{"author_link":"\/users\/jadedresearcher","author_name":"jadedResearcher","author_uid":"1141387","comments":[{"author_name":"Valden","author_uid":"1078091","time":"2019-04-30T01:42:26Z","epoch":1556588546,"modified":1556588546,"text":"A cute and creepy game. The mechanics were kinda confusing, and I think my :hatched_chick: destroyed the world ? Nice graphics, and the music slowly descending into madness was a good touch.","likes":5,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Samuel Lee","author_uid":"1055247","time":"2019-04-30T02:03:07Z","epoch":1556589787,"modified":1556589787,"text":".....well the music genuinely terrified me, good work! The mechanics are confusing but I think we have ourselves a solid start","likes":5,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Lshiro","author_uid":"1140654","time":"2019-04-30T02:14:03Z","epoch":1556590443,"modified":1556590443,"text":"The Madoka reference is strong in that one, and I loved it !","likes":5,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Team Kelly","author_uid":"1140731","time":"2019-04-30T02:19:59Z","epoch":1556590799,"modified":1556590799,"text":"Just played this and it's so cute and fun! I loved the mixture of really cute stuff with some gore! It was really cool trying to balance being able to defeat the monster without losing later on :) ","likes":4,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"PenguinPotential","author_uid":"1099598","time":"2019-04-30T02:27:11Z","epoch":1556591231,"modified":1556591231,"text":"Great take on Madoka! The chicken friend was a cute touch, and his celebrating even when the magical girls were dying was terrifying and hilarious~ xD The pact system was a tiny bit confusing, and by using multiple pacts in the same turn I was able to reduce the difficulty significantly. Was that intended? Overall had a great theme and humor!","likes":5,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"gelisam","author_uid":"1000360","time":"2019-04-30T02:43:51Z","epoch":1556592231,"modified":1556592231,"text":"The variety in the graphics and names was quite impressive!","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"gelisam","author_uid":"1000360","time":"2019-04-30T02:45:19Z","epoch":1556592319,"modified":1556592319,"text":"> It was really cool trying to balance being able to defeat the monster without losing later on :)\n\nWait, is that even possible? I mean, the prices aren't even given, I don't think we're meant to think strategically about this...","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"jadedResearcher","author_uid":"1141387","time":"2019-04-30T12:12:02Z","epoch":1556626322,"modified":1556626375,"text":"\"I don\u2019t think we\u2019re meant to think strategically about this\u2026\"\n\nWhoops, forgot to mention that there's two endings,and figuring out how to get them is the puzzle. \n\n~~Did you know that not all blood pacts are only for your current Magical Girl? And even the ones that are might not be all that great for the girls who come after...~~\n\n~~Having Magical Girls die is part of the learning experience, after all!~~\n\n~~Kids and Fun (tm)~~","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Harksa","author_uid":"1125803","time":"2019-04-30T15:44:15Z","epoch":1556639055,"modified":1556639055,"text":"It was a nice game and I pretty much knew quickly I had to not make pact to win the game, but the battles are too random to make it easy. A little bit frustrating but it's okay.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"GaryS","author_uid":"1017350","time":"2019-04-30T17:18:51Z","epoch":1556644731,"modified":1556644731,"text":"The music was brilliantly creepy... Not sure I really understood how my actions would effect the game - but I _did_ manage to get the 'good' ending.","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"plexsoup","author_uid":"1143502","time":"2019-04-30T20:36:38Z","epoch":1556656598,"modified":1556656598,"text":"Great game. Just felt a little short. Sorry, I didn't stick around to find the second ending. I saw \"you win\" and it felt complete.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"aCactus","author_uid":"1141414","time":"2019-04-30T23:52:56Z","epoch":1556668376,"modified":1556668376,"text":"I like how the deaths in this are handled so lightly. The music grows darker, you vanish suddenly with a splatting noise, and :hatched_chick: dances on.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"SnowTV","author_uid":"1128110","time":"2019-05-01T03:03:55Z","epoch":1556679835,"modified":1556679835,"text":"I definitely get the M*doka reference here lol\n\nVery nice graphics","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Fahim Faysal","author_uid":"1050872","time":"2019-05-01T06:21:54Z","epoch":1556691714,"modified":1556691714,"text":"Creepy and unique game. I like the references to madoka and the deaths genuinely creeped me out. I do think that the mechanics are a bit confusing. The boosts from the pacts should be visible on screen along with blood pact cost. Otherwise it's kind of hard to know which pact to use. ","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Weine","author_uid":"1025034","time":"2019-05-01T09:51:26Z","epoch":1556704286,"modified":1556704286,"text":"Silly and fun. Confusing mechanics, but winnable without corruption with some trickery (not going to spoil for others!)","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"jadedResearcher","author_uid":"1141387","time":"2019-05-01T13:18:19Z","epoch":1556716699,"modified":1556716747,"text":"\"The boosts from the pacts should be visible on screen along with blood pact cost. Otherwise it\u2019s kind of hard to know which pact to use.