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Nice work!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":813785,"author_name":"LDJam user 97711","author_uid":"97711","epoch":1649388100,"text":"I loved the hair losing mechanic and the general chaotic vibe of the experience, haha. Visually it took some time to understand what was going on, though maybe that is also part of the point ;) Nice entry!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":813924,"author_name":"Dandala88","author_uid":"dandala88","epoch":1649392579,"text":"Quirky and a great commentary on, not just game dev, but working in general. I love how the different symbols were used for the different aspects of the modern human. Work, get money, eat, fall in love, break up, atta-boy's. I feel like you could have given the guy a little bit more hair though don't you think? :wink: Thanks for the entry. Very cool!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":831681,"author_name":"GreenPig","author_uid":"greenpig","epoch":1650148912,"text":"I had a mild depression playing this game, knowing its a possible outcome of our lifes, but beside that it was fun. Good job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":831685,"author_name":"4ahizon","author_uid":"4ahizon","epoch":1650149122,"text":"It a simple game mechanics that is comical chaotic.  ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":831718,"author_name":"guzzungo","author_uid":"guzzungo","epoch":1650152862,"text":"I don't know why but i find this game depressive. I like it","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":832804,"author_name":"Haoyun Zhang","author_uid":"haoyun-zhang","epoch":1650260053,"text":"@100th-coin Thank you so mcuh!! I like this idea too.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":832828,"author_name":"Lighty_the_Light","author_uid":"lighty-the-light","epoch":1650264091,"text":"Nice little game! Getting confused at beginning but after I got the hang of it, it became quite fun.\n\nGetting hard after received too much pressure, since it's much easier to receive pressure and have less time to find the corresponding conter.\n\nWell done!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":832971,"author_name":"Zitao YE","author_uid":"zitao-ye","epoch":1650279852,"text":"really cool metaphor of the life pressure and balance with the take and espace the pressure,the losing hair mechanics is a bit useless, I can't really get it,and either the failure condition,","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":833243,"author_name":"Haoyun Zhang","author_uid":"haoyun-zhang","epoch":1650299992,"text":"@zitao-ye really useful comment,I find it's hard to use hair mechanics when you are too busy dealing with all those icons from sky.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":833379,"author_name":"zimny11","author_uid":"zimny11","epoch":1650306108,"text":"Nice game! It was fun to try it out. Nice music too. As others pointed out, the hair mechanic is funny, but not that useful. Anyway, good job with the game!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":833426,"author_name":"m.dam","author_uid":"m-dam","epoch":1650308083,"text":"I was definitely bald at the end","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":833512,"author_name":"lpettler","author_uid":"lpettler","epoch":1650312695,"text":"The comic-chaos of this game is very well developed with dramatic music, fun mechanics, a depressing topic, and the inevitable decline of life. As mentioned by others, it is not immediately intuitive but it is easy enough to figure out in repetitive plays. Really liked the artistic approach and the use of hair as a mechanic. Overall, a great blend of all the things that make life. Great job.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":834839,"author_name":"YukimiItsuka","author_uid":"yukimiitsuka","epoch":1650436628,"text":"Great work. Congratulations!\n\nAt the beginning, when I was playing around, I always died very quickly, but gradually I discovered some tricks, such as always ensuring that there are only two kinds of pressure on my head, strategically giving up the other two kinds of pressure, and lying down for year-end bonuses, from which I can feel to the philosophy this game brought me, teaching me to better face the stress in real life :D\n\nBtw, the hair-shooting design is funny but doesn't seem useful, and I don't know how high the water goes when I'm going to die 0-0.\n\nHere is my highscore.\n\n![hair.png](\/\/\/raw\/62d\/32\/z\/4e360.png)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":835743,"author_name":"Haoyun Zhang","author_uid":"haoyun-zhang","epoch":1650512567,"text":"@yukimiitsuka Congratulations! You find exacly what we want to express by the stradegy of this game. One more note, if you concrete on dealing with the presssure from work (wich is the blue folders) and abandon love\/relationship (which is the red broken heart), you might survive even longer. PS:one of our developer jiqishu is also from Tsinghua University, who currently in USC Interactive Media & Game Division program with me. Nice to mee you!!!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld50\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/haoyunn.itch.io\/sauce-of-life","text":"Link"},{"url":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1hXWi7NmDiJ9uB5Q3FZl-ZgNfL-pP8I0L\/view?usp=sharing","text":"Link"},{"url":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Vz6Za6vlfaJd6ZIRQTkXV8exxJ7O1Oer\/view?usp=sharing","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"81544","g_author":"1276983","g_event":"LD50","g_eventkey":"110","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"385968","g_title":"Sauce of Life","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"953","g_commentcount":"16","g_site2_node_id":"278264","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"278264","n_urlkey":"385968","n_parent":"276397","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/50\/sauce-of-life","n_slug":"sauce-of-life","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"276983","n_created":"1647903225","n_modified":"1779463566","n_version":"885584","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD50","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":1,"author":276983,"body":"GAME DESCRIPTION\n\nThe game is about making a game, or, to be more specific, it is about dealing with everything that accompanies making a game\u2014 pressure from the work you do, the family you have, relationship, others\u2019 words, everything that might make a person on edge.\n\nYou will play as a programmer in a game company who tries to balance work and life by taking on and dropping off pressures, and by grasping the tiniest hygge possible in life. If you fail to take on the pressure and let them fall into your sea of mind, the sea will rise and finally engulf you.\n\nThe creed is: toughen up, and please do not collapse.\n\nINSTRUCTION:\n\nButtons: [Green] Run Game ;  [Yellow] Backstory ; [Red] Exit \n\nMOVEMENT [\u2190][\u2192] OR [A][D]             \nSACRIFICE your Hair to DELAY the Inevitable pressure [Space]\n\nTry to DELAY the Inevitable resignation as Many Weeks as possible\n\nSHOULDER THE BURDEN OR LEAVE THEM ALONE\n\nabout the name of the game: Life has its flavors. It can be bitter, sweet, spicy..., well, probably it remains bitter most of the time. Either way, you have to allow in the right amount of sauce.\n\nShoulder the burden or leave them alone (Note: Stacked burdens can be erased by hygge of the same color)\nTip: you may delay burden and hygge from taking effect at the cost of your hair\n\n![GameNarrative.png](\/\/\/raw\/7f9\/34\/z\/4a4ee.png)\n\n![GameScreenShot.png](\/\/\/raw\/7f9\/34\/z\/4a4ef.png)\n\n![CrashthemAll.png](\/\/\/raw\/7f9\/34\/z\/4a51e.png)\n\n![HairShootingScreenShot.png](\/\/\/raw\/7f9\/34\/z\/4a4f0.png)\n\n![GameOver.png](\/\/\/raw\/7f9\/34\/z\/4acef.png)\n\nIn order to have better experience, we recommend you to play our game on full screen or download the game. 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If you fail to take on the pressure and let them fall into your sea of mind, the sea will rise and finally engulf you.\n\nThe creed is: toughen up, and please do not collapse.\n\nINSTRUCTION:\n\nButtons: [Green] Run Game ;  [Yellow] Backstory ; [Red] Exit \n\nMOVEMENT [\u2190][\u2192] OR [A][D]             \nSACRIFICE your Hair to DELAY the Inevitable pressure [Space]\n\nTry to DELAY the Inevitable resignation as Many Weeks as possible\n\nSHOULDER THE BURDEN OR LEAVE THEM ALONE\n\nabout the name of the game: Life has its flavors. It can be bitter, sweet, spicy..., well, probably it remains bitter most of the time. 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