{"author_link":"\/author\/lizengland\/","author_name":"Liz England","author_uid":"22429","comments":[{"author_name":"MercuryLegba","author_uid":"38447","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 7:17am","epoch":1408950720,"text":"God, this is soooo frustrating!!! Great game!"},{"author_name":"polarkac","author_uid":"23118","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 7:27am","epoch":1408951320,"text":"Great! I cant get off that song from my head :D."},{"author_name":"mess110","author_uid":"12300","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 7:48am","epoch":1408952580,"text":"hehe. I see what you did there ;)"},{"author_name":"xoxopanda","author_uid":"40771","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 1:31pm","epoch":1408973160,"text":"Extremely annoying, though an excellent game!"},{"author_name":"Martins","author_uid":"7048","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 7:01pm","epoch":1408992960,"text":"Awesome game, but i would like to point out that there is no such thing as "outdated sci-fi" :D"},{"author_name":"PaperBlurt","author_uid":"26530","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 7:04pm","epoch":1408993140,"text":"So realistic that I get annoyed.\rGood work!"},{"author_name":"lucidsheep","author_uid":"41822","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 8:02pm","epoch":1408996620,"text":"Hilarious!"},{"author_name":"Ludipe","author_uid":"20471","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 8:39pm","epoch":1408998840,"text":"Cool game, frustrating, as it happens with this situations in real life. Once I screamed at them for a long time, it surprisingly worked xD"},{"author_name":"TeamQuadratic","author_uid":"18547","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 4:02am","epoch":1409025420,"text":"Such a brilliant game! I can't help but feel annoyed. Great job!"},{"author_name":"JordanFitz","author_uid":"28678","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 4:04am","epoch":1409025540,"text":"This game was hilarious, and I loved the music and art."},{"author_name":"OnlySlightly","author_uid":"1959","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 4:10am","epoch":1409025900,"text":"That was really cute! I loved the artwork and audio. Everything fit together so neatly. It was really polished. Perhaps you captured frustration too accurately."},{"author_name":"rojo","author_uid":"29998","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 4:32am","epoch":1409027220,"text":"Pretty much nailed the "customer service" experience. I laughed a few times, but only to cover up my uncontrollable inner sorrow as I remembered my own calls from years past. Good job!"},{"author_name":"KhaoTom","author_uid":"7425","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 6:51am","epoch":1409035560,"text":"I think I got the good ending. I need to go spend a week in the forest with no technology soon."},{"author_name":"IAmSpencer","author_uid":"24919","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 6:57am","epoch":1409035920,"text":"Haha, I've been pretty much through this exact thing before XD\r(also, nice touch by adding the 'cellphone near speaker sound' in there) :)"},{"author_name":"dickpoelen","author_uid":"34953","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 6:23pm","epoch":1409077080,"text":"So good. Especially the music!"},{"author_name":"MintArcade","author_uid":"35966","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 6:24pm","epoch":1409077140,"text":"Awesome. I hope it will never happen to me ever AGAIN ;) Great game... Excellent audio"},{"author_name":"AtomicVikings","author_uid":"25123","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 6:33pm","epoch":1409077680,"text":"5\/5 in everything! make moar! this is amazing. PS. make a mobile version too!"},{"author_name":"C_Walden","author_uid":"41004","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 6:57pm","epoch":1409079120,"text":"That was delightfully maddening. I laughed several times! The music was very well-chosen, at first sounding relaxing, but gave the impression of having subtly condescending undertones as things progressed. Great job."},{"author_name":"~SquigglySoup~","author_uid":"42368","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 8:19pm","epoch":1409084040,"text":"Great game! Hilarious. Would love some added scenarios!!"},{"author_name":"Literal Games","author_uid":"26056","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 10:25am","epoch":1409134800,"text":"Hilarious game. Great work with the dialogue options."},{"author_name":"SiMouth","author_uid":"41138","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 10:30am","epoch":1409135100,"text":"Fun!