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Love it so far :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":843302,"author_name":"m11","author_uid":"m11","epoch":1664785620,"text":"Great job on the writing - really sold the dystopian corporate nightmare :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":843314,"author_name":"LDJam user 302987","author_uid":"302987","epoch":1664785832,"text":"Managed to finish both endings!\n\nI really enjoyed the writing and humour in this. The sound contributed a lot to making the game feel a bit more immersive and fun to play.\n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":843317,"author_name":"Deniz ARAS","author_uid":"deniz-aras","epoch":1664785918,"text":"Thanks to 1337-80Y I escaped and sell bunch of jets so that police can caught our boss. \n\nThis is one of the most interesting game ideas in the jam. It is not quite in line with theme but execution and the story was really enjoyable. Great job.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":847325,"author_name":"Roboolet","author_uid":"roboolet","epoch":1664832196,"text":"Love the game. The gameplay in a vacuum is pretty decent, but the story makes it worth playing. I don't really have anything else to add to that, so keep up the good work!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":850085,"author_name":"LDJam user 301620","author_uid":"301620","epoch":1664845727,"text":"Very nice.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":850218,"author_name":"chemicalcrux","author_uid":"chemicalcrux","epoch":1664846422,"text":"The last puzzle *almost* had me trying to write a script to brute-force it, which I think is in the spirit of the game (:\n\nI like it!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":864258,"author_name":"LDJam user 268647","author_uid":"268647","epoch":1664951632,"text":"Fresh take on the theme, and a unique one that","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":868603,"author_name":"Corporation","author_uid":"corporation","epoch":1665000097,"text":"Amazing how you did put such an engaging story into some kind of math puzzle. I realy like my experience, most fun I had this jam for sure.\nAnd you also made it more than one ending, very impressive!)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":878074,"author_name":"Shibaya","author_uid":"shibaya","epoch":1665175044,"text":"That's an great story! Specially for a gamejam! Good job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":883544,"author_name":"PurpledArtFrog","author_uid":"purpledartfrog","epoch":1665388272,"text":"Nice take on a puzzle game - a simple game mechanic which you managed make stand out :thumbsup_tone1: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":884208,"author_name":"Real_Human_1000","author_uid":"real-human-1000","epoch":1665418190,"text":"Great project! One would think that such a simple and monotonous puzzle would drive people away, but I got to one ending and decided to dive back in in the hopes that there would be more. And there was! I liked the story and narration. Everything is polished and works well. Very easy at first, but by the end is very challenging; I had to break out a calculator and really spend some time with one of the final puzzles to figure it out!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":884936,"author_name":"smilewood","author_uid":"smilewood","epoch":1665454302,"text":"For puzzles that started off seeming simple that ramped up in difficulty quite quickly in the latter few puzzles. I liked that there were multiple endings, and the story of the game was interesting and worked well with the puzzles; good framing device. Overall a well executed puzzle game, well done!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":885236,"author_name":"LDJam user 267116","author_uid":"267116","epoch":1665478656,"text":"Nice story and a clever puzzle. Haven't had to rub this many brain cells together since Professor Layton. Nice job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":887564,"author_name":"N_N","author_uid":"n-n","epoch":1665682140,"text":"I finally found a puzzle game :) I love this kind of game, so I wish the game was longer. Great result!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":890768,"author_name":"PoshDan","author_uid":"poshdan","epoch":1666042126,"text":"This game tickled my programmer brain","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld51\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/tangible-dreams.com\/games\/optimum-tasks\/","text":"Link"},{"url":"https:\/\/ln5.sync.com\/dl\/2516be460\/kjsnjiwr-jurak6qd-d6bn8a6r-gry7wrbn","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"85436","g_author":"1001576","g_event":"LD51","g_eventkey":"114","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"395065","g_title":"Optimum Tasks","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"138","g_commentcount":"17","g_site2_node_id":"305942","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"305942","n_urlkey":"395065","n_parent":"296586","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/51\/optimum-tasks","n_slug":"optimum-tasks","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"1576","n_created":"1664746716","n_modified":"1776548872","n_version":"938928","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD51","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":5,"author":1576,"body":"# A dystopian puzzle game\n\n![optimum-tasks-screenshot.png](\/\/\/raw\/826\/z\/4fca9.png)\n\n## Welcome, employee! \n\nAn unwise comment during a corporate Townhall meeting has earned you an unusual punishment: Manually sort tasks for the Corporate Mainframe, so that they fit within the 10 seconds window of execution for every task.\n\n...though the tasks might prove to be somewhat more sinister than anticipated...\n\n## Information\n\n\"Optimum Tasks\" is a puzzle game, made in Java, using the LibGDX framework. 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