{"author_link":"\/author\/makatak\/","author_name":"jsspiegel","author_uid":"11418","comments":[{"author_name":"blasmena","author_uid":"31457","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 10:38pm","epoch":1387233180,"text":"awesome! love it!"},{"author_name":"godan","author_uid":"13749","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 2:31am","epoch":1387247160,"text":"Well written!"},{"author_name":"Christopher Schulte","author_uid":"21249","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 2:31am","epoch":1387247160,"text":"The choice to steal from your parents at age 8 is really good one that I've personally never seen in a game. I think that kind of exploration of ethical development is really interesting. Well done."},{"author_name":"glovecat","author_uid":"28794","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 2:41am","epoch":1387247760,"text":"It has a good message."},{"author_name":"jsspiegel","author_uid":"11418","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 2:51am","epoch":1387248360,"text":"Thanks for all the positive feedback!"},{"author_name":"Lazdo","author_uid":"29830","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 3:10am","epoch":1387249500,"text":"Very Nice! Never seen anything like it!"},{"author_name":"@TeddyNashor","author_uid":"24963","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 3:29am","epoch":1387250640,"text":"great story guys.  I am really curious if there is a way (but I would assume not as it seems to be the point of the game).  Either way, experimental games are so great to play so thanks so much!"},{"author_name":"uRLgR3y","author_uid":"21399","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 3:34am","epoch":1387250940,"text":"Intense. Well written. Loved it. Good job."},{"author_name":"van noctar","author_uid":"21196","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 3:35am","epoch":1387251000,"text":"Good game, many choices and meny game states. WHat system are you used? State Machine?"},{"author_name":"JaymeeMak","author_uid":"30729","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 3:36am","epoch":1387251060,"text":"I loved it! I like the way the interactive narrative was implement, the music went nicely with it, the story was great, the choices were great, the representation of opening doors and leaving behinds others was great too.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Great job!"},{"author_name":"Lacutis","author_uid":"11378","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 3:36am","epoch":1387251060,"text":"Interesting use of the theme. Felt like a choose your own adventure book in computer form."},{"author_name":"TFJO","author_uid":"30574","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 3:38am","epoch":1387251180,"text":"Interesting! There's a couple of (minor) bugs that I've noticed, such as giving you the option to pay back your parents regardless of whether you actually stole from them or not, otherwise an interesting concept."},{"author_name":"Unept","author_uid":"25813","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 3:38am","epoch":1387251180,"text":"Ya, great job!"},{"author_name":"pom9898","author_uid":"23439","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 3:39am","epoch":1387251240,"text":"Wow. Very well done. And this is your second game?!?!"},{"author_name":"jsspiegel","author_uid":"11418","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 3:47am","epoch":1387251720,"text":"pom9898:\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Thanks! Second full Ludum Dare for me, first for my partner, but I did Shark Jam last month, and we've both made many games outside of Ludum Dare."},{"author_name":"dremelofdeath","author_uid":"17159","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 3:47am","epoch":1387251720,"text":"It was fun to pick various life choices. I feel like the results of your actions took a long time to affect the outcomes it seemed. Fits with the theme. Good job!"},{"author_name":"Optimus6128","author_uid":"17470","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 7:56am","epoch":1387266660,"text":"Haha, nice concept!"},{"author_name":"Zephyr89","author_uid":"27354","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 7:48am","epoch":1387438980,"text":"MUST PLAY ALL THE STATES!"},{"author_name":"somepx","author_uid":"29702","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 11:10pm","epoch":1387494300,"text":"Very well written, interesting twists. A good entry"},{"author_name":"pele","author_uid":"30821","time":"Dec 21, 2013 @ 1:16am","epoch":1387588260,"text":"Cool game! Sad thing the character ends up as a beggar if you try to be charitable ;)"},{"author_name":"LD_LAN_Party","author_uid":"26312","time":"Dec 21, 2013 @ 1:35am","epoch":1387589400,"text":"Interesting concept. I liked a lot of the choices."},{"author_name":"zkenshin","author_uid":"12839","time":"Dec 21, 2013 @ 1:36am","epoch":1387589460,"text":"Never reached immortality, interesting game."},{"author_name":"01rafael","author_uid":"11984","time":"Dec 21, 2013 @ 3:31am","epoch":1387596360,"text":"great idea of storytelling! Five stars!"