{"author_link":"\/author\/thx4nothing\/","author_name":"thx4nothing","author_uid":"26847","comments":[{"author_name":"Maek","author_uid":"34033","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 2:00pm","epoch":1398693300,"text":"Doesn't work! \r<br\/>javax.imageio.IIOException: Can't read input file!\r<br\/>        at javax.imageio.ImageIO.read(Unknown Source)\r<br\/>        at com.thx4nothing.util.Loader.loadImage(Loader.java:24)\r<br\/>        at com.thx4nothing.main.Game.&lt;clinit&gt;(Game.java:44)\r<br\/>Exception in thread &quot;main&quot; java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError\r<br\/>Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: javax.imageio.IIOException: Can't rea\r<br\/>put file!\r<br\/>        at com.thx4nothing.util.Loader.loadImage(Loader.java:29)\r<br\/>        at com.thx4nothing.main.Game.&lt;clinit&gt;(Game.java:44)\r<br\/>Caused by: javax.imageio.IIOException: Can't read input file!\r<br\/>        at javax.imageio.ImageIO.read(Unknown Source)\r<br\/>        at com.thx4nothing.util.Loader.loadImage(Loader.java:24)\r<br\/>        ... 1 more"},{"author_name":"thx4nothing","author_uid":"26847","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 2:23pm","epoch":1398694680,"text":"Should be fixed in the newest version. A file was missing. Thank you."},{"author_name":"Strandmullen","author_uid":"36102","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 2:52pm","epoch":1398696420,"text":"It worked for me. I liked the game, it was cosy. I however think you saw a tad too little, because I often got murdered by something before realizing it was even there."},{"author_name":"CayoDaves","author_uid":"36414","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 2:54pm","epoch":1398696540,"text":"PETA would like to have a word with you...haha. Cool game. Like the idea, and to be honest I thought the dog food trap was clever. That being said, getting a text message and being frozen while arrows fly at me is not. If reading a message had paused the game in some way, the experience would have been better. It was still pretty fun though!"},{"author_name":"Phyyl","author_uid":"21679","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 2:58pm","epoch":1398696780,"text":"Good game, nice mechanics but I found it a bit difficult to control the character and the collisions where not permissive at all, so it was difficult to run when the cat thing was following me.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Good game overall!"},{"author_name":"Seraphina","author_uid":"36309","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 3:07pm","epoch":1398697320,"text":"Having to restart at the first level after one death was annoying, but I still enjoyed it.  Good job! ^_^"},{"author_name":"Zazibar","author_uid":"7562","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 4:47pm","epoch":1398703320,"text":"Being chased in the darkness by something that will kill you in 1 hit with no way to defend yourself seems a little brutal. Interesting concept though."},{"author_name":"Snoother","author_uid":"33841","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 4:50pm","epoch":1398703500,"text":"Good game. Kind of reminded me of Home. Controls were a bit awkward, however."},{"author_name":"CiderPunk","author_uid":"7534","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 4:52pm","epoch":1398703620,"text":"why WSAD when you don't use the mouse? I don't want to play a game using just my left hand! looks really nice, nice lighting!"},{"author_name":"SzRaPnEL","author_uid":"35639","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 4:53pm","epoch":1398703680,"text":"I don't know why, but I like it :)\r<br\/>The game loop should be stopped when dialog\/tooltips are given."},{"author_name":"marccspro","author_uid":"26996","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 4:53pm","epoch":1398703680,"text":"I liked the mood of the game but It's a bit difficult to see around because the view distance is to low I think :\/ But It's a good game ;)"},{"author_name":"UnixXNova","author_uid":"25273","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 5:06pm","epoch":1398704460,"text":"Dog can thing was hard for me like the concept, nice entry"},{"author_name":"kratorspore","author_uid":"6762","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 5:53pm","epoch":1398707280,"text":"The vision radius made this game way too hard imho. Fluid controls and nice graphics though."