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Played for a while but the only thing was it was a bit lacking in challenge or win condition that i could see, its a pretty massive map to try and pick up all the batteries, so I didn't get as far as collecting them all to see what would happening. I wouldn't feel too bad about the music its not that bad, having anything is still better than nothing.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"caranha","author_uid":"1006622","time":"2017-08-01T02:40:40Z","epoch":1501555240,"modified":1501555240,"text":"Nice idea and nice graphics, but the mouse controls are a bit too wonky, so I couldn't play the game to its fullest. I think PICO8 doesn't quite work with the mouse :-)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Rombus","author_uid":"1012366","time":"2017-08-01T23:41:03Z","epoch":1501630863,"modified":1501630863,"text":"I like how it looks but I can't make the mouse work D:","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"FelixMcFelix","author_uid":"1002810","time":"2017-08-02T01:16:34Z","epoch":1501636594,"modified":1501636594,"text":"Never thought I'd see an RTS on the PICO, I didn't know you could use mouse input like that!\nSteamrolling the local machines with my robot army was oddly satisfying, though I think it'd have been nice if I had to defend the base from time to time.\nThe graphics in-game were pretty good, the title screen was well done too!\n\n(The music was alright, don't worry about it!)\n\nGood work, keep it up!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"keckles","author_uid":"1007042","time":"2017-08-09T16:02:19Z","epoch":1502294539,"modified":1502294539,"text":"you stole my games name...\n\non another note the game looked decent but i think it needs some more polish","likes":1,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld39\/43605-9c22bacf757e0b89227dcf3b16a45a62.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.lexaloffle.com\/bbs\/?pid=42964#p42963","text":"Link"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/Xyrion-Bleak\/pico_8_cartridges\/blob\/master\/power_outage_ld39.p8","text":"Link"}],"live_source":{"record":"runs\/20261020T141604.528886Z\/records\/0017.json","object":"objects\/281829835e80dbdf8dc7fd1412d39a098946c1e1b8ea9ab19b1aee074502ba11","sha256":"281829835e80dbdf8dc7fd1412d39a098946c1e1b8ea9ab19b1aee074502ba11","response_url":"https:\/\/api.ldjam.com\/vx\/node2\/get\/43593+43599+43600+43605+43620+43621+43628+43629+43635+43637+43640+43643+43652+43672+43679+43683+43691+43692+43693+43715+43718+43728+43730+43732+43740+43746+43747+43750+43751+43753+43756+43759+43762+43765+43767+43770+43781+43787+43793+43796+43806+43814+43830+43835+43841+43842+43843+43849+43850+43860","captured_at":1792506013},"metadata":{"g_key":"54211","g_author":"1011958","g_event":"LD39","g_eventkey":"74","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"252454","g_title":"Power Outage","g_status":"USEAR3","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"6","g_site2_node_id":"43605","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"43605","n_urlkey":"252454","n_parent":"32802","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/39\/power-outage","n_slug":"power-outage","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"11958","n_created":"1501430848","n_modified":"1754409739","n_version":"121034","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":43605,"parent":32802,"_superparent":9,"author":11958,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"jam","published":"2017-07-31T22:19:43Z","created":"2017-07-30T16:07:28Z","modified":"2025-08-05T16:02:19Z","_trust":1,"version":121034,"slug":"power-outage","name":"Power Outage","body":"![PICO-8_9.png](\/\/\/raw\/6be\/2\/z\/7027.png)\n\nPower Outage is a real time strategy game made with Pico-8 that is played with mouse.\n\n## Story:\n\nYou are an artificial intelligence which is in command of a factory complex.\nAnd you have a problem. 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