{"author_link":"\/users\/garygreen","author_name":"garygreen","author_uid":"1012975","comments":[{"author_name":"Qazikol","author_uid":"1101226","time":"2020-04-20T18:47:58Z","epoch":1587408478,"modified":1587408478,"text":"This was great! Really well-written, crazy-polished music and some really clever methods for creating more active puzzles in Bitsy. I'm gonna spend my \u00a325 well.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Melonking","author_uid":"1186814","time":"2020-04-20T21:05:28Z","epoch":1587416728,"modified":1587416728,"text":"Was unable to figure out what to do, watchers kept killing me, but the writing I did see was very amusing.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Dannyk1994","author_uid":"1178555","time":"2020-04-20T21:07:27Z","epoch":1587416847,"modified":1587416847,"text":"Great game. Visuals are awesome. Music is great. Solid entry ! :) ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Louis hayes greenwood","author_uid":"1055231","time":"2020-04-20T21:10:12Z","epoch":1587417012,"modified":1587417012,"text":"I got stuck and a bit frustrated repeatedly trying to get past the watchers. but nice work digging the pixel style :)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Chocolat-Endive","author_uid":"1104308","time":"2020-04-20T21:15:18Z","epoch":1587417318,"modified":1587417318,"text":"Great mood, great graphics, great music, great humor. Everything is fine. And so are lasagnas. All hail supreme beings!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"garygreen","author_uid":"1012975","time":"2020-04-20T21:15:40Z","epoch":1587417340,"modified":1587417340,"text":"Thanks for the positive feedback so far. :) The Watchers look in all 4 directions (up down left right), but can't see past any blocks in those directions. The key is to work out the route through the room, avoiding being in their direct line of sight.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"rrsmtz","author_uid":"1187670","time":"2020-04-20T21:25:07Z","epoch":1587417907,"modified":1587417907,"text":"Very artistic, good feel. My only problem with it is the long corridors in the leftmost section are kind of a pain to traverse.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"DPS2004","author_uid":"1098503","time":"2020-04-20T21:31:06Z","epoch":1587418266,"modified":1587418266,"text":"I had to talk to the divine being twice before the ending dialog played.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Flipsy","author_uid":"1000128","time":"2020-04-21T07:22:32Z","epoch":1587453752,"modified":1587453752,"text":"Great feel to the game, I really like the style of it and the humor in your writing. Got a little tedious moving through the maze each time. Great work, keep it up!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"arzi","author_uid":"1001976","time":"2020-04-21T10:53:05Z","epoch":1587466385,"modified":1587466385,"text":"I'll say this even before playing the game: the best name ever! Let's see how the game holds up...\n\n**musical interlude**\n\nOk, nice! I love the retro art style and while simple the game was really fun! Took me a few tries to figure out how those eyes worked, but at least I got the right offering on the first try!\n\nGreat work!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"DuzzOnDrums","author_uid":"1001255","time":"2020-04-21T11:51:24Z","epoch":1587469884,"modified":1587469884,"text":"Love the style and colour choices, bold and bright, lovely. And the main character's little dance was awesome. The dialog with the Supreme Beings when I brought the wrong offering made me laugh too :D","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"syo","author_uid":"1182759","time":"2020-04-21T13:16:17Z","epoch":1587474977,"modified":1587474977,"text":"I like this graphic minimalism. the text is animated in dialogues - it gives intonation. The dialogs cannot be missed completely (The music is very good","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"bereg","author_uid":"1191062","time":"2020-04-21T23:03:26Z","epoch":1587510206,"modified":1587510206,"text":"Great game. Well written with clever puzzles and a lot of details. Absolute loved playing it. Can even tink of anything to improve, it's perfect.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Gamer Fates","author_uid":"1182391","time":"2020-04-22T03:46:43Z","epoch":1587527203,"modified":1587527203,"text":"Cool style. Would love to make a game with this art-style. Keep going, good job!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"microwerx","author_uid":"1010389","time":"2020-04-22T04:05:49Z","epoch":1587528349,"modified":1587528349,"text":"Wow! Fun and super cool. This is one of my faves this LD. I really liked the puzzle element and the cool wavy text effects. I hope to make games this cool some day.