},{"author_name":"Covenant","author_uid":"326","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 8:50pm","epoch":1398717900,"text":"A bit hard (because of the limited visibility, you can't plan ahead), but it was fun... the &quot;graphic adventure&quot; feel  to it was very cool, and I liked the background story idea! Was expecting worse graphics from your description! :)"},{"author_name":"NoTrueSpaceman","author_uid":"30184","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 8:52pm","epoch":1398718020,"text":"Jar works on OS X Mavericks.  Nice graphics."},{"author_name":"Lucariatias","author_uid":"14242","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 8:56pm","epoch":1398718260,"text":"Massive performance issues make it almost unplayable.\r<br\/>For what I played though, it seemed decent enough. Graphics were nothing special, sound less so, there was some fancy lighting and the mood set was very nice.\r<br\/>Confirmed to run on OS X though, if you distribute it with the same run.bat with the .sh extension people on OS X and Linux would be able to run it, since the syntax for Java does not change across platforms."},{"author_name":"CupcakeMedia","author_uid":"36424","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 8:56pm","epoch":1398718260,"text":"Fuck those dogs. But. I like that every level is a small story about you helping someone. It's a bit like a point and click adventure, but more fun and with more logical things to do. It was fun figuring everything out."},{"author_name":"Mekuri","author_uid":"20130","time":"Apr 28, 2014 @ 8:59pm","epoch":1398718440,"text":"Very beautiful for a first game- I found it quite hard, because of the limited field of view, and the dog\/cat thing was more or less a sure death."},{"author_name":"GreatBigJerk","author_uid":"36263","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 12:22am","epoch":1398730620,"text":"Doesn't run on Mac."},{"author_name":"terraco","author_uid":"36973","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 12:46am","epoch":1398732060,"text":"Not bad for a first LD game."},{"author_name":"LittleBlueFrog","author_uid":"34105","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 5:53pm","epoch":1398793680,"text":"Game runs fine under linux, just use java -jar Ghost\\ of\\ the\\ trapped\\ Miners.jar in the console.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Nice work, fun to play, a bit challenging (nothing a retry won't fix) and a nice adaption to the theme."},{"author_name":"mimic","author_uid":"34130","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 5:56pm","epoch":1398793860,"text":"Nice but wish the lighting was a bit better\/larger."},{"author_name":"Thorig","author_uid":"14618","time":"Apr 29, 2014 @ 7:24pm","epoch":1398799140,"text":"For a first game this is really good! Keep it up."},{"author_name":"Cezel_","author_uid":"30673","time":"May 1, 2014 @ 5:08pm","epoch":1398963780,"text":"The game was really fun, a bit hard, but that just made it more fun in my opinion."},{"author_name":"Spellmaker","author_uid":"17725","time":"May 3, 2014 @ 10:02am","epoch":1399111020,"text":"Nice idea and very moody, though some of the mechanics make it really frustrating (such as traps killing you while reading a text...)"}],"images":["ld29\/26847-8cd5cad5c6ac3ed2b2f0fb08f7cae214.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/?6n686q4f646w4xg","text":"Windows\/Linux(?)\/Mac(?)"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/?cfs7qo5s3yzz5in","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"19166","g_author":"26847","g_event":"LD29","g_eventkey":"22","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"19195","g_title":"Ghost of the trapped Miners","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"912","g_commentcount":"25","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\/\/342546\/26847-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"I have finished my very first Ludum Dare game. It is about a ghost who wants to rescue his co-workers in a destroyed mine.\r\nI am not good at art so the game does not look as good as others might. I tried to get some life in the game with some moving objects and particles.\r\nThe music is missing because I do not know(yet!) how to make good music.\r\nSome of my friends played it anf told me that it was not easy. Do not expect to win after one try.\r\nI will try to fix some bugs in the next days.\r\n\r\nHow to play:\r\nExtract the \"GottM LD29 thx4nothing.zip\" file and run the \"Ghost of the trapped Miners.jar\" file.\r\nWASD-Key = movement\r\nE-Key = interact\r\n\r\nI know that it works on Windows but I do not know about other OS'\r\n\r\nI hope you like it.","title":"Ghost of the trapped Miners"}