{"author_link":"\/author\/papygaragos\/","author_name":"PapyPilgrim","author_uid":"7971","comments":[{"author_name":"Raptor85","author_uid":"7131","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 6:27am","epoch":1418019720,"text":"very clever take on the theme"},{"author_name":"shasharala","author_uid":"34866","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 2:05pm","epoch":1418133600,"text":"Ooo, I love it! Especially the parser! Gotta love tab auto-completion.\r\rAwesome job."},{"author_name":"trykondev","author_uid":"34441","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 3:06am","epoch":1418180460,"text":"Ah so nice, 5\/5 on the theme, really unique"},{"author_name":"Raxsus","author_uid":"44875","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 2:24pm","epoch":1418221140,"text":"Pretty interesting, but I didn't find it very fun."},{"author_name":"pjimmy","author_uid":"40339","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 2:38pm","epoch":1418221980,"text":"cool, very solid gameplay, well done"},{"author_name":"oskardevelopment","author_uid":"21518","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 9:15pm","epoch":1418332200,"text":"Solid gameplay, the story and gameplay were really well made! Fit the theme well and was fun. Could've had a deeper story, though I understand that you had the timelimit that hindered you. Thanks for the game and Merry Christmas!"},{"author_name":"6DownStudios","author_uid":"39552","time":"Dec 13, 2014 @ 1:45am","epoch":1418434800,"text":"Clever interpretation, and a real neat little simulation, elegant and quite user-friendly with that TAB key. I quite like it!"},{"author_name":"alyphen","author_uid":"14242","time":"Dec 14, 2014 @ 12:52pm","epoch":1418561220,"text":"This was fantastic - the only thing I really felt lacking was content, but the concept is really really good. With a little more content (and perhaps a little more control over things like going back to the galactica, it would be nice to do that sort of thing yourself rather than letting the game autoplay), you could definitely make something sellable. The audio is subtle, which enhances the mood greatly. The graphics were simple, but beautiful. The story was neat, there were a couple of typos, but it felt very polished. Good job."},{"author_name":"rnlf","author_uid":"30930","time":"Dec 14, 2014 @ 1:25pm","epoch":1418563200,"text":"Yes, really cool thing to use an actual DRADIS screen ;-)\r\rBeing a command line junkie myself, this was much to my taste!\r\rGood work!"},{"author_name":"billrizer","author_uid":"43727","time":"Dec 14, 2014 @ 1:34pm","epoch":1418563740,"text":"Can't seem to play either version of web (http:\/\/d.pr\/i\/15vgc)"},{"author_name":"RockhopperGames","author_uid":"46057","time":"Dec 14, 2014 @ 1:35pm","epoch":1418563800,"text":"Excellent use of the theme! I'm very interested in seeing where this could go! Good luck in your post-jam work!"},{"author_name":"LabOne","author_uid":"25948","time":"Dec 14, 2014 @ 1:43pm","epoch":1418564280,"text":"Nice, but really slow."},{"author_name":"LabOne","author_uid":"25948","time":"Dec 14, 2014 @ 1:43pm","epoch":1418564280,"text":"Nice, but really slow. Anyway 5\/5."},{"author_name":"AMS","author_uid":"45180","time":"Dec 14, 2014 @ 1:58pm","epoch":1418565180,"text":"Awesome, I like the innovative gameplay, well done!"},{"author_name":"Team Klappermann","author_uid":"40392","time":"Dec 14, 2014 @ 6:27pm","epoch":1418581320,"text":"Nicely done!\rTook me a while to figure out what to do, but i really like the console style input!"},{"author_name":"p1x3lruckus","author_uid":"45534","time":"Dec 15, 2014 @ 9:55am","epoch":1418637000,"text":"Dude I love this game, I just played the compo version but now I'm gonna go through the most recent. I really liked the way the game didn't handhold which commands you used, it added a little mystery and trial and error. good work."},{"author_name":"eforen","author_uid":"34017","time":"Dec 15, 2014 @ 10:23am","epoch":1418638680,"text":"I really like your implementation of the theme and your Parser Dat tab-completion man! Good job!"},{"author_name":"Shampop","author_uid":"47083","time":"Dec 15, 2014 @ 10:45am","epoch":1418640000,"text":"Really loved it ! Didn't hunderstand everything inmediatly, but after a bunch of time it became clear and it was really cool to play. Great job !"},{"author_name":"Valeour","author_uid":"2679","time":"Dec 15, 2014 @ 12:37pm","epoch":1418646720,"text":"Very interesting idea, way outside the kinds of genres I like to play normally which may be the reason which whilst I found it pretty engaging I just didn't find it all that fun, certainly one of the most novel games I've played of this jam."},{"author_name":"feiss","author_uid":"8733","time":"Dec 15, 2014 @ 3:02pm","epoch":1418655420,"text":"This is cool!! more complex than mine indeed, but similar in some way :D I love the mood, the sounds, and the polished gameplay of it. Great work!"},{"author_name":"RyanNielson","author_uid":"13891","time":"Dec 15, 2014 @ 7:32pm","epoch":1418671620,"text":"Really neat game, the concept is cool and the graphics and sound are fantastic. I wish it didn't take as long to get into though. Also I'm having a weird issue with typing input not working everytime I press keys using Chrome and Mac. It may be something with my machine though.