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Alaska","author_uid":"1192424","time":"2020-04-23T07:17:05Z","epoch":1587626225,"modified":1587626225,"text":"Well written and great humor, visually fun and appealing, background music to groove to, a nice simple puzzle... just a great game.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"zzox","author_uid":"1183711","time":"2020-04-24T02:49:52Z","epoch":1587696592,"modified":1587696592,"text":"Really good game, definitely pushing the limits on what you can do with Bitsy, great work!  Really like the music too, fits well","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"devharts","author_uid":"1069194","time":"2020-04-24T06:09:04Z","epoch":1587708544,"modified":1587708544,"text":"I really enjoyed the puzzle aspect and the amusing dialogue, and it has a cute and cohesive pixel art style. I admittedly died a few times before I successfully got the offering to the house of adulation, though it was satisfying when I did finally make it. Nice work overall! :)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Szieberth Adam","author_uid":"1062834","time":"2020-04-24T20:30:34Z","epoch":1587760234,"modified":1587760234,"text":"A gem. So far this game I enjoyed the most. Thanks!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Franklins Ghost","author_uid":"1000625","time":"2020-04-26T15:34:05Z","epoch":1587915245,"modified":1587915245,"text":"The writing in this is great, liked reading all the dialogue and seeing more of the humour and world building. Took me a few goes to release what the Watchers were doing but once I figured it out it became a lot clearer and easier to navigate around. Liked the puzzles and levels layout which I thought was well done.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"g12345","author_uid":"1000231","time":"2020-04-28T15:31:42Z","epoch":1588087902,"modified":1588087902,"text":"The music is great here! The puzzles are a bit easy but fine enough for a compo game. I'll see that 25 pound note soon, I hope :tongue: The story is great too.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"paulhocker","author_uid":"1005112","time":"2020-04-29T01:49:27Z","epoch":1588124967,"modified":1588124967,"text":"really liked the concept of this and the puzzle aspect was great. another great example that you don't need fancy graphics and explosions to have a good game. just huge deity that oppresses an entire civilization.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Geckoo1337","author_uid":"1000409","time":"2020-05-02T14:01:40Z","epoch":1588428100,"modified":1588428100,"text":"Interesting gameplay and artwork, but the music is just AMAZING! Well done ++","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"1000562","time":"2020-05-05T23:47:37Z","epoch":1588722457,"modified":1588722457,"text":"Really amazing game. I included it in my Ludum Dare 46 compilation video series, if you want to take a look. :)  https:\/\/youtu.be\/HbpVWKRHlfc","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"yxmx_rsx","author_uid":"1183061","time":"2020-05-09T03:36:35Z","epoch":1588995395,"modified":1588995395,"text":"I like the graphics and the audio of the game, however I struggled a bit to get through the watcher it was a bit frustrating. Could adjust that part, but overall its a good game","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"garygreen","author_uid":"1012975","time":"2020-05-11T21:39:10Z","epoch":1589233150,"modified":1589316575,"text":"Thanks again everyone for the useful & positive feedback and for playing the game. :)","likes":0,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld46\/199611-f976b67cf65173b94086bcb44e9eecdb.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/ashg.itch.io\/bargaining-with-supreme-beings-so-they-dont-destroy-us-all","text":"Youtube"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/q66wzcj5kcbdhcl\/AAA21_O57cdrf8Vl4I62wQd1a?dl=0","text":"Youtube"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"60043","g_author":"1012975","g_event":"LD46","g_eventkey":"77","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"271898","g_title":"Bargaining with Supreme Beings So They Don't Destroy Us All","g_status":"PVT1","g_place":"429","g_commentcount":"26","g_site2_node_id":"199611","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"199611","n_urlkey":"271898","n_parent":"176557","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/46\/bargaining-with-supreme-beings-so-they-dont-destroy-us-all","n_slug":"bargaining-with-supreme-beings","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"12975","n_created":"1587339371","n_modified":"1587417539","n_version":"592069","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":199611,"parent":176557,"superparent":9,"author":12975,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"compo","published":"2020-04-20T00:28:59Z","created":"2020-04-19T23:36:11Z","modified":"2020-04-20T21:18:59Z","version":592069,"slug":"bargaining-with-supreme-beings-so-they-dont-destroy-us-all","name":"Bargaining