{"author_link":"\/author\/withoutpillow\/","author_name":"kristoffer zetterberg","author_uid":"27525","comments":[{"author_name":"PaperBlurt","author_uid":"26530","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 9:34am","epoch":1387186140,"text":"Hi Kristoffer.\rAnother swede in the compo! Fun..\rWe had some contact during the last LD?\r\rNice looking game.. this is the third meta Twine game.. have I missed something?"},{"author_name":"kristoffer zetterberg","author_uid":"27525","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 11:34am","epoch":1387193340,"text":"hi, thanks for checking out my game! \r\ryeah, meta is all the rage right now! no, but seriously, my trend-o-meter is constantly off, so i guess it's a fun coincidence. or perhaps twine is suited for meta-stories. \r\rand yes, we had. those sure were the days."},{"author_name":"Tsumei","author_uid":"31720","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 1:18pm","epoch":1387199580,"text":"Hm. I am a little conflicted, in a way the opening made me pay less attention to the game, due to it's repetition, and this may have made me instinctively pay less attention to the rest of the game once it actually progressed the story.\r\rI think I would've liked more choice, and I guess the whole point here is "Have your cake and eat it too" so choosing only one eventuality makes sense..\rBut it felt a little like a story that had more depth than I was allowed to understand through the text, though as I mentioned this may have been due to the beginning, which almost made it seem bugged :P\rThat might be a danger in a ludum dare, submitting something that could be construed as bugged.."},{"author_name":"turnA","author_uid":"19248","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 1:37pm","epoch":1387200720,"text":"Intriguing meta commentary. Glad I can complete my LD28 entry..."},{"author_name":"theholychicken","author_uid":"25095","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 4:58pm","epoch":1387212780,"text":"First time I heard Xavier Rudd and it's awesome.\rThe choke points I found a little distracting and chopped the flow...\rYour writing has a way of drawing the reader into the experience, like actually living that life for a moment though it's only text on a screen."},{"author_name":"kristoffer zetterberg","author_uid":"27525","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 9:59pm","epoch":1387230840,"text":"@theholychicken: hm, what do you mean by choke points? \r\rand thanks for playing and commenting, all of you!"},{"author_name":"emmelineprufrock","author_uid":"22454","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 1:38am","epoch":1387243980,"text":"I like the writing, but I'm not entirely sold on the intro. Especially since you can't skip it when you go back to try out all of the options."},{"author_name":"Coblynau","author_uid":"29114","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 8:04pm","epoch":1387310340,"text":"Texted based lols."},{"author_name":"Keith Evans","author_uid":"25189","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 8:28pm","epoch":1387311780,"text":"Interesting, would have enjoyed more choices. Thought the game was bugged in the beginning :) Really liked the writing."},{"author_name":"PTSnoop","author_uid":"11718","time":"Dec 17, 2013 @ 8:36pm","epoch":1387312260,"text":"I feel like I should mention here that, over the LD28 weekend, I coded my LD entry while on the train to and from a reunion with friends. Yay for eating cake and having it too!\r\rBut yeah, nicely atmospheric. I'm not sure the repetition of the intro helps the narrative, but once you get past that point the game does a good job of drawing you in."},{"author_name":"lalanl","author_uid":"19437","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 5:05pm","epoch":1387386000,"text":"Something about this made me feel sad. I like your writing."},{"author_name":"irma vep","author_uid":"27024","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 8:30am","epoch":1387441500,"text":"Another twine game, yay! Like the metatext <3"},{"author_name":"Nelien","author_uid":"30744","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 1:53pm","epoch":1387460880,"text":"I like the writing, it's a bit.. well.. not really much of a game, but it's interesting! It broke a few times on some of the paths (clicking on the only option just repeated the same thing), but restarting the game usually fixed it."},{"author_name":"chiguireitor","author_uid":"28571","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 1:53pm","epoch":1387460880,"text":"Nice mood. There was a bug in the original version that made you loop in the date's memory. Liked a lot the writing."},{"author_name":"Und[0]ne Devs","author_uid":"28859","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 2:07pm","epoch":1387461720,"text":"It's something wrong here? : http:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/s\/37fx9vn7aamlkny\/The%20ruling%20party.html#1.s.h.s.g.s.f.s.e.s.q.6.9.8.3.m.y.x.a.7.d.x.a.7.d.x.2.4.5.x.10.p"},{"author_name":"kristoffer zetterberg","author_uid":"27525","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 2:47pm","epoch":1387464120,"text":"hm, seems like i accidentally changed the original version while making the postcompo. it's now back to the original state, and there should be no bugs left. \r\rthanks for all your comments!"