\rMy entry is a customer service game too, of another kind"},{"author_name":"MechanicMoon","author_uid":"40539","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 10:32am","epoch":1409135220,"text":"I loved it, great game"},{"author_name":"MoonlightBomber","author_uid":"41001","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 11:18am","epoch":1409137980,"text":"Good going. But I hope you can fix the save\/load\/options menu."},{"author_name":"jahmaican","author_uid":"40987","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 2:51pm","epoch":1409150760,"text":"Quite amusing. And art-wise it's really nice. I especially enjoyed the music."},{"author_name":"dook","author_uid":"18341","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 8:34pm","epoch":1409171340,"text":"Haha, what an infuriating game! I love it. The music and the crazy blinking modem cracked me up ;)"},{"author_name":"gnerkus","author_uid":"28566","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 6:27am","epoch":1409206920,"text":"This is so frustrating! This is a very beautiful game."},{"author_name":"dtruby","author_uid":"20410","time":"Aug 30, 2014 @ 12:57am","epoch":1409359920,"text":"Really like the take on the theme. Also reminds me of IGTCED, but the other way round. The soundtrack was pretty fire - the static noise made me check my headset :P\r- Qualia"},{"author_name":"Artamus","author_uid":"39880","time":"Aug 30, 2014 @ 10:35am","epoch":1409394600,"text":"I did it! Very funny. (I could totally have tried to re-play the game in October.)"},{"author_name":"Adam Thompson","author_uid":"39368","time":"Aug 30, 2014 @ 7:41pm","epoch":1409427360,"text":"Point was really made! Lovely little adventure about something we can all relate to. It was as frustrating as the situation is in reality, but with a sense of humour and nice production values to offset that! Glad I played it, cheers :)"},{"author_name":"NiceAlexanderAS","author_uid":"7045","time":"Aug 30, 2014 @ 7:56pm","epoch":1409428260,"text":""Thats plenty of time to get a few more hours into this MMO-RPG-RTS-FPS roguelike-like match-three game i've been working on." Omg dude that was so hilarious x'D \r\rThe game was so fun, hilarious and the story was so awesome xD Excelente work! i also loved the music!!! The phone call was so useless xD"},{"author_name":"Druid","author_uid":"31662","time":"Aug 30, 2014 @ 8:19pm","epoch":1409429640,"text":"This is.... OMG! Best game here ! XD"},{"author_name":"Dans17","author_uid":"22050","time":"Sep 6, 2014 @ 8:27pm","epoch":1410034920,"text":"I really want to play this game but I can't seem to get it past my anti-virus software."},{"author_name":"GrooveMan","author_uid":"26423","time":"Sep 8, 2014 @ 9:48pm","epoch":1410212580,"text":"It took a while for the best joke to appear, but it was definitely worth looping through tech support a whole bunch to get it.\r\rGraphically, I really like the skeumorphism you have going - all realistic textures, but \/just\/ stylized enough to not feel out of place. The music choice is really good too.\r\rI think the overall experience could be improved if the "It's been an hour since..." increased every time that message came up, and if the background shifted to evening lighting as you kept playing. Thanks for making this!"},{"author_name":"kristoffer zetterberg","author_uid":"27525","time":"Sep 11, 2014 @ 3:25pm","epoch":1410448800,"text":"amazing game, great writing! so frustrating and fun!"},{"author_name":"Sheepolution","author_uid":"5959","time":"Sep 12, 2014 @ 7:53pm","epoch":1410551280,"text":"Very close to reality. Refreshing browser, reseting modem, turning on and off the computer, and that all 100 times.\r\rReally funny game, I like how much options you have instead of a straight forward story."}],"images":["ld30\/22429-34c0401ce4b4ea553383dcd02b870d35.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.lizengland.com\/games\/PleaseHold\/PleaseHold-all.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.lizengland.com\/games\/PleaseHold\/PleaseHold-all.zip","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.lizengland.com\/games\/PleaseHold\/PleaseHold-all.zip","text":"Linux"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"16536","g_author":"22429","g_event":"LD30","g_eventkey":"24","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"16565","g_title":"Please Hold","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"24","g_commentcount":"35","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\/\/375043\/22429-shot0.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Please Hold: A Representative Will Be With You Shortly!\r\n\r\nA QUEST for a connection, an ADVENTURE in customer service, and an EXPERIENCE you will wish you could forget!\r\n\r\n\r\nMade in Ren'Py!\r\nPlease USE AUDIO!\r\n\r\n\r\nAlternate Download:\r\nhttps:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/167055177\/PleaseHold-all.zip\r\n\r\nCheck the about_this_game.txt for full attribution for music & images.","title":"Please Hold"}