\r\rWell done overall! It's certainly unique."},{"author_name":"Suppagumma","author_uid":"45780","time":"Dec 16, 2014 @ 11:07pm","epoch":1418770920,"text":"Great take on the theme! The TAB key didn't work for me sadly, but I enjoyed the compo version to the end anyway :)"},{"author_name":"Xanjos","author_uid":"21201","time":"Dec 17, 2014 @ 12:03am","epoch":1418774280,"text":"It's a shame this is woefully short because it got me wanting more after the first mission. Definitely an entry that deserves to be worked on even further (heck if this comes out on Steam I'll buy it since I enjoyed Papers Please)."},{"author_name":"rjhunter","author_uid":"16057","time":"Dec 18, 2014 @ 9:11am","epoch":1418893560,"text":"Very interesting! I'm pleased you kept working on this, I want to see where the story goes.\r\rI sometimes felt a bit railroaded (commands not working when I wanted them to, or they worked but interrupted the story). I'd prefer feedback like "command temporarily unavailable" than either of these outcomes.\r\rKeep up the good work!"},{"author_name":"Red Sigma","author_uid":"46846","time":"Dec 19, 2014 @ 3:43am","epoch":1418960280,"text":"Overall this was really great, I hope to see an expanded version of this. It could be quite interesting. I was surprised that even though it was through text your co-pilot felt like a friend. I'm so lonely. Good work!"},{"author_name":"Sestren","author_uid":"10343","time":"Dec 19, 2014 @ 10:46am","epoch":1418985660,"text":"Pretty neat take on the theme. I see a lot of potential with this, depending on where you take it."},{"author_name":"markusfisch","author_uid":"19466","time":"Dec 19, 2014 @ 3:29pm","epoch":1419002640,"text":"As a command line lover, I just have to love this game! Very good atmosphere with really nice music. Definitely a different game! Very well done and I just got my feet wet by rescuing FRET-4 :)"},{"author_name":"Omiya Games","author_uid":"20557","time":"Dec 20, 2014 @ 1:16am","epoch":1419037860,"text":"The Compo version is...not really much, to be honest. I was only following directions, and it didn't give me any freedom or leeway.\r\rFrankly, I'm conflicted with it. It's an interactive fiction that uses commands to provide that technological feel, but the fact that every command is locked doesn't give me much interesting decisions or discover new, unimportant facts about the universe we live in. I'm fine with the interface as it is, but not so fine with the lack of control I have."},{"author_name":"PapyPilgrim","author_uid":"7971","time":"Dec 20, 2014 @ 10:38am","epoch":1419071580,"text":"@rjhunter @omiya_games\r\rFirst of all, thanks for the feedback: props to you for saying something more than "oh i like XX and YY ! good job"\r\rI agree with both of you : The game is very low content-wise. I am actually quiet disapointed with what the compo turned up to be, but I didn't wanted to push rushed-and-broken features in... hence the post-compo version :)\r\rAs for the railroad part... Yes it is absolutly true. I felt it was necessary though. I had time to playtest it during the compo and every single tester felt overwhelmed and lost... I had to take them by the hand. Sadly this took a lot of time and I couldn't\r\rSo yes, the compo version is nothing more than a long tutorial and is very railroaded because of it. It was a deliberate choice on my part, and the mission I added in the post-compo version doesn't suffer from it since the way you react to a given situation is handled (you can totally disobey orders, and I handle it).\r\rYou can try other "command line" compos (http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-31\/?action=preview&uid=38819 or http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-31\/?action=preview&uid=16086) for an exemple of the problem I was trying to solve: those compos are great, but only once you figured what you are supposed to do"},{"author_name":"alfadur","author_uid":"16192","time":"Dec 21, 2014 @ 1:52am","epoch":1419126420,"text":"This plays quite nicely, if a bit slow, I would definitely like to see more of it! Though it desperately needs a log if players are to make sense of what's happening in longer scenarios. \r\rWhile not really compo-related, I played the new version for a bit, and it felt like there's room for putting the command line to more extensive use. For example, instead of scanning a ship's engine automatically, there could be a two step process: first scan the ship to discover its parts, then scan a specific part to discover its state.\r\rAlso, it won't let you run "INTERCEPT MC-BETH". :)"},{"author_name":"panda","author_uid":"16086","time":"Dec 25, 2014 @ 5:02am","epoch":1419483420,"text":"Very nice! And you even have tab completion, much nicer than my own text game! I like it, only wish that there was more content, and more to the story - I want to know what happens next! It would also be nice if it were less linear."},{"author_name":"dunin","author_uid":"32902","time":"Dec 27, 2014 @ 11:01pm","epoch":1419720960,"text":"just played the compo version yet, nice idea (and so better with tab-key completion). I hope we are more free in the post-compo version (no time to test today)..."