{"author_link":"\/users\/danielcmcg","author_name":"Danielcmcg","author_uid":"1164860","comments":[{"author_name":"Ausstein","author_uid":"1140199","time":"2020-10-05T00:19:44Z","epoch":1601857184,"modified":1601889836,"text":"Very cool \"Game\". More like a relaxing tool than a game.\n\nWell graphics depends on the user I guess, so I have to give a bad score because mine did not come out great :D \n(joking of course)\n\n\nImpressive work for the timeframe! Everything just works so smooth\n![mandala.png](\/\/\/raw\/7a3\/22\/z\/3611a.png)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"newbieDev","author_uid":"1226021","time":"2020-10-05T06:07:46Z","epoch":1601878066,"modified":1601878066,"text":"Feels very loose and I love it. It is quite relaxing. Quite mesmerizing if you ask me! Controls feel tight and snappy. Great job guys!!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"EvoGenGames","author_uid":"1023990","time":"2020-10-05T08:04:08Z","epoch":1601885048,"modified":1601885048,"text":"![Capture.PNG](\/\/\/raw\/6bd\/5\/z\/36417.png)\n\nI think this is the start of something beautiful.\n\nThis was an awesome entry. \n\nI had following thoughts while playing the game, maybe they are right maybe not, up to you:\n* Game should start with some basic values filled in, as soon as you connect some nodes there is stuff already happening, instead of starting from scratch, this could give the player an easier time getting things started\n* It wasn't very clear to me what sort of values you were expecting in the nodes (especcially the RGB one) Above point might also help with this?\n\nThanks you for the experience!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Danielcmcg","author_uid":"1164860","time":"2020-10-05T09:12:01Z","epoch":1601889121,"modified":1601889121,"text":"Thank you all for the feedback! :heart:\n\n@evogengames, Very good tips, the value limits are really important, I'll clamp it and maybe add a tooltip. Also, I'll think on how to better guide the player.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Dark Dungeon Studio","author_uid":"1188041","time":"2020-10-05T13:24:02Z","epoch":1601904242,"modified":1601904242,"text":"This feels like one of those Zen games.\n\nVery neat idea.  \nThe graphics are very pretty when you've got something going for it.  \n\nWould've liked to have seen a tutorial of some kind in-game.  \n\nThe music doesn't really suit in my opinion, something more Zenlike would've worked a lot better.  ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"BukkakeTears","author_uid":"1218395","time":"2020-10-05T13:26:07Z","epoch":1601904367,"modified":1601904367,"text":"Very cool and relaxing entry!\n\nBeside what @evogengames suggested, I would also make input field bigger, also actually indicating that I'm editing one. Sometimes I had to smash my mouse button to actually start typing something. :smiley:\n\nIt looks like a cool game that would be ported to mobiles. Just make everything bigger, add option to export to image and voil\u00e0! $$$ many is coming and you have created relaxing, chilling, nice looking wallpaper generator.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Danielcmcg","author_uid":"1164860","time":"2020-10-05T13:36:19Z","epoch":1601904979,"modified":1601904979,"text":"Thank you all :heart: :heart: \n\n@james-joubert, In game programming is one of the things I really like to implement. The music, though, is was chosen because of the clarinet on top, but I think I'll starting suggesting the players to, if they feel so, mute and play a nice relaxing music of their own taste ^^.\n\nThat's true, @bukkaketears, The feedback on the UI is very important and you brought some good points. I'll make sure to work a bit more on the UI for the next version.\n","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"shan.hsgames","author_uid":"1220887","time":"2020-10-05T18:16:00Z","epoch":1601921760,"modified":1601921760,"text":"It was a smooth and fun gameplay. I liked your style!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"SnailRhymer","author_uid":"1170952","time":"2020-10-06T11:39:10Z","epoch":1601984350,"modified":1601984350,"text":"![mandala1.png](\/\/\/raw\/8cb\/92\/z\/38f29.png)![mandala2.png](\/\/\/raw\/8cb\/92\/z\/38f2a.png)\n\nVery relaxing, I liked it a lot! I was a bit thrown by the angles being in radians as opposed to degrees - I started with what I thought was a pretty modest 32 which turned out to not be modest at all. Beyond that though, I think it's a really nice idea and executed well.