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With all this hurry, we forgot to mention that some of the environment assets were from Unity Asset Store (free assets: \"Cosmic Retro\" by **The PolynestLab** & \"Animals Free\" by **ithappy**).\n\nAnimations \u2013 Mixamo.\n\nOur 3D artists created rooms, organic masses, characters, and also some other stuff that is not in the game.\n\nWe will add this information into the game later.\n\n= = = = = =\n\nGlad you got some positive emotions even in this cut version. Subscribe on Itch, updates are coming.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1197632,"author_name":"GideonGriebenow","author_uid":"gideongriebenow","epoch":1776778407,"text":"Hey. Sorry you couldn't \"finish\" (as if a game is ever finished!) yours. Better luck next time...","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1203423,"author_name":"Cat In Hat games","author_uid":"cat-in-hat-games","epoch":1776839400,"text":"@gideongriebenow Thank you!\n\n*... is ever finished* - Someday it will be!\ud83d\ude0b","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld59\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/catinhatgames.itch.io\/pinky-guard","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"72415","g_author":"1424700","g_event":"LD59","g_eventkey":"113","g_subevent":"UNFINISH","g_urlkey":"309306","g_title":"Pinky Guard: The Celestial Facility","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"4","g_site2_node_id":"424714","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"424714","n_urlkey":"309306","n_parent":"424249","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/59\/pinky-guard-the-celestial-facility","n_slug":"pinky-guard-the-celestial-facili","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"unfinish","n_author":"424700","n_created":"1775549034","n_modified":"1779617277","n_version":"1372358","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD59","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":1,"author":424700,"body":"*We ran out of time.*\n*This is not a finished version. 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