{"author_link":"\/users\/laurence-duffy","author_name":"Laurence Duffy","author_uid":"1001810","comments":[{"author_name":"Mikronaut","author_uid":"1014841","time":"2017-07-31T18:41:09Z","epoch":1501526469,"modified":1501526469,"text":"I really like this game. It looks and feels very smooth, and it has a great concept that I've never seen before. Unfortunately I wasn't using a mouse, so I didn't get very far when I needed to remove connections, but I still enjoyed it. One potential bug, the button to increase wire capacity didn't work in the HTML5 version.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"1000562","time":"2017-07-31T22:25:44Z","epoch":1501539944,"modified":1501539944,"text":"Neat game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 39 compilation video series, if you\u2019d like to take a look :) https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x4BqGc9csNo","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Kichex","author_uid":"1034617","time":"2017-08-01T01:49:58Z","epoch":1501552198,"modified":1501552198,"text":"Nice Game, I liked the simple graphics but the lack of sound put me off a bit, but still had fun :) ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"wrexialmt","author_uid":"1003046","time":"2017-08-01T11:51:18Z","epoch":1501588278,"modified":1501588279,"text":"Great little game! Too bad i can only play the webgl version and the upgrade system is bugged, but I see the potential! :D Got up to 30points or something with 10 wires, than it started becoming impossible haha :D","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Laurence Duffy","author_uid":"1001810","time":"2017-08-02T17:47:29Z","epoch":1501696049,"modified":1501696049,"text":"The wire capacity button is now fixed, cheers for pointing it out!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Chris_Grassi","author_uid":"1009486","time":"2017-08-02T18:33:41Z","epoch":1501698821,"modified":1501698821,"text":"I must say, absolutely fantastic job","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Aarneus","author_uid":"1039804","time":"2017-08-02T19:52:37Z","epoch":1501703557,"modified":1501703557,"text":"Really cool concept! I also liked the clean graphical style.\n\nIt seems that the levels are too slow though unless I missed some way of speeding them up. It feels like you spend a lot of time just waiting for a node to appear. The appearing nodes also seem a bit too random.\n\nThe idea and execution is solid though, with a little balancing of the speeds and random placement I think it could be very addictive! I also appreciate the prompt bug fix and the versions for multiple platforms.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Erkberg","author_uid":"1000213","time":"2017-08-02T20:48:19Z","epoch":1501706899,"modified":1501706899,"text":"Really cool game! In the beginning it seemed like it would be a bit slow, but well, that escalated quickly! Really great gameplay feeling cutting wires to connect new nodes under such time pressure. Some music and maybe a few effects would've been nice as well as something like an ending when you connected all remaining nodes. Still, an awesome experience, good job!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"PapyKent","author_uid":"1034326","time":"2017-08-03T18:47:21Z","epoch":1501786041,"modified":1501786041,"text":"Cool concept, some audio and maybe a bit of visual feedback would have make it even greater! (it took me a while to understand if I was doing the right thing or not)\nGood job !","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"RobotsAndMuffins","author_uid":"1039456","time":"2017-08-03T18:56:05Z","epoch":1501786565,"modified":1501786565,"text":"I like the concept and the puzzle idea is great. Although, at the end, you depend more on the activation probability that the own puzzle. But idea is neat! ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"wan","author_uid":"1000138","time":"2017-08-03T18:56:17Z","epoch":1501786577,"modified":1501786641,"text":"A very interesting game, with an original idea. It was very straightforward to understand and fun to play. I like how the core mechanic yields interesting choices, like \"is it worth it to power that dot with only 20% left? It would block my wires for ages!\"\n\nAlso the minimalist style really fits the game.\n\nWith a few improvements this could easily become a cool mobile game to pass the time, the controls being very touch-friendly. My suggestions are:\n\n* Replace the power percentage with a gauge that empties\/resplenishes, that would make the board more readable at a glance.\n* I felt the difficulty ramped up too slowly. Also the Large board seems to make things artificially difficult, I felt the small & medium boards were more interesting.\n* There's a way to win actually! Too bad the game is not aware of that:\n\n![](\/\/\/raw\/a8\/z\/88b4.png)\n\nBut good job overall, I'm sure there's a lot of interesting mechanics you could add on top of this to make it a varied and replayable mobile game!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"harusame","author_uid":"1003953","time":"2017-08-03T19:35:10Z","epoch":1501788910,"modified":1501788910,"text":"A good idea for a good concept ^^ \nGraphics are quite simple but it's effective to be focus on the game. \n\nI like it, good job !\n","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"BroRawr","author_uid":"1000794","time":"2017-08-03T22:21:59Z","epoch":1501798919,"modified":1501798919,"text":"I agree with the people above me, its a cool concept and it does its job as a innovative puzzler.\n\nthe only critique I have is that it felt a bit slow at times.\n\nGreat entry! ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Laurence Duffy","author_uid":"1001810","time":"2017-08-03T22:38:41Z","epoch":1501799921,"modified":1501799921,"text":"Really appreciate all the feedback received from everyone so far, it really helps me out!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Kthulhu1947","author_uid":"1021179","time":"2017-08-04T09:31:03Z","epoch":1501839063,"modified":1501839063,"text":"I like the concept. I once try to do something like that. But I was a really newbie at this time. So it didn't make it.