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Gonzalol","author_uid":"1038903","time":"2020-10-06T21:06:55Z","epoch":1602018415,"modified":1602018415,"text":"Very special interpretation of the theme. Nice job!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Samdwester","author_uid":"1160662","time":"2020-10-07T02:50:15Z","epoch":1602039015,"modified":1602039015,"text":"Cool concept! You can really get into different shapes","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Eugenik","author_uid":"1186682","time":"2020-10-07T03:46:27Z","epoch":1602042387,"modified":1602042387,"text":"This brought back some memories!\n","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Tom_A","author_uid":"1215095","time":"2020-10-07T11:13:55Z","epoch":1602069235,"modified":1602069235,"text":"Nice idea and an interesting interpretation that fits theme well. As other said, nostalgic feel!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Misterm","author_uid":"1209738","time":"2020-10-07T17:08:57Z","epoch":1602090537,"modified":1602090537,"text":"Different concept of game, it is a cool creation tool with relaxing music.. good job","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Hi Im Greg","author_uid":"1010739","time":"2020-10-07T19:37:46Z","epoch":1602099466,"modified":1602099466,"text":"Really unique concept. I feel like I could sit down and play this and discover new things to do for ages. It's cool seeing the artwork others have made for it. If I remember I'll come back and toy with it more.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Unicornfrog","author_uid":"1223778","time":"2020-10-08T01:45:20Z","epoch":1602121520,"modified":1602121520,"text":"Sensa\u00e7\u00e3o muito satisfat\u00f3ria... kkk muito bom!\n\nVery satisfying feeling ... kkk very good!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Capt.Theo","author_uid":"1217644","time":"2020-10-13T19:55:09Z","epoch":1602618909,"modified":1602618926,"text":"Beautiful game! At first I found controls unintuitive (nothing was drawn), but after looking at examples you provided, I have grasped concept - you have to connect rules in the loop with themselves, and it works like a plotter or Logo turtle language. Actually it's quite hard to get all timings right, you have to calculate that their sum divisible at some common number! Sharing my result so far, I really enjoyed time spent with this game.\n![15454Untitled.png](\/\/\/raw\/c22\/53\/z\/3a1e2.png)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"cottontshirtz","author_uid":"1011109","time":"2020-10-20T00:00:42Z","epoch":1603152042,"modified":1603152042,"text":"Absolutely love it!\nIt did take me a while to understand how the loops affected the stylus and board, but after that it all fit together nicely.\nThe only thing I can think that bothered me was that the angles were in radians, which makes entering specific angles cumbersome.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Danielcmcg","author_uid":"1164860","time":"2020-10-20T15:08:47Z","epoch":1603206527,"modified":1603206527,"text":"Thanks for the feedback \u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f.\nRegarding the controls feel not intuitive at the beginning, it surely need some work on the UI, maybe a tooltip too.\nRegarding the angle, it definitely needs that tooltip. It is in degrees, but this is degree\/frame","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"JUSTCAMH","author_uid":"1122244","time":"2020-10-25T14:45:01Z","epoch":1603637101,"modified":1603637101,"text":"Hey, I played your game on stream! It was a heap of fun, here\u2019s the vod if you\u2019d like to rewatch; https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/videos\/781363405\n\nThanks for submitting your game!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"island-jam-2-group-3","author_uid":"1064718","time":"2020-10-25T20:34:32Z","epoch":1603658072,"modified":1603658072,"text":"I missed some instructions in-game and I am not really into this kind of \"game\" ^^U but I liked the mood and the grapchics + audio ;-)","likes":1,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld47\/222367-f531e89c698f67c5ab407b8fedf23c55.