{"author_link":"\/author\/tanis\/","author_name":"tanis","author_uid":"48604","comments":[{"author_name":"Rogod","author_uid":"64484","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 11:27am","epoch":1450092120,"text":"Not really sure what I'm actually doing - the controls seem fairly unresponsive and I feel I have little impact on what happens. And everything is extremely sporadic. The pigs sound like they dog-toys in a blender.\rI suppose it "does" fit the theme though, I just wouldn't exactly call it a game."},{"author_name":"nunesbarbosa","author_uid":"45119","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 11:37am","epoch":1450092720,"text":"Nice! Very funny game to play. A bit repetitive."},{"author_name":"qwetro","author_uid":"59778","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 1:18pm","epoch":1450098780,"text":"I haven't figure out how to play it, it just keep crashing.."},{"author_name":"timtipgames","author_uid":"15341","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 4:32pm","epoch":1450110420,"text":"In my opinion the most prominent problem with your game is, that it doesn't feel responsive. The consequences of ones actions aren't well communicated to the player. It goes as far as having the feeling that your actions don't have any impact at all (as someone earlier stated in the comments) or are very unreliable.\rI suggest to improve the "communication layer" of this or future games.\rBut maybe it's just a bug with the click detection and everything is just fine ;) Whenever I clicked the guys and they died in a poof of magic it felt responsive, but I couldn't help the feeling that it just happened unreliably.\r\rI liked the graphics and sounds though! It worked just fine on my windows 8.1 machine."},{"author_name":"Catblocker","author_uid":"64551","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 4:37pm","epoch":1450110720,"text":"Probably the game I will give the highest "Humor" rating to today :D . Nice game, more gameplay features would be nice though. Like different kind of peasents. (music would be nice to)"},{"author_name":"Recursiveanomaly","author_uid":"18179","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 4:40pm","epoch":1450110900,"text":"Seems pretty easy. Pig snorts get obnoxious pretty quickly. I did like that you had little audio bits for everything we're doing in the game. Threw an exception on exit."},{"author_name":"KoalaBot","author_uid":"63315","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 5:52pm","epoch":1450115220,"text":"Runs well on my Mac! I agree it's a bit hard to tell if you're doing the right thing, but once you figure things out it's fun. Occasionally my grown pigs would spontaneously sink back into the earth instead of fly away."},{"author_name":"tanis","author_uid":"48604","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 7:32pm","epoch":1450121220,"text":"Thank you all for the comments. I completely forgot about adding something to tell you when you're doing the right action :-P\r\rI should have made the villains collider a lot bigger so that it would have been easier to get the hit on them. \r\rThanks for all the suggestions!!!"},{"author_name":"CodeNMore","author_uid":"33942","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 9:57pm","epoch":1450129920,"text":"It crashes, and when it doesn't the play doesn't feel good at all, but it seems funny!"},{"author_name":"SSJMetroid","author_uid":"3925","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 8:27am","epoch":1450167720,"text":"crashes for me (Windows)"},{"author_name":"Phil Strahl","author_uid":"47131","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 9:34am","epoch":1450171740,"text":"Unfortunately I can't play, the game throws an unhandled exception as soon as the fork-guy touches the pig."},{"author_name":"tanis","author_uid":"48604","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 4:39pm","epoch":1450197240,"text":"I guess that all the crashes on Windows are due to OpenAL. I'll try to fix that and release a new version for Windows as soon as possible. Thanks for reporting the problem."},{"author_name":"mockthebear","author_uid":"16447","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 10:52pm","epoch":1450478820,"text":"I dont knew how it work, i keep clicking and nothing happens."},{"author_name":"anv","author_uid":"55892","time":"Dec 18, 2015 @ 10:58pm","epoch":1450479180,"text":"Pretty funny, if minimalistic. Would like to see those bonuses, that didn't make the cut. Sound effects fit well, but some music would be nice."},{"author_name":"eerongal","author_uid":"2978","time":"Dec 19, 2015 @ 5:40pm","epoch":1450546500,"text":"Interesting little game. I agree with what others have said, the controls seems bit unresponsive, and I wasn't entirely sure what i was doing at first..."},{"author_name":"adrian09_01","author_uid":"58986","time":"Dec 23, 2015 @ 4:27pm","epoch":1450887720,"text":"Cool! I laughed playing this. Are the pigs... farting?"},{"author_name":"phi","author_uid":"20723","time":"Dec 24, 2015 @ 11:47am","epoch":1450957320,"text":"I love the cute animations, they make the game very appealing (even more so in the post-compo version). Also, gotta love the sounds, although they get pretty annoying after some time... Other than that, it could use a little more gameplay, but for your first submission, it's awesome! Good job! :)"},{"author_name":"bakudas","author_uid":"23827","time":"Dec 30, 2015 @ 12:45pm","epoch":1451479200,"text":"Nice game"}],"images":["ld34\/48604-7feb6c6b012205ad0475e9ad71697d90.jpg","ld34\/48604-1e13dc06ce2ee28957b2c9a8acabb23c.jpg","ld34\/48604-f8c58a1b85e8c98e0d93c2751f2915fb.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/zldfbc29zd4rz1j\/ForksAndPorks-compo-win.zip?dl=0","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/3098924\/LD34\/ForksAndPigs-compo.zip","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"http:\/\/tanis.itch.io\/forks-and-porks","text":"Post-compo Win\/Mac"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/3098924\/LD34\/ForksAndPorks-compo-src.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"7235","g_author":"48604","g_event":"LD34","g_eventkey":"31","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"7267","g_title":"Forks and Porks","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"939","g_commentcount":"18","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\/48604-shot0-1450013121.gif-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/48604-shot1-1450013489.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/48604-shot2-1450013489.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"2015\/12\/18 UPDATE\r\n================\r\nI've added a link to the post-compo version. It should be more responsive, more stable and fix some of the troubles some users experienced, especially on Windows. \r\n\r\nForks and Porks!\r\n================\r\nKeep your pigs safe while they grow. Once they're big enough they will be able to fly away with their secret power (I'm not disclosing where that comes from but you can guess by the puffs!).\r\nDon't let the evil forks-equipped villains get to them! \r\n\r\n\r\nHow to play\r\n===========\r\nAim with your mouse and left click on a villain to stop him from reaching the pigs!\r\n\r\n\r\nNote for Windows users\r\n======================\r\nThis game has been developed on Mac and I tried to build it on Windows in a hurry. It does work on my box but that's no guarantee it will work on yours. Please let me know if it works or if you're having issues.\r\n\r\n\r\nWhat went good\r\n==============\r\nThis is my first submission to LD. I can't believe I manage to submit something for the compo. That's a track record by itself :)\r\nI didn't have time to get some assets and code ready ahead of time but I ended up creating some decent sprites and cutting them down to having just effects and no animations did help with time.\r\nBut most of all, I had a ton of fun making this! :)\r\n\r\n\r\nWhat went wrong\r\n===============\r\nI wanted to add bonuses but that would have required more time, so they didn't make it in the game.\r\nI had little time to tune difficulty so it might be way too easy for some or way too hard for others. Again, time restrictions are hard to deal with :)\r\nLife duties kicked in cutting down the time available to work on the project, but that was unavoidable and I guess a lot of other guys faced the same problems as me.","title":"Forks and Porks"}