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I wanted more interactions with the troops, but not enough time since I did the whole thing in 12 hours.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1153346,"author_name":"oeueGHa","author_uid":"oeuegha","epoch":1744854711,"text":"Good concept!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1156386,"author_name":"Hacktier","author_uid":"hacktier","epoch":1745366442,"text":"cool game\n\n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1156440,"author_name":"commanderstitch","author_uid":"commanderstitch","epoch":1745375185,"text":"charmy little game i beat this thing!![ballgame.png](\/\/\/raw\/b24\/z\/6c67b.png)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1157623,"author_name":"Wadoral","author_uid":"wadoral","epoch":1745569274,"text":"This was fun! Maybe the SFX were a bit too loud compared to the music. I figured quite quick that the best strategy is to just spam troops as fast as possible. Unfortunately the submission itself was too tedious to beat, even though I had a lot of fun playing this. Great job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1157683,"author_name":"moi93101","author_uid":"moi93101","epoch":1745580503,"text":"I didn\u2019t realize you could interact with the troops after launching them...\nI think that part could maybe be automated \u2014 I spent quite a bit of time trying (and failing) to trigger them, which was a bit frustrating \ud83d\ude22\n\nThat said, I ended up beating the game twice, so clearly I got hooked! \ud83d\ude04\nIt\u2019s all good \u2014 I think this could turn into a really cool game!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1157762,"author_name":"croze","author_uid":"croze","epoch":1745596838,"text":"Super impressive that this was done in 12 hours, there's definitely something here! Solid base for a game that could be reminiscent of something like Peglin","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1157774,"author_name":"Untitled Studios","author_uid":"untitled-studios","epoch":1745598528,"text":"Really cool! I had a lot of fun right in the beginning, but once I figured out how long it would take to beat the enemy base, I quickly lost interest in the game.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1158253,"author_name":"Samudin Ziberi","author_uid":"samudin-ziberi","epoch":1745670421,"text":"better than i expected, fun game overall","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld57\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1-EL_EJ8UiGnmvuP01p3IP_87hJ_Ys9Fs\/view?usp=sharing","text":"Link"},{"url":"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/11c3ZIKiTw_CNrnQJWZNhhGONfgeFiN5-\/view?usp=sharing","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"97709","g_author":"1181379","g_event":"LD57","g_eventkey":"111","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"450035","g_title":"Ball 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