{"author_link":"\/author\/liannethy\/","author_name":"Lianne Booton","author_uid":"19939","comments":[{"author_name":"Lianne Booton","author_uid":"19939","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 10:22pm","epoch":1409005020,"text":"FYI- Hardmode is intended for people who do data entry as a day job, because the game is way easy for them."},{"author_name":"MJamesShort","author_uid":"42024","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 1:15am","epoch":1409015400,"text":"That was really awesome. Great idea and execution. The music that played when you failed was incredible."},{"author_name":"Rage Paint","author_uid":"39734","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 5:09am","epoch":1409029440,"text":"I love the art work - it's beautiful."},{"author_name":"Ditto","author_uid":"14669","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 8:08am","epoch":1409040180,"text":"Haha, never played a dog prankcalling demons before, this is the first!^^ That was pretty fucking awesome! Good job!"},{"author_name":"spotco","author_uid":"35477","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 8:22am","epoch":1409041020,"text":"beautiful artwork and one of the strangest games I've ever played (good thing)"},{"author_name":"Cosmonautas","author_uid":"42021","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 8:26am","epoch":1409041260,"text":"Nice Job xD"},{"author_name":"CoopNasty","author_uid":"39008","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 8:32am","epoch":1409041620,"text":"I don't know if it's a glitch or I just failed miserably, but often times a number would be switching insanely fast with another number underneath. I could click the right number but the game wouldn't move on and I couldn't progress."},{"author_name":"SteveSalmond","author_uid":"24965","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 8:34am","epoch":1409041740,"text":"Badass."},{"author_name":"4xisblack","author_uid":"21606","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 8:38am","epoch":1409041980,"text":"This is my first 5 star game of the jam! The art, lore, humour and music all coordinate to produce something truly striking. Miss u Phil Horse D:"},{"author_name":"Rothens","author_uid":"25028","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 8:41am","epoch":1409042160,"text":"Holy dogs**t. I don't know what kind of medicines did you take before LD, but this is just crazy. I love it :D"},{"author_name":"Martin Vilcans","author_uid":"10862","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 8:49am","epoch":1409042640,"text":"Awesome graphics and mood and innovative gameplay."},{"author_name":"panurge","author_uid":"21166","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 9:19am","epoch":1409044440,"text":"Who knew repaying karmic debt was so much fun? Makes me want to go and accumulate some more. I loved the premise of this and the atmosphere was incredible - artwork, sound, the lot. A lot of depth and polish for a jam game too.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>My only complaint (and this is a very subjective one) is that I had to look at the keypad while typing and so missed out on a lot of the awesome visuals. But this is my fault really for not being able to touch type...\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Anyway, superb work. One of my favourites so far."},{"author_name":"Lianne Booton","author_uid":"19939","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 9:20am","epoch":1409044500,"text":"@Coopnasty the number scrambling is intentional (it's tied to demon suffixes, so some demons are naughtier than others) however there is a slight bug in that the scrambled number doesn't turn black along with the real number underneath. Hopefully this is something I can fix later on cos I think it requires redoing the UI. The scrambled numbers were an afterthought when I realised programmers and people who deal with Excel daily were way too good at it :P\r<br\/>\r<br\/>If you see the fire particles above the scramble it means you got it and can move on."},{"author_name":"sneeuwpopsneeuw","author_uid":"38913","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 9:22am","epoch":1409044620,"text":"the art work is realy good."},{"author_name":"Rehacked","author_uid":"41818","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 10:10am","epoch":1409047500,"text":"nice game"},{"author_name":"primaerfunktion","author_uid":"12505","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 10:17am","epoch":1409047920,"text":"Really cool game, especially loved the art. Really great work!"},{"author_name":"Ryan Melmoth","author_uid":"27112","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 1:28pm","epoch":1409059380,"text":"Outstandingly awesome! The visuals are amazing, the atmosphere is great, love the quirkiness and the game is about phone-dogs! The only thing I didn't like was that I can't take time to look at the cool art or read the names while battling unless I want to lose very soon after."},{"author_name":"AdventureIslands","author_uid":"11391","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 3:33pm","epoch":1409066880,"text":"Now this is trippy and cool concept, really nice sounds and graphics in this game. Too bad I have to look the keypad to be able play fast enough and I miss all the cool visuals."