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Love me some classic RTS.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":857186,"author_name":"ch33sybacon","author_uid":"ch33sybacon","epoch":1664897021,"text":"The art animation and sound of this game are nice and make playing it enjoyable.  I found the control scheme\/camera a bit clunky.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":857193,"author_name":"Leon Regula","author_uid":"leon-regula","epoch":1664897064,"text":"I really like the idea, it's pretty funny. Sadly I couldn't select the gnomes...","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":857222,"author_name":"Sanjo","author_uid":"sanjo","epoch":1664897208,"text":"enjoyed the gameplay, alot of potential","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":857223,"author_name":"Jonrei","author_uid":"jonrei","epoch":1664897221,"text":"I really liked showing those skellies whos the boss.\n\nIt was a bit awkward using right click to select and then left click to move, think id rather use left click for both.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":857246,"author_name":"settings","author_uid":"settings","epoch":1664897380,"text":"Hahaha I found the atmosphere hilarious, it was chaotic but in a good way. Also, I planted 5 houses around the cauldron (one of them right on top of it) and gg long live the gnome kingdom","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":857248,"author_name":"Elros","author_uid":"elros","epoch":1664897389,"text":"This game is hilarious! I ended up just bodyblocking the soup with my gnomes. A nice entry for this competition, you really hit the theme theme there, hilarious as well. It would be really aprreciated if there were a red icon signaling that you indeed managed to order your gnomes to attack that skelly. \n\nWith different gnome\\house types, different skelly types, map design and some polish, you get a really cool steam level tower defence game which I would buy. Well done! ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":857260,"author_name":"Pegasus","author_uid":"pegasus","epoch":1664897481,"text":"A silly concept and I love it. Had a bit of trouble getting the gnomes to go where I wanted sometimes but most of the time it was cool to see them rush to a skeleton and destroy him. Wish the game got harder or more enemies\/gnomes were introduced to give me a reason to play longer.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":857279,"author_name":"LDJam user 301358","author_uid":"301358","epoch":1664897581,"text":"It's super fun. It became a little bit easy at some point though, as ninnec said it would've been nice if they started coming quicker. Sound design was nice too, I was definitely immersed.\n\nSomething minor but worth mentioning: the right-click thing sometimes clashes with the browser right-click. I feel like the game could use some simpler controls as well.\n\nGood job!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":863499,"author_name":"Sean Esopenko","author_uid":"sean-esopenko","epoch":1664938958,"text":"Sometimes clicking to place a mushroom would result in my gnomes running away from what they're doing.  The concept is pretty cool though, managing the spawners every 10 seconds and the waves every 10 seconds.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":863633,"author_name":"LDJam user 300873","author_uid":"300873","epoch":1664940617,"text":"Fun concept, I found myself playing it until there were too many gnomes for the browser to handle. I liked the 'hey' it felt oddly satisfying. ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":866895,"author_name":"Davirtuoso","author_uid":"davirtuoso","epoch":1664984624,"text":"Fun jam game - played until I had an army at my finger tips that protected my cauldron just through existing heh. Cool concept and fits well with the theme. Great job","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":878498,"author_name":"goldenXD","author_uid":"goldenxd","epoch":1665187098,"text":"Very funny, like the overall idea!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":878639,"author_name":"Skleembof","author_uid":"skleembof","epoch":1665191880,"text":"That was fun, but I found myself fighting with the mechanics more than with the skeletons. It was really confusing trying to send groups to fight because they would stop moving when I went to select another group, or they would run off screen, or hide behind the houses.\nTechnical issues aside, I think a fast paced mini-rts like this would be really cool with more buildings and unit types. ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":878717,"author_name":"GERD","author_uid":"gerd","epoch":1665195706,"text":"Cute game! I will say, it felt like my gnomes listened to me maybe half the time which felt frustrating. But for a game jam rts, this is pretty impressive!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":880160,"author_name":"GameDevTraum","author_uid":"gamedevtraum","epoch":1665247725,"text":"very entertaining to farm an army of gnomes :smile: \nI was playing for quite a while, at some point it's impossible to lose, maybe the gnomes could have less hp.\nWhich technology did you use? Did you just make a 3d game without engine? I was inspecting a little bit the page and found a \"Three.js\" which is a library to load and render 3d models. It's very impressive that you achive such a nice result :clap_tone3: :clap_tone3: \n","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":884128,"author_name":"Nikolaj","author_uid":"nikolaj","epoch":1665413995,"text":"@gamedevtraum the game is built with Three.js and bitECS, which are more than enough to have fun, and imho liberating from the weight of an engine! Full source is here: https:\/\/github.com\/nikolajbaer\/ld51","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":884167,"author_name":"Urjarm","author_uid":"urjarm","epoch":1665415999,"text":"A really nice idea and well looking graphics! The implementation of the theme was done pretty well, although I found the dwarves not always behaving quite like I wanted. But I imagine this to be quite hard to be done and overall, I quite enjoyed your game!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":884526,"author_name":"aDeCon","author_uid":"adecon","epoch":1665432615,"text":"![\u0438\u0437\u043e\u0431\u0440\u0430\u0436\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435_2022-10-10_230914321.png](\/\/\/raw\/576\/82\/z\/53015.png)\nI love strategy and you just made this game :)","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":886415,"author_name":"LDJam user 298496","author_uid":"298496","epoch":1665572499,"text":"This is a really awesome prototype, I'd love to see it developed further.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":887180,"author_name":"Hawkin","author_uid":"hawkin","epoch":1665635726,"text":"What a nutty game! Loved the creativity. I had a little trouble with the controls, because I think I expected left-click to drag\/select and right-click to move (like some RTS). \n\nAlso, I found that I had to micromanage my forces more to attack skeletons, even when they were right nearby. I would have found it more fun to watch all my little minions just go crazy and chase down the skellies! 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It's a bit tricky in the beginning but quickly becomes unlosable","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":891457,"author_name":"BlueDingo","author_uid":"bluedingo","epoch":1666140953,"text":"pretty fun game, although I keep forgetting to place down the houses, it would be cool if the button to place down the houses was automatic or maybe a button in the world above the pot","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":891461,"author_name":"maxr00","author_uid":"maxr00","epoch":1666141105,"text":"Nice job, finally a game that lets me stop skeletons from eating my soup","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":893808,"author_name":"Trexxak","author_uid":"trexxak","epoch":1666388557,"text":"gnomin' dem nasty skellies! \n\nAwesome idea for a RTS, and a very rare sight, too! 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