},{"author_name":"ittlebit","author_uid":"13983","time":"Dec 21, 2013 @ 4:03am","epoch":1387598280,"text":"Interesting approach to branching."},{"author_name":"Blinked","author_uid":"8072","time":"Dec 21, 2013 @ 4:44am","epoch":1387600740,"text":"Very well done!"},{"author_name":"Hyde Wyvern","author_uid":"17690","time":"Dec 21, 2013 @ 5:52am","epoch":1387604820,"text":"Wow this game is so touching and really deals with decisions in a fantastic way, I'm speechless. My game also relies on the &quot;you only got one life so make the right choices&quot; theme but in a kind of different way. Amazing! I loved it."},{"author_name":"jsspiegel","author_uid":"11418","time":"Dec 21, 2013 @ 6:38pm","epoch":1387650780,"text":"Hyde Wyvern:\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Played through your game earlier (although I just realized I forgot to finish and rate it!), and I noticed the similarities immediately. So interesting how the same sub-theme can be taken two totally different ways!"},{"author_name":"TheWhiteLlama","author_uid":"31834","time":"Dec 21, 2013 @ 7:01pm","epoch":1387652160,"text":"Wow, so much futur-changing choices to make. I can't get another way then being homeless. Maybe I only made wrong decisions. Well done."},{"author_name":"Zener","author_uid":"12819","time":"Dec 21, 2013 @ 7:20pm","epoch":1387653300,"text":"Best idea I have seen so far!"},{"author_name":"aare","author_uid":"15039","time":"Dec 21, 2013 @ 8:03pm","epoch":1387655880,"text":"Nice attempt on creating game with story and a message, mabye a bit naive at times and limitating the player, but a great try after all!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>--- Spoler! ---\r<br\/>\r<br\/>After denying the money to the client I was told that it destroyed my personality to the point where I wanted to kill myself - the development of the character that I took (f.e. - to take the knife, to stab the guy, to steal the girl...) didn't made me to expect that the protagonist would be a guy who whold want to kill himself just because of some random guy's death :P"},{"author_name":"jsspiegel","author_uid":"11418","time":"Dec 21, 2013 @ 8:55pm","epoch":1387659000,"text":"aare:\r<br\/>\r<br\/>-- Spoilers --\r<br\/>Unfortunately, early decisions don't much end up impacting future consequences, the consequences are usually immediate. No matter your early choices, you always end up working at the insurance office, if you deny money you become guilt ridden, if you give it you get fired, and you always end up dying. That's our take on the theme, you only get one ending. In a full game, you're right, there would be a more diverse system of choices and consequences and personality and all that stuff."},{"author_name":"kibertoad","author_uid":"7122","time":"Dec 21, 2013 @ 9:47pm","epoch":1387662120,"text":"it would be nice to see a complete interactive story written by you. liked the idea, but suicide as resolution is overrated."},{"author_name":"archaeometrician","author_uid":"27214","time":"Dec 22, 2013 @ 1:21am","epoch":1387674960,"text":"Nice concept, I like the idea of being confronted with choice. Great work ! I tried it 3 times, I wonder what I got wrong, never got the immortality choice ;)"},{"author_name":"jsspiegel","author_uid":"11418","time":"Dec 22, 2013 @ 1:29am","epoch":1387675440,"text":"archaeometrician:\r<br\/>\r<br\/>SPOILER\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Not sure if I should reveal this, but there is no way to achieve immortality. That's the point\/moral of the game, no matter how you live your life, it always ends, and you can never become immortal."},{"author_name":"olafsworld98","author_uid":"30819","time":"Dec 22, 2013 @ 1:51am","epoch":1387676760,"text":"i love it, but i still never got immortality"}],"images":["ld28\/11418-9a9608622c3cf9f2b4d5e1c67c4b2e8e.jpg","ld28\/11418-4b1168a4d8fb44fa36ae753847719f56.jpg","ld28\/11418-cd721b79b9c633e5e1decc660c69c256.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/98223383\/Ludum%20Dare%2028.html","text":"Web"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"20796","g_author":"11418","g_event":"LD28","g_eventkey":"20","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"20825","g_title":"Of Life and Death","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"275","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\/\/308734\/11418-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/11418-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/11418-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"In life, you only get one... ending. Of Life And Death is an unintentional text adventure with graphics, about a man's futile attempt to achieve immortality!\r\n\r\nArt by me (Jacob, 16) and everything else by my amazing friend Adam, 16. This is my second Ludum Dare and his first. We were going to have a third friend do art for us, but she had to drop out last minute due to schoolwork, leaving me to take over the art (originally Adam and I were going to split code). While art is not my forte, I'm kinda pleased with how it turned out, and the game as a whole is a fun experiment! It's (kinda) #NOKILL.","title":"Of Life and Death"}