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Some more clear instructions could be nice too.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld50\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/Goncalo-Chambel\/LudumDare50","text":"Link"},{"url":"https:\/\/cernbox.cern.ch\/index.php\/s\/PTKDQOWrGtZA0Is","text":"Link"},{"url":"https:\/\/donhaul.itch.io\/pray-for-prey","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"83609","g_author":"1036888","g_event":"LD50","g_eventkey":"110","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"389961","g_title":"Pray for Prey","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"2","g_site2_node_id":"289032","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"289032","n_urlkey":"389961","n_parent":"276397","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/50\/pray-for-prey","n_slug":"pray-for-prey","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"36888","n_created":"1649106534","n_modified":"1778841112","n_version":"898352","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD50","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":3,"author":36888,"body":"![banner.png](\/\/\/raw\/810\/9\/z\/4b228.png)\nMating season is here! And you are a mantis full of sigma male energy! You spot a female, shes' so prayin' mantilicious.\n\nHowever she's playing hard to get. After all as they say, nothing great ever came that easy.\n\nAnyway, your objective is to seduce the lady mantis either by collecting food, or performing cool mating dances for her, chicks dig that (we think) .\nThe little branch at the top represents your progress, and be careful, if you take too long a certain someone will be mad at you.\n\nScreenshots\n![Untitled-2.png](\/\/\/raw\/810\/9\/z\/4b2e6.png)![Untitled-3.png](\/\/\/raw\/810\/9\/z\/4b2f2.png)![Untitled-4.png](\/\/\/raw\/810\/9\/z\/4b2f4.png)![Untitled-5.png](\/\/\/raw\/810\/9\/z\/4b2f6.png)\n\nControls\n- W,A,S,D or arrows\n- P - pray\n- E - advance dialog\n- Space - skip dialog\n- R - Restart\n- Escape - Pause Menu\n- Q - Quit\n\nCool Facts About Praying Mantises (or whatever the plural is)\n- They only eat meat (no grass or anything like that)\n- They are good to have in your garden as they make other insects bite the dust\n- They are green\n- They can turn their head like an owl\n- their front legs are supa quick\n\nThings used:\n- Asesprite\n- Photoshop\n- Unity\n- Bosca Ceoil\n- Audacity\n- Visual Studio \n- Coffee\n- Brain\n\n(An azorean dude named Rodrigo did about 87.5% of the art but he doesn't have a Ludum Dare account)","comments":2,"comments-timestamp":"2022-04-06T23:06:12Z","created":"2022-04-04T21:08:54Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"grade":{"grade-01":2,"grade-02":2,"grade-03":2,"grade-04":2,"grade-05":2,"grade-06":2,"grade-07":2,"grade-08":2},"id":289032,"love":0,"magic":{"cool":106.06601717798,"feedback":0,"given":1.125,"grade":2,"smart":-25},"meta":{"author":[36888,289136],"cover":"\/\/\/content\/810\/9\/z\/4b21c.png","link-01":"https:\/\/github.com\/Goncalo-Chambel\/LudumDare50","link-01-tag":[42332],"link-02":"https:\/\/cernbox.cern.ch\/index.php\/s\/PTKDQOWrGtZA0Is","link-02-tag":[42337],"link-03":"https:\/\/donhaul.itch.io\/pray-for-prey","link-03-tag":[42336]},"meta-timestamp":"2026-05-15T10:31:52Z","modified":"2026-05-15T10:31:52Z","name":"Pray for Prey","node-timestamp":"2022-04-05T16:01:35Z","parent":276397,"parents":[1,5,9,276397],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/50\/pray-for-prey","published":"2022-04-05T00:08:37Z","scope":"public","slug":"pray-for-prey","subsubtype":"jam","subtype":"game","type":"item","version":898352},"text":"![banner.png](\/\/\/raw\/810\/9\/z\/4b228.png)\nMating season is here! And you are a mantis full of sigma male energy! You spot a female, shes' so prayin' mantilicious.\n\nHowever she's playing hard to get. After all as they say, nothing great ever came that easy.\n\nAnyway, your objective is to seduce the lady mantis either by collecting food, or performing cool mating dances for her, chicks dig that (we think) .\nThe little branch at the top represents your progress, and be careful, if you take too long a certain someone will be mad at you.\n\nScreenshots\n![Untitled-2.png](\/\/\/raw\/810\/9\/z\/4b2e6.png)![Untitled-3.png](\/\/\/raw\/810\/9\/z\/4b2f2.png)![Untitled-4.png](\/\/\/raw\/810\/9\/z\/4b2f4.png)![Untitled-5.png](\/\/\/raw\/810\/9\/z\/4b2f6.png)\n\nControls\n- W,A,S,D or arrows\n- P - pray\n- E - advance dialog\n- Space - skip dialog\n- R - Restart\n- Escape - Pause Menu\n- Q - Quit\n\nCool Facts About Praying Mantises (or whatever the plural is)\n- They only eat meat (no grass or anything like that)\n- They are good to have in your garden as they make other insects bite the dust\n- They are green\n- They can turn their head like an owl\n- their front legs are supa 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