},{"author_name":"hexagore","author_uid":"34027","time":"Dec 28, 2014 @ 10:17am","epoch":1419761520,"text":"Original take on the theme. It does feel like there could be something to this if you continued developing, too. Parser seems to work really well. \r\rOne bit of constructive criticism might be that asking us to hide various ships... well we don't know which ships it's safe to hide. We don't know what we're supposed to be interested in or not. Probably better to start with only a few ships and get us to show things based on class of ships. "Show all the civilian ships" etc? \r\rOtherwise very interesting."},{"author_name":"Alexandre Szybiak","author_uid":"18469","time":"Dec 28, 2014 @ 11:20am","epoch":1419765300,"text":"Excellent game, I was stuck quite early though, is there a walkthrough somewhere ?"},{"author_name":"Backterria","author_uid":"46642","time":"Dec 28, 2014 @ 12:16pm","epoch":1419768660,"text":"Very well done!love it!"},{"author_name":"SK16 Games","author_uid":"32632","time":"Dec 28, 2014 @ 4:15pm","epoch":1419783000,"text":"Really creative and fun game!! 5\/5! Can't wait for the "commercial" game"},{"author_name":"bogdan.tana","author_uid":"17418","time":"Dec 29, 2014 @ 7:00pm","epoch":1419879300,"text":"Great one :D I felt really immersed for a text-based. Also, original take on the theme! TAB was a cool 'cherry-on-top'. I know this type of games isn't for everyone to enjoy, but it definitely caught me :) Cheers!"},{"author_name":"JavadocMD","author_uid":"29362","time":"Dec 29, 2014 @ 9:13pm","epoch":1419887280,"text":"Great concept! I can definitely see this turning into something really fun."},{"author_name":"shadow64","author_uid":"35058","time":"Dec 30, 2014 @ 12:59am","epoch":1419900840,"text":"Really good idea that was definitely stymied by time. I'm pretty positive this will go far once you've built up on it more. I'm going to check out the post-compo entry later, but I wanted to make sure that I reviewed it.\r\rThings were a little unclear as far as the commands go. You introduced the first few and that was nice. Hopefully in the future you'll have a mission that forces the player to utilize all of them as a tutorial of sorts.\r\rObviously that's not something I expected you to have done in such a short time frame and what you did accomplish was really cool. Thanks for entering and showing this off and thank you very much for checking out Natquik and commenting.\r\rTake care!"}],"images":["ld31\/7971-7b23400f9e8026196636608beeee3518.jpg","ld31\/7971-cbc0b4b9c578174301c33b4c0cb907b9.jpg","ld31\/7971-8065248bf4161e637b2fe4e887c8f087.jpg","ld31\/7971-2cce132e24f0ea0a360e77f5b97fb775.jpg","ld31\/7971-07d7bbc6cb8f49178dfa1c2baf8d6874.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/papypilgrim.com\/ld31\/","text":"Compo"},{"url":"http:\/\/papypilgrim.com\/ld31-postcompo\/","text":"Post-compo"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/44222526\/ld48_onescreen\/src.zip","text":"Source"},{"url":"http:\/\/papypilgrim.com\/method-and-exciting-perspective\/","text":"Post-Mortem"},{"url":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/papypilgrim","text":"My Twitter"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"15213","g_author":"7971","g_event":"LD31","g_eventkey":"26","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"15243","g_title":"Communications Control","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"233","g_commentcount":"39","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\/\/407933\/7971-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/7971-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/7971-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/7971-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/7971-shot4.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Welcome on board of the Lady-McBeth! Here is your post: I do the flying, and you will be my eyes and ears.\r\nReady? Let's roll\r\n\r\n\r\n------------------------ \r\nWhat Kind of game is it? \r\n------------------------ \r\nPaper Please meets Battlestar Galactica\r\nYou are the communications officier of a ship. No piloting, no laser shooting, no shield activating, no full throttling (is that even a word?)... Those are not part of your job.\r\nToday's assignment is a standard patrol anyway.\r\n\r\n\r\n-------------- \r\nKnown problems \r\n-------------- \r\n[Fixed] Forgot to disable the +\/-\/0 bindings that let you control the audio (those keys are used in the game). I might update my compo to fix that one\r\n\r\nLack of freedom : Since the testers felt completly lost, I felt it was necessary to progressivly unlock the features of the game. It gives the impression that the game is very railroaded (which can iritate some players) and it is true: this compo is nothing more than a tutorial. The post-compo version doesn't suffer from this, but that is not what you are supposed to rate, sadly ;)\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n------------------------------------------------\r\nI-spent-most-of-my-time-on-it technical feature \r\n------------------------------------------------\r\n- Input parsing and contextual autocompletion (yes indeed, I wrote a mini language during the LD. Not the brightest idea)\r\n\r\n\r\n----------- \r\nTools Used \r\n----------- \r\nHaxe and HaxeFlixel\r\nAsh (Entity Component framework for haxe)\r\nSFXR - audacity - KORG SP-280 \r\n\r\n","title":"Communications Control"}