\nI just had some trouble to remove wire on html part because of my Opera browser. The click\/drag is a shortcut to open tabs...\nKeep moving forward.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"grena","author_uid":"1005936","time":"2017-08-04T12:04:10Z","epoch":1501848250,"modified":1501848291,"text":"Well, I love this game! At first I thought the concept was a bit simple, but no, the difficulty is well balanced and it's pretty addictive <3 I love the \"buy\" new wires concept and the way it quickly stress you out when red cells appear.\n\nSome things that could be improved:\n- I'd love to be able to revive \"dead\" cells again, by connecting them, and have a realllly long charge time (ten times red one's, or maybe more), to have to deal with taking risk of powering up a dead cell or handle risky red cells.\n- When every cells are connected to the power supply, the game doesn't end, it's a bit sad you didn't have time to implement it :)\n- Could have been nice to have some sounds, it could bring more values and feedback to what happens on the screen\n- I struggled a bit finding the way to remove wire (with right click), so maybe a short explanation could be done ingame :)\n\nAnyway, nice entry, I'll play it again :)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"wowods","author_uid":"1000184","time":"2017-08-06T18:31:41Z","epoch":1502044301,"modified":1502044301,"text":"Good simple game. Hope there are some music or sound effect :)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"mintarcade","author_uid":"1003570","time":"2017-08-08T14:59:42Z","epoch":1502204382,"modified":1502204382,"text":"Would be great mobile game! Great game idea. Well done!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"blinry","author_uid":"1000072","time":"2017-08-12T10:46:24Z","epoch":1502534784,"modified":1502534784,"text":"Nice interpretation of the theme, and nice, abstract game mechanic! I tried the \"small\" level size, and found it somewhat too easy. Sound effects would have been nice! :) Also, I think a mechanic where you could connect multiple dots in one stroke would be better than current fine-grained connecting of two dots.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Belga54","author_uid":"1022926","time":"2017-08-12T14:58:17Z","epoch":1502549897,"modified":1502549897,"text":"Great idea and great use for the theme. If you made some sound effects the game would be better. ***overall(4\/5)***","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Ellian","author_uid":"1000550","time":"2017-08-13T12:04:26Z","epoch":1502625866,"modified":1502625866,"text":"Very simple; but fun concept. I'd love to see a more polished verson of it. :)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Satanos","author_uid":"1047185","time":"2017-08-14T15:32:21Z","epoch":1502724741,"modified":1502724741,"text":"I made a LD39 compo review in which there is your game : https:\/\/youtu.be\/Hbr3Mr1TRcQ?t=406 :) if you need a translation just ask me","likes":0,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld39\/38624-db3cffad064f284905c811c809bbd0e8.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/laurenceduffy.itch.io\/grid-connect","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/laurenceduffy.itch.io\/grid-connect","text":"HTML5 (web)"},{"url":"https:\/\/laurenceduffy.itch.io\/grid-connect","text":"macOS"},{"url":"https:\/\/laurenceduffy.itch.io\/grid-connect","text":"Linux"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"54225","g_author":"1001810","g_event":"LD39","g_eventkey":"74","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"252498","g_title":"Grid Connect","g_status":"USEAR3","g_place":"385","g_commentcount":"22","g_site2_node_id":"38624","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"38624","n_urlkey":"252498","n_parent":"32802","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/39\/grid-connect","n_slug":"grid-connect","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"1810","n_created":"1501242435","n_modified":"1501453482","n_version":"109472","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":38624,"parent":32802,"superparent":9,"author":1810,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"compo","published":"2017-07-30T22:10:58Z","created":"2017-07-28T11:47:15Z","modified":"2017-07-30T22:24:42Z","version":109472,"slug":"grid-connect","name":"Grid Connect","body":"Reconnect the power grid by restoring power to the failing nodes.\n\nThe game contains a help section on how to play + controls.\n\nRecommended to be played at 1024x768 on the downloadable versions - due to scaling, this is my recommended method to play, for a better user experience.\n\n![Grid Connect 2.png](\/\/\/raw\/217\/z\/5ac1.png)","meta":{"grade-07-out":"1","grade-06-out":"1","grade-05-out":"1","grade-08-out":"1","cover":"\/\/\/content\/217\/z\/5aba.png","link-01":"https:\/\/laurenceduffy.itch.io\/grid-connect","link-01-tag":"42337","link-02":"https:\/\/laurenceduffy.itch.io\/grid-connect","link-02-tag":"42336","link-03":"https:\/\/laurenceduffy.itch.io\/grid-connect","link-03-tag":"42339","link-04":"https:\/\/laurenceduffy.itch.io\/grid-connect","link-04-tag":"42341","author":[1810]},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/39\/grid-connect","parents":[1,5,9,32802],"love":0,"notes":22,"notes-timestamp":"2017-08-14T15:32:21Z","grade":{"grade-01":28,"grade-02":28,"grade-03":28,"grade-04":28},"magic":{"cool":62.787798912748,"feedback":0,"given":5.125,"grade":28,"grade-01-average":3.231,"grade-01-result":385,"grade-02-average":2.962,"grade-02-result":428,"grade-03-average":3.269,"grade-03-result":254,"grade-04-average":3.692,"grade-04-result":226,"smart":-57.217326604604}},"text":"Reconnect the power grid by restoring power to the failing nodes.\n\nThe game contains a help section on how to play + controls.\n\nRecommended to be played at 1024x768 on the downloadable versions - due to scaling, this is my recommended method to play, for a better user experience.\n\n![Grid Connect 2.png](\/\/\/raw\/217\/z\/5ac1.png)","title":"Grid Connect"}