{"author_link":"\/author\/vaclav\/","author_name":"Dimitri0xFF","author_uid":"43581","comments":[{"author_name":"bushmango","author_uid":"5852","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 3:26am","epoch":1450063260,"text":"Why are the lice eating my beautiful plant?!"},{"author_name":"KBF123","author_uid":"52084","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 3:28am","epoch":1450063380,"text":"Cool idea."},{"author_name":"graceavery","author_uid":"49147","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 3:28am","epoch":1450063380,"text":"Great first entry! Nice work on the music, as well. :)"},{"author_name":"Mixer","author_uid":"16241","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 3:30am","epoch":1450063500,"text":"Nice game! My top score wasn't very good, I got a top of 23. (Actually, that might be good, just saw your screenshots.) Anyway, cool game. Good idea putting the T in though, as waiting wasn't very interesting :)"},{"author_name":"XbooperxdX","author_uid":"64865","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 4:11am","epoch":1450065960,"text":"Pretty interesting concept, and fun. Wish it had audio though. Good game though"},{"author_name":"ProgramYourFace","author_uid":"63654","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 4:18am","epoch":1450066380,"text":"It was Ok. But I was kind of confused with what all the bars and stuff where for."},{"author_name":"Dooskington","author_uid":"25167","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 4:20am","epoch":1450066500,"text":"I didn't really know what was going on. Also, why are lice eating a plant?"},{"author_name":"BoUnDtOtHeEaRtH","author_uid":"17374","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 4:22am","epoch":1450066620,"text":"Interesting idea and pretty well executed. I think the life bar and regeneration on your UI could be explained better but it was easy enough to understand once I played for a while. Nice job!\r\rHighest score was 26 gonna go for 30+."},{"author_name":"Dimitri0xFF","author_uid":"43581","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 4:22am","epoch":1450066620,"text":"@graceavery It's my 3rd entry and the game has no music\/audio at all."},{"author_name":"irwatts","author_uid":"56905","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 4:38am","epoch":1450067580,"text":"This is by far the best plantlice sim I've tried."},{"author_name":"torcado194","author_uid":"5839","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 7:36pm","epoch":1450121460,"text":"I'm not sure I fully understand this game. Is it not most efficient to hold the 'g' button for a little less than 5 minutes then spam the 's' key? interesting, none the less"},{"author_name":"Dimitri0xFF","author_uid":"43581","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 9:36pm","epoch":1450128660,"text":"Well, try it.."},{"author_name":"Japes","author_uid":"38385","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 12:06pm","epoch":1450267260,"text":"Interesting idea - was a bit unclear what was going on with the red\/green arrows and what affected my health, at first. But after a while I figured it out."},{"author_name":"retrogradeorbit","author_uid":"40126","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 12:48pm","epoch":1450356180,"text":"do too many lice kill the plant? I had trouble finding the sweet spot."},{"author_name":"philipp","author_uid":"21997","time":"Dec 17, 2015 @ 1:16pm","epoch":1450357860,"text":"Good take on the theme.\r\rThe system is interesting. Played it three times and I clearly was getting better. It was a bit bothering that the growing stopped even when you were holding the "G"-Button, didn't get this the first time."},{"author_name":"zenmumbler","author_uid":"17143","time":"Dec 21, 2015 @ 4:27pm","epoch":1450714920,"text":"Interesting idea, will need some time to get to a good score."},{"author_name":"miwuc","author_uid":"6177","time":"Dec 23, 2015 @ 11:57pm","epoch":1450914720,"text":"Interesting idea. A bit hard to understand what's going on but I guess it's part of the game. I got a highscore of 21."},{"author_name":"Muel","author_uid":"63618","time":"Dec 29, 2015 @ 8:09pm","epoch":1451419440,"text":"Nice concept.\r\rYou use the same life energy to grow and feed the lice.\rIt's the balance between having some to live with and some to give. Give too much and you die. Give too few and you don't score."},{"author_name":"LeReveur","author_uid":"7170","time":"Dec 30, 2015 @ 11:03pm","epoch":1451516280,"text":"I had to retry a little until I find the better way to grow the highest amount of lice I can get, and then retry again with the post-compo to score in the leaderboard. :P"},{"author_name":"Dimitri0xFF","author_uid":"43581","time":"Dec 31, 2015 @ 12:05am","epoch":1451520000,"text":"nice score :P"},{"author_name":"Stuntddude","author_uid":"31623","time":"Dec 31, 2015 @ 10:43am","epoch":1451558280,"text":"This is a cool concept, having to balance your growth rate with the time you have remaining and the cost to add lice, and it's straightforward enough to figure out, but after a few rounds I'm still not sure if the strategy makes itself clear. Is it just a matter of growing as much as you can, figuring out the optimal time to start placing lice, and then placing lice until the game ends, or is there something more to the strategy that I'm missing? An interesting challenge, none the less.\r\rAlso, a small thing, I'm not sure why anyone would play without fast-forward, so it would make more sense to me for that to be the default."}],"images":["ld34\/43581-33ef3296271c0ec9c868d159ce3c9a12.jpg","ld34\/43581-f16b229ab8d443c6f515363c4e63c64e.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/speedbird.tk\/ld34\/postcompo\/board.php","text":"Leaderboard"},{"url":"http:\/\/speedbird.tk\/ld34\/postcompo","text":"Post-Compo - Web (IE not supported)"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/26394463\/LD\/Grow_101.jar","text":"Post-Compo - All platforms (.jar Java6+)"},{"url":"http:\/\/speedbird.tk\/ld34\/","text":"Original - Web (IE not supported)"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/26394463\/LD\/GrowLD34_source.zip","text":"original source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"5695","g_author":"43581","g_event":"LD34","g_eventkey":"31","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"5777","g_title":"Grow","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"787","g_commentcount":"21","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\/43581-shot0-1450062366.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/43581-shot1-1450062366.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"You are a plant and you have to feed as many lice as possible.\r\n\r\nHold G to grow\r\nPress S to spawn lice\r\nPress T to toggle time speed\r\nScoring: number of lice you have by the end of the timer\r\n\r\nNow the Post-Compo version has a Leaderboard!\r\n\r\nTools: Eclipse, libgdx, flixel-gdx","title":"Grow"}