with Supreme Beings So They Don't Destroy Us All","body":"About\n-----\nThe Supreme Beings demand offerings to avoid everything from being destroyed. They're fussy about them as well, and demand a specific offering from you, the Novice Adulator. Find the right one and deliver it to the place of adulation, so the Supreme Beings don't destroy everything. While you're wandering around, talk to some of the locals and find out what they think about their overlords. Avoid the gaze of The Watchers, who do not like Adulators. The Watchers look in all 4 directions (up down left right), but can't see past any blocks\/walls in those directions. The key is to work out the route through the rooms containing Watchers, and avoid being in their direct line of sight.\n\nTo Play\n-------\nControl your character with the arrow keys.\nArrow keys do everything in this game - move and interact with objects and characters.\nIf in doubt just press the arrow keys!\n\nMy idea\n-------\nI wanted to create a retro style maze game in Bitsy with more game play than my previous Bitsy games. I managed to include a couple of puzzles in it. (1) Choosing the right offering based on a sequence puzzle at the top of the screen. (2) Choosing the right paths through The Watcher rooms. I had other puzzle ideas, but ran out of time. Originally I planned to create the mazes, text and tiles\/sprites\/items with a tool I'd developed to generate them randomly, but that didn't work out. However, most of the graphics are tweaked versions of the original random tiles, and a lot of the character and item text was randomly generated as well.\n\nThanks to Adam Le Doux for creating Bitsy.\n\n![LDJam Bitsy gif.gif](\/\/\/raw\/fa2\/3\/z\/2c491.gif)\n\n![bitsy ldjam april2020 screen3.png](\/\/\/raw\/fa2\/3\/z\/2c496.png)\n","meta":{"author":[12975],"cover":"\/\/\/content\/fa2\/3\/z\/2c4d2.png","link-01":"https:\/\/ashg.itch.io\/bargaining-with-supreme-beings-so-they-dont-destroy-us-all","link-01-tag":[42336],"link-02":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/q66wzcj5kcbdhcl\/AAA21_O57cdrf8Vl4I62wQd1a?dl=0","link-02-tag":[42332]},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/46\/bargaining-with-supreme-beings-so-they-dont-destroy-us-all","parents":[1,5,9,176557],"love":0,"notes":26,"notes-timestamp":"2020-05-12T20:49:35Z","grade":{"grade-01":33,"grade-02":33,"grade-03":33,"grade-04":33,"grade-05":33,"grade-06":33,"grade-07":33,"grade-08":33},"magic":{"cool":94.991775959817,"feedback":29,"given":28.875,"grade":33,"grade-01-average":3.532,"grade-01-result":429,"grade-02-average":3.323,"grade-02-result":496,"grade-03-average":3.194,"grade-03-result":600,"grade-04-average":3.145,"grade-04-result":889,"grade-05-average":3.758,"grade-05-result":292,"grade-06-average":3.871,"grade-06-result":86,"grade-07-average":3.419,"grade-07-result":223,"grade-08-average":3.629,"grade-08-result":212,"smart":-5.4516317465291}},"text":"About\n-----\nThe Supreme Beings demand offerings to avoid everything from being destroyed. They're fussy about them as well, and demand a specific offering from you, the Novice Adulator. Find the right one and deliver it to the place of adulation, so the Supreme Beings don't destroy everything. While you're wandering around, talk to some of the locals and find out what they think about their overlords. Avoid the gaze of The Watchers, who do not like Adulators. The Watchers look in all 4 directions (up down left right), but can't see past any blocks\/walls in those directions. The key is to work out the route through the rooms containing Watchers, and avoid being in their direct line of sight.\n\nTo Play\n-------\nControl your character with the arrow keys.\nArrow keys do everything in this game - move and interact with objects and characters.\nIf in doubt just press the arrow keys!\n\nMy idea\n-------\nI wanted to create a retro style maze game in Bitsy with more game play than my previous Bitsy games. I managed to include a couple of puzzles in it. (1) Choosing the right offering based on a sequence puzzle at the top of the screen. (2) Choosing the right paths through The Watcher rooms. I had other puzzle ideas, but ran out of time. Originally I planned to create the mazes, text and tiles\/sprites\/items with a tool I'd developed to generate them randomly, but that didn't work out. However, most of the graphics are tweaked versions of the original random tiles, and a lot of the character and item text was randomly generated as well.\n\nThanks to Adam Le Doux for creating Bitsy.\n\n![LDJam Bitsy gif.gif](\/\/\/raw\/fa2\/3\/z\/2c491.gif)\n\n![bitsy ldjam april2020 screen3.png](\/\/\/raw\/fa2\/3\/z\/2c496.png)\n","title":"Bargaining with Supreme Beings So They Don't Destroy Us All"}