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Plus I totally relate to this fear of under my stove\/fridge.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":657997,"author_name":"metadept","author_uid":"metadept","epoch":1619585386,"text":"Cool to see people using Roblox for stuff like this! The game is weird and funny and very roblox-y. I'm not sure whether I got to the end or whether there was more I didn't find, but nice job!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":667461,"author_name":"ladybenko","author_uid":"ladybenko","epoch":1619645663,"text":"Hi! Is there a way to play this without a Roblox account? Thanks","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":699728,"author_name":"ruthiepee","author_uid":"ruthiepee","epoch":1620669412,"text":"@ladybenko unfortunately no, that's a limitation of the Roblox platform. It's free and only takes a second to sign up, but I feel you, I wouldn't download Roblox just to play a jam game either :P","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":705394,"author_name":"jk5000","author_uid":"jk5000","epoch":1621263652,"text":"The very weird and funny. I overall liked it. I would perhaps have liked a bit more gameplay, but it's okay for a jam game. Well done.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":705569,"author_name":"ElectricStalin","author_uid":"electricstalin","epoch":1621276561,"text":"Very interesting","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":705575,"author_name":"xatulu","author_uid":"xatulu","epoch":1621276636,"text":"I never really had a look at Roblox, but hats off to you for developing something like that in 48 hours.\nJust for you I setup a Roblox account and played around - interesting an enjoyable. Sad to see that you can't use your own music - and also thanks for the postmortem, maybe I should check that out for fun as well!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":705899,"author_name":"dpmzi","author_uid":"dpmzi","epoch":1621300710,"text":"Loved the playfulness of this! Felt like a story I could have made up in my mind when playing on my own as a child, save for the occasional nightmare fuel. Also, fun choice of engine. (My nephew is going to be so proud of me when he hears that I have tried Roblox!)\n\nNow, I think I'll give my buddy a call.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":706003,"author_name":"pkenney","author_uid":"pkenney","epoch":1621311067,"text":"And here I thought roblox were some competitor to legos!  I would have skipped the onerous install process but you're SO CLOSE to getting the 20 that I couldn't just walk away.  Hope you cross the finish line in time!\n\nThis was a fun little experience. I enjoyed that I could restart the dialog and test various paths through the short bits of clever prose.  I also dug the charmingly severe transitions between environments.  It put to rest the question of which is a scarier hell: the spooky creepy gross bug kind, or the one with puppies. No contest.\n\nI was determined to find some glitch to escape Heck, as I could see outside the walls with the camera.  But those colliders were too strong.  I tried glitching into a superjump by getting stuck between the two signs but that also refused to work.\n\nThe best I could do was walk left and right very quickly around this spot here, which triggered a restart to the torture-music and provided some much-needed tranquility:\n\n![RobloxScreenShot20210517_235410521.png](\/\/\/raw\/81b\/z\/4284f.png)\n\nRespect for throwing away your usual engines to try out something new, and nice work!\n\n","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":706329,"author_name":"ruthiepee","author_uid":"ruthiepee","epoch":1621344569,"text":"@xatulu @dpmzi @pkenney holy moly, thank you all so much for pushing this one over the finish line. And props to you all for being open-minded about Roblox -- whether you like it or not (and I don't, really).","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ldjam-media\/sha256\/5c\/5c3e747640faf018332fd46a4fa92c46bc3b4ba20dc7cfeec338072b0889cb92.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.roblox.com\/games\/6728852119\/Under-the-Stove","text":"Roblox (free)"},{"url":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1dccjXYWKEu5nfSAbLAzD7dqbJeBg4r9r\/view?usp=sharing","text":"Source Code "}],"metadata":{"g_key":"77643","g_author":"1005450","g_event":"LD48","g_eventkey":"109","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"374271","g_title":"Under the Stove","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"492","g_commentcount":"14","g_site2_node_id":"249641","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"249641","n_urlkey":"374271","n_parent":"233335","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/48\/under-the-stove","n_slug":"under-the-stove","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"5450","n_created":"1619386401","n_modified":"1776463819","n_version":"775262","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD48","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":10,"author":5450,"body":"In celebration of LD48 I decided to try something different. 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