{"author_link":"\/author\/traf-d-lo\/","author_name":"Traf d-Lo","author_uid":"111534","comments":[{"author_name":"Ghen","author_uid":"52500","time":"Aug 28, 2016 @ 6:01pm","epoch":1472406960,"text":"nice quiz game, even tho the spinning object dizzying my eye a bit cause of too concentrate on it lol\r<br\/>very nice entry :)"},{"author_name":"kadexus","author_uid":"52822","time":"Aug 28, 2016 @ 6:03pm","epoch":1472407080,"text":"The spinning makes it super hard to see what the objects are. Very interesting concept though and a nice bit of history!"},{"author_name":"Traf d-Lo","author_uid":"111534","time":"Aug 28, 2016 @ 6:18pm","epoch":1472407980,"text":"Thanks - you can slow down the rate of spin with the down arrow (but it reduces the score too)."},{"author_name":"BoltKey","author_uid":"50511","time":"Aug 28, 2016 @ 8:02pm","epoch":1472414220,"text":"I like the take on the theme, and the art. Also, the idea with rotating items is itneresting."},{"author_name":"Tropferl","author_uid":"61530","time":"Aug 28, 2016 @ 8:27pm","epoch":1472415720,"text":"I found it a bit too hard to guess from ten possible answers. I would reduce it to three and then go up while progressing.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I like the art, it would be cool if the moderator has some little animation, but that's polishing and not so important here)"},{"author_name":"nander","author_uid":"31876","time":"Aug 28, 2016 @ 9:32pm","epoch":1472419620,"text":"Annoying rotation, bit hard because of that.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Art is nice though."},{"author_name":"Traf d-Lo","author_uid":"111534","time":"Aug 28, 2016 @ 9:38pm","epoch":1472419980,"text":"@nander thanks, you can slow down the rotation with the down arrow though"},{"author_name":"WhiteSeal","author_uid":"48688","time":"Aug 28, 2016 @ 10:17pm","epoch":1472422320,"text":"Really fun quiz game and a great idea. The only downside was that the game was quite loud when I launched it."},{"author_name":"phantomunboxing","author_uid":"112443","time":"Aug 28, 2016 @ 10:18pm","epoch":1472422380,"text":"I like the eight bit music style \/ art style :D"},{"author_name":"Crack498","author_uid":"58864","time":"Aug 28, 2016 @ 11:06pm","epoch":1472425260,"text":"Even though it's a short quiz, there are many options to choose so you really have to think about the answer, and also the end if a bit funny so extra points for that :D"},{"author_name":"Kalibrated","author_uid":"12394","time":"Aug 28, 2016 @ 11:53pm","epoch":1472428080,"text":"Hey grats on the first jam game! I do wish I could have seen which ones I got right and wrong - would have been cool to learn about."},{"author_name":"hermetic","author_uid":"112783","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 12:47am","epoch":1472431320,"text":"Quiz game, or just a quiz...?.  Spinning was a little disorienting after a while.  You missed an opportunity to teach people by not showing which was the correct answer.  Must have taken a long time to find a source for obscure objects."},{"author_name":"fabbyrob","author_uid":"106933","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 12:49am","epoch":1472431440,"text":"Love the ending! And those are great sprites, next time you'll be set to make something visually stunning for sure!"},{"author_name":"quentinus60","author_uid":"101937","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 2:27am","epoch":1472437320,"text":"good quizz and the rotation is a good idea"},{"author_name":"BloodJohn","author_uid":"26449","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 4:51am","epoch":1472445960,"text":"nice quiz. need easy level for beginners. spinning too fast can't see. I don't know a single thing from the list :( need a shorter list to have a chance to guess."},{"author_name":"gurkan96","author_uid":"112811","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 6:00am","epoch":1472450100,"text":"interesting idea really hard to see when everything spinns around but i guess thats kind of the point! and i suppose i also need some more historical knowledge before i can be good at this game"},{"author_name":"Traf d-Lo","author_uid":"111534","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 6:11am","epoch":1472450760,"text":"Thanks for all the kind comments :D \r<br\/>\r<br\/>Almost everyone seems to have missed the point that you can slow down the rotation completely by pressing the down arrow - the instructions are on both screens but I obviously didn't make a good job of highlighting that fact.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>With regard to knowing which ones you got right, these are named and shown in red\/green on the final screen. I wanted to have a picture next to all of them but there wasn't room with the existing layout."},{"author_name":"KevKevOnFire","author_uid":"65255","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 6:53am","epoch":1472453280,"text":"I have a serious issue with the spinning. And yes, I know you can slow it down. But the game punishes you for stopping the spinning, making you get dizzy from staring at blurry spinny things in the hopes of getting a few more points.