{"author_link":"\/users\/ithildin","author_name":"Ithildin","author_uid":1000455,"comments":[{"id":57586,"author_name":"IgorsGames","author_uid":"igorsgames","epoch":1501594650,"text":"Where is the medkit?","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":58994,"author_name":"Juli\u00e1n P\u00e9rez","author_uid":"julian-perez","epoch":1501608171,"text":"Really nice FX, it feels like it's heavy raining out there.\nAlso I love the house, I wish I could live there, but it looks strange a bathroom with only a bath? What was thinking the architect?!\nGreat idea to add a Reset button.\nBesides that, I don't understand how to play. Power gets down, family get ill, they sleep, the heavy rain... it is distressing!\nYou have to finish the game to be able to save the family!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":58996,"author_name":"Juli\u00e1n P\u00e9rez","author_uid":"julian-perez","epoch":1501608174,"text":"Really nice FX, it feels like it's heavy raining out there.\nAlso I love the house, I wish I could live there, but it looks strange a bathroom with only a bath? What was thinking the architect?!\nGreat idea to add a Reset button.\nBesides that, I don't understand how to play. Power gets down, family get ill, they sleep, the heavy rain... it is distressing!\nYou have to finish the game to be able to save the family!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":61950,"author_name":"Ithildin","author_uid":"ithildin","epoch":1501630592,"text":"@igorsgames I'm afraid there's still no proper medkit, what you saw was probably the low health warning. Healing (a character skill...if I'd had the time to implement skills, that is) or a first aid cabinet were on the TO-DO list.\n\n@julian-perez Thanks! Well, I decided to simplify a bit the house plan to limit the number of activities per room. And you're totally in point about finishing the game. I will definitely try to!\n\nThe idea would be that by balancing all the needs (by taking characters from place to place), and ensuring you won't run out of power (or, if you do, do so just before finishing the game, I guess) you'd be able to keep their health\/mood in good state before the electricity is restored. That would be the win condition, but I like to think of the opposite situation, where one or all of the characters lose their minds and it is all back to prehistory again.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":66333,"author_name":"ALeal_Dev","author_uid":"aleal-dev","epoch":1501690325,"text":"Nice idea that of managing the resources of a house in order to continue living our \"21th century lifestyle\". \nToo bad you could not finish it in time :(\n\nBut don't worry, underestimate the size of a project (specially for a jam) is something that has happened to us all. Better luck in the next LD!\n\nPD: I hope to play the complete version of the game someday!\n\nPD2: Si pillaste lo de 'Marhuender' en nuestro juego debes ser ser espa\u00f1ol\/a xDD. Te hago \"Follow\" para ser amigos en la web esta por si alguna vez colaboramos! Un saludo!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld39\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/github.com\/wildrabbit\/ld39","text":"Link"},{"url":"http:\/\/ithildin.itch.io\/ld39","text":"Link"},{"url":"Same link as web version","text":"Link"},{"url":"Same link as web version","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"71475","g_author":"1000455","g_event":"LD39","g_eventkey":"74","g_subevent":"UNFINISH","g_urlkey":"307832","g_title":"Thunderbolts and Lightning","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"5","g_site2_node_id":"34255","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"34255","n_urlkey":"307832","n_parent":"32802","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/39\/thunderbolts-and-lightning","n_slug":"thunderbolts-and-lightning","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"unfinish","n_author":"455","n_created":"1500412554","n_modified":"1778343733","n_version":"133284","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD39","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":8,"author":455,"body":"**Introduction**\n\n*OMG!! A heavy thunderstorm has caused a power outage, and it seems that it'll take longer than usual! How will you charge your smartphones? Will this be the end of civilization as we know it?\n\nLuckily you guys keep a backup generator that will let you enjoy that crappy TV show for a bit longer...provided that you won't go overboard wasting power. Will you be able to keep your middle-class family happy and healthy until electricity is back, or will the generator run out of power?\n\nThe game was intended as a FTL-like crew manager, set in some random house of a random 21st century power-dependent family. You basically need to monitor each character's needs and keep track of the resource consumption (most importantly, power).*\n\n\nThis would have been the pitch, more or less, if I'd managed to finish in time.\n\nMy original goal was for this to be a compo entry, but to say I wildly underestimated the scope of the game would also be an understatement. 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