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/danielcmcg.itch.io\/mandala-spa","text":"Youtube"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"60106","g_author":"1164860","g_event":"LD47","g_eventkey":"76","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"272084","g_title":"Mandala Spa","g_status":"PVT1","g_place":"557","g_commentcount":"21","g_site2_node_id":"222367","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"222367","n_urlkey":"272084","n_parent":"212256","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/47\/mandala-spa","n_slug":"mandala-spa","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"164860","n_created":"1601677336","n_modified":"1601918820","n_version":"676664","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":222367,"parent":212256,"superparent":9,"author":164860,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"jam","published":"2020-10-04T18:40:09Z","created":"2020-10-02T22:22:16Z","modified":"2020-10-05T17:27:00Z","version":676664,"slug":"mandala-spa","name":"Mandala Spa","body":"### Welcome to the Spa where you can invest some time to let your creativity loop though and relax.\n#### It is endless, goal free, pressure free. Pure bliss, connect the blocks into loops and let your creativity flow while creating some Mandala arts!\n#### [Play on Itch.io](https:\/\/danielcmcg.itch.io\/mandala-spa)\n##### Music from: https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/lp-00437_BeG\/lp-00437_BeG-record_1_side_B.wav\n\n--\n## How to Play:\n### Connect the blocks into loops to make them work, don't forget to set their values\n#### You can drag drop the blocks and connect the outputs to inputs \n![ld47-mandalaSpa-creatingLoop.gif](\/\/\/raw\/cf3\/82\/z\/355be.gif)\n\n### Duplicate block\n#### Hold left-Ctrl + Drag block to duplicate it\n![ld47-mandalaSpa-DuplicateBlocks.gif](\/\/\/raw\/cf3\/82\/z\/355e2.gif)\n\n### Releasing connection\n#### Hold letf-Ctrl + Drag output\/input out of the connection range\n![ld47-mandalaSpa-releasingLink.gif](\/\/\/raw\/cf3\/82\/z\/355e7.gif)\n\n### Example of loops\n#### Ex 1\n![ld47-mandalaSpa-autoLoops.gif](\/\/\/raw\/cf3\/82\/z\/355e0.gif)\n\n#### Ex 2\n![ld47-mandalaSpa-rotatingBoard.gif](\/\/\/raw\/cf3\/82\/z\/355e9.gif)\n\n#### Ex 3\n![ld47-mandalaSpa-ex1.gif](\/\/\/raw\/cf3\/82\/z\/36b18.gif)","meta":{"author":[164860],"grade-06-out":"1","link-01-tag":[42336],"cover":"\/\/\/content\/cf3\/82\/z\/355f6.png","allow-anonymous-comments":"1","link-01":"https:\/\/danielcmcg.itch.io\/mandala-spa","link-01-name":"HTML on Itch.io","grade-07-out":"1"},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/47\/mandala-spa","parents":[1,5,9,212256],"love":0,"notes":21,"notes-timestamp":"2020-10-25T20:34:32Z","grade":{"grade-01":33,"grade-02":33,"grade-03":33,"grade-04":33,"grade-05":33,"grade-06":1,"grade-07":12,"grade-08":32},"magic":{"cool":93.607565066205,"feedback":33,"given":22.125,"grade":35,"grade-01-average":3.661,"grade-01-result":557,"grade-02-average":3.161,"grade-02-result":1020,"grade-03-average":4.065,"grade-03-result":100,"grade-04-average":4,"grade-04-result":344,"grade-05-average":3.532,"grade-05-result":819,"grade-07-average":1.75,"grade-08-average":3.333,"grade-08-result":859,"smart":-5.8021261565861}},"text":"### Welcome to the Spa where you can invest some time to let your creativity loop though and relax.\n#### It is endless, goal free, pressure free. Pure bliss, connect the blocks into loops and let your creativity flow while creating some Mandala arts!\n#### [Play on Itch.io](https:\/\/danielcmcg.itch.io\/mandala-spa)\n##### Music from: https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/lp-00437_BeG\/lp-00437_BeG-record_1_side_B.wav\n\n--\n## How to Play:\n### Connect the blocks into loops to make them work, don't forget to set their values\n#### You can drag drop the blocks and connect the outputs to inputs \n![ld47-mandalaSpa-creatingLoop.gif](\/\/\/raw\/cf3\/82\/z\/355be.gif)\n\n### Duplicate block\n#### Hold left-Ctrl + Drag block to duplicate it\n![ld47-mandalaSpa-DuplicateBlocks.gif](\/\/\/raw\/cf3\/82\/z\/355e2.gif)\n\n### Releasing connection\n#### Hold letf-Ctrl + Drag output\/input out of the connection range\n![ld47-mandalaSpa-releasingLink.gif](\/\/\/raw\/cf3\/82\/z\/355e7.gif)\n\n### Example of loops\n#### Ex 1\n![ld47-mandalaSpa-autoLoops.gif](\/\/\/raw\/cf3\/82\/z\/355e0.gif)\n\n#### Ex 2\n![ld47-mandalaSpa-rotatingBoard.gif](\/\/\/raw\/cf3\/82\/z\/355e9.gif)\n\n#### Ex 3\n![ld47-mandalaSpa-ex1.gif](\/\/\/raw\/cf3\/82\/z\/36b18.gif)","title":"Mandala Spa"}