},{"author_name":"0x0961h","author_uid":"21155","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 6:50pm","epoch":1409078700,"text":"Wow, that looks... pretty strange, yet very awesome. Good job on it! :)"},{"author_name":"Ryusui","author_uid":"12635","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 3:07am","epoch":1409108520,"text":"Love it, but then I'm the sort of person who gets a cathartic vibe from hammering in numbers to slay a demon. :3\r<br\/>\r<br\/>My only issue is that I'd love some kind of windowed mode option - Alt+Enter doesn't work."},{"author_name":"rojo","author_uid":"29998","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 3:21am","epoch":1409109360,"text":"The music and art were top notch!  I feel like this game is an accountant's wet dream (or anyone else who uses a numpad professionally)."},{"author_name":"nonetheless","author_uid":"36254","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 4:50pm","epoch":1409157900,"text":"What the hell is that? :) Graphics are great, sounds are great, a lot of humor, everything so bizzare. One of my favourits."},{"author_name":"Razoric","author_uid":"27935","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 7:41pm","epoch":1409168160,"text":"The art, the gameplay... just, wow so weird and awesome.  Great job!"},{"author_name":"MerlijnVH","author_uid":"14952","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 7:44pm","epoch":1409168340,"text":"Amazing. The game feels super complete and polished, I love the art style and especially the character designs. The gameplay is original and fun, too. The difficulty was just a bit hard, those scrambled numbers always got me!"},{"author_name":"Kep","author_uid":"24452","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 8:52pm","epoch":1409172420,"text":"I've never seen a 10key typing game before. Neat!\r<br\/>Innovation++"},{"author_name":"belowzerogames","author_uid":"37630","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 4:41am","epoch":1409200560,"text":"Man ,that was a tough game totally awesome work though"},{"author_name":"Katamori","author_uid":"25228","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 3:34pm","epoch":1409239740,"text":"Damn sick, and still enjoyable! Strongly enjoyable! Amazing fusion of the two!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>And yeah, amazing graphics of course. I have to say I truly loved it."},{"author_name":"TeamEagle","author_uid":"23493","time":"Aug 28, 2014 @ 8:51pm","epoch":1409258760,"text":"Strange... I like it!"},{"author_name":"Moosefly","author_uid":"25343","time":"Aug 30, 2014 @ 8:11pm","epoch":1409429160,"text":"Well, that was interesting. Too bad I'm not used to using the numpad so I had to look at the keyboard a lot while playing and thus missed a lot of stuff. Didn't make it too far even after a few tries, but the aesthetics were brilliant.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Anssi@MooseflyGames"},{"author_name":"Traumendes_Madchen","author_uid":"39080","time":"Sep 1, 2014 @ 7:37pm","epoch":1409599920,"text":"Er, what did I just play ? I don't know if I missed something but I didn't get much backstory at the beginning so I was very confused about who I was and what I was doing X)."},{"author_name":"jerombd","author_uid":"12512","time":"Sep 9, 2014 @ 3:34pm","epoch":1410276540,"text":"Can I rate 10 stars on the Graphics rating? :D\r<br\/>The audio part is crazy too (don't mention the funny backstory), but I think the gameplay lacks of something: it gets too repetitive\/tedious unfortunately (maybe I'm missing something....)."}],"images":["ld30\/19939-8b8574c9871f344eb10848cd799a6cbc.jpg","ld30\/19939-9a255b04f9f73cc423b8d41ae9b051e1.jpg","ld30\/19939-9e487115f00030a65ee78020e3342b57.jpg","ld30\/19939-5e83274f9d5364febb1bbf0a636a58d3.jpg","ld30\/19939-dc000796f3f8b4ab699b276eb55a7620.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/30618537\/Doggy_Dialler.zip","text":"Windows"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"17373","g_author":"19939","g_event":"LD30","g_eventkey":"24","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"17402","g_title":"Doggy Dialler","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"43","g_commentcount":"31","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\/19939-shot0.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/19939-shot1.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/19939-shot2.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/19939-shot3.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/19939-shot4.jpg-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Twitter: @Liannethy\r\nFacebook: http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/teamsadbrains\r\n\r\nControls:\r\nNumpad to dial the demon's phone number\r\n\r\nCredits: Lianne Booton did everything except music.\r\n\r\nOn the theme:\r\nI used the theme to create a game that uses the narratives from two of my other games, as well as their characters, to bring them together with a new character. I also used characters from my paintings in this world.\r\n\r\nThe very basic premise is that you are teaching dogs to slay demons through prank calls. The demons are the bad energy formed from Josiah's former victims, when they are slain you free their soul to be reborn.\r\n\r\nExtras:\r\nThrough slaying demons you will gain pages for your karmic codex, as well as items that will show up in the gift room. Some of those items will provide buffs. Yes you can unlock a puppy, no I won't tell you how :p","title":"Doggy Dialler"}