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>All in all, it works, but I just couldn't keep going for more than a single round."},{"author_name":"jackyjjc","author_uid":"21428","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 11:49am","epoch":1472471040,"text":"Got a score of 294! Good quiz game, learned quite a few tools that I didn't know about. The graphics and the music was very cute the relaxing, really good game :) Yes I do want to see the pictures next to the answers too, that would be nice."},{"author_name":"QwaKlak","author_uid":"112321","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 11:51am","epoch":1472471160,"text":"It works, so much, intresting concept. But i don't want play it even more than 4 tries."},{"author_name":"onyon","author_uid":"112297","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 12:09pm","epoch":1472472240,"text":"Hey nice quiz game. Thumbs up!"},{"author_name":"headchant","author_uid":"4232","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 2:58pm","epoch":1472482380,"text":"Nice to see you using L&ouml;ve! Awesome idea, the rotating things could have been a little bit bigger but that's just me and my bad eyes. The descriptions were great - really inventive and cryptic. Had a lot of fun with this one. My highscore is only 206..."},{"author_name":"KayZ","author_uid":"17933","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 7:45pm","epoch":1472499600,"text":"Interesting game. But quite hard. Funny positive and negative descriptions of the items."},{"author_name":"Quicklyer","author_uid":"110555","time":"Aug 29, 2016 @ 10:53pm","epoch":1472510880,"text":"Right on with the theme, and pretty impressive catalog of obscure tools.  Very nicely done!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Love2d sounds cool too, I&rsquo;ll have to check that out.  Great to see so many Linux supported \/ web games."},{"author_name":"dkdwrek","author_uid":"45328","time":"Aug 30, 2016 @ 2:58am","epoch":1472525580,"text":"Nice entry! The rotations can get a bit dizzying, but overall good game."},{"author_name":"esquellington","author_uid":"113025","time":"Aug 30, 2016 @ 10:13pm","epoch":1472594880,"text":"Great idea, and the best theme-fitting entry I've tried. Spinning makes me dizzy, I had to stop all of them, but had much fun trying to identify them and, specially, reading the descriptions."},{"author_name":"Frozen Fractal","author_uid":"7882","time":"Sep 2, 2016 @ 3:09pm","epoch":1472828640,"text":"Great little quiz! I can see why you added the spinning, though I can also see why people don't like it. The best bit are the descriptions and silly puns at the end :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Also, thank you for pointing out the existence of Piskel. It's exactly the tool I've been looking for for several LDs, and was considering writing myself."}],"images":["ld36\/111534-dae6349ac8d7a49df77eead07312b7f6.jpg","ld36\/111534-ee59dd88e4655ddc150363aac1300da5.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/107017966\/200generations_Windows_64bit.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/107017966\/200generations.love","text":"Linux"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/107017966\/200generations.love","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"961","g_author":"111534","g_event":"LD36","g_eventkey":"35","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"961","g_title":"200 Generations","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"27","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\/\/570486\/111534-shot0-1472397439.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/570486\/111534-shot1-1472397439.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"The Game:\r\nIdentify items of ancient technology from human history. Slow down the spinning items to make identification easier, but slower speed means a lower score. Also gives you a humorous summary of your ancestors based on what you thought each item was.\r\n\r\nAbout:\r\nThis is my first LD entry, coded with the awesome Love2D, and although it's a simplistic game I'm happy to have got it into a working shape from scratch especially as I'm only just learning Lua.\r\n\r\nThe Good:\r\nEverything at least works even if the layout is a bit odd in places!\r\n\r\nThe Bad:\r\nI underestimated how much time would be needed to create pixel-art type images. As a result the amount of content is severely lacking. Appearance would have been improved greatly if I'd had time to use bit-mapped fonts rather than relying on a default system font. I would have liked to add more pzazz by way of effects etc but the game is a bit too simplistic to warrant it.\r\n\r\nAutopsy:\r\nHaving a better grasp of the language selected would have been useful! At least I learned how to package up Love2D programs for Windows, despite developing on a Linux box, and how to use the excellent Piskel in some detail.\r\n\r\n\r\nThe download is for Windows 64 bit (archive includes source)\r\n\r\nA source-only *.love file is available for Linux users (who will need to install Love2d to play it).\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","title":"200 Generations"}