaster","author_uid":"44796","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 6:22pm","epoch":1450635420,"text":"Very, very minimalistic! :)"}],"images":["ld34\/39992-5ee96f7019c041e46c3bb5aecc0ddbd8.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/rob-glen.itch.io\/nodes","text":"Web \/ Local \/ Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"5405","g_author":"39992","g_event":"LD34","g_eventkey":"31","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"5425","g_title":"Nodes","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"894","g_commentcount":"10","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\/39992-shot0-1450061979.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Grow an ecosystem of gold gathering nodes in a quest to find every last shard known to exist in this minimalistic abstract two button game.\r\n\r\nHow to play the game:\r\nSet a node adjacent to all shards (The diamond shapes) to complete the game.\r\n\r\nEach node collects gold. That gold is then sent to other nodes until it reaches the base.\r\n\r\nThe base will send out reserve fuel to the nodes and it will spread out to the edges of the network (prioritizing giving fuel to the closer nodes).\r\n\r\nTo activate a shard you need the node adjacent to have fuel.\r\n\r\nNodes cost gold and so does fuel.\r\n\r\nActivating all shards ends the game.\r\n\r\nThe larger the network the harder it is to distribute fuel.","title":"Nodes"}