{"author_link":"\/users\/jatdev","author_name":"JaTDev","author_uid":"1199907","comments":[{"author_name":"pedromgdo","author_uid":"1163507","time":"2020-04-20T11:55:38Z","epoch":1587383738,"modified":1587383738,"text":"Is it possible to complete? If yes this game is quite hard :sweat_smile: , I was stumped at first because I didn't know you had to hover over the bars to use the spells but after that everything went smooth, great job!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Goutye","author_uid":"1000410","time":"2020-04-20T12:05:37Z","epoch":1587384337,"modified":1587384337,"text":"I felt like playing Healer during a raid in World of Warcraft again. For some reasons, the DPS always like to take massive damage :smile:  Well done!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Low Mana","author_uid":"1199319","time":"2020-05-04T12:38:13Z","epoch":1588595893,"modified":1588595924,"text":"I like how you took an idle game and added a little bit of strategy to it with the abilities. With enough polish it can definitely be a really fun game I'd play a lot on my tablet or phone. My biggest thing is a need for sense of progression which I don't think there was in this version.\n\nSupports in any game I've played always get the short end of the stick so it's awesome to see them get their own jam entry!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"colozz","author_uid":"1038037","time":"2020-05-04T12:40:03Z","epoch":1588596003,"modified":1588596003,"text":"Your game is hard and challenging but it makes you want to replay it.\n\nThe game mechanics are easy to understand and manage.\n\nGood entry and good job :)","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"notgreat","author_uid":"1080849","time":"2020-05-08T09:02:13Z","epoch":1588928533,"modified":1588928576,"text":"The cooldown indicator is horrible. Using the same indicator for casting time and ability cooldown would be acceptable, but the casting timer overrides the cooldown on a percentage basis rather than a raw time basis, leading to very misleading periods where I thought the ability was ready to use but it actually needed a few more seconds.\n\nMore than that, I'm not sure if this is a bug or what but the game seems impossible without the pause button. The cooldowns continue to tick down while the game is paused. You can't heal so it's not perfect, but it seems like that's the only way to output enough hp\/sec to survive this. Using that felt like cheating, and without it I managed to consistently get to the E ability before dying. Also the explanations really need some words: it took me a while to figure out what the 3 ability did (heal over time on that character) and I'm still not sure what exactly the W and E do though I can guess based on context.\n\nOverall though an interesting game concept that seems like it has some good potential, but needs some balancing and explanations to be actually fun for me.","likes":0,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld46\/199912-1d19f89642dee75ba4b195d7ccf88f70.png"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/jatdev.duckdns.org\/KeepThemAlive.zip","text":"Youtube"},{"url":"http:\/\/jatdev.duckdns.org\/KeepThemAlive_source.zip","text":"Youtube"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"59413","g_author":"1199907","g_event":"LD46","g_eventkey":"77","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"270614","g_title":"Keep Them Alive!","g_status":"PVT1","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"5","g_site2_node_id":"199912","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"199912","n_urlkey":"270614","n_parent":"176557","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/46\/keep-them-alive-5","n_slug":"keep-them-alive-5","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"199907","n_created":"1587344498","n_modified":"1587346107","n_version":"578311","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":199912,"parent":176557,"superparent":9,"author":199907,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"compo","published":"2020-04-20T01:26:37Z","created":"2020-04-20T01:01:38Z","modified":"2020-04-20T01:28:27Z","version":578311,"slug":"keep-them-alive-5","name":"Keep Them Alive!","body":"![cover.png](\/\/\/raw\/3ec\/03\/z\/2cad0.png)\nPhew, this was harder than expected. It's been quite a long time since I last worked with SDL2, but it was incredibly fun to complete a project in such a short time :v: .\nWell, \"complete\" as in playable, there are still so many features I wanted to implement. But it runs, you can keep people alive and I've got new inspiration for future works :smile: .\n\nThe game is played with mouse and keyboard. Mouse over the health bars at the bottom and press a skill (1-4, Q-R) to heal your party. Try to keep them alive as long as possible! I always liked playing healers in (MMO)RPGs, and with this minigame I tried to resemble the micromanaging you have to do as a healer to keep your party alive.","meta":{"author":[199907],"grade-07-out":"1","grade-08-out":"1","cover":"\/\/\/content\/3ec\/03\/z\/2ca8d.png","link-01":"http:\/\/jatdev.duckdns.org\/KeepThemAlive.zip","link-01-tag":[42337],"link-01-name":"Win10","link-02":"http:\/\/jatdev.duckdns.org\/KeepThemAlive_source.zip","link-02-tag":[42332],"link-02-name":"Source"},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/46\/keep-them-alive-5","parents":[1,5,9,176557],"love":0,"notes":5,"notes-timestamp":"2020-05-08T09:02:56Z","grade":{"grade-01":15,"grade-02":16,"grade-03":16,"grade-04":16,"grade-05":16,"grade-06":14},"magic":{"cool":176.56860023298,"feedback":0,"given":33.125,"grade":15.5,"grade-01-average":2.769,"grade-02-average":2.571,"grade-03-average":3.143,"grade-04-average":3.643,"grade-05-average":2.5,"grade-06-average":1.625,"smart":-3.1754163448146}},"text":"![cover.png](\/\/\/raw\/3ec\/03\/z\/2cad0.png)\nPhew, this was harder than expected. It's been quite a long time since I last worked with SDL2, but it was incredibly fun to complete a project in such a short time :v: .\nWell, \"complete\" as in playable, there are still so many features I wanted to implement. But it runs, you can keep people alive and I've got new inspiration for future works :smile: .\n\nThe game is played with mouse and keyboard. Mouse over the health bars at the bottom and press a skill (1-4, Q-R) to heal your party. Try to keep them alive as long as possible! I always liked playing healers in (MMO)RPGs, and with this minigame I tried to resemble the micromanaging you have to do as a healer to keep your party alive.","title":"Keep Them Alive!"}