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I can give you the password for now while some lovely people fix up the page. It's \"howard\". \n\nYeah, we're not very good at making passwords...","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":716709,"author_name":"Denhette","author_uid":"denhette","epoch":1633379732,"text":"Love the little sounds the islanders made. Not sure if you can actually 'win' the game, but my vocano got stuck on some other islands for a long while. Islanders seemed pleased about it. 7\/10!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":733985,"author_name":"Quoc","author_uid":"quoc","epoch":1633472932,"text":"Sweet little, enjoyed playing it :D","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":734319,"author_name":"Unicorn Studios","author_uid":"unicorn-studios","epoch":1633474937,"text":"Is it bad that I laughed at the little villagers drowning to death after they said they can't swim? Really goofy 5 minute game with some hilarious characters, would definitely recommend!","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":734960,"author_name":"Myles Doupe","author_uid":"myles-doupe","epoch":1633479860,"text":"I want Howard to be my best friend. Even if that means he kicks my house into the ocean. \"Oh, that's okay, Howard. Still on for board games Saturday?\" I'd say. \"As long as we're not playing at your house.\" He'd reply. Then we'd both have a good laugh.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":755383,"author_name":"Lazzor","author_uid":"lazzor","epoch":1633801319,"text":"As some of the previous commenters already pointed out, the strength of your game definitely lies in the audio and mood department. The villagers sounds are just plain adorable! :D \n\nRegarding the gameplay, I think a display of villagers (alive\/drowned) would have helped to get an overall grasp of the situation. Also it felt a bit random at times because it was not always clear for me if and how I could still \"rescue\" a drowned villager. But I suppose that's also kind of the premise of the game so that's fine!\n\nOverall I really liked it, good job!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":758916,"author_name":"Ozfolo","author_uid":"ozfolo","epoch":1633908530,"text":"Great game, very funny, fits the theme well","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":762148,"author_name":"jelch","author_uid":"jelch","epoch":1634079643,"text":"This game made me laugh!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":765680,"author_name":"SimonL","author_uid":"simonl","epoch":1634426633,"text":"I think the game has a good premise and the mechanic has potential. But in the current state it is hard to play. \nHoward moves very fiddly and the island gets stuck in weird positions more often than not.\n\nI liked the music track and the sound effects.\n\nWith a little bin more polishing, like streamlining the controls and having an actual objective, the game would be even better.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":766833,"author_name":"jk5000","author_uid":"jk5000","epoch":1634543030,"text":"Weird and funny.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":769085,"author_name":"Its_F4llen","author_uid":"its-f4llen","epoch":1634749224,"text":"good game! the music was a bit loud but its enjoyable!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":769121,"author_name":"LDJam user 269161","author_uid":"269161","epoch":1634750858,"text":"It was funny and as jk500 reviewed it \"weird\". I'm missing the \"game\" here, put in a timer and a survivor counter and then we can start getting highscores :)\n","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":769122,"author_name":"FancyReckless","author_uid":"fancyreckless","epoch":1634750878,"text":"Pretty funny game. Physics were a bit whacky, but it seemed like that kind of game. Some goal\/score system might be cool.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld49\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/ben-baqa\/Howard","text":"Link"},{"url":"https:\/\/bobo-baqa.itch.io\/howard","text":"Link"},{"url":"https:\/\/bobo-baqa.itch.io\/howard","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"80770","g_author":"1193797","g_event":"LD49","g_eventkey":"119","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"383048","g_title":"Howard","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"1226","g_commentcount":"15","g_site2_node_id":"270678","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"270678","n_urlkey":"383048","n_parent":"258323","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/49\/howard","n_slug":"howard","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"193797","n_created":"1633362240","n_modified":"1778531506","n_version":"825977","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD49","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":1,"author":193797,"body":"![Howard.gif](\/\/\/raw\/8e5\/04\/z\/45205.gif)\n\nCenturies of human carelessness has rendered most of the planet\u2019s landmasses completely uninhabitable. 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