{"author_link":"\/author\/mozz\/","author_name":"Mozz","author_uid":"57366","comments":[{"author_name":"RHY3756547","author_uid":"7339","time":"Aug 24, 2015 @ 11:58pm","epoch":1440460380,"text":"Not sure what was happening, but I managed to flood the world and make what I can only assume are red worm cities. Took a while to afford a condo but I got there. I also got stuck somehow? Nice graphics."},{"author_name":"Connors","author_uid":"10411","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 3:41am","epoch":1440473760,"text":"I too was confused but there is something to be said for a game that can get the idea across without needing a lot of explanation. That said, I sort of wish there was a little more depth to the strategy. Once I had a manor or two I basically alternated between "Charm" and the weird spell that lures people to you, to keep them from destroying my buildings until I had enough... number to build a monster condo."},{"author_name":"Mozz","author_uid":"57366","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 4:03am","epoch":1440475080,"text":"thanks for playing, all :) I agree that the strategy portion of the game is rather thin - I easily spent 80% of my time on the interface without thinking about the actual ... design :P. the 'weird spell' actually harvests all the cc that the base level building collects, as well as royally ticking off humans. just noticed that there was a bug in the ticker at the bottom that doesnt load the other texts :C no gameplay hints there though, just flavor."},{"author_name":"aberdeenphoenix","author_uid":"54767","time":"Aug 25, 2015 @ 4:14pm","epoch":1440518940,"text":"I played this last night, and man, there's a steep learning curve! I like it, though. It's a great idea and I hope you develop it further! For some reason, I can't play it from my work computer or I would be wasting some time right now :("},{"author_name":"jphelps","author_uid":"58096","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 2:02am","epoch":1440554220,"text":"kinda of weird, not reall sure how to get it going"},{"author_name":"pkenney","author_uid":"30865","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 2:04am","epoch":1440554340,"text":"I was a little too confused to really engage with what was going on, but I did manage to raise a manor at least! Looks like maybe something cool was happening but I was kind of missing it because I wasn't sure what everything is.\r\rI definitely respect that you tried not to burden the game with a ton of instruction\/tutorial, though! Usually I do like to try to figure them out myself.\r\rAlso, the old-school cartridge-era aesthetic was well done."},{"author_name":"lanestp","author_uid":"49246","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 2:09am","epoch":1440554640,"text":"I had a little bit of trouble figuring out what to do. The graphics are killer though! I would dearly love a tutorial it seems like it's super fun!"},{"author_name":"khahem","author_uid":"5209","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 6:04am","epoch":1440568740,"text":"Surely confusing at first, but it was fun discovering the gameplay without instructions.\r\rThe only real problem I had was the input becoming more and more laggy as the game advanced, (strangely it didn't seem to really affect the display framewate, weird)."},{"author_name":"Multiplexor","author_uid":"50012","time":"Aug 26, 2015 @ 2:49pm","epoch":1440600240,"text":"I had trouble at the beginning understanding what was going on... but In the end I found out and it's a nice game! Music would have been nice, and a tutorial would help too! :)"},{"author_name":"boardtobits","author_uid":"57679","time":"Aug 27, 2015 @ 4:00pm","epoch":1440690900,"text":"Didn't really understand what I was doing? Charm seemed to kill everyone (even me?). Nice pixel art, though."},{"author_name":"nwdg","author_uid":"55483","time":"Aug 29, 2015 @ 11:35am","epoch":1440847800,"text":"Graphics looks nice, not sure about what I was doing tho."},{"author_name":"crucknuk","author_uid":"53686","time":"Aug 29, 2015 @ 11:36am","epoch":1440847860,"text":"I guess there is an idea behind it, but as all the others said it is a bit confusing, i really try to manage to grow things but I easily ended up by being blocked at some point. I wanted to see more of it 'cause the idea is interesting, but yeah hard to see where things point at."},{"author_name":"Mach60KAS","author_uid":"5788","time":"Sep 7, 2015 @ 9:00pm","epoch":1441659300,"text":"I'm not entirely sure what I played through, but it was weird in a good sort of way. I didn't get much out of the resource grind (although I did manage to build a condo for the worm prince) - my strategy basically consisted of sitting on a manor spamming charm and waiting to heal until I was rich. I didn't manage to figure out what the third spell did, apart from make my flying worm change shape I think? It made people run towards me so I could consume though, which worked in my favour. The UI is very well made, I can see you've put a lot of work into getting it just right and it shows off the flavour text well - it doesn't handle resource scores above 999 all that gracefully though. Interesting, if unorthodox entry - good job!"},{"author_name":"Mase","author_uid":"18575","time":"Sep 14, 2015 @ 4:46pm","epoch":1442248860,"text":"Nicely mysterious scenario. I enjoyed deciphering the gameplay.\rI filled up about half of the map with little towers. But by the time I was ready to build a condo the input lag had become too great to navigate the menu."}],"images":["ld33\/57366-e25649242d5b2ee08ad550236bf9d6dc.jpg","ld33\/57366-f8b3e0c19359af496e459f99e2a6efd1.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.lexaloffle.com\/bbs\/?tid=2331","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.lexaloffle.com\/bbs\/cposts\/1\/13140.p8.png","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"8572","g_author":"57366","g_event":"LD33","g_eventkey":"29","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"8605","g_title":"MANDATORY FUN EXPERIENCE","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"758","g_commentcount":"14","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/479518\/57366-shot0-1440460033.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/479518\/57366-shot1-1440460033.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"LOOK UP AND BEHOLD THE RED WORM SEE HER RED GLISTENING SCALES\r\n\r\nbe prepared for entertainment. drink fluids and consume flesh to replenish lifeblood.\r\n\r\nbutton one (z) - move to\r\nbutton two(x) - open menu, confirm \r\n\r\nedit 8\/23\/15 - fixed a bug that caused particles not to spawn when I wanted them to! 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