},{"author_name":"lilinx","author_uid":"28339","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 3:34pm","epoch":1387466940,"text":"I had the biggest scarejump of my life when I saw my name in the inspiration section. That's probably the biggest compliment I've received since I've started making games. Now because of this it feels a bit awkward to comment on your game, so I'll come back later, play it again, and leave another comment about the content."},{"author_name":"kristoffer zetterberg","author_uid":"27525","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 6:05pm","epoch":1387476000,"text":"haha, yeah, i always like to pay tribute to the things and people that's been inspiring me at the moment of creation. i'm glad it had such an effect on you."},{"author_name":"Christina Nordlander","author_uid":"20504","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 9:45pm","epoch":1387489200,"text":"Jag spelade det på svenska!\r\rExtremely original concept; Twine is perfect for this kind of storytelling, but I've never seen it done before. The writing is good in a low-key way, with some beautiful descriptions and great use of detail (such as the "Frankenstein" bit). By and large, it felt very realistic.\r\rI like the way you used the music link.\r\rGood story and fits very well with the theme. Plus, we Swedish Twine users have got to stick together, right?"},{"author_name":"kristoffer zetterberg","author_uid":"27525","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 10:11pm","epoch":1387577160,"text":"thanks for your kind words Christina! we should, and i would love to play more twine games in swedish too!"},{"author_name":"SnoringFrog","author_uid":"20952","time":"Dec 21, 2013 @ 6:36am","epoch":1387607460,"text":"Interesting. Until I'd figured out how to progress, I was a little confused\/disappointed with the game. After that, I thought it was nice."},{"author_name":"olafsworld98","author_uid":"30819","time":"Dec 22, 2013 @ 1:27am","epoch":1387675320,"text":"i like these type of games but just some stories were way too long. Give this man some high ratings XD."},{"author_name":"tripleVisionGames","author_uid":"12495","time":"Dec 22, 2013 @ 1:20pm","epoch":1387718100,"text":"Nicely written and good use of the theme too"},{"author_name":"Tanser","author_uid":"27381","time":"Dec 23, 2013 @ 6:21pm","epoch":1387822560,"text":"Nice one, i like it! :)"},{"author_name":"chardish","author_uid":"3946","time":"Dec 23, 2013 @ 10:15pm","epoch":1387836600,"text":"Interesting - I thought I knew where this was going but I didn't. Neat idea."},{"author_name":"fullmontis","author_uid":"21736","time":"Dec 23, 2013 @ 10:30pm","epoch":1387837500,"text":"Heh, nice concept. There wasn't much choice but still made me laugh."},{"author_name":"foumart","author_uid":"14368","time":"Dec 29, 2013 @ 4:36pm","epoch":1388334660,"text":"Nice story with good shot of influential speculations :)\rHover effect of the text is breaking some lines badly, makes me think you change the text content on rollover."},{"author_name":"patrickgh3","author_uid":"14266","time":"Jan 3, 2014 @ 5:39am","epoch":1388727240,"text":"Very interesting. I was confused at first but by the end I think I figured out what was going on."},{"author_name":"Tex Killer","author_uid":"7901","time":"Jan 3, 2014 @ 6:12am","epoch":1388729220,"text":"Not really a game, but I enjoyed reading it!"}],"images":["ld28\/27525-4be3b43b4b93d279e4a491c15b82d10a.jpg","ld28\/27525-36b62503b1871e8a7d357c8ec34b2bda.jpg","ld28\/27525-221d2754a9f90258ea3f8604be3ecf64.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/s\/37fx9vn7aamlkny\/The%20ruling%20party.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/s\/3rtcv2j6i0d2qoc\/The%20ruling%20party%20postcompo.html","text":"Web (postcompo)"},{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/s\/3ipvd3r7r79fp1x\/F%C3%B6rslagen.html","text":"Swedish version (post-compo)"},{"url":"http:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/s\/jgnf58y42i5d7k4\/The%20ruling%20party.tws","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"21649","g_author":"27525","g_event":"LD28","g_eventkey":"20","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"21678","g_title":"The ruling party","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"831","g_commentcount":"29","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\/27525-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/27525-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/27525-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"The ruling party, a Twine game about having the cake, but maybe not eating it.\r\n\r\nPlay in fullscreen if you like.\r\n\r\nFour endings. Or perhaps it's five.\r\n\r\nUpdate the web page if you want to restart from the beginning. \r\n\r\n\r\nUpdate:\r\nAdded a postcompo version, where it's no longer necessary to restart from the beginning to experience the other endings. Instead, you have the option to go back and replay from the middle part and forward when you reach the end credits and scroll down the page.\r\n\r\nThere are other changes in the postcompo version too, the story is the same but the flow and structure have some minor alterations, and personally I think it's better and closer to what I had in mind. ","title":"The ruling party"}