\"  Oh dang, I'd hoped it was enough for the damage to have a pact multiplier. I wish we'd had more time to polish play testing! But this is great to know for our post jam polish pass :)\n\nThanks for the feedback!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"dusterherz","author_uid":"1141458","time":"2019-05-01T13:39:22Z","epoch":1556717962,"modified":1556717962,"text":"I see no link to the game, it this normal ?","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Anna Karpova","author_uid":"1131711","time":"2019-05-01T13:40:08Z","epoch":1556718008,"modified":1556718008,"text":"Some creepy but fun, good work!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"jadedResearcher","author_uid":"1141387","time":"2019-05-01T13:56:05Z","epoch":1556718965,"modified":1556718965,"text":"\"I see no link to the game, it this normal ?\"\n\n\nUh. Huh. Where did the link go? Let me check dusterherz...","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"jadedResearcher","author_uid":"1141387","time":"2019-05-01T13:58:00Z","epoch":1556719080,"modified":1556720336,"text":"Cool, looks like Ludum ate the links. Re-added them, thanks for the catch @dusterherz :) :) :)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Colin Misbach","author_uid":"1076914","time":"2019-05-01T13:59:23Z","epoch":1556719163,"modified":1556719163,"text":"I couldn't figure out how to progress without making pacts. So I resorted to increasing my magic power so much that I one-shot every enemy :smiley:\n\nThe art is very cute, and the music to go along with it as well, at least in the beginning. I will ignore the underlying dark themes.\n\nLove it!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"dougLima","author_uid":"1143326","time":"2019-05-01T17:18:31Z","epoch":1556731111,"modified":1556731118,"text":"Creeeepy, Blood everywhere, I liked it! One-shoted everyone after power buff as well.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"YouBeStrong","author_uid":"1000823","time":"2019-05-01T18:01:39Z","epoch":1556733699,"modified":1556733699,"text":"I loved the monster designs!\nThe change in music and the increasingly bloody scenery changes the mood so well. Great job!","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"TBaudon","author_uid":"1000569","time":"2019-05-01T18:21:33Z","epoch":1556734893,"modified":1556734893,"text":"LOL\n\nLoved how that cute looking game turned to be so gore.\nLoved how the music evolve when everything goes wrong, cool idea, had fun !","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"dannn","author_uid":"1141675","time":"2019-05-01T19:57:30Z","epoch":1556740650,"modified":1556740650,"text":"\ud83d\udc25 is the real enemy! Monsters are just trying to warn us!\n\n\nSomehow it reminds me of NGE.","likes":4,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"jjjjason","author_uid":"1048483","time":"2019-05-02T04:30:41Z","epoch":1556771441,"modified":1556771441,"text":"How do I keep falling for this? You even literally put it in the screenshots above and I still didn't see it coming. The music flip especially is goddamn hilarious.\n\nI got both endings, and they're both quite good (although obviously B I R D E N D is the superior choice).\n\nI think there's things you can do to improve polish (e.g. animations, cleaning up the UI a little bit), but maybe that would almost detract from the outlandish horror of the world you've blood-pacted into existence.","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"MZA","author_uid":"1050407","time":"2019-05-02T16:20:38Z","epoch":1556814038,"modified":1556814038,"text":"The mechanics reminded me of old school RPG combat and i also liked how the monsters seemed to be randomly generated (i think) and still look cool.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Kimily","author_uid":"1154288","time":"2019-05-03T00:27:15Z","epoch":1556843235,"modified":1556843235,"text":"It confused me so much trying to play this XD  I thought the sound effect for throwing the chick at the monster was really funny.  