{"author_link":"\/users\/loveapplegames","author_name":"loveapplegames","author_uid":"loveapplegames","comments":[],"epoch":1588971216,"event":"LD46","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":209955,"likes":5,"metadata":{"p_key":"146005","p_author":"loveapplegames","p_authorkey":"1006791","p_urlkey":"362418","p_title":"Rescue Rangers new style!","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD46","p_time":"1588971216","p_likes":"5","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1006791","us_name":"loveapplegames","us_username":"loveapplegames","event_start":"1587081600","event_key":"77","event_name":"Ludum Dare 46"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD46","removed_author":false},"_superparent":176557,"_trust":13,"author":6791,"body":"Remember [Ludum Dare Rescue Rangers](http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/2014\/12\/09\/ludum-dare-rescue-rangers\/)? I'm trying to bring it back!\n\nGetting over 20 comments has been tough this time round, due to **the need to have the game developers \n\"like\" your comments** to get ranking score.  The basic idea is good: have people try and write meaningful comments, instead of spending 30 seconds on a game and keying in some ratings.  In practice, however, there are some problems.\n\nFirst of all, the **developers** of the game have to like your comments.  This is not going to work if the developers are out on vacation because they finished the rating process already.  Since we're near the end of the rating period, a lot of developers are not checking their comments every day!\n\n**Please note:** Occasionally, others will also like your comments.  However, there is a quirk in the scoring calculation that will **penalize** the game that is rated when there are third party likes.  A like on a comment is counted much like a comment, which means the game's score will go down dramatically if you like a bunch of its comments.  Check the [Github issue here](https:\/\/github.com\/ludumdare\/ludumdare\/issues\/1748). So please don't do it!\n\nSo, how do we find those games with active developers?  The answer is, **use my new search engine**!  You get a list of only the \"active\" games, sorted by score. Additionally you can also search by platform or keyword.  \n\nThe search engine scrapes the data every hour. However, scraping comments takes 40 minutes, so to offload the system a bit, it scrapes only 1\/4 of the games at a time, so refresh time for comments is 4 hours.\n\n**[The search engine: http:\/\/tmtg.nl\/ld46\/](http:\/\/tmtg.nl\/ld46\/)**\n\n![ldscrape-crop1-sm.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/78a\/1\/z\/33df2.jpg)\n","comments":6,"comments-timestamp":"2020-05-09T17:12:16Z","created":"2020-05-08T18:05:21Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":209955,"love":5,"love-timestamp":"2020-05-09T03:14:56Z","meta":[],"modified":"2020-05-09T17:12:16Z","name":"Rescue Rangers new style!","node-timestamp":"2020-05-08T20:53:36Z","parent":179620,"parents":[1,5,9,176557,179620],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/46\/cyto-killer-save-our-cells\/rescue-rangers-new-style","published":"2020-05-08T20:53:36Z","scope":"public","slug":"rescue-rangers-new-style","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":638280},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"209955","n_urlkey":"362418","n_parent":"179620","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/46\/cyto-killer-save-our-cells\/rescue-rangers-new-style","n_slug":"rescue-rangers-new-style","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"6791","n_created":"1588961121","n_modified":"1589044336","n_version":"638280","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/46\/cyto-killer-save-our-cells\/rescue-rangers-new-style","text":"Remember [Ludum Dare Rescue Rangers](http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/2014\/12\/09\/ludum-dare-rescue-rangers\/)? I'm trying to bring it back!\n\nGetting over 20 comments has been tough this time round, due to **the need to have the game developers \n\"like\" your comments** to get ranking score.  The basic idea is good: have people try and write meaningful comments, instead of spending 30 seconds on a game and keying in some ratings.  In practice, however, there are some problems.\n\nFirst of all, the **developers** of the game have to like your comments.  This is not going to work if the developers are out on vacation because they finished the rating process already.  Since we're near the end of the rating period, a lot of developers are not checking their comments every day!\n\n**Please note:** Occasionally, others will also like your comments.  However, there is a quirk in the scoring calculation that will **penalize** the game that is rated when there are third party likes.  A like on a comment is counted much like a comment, which means the game's score will go down dramatically if you like a bunch of its comments.  Check the [Github issue here](https:\/\/github.com\/ludumdare\/ludumdare\/issues\/1748). So please don't do it!\n\nSo, how do we find those games with active developers?  The answer is, **use my new search engine**!  You get a list of only the \"active\" games, sorted by score. Additionally you can also search by platform or keyword.  \n\nThe search engine scrapes the data every hour. However, scraping comments takes 40 minutes, so to offload the system a bit, it scrapes only 1\/4 of the games at a time, so refresh time for comments is 4 hours.\n\n**[The search engine: http:\/\/tmtg.nl\/ld46\/](http:\/\/tmtg.nl\/ld46\/)**\n\n![ldscrape-crop1-sm.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/78a\/1\/z\/33df2.jpg)\n","title":"Rescue Rangers new style!","wayback_source":[]}