I won by spamming throw chick at it until died in two shots OwO","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Magnanix","author_uid":"1142092","time":"2019-05-05T14:23:01Z","epoch":1557066181,"modified":1557066181,"text":"Can't play the game, link doesn't work. Also, website is pretty broken - lots of relative links leading to current folder, need to make those relative to root :P \"\/news.html\" vs. \"news.html\" ;).","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"nebulousHarmony","author_uid":"1154019","time":"2019-05-05T22:37:59Z","epoch":1557095879,"modified":1557095879,"text":"@mza The monsters are in fact (sorta) random! Though you may find some common themes. :)","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"abbie","author_uid":"1152697","time":"2019-05-05T23:31:46Z","epoch":1557099106,"modified":1557099106,"text":"I didn't play through all the different endings, but the game was super cute and funny. Loved the references to M@doka and the use of the doll engine to generate the different magical girls! The music is really funny, but does get grating at times. Really gave me a feeling of nostalgia for older flash games, great job :)","likes":0,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld44\/148838-7dd6a145f04c0b823453e1b2d8d9ec65.png"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/farragofiction.com\/LudumDare\/Spring2019\/","text":"HTML5 (web)"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/FarragoFiction\/MagicalGirlSim","text":"Source code"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"54491","g_author":"1141387","g_event":"LD44","g_eventkey":"75","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"254028","g_title":"Mahou Shoujo Monster: Promised Fate","g_status":"USEAR3","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"31","g_site2_node_id":"148838","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0.966354"},"nds":{"n_key":"148838","n_urlkey":"254028","n_parent":"139254","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/44\/mahou-shoujo-monster-promised-fate","n_slug":"mahou-shoujo-monster-promised-","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"141387","n_created":"1556324973","n_modified":"1556648426","n_version":"464897","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":148838,"parent":139254,"superparent":9,"author":141387,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"jam","published":"2019-04-30T00:57:50Z","created":"2019-04-27T00:29:33Z","modified":"2019-04-30T18:20:26Z","version":464897,"slug":"mahou-shoujo-monster-promised-fate","name":"Mahou Shoujo Monster: Promised Fate","body":"Mahou Shoujo Monster: Promised Fate  is the tale of  a \ud83d\udc25   wanting to save its city.   A collection of Magical Girls help it fight horrible monsters. There are definitely no secrets or twists. By which I mean, there are two endings to this puzzle turn based RPG :)\n\nBy the FarragoFiction team :)\n\nhttp:\/\/farragofiction.com\/LudumDare\/Spring2019\/\n\n# Screenshots:\n\n![Title_screen.png](\/\/\/raw\/b48\/22\/z\/23038.png)\n\n![Intro.png](\/\/\/raw\/b48\/22\/z\/23025.png)\n\n![Gameplay.png](\/\/\/raw\/b48\/22\/z\/2302a.png)\n\n![Gameplay2.png](\/\/\/raw\/b48\/22\/z\/2302d.png)\n\n![End1.png](\/\/\/raw\/b48\/22\/z\/23030.png)\n\nUses our existing doll engine (including magical girl dolls), as well as a preexisting 'stat' engine. All other art (including the monsters, which use the doll engine) is custom for this jam, as well as the 90% of the code.  One musical track was pre-existing, the others custom for this competition.\n\nYou can make your own monsters at: http:\/\/farragofiction.com\/DollSimE\/?type=427\n\n![mindmonster.png](\/\/\/raw\/b48\/22\/z\/23ccb.png)\n\n","meta":{"author":[141387,148738,154018,54335,154016,154015,154019,154020,154380],"cover":"\/\/\/content\/b48\/22\/z\/22f68.png","link-01":"http:\/\/farragofiction.com\/LudumDare\/Spring2019\/","link-01-tag":"42336","link-01-name":"","link-02":"https:\/\/github.com\/FarragoFiction\/MagicalGirlSim","link-02-tag":"42332","link-02-name":"index.html not older things"},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/44\/mahou-shoujo-monster-promised-fate","parents":[1,5,9,139254],"love":0,"notes":31,"notes-timestamp":"2019-05-05T23:31:46Z","grade":{"grade-01":50,"grade-02":48,"grade-03":50,"grade-04":50,"grade-05":50,"grade-06":49,"grade-07":47,"grade-08":49},"magic":{"cool":121.67659925062,"feedback":44,"given":71.25,"grade":49.125,"smart":19.850280665341}},"text":"Mahou Shoujo Monster: Promised Fate  is the tale of  a \ud83d\udc25   wanting to save its city.   A collection of Magical Girls help it fight horrible monsters. There are definitely no secrets or twists. By which I mean, there are two endings to this puzzle turn based RPG :)\n\nBy the FarragoFiction team :)\n\nhttp:\/\/farragofiction.com\/LudumDare\/Spring2019\/\n\n# Screenshots:\n\n![Title_screen.png](\/\/\/raw\/b48\/22\/z\/23038.png)\n\n![Intro.png](\/\/\/raw\/b48\/22\/z\/23025.png)\n\n![Gameplay.png](\/\/\/raw\/b48\/22\/z\/2302a.png)\n\n![Gameplay2.png](\/\/\/raw\/b48\/22\/z\/2302d.png)\n\n![End1.png](\/\/\/raw\/b48\/22\/z\/23030.png)\n\nUses our existing doll engine (including magical girl dolls), as well as a preexisting 'stat' engine. All other art (including the monsters, which use the doll engine) is custom for this jam, as well as the 90% of the code.  One musical track was pre-existing, the others custom for this competition.\n\nYou can make your own monsters at: http:\/\/farragofiction.com\/DollSimE\/?type=427\n\n![mindmonster.png](\/\/\/raw\/b48\/22\/z\/23ccb.png)\n\n","title":"Mahou Shoujo Monster: Promised Fate"}